2 WHAT WAS THAT

CHAPTER 2 WHAT WAS THAT? "Did you make some neat bug houses?" Mom asked as Sassafras and I burst through the back door. "Yes… well, no… well, one, yeah." I plonked down in a chair. "Mom, can tiny rain clouds come down to the ground and rain?" Mom pulled up a chair. "What makes you ask that?" "We were building a really great bug house when it started sounding like rain. There was no rain falling on us, but we spotted a little gray

第二章那是什么？“你做了一些整洁的虫屋吗？”妈妈问，我和黄樟从后门冲了出去。 “是的……嗯，不……嗯，一个，是的。” 我扑通一声坐在椅子上。 “妈妈，小雨云会落到地上下雨吗？”妈妈拉过一把椅子。 “你为什么这么问？”“我们正在建造一个非常棒的虫屋，突然听起来像下雨了。 没有雨落在我们身上，但我们发现了一点灰色

cloud moving through the forest. It freaked Sassafras out." "Rain clouds don't quite work like that." Mom thought for a minute. "Do you think maybe it could have been a swarm of bugs? Sometimes a group of beating insect wings can sound like rain. When the conditions are just right, you can get several new bugs hatching all at once. And if it was a group of smaller bugs, like gnats, it might have looked like a cloud from far away." "Oh, that makes sense. Maybe that's what it

云在森林中移动。 这把萨萨法斯吓坏了。” “雨云可不是这样的。” 妈妈想了一会儿。“你觉得会不会是一群虫子？” 有时，一群昆虫拍打翅膀的声音听起来像雨。 当条件合适时，你可以同时孵化出几个新的虫子。 如果它是一群小虫子，比如蚊蚋，那么从远处看它可能像一朵云。” “哦，有道理。也许就是这样

was," I said as she got up and handed me a snack. "Thanks, Mom." I felt a cat head bump my leg and looked down to see Sassafras staring up at me with big round eyes. "Oh, whoops! I promised you tuna!" I popped up and grabbed a can and started to open it while Sassafras pranced in circles around his cat dish. The opener stopped, and I turned to give Sassafras his tuna, but he was gone! "Really, again?" I muttered, but then I heard it. The magic doorbell was ringing!

当她站起来递给我一份零食时，我说。 “谢谢,妈妈。”我感到一只猫的头撞到了我的腿上，低头一看，只见黄樟用大大的圆眼睛盯着我。 “哦,哦!我答应给你金枪鱼的！”我突然跳出来，抓起一个罐头，开始打开它，而萨萨法斯在他的猫盘周围蹦蹦跳跳。 开瓶器停了，我转身给萨萨法斯金枪鱼，但他不见了！“真的吗?”我嘟囔着，但后来我听到了。 魔法门铃响了！