13 DREAM HIKE

"That's it!" I shouted as I rocketed out of bed the next morning. Poor Sassafras flew into the air and landed at my feet with big wide eyes. All of his fur was fluffed out to the max. "Oh, sorry, buddy!" I gave him a gentle pet. "This new bonnet worked just like my Thinking Goggles. I had a dream, and I think I figured out what I've been missing. At least, sort of. Let's go get Mom!" I burst into the kitchen to find Dad making pancakes and Mom setting the table.

“就是这样!”第二天早上，我从床上飞奔起来，喊道。 可怜的黄樟飞到空中，落在我的脚上，眼睛睁得大大的。 他所有的毛都被抖得很蓬松。 “哦，对不起，伙计！”我给了他一个温柔的宠物。 “这顶新帽子就像我的思维护目镜一样好用。 我做了一个梦，我想我知道我错过了什么。 至少，在某种程度上。我们去找妈妈吧！”我冲进厨房，发现爸爸在做煎饼，妈妈在摆桌子。

"Any thoughts come to you as you slept?" asked Mom. "Yes!" I cheered. "I dreamed we were all hiking in the forest, and I found some really cool lichen that looked like dragon scales." "Oh, I love that kind of lichen," Dad chimed in. "It's my favorite kind." I nodded. "Anyway, Mom you were telling me in my dream how lichen is special. How it's really two things working together, right? A fungus and, uh, a…?" "Alga," Mom added.

“你睡觉时有什么想法吗？”妈妈问。 “是的!”我欢呼雀跃。“我梦见我们都在森林里徒步旅行，我发现了一些非常酷的地衣，看起来像龙鳞。” “哦，我喜欢那种地衣，”爸爸插嘴说。 “这是我最喜欢的一种。”我点了点头。 “不管怎样，妈妈，你在梦里告诉我地衣有多特别。 这其实是两件事一起工作，对吧？ 一种真菌，呃，一种……”“海藻，”妈妈补充道。

"Right. And you said it's a special relationship because the alga makes food by photosynthesis—like a plant, right? And it shares some of that food with the fungus. And the fungus is like the house that the alga lives in? And it shares water and vitamin-stuff with the alga?" "Good memory!" Mom said as she gave me two pancakes. "So, I was thinking about that, uh…" I glanced at Dad, "story we were talking about yesterday with the bips and the roses. That maybe it was sort of like the lichen—where the bips give the roses something, and the roses give the bips something. And I was thinking the bips give the roses a boost of sunlight with their, um, burps?" Dad raised an eyebrow at me. "Burping bips?" He started laughing. "You two definitely have fantastic imaginations!" Mom winked at me. "Yes, we do! And Zoey, I think you could be right. What do you think the roses give the bips, though?" "Right. That's where I'm stuck." I sighed dramatically.

“正确。你说这是一种特殊的关系因为藻类通过光合作用制造食物就像植物一样，对吧？ 它和真菌分享一些食物。 真菌就像藻类居住的房子？ 它和藻类共享水和维生素吗？”“好记性!”妈妈边说边递给我两个煎饼。 “那么，我在想，嗯……”我瞥了爸爸一眼，“我们昨天谈论的关于臀部和玫瑰的故事。 也许这就像地衣一样，穗子给了玫瑰一些东西，玫瑰也给了穗子一些东西。 我在想，臀部会给玫瑰增加阳光，嗯，打嗝？”爸爸对我扬起眉毛。 “打嗝头猪?”他笑了起来。 “你们俩的想象力真是太丰富了！”妈妈对我眨了眨眼。 “是的，我们有！”佐伊，我觉得你可能是对的。 不过，你认为玫瑰是怎么引起臀痛的呢？”“正确。 这就是我被困住的地方。”我戏剧性地叹了口气。

"Can I help tell the story?" Dad asked, and Mom and I nodded. "In that case, obviously the roses could contribute their smell. I mean, who doesn't love the scent of roses?" Dad chuckled. "If I were a bip, I'd definitely make my home on a delicious-smelling rose." Smell! I hadn't tried a smell experiment yet— maybe there was something super tiny in good smells that helped the bips grow! "Dad, you're a genius!" I shouted and jumped up and started toward the barn.

“我能帮你讲这个故事吗？”爸爸问，妈妈和我点了点头。 “在这种情况下，显然玫瑰可以贡献它们的气味。 我是说，谁不喜欢玫瑰的香味呢？”爸爸笑了。 “如果我是一只河马，我肯定会在芬芳的玫瑰上安家。” 味道!我还没有尝试过嗅觉实验——也许在好的气味中有一些超级微小的东西帮助臀部生长！“爸爸，你真是个天才！”我大叫一声，跳了起来，朝谷仓走去。

Dad patted my chair. "Zoey, you might want to finish your breakfast before you go off and play." "Oh, right." I sat down and ate the rest of my pancakes as I thought about the smell experiment. I could try vanilla and chocolate and orange and rose, of course. We had vanilla extract and cocoa powder in the kitchen cabinet. I looked around the kitchen and spotted oranges on the counter. But what about roses? "OH NOOOO," I groaned. Dad put a hand to my forehead. "Are you feeling OK, sweetie? You're acting kind of strange this morning." "Sorry, Dad. I'm, uh, running a pretend experiment in the barn with the bips, and I wanted to try your idea of the rose smell with them, but we don't have any roses in the forest yet, and I don't know how to make a rose scent with stuff from our house." Dad looked over at Mom. "Didn't someone give you rose oil as a gift a few years ago?" "That's right!" Mom said. She ate her last bite of pancake and stood up. "I'll go get the bottle for you right now."

爸爸拍了拍我的椅子。“佐伊，你最好在出去玩之前把早餐吃完。” “噢,对的。”我坐下来，一边吃着剩下的煎饼，一边想着气味实验。 当然，我可以试试香草味、巧克力味、橙味和玫瑰味。 厨房橱柜里有香草精和可可粉。 我环顾厨房，发现柜台上有橘子。 但是玫瑰呢？“哦，不，”我呻吟道。 爸爸把手放在我的额头上。 “你还好吗，亲爱的？” 你今天早上的行为有点奇怪。” “对不起,爸爸。我，呃，在谷仓里和河马做一个假装的实验，我想用它们试试你关于玫瑰气味的想法，但我们森林里还没有玫瑰，我不知道怎么用我们家的东西制造玫瑰气味。” 爸爸看了看妈妈。“几年前不是有人送你玫瑰精油吗？”“没错!”母亲说。 她吃完最后一口煎饼，站了起来。 “我现在就去给你拿瓶子。”

In no time at all, I headed out to the barn with Sassafras and my arms full of supplies to run a scent experiment.

没过多久，我就带着黄樟和满满一堆物资去了谷仓，准备做一个气味实验。