2 Willy-Nilly

Chapter 2 WILLY-NILLY Andrew climbed out of the bottle cap and onto the dashboard. "Get back here, Bug-Brain!" yelled Judy. "Uncle Al told us to stay put!" "Wowzers schnauzers!" hollered Andrew. "There's a tornado out there! Uncle Al is under the jeep. I'll bet he doesn't even see it!" "Cheese Louise!" said Judy. meep… "Called dust devil," squeaked Thudd. "Australian people call it willy-willy.

安德鲁从瓶盖上爬到仪表盘上。 “给我回来，笨蛋！”朱迪喊道。 “艾尔叔叔叫我们待在原地别动！”“哇，雪纳瑞！”安德鲁叫道。 “外面有龙卷风！”艾尔叔叔在吉普车下面。 我敢打赌他根本没看见！”“奶酪露易丝！”朱迪说。 “叫尘暴。”泰德尖声说。 “澳大利亚人称之为随心所欲。

"Air near sand get super-hot. Super-hot air light, light, light! Little shove from breeze make air spin. Spinning air pick up sand. Make willy- willy." "Stuff a sock in it, Thudd!" said Judy. "The windows are wide open! We'll get blown away!" meep… "Time for purple-button message!" squeaked Thudd. There were three rows of three buttons on Thudd's chest. All the buttons glowed green except for a big purple one in the middle. This was the button for sending an emergency message to Uncle Al's Hologram Helper. Thudd pressed the purple button. It blinked three times and went off. Andrew glanced around. Nothing on the dashboard could protect them from the powerful wind. Then he looked toward the window. He grabbed Judy's arm. "Come on," he said, pulling her toward the opening. "Are you nuts-o?" said Judy pulling away.

“靠近沙子的空气会变得超级热。 超热空气轻，轻，轻！微风小小的推力使空气旋转。 旋转的空气把沙子捡起来。 威利——威利。”“塞只袜子进去，泰德！”朱迪说。 “窗户大开着！”“是时候发出紫色按钮的信息了！”泰德尖声说。 泰德的胸前有三排纽扣。 除了中间的一颗紫色的大纽扣外，所有的纽扣都发出绿色的光。 这是向艾尔叔叔的全息图助手发送紧急信息的按钮。 砰的一声按下了紫色的按钮。 它眨了三下眼睛就熄灭了。 安德鲁环顾四周。仪表盘上的任何东西都无法保护他们免受强风的伤害。 然后他朝窗户望去。 他抓住朱迪的胳膊。“来吧，”他说着，把她拉向洞口。 “你疯了吗？”朱迪说。

"Hurry!" yelled Andrew. "We can hide in the space where the window goes down!" They rushed toward the window on the driver's side. Whewwwwwwwwww… came the windy sound of the willy-willy from the passenger's side. They were an inch away from the window when the hot gust hit them. Andrew felt that a giant hair dryer was blowing burning sand against his skin. He closed his eyes to keep out the stinging grains. A sneeze tickled the back of his nose. Whooooooooosh! Andrew felt his feet lift off the dashboard. He was blowing away like a candy wrapper in a hurricane! "Aaaaaaaaah!" came Judy's voice through the sound of the wind. Judy was squeezing his arm like a boa constrictor. Andrew's stomach jumped and sank as the wind hurled them up and dragged them down and spun them round and round. WHOOOOOOOOOOOSH!

“快点！”安德鲁喊道。“我们可以躲在窗户开下去的地方！”他们冲向驾驶座一侧的窗户。 当www...从乘客身边传来了威利-威利的风声。 他们离窗户只有一英寸远时，一阵热风袭来。 安德鲁感到一个巨大的吹风机正在把灼热的沙子吹到他的皮肤上。 他闭上眼睛不让刺痛的麦粒进入。 一个喷嚏使他的后鼻发痒。 Whooooooooosh !安德鲁感到他的脚离开了仪表盘。 他就像飓风里的糖果包装纸一样被吹走了！“啊——啊——啊！”朱迪的声音透过风的声音传来。 朱迪像一条大蟒蛇一样捏着他的胳膊。 安德鲁的胃又跳又沉，风把它们吹起来，又把它们拖下来，旋转着它们。 WHOOOOOOOOOOOSH !

The wind drowned Judy's screams. Where will the willy-willy take us? Andrew wondered. How will Uncle Al ever find us in this humongous desert?

风淹没了朱迪的尖叫声。 它会把我们带到哪里去？ 安德鲁很好奇。阿尔叔叔怎么能在这茫茫沙漠里找到我们呢？

Spinning and spinning, Andrew got too dizzy to think about anything but feeling sick. "URP!" A giant garlic burp exploded from his stomach. Just as it seemed the willy-willy would drag them through the desert forever, the twisting wind began to slow. Andrew felt himself dropping. "Yeeeouch!" His butt had slammed into something hard. And he was underwater! His feet couldn't touch the bottom and there was water up his nose! He held his breath and popped to the surface. "Blaaargh!" Judy spluttered. "Holy moly!" said Andrew, opening his eyes. As he treaded water, Andrew saw they had landed in a big, warm puddle beneath a scrawny bush. Judy was bobbing next to him. Thudd had pulled himself up out of Andrew's pocket, crept up his shirt, and climbed on top of his head. "It rained in this part of the desert! A lot!" said Andrew. "Yoop! Yoop! Yoop!" said Thudd. "Like Unkie said. Maybe not get lotsa rain for lotsa years.

不停地转啊转，安德鲁头晕得什么都不想，只觉得恶心。 “URP !”他的胃里爆发出一个巨大的大蒜嗝。 就在他们似乎要永远拖着他们穿过沙漠的时候，扭曲的风开始慢下来了。 安德鲁觉得自己在往下掉。 “Yeeeouch !”他的屁股撞上了什么硬物。 他在水下！他的脚碰不到池底，鼻子里都是水！他屏住呼吸，跳上了水面。 “Blaaargh !”朱迪激动。 “天哪！”安德鲁睁开眼睛说。 安德鲁踩着水，看到他们已经落在了一个又大又暖的水坑里，水坑下面是一丛枯槁的灌木。 朱迪在他旁边上下浮动。 泰德从安德鲁的口袋里爬了出来，爬上他的衬衫，爬到他的头上。 “在沙漠的这一部分下雨了！”很多！”安德鲁说。 “Yoop !Yoop !呜！” 就像昂基说的。也许好多年都不会下雨了。

When rain come, water collect in holes. Stay for little while." "Better drink while we can," said Andrew. He dipped his head and began to slurp. "Yikes!" yelped Judy. She splashed madly toward the edge of the puddle. "Something bit my foot!" meep… "Dinosaur shrimp!" said Thudd. "Little shrimp hatch from tiny eggs when rain come. Grow fast. Lay eggs in few days. "When puddle dry up, shrimp die. But eggs can live lotsa years till rains come. Then eggs hatch." Andrew dog-paddled quickly after Judy. They reached the puddle's shore and climbed onto the shady sand beneath the bush. Andrew took in the landscape. Clumps of spiky grass were like islands of giant needles in an ocean of sand. Stony mounds rose high above the grass. They look as big as skyscrapers to me, thought Andrew. But they're probably as tall as Uncle Al.

下雨时，水就聚集在洞里。 再待一会儿。”“我们还是趁早喝吧。”安德鲁说。 他低下头，开始咕咕叫。 “哎呀！”朱迪叫道。她疯狂地往水坑边溅水。 “有东西咬了我的脚！” “下雨的时候，小虾从小蛋里孵化出来。 快速增长。几天后下蛋。 “当水坑干涸时，虾就会死去。 但是蛋可以活很多年直到下雨。 然后蛋就孵化了。”安德鲁飞快地追着朱迪。 他们来到水坑的岸边，爬上灌木丛下面阴凉的沙地。 安德鲁欣赏着风景。 一簇簇的尖草就像沙滩上的巨大针叶岛。 石丘高高耸立在草地之上。 在我看来，它们像摩天大楼那么大，安德鲁想。 但他们可能和艾尔叔叔一样高。