3 BILL THE POSTMAN’S STORY

CHAPTER 3 BILL THE POSTMAN'S STORY Terry and I look at each other in horror. 'Do you see who I see?' says Terry. 'Yes!' I say. 'It's Bill.' 'But it can't be!' says Terry. 'In the last book we saw his skeleton in the Maze of Doom remember?'

第三章邮差比尔的故事泰瑞和我惊恐地面面相觑。 “你看到我看到谁了吗？”特里说。 “是的!”我说。这是比尔。“但这不可能！”特里说。 “在上一本书里，我们在末日迷宫里看到过他的骷髅，记得吗？”

'Yes, of course I remember!' I whisper. 'Which means that it can't be Bill down there… It must be a zombie!' 'Delivery!' calls the zombie. 'It sounds like Bill,' says Terry. 'That's part of its evil plan,' I say. 'What evil plan?' says Terry. 'To deliver our mail and then eat our brains!' I say. 'Don't you know anything about zombies?' 'Andy?' calls the zombie. 'Terry? Anyone home?' 'He knows our names!' says Terry. 'It must be Bill.' 'Yeah,' I say, 'Bill the ZOMBIE!'

“是的，我当然记得！”我低语。 “也就是说，下面不可能是比尔……一定是僵尸！”“交货!僵尸叫道。 “听起来像比尔，”特里说。 “那是它邪恶计划的一部分，”我说。 “什么邪恶的计划？”特里说。 “给我们送信，然后吃我们的脑子！”我说。 “你对僵尸一无所知吗？”“安迪?僵尸叫道。 “特里?有人在家吗?“他知道我们的名字！”特里说。 “一定是比尔。“是的，”我说，“僵尸比尔！”

'Come on, you two chuckleheads,' says the zombie. 'I can hear you up there. I've got a package for you.' 'Can you leave it at the door?' I say. 'We're kind of busy.' 'Afraid not,' says the zombie. 'It's a special delivery from Switches'R'Us… I'm going to need you to sign for it.' 'We need that switch, Andy,' whispers Terry. 'Yeah, and we also need our brains,' I whisper back. 'I'm not a zombie, you know,' calls the zombie. 'Did you hear that, Andy?' says Terry. 'He says he's not a zombie.' 'That's exactly the sort of thing a zombie would say,' I tell him. 'We can't risk it.' 'All right, then,' calls Bill. 'If you won't come down, then I'm coming up!'

“来吧，你们两个笨蛋，”僵尸说。 “我能听到你在上面。我有个包裹要给你。“你能把它放在门口吗？”我说。 “我们有点忙。“恐怕不行，”僵尸说。 “这是switch ' r ' us的快递……我需要你签收。”“我们需要那个开关，安迪。”特里小声说。 “是的，我们也需要我们的大脑，”我小声回答。 “你知道，我不是僵尸。”僵尸说。 “你听到了吗，安迪？”特里说。 “他说他不是僵尸。“这正是僵尸会说的话，”我告诉他。 “我们不能冒这个险。“那好吧，”比尔叫道。 “如果你不下来，那我就上来！”

'Oh no!' I yell. 'It's a zombie attack! Grab the flame-throwers, Terry!' 'What flame-throwers?' 'The ones you were supposed to make to protect us against zombie attack!' 'Oh, those flame-throwers,' says Terry. 'I didn't get around to it. I was too busy working on the 39th level.' 'They won't be necessary,' says Bill as he climbs onto our level. 'I'm not a zombie. I'm very much alive.' 'But we thought you were dead,' says Terry. Bill grins. 'So did I when I read The 26-Storey Treehouse and saw that picture of a skeleton wearing my postman's cap. I was very sad for a while until I

“哦,不!”我吼道。“这是僵尸袭击！”特里，拿上喷火器！“什么火焰喷射器？”“就是你应该做的那些保护我们不受僵尸攻击的东西！”“哦，那些火焰喷射器，”特里说。 “我没抽出时间。 我忙着在第39层工作。“不需要，”比尔爬到我们这一层时说。 “我不是僵尸。我活得好好的。“可我们以为你死了，”特里说。 比尔笑着说。“当我读到《26层树屋》时，看到那张骷髅头戴我的邮差帽的照片，我也是这么想的。 我很伤心一段时间，直到我

realised that if I was feeling sad, then I must still be alive—so it couldn't have been me in the picture after all!' 'But if it wasn't you,' says Terry, 'then who was it?' 'Well, it's a bit of a long story,' says Bill, 'and as you know, long stories take longer to tell than short stories, which—' 'Yes, we know!' I say. 'Can you make it a short long story?' 'Sure,' says Bill, beginning to tell his short long story. 'Well, you may not know this but a postman's life is not an easy one. We get chased by dogs…

我意识到，如果我感到悲伤，那么我一定还活着——所以照片里的人根本不可能是我！“但如果不是你，”特里说，“那是谁？”“嗯，这说来话长，”比尔说，“你也知道，长篇故事比短篇故事要花更长的时间，这——”“是的，我们知道！”我说。 “你能长话短说吗？”“当然，”比尔说，开始讲他的故事。 “嗯，你可能不知道，邮递员的生活并不容易。 我们会被狗追……

attacked by birds… and spat at by camels.

被鸟袭击，被骆驼吐口水。