11 Taking the Wrong Tern

Chapter 11 TAKING THE WRONG TERN "We made it!" cheered Andrew. "I don't believe it!" said Judy. "Thudd was right!" "Thunkoo, Oody" said Thudd. His face screen turned pink. Andrew used the bug leg to keep the boat from smacking into boulders. With the light from the cave opening, they didn't need the torch anymore. Judy dunked it in the river and used it to push them away from the rocks.

“我们成功了！”安德鲁欢呼道。 “我不相信！”朱迪说。 “砰是对的！”“哎哟，哎哟！” 他的脸变成了粉红色。 安德鲁用虫腿防止船撞上巨石。 有了洞口的光，他们不再需要手电筒了。 朱迪把它浸在河里，用它把他们从岩石上推开。

At last they swirled through the opening of the cave. The light was so bright, it hurt their eyes. "Where are we?" said Judy, blinking at the land around them. On both sides of the river stretched fields of weeds. In the distance was a pine tree forest. "I saw a rusty plow on the riverbank," said Andrew. "Maybe this is a farm. Maybe we can find someone who can get us back to school. But first we have to get to the river-bank." "There's lots of weeds hanging into the water," said Judy. "If we get near them, we can grab on and pull ourselves to shore." Andrew and Judy used their bug legs like hooks. "Got one!" said Judy. Her bug leg had caught on a vine trailing in the current. "Yay, Oody!" said Thudd. "Super-duper pooper-scooper!" said Andrew. As Judy held the boat in place, Andrew climbed onto the vine and pulled himself to-ward the

最后，他们旋转着穿过洞口。 光线太亮了，刺痛了他们的眼睛。 “我们在哪儿？”朱迪问，看着他们周围的土地眨着眼睛。 河的两岸长满了杂草。 远处是一片松树林。 “我看到河岸上有一个生锈的犁，”安德鲁说。 “也许这是一个农场。也许我们能找到能送我们回学校的人。 不过我们得先到河边去。” “水里有很多杂草，”朱迪说。 “如果我们靠近它们，我们就能抓住它们，把自己拉到岸边。” 安德鲁和朱迪把他们的虫腿当钩子用。 “抓到一个！”朱迪说。她的虫腿被水流中拖拽的藤蔓缠住了。 “太好了，乌迪！”“超级狗屎铲！”安德鲁说。 当朱迪把船固定好时，安德鲁爬上藤蔓，把自己拉向岸边

shore. Judy climbed out and followed. The bug boat took off down the river. In a minute, Andrew and Judy arrived onshore at the end of the vine. "Woofers!" said Andrew, leaning against a big brown lump. It was hard, but not as hard as a rock, and the vine was growing out of it. "I landed on a potato!" said Andrew. "I see one of its eyes!" "Who cares about your stupid potato, Bug- Brain," said Judy. "We're in a field. There are mice in fields—and snakes. We could get eaten. We need to get out of here—fast." "I know how to make a battery out of a potato!" said Andrew. "If we had some electricity, maybe I could get us back to normal size! Or at least a little bigger. We'd be able to get back to school and get totally unshrunk! "Do you have anything that's made out of metal, Judy?" "Maybe some hairpins," said Judy, running her fingers through her soggy, tangled hair. She pulled

海岸。朱迪爬了出来，跟在后面。 虫子船顺流而下了。 一分钟后，安德鲁和朱迪来到了藤蔓末端的岸上。 “低音炮！”安德鲁靠在一大块棕色的东西上说。 它很硬，但不像石头那么硬，藤蔓从上面长出来了。 “我落在一个土豆上了！”安德鲁说。 “我看见它的一只眼睛了！”“谁会在乎你那愚蠢的土豆呢，虫脑，”朱迪说。 “我们在田野里。田野里有老鼠——还有蛇。 我们会被吃掉的。我们得赶紧离开这里。” “我知道怎么用土豆做电池！”安德鲁说。 “如果我们有电，也许我能把我们变回正常大小！”或者至少再大一点。 我们就能回到学校，完全不萎缩了！“朱迪，你有金属做的东西吗？”“也许需要一些发夹，”朱迪说，用手指梳理着她湿漉漉的、纠结的头发。 她把

out six hairpins and a hair clip and handed them to Andrew. A shadow darkened the ground. Andrew looked up to see the white underside of a bird overhead. It was flying low and unsteadily. "That bird is coming in for a landing," said Andrew. "Hide!" said Judy. "Birds eat bugs, and we're looking awfully buggy!" meep… "Hide in skunk cabbage," said Thudd, pointing to a strange plant behind Judy. Its single reddish leaf was twisted into a round tent shape. There was a slit on its side. "Pee-yew!" said Judy as they rushed toward the skunk cabbage. They crept inside the slit. "It's warm here!" said Andrew. "Yoop! Yoop! Yoop!" said Thudd. "Plant make heat."

拿出六个发夹和一个发夹递给安德鲁。 一片阴影笼罩了地面。 安德鲁抬起头，看到头顶上有一只鸟的白色腹部。 它飞得很低，很不稳定。 “那只鸟要来降落了。”安德鲁说。 “躲起来！”朱迪说。“躲在臭卷心菜里吧，”萨德指着朱迪身后一株奇怪的植物说。 它那一片微红的叶子被拧成一个圆帐篷的形状。 它的一侧有一条缝。 “嘘！”他们冲向臭卷心菜时，朱迪说。 他们爬进了狭缝。 “这里很暖和！”安德鲁说。 “Yoop !Yoop !呜！” “植物产生热量。”

They peeked out of the slit. The bird landed on the edge of the river and began to drink. A long feather drooped from one of its wings. meep… "Bird is arctic tern," said Thudd. "Arctic tern make long, long flight, from North Pole to South Pole and then back again, every year. Called migration. "Most time, arctic tern not stop between Arctic and Antarctic. This bird got problem with flight feather."

他们从狭缝往外偷看。 那只鸟落在河边，开始喝水。 一只翅膀上垂下一根长长的羽毛。 “这只鸟是北极燕鸥。” “北极燕鸥每年都要做很长很长的飞行，从北极到南极，然后再回来。 称为迁移。“大多数时候，北极燕鸥不会在北极和南极之间停留。 这只鸟的飞行羽毛有问题。”

The bird finished drinking. It hopped into the air, flapped its wings—and fell back to the ground. Then it walked toward a patch of grass and tucked its head under a wing. "Aw," said Judy. "The poor thing. I wonder if we can help." meep… "Maybe if feather get stuck back in place," said Thudd. "Let's sneak up and see what we can do," said Judy. They left the skunk cabbage and crept up to the bird. It didn't seem to notice them. "Let's climb up on the wing," said Judy. "Maybe we can tuck the feather in place with my hairpins." "Let's try it," said Andrew. They climbed onto the wing and crept among the feathers. Andrew tugged at the long, heavy flight feather but hardly moved it. "Give me a hand here, Judy," he said. She grabbed the feather, too.

鸟儿喝完了水。 它跳上空中，拍打着翅膀，然后又落在地上。 然后它走向一片草地，把头埋在翅膀下面。 “哦，”朱迪说。“可怜的家伙。 “我想知道我们能不能帮上忙。” “我们溜过去看看能做些什么，”朱迪说。 他们离开了臭鼬卷心菜，爬到那只鸟身边。 它似乎没有注意到他们。 “我们爬到机翼上去吧，”朱迪说。 “也许我们可以用我的发夹把羽毛夹好。” “我们试试吧。”安德鲁说。 他们爬上翅膀，在羽毛间爬来爬去。 安德鲁拽了拽那根又长又重的飞羽，但几乎没动。 “帮我一下，朱迪，”他说。 她也抓住了羽毛。