Chapter 5

5 FRANK POKES THE DIMETRODON'S EYE TO ANSWER THE INCOMING call. A wavy video image of Bob and Mary Einstein, wearing matching red- plaid hunting caps, pops up on the Dimetrodon's dorsal-fin video screen. "Hi, Mom. Hi, Dad." "Check it out, son!" Bob waves his hand at the night sky behind him. It is lit with curtains of shimmering green and white light. "The

弗兰克戳了戳双齿龙的眼睛来接听来电。 鲍勃和玛丽·爱因斯坦的波浪状视频图像，戴着相配的红格子狩猎帽，突然出现在异齿龙背鳍的视频屏幕上。 “嗨,妈妈。嗨,爸爸。”“看看吧，孩子！”鲍勃对着身后的夜空挥挥手。 它被绿光和白光的窗帘照亮了。 “

northern lights!" "Cool," says Frank. "Aurora borealis." "A new friend of yours, sweetie?" asks Mary on the screen. "No, Mom. 'Aurora borealis' is the scientific name for the northern lights."

北极光!”“酷，”弗兰克说。 “北极光”。“你的新朋友吗，亲爱的？”屏幕上的玛丽问。 “不,妈妈。北极光是北极光的学名。”

Watson sits down at the kitchen table, fiddling with different projectiles for his peashooter. "Hi, Mr. and Mrs. Einstein. Where in the world are you guys now?" Watson loads a spitball into his straw and shoots it at his target—an empty soda can— with a puff of air. "Yellowknife!" says Bob. "Just four hundred kilometers from the Arctic Circle! Another great spot for us Travelallovertheplace.com travelers." Watson's spitball misses the soda can completely and splats against Klink's glass- dome head with a wet plop. "Drat," says Watson. "Yuck," says Klink. "Ha!" says Klank. "No—Canada!" Bob yells over a hiss of static.

沃森坐在厨房的桌子旁，摆弄着他的豌豆枪的各种弹丸。 “嗨，爱因斯坦先生和夫人。 你们现在到底在哪里？”华生把一个痰球装进吸管里，吹着气朝他的目标——一个空汽水罐——射去。 “黄刀！”鲍勃说。“离北极圈只有四百公里！”对于我们Travelallovertheplace.com旅行者来说，这是另一个好地方。” 华生的唾沫球完全没打中汽水罐，扑通一声打在克林克的玻璃圆顶头上。 “该死，”华生说。“恶心，”Klink说。 “哈！”克兰克说。“No-Canada !”鲍勃在静电干扰的嘶嘶声中大喊。

Mary Einstein waves. "Hello, Klink. Hello, Klank. I hope you're taking good care of my guys." Klank waves back. "Oh yes, we are. We must always protect our humans. And now we must learn everything about energy to be wireless." "Whaaaaat?" says Mary.

玛丽·爱因斯坦波浪。“你好,Klink。 你好,Klank。我希望你能照顾好我的孩子们。” 克兰克也向他挥手。“哦，是的，我们是。 我们必须永远保护我们的人类。 现在我们必须学习所有关于无线能源的知识。” “什么？”玛丽说。

Klink wipes Watson's spitball off his dome with his squeegee attachment. "Even if those humans are—" "You guys would love this!" yells Bob. "A fella up here was telling us the northern lights are all caused by solar wind, and how Earth is a magnet and—" Ssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! A burst of static blots out both the sound and picture of Bob and Mary on the Dimetrodon screen. Frank hangs up with another eye poke. "More energy. It's everywhere," says Frank. "That static was probably caused by a solar flare's energy cutting off the phone transmission." "Very likely," says Klink. "Because solar-flare energy is what causes the aurora borealis. Charged particles from the sun collide with gas

link用他的清洁工具把Watson的口水球从他的穹顶上擦了下来。 “即使那些人类是——”“你们会喜欢这个的！”鲍勃喊道。 “这里的一个家伙告诉我们北极光都是由太阳风引起的，地球是一个磁铁，还有——”嘘嘘嘘！一阵静电遮住了鲍勃和玛丽在《恐龙》屏幕上的声音和画面。 弗兰克又戳了戳眼睛，挂断了电话。 “更多的能量。到处都是，”弗兰克说。 “这种静电可能是由于太阳耀斑的能量切断了手机的传输。” “很有可能，”Klink说。 “因为太阳耀斑的能量是造成北极光的原因。 来自太阳的带电粒子与气体碰撞

atoms and molecules in your planet's atmosphere, and emit different-colored light energy." Watson loads a dried pea into his shooter. "But why do you have to go to the North Pole to see it?" Watson blows another quick puff. This dried-pea bullet also misses its target and bounces off Klank with a metallic ping! "The North and South Poles are the two places where the Earth's magnetic field is strongest," says Frank. "So that's where the

你星球大气中的原子和分子，发出不同颜色的光能。” 华生把一颗干豌豆装进他的枪里。 “但是你为什么要到北极去看呢？”华生又吹了一口。 这颗干豌豆子弹也没有击中目标，从克兰克弹回来，发出一声金属声！“南北两极是地球磁场最强的两个地方，”弗兰克说。 “所以这就是