7 A Big Orange Head!

Chapter 7 A BIG ORANGE HEAD! The Water Bug spun down into the blackness. "Yikes!" yelled Judy. "Eek!" squeaked Thudd. Awk! squawked Burpp. "Yergh!" yelled Andrew. KLANK! KLANK! came the sound of the Water Bug banging against the rocky canyon wall. This is like when you're falling in a dream, thought Andrew. It feels like you're never going to stop. "Cheese Louise!" hollered Judy. "There's a head out there!"

第7章一个大桔子头！水虫在黑暗中旋转。 “哎呀！”朱迪叫道。“呸！” Awk !Burpp大发牢骚。“耶！”安德鲁叫道。 KLANK !KLANK !传来了水虫撞击峡谷岩壁的声音。 “这就像你在做梦一样，”安德鲁想。 感觉你永远都不会停下来。 “奶酪露易丝！”朱迪喊道。 “外面有个头！”

A silly-looking orange head about the size of a basketball floated in front of the windshield. It had a frilly collar and flapping elephant ears. meep… "Dumbo octopus!" said Thudd.

一个篮球大小的橙色脑袋在挡风玻璃前漂浮，看起来很傻。 它有一个有褶边的衣领和扑扇着的大象耳朵。 “小飞象章鱼！”

"You mean like Dumbo the elephant?" said Andrew. "With big ears that made it fly?" "Yoop!" said Thudd. "But Dumbo octopus not got ears. Dumbo octopus got fins!" "He has such beautiful blue eyes!" said Judy. A creature that looked like a chubby bath toy passed by Andrew's window. The Dumbo octopus flapped toward it. The bath toy began to glow bright red! Suddenly its glowing skin peeled away, and the squishy little creature threw it at the octopus! meep… "Octopus chase sea cucumber animal," said Thudd. "Sea cucumber make skin light up. Throw skin onto octopus. Bright red skin like big sign! Say 'Eat Me!' to predator animals." GRAAACK! Andrew and Judy turned to see that the crack in the back window now zigzagged all the way to the bottom! "The Water Bug is shrinking again!" yelled Judy. "We're going to get squashed by a zillion tons of ocean!"

“你是说象小飞象？”安德鲁说。 “带着能让它飞起来的大耳朵？”“哇！” “但是小飞象章鱼没有耳朵。 小飞象章鱼长了鳍！”“他有一双美丽的蓝眼睛！”朱迪说。 一个看起来像胖乎乎的沐浴玩具的生物从安德鲁的窗前经过。 小飞象章鱼扑向它。 沐浴玩具开始发出鲜红色的光芒！突然，它发光的皮肤脱落了，这个软绵绵的小家伙把它扔向章鱼！“章鱼追逐海参动物，”泰德说。 “海参让皮肤发亮。 把章鱼皮扔到章鱼身上。鲜红的皮肤像大招牌！说“吃我！”“捕食动物。” GRAAACK !安德鲁和朱迪转过身来，看到后窗上的裂缝现在已经弯弯曲曲地延伸到底部了！“水虫又缩回来了！”朱迪喊道。 “我们会被无数吨的海水压扁的！”

"Uncle Al is on his way" said Andrew. "He'll probably find us before we get squashed." Judy folded her arms across her chest. "We can't count on that," she said. "We need to fix the Water Bug now. Let's think about the problem. "We know the Water Bug stopped working when Burpp arrived. Maybe something got broken accidentally when we dragged Burpp in." Andrew scratched his head and looked at Burpp. "Maybe you caught a claw on a tube or something," he said. Awk! "Maybe," said Burpp, shrugging his wings. "Burpp broke a claw under there." "I'll look under the hood," said Andrew. "Maybe I can see what's wrong." Andrew pulled up the flap under the steering wheel. Plurp! Plurp! Plurp! There was a drip! But where was it coming from? It was too dark to see.

“艾尔叔叔在路上了。”安德鲁说。 “他可能会在我们被压扁之前找到我们。” 朱迪双臂交叉在胸前。 “我们不能指望这个，”她说。 “我们现在需要解决水虫问题。 我们来思考一下这个问题。 “我们知道Burpp来的时候水虫就停止工作了。 也许我们把伯普拖进来的时候，什么东西不小心坏了。” 安德鲁挠了挠头，看着伯普。 “也许你被管子之类的东西夹住了一只爪子，”他说。 Awk !“也许吧，”伯普耸耸翅膀说。 “伯普在下面折断了一只爪子。” “我去看看引擎盖下面。”安德鲁说。 “也许我能看出哪里不对。” 安德鲁拉起方向盘下面的挡板。 Plurp !Plurp !Plurp !有滴漏！但它是从哪里来的呢？ 天太黑了，看不见。

Andrew reached into one of his front pockets, pulled out his mini-flashlight, and turned it on. Then he saw it. A blue tube was dripping big drops. It was the water tube to the fuel system, and it was broken! "Burpp!" yelled Andrew. "Could you find some tape? Look under the sink." Awk! "Okay," said Burpp. Thunk! He pulled open the cabinet under the sink with his beak. Awk! "I see soap and paper plates. There's a salami and a bag of marshmallows. But I don't see tape." "Check the toolbox," said Andrew. Awk! "No tape there," said Burpp. I need something to fix this leak, thought Andrew. Or we could be stuck in an awfully deep place for, um, a long time. Andrew pulled his head out from under the hood and looked around.

安德鲁把手伸进前面的一个口袋，掏出袖珍手电筒，把它打开。 然后他看到了。一根蓝色的管子正在滴大水滴。 那是通往燃油系统的水管，它坏了！“伯伯！”安德鲁喊道。 “你能找到一些胶带吗？” 看看水槽下面。”Awk !“好吧，”伯普说。 铛!他用嘴拉开了水槽下面的柜子。 Awk !“我看到肥皂和纸盘子。 有意大利腊肠和一袋棉花糖。 但是我没有看到带子。”“检查一下工具箱。”安德鲁说。 Awk !“那里没有胶带，”伯普说。 我需要一些东西来修补这个漏洞，安德鲁想。 或者我们会被困在一个很深的地方很长一段时间。 安德鲁从引擎盖下探出头来，环顾四周。

The Dumbo octopus was outside Andrew's window. The glowing sea cucumber skin was stuck to its head. Andrew pressed the Octo-Tool button. "Get the sea cucumber skin from the octopus," he said, "and bring it inside." The Octo-Tool crept out from under the hood and snuck up behind the octopus. The tentacles snatched the glowing skin, hurried back under the hood, and poked the skin through the flap under the steering wheel. Andrew grabbed the sea cucumber skin and ducked back under the hood. He wrapped the skin tightly around the leak and tied a knot. "Wowzers schnauzers!" said Andrew. "I think this will work!" When Andrew pulled himself back into the driver's seat, they were settling gently on the bottom of the Challenger Deep. Outside, the water was dark and empty. Even the little octopus had disappeared. The ground was

小飞象章鱼就在安德鲁的窗外。 发光的海参皮粘在它的头上。 安德鲁按下八进制工具按钮。 “把章鱼的海参皮取下来，”他说，“拿进去。” 章鱼工具从引擎盖下爬了出来，偷偷溜到章鱼后面。 触手抓住了发光的皮肤，急忙回到引擎盖下，把皮肤从方向盘下面的挡板上戳了出来。 安德鲁抓起海参皮，躲回了引擎盖下。 他把皮紧紧地包在泄漏处，打了一个结。 “哇兹雪纳瑞！”安德鲁说。 “我想这能行！”当安德鲁坐回驾驶座时，他们正在挑战者深渊的底部缓缓下沉。 外面的水又黑又空。 连小章鱼也不见了。 地面是