3 Shrinking!

Chapter 3 SHRINKING! "What's going on, Water Bug?" Andrew asked. "Are you out of fuel or something?" glurp… "Checking, checking, checking," said the Water Bug. "Do not know." Judy turned to Burpp and pushed her face close to his beak. "Did you do something to the Water Bug?" she asked. Awk! "Burpp didn't do anything!" said Burpp, chewing on a broken claw. "Please don't blame Burpp!" "Thudd," said Andrew, "call Uncle Al." meep… "Okey-dokey," said Thudd.

第三章萎缩！“怎么回事，水虫？”安德鲁问道。 “还在检查，还在检查，还在检查。”水虫说。 “不知道。”朱迪转向伯普，把脸凑近他的嘴。 “你对水虫做了什么吗？”她问。 Awk !“伯普什么也没做！”伯普咬着一只断了的爪子说。 “请不要责怪伯普！”“砰，”安德鲁说，“叫阿尔叔叔来。” “好吧，好吧。”

Uncle Al was Andrew and Judy's uncle and a top-secret scientist. He invented Thudd and the Water Bug. Thudd pressed the big purple button in the middle of his chest. The purple button blinked three times. The Water Bug kept drifting down. Outside, animals that looked like strings of Christmas lights fluttered through the darkness. "Look!" said Andrew. He pointed to a red jellyfish as big as a washing machine. A long, skinny fish zipped by. Lights glowed along its side like the windows of a spaceship. A squad of umbrella-shaped squids floated up to the windshield. "Wowzers!" said Andrew. "These guys are amazing!" Up and down the arms of the squids ran dots of flashlight-bright colors—blue and yellow, purple and red. Even the squids' eyes sparkled with light.

艾尔叔叔是安德鲁和朱迪的叔叔，也是一位绝密科学家。 他发明了砰砰和水虫。 砰砰按了一下胸口中间那个紫色的大按钮。 紫色的按钮眨了三次。 水虫一直往下流。 外面，动物们像一串串的圣诞彩灯在黑暗中飘动。 “看！”安德鲁说。他指着一个像洗衣机一样大的红色水母。 一条又长又瘦的鱼飞快地游过。 灯光沿着它的一侧闪闪发光，就像宇宙飞船的窗户。 一群伞状的乌贼浮到了挡风玻璃上。 “哇！”安德鲁说。“这些家伙太棒了！”乌贼的臂上和臂下布满了像手电筒一样明亮的斑点——蓝色和黄色，紫色和红色。 就连乌贼的眼睛也闪闪发光。

meep… "Squids got living light, too," said Thudd. Awk! "Maybe the squids are sending a message," said Burpp. Suddenly the hood of the Water Bug started to flash colors. It flickered sky blue, then leaf green, then pearly pink. "Jumping gerbils!" said Andrew. "The Protectum coating is going wild!" glurp… "Telling squids we come as friends," said the Water Bug. Judy's eyes narrowed. "Cut the squid chat," she said. "Let's get the Water Bug fixed! Now!" "Oh, right!" said Andrew. He pushed buttons and turned dials. But still nothing happened. They drifted deeper and deeper. Strange new creatures prowled the night ocean. With their jagged shapes and awful mouths, they could have hatched from bad dreams. Some had fangs so long they couldn't close their mouths. One looked like a giant mouth

“乌贼也有活的光。” Awk !“也许乌贼在传递信息，”伯普说。 突然，水虫的兜帽开始闪烁颜色。 它忽明忽暗地闪着天蓝，忽明忽暗地闪着绿叶，忽明忽暗地闪着珍珠粉。 “跳沙鼠！”安德鲁说。 “告诉鱿鱼我们是朋友，”水虫说。 朱迪眯起眼睛。“别再谈鱿鱼了，”她说。 “让我们把水虫修好吧！”现在!”“哦，对了！” 他按下按钮，转动转盘。 但是什么也没发生。 他们越漂越深。 奇怪的新生物在夜晚的海洋中徘徊。 它们参差不齐的形状和可怕的嘴巴，可能是从噩梦中孵化出来的。 有些人的尖牙太长了，以至于闭不上嘴。 其中一个看起来像一个巨大的嘴巴

attached to a long sock. Some looked like messy piles of seaweed with mouths in the middle. One wide-open mouth had a light inside. A tiny fish swam up to the light, and the mouth snapped it up! As the parade of creatures glided and squirmed by, Thudd squeaked out their names: dragonfish, hatchetfish, gulper eel, fangtooth, ghost shark, saber-toothed viperfish! Suddenly the big purple button in the middle of Thudd's chest began to blink. It popped open and a beam of purple light zoomed out. A hologram of Uncle Al appeared on the dashboard. "Hi there, guys!" said Uncle Al.

系在长袜子上。有些看起来像一堆乱七八糟的海藻，嘴巴在中间。 一张张得大大的嘴巴里有光。 一条小鱼游到灯光下，嘴巴咬住了它！当一群生物游来游去，蠕动着走过的时候，砰砰尖声说出了它们的名字：龙鱼、斧鱼、大口鳗、尖牙鱼、鬼鲨、剑齿鱼！突然，泰德胸前那颗紫色的大扣子开始闪烁起来。 它突然打开，一束紫光嗖地射了出来。 阿尔叔叔的全息图出现在仪表盘上。 “嗨，伙计们！”阿尔叔叔说。

He was smiling, but he looked tired. His shaggy hair was even shaggier than usual. "Hi, Uncle Al!" said Andrew. "Hiya, Unkie," said Thudd. Awk! "Hello, Professor Dubble!" said Burpp. "We've got a problem!" said Judy. "I'm not surprised," said Uncle Al. "And it sounds like you've got Soggy Bob's parrot with you! I hope he's not the problem." When Uncle Al visited them by hologram, he could hear them but not see them. "We had to rescue Burpp," said Andrew. "He's on our side now."

他面带微笑，但看上去很疲惫。 他那蓬乱的头发比平时更蓬乱。 “嗨，阿尔叔叔！”安德鲁说。 “你好，昂基。” Awk !“你好，达布尔教授！”伯普说。 “我们有麻烦了！”朱迪说。 “我一点也不惊讶，”阿尔叔叔说。 “听起来你带着‘湿鲍勃’的鹦鹉！”我希望他不是问题所在。” 当艾尔叔叔通过全息影像拜访他们时，他能听到他们的声音，但看不见他们。 “我们必须去救伯普，”安德鲁说。 “他现在站在我们这边了。”

"The bad news," said Judy, "is that the Water Bug lost power and is sinking!" GRAAACK! came a sound from the back of the Water Bug. Andrew and Judy turned to see what had happened. A lightning-shaped crack ran halfway down the rear window! "The back window cracked!" yelled Judy. Uncle Al's bushy eyebrows tilted up to his shaggy hair. "Uh, that's because the Water Bug is shrinking," he said.

“坏消息是，”朱迪说，“水虫号失去了动力，正在下沉！”GRAAACK !从水虫的后面传来一个声音。 安德鲁和朱迪转身去看发生了什么事。 一道闪电状的裂缝从后窗中间穿过！“后窗裂了！”朱迪喊道。 艾尔叔叔浓密的眉毛向上翘起，顶着蓬乱的头发。 “嗯，那是因为水虫在萎缩，”他说。