9 What’s Up

Chapter 9 WHAT'S UP? Harley started to scratch—and scratch and scratch! With every scratch, the daisy shook as if there were an earthquake. Thudd pressed the button that made his Goggle Scope flop down over his face screen. The Goggle Scope made faraway things look near, like a telescope. meep… "Drewd! Oody!" squeaked Thudd, pointing below. "Look!" "I don't see anything," said Andrew. meep… "Helicopter!" said Thudd. "Are you sure?" asked Judy. "Yoop! Yoop! Yoop!" said Thudd.

第九章怎么了？哈利开始抓——抓啊抓啊抓！雏菊每刮一下，就像发生了地震一样摇晃。 砰砰按下了按钮，他的“护目镜”滑落到他的脸屏幕上。 镜镜使远处的东西看起来很近，就像望远镜一样。 meep…”Drewd !哇！”泰德尖声叫道，指着下面。 “看!”“我什么也没看见。”安德鲁说。 “直升机！” “你确定吗？”朱迪问。 “Yoop !Yoop !呜！”

"We've got to get down there and find it," said Andrew. He looked at the Drastic Elastic, tangled between the daisy and the lily. "I guess we'll have to leave the Drastic Elastic behind," he said. They hopped off the petal and floated down to the dirt. meep… "That way!" said Thudd, pointing left as they landed. Next to a huge, round pit, Andrew and Judy saw a glint of silver. "THE HELICOPTER!" Judy screamed. Judy and Andrew scrambled over boulders of dirt. They crept among the squirmy, wormy things wriggling through the soil. When they got to the helicopter, Judy looked it over carefully. There were just a few scratches and a dent on the door. "It looks okay," said Andrew. "But will it fly?" said Judy.

“我们得下去找到它。”安德鲁说。 他看着缠在雏菊和百合花之间的剧烈弹力。 “我想我们只好把‘强力松紧带’留下了。”他说。 它们从花瓣上跳下来，飘到泥土上。 “那边！”落地时，泰德指着左边说。 在一个巨大的圆坑旁边，安德鲁和朱迪看到了一道闪光的银光。 “直升飞机!”朱迪尖叫。 朱迪和安德鲁爬过土堆。 他们在泥土中蠕动的蠕动的虫子中间爬来爬去。 当他们到达直升机时，朱迪仔细地看了一遍。 门上只有几处划痕和凹痕。 “看起来不错，”安德鲁说。 “但它会飞吗？”朱迪说。

She got into the pilot's seat. Underneath the seat was a little magnetic box where her parents kept the key. "Fasten your seat belt," said Judy. She turned the key in the ignition. Nothing happened. She checked the fuel. There was enough. As Judy tried to start the helicopter again, something shook beneath them. It felt like they were on top of a huge egg about to hatch! meep… "Cicadas comin'!" said Thudd. Judy tried the ignition again. This time she turned the key farther. Yaketta yaketta yakketta, the engine sputtered. Something enormous was coming out of the pit! A huge brown buggy head with bright round red eyes reared up in front of the helicopter.

她坐上了飞行员的座位。 座位下面有一个小磁盒，她的父母把钥匙放在里面。 “系好安全带，”朱迪说。 她转动钥匙点火。 什么也没有发生。她检查了燃料。 这就够了。当朱迪试图再次启动直升机时，他们身下有什么东西在晃动。 感觉就像他们站在一个即将孵化的巨蛋上面！“蝉来了！” 朱迪又试了试点火装置。 这次她把钥匙转得更远了。 噼里啪啦噼里啪啦，引擎噼里啪啦地响。 一个巨大的东西从坑里出来了！一个长着明亮的红眼睛的棕色大脑袋在直升机前面抬起。

Andrew turned to see a herd of red-eyed cicadas behind them! ROARRRRRRRRR! The helicopter engine came to life! The helicopter wobbled. Then it began to rise up between the leaves! It rose above the daisies! It

安德鲁转过身来，看到他们身后有一群红眼蝉！ROARRRRRRRRR !直升机引擎启动了！直升机摇晃着。 然后它开始从树叶间升起！它从雏菊丛中升起！它

rose above the roses! Down below, cicadas were covering the ground! Cicadas were crawling up trees! Cicadas were crawling up legs! "Erf!" "Eeeeeyiiiii!!" "Noooooooo!" From high above the garden, it looked like Mrs. Scuttle's guests were dancing. But they were frantically shaking off bugs. Judy steered the helicopter over the fence and into her own yard. "There's the Atom Sucker!" Andrew yelled. He pointed to the porcupine-shaped machine bouncing under a tree. Long, skinny copper tubes stuck out all over it. There was a fat iron pipe in the front. That was where the shrinking happened. That was where the un-shrinking was supposed to happen, too. KAPOCKETA POCKETA POCKETA! clattered the Atom Sucker.

玫瑰之上的玫瑰！下面，蝉正在覆盖地面！蝉爬上了树！蝉爬上了腿！“小块土地!”“Eeeeeyiiiii ! !”“错了”,从花园的高处看，斯卡特尔太太的客人们好像在跳舞。 但他们正在疯狂地甩掉虫子。 朱迪驾驶直升飞机越过篱笆，进入她自己的院子。 “那是吸盘原子！”安德鲁喊道。 他指着在树下蹦蹦跳跳的豪猪形状的机器。 又长又细的铜管到处都是。 前面有一根粗大的铁管。 这就是收缩发生的地方。 这也是不萎缩应该发生的地方。 口袋口袋！吸盘嘎嘎地说。

The copper tubes were twirling and the whole thing was shaking like a washing machine on spin cycle. "So how can we push the SHRINK lever to UN- SHRINK?" yelled Judy. "This helicopter is lighter than a ladybug." She checked the clock on the control panel. "It's 7:59," she said. "We've got two minutes left to un-shrink." Andrew scratched his nose. "Um, fly us to the back of the Atom Sucker," he said. "Get us just above the red switch." The warm June evening was beginning to get dark. Tiny lights flickered on and off in the yard. meep… "Fireflies!" said Thudd. "Got lights in behind! Fireflies blink to find mate!" "Put a sock in it, Thudd!" yelled Judy. They were hovering above the back of the Atom Sucker. They could see the big red switch. Beside the switch were two marks. The top one was labeled SHRINK. The bottom one was labeled UN- SHRINK. The switch was pushed up to SHRINK.

铜管在旋转，整个东西就像洗衣机在旋转一样摇晃。 “那么我们怎样才能把收缩控制杆推到‘不收缩’呢？”朱迪喊道。 “这架直升机比瓢虫还轻。” 她检查了控制面板上的时钟。 “现在是7:59，”她说。“我们还有两分钟的时间解除收缩。” 安德鲁搔了搔鼻子。 “嗯，让我们飞到吸盘原子机的后面去。”他说。 “把我们带到红色开关上方。” 六月温暖的夜晚开始变黑了。 院子里的小灯忽明忽暗。 “萤火虫！” “后面有灯！”萤火虫眨眼寻找配偶！”“闭嘴，泰德！”朱迪喊道。 他们在吸盘原子机的后面盘旋。 他们可以看到那个红色的大开关。 开关旁边有两个记号。 最上面的标签是缩水。 最下面的那个标着“不缩水”。 开关被推到“收缩”。