2 Attack of the Big Eaters

Chapte 2 ATTACK OF THE BIG EATERS Andrew tumbled over and over into warm, dark wetness. He reached for the mini-flashlight that he always kept on his belt loop. The batteries are just about dead, he thought. But I'll give it a try. He clicked the switch. The light went on— and it was bright! Maybe the batteries got recharged when we got shocked by the electrical fish, he thought. By the light, Andrew saw he was in a tight, twisty tube. He bounced against rubbery walls as a fast-flowing, chicken-soup-colored river dragged him along.

安德鲁一次又一次地滚进温暖、黑暗、潮湿的地方。 他伸手去拿他一直放在腰带环上的迷你手电筒。 电池快没电了，他想。 但我要试一试。他按了一下开关。 灯亮了——而且很亮！他想，也许当我们被电鱼电击时，电池被重新充电了。 借着灯光，安德鲁看到自己被困在一个又紧又扭的管子里。 他在橡胶墙上弹跳，湍急的鸡汤色河水把他拖了过去。

Uh-oh, thought Andrew. We must be in a capillary. The rushing stream was stuffed with round red things that looked like doughnuts without holes. The doughnut-y shapes were as big as Andrew. They felt like Jell-O when he was squeezed against them. Andrew and Judy got sandwiched between two of the squishy things. These must be red blood cells! thought Andrew. The guys that carry oxygen from our lungs.

哦哦，安德鲁想。我们一定是在毛细血管里。 湍急的小溪里塞满了圆圆的红色东西，看起来就像没有洞的甜甜圈。 甜甜圈形状和安德鲁一样大。 当他被挤在上面的时候，感觉就像果冻一样。 安德鲁和朱迪被夹在两个黏糊糊的东西中间。 这些一定是红细胞！认为安德鲁。 这些家伙从我们的肺里携带氧气。

Andrew had been holding his breath as he bumped and tumbled through the tube. He felt he would burst if he didn't breathe now. I designed the Schnozzle's mustache to get oxygen from water, he thought. I sure hope it can get oxygen from blood, too. Andrew took a small breath through the Schnozzle nose. Yay! he thought. The mustache picks up oxygen from blood. I can breathe! Now let's see if the thought-phones work. From a pocket, Andrew pulled two tiny wire spirals and slipped them over Thudd's antennas. Thudd! Judy! Can you hear me? thought Andrew. "Yoop! Yoop! Yoop!" came Thudd's voice through the Schnozzle's earpieces. "You've really done it this time, Bug-Brain!" came Judy's voice. "Super-duper pooper-scooper!" Andrew said in his head. "You can hear me!"

安德鲁在管子里颠簸翻滚的时候一直屏住呼吸。 他觉得如果现在不呼吸，他就要炸了。 他想，我设计sch喷嘴的胡子是为了从水中获取氧气。 我当然希望它也能从血液中获取氧气。 安德鲁用鼻子吸了一口气。 耶!他想。胡子从血液中吸收氧气。 我能呼吸了！现在让我们看看思想电话是否有效。 安德鲁从口袋里掏出两根小螺旋线，套在泰德的天线上。 Thudd !朱迪!你能听到我说话吗？ 认为安德鲁。“Yoop !Yoop !呜！”从鼻嘴的耳机里传来了泰德的声音。 “这次你真的成功了，虫脑！”朱迪的声音传来。 “了不起的pooper-scooper !”安德鲁在心里说。 “你能听到我说话！”

All he had to do was think and the Schnozzle's earpieces would send out his thoughts. And he could pick up the thoughts of others, too. As Andrew tumbled through the river of blood, he turned up a tip of his shirt collar and unzipped a secret pocket. He pulled out what looked like a piece of rubber band with a black rubber cup at each end. It was the Drastic Elastic, one of Uncle Al's inventions. It could keep anything connected to anything. Andrew pressed one of the cups against the back of his neck. It stuck. He tossed the other cup to Judy, who was just behind him. "Shove the Drastic Elastic cup against the back of your neck, Judy," he said. "It'll keep us from getting separated. No matter where we are, pulling on the Drastic Elastic will snap us back together." Andrew tied Thudd to the Drastic Elastic, too. "Oh, great!" said Judy. "If we ever get out of Uncle Al, I'm going to invent something that will keep us apart!

他所要做的就是思考，Schnozzle的耳机就会把他的想法发送出去。 他也能领会别人的思想。 当安德鲁在血泊中翻滚时，他竖起衬衫领子的一角，拉开了一个秘密口袋的拉链。 他拿出一根看起来像橡皮筋的东西，两端各有一个黑色的橡胶杯。 这是强力橡皮筋，艾尔叔叔的发明之一。 它可以把任何东西连接起来。 安德鲁把其中一个杯子按在脖子后面。 它卡住了。他把另一个杯子扔给紧跟在他后面的朱迪。 “朱迪，把弹力杯推到你的脖子后面，”他说。 “这样我们就不会走散了。 不管我们在哪里，只要拉上强力橡皮筋，我们就会重新合在一起。” 安德鲁也把泰德绑在剧烈的橡皮筋上。 “哦，太好了！”朱迪说。“如果我们能摆脱阿尔叔叔，我要发明一种东西把我们分开！”

"How on earth did you manage to get us into Uncle Al?" meep… "Mosquito squirt us inside," said Thudd. "Mosquito got two tubes inside snout. One tube squirt spit into bite. Mosquito spit make animal not feel mosquito bite. Then other snout tube suck up blood. Female mosquito need blood for babies. Male mosquitoes not bite." "This stuff we're in doesn't even look like blood," said Andrew. "It's yellow." meep… "Yellow stuff called plasma," said Thudd. "Plasma kinda like river that carry red blood cells. Plasma carry food to body, too. Carry bad stuff away." "How do we get it to carry us out of— Aaack!" Judy hollered. "Something just landed in my hair!" Andrew felt something plop onto his head, too. Long, twisty spirals dangled over his eyes like wet pasta. A few of them sped off into Uncle Al's blood.

“蚊子把我们喷进去了。”萨德说。 “蚊子的鼻子里有两根管子。 一管喷成一口。 蚊子的唾液使动物感觉不到蚊子的叮咬。 然后另一个鼻子管吸血。 雌蚊子需要血液来繁殖后代。 雄蚊不咬人。” “我们所处的这个地方根本不像血，”安德鲁说。 “一种叫等离子体的黄色东西。” “血浆有点像携带红细胞的河流。 血浆也携带食物到身体。 把不好的东西带走。”“我们怎么让它带我们离开——啊！”朱迪大声喊道。 “有东西落在我头发上了！”安德鲁也感到有什么东西扑通一声落到了他的头上。 长长的、扭曲的螺旋像湿漉漉的意大利面一样悬在他的眼睛上。 有几个人跑进了阿尔叔叔的血里。

meep… "Bacteria!" squeaked Thudd. "Germs! Can make Unkie sick, sick, sick!" Suddenly a giant white blob covered with shaggy tentacles squooshed through a slit in the capillary. The blob was bigger than the red blood cells. It squashed Andrew and Judy against the side of the rubbery capillary wall. "Oh NOOOOO!" hollered Judy. "It's horrible!" meep… "White blood cell," said Thudd. "Called macrophage. Macrophage mean 'big eater.' White blood cell eat up lotsa germs." The tentacles swarmed over Andrew in the tight capillary. They were touching his cheeks and

“细菌！” “细菌!能让昂基生病，生病，生病！”突然，一个巨大的白色斑点，上面覆盖着毛茸茸的触手，从毛细血管的缝隙里挤了出来。 这个斑点比红细胞还大。 它把安德鲁和朱迪压在了橡胶毛细血管壁上。 “哦，不！”朱迪喊道。 “白细胞。”萨德说。 “叫巨噬细胞。巨噬细胞的意思是“大食客”。白细胞吞噬了很多细菌。” 触角在紧绷的毛细血管里向安德鲁挤来挤去。 他们抚摸着他的脸颊