3 HELP!

HELP! CHAPTER 3 Sassafras and I looked at each other, and then we launched off the couch and ran for the kitchen door. I tossed on my boots and hollered, "I'll be right back, Dad! Just going out to the barn to play!" My dad called back an OK as I opened the door and plunged into the sparkling snow. Right on my heels, Sassafras took two big steps into the snow. Then he froze. And hissed. And then

的帮助!第三章萨萨弗拉斯和我面面相觑，然后我们从沙发上跳起来，向厨房门跑去。 我匆匆穿上靴子，大声喊道：“爸爸，我马上回来！”我正要去谷仓玩呢！”当我打开门，一头扎进波光粼粼的雪地时，爸爸回了一声“OK”。 Sassafras紧跟在我后面，向雪地里迈了两大步。 然后他僵住了。和发出嘘嘘的声音。 然后

bolted back into the house, wiggling and bouncing and shaking each paw in disgust. "Oh, Sassafras!" I sighed. "Why don't you sit this one out? I'll be right back." I gave him a quick hug and dashed to the barn. I was buzzing with excitement. What kind of magical animal would be here this time? Maybe a fweep? Or another baby dragon? I ran through the barn and quickly opened the back door. Nothing. Could it have been a false alarm? Sometimes magical animals are really small. Maybe I could see it if I got closer? I bent down, but all I saw was white snow. Except that some of the snow had something on it. What were those pink dots? I reached out and poked them with my finger. "Whoa!" I yelped as I jumped backward. Umm, did that pile of snow just hiss at me? The little hill of snow bloomed right before my eyes. At the center were two tiny, fuzzy green bodies with white wings—and their little faces were looking up at me. I rubbed my eyes. Whoooooaa. They looked like

跑回屋里，厌恶地扭动着、跳着、摇晃着每只爪子。 “哦,黄樟!”我叹了口气。 “你为什么不袖手旁观呢？” 我马上就回来。”我迅速地拥抱了他一下，然后冲进谷仓。 我兴奋得嗡嗡作响。 这次是什么神奇的动物来了？ 也许是哭泣？还是另一只小龙？ 我跑过谷仓，迅速打开后门。 什么都没有。会不会是虚惊一场？ 有时候神奇的动物真的很小。 也许我靠近点能看到？ 我弯下腰，但我看到的是白色的雪。 除了一些雪上面有东西。 那些粉点是什么？ 我伸出手，用手指戳了戳它们。 “哇!”我一边大叫一边向后跳。 嗯，那堆雪是在对我发出嘶嘶声吗？ 小雪山就在我眼前绽放。 中间有两个小小的、毛茸茸的、长着白色翅膀的绿色身体——它们的小脸正抬头看着我。 我揉了揉眼睛。Whoooooaa。 他们看起来像

miniature six-legged green cats, with big butterfly wings as white as snow... and with tiny pink dots! "Are you... butterflies?" I whispered. The two winged creatures looked at each other and then up at me. "No. Do we look like butterflies?" one asked, and then uncurled a long tongue and cleaned one of its furry paws. "We are caterflies, obviously," added the second creature as it shook its furry body, "and we are very wet and very c-c-c-cold! Do you have someplace

迷你的六脚绿猫，有着雪白的大蝴蝶翅膀…… 还有粉色的小点！“你是…… 蝴蝶?”我低声说。 这两个有翅膀的生物互相看了看，然后抬头看着我。 “没有。我们看起来像蝴蝶吗？”一只问道，然后展开长长的舌头，清洁了一只毛茸茸的爪子。 “很明显，我们是毛毛虫，”第二个动物摇晃着它毛茸茸的身体补充说，“我们很湿，很——很——冷！你有地方吗？

warm and dry for us?" I nodded and carefully moved the tiny, furry caterflies to a desk in the barn. I brought back a little space heater and turned it on. The caterflies closed their eyes and looked as if they were smiling. They even started... purring? Then one caterfly popped up and bopped the other caterfly on the head with its paw. "Heyyyy!" growled the bopped caterfly. The first caterfly put four of its six paws on its hips. "We can't forget why we are here!" At this, both caterflies stood and faced me. "This is the barn where we come for help, yes? And you are the human that helps us?" one of them asked. I nodded. I thought they'd just needed my help getting warm. But apparently they had a bigger

对我们来说又温暖又干燥吗？”我点了点头，小心翼翼地把毛茸茸的小毛毛虫移到谷仓的一张桌子上。 我带回来一个小型取暖器，把它打开。 毛毛虫闭上眼睛，好像在微笑。 他们甚至开始……呼噜声吗? 然后一只毛毛虫跳出来，用爪子拍打另一只毛毛虫的头。 “嘿！”跳起来的毛毛虫咆哮着。 第一只毛毛虫把它六只爪子中的四只放在屁股上。 “我们不能忘记我们为什么在这里！”听到这里，两只毛毛虫都站起来面对着我。 “这就是我们来寻求帮助的谷仓，对吗？” 你就是那个帮助我们的人吗？”其中一个问道。 我点了点头。我以为他们只是需要我帮忙取暖。 但显然他们有更大的

problem! "My name is Zoey, and I'm happy to help you. Why don't you start by telling me what's wrong?" "It's this awful cold." The first caterfly paced back and forth on the desk. "We laid our eggs on our host plants like we do every spring. We busied ourselves tending to the plants and getting ready for our eggs to hatch. And then instead of getting warmer like it always does, it got colder! And this horrid snow started falling!" The second caterfly jumped in. "Our eggs aren't

问题!“我叫佐伊，我很高兴能帮助你。 你为什么不先告诉我出了什么事呢？”“太冷了。” 第一只毛毛虫在桌子上踱来踱去。 “我们像每年春天一样把卵产在寄主植物上。 我们忙着照料花草，准备孵蛋。 然后，天气没有像往常那样变暖，而是变冷了！然后这场可怕的雪就开始下了！”第二只毛毛虫跳了进来。 “我们的鸡蛋不是

supposed to be in snow. We panicked. Our host plants grow by the entrance to a small cave not far from here. We decided to move the eggs into the cave to keep them warm." A small cave not far from here? Ohhhh. I was pretty sure I knew what cave they were talking about. I looked more closely at the colors of their bodies and the patterns on their wings and realized something. "Is your host plant catnip?" I asked. "But of course," replied the second caterfly. The caterflies looked like the catnip plants and flowers so they could easily hide from predators! What great camouflage. They really did look like the catnip that grew by that cave. Every time we walked past there, Sassafras became a purring, drooling mess from all the wild catnip. We hadn't been since summer because it can get a bit muddy, and mud is slippery! I'd often wished the cave was big enough for me to go inside, but it was small... about the size of Sassafras. I worried that if I poked my arm inside, I'd scare something that might bite me!

应该是在雪里。我们惊慌失措。 我们的寄主植物生长在离这里不远的一个小洞穴的入口处。 我们决定把蛋搬到洞里来保暖。” 离这儿不远的一个小山洞？ 噢。我很确定我知道他们说的是哪个洞穴。 我更仔细地观察了它们身体的颜色和翅膀上的图案，意识到一些事情。 “你的寄主植物是猫薄荷吗？”我问。 “当然，”第二只毛毛虫回答说。 毛毛虫看起来像猫薄荷和花，所以它们可以很容易地躲避捕食者！多棒的伪装啊。 它们看起来真的很像生长在山洞边的猫薄荷。 每次我们经过那里，野猫薄荷都把黄樟变成了一团咕咕叫、流口水的东西。 我们从夏天开始就没去过了，因为那里会有点泥泞，而且泥很滑！我常常希望这个洞穴足够大，能让我进去，但它很小…… 和黄樟差不多大。 我担心如果我把手伸进去，会吓到什么东西咬我！