9 Jill to the Rescue

CHAPTER 9 JILL TO THE RESCUE 'Oh my goodness,' says Jill. 'I love how you've decorated the tree this year—a twinkling light on every leaf, plastic reindeer hanging from the branches and a huge pile of inflatable Santas! The treehouse looks amazing!' 'Thanks,' I say. 'But they're not decorations— they're real reindeer, and real Santas!'

“哦，我的天哪，”吉尔说。 “我喜欢你今年装饰圣诞树的方式——每片叶子上都闪烁着灯光，树枝上挂着塑料驯鹿，还有一大堆充气圣诞老人！”树屋看起来棒极了！“谢谢，”我说。 “但它们不是装饰品——它们是真正的驯鹿，也是真正的圣诞老人！”

'Real?' says Jill. 'What do you mean?' 'Well,' I say, 'those reindeer are actually Santa's reindeer, and one of the Santas is the actual Santa. The others are clones. Santa crashed his sleigh and fell into the cloning machine.' 'And then all the Santas had a big belly bounce-off to see which one of them was the real Santa,' says Terry. 'But they ended up just knocking each other out.' 'But it's Christmas Eve!' says Jill. 'Santa should be out delivering presents.' 'We know,' says Terry.

“真的吗?吉尔说。“你是什么意思？”“嗯，”我说，“那些驯鹿实际上是圣诞老人的驯鹿，其中一个圣诞老人是真正的圣诞老人。” 其他的都是克隆的。圣诞老人撞坏了他的雪橇，掉进了克隆机。特里说：“然后所有的圣诞老人都鼓胀着肚子，看谁是真正的圣诞老人。” “但他们最终还是把对方打晕了。“可今天是平安夜啊！”吉尔说。 “圣诞老人应该出去送礼物了。“我们知道，”特里说。

'The children of the world are going to be so sad if they wake up and find their Christmas stockings empty,' says Jill. 'We know that, too!' I say. 'But what can we do? We can't deliver the presents.' 'Why not?' says Jill. 'Because we're not Santa,' I say. 'Where's his sleigh?' says Jill. 'Up there,' says Terry, pointing to where it is teetering dangerously on the edge of the level it crashed on.

吉尔说：“如果世界上的孩子们一觉醒来发现他们的圣诞袜空了，他们会很伤心的。” “我们也知道！”我说。 “但是我们能做什么呢？”我们不能送礼物。“为什么？”吉尔说。 “因为我们不是圣诞老人，”我说。 “他的雪橇在哪儿？”吉尔说。 “在上面。”特里说，指着它坠落的地方危险地摇摇欲坠。

'Great!' says Jill. 'And I can see Santa's sack of presents is still in the back. We can deliver them for him.' 'But how will we get all the reindeer out of the tree?' I say. 'Their antlers are all tangled up in the branches.' 'We can grab them with the GRABINATOR,' says Terry. 'It can grab anything from anywhere at any time.' 'But it would have to grab them very carefully,' I say, 'and that will take too long.'

“太好了!吉尔说。“我可以看到圣诞老人的那袋礼物还在后面。 我们可以帮他送货。“可是我们怎样才能把所有的驯鹿从树上弄出来呢？”我说。 “它们的鹿角都缠在树枝上了。“我们可以用抓取器把它们抓起来，”特里说。 “它可以随时随地抓取任何东西。“但它必须非常小心地抓住它们，”我说，“那要花很长时间。”

'I agree,' says Jill. 'I think we should use my flying cats instead and get the reindeer down later, after we've delivered all the presents.' 'Well, what are we waiting for?' I say. 'Let's go!' 'Hang on a minute,' says Jill. 'We can't deliver presents dressed like this. We need to look more Christmassy.' 'This sounds like a job for the Disguise-o-matic 5000,' I say.

“我同意，”吉尔说。“我想我们应该用我的飞猫代替，等我们送完所有的礼物后再把驯鹿弄下来。”“那么，我们还在等什么呢？”我说。 “我们走吧!“等一下，”吉尔说。 “我们不能穿成这样送礼物。 我们得穿得更有圣诞气氛。我说：“这听起来像是‘伪装5000’的工作。”

(If you're like most of our readers, you probably know that the Disguise-o-matic 5000 is part of our high-tech detective agency. It has a disguise for every occasion —including a full range of Christmas costumes!) We climb as fast as we can to the detective agency, go through the extensive security protocols to get in, and head straight to the Disguise-o-matic 5000. Jill chooses a Santa suit and puts it on. She walks around patting her belly and saying, 'Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas!'

(如果你和我们的大多数读者一样，你可能知道乔装5000是我们高科技侦探事务所的一部分。 它有各种场合的伪装——包括各种各样的圣诞服装！)我们以最快的速度爬到侦探事务所，通过大量的安全协议进入，然后直接前往乔装5000。 吉尔选了一件圣诞老人的衣服穿上。 她边走边拍着肚子说：“嗬嗬嗬！圣诞快乐!”