8 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars

Chapter 8 TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STARS meep… "Button too fat," said Thudd. "Heat make stuff get bigger." A little waterfall of sweat dribbled off Andrew's chin. Andrew pushed the button harder, but it wouldn't budge. "What do we do now?" he asked, wiping his face with the sleeve of his damp pajamas. "My father has a way of fixing things," Judy said. She grabbed Andrew's slipper. Flack!

第八章小星星一闪一闪地哭……“钮扣太胖了。” “热量会让物体变大。” 一滴汗珠从安德鲁的下巴上滴落下来。 安德鲁更用力地按按钮，但它不动。 “我们现在怎么办？”他问，用湿睡衣的袖子擦了擦脸。 “我爸爸有修理东西的办法，”朱迪说。 她抓起安德鲁的拖鞋。 宣传!

She tapped the Fast-Forward button and whacked the Worm-Drive button with the heel of her slipper. It went down! The Fast-Fins spun a web of rainbow-colored light around the Time-A-Tron. KRAZAAAAAAAAAAAAKKK! The Time-A-Tron shook with sound. "Super-duper pooper-scooper!" yelled Andrew. "We're going!" Andrew felt that stretchy feeling. He looked over at Judy. She was getting stringy. We're getting spaghetti-fied again! thought Andrew. bong… "Beginning Gravity Control!" said the Time-A-Tron. "Whew!" sighed Andrew. "That feels better. And I feel cooler!" BUH-BUH-BUH-ZNERKKK! The Time-A-Tron trembled. Then it got very still.

她敲了敲快进键，又用拖鞋后跟敲了敲蠕虫驱动键。 它掉下去了！fast -鳍在“时空创”周围织了一张彩虹色的光网。 KRAZAAAAAAAAAAAAKKK !时空创发出声音，震动起来。 “超级狗屎铲！”安德鲁喊道。 “我们!”安德鲁感到了那种有弹性的感觉。 他看了看朱迪。她变得紧张起来。 我们又被意大利面化了！认为安德鲁。 “开始控制重力！”时间战神说。 “呼！”安德鲁叹了口气。“这样感觉好多了。 我觉得凉快多了！”BUH-BUH-BUH-ZNERKKK !时间战神颤抖着。 然后一切变得非常安静。

The rainbow lights were gone. Outside the Time-A-Tron, it was perfectly dark. bong… "Ah," sighed the Time-A-Tron. "We have more problems." "Not again!" said Judy. bong… "We do not have enough fuel to power the Worm-Drive. We will have to travel by Tachyon-Drive alone. "However, I do have a bit of good news for you. We have traveled three hundred thousand years past the Big Bang. The temperature outside has chilled to three thousand degrees. And you may take off your goggles." Andrew slipped off his goggles and peered outside into the blackness. "Is there anything out there?" asked Andrew. bong… "Only two kinds of atoms, the smallest ones—hydrogen and helium," said the Time-A- Tron. "Helium, shmelium!" said Judy. "We've got to get out of here!"

彩虹灯不见了。 在时空创外面，一片漆黑。 “啊，”时间战神叹了口气。 “我们有更多的问题。”“别再这样了！”朱迪说。 我们没有足够的燃料来驱动蠕虫引擎。 我们必须独自乘坐超光速粒子引擎。 “不过，我有一点好消息要告诉你。 我们已经经过了大爆炸30万年。 外面的温度降到了三千度。 你可以摘掉你的护目镜了。” 安德鲁摘下护目镜，凝视着外面的黑暗。 “外面有什么东西吗？”安德鲁问。 “只有两种原子，最小的一种——氢和氦。” “氦，氦！”朱迪说。 “我们必须离开这里！”

bong… "Yes, of course," said the Time-A- Tron. "Miss Judy, you will need to hold down the Fast-Forward button until we arrive at four million years ago." Judy smacked the Fast-Forward button and held it down. HNNNN… HNNNN… WOOHOOOOOOO! The Time-A-Tron wobbled dizzily and the spinning Fast-Fins threw off balls of bright green light. BLAFOOOOOM! bong… "Good work, Miss Judy," said the Time- A-Tron. "We are speeding through time again with the atoms of Montana. And since we are not traveling through a wormhole, you will be able to see the universe happen in fast motion. Watch carefully." Andrew searched the endless blackness hoping to see something—anything. After a while, the display flashed: 12 BILLION YEARS AGO.

“是的，当然。”时间战神说。 “朱迪小姐，你需要按住快进键，直到我们到达四百万年前。” 朱迪敲了一下快进键，并按住不放。 呜……呜……呜……呜……时间战神摇摇晃晃，旋转的快鳍甩出明亮的绿光球。 BLAFOOOOOM !“干得好，朱迪小姐，”时间战神说。 “我们正与蒙大拿的原子一起再次加速穿越时间。 既然我们不是在虫洞里旅行，你就能看到宇宙的快速运动。 仔细看。”安德鲁在无尽的黑暗中搜寻，希望能看到什么东西——任何东西。 过了一会儿，屏幕上闪过：120亿年前。

"Oh look!" said Judy, pointing through the dome of the Time-A-Tron. It was an arc of twinkling light. meep… "First stars in our galaxy!" said Thudd. "Gravity pull gas molecules together. When molecules smoosh together, molecules get hot, hot, hot! Make star!"

“哦，看！”朱迪指着时空战神的圆顶说。 那是一道闪光的弧线。 “我们银河系的第一颗恒星！” “重力把气体分子拉到一起。 当分子挤在一起时，分子会变得很热，很热，很热！让明星!”

bong… "Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is being born," said the Time-A-Tron. "It will be an enormous swirl made up of 200 billion stars. "The galaxy is so enormous, you can see just a bit of it from here," continued the Time-A-Tron. "But there is a way to see more."

“我们的星系，银河系，正在诞生，”时间战神说。 “这将是一个由2000亿颗恒星组成的巨大漩涡。 “这个星系太大了，你从这里只能看到一点点，”时空战神继续说道。 “但有一种方法可以看到更多。”