8 My, What Big Tentacles You Have!

Chapter 8 MY WHAT BIG TENTACLES YOU HAVE! "Super-duper pooper-scooper!" Andrew cheered. "Now four people and two robots have been here! We should celebrate!" "We should get out of here!" said Judy. "Before we get crushed by tons of water. Besides, this place is super creepy. There's nothing alive down here." Awk! "Yes, there is!" said Burpp. He pecked at the windshield. It was hard to see, but lying completely flat on the ground was a flounder. Its two eyes were on one side of its body. The color of its skin matched the color of the sand exactly.

我的天，你的触角好大啊！“了不起的pooper-scooper !”安德鲁欢呼。 “现在有四个人和两个机器人来过这里！”我们应该庆祝一下！”“我们应该离开这里！”朱迪说。 “在我们被成吨的水压垮之前。 再说了，这地方太恐怖了。 这里没有活的东西。” Awk !“是的，有！”伯普说。 他啄着挡风玻璃。 很难看清楚，一条比目鱼平躺在地上。 它的两只眼睛长在身体的一侧。 它皮肤的颜色和沙子的颜色完全一致。

And crawling up to it was a sea cucumber. "See," said Andrew, "stuff lives even down here." "Strange-a-mundo!" said Judy. "But if the water presses against them like tons of elephants, how come these guys don't get crushed?" meep… "Cuz fish made of water," said Thudd. "Water not crush water. Water crush space filled with air. Fish down here not got air spaces inside." IRRRRK! The Water Bug trembled. Then the windshield bulged out! "The Water Bug is shrinking again!" Judy yelled. "We've got to get out of here now!" "Uh-oh!" said Andrew. He turned the key in the ignition and shoved the gas pedal to the floor. "Let's hope the Water Bug works!" Brrrrrrrr… came the sound of the Water Bug's paddle wheels spinning. Andrew pulled up on the steering wheel. The Water Bug shot up from the canyon floor. "Yay!" shouted Andrew.

爬上去的是一只海参。 “看，”安德鲁说，“下面也有东西。” “奇怪的世界！”朱迪说。 “但如果水像大象一样压着它们，为什么这些家伙没有被压死呢？” “水不能压水。”水挤压充满空气的空间。 这里的鱼体内没有空气。” IRRRRK !水虫颤抖着。 然后挡风玻璃鼓了出来！“水虫又在萎缩了！”朱迪喊道。 “我们必须马上离开这里！”“哦哦！”安德鲁说。 他把钥匙插进点火装置，把油门踩在地板上。 “希望水虫能起作用吧！”传来了水虫桨轮旋转的声音。 安德鲁把车停在方向盘上。 水虫从峡谷底蹿起。 “耶！”安德鲁喊道。

"Yippee!" squeaked Thudd. Awk! squawked Burpp. "Finally!" shouted Judy. The Water Bug paddled up through the water. Now and then, the headlights fell on a sea star or a herd of sea cucumbers crawling along the canyon walls. "I see hills up there!" said Judy. "We're almost at the top of the Challenger Deep!" "I hope we can catch up with Soggy Bob," said Andrew. "He's had a lot of time to get ahead of us." Suddenly the words GIANT SQUID at the top of the compass began to blink orange. The compass needle twitched nervously. Andrew's eyes grew wide. "Wowzers schnauzers!" he said. "I wonder if this means we're getting close to the giant squid."

“嘘！”泰德尖声说。Awk !Burpp大发牢骚。 “终于！”朱迪喊道。水虫在水中划桨而上。 不时地，车灯照在沿着峡谷壁上爬行的海星或一群海参上。 “我看到山上有山！”朱迪说。 “我们快到挑战者深渊的顶部了！”“我希望我们能赶上湿漉漉的鲍勃，”安德鲁说。 “他有很多时间走在我们前面。” 突然，指南针顶部的“巨型乌贼”字样开始闪烁着橙色的光芒。 指南针的指针紧张地抽动着。 安德鲁睁大了眼睛。“沃茨雪纳瑞！” “我想知道这是否意味着我们正在接近巨型乌贼。”

"Or if the compass is broken," said Judy. The Water Bug was just below the rocky hills at the edge of the canyon. A stone pillar rose above. Something long and thick and red was twitching around it. "What's that?" asked Andrew. He steered the Water Bug closer to it. "Jeepers creepers!" yelled Andrew. "It's a—" "Giant tentacle!" yelled Judy. meep… "Giant squid!" said Thudd. As the Water Bug paddled up, its headlights fell on two black eyes bigger than basketballs! The squid seemed to be looking at something beyond the Water Bug. Its smooth, rubbery skin changed from red to rose to white. Clik clik clik… Clik clik clik… Clik clik clik… Andrew turned toward the sound.

“或者如果指南针坏了，”朱迪说。 水虫就在峡谷边缘的岩石山下。 上面立着一根石柱。 有个又长又厚的红色东西在它周围抽搐。 “那是什么？”安德鲁问。 他驾驶水虫靠近它。 “该死的爬虫！”安德鲁喊道。 “这是一条——”“巨大的触手！”朱迪喊道。 “大乌贼！” 当水虫游过来时，它的前灯照在两只比篮球还大的黑眼睛上！乌贼似乎在看水虫那边的什么东西。 它光滑的橡胶皮肤从红色变成玫瑰色，再变成白色。 咔哒咔哒……咔哒咔哒……咔哒咔哒……安德鲁转向声音。

It looked like a humongous lumpy rock was swimming toward the giant squid. meep… "Sperm whale!" said Thudd. "Sperm whale make clicking sounds like dolphin. Sound bounce off of stuff. Find prey animal. Find giant squid!" The whale sped toward the squid like the engine of a train. The torpedo-shaped squid jetted out from the rocks. It flickered colors like a neon sign. The whale's head was as wide as the Water Bug. When the whale opened its mouth, its bottom jaw was longer than the Water Bug, but it was thin —only as wide as one of the Water Bug's seats! Thudd pointed to the sharp yellow hills that lined the whale's bottom jaw. meep… "Sperm whale got biggest teeth of any animal! Eight inches! Big as teeth of Tyrannosaurus dinosaur!" said Thudd.

看起来像一块巨大的块状岩石向大乌贼游来。 “抹香鲸！” “抹香鲸发出像海豚一样的咔哒声。 声音从物体上反弹。 寻找猎物。找到大乌贼！”鲸鱼像火车的引擎一样向乌贼疾驰而去。 鱼雷状的乌贼从岩石中喷射出来。 它像霓虹灯一样闪烁着颜色。 鲸鱼的头和水虫一样宽。 当鲸鱼张开嘴的时候，它的下颚比水虫还长，但却很薄——只有水虫的一个座位那么宽！塔德指了指鲸下颚周围那些尖锐的黄色小山。 抹香鲸的牙齿是所有动物中最大的！八英寸!像霸王龙的牙齿那么大！”泰德说。

The whale lunged toward the squid. The giant squid was faster than the whale. It zoomed away. Then the Water Bug's headlights fell on another monster head—another sperm whale! It swooped toward the giant squid. The squid's two longest tentacles—as long as school buses— whizzed past the whale's front teeth. The whale chomped down, but not fast enough to catch the squid. The ends of the squid's longest tentacles were shaped like clubs. They lashed at the whale. Where the clubs hit the whale's skin, they left big, round marks. meep… "Squid got suckers on tentacles," said Thudd. "Suckers got teeth around edges. Grab

鲸鱼向乌贼扑去。 大乌贼比鲸鱼跑得快。 它嗖地飞走了。然后水虫的车灯落在另一个怪物的头上——另一条抹香鲸！它向大乌贼扑去。 鱿鱼的两条最长的触手——有校车那么长——从鲸鱼的门牙旁呼啸而过。 鲸鱼猛咬一口，但速度不够快，抓不到乌贼。 鱿鱼最长的触须的末端形状像棍棒。 他们鞭打那条鲸。棍棒打在鲸鱼皮肤上的地方，会留下又大又圆的痕迹。 “乌贼的触手上有吸盘。” “吸盘的边缘有牙齿。 抓住