7 Eat This!

Chapter 7 EAT THIS! "YAAAAAH!" hollered Judy. "Holy moly!" said Andrew. He tried to pull the net off. But the more he struggled, the more tangled he got. Eek! squeaked Thudd. "Net-throwing spider! Spider weave net from spider silk. Watch for prey. Throw net on top of prey. Then spider bite prey with poison fangs! Gotta get out fast, fast, fast!" "I'm trying!" said Judy, pulling at the spider silk. It stretched like chewing gum. The more they pulled, the more net there was to trap them. "Noop! Noop! Noop!" squeaked Thudd. "Not pull web. Gotta eat web! Saliva in mouth break web!" Judy's mouth dropped open and her eyes grew wide.

第七章吃这个！“啊——啊！”朱迪大叫。 “天哪！”安德鲁说。他试图把网拉开。 但他越挣扎，就越纠结。 唷!Thudd吱吱地。“Net-throwing蜘蛛!蜘蛛用蜘蛛丝织网。 注意猎物。把网撒在猎物身上。 然后蜘蛛用毒牙咬猎物！快，快，快！”“我在努力！”朱迪一边说，一边拉着蜘蛛丝。 它像口香糖一样伸展着。 他们拉得越多，困住他们的网就越多。 “等待!等待!不！”泰德尖声说。 “不是拉网。我要吃蜘蛛网！嘴里有口水破网！”朱迪张着嘴，眼睛睁得大大的。

meep… "EAT! EAT! EAT!" screeched Thudd. Andrew heard a rustle behind him. He spun around. A leaf quivered. In the shadow under the leaf, Andrew spied a hairy head. Below its two enormous, round black eyes were two gigantic, hairy fangs. "YAAARGH!" cried Andrew. His legs felt like pudding. Andrew turned and began stuffing globs of spider net into his mouth. Tastes kind of like milk, he thought. Judy was eating frantically, too. Her cheeks bulged with spiderweb. Suddenly Andrew felt something brush his back. The hairy brown fangs of the spider were rising up behind him!

meep…”吃!吃!吃！”砰尖叫道。 安德鲁听到身后有沙沙声。 他转过身来。一片叶子在颤动。 在树叶下的阴影里，安德鲁发现了一个毛茸茸的脑袋。 在它那双又大又圆的黑眼睛下面，长着两颗巨大的、毛茸茸的尖牙。 “啊！”安德鲁叫道。他的腿感觉像布丁。 安德鲁转过身，开始往嘴里塞蜘蛛网。 尝起来有点像牛奶，他想。 朱迪也在疯狂地吃东西。 她的双颊因蜘蛛网而鼓起来。 突然，安德鲁感到有什么东西拂过他的背。 蜘蛛毛茸茸的棕色毒牙在他身后拔地而起！

Andrew froze. Judy grabbed his arm and shoved him through the hole they'd eaten in the net. Broken strands of silk caught on their clothes, but they ripped themselves away. They were free! But the spider tore through its net. It was scuttling after them! "Ack!" screamed Judy as a claw scratched her scalp.

安德鲁冻结。朱迪抓住他的胳膊，把他从他们在网上吃的洞里推了出去。 断丝缠在他们的衣服上，但他们把自己扯掉了。 他们是免费的！但是蜘蛛撕破了它的网。 它在追赶他们！“哎呀！”朱迪尖叫着，一只爪子抓着她的头皮。

They stumbled as fast as they could over the rough bark of the tree branch. Andrew looked frantically for a place to hide from the spider. meep… "Look, Drewd!" Thudd squeaked. He was pointing to a group of tall, thick green towers sticking up from the branch. Hanging down from one of the towers was a star-shaped, red-and-white-striped flower. It was as big as a person's foot. Andrew and Judy ducked under ferns and mosses as they scrambled toward the strange- looking thing. "Ugh!" said Judy breathlessly. "Something stinks!" "Woofers!" said Andrew. "It's worse than when we got lost in the garbage! What is that thing?" The closer they got to the strange plant, the worse the smell grew. The giant flower was covered with fuzzy red hairs—and lots of flies. meep… "Called dead-horse plant," said Thudd. "Cuz flower stink like dead thing.

他们尽可能快地在粗糙的树皮上绊倒了。 安德鲁疯狂地寻找一个躲避蜘蛛的地方。 “看，德鲁！”Thudd发出“吱吱”的响声。 他指着从树枝上伸出来的一组又高又粗的绿色塔。 从一座塔楼上垂下一朵红白相间的星形花。 它有一个人的脚那么大。 安德鲁和朱迪躲在蕨类植物和苔藓下，向这个奇怪的东西爬去。 “啊！”朱迪上气不接下气地说。 “臭东西!”“低音炮！”安德鲁说。 “比我们在垃圾堆里迷路还糟！”那是什么东西？”他们越靠近那株奇怪的植物，气味就越难闻。 这朵巨大的花上覆盖着毛茸茸的红毛——还有许多苍蝇。 “叫死马草。”萨德说。 “因为花闻起来像死人。

"Smell of dead-horse flower bring flies. Pollen from flower stick to flies. Flies carry pollen to other dead-horse flowers. Then flowers make seeds. Seeds make more baby dead-horse plants." meep… "Hide under dead-horse plant," said Thudd. One of the spider's clawed feet pricked Andrew's leg. "YEOW!" hollered Andrew. With a burst of energy, he flung himself between the green cactus-like columns of the dead-horse plant. Suddenly the spider stopped. It scuttled to the monster flower. In a blur of speed, the fangs snatched a fly. Judy shivered. "That could have been you—or me!" she whispered. meep… "Spider busy eating fly," said Thudd. "Drewd and Oody gotta get out now. Gotta go up tree. Gotta find river." Slowly, quietly, Andrew and Judy crawled out from the green columns and away from the spider.

“死马花的气味引来苍蝇。 花粉从花上粘到苍蝇身上。 苍蝇把花粉带到其他死马花上。 然后花产生种子。种子会产生更多的死马幼苗。” “躲在死马草下面。” 蜘蛛的一只带爪的脚扎了安德鲁的腿。 “耶！”安德鲁叫道。他猛地发了一把力，纵身跃入那棵死马植物的绿色仙人掌状柱子之间。 突然，蜘蛛停了下来。 它飞快地跑向那朵怪兽花。 在一个模糊的速度中，尖牙抓住了一只苍蝇。 朱迪颤抖。“那可能是你，也可能是我！”她低声说。 “蜘蛛忙着吃苍蝇。” “德鲁和伍迪必须马上离开。 得去树上了。必须找到河。” 安德鲁和朱迪慢慢地、悄悄地从绿色的柱子上爬了出来，远离了蜘蛛。

They reached the tree trunk and began climbing again. Thudd pointed out the birds that flashed through the trees—screaming orange-and-green king parrots, black riflebirds that made a sound like a gunshot, and green catbirds that meowed. These sounds were all part of the whistling, buzzing, cackling, screaming, screeching music of the rain forest. meep… "Drewd and Oody near treetops now," Thudd said. "Called canopy of rain forest. Lotsa animals live in canopy. Lotsa light up here. Lotsa water from lotsa, lotsa rain. Canopy make shade for stuff that live underneath. Keep rain forest cool."

他们走到树干旁，又开始往上爬。 砰砰指了指那些在树林里飞来飞去的鸟——橙绿色相间的王鹦鹉在尖叫，黑色的步枪鸟发出像枪声一样的声音，绿色的猫鸟在喵喵叫。 这些声音都是热带雨林的呼啸声、嗡嗡声、咯咯声、尖叫声、刺耳的音乐的一部分。 “德鲁和乌迪现在在树梢附近。” 叫做雨林的树冠。 很多动物生活在树冠上。 这里有很多灯。很多水来自很多水，很多雨。 树冠为生活在树冠下的生物提供阴凉。 让雨林保持凉爽。”