4 Melting!

Chapter 4 MELTING! meep… "Water Bug more than mile deep now," said Thudd. "Lotsa water press against Water Bug. Water heavy, heavy, heavy! Like big giraffe sitting on every inch of Water Bug." "That's dumb," said Judy. "Giraffes are too big to fit on an inch of anything." Uncle Al interrupted her. "A big giraffe weighs about three thousand pounds," he said. "Three thousand pounds of water are pressing against every inch of the Water Bug. The amount of water that presses against something is called water pressure. "But don't worry about the window," said Uncle Al. "The water pressure will probably hold

第四章融化！“水虫现在已经有一英里多深了。” “很多水压水虫。 水很重，很重，很重！就像大长颈鹿坐在水虫的每一寸土地上。” “那太蠢了，”朱迪说。“长颈鹿太大了，一英寸都装不下。” 艾尔叔叔打断了她的话。“一只大长颈鹿重约三千磅，”他说。 “三千磅的水压在水虫身上的每一寸地方。 压在某物上的水量叫做水压。 “但是不用担心窗户，”阿尔叔叔说。 “水压可能会保持不变

it in place." "Probably?" yelled Judy. "'Probably' is not the word you want to hear when you're more than a mile under the ocean!" Uncle Al nodded. "I understand," he said. "But don't worry. I've finished the See Horse and am on my way to find you." The See Horse was a new underwater vehicle that Uncle Al had been working on. Uncle Al rubbed his chin and frowned. "I just hope you're not anywhere near a certain place." "What place is that?" asked Judy. "It's called the Challenger Deep," said Uncle Al. "It's the deepest place in the ocean." meep… "Seven miles deep!" said Thudd. "Could bury tallest mountain there!" "Why is it so deep?" asked Andrew. meep… "Crust of earth always movin'," said Thudd. "New crust get made. Old crust go away. This is place where old crust get dragged inside earth. Crust melt. Get recycled."

它就位了。”“可能？”朱迪喊道。 “当你在海底一英里多的地方时，‘可能’这个词是你不想听到的！”艾尔叔叔点点头。 “我明白，”他说。“不过别担心。 我已经完成了看马，正在去找你的路上。” “See Horse”是艾尔叔叔一直在研制的一种新型水下交通工具。 艾尔叔叔揉了揉下巴，皱起了眉头。 “我只希望你不在某个地方附近。” “那是什么地方？”朱迪问。 “它叫‘挑战者深渊’，”阿尔叔叔说。 “这是海洋中最深的地方。” “七英里深！” “可以把最高的山埋在那里！”“为什么这么深？”安得烈问。 “地壳总是在动。” “新的地壳形成了。旧的地壳消失了。 这里是旧地壳被拖进地球内部的地方。 地壳融化。回收。”

Uncle Al nodded. "A dozen astronauts have walked on the moon, but only two people have ever gotten to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. The moon is a safer place!" "Then we'd better get the Water Bug moving again," said Judy, "before we fall into this stupid pit." "Could the Water Bug be out of fuel?" asked Andrew. Uncle Al shook his head. "The Water Bug runs on water," he said. Just then, the living lights of the ocean disappeared. The Water Bug was surrounded by a thick, swirling blackness! "Woofers!" said Andrew. "We're in some weird smoke cloud!" "What did you say?" asked Uncle Al. His eyebrows rose in alarm. Judy and Andrew looked down through the glass floor of the Water Bug. Tall, craggy towers on the ocean floor were spitting out billows of smoke.

艾尔叔叔点点头。“有12名宇航员在月球上行走，但只有两人到达过挑战者深渊的底部。 月球是一个更安全的地方！”“那我们最好让水虫再动起来，”朱迪说，“免得掉进这个愚蠢的坑里。” “会不会是水虫没燃料了？”安德鲁问。 艾尔叔叔摇了摇头。“水虫靠水跑，”他说。 就在这时，海上的生命之光消失了。 水虫被一团浓密的、旋涡状的黑暗包围着！“低音炮！”安德鲁说。 “我们在一个奇怪的烟云里！”“你说什么？”艾尔叔叔问。 他惊恐地扬起眉毛。 朱迪和安德鲁透过水虫酒吧的玻璃地板往下看。 海底陡峭的高塔喷出滚滚浓烟。

"It looks like a witch's castle," Judy said, "with smoking chimneys! How could there be a fire in the ocean?" "Smokey the Bear on a chocolate chip cookie!" said Uncle Al. "Watch out! You guys are sinking into a—" Without warning, the Uncle Al hologram popped like a bubble and disappeared. meep… "Black smoker!" said Thudd.

“它看起来像一个女巫的城堡，”朱迪说，“还有冒着烟的烟囱！海里怎么会着火呢？”“在巧克力饼干上的斯莫基熊！”艾尔叔叔说。 “小心!你们陷入了——"毫无征兆地，阿尔叔叔全息图像泡沫一样破裂消失了。 “黑烟鬼！”

"Black smoker?" said Judy. "What kind of weird-o thing is that?" meep… "Ocean floor got deep cracks. Hot, hot, hot down there! Two thousand degrees! Water down there get hot, too. Boil up through cracks. Water drag up lotsa black stuff from crust of earth. Look like smoke. Black stuff pile up in big heaps. Make strange chimneys." Judy groaned. "So we've got a Water Bug that's getting squashed, we've got no power, and we're falling into boiling water!" meep… "Boiling water not as hot as water here," said Thudd. "Oh, that's just great!" said Judy. The Water Bug kept sinking through the bubbling smoke. As Andrew squinted through the windshield, he noticed that the glass looked a little… wavy. "Thudd, what's happening to the windshield?" asked Andrew. meep… "Don't want to say," said Thudd. "Why not?" asked Andrew.

“黑烟鬼？”朱迪说。 “这是什么奇怪的东西？”“海底出现了深深的裂缝。 下面热，热，热！两千度！那里的水也变热了。 从裂缝中沸腾起来。水从地壳中拖上来许多黑色的东西。 看起来像烟。黑色的东西堆成一大堆。 做奇怪的烟囱。”朱迪呻吟着。 “所以我们有一只水虫被压扁了，我们没有电，我们掉进了滚烫的水里！” “哦，那太好了！”朱迪说。 水虫在冒泡的烟雾中不断下沉。 安德鲁眯着眼睛透过挡风玻璃，注意到玻璃看起来有点……波浪形。 “砰，挡风玻璃怎么了？”安德鲁问。 “我不想说。” “为什么不呢？”安德鲁问。

meep… "Don't want to scare Drewd and Oody," said Thudd. Andrew shook his head. "I get more scared when I don't know what I'm supposed to be scared about," he said. meep… "Okey-dokey," said Thudd. "Windshield melting."

“我可不想吓着德鲁和乌迪。” 安德鲁摇了摇头。“当我不知道我应该害怕什么时，我会更害怕，”他说。 “好吧，好吧。” “挡风玻璃融化。”