1 Gotta Wear Your Wannabee

Chapter 1 GOTTA WEAR YOUR WANNABEE "Ergh!" grunted ant-sized Andrew Dubble. Andrew, wearing a furry black-and-yellow-striped jumpsuit, was on a ledge outside a kitchen window. His arms were covered by black metal tubes, jointed at the elbows. He was struggling to get his legs into pants made from the same tubes. "You're not supposed to be outside, Bug- Brain," came a voice from the window sill behind

第1章穿上你想要的衣服。“呃！”蚂蚁大小的安德鲁·杜布尔咕噜着。 安德鲁穿着一件毛茸茸的黑黄条纹连衣裤，站在厨房窗户外的窗台上。 他的手臂上覆盖着黑色的金属管，肘部相连。 他挣扎着要把他的腿塞进同样的管子做的裤子里。 “你不应该在外面，虫脑。”一个声音从后面的窗台上传来

him. "And what's with that stupid outfit?" It was Andrew's thirteen-year-old cousin, Judy. Judy was ant-sized, too. "I'm dragging you back inside," she said as she climbed through a hole in the screen and onto the ledge. Andrew stood up stiffly in his metal pants. "I figured that since we're bug-sized, we need some bug advantages," he said. "So I made us these suits. They're called Wannabees." Judy rolled her eyes. "Bug advantages!" she said. "I don't want anything that bugs have! I just want what humans have—like being human size!" A few weeks ago, Andrew was working on his latest invention, the Goa, short for Garbage Goes Away. The Goa was supposed to squash garbage down to the size of specks. Andrew did shrink some apple cores and stinky cheese, but he also accidentally shrank himself and Judy down to bug size. "Uncle Al is working on getting us big again," said Andrew. "But we're so small that we need

他。“那件愚蠢的衣服是怎么回事？”那是安德鲁十三岁的表妹朱迪。 朱迪也有蚂蚁那么大。“我要把你拖进去，”她一边说，一边从屏风上的一个洞爬到窗台上。 安德鲁穿着金属裤僵硬地站了起来。 他说：“我认为，既然我们是虫子那么大，我们就需要一些虫子的优势。” “所以我给我们做了这些西装。 他们被称为Wannabees。” 朱迪翻了个白眼。“虫子优势！”她说。 “我不要虫子的东西！”我只是想要人类拥有的东西——比如人类的体型！”几周前，安德鲁正在研究他的最新发明，Goa，垃圾消失的缩写。 果阿本来是要把垃圾压成小颗粒的。 安德鲁确实缩小了一些苹果核和臭奶酪，但他也不小心把自己和朱迪缩小到虫子大小。 安德鲁说：“艾尔叔叔正在努力让我们变大。” “但是我们太小了，我们需要

protection right now. We're so soft, we could get crushed or eaten if something big comes along. Bugs are little, too, and they've got lots of ways to protect themselves." meep… "Hit Drewd!" came a squeaky voice from a pocket in Andrew's Wannabee. It was Andrew's little silver robot and pocket- sized best friend, Thudd. "That's the best idea I've heard since we got shrunk," said Judy. She made a fist and punched Andrew hard in the chest. "Ooof!" she said, rubbing her hand. "It's like you've got a hard shell!" "Super-duper pooper-scooper!" said Andrew. "Our skeletons are on the inside. But all insects and spiders have their skeletons on the outside, like this." meep… "Called exoskeleton," said Thudd. "Exo mean 'outside.'" Andrew nodded. "If you fall from a high place when you're wearing the Wannabee, you won't

现在是保护。我们太软了，如果有大东西出现，我们可能会被压碎或吃掉。 虫子也很小，它们有很多保护自己的方法。” “打德鲁！”一个尖细的声音从安德鲁的Wannabee口袋里传来。 这是安德鲁的银色小机器人，也是口袋大小的好朋友，泰德。 “这是我们被缩小后我听过的最好的主意，”朱迪说。 她握紧拳头，重重地打在安德鲁的胸口上。 “呜！”她搓着手说。 “就像你有一个硬壳一样！”“超级狗屎铲！”安德鲁说。 “我们的骨架在里面。 但是所有的昆虫和蜘蛛的骨架都在外面，就像这样。” “叫外骨骼。”萨德说。 “Exo的意思是‘外面’。’”安德鲁点点头。 “如果你穿着Wannabee从高处摔下来，你就不会

get hurt. If something tries to bite you, you'll be hard to chew." He pulled the hood of the Wannabee over his head. Andrew clomped over to a peanut shell on the window sill. He reached in and pulled out a Wannabee like the one he was wearing. He held it out to Judy. "This one's for you," he said. "Try it on. I think it's your size." "You've got to be kidding!" said Judy. "It looks so uncomfortable. Besides, every one of your stupid inventions has gotten us in trouble. If we just stay in the house, we won't need this junk." Andrew shook his head. "We can't just hang around the house," he said. "We've got to help Uncle Al save the frogs." Uncle Al had rescued Andrew and Judy from jungles and deserts—and even from inside himself! He had also invented Thudd. Now he was trying to figure out why frogs were disappearing all over the world.

受伤。如果有什么东西想咬你，你就很难咀嚼了。” 他把Wannabee的兜帽拉到头上。 安德鲁跌跌撞撞地走到窗台上的花生壳旁。 他把手伸进去，拿出一个和他身上穿的一样的Wannabee。 他把它递给朱迪。“这是给你的，”他说。 “试试吧。我想这是你的尺寸。” “你在开玩笑吧！”朱迪说。 “它看起来很不舒服。 而且，你的每一个愚蠢的发明都给我们带来了麻烦。 如果我们呆在房子里，就不需要这些垃圾了。” 安德鲁摇了摇头。“我们不能只是在房子里闲逛，”他说。 “我们必须帮助阿尔叔叔拯救青蛙。” 阿尔叔叔把安德鲁和朱迪从丛林和沙漠中救了出来——甚至从他的内心救了出来！他还发明了“砰”。 现在他想弄清楚为什么全世界的青蛙都在消失。

Judy rolled her eyes. "Ever since Uncle Al told us about the disappearing frogs, that's all you think about," she said. "Some frogs have even gone extinct," said Andrew. "Uncle Al and the frogs need our help. There's a frog pond just beyond this yard. We've got to go there and see what we can find out." "Right," said Judy. "At our size, it will take us a year to get to that pond." "No it won't," said Andrew. Andrew reached into a pocket and pulled out a tiny black remote control. He pressed some of its buttons. Suddenly a dead leaf at the end of the window ledge fluttered. It lifted. Beneath it was an odd flying machine. At the top was a pair of large, buggy-looking wings that had been wired together. Beneath the wings were two little seats, and under them, three wheels. "Cheese Louise!" said Judy. "What is that?" Andrew smiled and cocked his head. "It's the GNAT," he said. "GNAT is short for Global

朱迪翻了个白眼。“自从艾尔叔叔告诉我们青蛙消失的事，你就满脑子想的都是这个，”她说。 “有些青蛙甚至已经灭绝了，”安德鲁说。 “艾尔叔叔和青蛙们需要我们的帮助。 院子那边有个青蛙池塘。 我们必须去那里，看看能发现什么。” “对，”朱迪说。“以我们的体型，要花一年的时间才能到达那个池塘。” “不，不会的。”安德鲁说。 安德鲁把手伸进口袋，掏出一个小小的黑色遥控器。 他按了几个按钮。 突然，窗台尽头的一片枯叶飘动起来。 它取消。在它下面是一个奇怪的飞行器。 顶部有一对巨大的、像虫子一样的翅膀，它们是用电线连在一起的。 翅膀下面有两个小座位，下面有三个轮子。 “奶酪露易丝！”朱迪说。 “那是什么？”安德鲁笑了笑，歪着头。 “是蚊子，”他说。“GNAT是Global的缩写

Navigation and Transportation. "I made it from a pair of dragonfly wings I found in the garden and stuff in Uncle Al's workshop." "Global!" said Judy. "That stupid-looking thing wouldn't get you from here to the kitchen sink." "You wanna bet?" said Andrew. "I'll bet you the last crumb of Uncle Al's super-delicious fudge. I've got it in my pocket." "Hmmmm…," Judy pondered. "I'm so hungry. Okay." Andrew pressed more buttons on the remote. Whrrrrrrrrrrr… The GNAT's wings fluttered slowly at first, then faster, then so fast that they seemed to disappear. Whirring softly, the GNAT lifted a couple of inches off the window sill and set itself down in front of Andrew. Andrew packed Judy's Wannabee gear in a box beneath the GNAT's seats. "You'll want your Wannabee later," he said.

航海和运输。 “我用在花园里找到的一对蜻蜓翅膀和艾尔叔叔工作室里的东西做的。” “全球的！”朱迪说。“那东西看起来很蠢，连把你从这儿送到厨房水槽都不行。” “你想打赌吗？”安德鲁说。 “我跟你打赌，阿尔叔叔的最后一块超级美味的软糖。 我把它放在口袋里了。” “嗯……”朱迪沉思着。 “我好饿。好吧。”安德鲁又按了几下遥控器上的按钮。 蚊子的翅膀起初拍打得很慢，然后越来越快，很快就好像消失了一样。 蚊子轻轻地呼着，从窗台上飞了几英寸，落在安德鲁面前。 安德鲁把朱迪的Wannabee装备装进了GNAT座位下面的一个盒子里。 “你以后会想要你的Wannabee的，”他说。