1 BUG CIRCUS

CHAPTER 1 BUG CIRCUS "What is it, Sassafras?" I crouched down and ruffled my cat's fluffy fur. He was trying to flip over a heavy, mossy rock with his paws. Something good was definitely under there. I gently tipped the rock over on its side. Yes! I clapped my hands together. This rock was hiding a treasure. A billion roly-poly bugs! OK... maybe not a billion. But at least twenty.

第一章虫马戏团“这是什么，黄樟？”我蹲下来，把猫毛茸茸的毛弄皱。 他正试图用爪子翻过一块长满苔藓的重石头。 下面肯定有好东西。 我轻轻地把石头翻过来。 是的!我拍了拍手。 这块石头里藏着宝藏。 十亿个胖乎乎的虫子！好吧…… 也许不是十亿。但至少有20个。

Sassafras took a step forward. "Meow?" "No! Don't eat the bugs! That's gross." My cat loves bugs as much as I do. But we love them for different reasons. I love to play with them. He loves to eat them. Hmmm. Now I just needed to think of something super amazing to do with the roly-polies. I held one in my hand and its tiny feet tickled as it walked. Sassafras trotted over to my pile of stuff and pawed at my Thinking Goggles. "Ooh, good idea," I said as I put them on my head. Most scientists wear goggles over their eyes, and I do too when I need to keep my eyes safe. But when I need to think of brilliant ideas, I wear my Thinking Goggles on top of my head. That way they're closer to my brain. The roly-poly on my hand walked across a bridge I'd made by touching the tips of my two pointer fingers together. "I've got it! Let's make a bug circus!"

黄樟向前走了一步。 “喵?”“不!不要吃虫子！恶心。” 我的猫和我一样喜欢虫子。 但我们爱他们的原因不同。 我喜欢和他们一起玩。他喜欢吃它们。 嗯。现在我只需要想出一些超级神奇的东西来处理这些保单。 我手里拿着一只，它走路的时候，它的小脚痒痒的。 黄樟小跑到我的一堆东西跟前，用爪子抓我的思维护目镜。 “哦，好主意，”我边说边把它们戴在头上。 大多数科学家都会戴上护目镜，我在需要保护眼睛安全的时候也会戴上。 但当我需要想出绝妙的主意时，我会把“思考镜”戴在头上。 这样它们离我的大脑更近。 我手上的胖墩儿走过一座桥，那桥是我用两个食指的指尖碰在一起搭成的。 “我找到了！”让我们做一个虫子马戏团吧！”

I bent some thin twigs into hoops for the bugs to crawl through. Then I set up some small, round rocks for them to balance on. Next, I tied some grass on either end of a flat piece of bark to make a swing that I held low to the ground (in case any of my performers fell). My favorite part was a tightrope I made by balancing a long twig between two flat rocks. One of the biggest roly-polies crawled up to the twig tightrope. I got down on my elbows in the soft grass to

我把一些细树枝弯成圈，让虫子爬过去。 然后我放了一些圆形的小石头让它们在上面保持平衡。 接下来，我在一块平坦的树皮的两端绑上一些草，做成一个秋千，我把它放在离地面较低的地方（以防我的表演者摔倒）。 我最喜欢的部分是我在两块平坦的岩石之间平衡一根长树枝所做的钢索。 其中一只最大的山羊爬上了细树枝绳上。 我跪在柔软的草地上

cheer him on. "Come on, little buggy! You can do it!" Almost... almost. No! He tumbled into the grass. And then another one followed. The bigger roly-polies were having too much trouble. Hmmm. I carefully plucked the smallest of the rolypolies from the ground. "OK, little guy. You might be the smallest, but I think you can do this. Show me what you've got!" I placed the tiny roly-poly on one end of the twig. As he crawled along, I held my breath and didn't let it out until he was across. He made it! I jumped up, cheered, and looked around for my mom. Then I remembered she was inside packing. I was so used to her being out here with me.

为他加油。“来吧，小马车！”你能做到的！”几乎…… 几乎。不!他跌倒在草地上。 然后另一个紧随其后。 较大的保险公司遇到了太多的麻烦。 嗯。我小心翼翼地从地上拔下了最小的一株蔷薇。 “好吧，小家伙。你可能是最小的，但我认为你能做到。 让我看看你有什么！”我把这个小的小poly放在树枝的一端。 当他爬过去的时候，我屏住呼吸，直到他走过去。 他成功了！我跳起来，欢呼着，四处寻找我的妈妈。 然后我想起来她在收拾行李。 我已经习惯她和我在一起了。

"Mom is gonna love this. Let's get her, Sassafras. Come on!" I glanced over my shoulder just in time to catch Sassafras creeping toward my circus performers. "No way, kitty. You're coming with me. I do not trust you out here with my bugs. My new little friends are not snacks!" Sassafras gave me a stinky look, but he gave in and followed me. As we got close to the house, I spotted my mom in the window. But she wasn't looking at us. She was looking at our old barn. And holding a photo.

“妈妈会喜欢的。我们去抓她，萨萨弗拉斯。 来吧!”我回头瞥了一眼，正好赶上黄樟向我的马戏团演员们爬来。 “不可能，凯蒂。你跟我走。 我不放心你带着我的窃听器出去。 我的新小朋友不是零食！”萨萨法斯恶狠狠地看了我一眼，但他让步了，跟着我走了。 我们快到房子的时候，我看见妈妈站在窗户里。 但她没有看我们。 她在看我们的旧谷仓。 拿着一张照片。