13 CAMPING!

CHAPTER 13 CAMPING! I held my breath as I opened the barn door the next morning. "Oh, thank goodness! They are OK, Sassafras. Oh, and look! The flowers are closed again. Mom is on to something with that whole nighttime pollinator thing." Sassafras meowed in agreement. "Do you think the pollinator will be some kind of giant magical moth? I loooove moths!" Sassafras chattered excitedly. "ARGH! No eating the pollinators, Sassafras." I gave each plant its six teaspoons of water, and then Pip hopped in through the open barn door. "Everyone ready for the hike?" Pip asked. "Wait, where's your mom?" I explained about our discovery the night before and bounced up and down a little when I got to the

第13章露营！第二天早上，当我打开谷仓的门时，我屏住了呼吸。 “啊，谢天谢地！他们很好，黄樟。 哦，看！花儿又闭上了。 妈妈对整个夜间传粉者的事情有所了解。” 黄樟树喵喵地表示同意。 “你认为传粉者会是某种巨大的神奇飞蛾吗？” 我喜欢飞蛾！”黄樟兴奋地叽叽喳喳。 “啊!不要吃传粉昆虫，黄樟。” 我给每棵植物六茶匙水，然后匹普从敞开的谷仓门跳了进来。 “大家准备好远足了吗？”皮普问道。 “等等，你妈妈呢？”我在前一天晚上解释了我们的发现，当我到达

part about getting to camp overnight at the bog. "Pleeeeease say you'll come camp with us?" Sassafras bumped Pip gently with his head. "Ohhh, all right, you two. I'll go." "Mom says we should meet back here at one o'clock." "One o'clock it is!" Pip declared. "I just have to hop home and pack." Sassafras and I spent the morning inside setting up more pea plant experiments. In all the excitement about the magical plant, I'd forgotten about the colored leaves experiments I wanted to start. At long last, it was time to leave. Mom, Sassafras, and I arrived at the barn to find Pip wearing a tiny frog-sized backpack. "Ready to go!" he announced and hopped up onto my mom's head. Mom laughed. "I'll carry the frog and the backpack and one of the plants. Can you carry the other plant, Zoey? And Sassafras, you can walk?" We set off on our long, long, long hike. It was really tiring having to carry a large plant AND hike.

关于在沼泽地过夜露营的事。 “拜托你答应和我们一起去露营吧？”萨萨法斯轻轻地碰了碰皮普的头。 “哦，好吧，你们两个。 我去。”“妈妈说我们应该一点钟在这里见面。” “现在是一点钟！”皮普宣称。 “我得赶紧回家收拾行李了。” 萨萨弗拉斯和我花了一上午的时间在室内进行更多的豌豆植物实验。 在对这种神奇植物的兴奋中，我忘记了我想开始的彩色叶子实验。 终于到了该离开的时候了。 妈妈、萨萨弗拉斯和我来到谷仓，发现皮普背着一个青蛙大小的小背包。 “准备好了！”他宣布，然后跳到我妈妈的头上。 妈妈笑了。“我来带青蛙、背包和一棵植物。 你能拿另一株植物吗，佐伊？ 还有檫檫，你会走路吗？”我们开始了漫长的徒步旅行。 带着一棵大植物徒步旅行真的很累。

I was trying hard not to be too grumbly… and not being too successful… when Mom finally declared that we'd arrived. I carefully set down the plant in the shade and took a look around. The bog looked really cool, but I didn't see any plants that looked like ours. I squished my fingers in some soil I found in the shade, though. "This squishes just right, Mom. Should we plant them or should we leave them in the pots until we know for sure this is the right

我努力让自己不要太发牢骚，也不要太成功，这时妈妈终于宣布我们到了。 我小心地把植物放在阴凉处，向四周看了看。 沼泽看起来很酷，但我没有看到任何像我们的植物。 不过我在阴凉处找到的泥土里把手指压扁了。 “这东西压得正合适，妈妈。 我们是应该种植它们，还是把它们留在花盆里，直到我们确定这是正确的

place?" Mom sat down and sighed. "Well, they're getting too big for their pots as it is. I don't know of any other bogs nearby, so let's just be hopeful and try planting them here." I dug a big juicy hole in the sandy and mucky bog soil. I closed my eyes and whispered a wish that this was the right place and the right thing to do. Then I gently removed the first magical plant from the pot and placed it in the bog. I squished the soggy soil back around the roots. Once it was solidly in the hole, the plant grew almost instantly about an inch in every direction. "Did you see that?" Pip yelped. "I did!" Mom exclaimed. "I think that's a promising sign! Let's keep our fingers crossed." I planted the second plant, and it did the same little growth spurt, then nothing. Mom handed me a bottle of water to clean my hands, and we settled down for an early dinner. After all that hiking and plant carrying, I was starving.

地方?”妈妈坐下来，叹了口气。 “嗯，它们长得太大了，不适合它们的花盆了。 我不知道附近还有没有其他的沼泽，所以让我们抱着希望，试着在这里种植它们。” 我在沙质泥泞的沼泽土里挖了一个多汁的大洞。 我闭上眼睛，低声许愿，希望这是正确的地方，正确的事情。 然后，我轻轻地把第一株神奇的植物从花盆里拿出来，放在沼泽里。 我把根部周围的湿漉漉的土壤压实。 一旦它被牢牢地插进洞里，植物几乎立刻向各个方向长了一英寸。 “你看到了吗？”皮普在吠。 “我做的!”妈妈喊道。“我认为这是一个有希望的迹象！”让我们祈祷吧。” 我种了第二株，它也同样长得很快，然后就没了。 妈妈递给我一瓶水让我洗手，然后我们坐下来吃晚饭。 在徒步旅行和搬运植物之后，我饿极了。

Sassafras chattered hungrily, and I patted his head. "Remember—no eating moths or any other buggy creature that might be the magical plant pollinator." Sassafras meowed in agreement, and I opened a can of tuna to the sound of rumbly cat purrs. Pip hopped off into the forest to find a froggy snack. After we'd eaten, we just sat and stared at the plants. The sun was starting to think about setting. I was hoping once it was dark out, the flowers would bloom again and the pollinators would be able to follow the flower scent to find the magical plants. "Waiting can be kind of boring, I know," said Mom. "So I thought I'd bring a little something." She dropped a bag of marshmallows on my lap. I perked up. "S'mores? YES!!!!!"

萨萨弗拉斯饥饿地叽叽喳喳，我拍了拍他的头。 “记住——不要吃飞蛾或任何其他可能是神奇植物传粉者的虫子。” 黄樟树喵喵地表示同意，我打开了一罐金枪鱼罐头，听到了猫的咕噜声。 皮普跳到森林里去找青蛙的点心。 吃完饭后，我们就坐在那里盯着那些植物看。 太阳快要落山了。 我希望天黑后，花朵会再次开放，传粉者就能顺着花香找到神奇的植物。 “我知道，等待可能有点无聊，”妈妈说。 “所以我想我应该带点东西来。” 她把一袋棉花糖掉在我腿上。 我振作起来。“S ' mores ?是的! !”

We roasted marshmallows as the sun finally set. "Do you think we'll ever see baby Marshmallow again?" I asked. "Well, I'm sure he's hardly a baby anymore. And dragons tend to just stick with each other. They don't often interact with humans. You were pretty lucky to get to meet him. He was the first baby dragon I'd ever met, and I've been helping at the barn for most of my life." I sighed. "Yeah, that makes sense."

太阳落山时，我们烤棉花糖。 “你觉得我们还能再见到棉花糖宝宝吗？”我问。 “嗯，我敢肯定他已经不再是个婴儿了。 而龙倾向于互相粘在一起。 它们不经常与人类互动。 你很幸运能见到他。 它是我遇到的第一只小龙，我一生中大部分时间都在谷仓里帮忙。” 我叹了口气。“是的，这是有道理的。”