9 A Tangled Web

Chapter 9 A TANGLED WEB The ant bent its head toward them. They stared up at its giant clipper jaws. "It could bite right through the Um-bubble!" said Judy. Ahwooo! Harley yowled. "Back into the tub, mister!" Mrs. Scuttle yelled. Her voice sounded close. The ant tapped the Umbubble with its hairy black antennas. meep… "Ant antennas smell us!" said Thudd. "Can tell if we taste good!" The ant's jaws were spreading open! Andrew and Judy were frozen in terror when they heard the flap of the shower curtain against the tub.

第九章纠结的网蚂蚁向他们低下头。 他们抬头望着它那锋利的巨颚。 “它会把泡泡咬穿的！”朱迪说。 Ahwooo !哈利大哭大叫。“回浴盆里去，先生！”斯卡托太太喊道。 她的声音听起来很近。蚂蚁用它毛茸茸的黑色触角轻拍着泡泡。 “蚂蚁的触角闻到了我们的味道！” “能分辨出我们的味道好不好！”蚂蚁的嘴巴张开了！当安德鲁和朱迪听到浴帘拍打浴缸的声音时，他们吓呆了。

"What's that on the ceiling?" they heard Mrs. Scuttle say. "I just got rid of one yesterday!" Suddenly the sponge was moving. Water oozed out of it! The ant wagged its enormous head, then skittered off the sponge and back into the drain. "Look!" said Andrew. A curved pink wall appeared next to the Umbubble. It was so high they couldn't see the top. It was covered with ridges that looked like the rows of a plowed field. meep… "Thumb!" said Thudd. He pointed to the strange ridges. "Fingerprints!" A waterfall tumbled over the Umbubble as Mrs. Scuttle squeezed the sponge. Soap bubbles popped up everywhere!

“天花板上那是什么？”他们听见斯卡特尔太太说。 “我昨天才处理掉一个！”突然，海绵动了起来。 水从里面渗出来了！蚂蚁摇了摇它巨大的头，然后从海绵上跳下来，回到排水沟里。 “看！”安德鲁说。Umbubble旁边出现了一道粉红色的弧形墙。 山太高了，他们看不见山顶。 它布满了山脊，看起来就像犁过的田地。 “拇指！” 他指着那些奇怪的山脊。 “指纹!”斯卡托太太挤海绵的时候，一道瀑布从Umbubble上滚落下来。 到处都是肥皂泡！

Andrew and Judy watched the tub getting farther away. The sponge, with the Umbubble stuck to it, was going up! "Sit, Harley!" came Mrs. Scuttle's rough voice. "I'm going to get rid of that thing once and for all!" They saw one of Mrs. Scuttle's humongous feet in a flip-flop. She had stepped onto the edge of the tub. "What is she going to—" Judy started to say. "I'll get you!" yelled Mrs. Scuttle. Suddenly they were hurtling toward Mrs. Scuttle's ceiling! "EEEIIIIIY!" Mrs. Scuttle howled. There was a tremendous thump, like a mountain falling into a valley. Then there was a softer

安德鲁和朱迪看着浴缸越来越远。 粘着Umbubble的海绵正在上升！“坐下，哈利！”斯卡特尔太太粗暴的声音传来。 “我要彻底摆脱那东西！”他们看见斯卡托太太的一只巨大的脚穿着人字拖。 她踩到了浴缸的边缘。 “她要——”朱迪开始说。 “我来抓你！”斯卡特尔太太喊道。 突然，他们冲向斯卡托太太的天花板！“EEEIIIIIY !”斯卡托太太吼道。 砰的一声巨响，就像一座山倒进了山谷。 然后是一个柔和的声音

thump. It was the sponge falling back into the tub. But the Umbubble was swinging like a circus trapeze from the ceiling! "We're dangling from a rope!" said Andrew. meep… "Spider web!" said Thudd. "Look!" Andrew and Judy looked where Thudd was pointing. The corner of the bathroom ceiling was a jumble of crisscrossed spider webs. "Cheese Louise!" said Judy. "We just escaped getting gobbled by an ant. Now we could end up as a spider snack!" Andrew looked around. "I don't see a spider," he said. "Maybe it's just an empty web. Maybe Mrs. Scuttle clobbered the spider." Judy and Andrew heard more thumping sounds below. Through the open shower curtain, they could see Mrs. Scuttle sitting on the bathroom floor, pounding her fists on the tiles. Harley was trying to lick her face. "She must have slipped off the edge of the tub when she threw the sponge," said Judy.

砰地撞到。那是海绵掉回浴缸里的声音。 可是那个泡泡像马戏团的空中飞人一样在天花板上荡来荡去！“我们被绳子吊着！”安德鲁说。 “蜘蛛网！” “看!”安德鲁和朱迪看着萨德指的地方。 浴室天花板的一角是一堆纵横交错的蜘蛛网。 “奶酪露易丝！”朱迪说。 “我们刚刚逃脱了被蚂蚁吃掉的命运。 现在我们可能会成为蜘蛛的点心！”安德鲁环顾四周。 “我没看见蜘蛛，”他说。 “也许这只是一张空网。 也许斯卡特尔太太打了蜘蛛。” 朱迪和安德鲁听到了下面更多的砰砰声。 透过敞开的浴帘，他们可以看到斯卡托太太坐在浴室的地板上，用拳头敲打着瓷砖。 哈利想舔她的脸。 “她一定是在扔海绵的时候从浴缸边缘滑了下来，”朱迪说。

"Uh-oh," said Andrew, looking at the tub below. "We're hanging right above the drain. If this spider web breaks, it's slime city for us." meep… "Spider silk strong, strong, strong!" said Thudd. "I know," said Judy. "My parents led a tour to an island near Australia. The spiders made webs so strong that people made fishnets out of them." "Wowzers!" said Andrew. "I'll bet I can use spider silk in one of my—" "Andrew!" yelled Judy. She pointed to a fold in the shower curtain. It was twitching….

“哦哦。”安德鲁看着下面的浴缸说。 “我们就挂在排水管上方。 如果这张蜘蛛网破了，我们就完蛋了。” “蜘蛛丝结实，结实，结实！” “我知道，”朱迪说。他说：“我父母带我去澳大利亚附近的一个岛屿旅游。 蜘蛛结的网很结实，人们用它们织成渔网。” “哇！”安德鲁说。“我打赌我可以用蜘蛛丝做我的——”“安德鲁！”朱迪喊道。 她指着浴帘上的一个折痕。 它在抽搐....