6 A PLAN

All of the frogs looked up at me hopefully. I took some deep breaths. I needed a plan. I also needed my Thinking Goggles—which of course I forgot in my hurry! I took off my backpack and opened it to put my magnifying glass away when I spotted my Thinking Goggles. "Thanks, Mom!" I whispered. She must have put them in my backpack while I was looking for my magnifying glass.

所有的青蛙都满怀希望地抬头看着我。 我深吸了几口气。我需要一个计划。 我还需要我的思考护目镜——当然，我在匆忙中忘记了！当我看到我的思考镜时，我脱下背包，打开它把放大镜放好。 “谢谢你,妈妈!”我低声说。 她一定是在我找放大镜的时候放进我背包里的。

I popped the Thinking Goggles on my head and started walking slowly in a little circle and talking to myself. Sassafras and the little group of forest frogs watched me curiously. "OK, so we know we can't just spread out the bips that are left. We need a lot more bips…. a bazillion bips…" I tapped my Thinking Goggles. "A bazillion bips to replace all the bips that the bazillion hophops ate. Wait. Hophops! So many hophops! That's it! We need a SWARM of bips!" I cheered. I knelt down by Pip. "I was asking Mom about the cloud of things we saw yesterday in the

我把“思考镜”戴在头上，开始绕着一个小圈慢慢地走，并自言自语。 黄樟和那一小群森林青蛙好奇地看着我。 “好吧，所以我们知道我们不能把剩下的髋部散开。 我们需要更多的髋部.... 我敲了敲我的思考镜。 “用百亿个啤酒花来代替百亿个啤酒花吃掉的所有啤酒花。 等待。Hophops !这么多啤酒花！这是它!我们需要一群屁股！”我欢呼雀跃。 我跪在匹普身边。“我在问妈妈关于我们昨天在公园里看到的云的事情

forest—it must have been the hophops. Mom said when everything is just right, you can sometimes get a big swarm or cloud of bugs because a bunch of them hatch all at once." "That makes sense," Pip said. "So, that's what we need to do with the bips! We need to figure out how to make everything just right for them and grow a big bunch all at once!" Pip grinned. "That sounds like a perfect plan, Zoey!" I smiled back and then gulped. "Errrm, we just need to figure out the perfect conditions for bips to grow. You guys wouldn't happen to know that, would you?" The frogs all looked at each other and shook their heads.

森林——一定是啤酒花的缘故。 妈妈说，当一切都很顺利的时候，有时会有一大群或一团虫子，因为它们一下子孵出来了。” “有道理，”皮普说。 “所以，这就是我们需要对臀部做的事情！”我们需要想办法让每件事都适合他们，然后一下子长出一大束！”皮普咧嘴一笑。 “听起来是个完美的计划，佐伊！”我也笑了笑，然后咽了口气。 “呃，我们只需要找出适合臀部生长的完美条件。 你们不会碰巧知道吧？”青蛙们面面相觑，摇了摇头。

One of the frogs started to cry again. "This will never work. The hippogriff eggs are about to hatch. We don't have any time!" My stomach flipped. "Pip, is that true? Are the eggs ready to hatch now?" "I only know that they'll hatch soon." Pip thought for a moment. "We probably ought to visit a hippogriff nest and find out for sure." I clapped my hands over my mouth so I wouldn't squeal and scare the frogs. A hippogriff nest!

一只青蛙又哭了起来。 “这行不通。鹰头马身有翼兽的蛋就要孵化了。 我们没有时间了！”我的胃一阵翻腾。 “匹普，这是真的吗？蛋准备好孵化了吗？”“我只知道它们很快就要孵化了。” 匹普想了一会儿。“我们也许应该去看看鹰头马身有翼兽的巢穴，弄清楚。” 我用手捂住嘴，这样我就不会尖叫，吓到青蛙了。 鹰头马身有翼兽的巢！