7 On the Trail of the Giant Guinea Pigs

Chapter 7 ON THE TRAIL OF THE GIANT GUINEA PIGS "Wait a minute," said Judy. "We'd better leave a note." She grabbed a reddish drawing stick. On the wall she wrote: "Gone to save the capybaras. Be back soon." She reached under her fur cape and pushed the stick into her pocket. Then they crept onto the cool blue path through the glacier. When they arrived at the glacier's entrance, Andrew poked his head out. The Tick-Tox Box was still there. It was dark now, and it had shrunk to the size of Andrew's

第七章大豚鼠的踪迹“等一下，”朱迪说。 “我们最好留个便条。” 她抓起一根发红的画杆。 她在墙上写道：“去拯救水豚了。 我很快就回来。”她把手伸到毛皮斗篷下面，把棍子塞进口袋里。 然后他们蹑手蹑脚地爬上了穿过冰川的那条凉爽的蓝色小路。 当他们到达冰川入口处时，安德鲁探出头来。 抽毒盒还在那儿。 现在天黑了，它已经缩小到安德鲁家那么大了

bedroom closet. From the glacier to the faraway trees, nothing was moving but Max. He plodded over to them with his ears spread wide. meep… "Max say 'Hello' with ears," said Thudd. Beeper stuck his thumbs in his ears and wiggled his fingers at Max. Max touched Beeper with the tip of his trunk. He seemed to be sniffing him. "Elephants have a gigunda sense of smell," said Beeper. "Once a herd of elephants smelled my uncle from a mile away. They stampeded!" meep… "Elephant may be best smeller on Earth," said Thudd. "Mammoth is great smeller, too. That how Max find Drewd and Oody. Drewd and Oody related to Unkie Al. Smell kinda like him." "Wowzers schnauzers!" said Andrew. "If Max tracked us, maybe he can track the capybaras!" "Wait a minute," said Judy. "When you want a dog to track a person, you have to let the dog sniff

卧室的衣柜。从冰川到远处的树木，除了马克斯，什么都没有动。 他张着耳朵，慢吞吞地走到他们跟前。 “麦克斯用耳朵说‘你好’，”萨德说。 Beeper把大拇指塞进耳朵里，对着Max扭动着手指。 马克斯用鼻子尖碰了碰寻呼机。 他似乎在嗅他。 “大象的嗅觉非常灵敏，”Beeper说。 “有一次，一群大象在一英里外就闻到了我叔叔的味道。 “大象可能是地球上嗅觉最好的动物了。” “猛犸象的嗅觉也很好。 麦克斯就是这样找到德鲁和奥迪的。 德鲁和伍迪和昂基·艾尔有关系。 闻起来有点像他。”“哇兹雪纳瑞！”安德鲁说。 “如果麦克斯追踪到我们，也许他也能追踪到水豚！”“等一下，”朱迪说。 “当你想让狗追踪一个人的时候，你必须让狗嗅

something that has the person's smell." meep… "Like stinky sock," said Thudd. "Hoo boy!" said Beeper. "That's why Max found you guys so fast. You haven't had a bath since the beginning of the universe!" Judy rolled her eyes. "Well, you don't exactly smell like a rose," she said. "You haven't had a bath in three hundred million years!" Andrew was looking at a patch of trampled snow. "I think these are capybara footprints," he said. "Yoop! Yoop! Yoop!" said Thudd. Andrew followed the footprints to a sheet of bare rock. He couldn't find a trail. "If we could get Max to sniff these footprints," said Andrew, "maybe he could follow the trail of the capybaras." "Hooey!" said Beeper. He gathered a handful of grass and held it near the mammoth's trunk. Max reached out his trunk. With two little flaps at the end of it, he picked a single stem of grass.

某种带有人的气味的东西。” “就像臭袜子一样。” “好小子！”哔哔说。“所以麦克斯才这么快就找到了你们。 你从宇宙诞生以来就没洗过澡！”朱迪翻了个白眼。 “嗯，你闻起来可不像玫瑰，”她说。 “你已经有三亿年没洗过澡了！”安德鲁望着一片被踩过的雪地。 “我认为这些是水豚的脚印，”他说。 “Yoop !Yoop !呜！” 安德鲁循着脚印来到一块光秃秃的岩石上。 他找不到踪迹。“如果我们能让麦克斯闻到这些脚印，”安德鲁说，“也许他就能找到水豚的踪迹了。” “胡说！”他收集了一把草，把它放在猛犸象的鼻子附近。 马克斯伸出他的箱子。 他用手掌拍了两下，摘下了一根草茎。

He curled his trunk toward his mouth and chewed. Beeper wagged the rest of the grass at Max, then spread the grass over the capybara footprints. After Max gathered up every stem, he sniffed the footprints. After a moment, he started following them! "Hey! Wait a minute!" yelled Andrew. He ran up to Max, stood between his enormous tusks, and held up his hand. Then Andrew raised his other hand from his waist to the top of his head. Max touched Andrew's chest with his trunk, then slowly wrapped his trunk around Andrew's waist. It's like being hugged by a hairy snake, thought Andrew. Max lifted Andrew to the top of his head. Andrew grabbed Max's hair and pulled himself onto the mammoth's back. Max's hair was longer than Judy's hair. It was longer than Andrew's arm!

他把鼻子向嘴边弯了弯，嚼了起来。 蜂蜂把剩下的草朝马克斯摇了摇，然后把草铺在水豚的脚印上。 马克斯收集了每一根茎后，嗅了嗅脚印。 过了一会儿，他开始跟着他们！“嘿!等一下！”安德鲁喊道。 他跑到马克斯跟前，站在他巨大的象牙中间，举起他的手。 然后安德鲁把另一只手从腰间举到头顶。 麦克斯用鼻子摸了摸安德鲁的胸口，然后慢慢地用鼻子搂住安德鲁的腰。 这就像被一条毛茸茸的蛇抱着，安德鲁想。 马克斯把安德鲁举到头顶。 安德鲁抓住马克斯的头发，爬到猛犸象的背上。 麦克斯的头发比朱迪的长。 它比安德鲁的胳膊还长！

"Come on up, guys!" said Andrew, scooting backward. "We can all fit up here." "Yahoo!" said Beeper. Max scooped him up, too. Judy was next. "This is not comfortable," said Judy, settling herself in front of Beeper. "Poor Judy Patootie!" said Beeper. "They don't make saddles for mammoths!" "Stuff sock in it, Beeper Creeper!" said Judy. The mammoth wagged its trunk across the footprints and lurched ahead. Andrew, Judy, and Beeper swayed with every step. The mammoth crossed a rocky field and crunched through patches of ice. Sunlight glinted off the snowy ground. Under Andrew's cloak, his arms tingled with goose bumps.

“上来吧，伙计们！”安德鲁说着，向后退了几步。 “我们都能挤得下这里。”“雅虎！”Beeper说。 麦克斯也把他捞了起来。朱迪是下一个。 “这太不舒服了，”朱迪说着，在哔哔前坐了下来。 “可怜的朱迪·帕图蒂！” “他们不给猛犸象做马鞍！”“把袜子塞进去，哔哔爬行器！”朱迪说。 猛犸象摇着鼻子跨过脚印，蹒跚地向前走着。 安德鲁、朱迪和贝珀每走一步都摇摇晃晃。 猛犸象穿过一块岩石地，嘎吱嘎吱地穿过一块块冰。 阳光在雪地上闪闪发光。 在安德鲁的斗篷下，他的手臂起了鸡皮疙瘩。

"I liked Montana better sixty-five million years ago," said Andrew "Yeah!" said Beeper. "When there were Tyrannosauruses." "The Tyrannosauruses were good," said Andrew, "but I liked that it was warm, like a jungle. I wonder why it got so cold." meep… "Earth have lotsa ice ages," said Thudd. "Lotsa reasons. One reason is cuz Earth make different kindsa orbits around sun." Thudd pointed to his face screen. "When orbit like circle, Earth warm. When orbit like oval, Earth go farther from sun. Earth get cold. Ice not melt. Pile up. Make lotsa glaciers. Animals change. Plants change."

“我更喜欢六千五百万年前的蒙大拿。”安德鲁说。 “当有霸王龙的时候。” “暴龙很不错，”安德鲁说，“但我喜欢那里温暖，像丛林一样。 我不知道为什么天气会这么冷。” “地球上有很多次冰河时代，”泰德说。 “许多的原因。其中一个原因是地球围绕太阳的轨道不同。” 泰德指着他的屏幕。 当轨道像圆的时候，地球变暖了。 当轨道呈椭圆形时，地球离太阳更远。 地球变冷。冰不化。 堆积起来。制造很多冰川。 动物的变化。植物改变。”