9 INTO TOWN

CHAPTER 9 INTO TOWN When we got home, we dropped off our things and our cat. Before we left on our hunt for a car wash, I quickly added some notes to my science journal. OBSERVATION: Soap is coming from the storm

第九章进城当我们回到家时，我们放下了我们的东西和我们的猫。 在我们出发去找洗车店之前，我迅速在我的科学日志上加了一些笔记。 观察：肥皂是从风暴中飘来的

drain. HYPOTHESIS: The pollution is coming from a car wash! Dad buckled in and started the car. He turned to Mom. "Where do you think I should drive first?" I piped up from the backseat. "Shouldn't we start at Sam's Car Wash in town?" I mean, that seemed like a pretty obvious answer to me. "Ah," my mom replied. "What would happen if the town car wash dumped soap into the storm drains all day long?" Oh, I thought. "We would've had this problem from the beginning," I said. "There wouldn't be any merhorses in our stream!" "Did you say... merhorses?" my dad asked. "I meant to say mayflies," I said quickly. "There

下水道。假设：污染来自洗车场！爸爸系好安全带，发动了汽车。 他转向妈妈。“你觉得我应该先开到哪里去？”我从后座尖声说。 “我们不应该从镇上的山姆洗车店开始吗？”我是说，这对我来说是一个很明显的答案。 “啊，”妈妈回答。“如果镇上的洗车店整天把肥皂倒进雨水沟里会发生什么？”哦，我想。 “我们从一开始就会遇到这个问题，”我说。 “我们的小河里就不会有人鱼了！”“你是说…… 马？”爸爸问。“我的意思是说蜉蝣，”我赶紧说。 “有

wouldn't be any mayflies." "Correct," said Mom. "Which is why car washes like the one in town have special drains. All their soapy water travels through special pipes to a water treatment plant. There they remove the soap and grease from the water to keep our streams safer." "So what are we looking for then? A person washing a car at their house?" I sighed. "That will be impossible to find!" "No, something bigger than that. Although you're right, if you wash a car with a lot of soap at home, that soapy water goes down the road into a storm drain and into their local stream or ocean. But with all the damage to that part of the stream, I'm guessing we're looking for a group of kids running a car wash." At first I was kind of mad at the kids. They were killing the mayfly babies and hurting the merhorses! Who would do that? But then I realized I hadn't known that a car wash in town could hurt our stream, either. It's not like you can even see the stream from anywhere in town. Whoever these kids were, they probably had

不会有蜉蝣。” “对，”妈妈说。“这就是为什么像镇上的洗车店有专门的排水沟。 他们所有的肥皂水都通过特殊的管道输送到水处理厂。 在那里，他们从水中去除肥皂和油脂，以保持我们的溪流更安全。” “那么我们在寻找什么呢？” 一个人在自己家里洗车？”我叹了口气。 “那是不可能找到的！”“不，是更大的东西。 虽然你是对的，但如果你在家里用很多肥皂洗车，那么肥皂水就会顺着道路流入排水沟，流入当地的溪流或海洋。 但鉴于这部分河流受到的破坏，我猜我们要找的是一群开洗车店的孩子。” 一开始我有点生孩子们的气。 他们杀死了蜉蝣宝宝，伤害了海马！谁会这么做？ 但后来我意识到，我不知道镇上的洗车场也会损害我们的河流。 在镇上的任何地方都看不到这条小溪。 不管这些孩子是谁，他们可能有

no idea what they were doing to our stream. My dad drove up and down the streets in town. We looked everywhere. Just when we were about to give up, I saw a flash of neon. A sign that said... CAR WASH!

不知道他们对我们的直播做了什么。 我爸爸开车在镇上的街道上来来往往。 我们到处都找遍了。就在我们要放弃的时候，我看到了霓虹灯的闪光。 一个牌子上写着……洗车!