1 Ssssssssssss

Chapter 1 SSSSSSSSSSSS… "Yerrrrghhh!" groaned ten-year-old Andrew Dubble. He was dragging a heavy black bag through his classroom door. The bag was squirming! No one else was in the room. "Wowzers!" said Andrew. "We've finally got the place to ourselves." Ch… ch… ch… ch… ch… Angry screams were coming from a cage behind Andrew. It was Harry and Howard, the class guinea pigs. Andrew felt a poke inside his shirt pocket. meep… "Animals afraid, Drewd," came a squeaky voice. It was Andrew's little silver robot and best friend, Thudd. Thudd was short for The Handy

“嗯……”十岁的安德鲁·杜布尔呻吟道。 他拖着一个沉重的黑色书包穿过教室门。 袋子在蠕动！房间里没有其他人。 “哇！”安德鲁说。“我们终于有了自己的地方。” 愤怒的尖叫声从安德鲁身后的笼子里传来。 是哈利和霍华德，班级的小白鼠。 安德鲁感到有人在他的衬衫口袋里戳了一下。 “动物害怕了，德鲁。”一个尖细的声音传来。 那是安德鲁的银色小机器人，也是他最好的朋友，泰德。 Thudd是The Handy的缩写

Ultra-Digital Detective. Andrew looked around the room. A forest of trees reached for the ceiling. Plants with giant leaves pressed against the windows. Plastic hamster trails zigzagged through it all. A shelf at the back held roomy cages for mice and guinea pigs. A hairy tarantula spider the size of Andrew's hand lived in a sandy aquarium tank. "Don't worry, Thudd," said Andrew. "I'll make sure the Goa Constrictor eats just the garbage." Andrew checked the clock on the wall. "The cafeteria ladies said they would bring the garbage at three o'clock," he said. "We've got fifteen minutes to get ready." Andrew untied the squirming black bag and pulled a small remote control from his pants pocket. He pressed the Slither Out button. Ssssssssssss… came a loud hiss from the bag. A giant brown snake head poked out. It had blinking red lights for eyes. A thin black tongue flicked from its mouth.

Ultra-Digital侦探。安德鲁环顾了一下房间。 一片树林一直长到天花板。 巨大叶子的植物紧贴着窗户。 塑料仓鼠的足迹蜿蜒而过。 后面的架子上放着宽敞的老鼠和豚鼠笼子。 一只安德鲁手掌大小的多毛狼蛛住在一个沙质水族箱里。 “别担心，泰德。”安德鲁说。 “我保证果阿蟒蛇只吃垃圾。” 安德鲁检查了一下墙上的钟。 “食堂的女服务员说她们会在三点钟把垃圾送来，”他说。 “我们还有十五分钟准备。” 安德鲁解开那个扭动的黑色袋子，从裤子口袋里掏出一个小遥控器。 他按下滑出按钮。 袋子里发出一声嘶嘶声。 一个巨大的棕色蛇头探了出来。 它的眼睛有闪烁的红灯。 一条又细又黑的舌头从它嘴里滑了出来。

The huge snake slipped out of the bag. Its body was brown and yellow. It was as thick as a wastebasket and as long as a ladder. Andrew beamed. "Wowzers schnauzers! Isn't the Goa beautiful?" "Yoop! Yoop! Yoop!" said Thudd. "But gotta be careful, Drewd. Remember Atom Sucker." Not long ago, Andrew had invented the Atom Sucker. It shrunk things by sucking the empty space out of atoms. Andrew accidentally shrunk himself so small that he got snuffled into the nose

那条大蛇从袋子里溜了出来。 它的身体是棕色和黄色的。 它像废纸篓一样厚，像梯子一样长。 安德鲁传送。“一雪纳瑞!果阿不是很美吗？”“Yoop !Yoop !呜！” “不过你得小心，德鲁。 还记得《原子吸盘》吗？”不久以前，安德鲁发明了原子吸盘。 它通过从原子中吸取空间来缩小物体。 安德鲁不小心把自己缩得太小了，结果被鼻子吸进去了

of a dog, flushed down a toilet, and almost eaten by a nasty neighbor. Andrew laughed. "I'll never forget that," he said. "Andrew!" came a voice from the hall. It was Judy, Andrew's thirteen-year-old cousin. "And Judy will never let me forget it, either," said Andrew. The Atom Sucker had shrunk Judy, too. "Cheese Louise!" Judy yelled as she backed away from the doorway. "What is that?" "It's my entry for the Young Inventors Contest," said Andrew. "It's called the Goa Constrictor. Goa stands for Garbage Goes Away." "Then you should call it the Gga Constrictor," said Judy. "That's the right way to make a name from initials, Bug-Brain." "It's my invention," said Andrew, "so I get to invent its name, too. Wait till you see the Goa in action. It swallows a giant pile of garbage, then it squeezes the empty space out of the atoms and makes the garbage super-small. I'll show you."

一只狗，被冲进厕所，差点被讨厌的邻居吃掉。 安德鲁笑了。“我永远不会忘记这一点，”他说。 “安德鲁！”大厅里传来一个声音。 是安德鲁十三岁的表妹朱迪打来的。 “而且朱迪也不会让我忘记的，”安德鲁说。 吸盘也把朱迪缩小了。 “奶酪路易斯!”朱迪大叫着从门口退了出来。 “那是什么？”“这是我参加青年发明家大赛的参赛作品，”安德鲁说。 “它叫果阿蟒蛇。 果阿代表垃圾滚蛋。” “那么你应该叫它‘大蟒蛇’。”朱迪说。 “这是用首字母缩写来命名的正确方法，虫脑。” “这是我的发明，”安德鲁说，“所以它的名字也是我发明的。 等着看果阿的表现吧。 它吞下一大堆垃圾，然后从原子中挤出空间，使垃圾变得超级小。 我来告诉你。”

Suddenly the Goa Constrictor raised its head. Its tongue flicked faster. meep… "Goa Constrictor smell stuff with tongue," said Thudd. "Goa Constrictor got little pits on side of face that feel heat. When garbage get rotty, garbage get warm. Goa find it." Ssssssssssss… The Goa Constrictor, red eyes blinking faster, slithered toward Judy. "Aack!" yelled Judy, backing away. "Does it think I'm garbage or something?" Andrew shrugged. "I don't know," he said as the Goa Constrictor zigzagged toward the door. "But it sure does smell something funny."

突然，果阿巨蟒抬起头来。 它的舌头弹得更快了。 “果阿蟒蛇用舌头闻东西。” “果阿蟒蛇脸上有小坑，可以感觉到热。 当垃圾腐烂时，垃圾会变暖。 我要找到它。”那条果阿蟒蛇，红色的眼睛眨得更快了，向朱迪游来。 “啊！”朱迪喊道，后退了几步。 “它认为我是垃圾还是什么？”安德鲁耸耸肩。 “我不知道。”当果阿巨蟒弯弯曲曲地驶向门口时，他说。 “但它确实闻起来有点奇怪。”