8 Two Ways to Get Down in the Dumps

Chapter 8 TWO WAYS TO GET DOWN IN THE DUMPS "We'll be bird poop!" said Judy. "Matilda hasn't swallowed us yet," said Andrew. "Maybe she'll figure out we're not a peanut." meep… "Seagull got red spot on side of beak," said Thudd. "Cheese Louise!" said Judy. "This is no time for seagull trivia, Thudd!" meep… "Spot on beak help us get out, maybe," said Thudd. "When baby seagull want to eat, it peck at red spot on beak of big seagull. Make big seagull throw up food for baby bird to eat. If Drewd and Oody pound on inside of beak, maybe make seagull throw us up!"

“我们要变成鸟屎了！”朱迪说。 “玛蒂尔达还没有把我们吞下去。”安德鲁说。 “也许她会发现我们不是花生。” “海鸥的喙边长了一个红点。” “奶酪露易丝！”朱迪说。 “现在不是讲海鸥琐事的时候，砰！”“说不定能帮我们逃出去呢。” 小海鸥想吃东西的时候，就啄大海鸥喙上的红点。 让大海鸥吐出食物给小鸟宝宝吃。 如果德鲁和伍迪在鸟喙里面猛敲，说不定海鸥会把我们扔上去！”

"Super idea, Thudd!" said Andrew. "Eeeeeuw!" said Judy. "Just thinking about it makes me want to throw up!" Andrew put his arm around Judy. "It's either that or end up as bird poop on the windshield of someone's car," he said. Andrew and Judy leaned as the seagull turned. It was flying slower. Their peanut shell smacked the front of the beak as the seagull landed at the dump. meep… "Pound on side of beak!" squeaked Thudd. "Use shell!" Andrew stepped onto the seagull's hard tongue. "Grab the shell, Judy," said Andrew. "One… two… three!" They slammed the peanut shell into the beak again and again. There was rumbling down below. The beak cracked open. Suddenly a wave of warm, lumpy, fishy soup tossed them out of the beak.

“好主意，泰德！”安德鲁说。 “噫……”朱迪说。“一想到这个我就想吐！”安德鲁用胳膊搂住朱迪。 他说：“要么这样，要么就会变成别人汽车挡风玻璃上的鸟屎。” 海鸥转过身来，安德鲁和朱迪俯下身去。 它飞得更慢了。当海鸥降落在垃圾场时，他们的花生壳拍打着喙的前面。 “敲打鸟嘴一侧！”泰德尖声说。 “使用shell !”安德鲁踩在海鸥坚硬的舌头上。 “抓住蛋壳，朱迪，”安德鲁说。 “一……二……三！”他们一次又一次地把花生壳扔进鸟嘴。 下面有隆隆声。 鸟嘴裂开了。突然，一股滚烫的、浑浊的鱼汤把它们从嘴里甩了出来。

The seagull hopped into the air, spread its wings, and flew off. "Oofers!" hollered Andrew. He landed on a jelly doughnut with bite marks. "Aaaack!" yelled Judy. She tumbled onto the petal of a plastic daisy. Judy sat up and spit stuff out of her mouth. "Ploof! Ploof! PLOOOF!" She wiped her face with her sleeve. But since she was entirely soaked with seagull vomit, it didn't help. "What did you say?" asked Andrew. "Can't hear what you're saying!" shouted Judy, pulling bits of fish out of her hair. "It's so loud here!" The air was stuffed with sound. A spiral of screaming seagulls filled the afternoon sky. Crickets were making such a racket, Andrew felt he had crickets in his ears. Flies whizzed and whined like small airplanes above their heads. A fly circled Andrew's doughnut and came in for a landing. The fly's dark eyes covered most of

海鸥跳上天空，展开翅膀，飞走了。 “呸！”安德鲁叫道。 他落在了一个有咬痕的果冻甜甜圈上。 “啊！”朱迪叫道。她摔倒在一朵塑料雏菊的花瓣上。 朱迪坐起来，吐出嘴里的东西。 “普卢夫!普卢夫!PLOOOF !”她用袖子擦了擦脸。 但由于她全身都是海鸥的呕吐物，这也无济于事。 “你说什么？”安得烈问。 “听不清你在说什么！”朱迪喊道，一边从头发里扯出鱼屑。 “这里太吵了！”空气中充满了声音。 盘旋着尖叫的海鸥充斥了下午的天空。 蟋蟀在吵闹，安德鲁觉得耳朵里有蟋蟀。 苍蝇像小飞机一样在他们头顶上呼啸而过。 一只苍蝇绕着安德鲁的甜甜圈飞了过来，准备降落。 苍蝇的黑眼睛遮住了大部分

its head like two big helmets. Each eye looked like it was made up of thousands of tiny tiles. The fly crept over the doughnut in slow circles. meep… "Fly taste stuff with feet," said Thudd. A shadow passed over the doughnut. A black crow, looking as big as a jet plane, swooped low. The fly zoomed off. An explosion of umbrella shapes shot off the ground, whizzed high into the air, and rained back down. meep… "Springtail bug!" said Thudd. "Got springs under back legs. Jump high, high, high! Like human jumping over ten-story building!" "Holy moly!" yelled Andrew as a fuzzy-headed gray springtail landed on his shoulder. It looked like a big parrot. The prickly antennas between its bumpy black eyes tickled Andrew's ear. Through his shirt, Andrew felt the spring-tail's feet clawing his back.

它的头像两个大头盔。 每只眼睛看起来都像是由成千上万的小瓦片组成的。 苍蝇在甜甜圈上缓慢地盘旋着。 “苍蝇用脚尝东西。” 一个影子掠过甜甜圈。 一只黑乌鸦，看起来像一架喷气式飞机那么大，俯冲而下。 苍蝇嗖地飞走了。一阵伞形的爆炸从地面冲了出来，嗖嗖地飞到空中，然后又像雨一样落了下来。 “弹尾虫！” “后腿下面有弹簧。 跳得高，高，高！就像人类跳过十层楼一样！”“天哪！”安德鲁喊道，一只毛茸茸的灰色弹尾鱼落在他的肩膀上。 它看起来像一只大鹦鹉。 它那双凹凸不平的黑眼睛之间多刺的触角使安德鲁的耳朵发痒。 透过衬衫，安德鲁感到弹簧尾巴的脚在抓他的背。

As Andrew struggled to shove the bug off, another one landed in his lap. "Yaaaaah!" screamed Judy, fighting off the springtails that had rained down on her. Trying to get away, she fell off her petal and onto the ground. "YAAAAAAAAH!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. "It's horrible down here!"

正当安德鲁挣扎着把虫子推开时，另一只虫子落在了他的腿上。 “啊——啊！”朱迪尖叫着，使劲赶走落在她身上的弹尾。 她想挣脱，却从花瓣上掉了下来，摔在地上。 “啊——啊——啊！”她声嘶力竭地尖叫。 “这里太可怕了！”