6 Ant-icipation

Chapter 6 ANT-ICIPATION Judy took off after him. "Wait till I get my hands on you!" she yelled. They climbed over a twig and tumbled down the side of a rock. They fell onto something that looked like a fluffy white cushion. "Whew!" said Judy, catching her breath. "Let's rest here. So what was all that stupid running about?" Andrew shrugged. "There was this humongous yellow ooze slithering toward us," he said. meep… "Look!" Thudd pointed to his face screen. "Slime mold is fungus village. Most of time, little fungus guys live alone. But when fungus guys run out of food, lotsa lotsa fungus

朱迪跟着他跑了。 “等我抓到你！”她喊道。 他们爬过一根小树枝，从岩石边上滚了下来。 他们摔倒在一个看起来像毛茸茸的白色垫子的东西上。 “呼！”朱迪喘着气说。 “我们在这里休息吧。那么，这些愚蠢的事情是怎么回事呢？”安德鲁耸耸肩。 “有一大片黄色的淤泥向我们滑来，”他说。 meep…”看!”泰德指着他的屏幕。 “黏菌是真菌的村庄。 大多数时候，小真菌独自生活。 但是当真菌们没有食物的时候，会有很多很多的真菌

guys get together. Make big ooze parade. Look for new place to eat." "Kind of like a class trip looking for lunch," said Andrew. Judy frowned. "Great!" she said. "So will the slime follow us here?" meep… "Slime mold not climb down rock," said Thudd. "Good!" said Judy. She touched the fluffy white strands of the thing they were sitting on. "This stuff is a little sticky, like cotton candy. But it's nice and comfy." Andrew looked around the place they had fallen into. Suddenly his jaw dropped and his eyes got wide.

男人们聚在一起。来个大游行。 找个新地方吃饭吧。” 安德鲁说：“这有点像班级旅行寻找午餐。” 朱迪皱起了眉头。“太好了！” “黏液霉菌是不会从岩石上爬下来的。” “很好！”朱迪说。她摸了摸他们坐着的东西的白色绒毛。 “这东西有点黏，像棉花糖。 但它很好，很舒服。”安德鲁环顾了一下他们掉进的地方。 突然，他的下巴耷拉下来，眼睛睁得大大的。

"Super-duper pooper-scooper!" shouted Andrew. He pointed to a mountain of dirt. "You know what that is?" Judy rolled her eyes. "It's an anthill," she said. "But you'd better not be thinking what I think you're thinking. I don't want to hear one word about your antsy-schmancy science report." "Judy, we've got to get into that anthill," said Andrew. "Now's our chance to find out incredible stuff!" Judy shook her head. "After that ant sneaked up behind me on the sponge, I never want to see another ant again!" "Aw, come on, Judy," Andrew pleaded. "I think the ants are asleep now." meep… "Ants not go beddy-bye yet," said Thudd. "Don't worry," said Andrew. "You don't see any ants, do you?" "Every time you say 'don't worry,'" said Judy turning her back on Andrew, "an alarm goes off in my… YIIIIIIKES!"

“超级狗屎铲！”安德鲁叫道。 他指着一座土山。 “你知道那是什么吗？”朱迪翻了个白眼。 “这是一个蚁丘，”她说。 “但是你最好不要想我认为你在想的事情。 我一个字也不想听你的科学报告。” “朱迪，我们必须进入那个蚁丘，”安德鲁说。 “现在是我们发现不可思议的东西的机会！”朱迪摇了摇头。 “自从那只蚂蚁从海绵上爬到我身后，我再也不想看到蚂蚁了！”“哦，别这样，朱迪，”安德鲁恳求道。 “我想蚂蚁现在睡着了。” “蚂蚁还没上床睡觉呢。” “别担心，”安德鲁说。 “你没有看到蚂蚁，是吗？”“每次你说‘别担心’，”朱迪背对着安德鲁说，“我的……呜……呜……呜……”

Andrew turned to see what Judy was screaming about. "AAAAANT!" screamed Andrew and Judy. The shiny black head was right behind them. They could see their reflection in the glittering wall of eyes. The ant closed its giant jaws around the fluffy cushion they were sitting on. Then it lifted their cushion and began carrying it— and them!— toward the anthill. meep… "Ant not eat us!" squeaked Thudd. "What?" Judy hollered. "We're stuck in a pair of ant jaws and you say the ant isn't going to eat us? I think you've been dipping your antennas into something weird, Thudd!" meep… "This farmer ant," said Thudd. "Take care of mealybug." Thudd pointed to the fluffy cushion underneath them. "Mealybug!" Judy gasped. "You mean we're sitting on a bug?" she said. "It doesn't even move!"

安德鲁转过身去看朱迪在尖叫什么。 “啊！”安德鲁和朱迪尖叫起来。 发亮的黑头就在他们后面。 他们可以从闪闪发光的眼睛里看到自己的倒影。 蚂蚁把它巨大的下巴合在他们坐着的毛茸茸的垫子上。 然后它掀起他们的靠垫，开始扛起它——还有他们！——朝着蚁丘走去。 “蚂蚁不吃我们！”泰德尖声说。 “什么?”朱迪大声喊道。“我们被困在蚂蚁的嘴巴里了，你还说蚂蚁不会吃我们？” “这是一只农夫蚂蚁，”泰德说。 “照顾好粉虫。”砰砰指了指他们下面的毛绒垫子。 “水蜡虫!”朱迪气喘吁吁地说。“你是说我们坐在一只虫子上？”她说。 “它甚至都不动！”

meep… "Mealybugs not move much," said Thudd. "Ant carry mealybug into anthill. Like farmer take cow into barn! Humans drink milk. Ants eat mealybug poop! People eat bug poop, too! Sweet, sweet, sweet! Stuck to Oody's hands!" "EEEEEWWW!" said Judy. She frantically wiped the sticky white fluff off her hands. The next second, the ant zipped down into the anthill. It was like going down a chimney. It got dark. Then it got darker. Their noses filled with damp, moldy smells, like an old cellar. Andrew unhooked the mini-flashlight from his belt loop and snapped it on. They were in a vast cave. The light fell on hairy white ropes sticking out of the walls. meep… "Roots of plants," said Thudd.

“粉虱不怎么动。” “蚂蚁把粉虫驮进了蚁丘。 就像农夫把牛带进谷仓一样！人类喝牛奶。 蚂蚁吃粉虫的便便！人们也吃虫子的粪便！甜，甜，甜！粘在了乌迪的手上！”朱蒂说：“咿呀呀！” 她疯狂地擦去手上黏糊糊的白色绒毛。 下一秒，蚂蚁迅速滑进了蚁丘。 就像从烟囱里下来一样。 天黑了。然后天变黑了。 他们的鼻子里充满了潮湿发霉的气味，就像一个旧地窖。 安德鲁把袖珍手电筒从腰带环上取下来，啪地一声戴上。 他们在一个巨大的洞穴里。灯光照在墙上伸出的毛茸茸的白绳子上。 “植物的根。”萨德说。

Other ants were skittering across the floor of the cave. One of them came up to Andrew and Judy's ant. The ants waggled their antennas at each other. meep… "Ants talk with smells! This ant say she find lost mealybug." Their ant skittered into a dark hole in the wall of the cave. It was another tunnel. "Cheese Louise!" said Judy. "We're more lost than ever!"

其他的蚂蚁在洞穴的地板上跳来跳去。 其中一只走到安德鲁和朱迪的蚂蚁跟前。 蚂蚁互相摇着触角。 “蚂蚁用气味说话！”这只蚂蚁说她找到了丢失的粉虫。” 他们的蚂蚁窜进了山洞壁上的一个黑洞。 这是另一条隧道。“奶酪露易丝！”朱迪说。 “我们比以前更迷路了！”