10 BIP GATHERING

"Remember to breathe!" Mom joked as Sassafras and I hurried through our breakfasts. I took one last gulp of water and stood up. "Ready!" Sassafras came over still chewing a mouthful of cat food, and I gathered up all my supplies. Mom tapped my science journal. "I'll be sure the materials are set up in the barn for you when you get back." "Thank you, Mom!" We ran out the back door… and nearly

“记得呼吸！”妈妈一边开玩笑，一边和我匆匆吃完早餐。 我喝了最后一口水，站了起来。 “准备好了!”萨萨拉斯走过来，嘴里还嚼着一口猫粮，我收拾好了所有的用品。 妈妈偷看了我的科学日记。 “你回来的时候，我一定把材料放在谷仓里等着你。” “谢谢你，妈妈！”我们从后门跑了出去，差一点就跑了出去

crashed into a yawning Pip. I skidded to a stop. "Good news?" I held my breath. Pip stretched and then grinned. "My friends found four other healthy roses." "Yes!" I pumped my fist. "That should be perfect." Once we arrived, I used my scissors to clip one leaf from each healthy rose. Pip rubbed his eyes. "I thought you were doing three experiments—why are you clipping four leaves?"

撞上了正在打呵欠的匹普。 我打滑停了下来。“好消息?”我屏住了呼吸。 匹普伸了个懒腰，然后咧嘴一笑。 “我的朋友们发现了另外四朵健康的玫瑰。” “是的!”我挥挥拳头。“这应该是完美的。” 我们一到，我就用剪刀从每朵健康的玫瑰上剪下一片叶子。 匹普揉了揉眼睛。“我以为你在做三个实验——你为什么要剪四片叶子呢？”

"I'm getting one leaf for each experiment," I replied, "and the fourth leaf will be in a container by itself, so I'll have an idea how quickly bips usually multiply. That way I can compare it to my experiments to make sure they're creating more bips than if I'd done nothing at all." "Ohhhh, that makes sense," Pip said. Once we had the leaves, we rushed back to the barn. Mom had set up everything for me, so I was ready to go! One small table had a water bottle and napkins for my water experiment. Another table was scootched over to the wall— Mom had set up a heating pad next to a big glass container. On the last table, a large container sat under two grow lights that we used each year to

“每次实验我都取一片叶子，”我回答说，“第四片叶子会单独放在一个容器里，这样我就知道小树苗通常繁殖的速度有多快了。” 这样我就可以将它与我的实验进行比较，以确保它们比我什么都不做的情况下创造出更多的髋部。” “哦，有道理，”皮普说。 一拿到树叶，我们就冲回谷仓。 妈妈已经为我安排好了一切，所以我准备出发了！一张小桌子上有一个水瓶和餐巾，供我做水实验用。 另一张桌子挪到了墙边——妈妈在一个大玻璃容器旁边放了一个加热垫。 在最后一张桌子上，有一个大容器放在我们每年使用的两个种植灯下

get our garden sprouts ready. They even had timers on them! I was so glad, because the sunlight experiment would've been hard to do without them. "Thank you, Mom! This is all so perfect," I said, and then dove right into setting up my experiments by following the procedures I'd written out in my science journal. Next, I got out my magnifying glass and started counting bips. I recorded the numbers in the different data charts in my journal. Each leaf had a different number, but they all had around 200 bips on them. Once all the experiments were set up, I looked at the clock. 8:00 a.m. Not bad! I set a two-hour timer, and Pip and Sassafras and I went to the garden to explore and play until it was time to record my first results.

把我们的花园芽准备好。 他们甚至有计时器！我很高兴，因为没有他们，阳光实验是很难完成的。 “谢谢你，妈妈！这一切都太完美了，”我说，然后按照我写在科学杂志上的步骤，直接开始了我的实验。 接下来，我拿出放大镜开始数臀数。 我把这些数字记录在日记里不同的数据图表里。 每片叶子都有不同的数字，但它们都有大约200个穗子。 当所有的实验都设置好后，我看了看时钟。 上午8点。不坏!我设置了一个两小时的计时器，Pip和Sassafras和我一起去花园探索和玩耍，直到记录我的第一个结果。