2 Crash Landing!

Chapter 2 CRASH LANDING! The GNAT was zigging and zagging. It was flying in circles. It was doing loop-de-loops. "Aaaaaaaaack!" hollered Judy. "Get this thing back to the house, Bug-Brain!" Uncle Al's yard was a blur of green. The wind whooshed against them. Leaves slapped Andrew's face. Andrew yanked at the steering wheel, but the GNAT was out of control. He quickly pressed some buttons on the remote, but his invention seemed to have a mind of its own.

第2章迫降！那只小蚊在曲折地走着。 它在绕圈飞行。它在做一个循环。 “啊——啊——啊！”朱迪大叫。 “把这东西拿回家去，笨蛋！”阿尔叔叔的院子里一片模糊的绿色。 风呼啸着吹向他们。 树叶拍打着安德鲁的脸。 安德鲁猛拉方向盘，但GNAT失去了控制。 他迅速按下了遥控器上的几个按钮，但他的发明似乎有自己的想法。

"The GNAT isn't working right," said Andrew. "Urf!" said Judy. "I feel sick!" "Stop pedaling," said Andrew. "The GNAT will go slower. Maybe then I'll be able to land it." As the GNAT slowed, it flew more smoothly. Andrew could steer it now. He glimpsed a silvery glint below. Sunlight on water! he thought. It's the pond! The GNAT was gliding down.

“蚊子不正常工作，”安德鲁说。 “呸！”朱迪说。“我觉得恶心！”“别踩踏板了，”安德鲁说。 “蚊子的速度会变慢。也许到那时我就能着陆了。” 小蚊蚋的速度越慢，飞得越平稳。 安德鲁现在可以驾驶它了。 他瞥见下面有一道银光。 阳光照在水面上！他想。 是池塘！小蚊正在往下滑翔。

WHRRRRRRRRRRR… came a sound like the GNAT, but louder. At first all Andrew could see was a bright streak rushing at them. Then it turned and shadowed them—a long, slim green body and a blur of wings. meep… "Dragonfly!" squeaked Thudd. "Fierce hunter! Eat anything that move. Catch prey with legs. Eat and fly!" Andrew watched as the swift dragonfly dropped lower and kept pace with the GNAT. The insect's prickly legs looked like a spiny cage. The GNAT jittered in the air. The dragonfly's mouth opened wide. It was so close that Andrew could look up and see inside. Two sets of jaws, one inside the other, were lined with needle-sharp teeth. Andrew shuddered. His head would fit nicely inside those jaws. The dragonfly dipped. The tips of its clawed feet scratched Andrew's cheek. Judy leaned over the side of the GNAT. "I see something that looks like a little raft below us,"

呜呜、呜呜、呜呜、呜呜、呜呜、呜呜…… 起初，安德鲁只能看到一道闪光向他们冲来。 然后它转过身来，尾随着他们——一个细长的绿色身体和一个模糊的翅膀。 “蜻蜓！” “激烈的猎人!吃任何会动的东西。 用腿捕捉猎物。快吃快飞！”安德鲁看着那只敏捷的蜻蜓降得更低，跟上了小蚊蚋的步伐。 昆虫带刺的腿看起来像一个带刺的笼子。 小蚊在空中抖动。 蜻蜓的嘴张得大大的。 它离得很近，安德鲁可以抬头看到里面。 两副下颚，一个在另一个里面，排列着针尖的牙齿。 安德鲁战栗。他的头正好能塞进那张嘴里。 蜻蜓往下沉。它的爪尖抓着安德鲁的脸颊。 朱迪靠在小蚊子的侧面。 “我看到我们下面好像有个小木筏，”

she said. "I'll try to land us there," said Andrew, dodging a dragonfly foot. Andrew nosed the GNAT down steeply and gained speed. They were going so fast, Andrew could feel the air pulling at his face. With a jolt and a bounce, the GNAT landed on a bumpy surface and stopped. "Woofers!" said Andrew. He scanned the sky for the dragonfly. It was a foot above them. A smaller dragonfly was trapped in its cage-like legs! The big dragonfly began to chew on the smaller one. "Holy moly!" said Andrew. "A cannibal dragonfly! But at least it's not eating us." Judy looked down at the bumpy raft they had landed on. "Yikes!" she hollered. "What's going on here?" The bumps on their landing place looked like the tops of tiny Ping-Pong balls. Some of them were popping open. Buggy little heads were waggling out!

她说。“我想办法在那里着陆。”安德鲁说着，躲开一只蜻蜓的脚。 安德鲁让小飞虫陡然降落，加速飞行。 他们开得太快了，安德鲁能感觉到空气在拉他的脸。 随着一阵颠簸和弹跳，小蚊落在一个凹凸不平的表面上，停了下来。 “低音炮！”安德鲁说。他扫视天空寻找蜻蜓。 它在他们上方一英尺的地方。一只小一点的蜻蜓被困在笼子一样的腿里了！大蜻蜓开始啃小蜻蜓。 “天哪！”安德鲁说。“一只食人蜻蜓！”但至少它没有吃掉我们。” 朱迪低头看了看他们登上的颠簸的木筏。 “哎呀！”她叫道。“这是怎么回事？”他们着陆点上的凸起看起来就像小乒乓球的顶部。 其中一些突然打开了。 一个个可爱的小脑袋晃来晃去！

meep… "Drewd and Oody land on raft of mosquito eggs!" said Thudd. "Wormy thing called larva hatch from egg." "Eeeeuw!" hollered Judy. "We're on a mosquito island!" As soon as each wriggly brown larva squirmed out of its egg, it disappeared into the pond. RHUUMMMMM… RHUUMMMMM… RHUUMMMMM… The deep sounds from somewhere in the pond made Andrew's chest rumble. "Cheese Louise!" said Judy. "What's that?" meep… "Bullfrogs!" squeaked Thudd. There were other noises, too—chirps and whistles and trills. But the frog croaks were the loudest.

“德鲁和Oody落在一排蚊子卵上了！” “一种叫做幼虫的虫子从卵中孵化出来。” “嘻！”朱迪叫道。“我们在蚊子岛上！”每只扭动着的棕色幼虫一从卵中蠕动出来，就消失在池塘里了。 嗯……嗯……嗯……从池塘某处传来的低沉的声音使安德鲁的胸膛发出隆隆声。 “奶酪露易丝！”朱迪说。 “牛蛙！”泰德尖声说。 还有其他的声音——啾啾声、口哨声和颤音。 但是青蛙的叫声是最响亮的。

The air smelled like low tide and autumn leaves. Andrew scanned the pond. Huge lily pads floated on the greenish water, and tall cattails swayed skyscraper-high above them. On the surface of the pond, nothing was still. Long-legged water striders skittered around the mosquito raft. Their feet made little dents in the water as though it were a sheet of thin plastic. A spider many times bigger than Andrew raced along and stopped nearby.

空气中弥漫着退潮和秋叶的味道。 安德鲁扫视了一下池塘。巨大的睡莲花瓣漂浮在碧绿的水面上，高大的香蒲像摩天大楼一样在上面摇摆。 池塘的表面一片寂静。 长腿的水黾在蚊子筏周围游来游去。 他们的脚在水里踩出一个个小凹痕，仿佛那是一张薄薄的塑料。 一只比安德鲁大很多倍的蜘蛛跑过来，停在附近。