9 SO MANY EXPERIMENTS!

Sassafras shifted in my lap, and I reached down to scratch under his chin. "I think I have all of this in order, Sass, but let me read it out loud to make sure." I flipped back to the first of the three experiments I had written down—the water experiment—and read the question to Sassafras: Sassafras meowed. "Good, I'm glad you agree." I moved my

黄樟在我腿上晃动，我伸手去抓他的下巴。 “萨斯，我想我已经把这些都写好了，但让我大声读一遍，以确保无误。” 我翻回到我写下的三个实验中的第一个——水实验——并把问题读给黄樟听：黄樟喵喵叫。 “很好，我很高兴你同意。” 我把我的

hand to scratch behind his left ear. "Next up: hypothesis. I think the bips will multiply the fastest on the napkin that gets four sprays." Sassafras purred. Next I read him the materials list: Sassafras bumped his head against the science journal, still purring. "Next up—procedure!" I read each of the steps aloud to him.

用手搔他的左耳后面。 “下一个：假设。我认为，被喷四次的餐巾上的臀部会繁殖得最快。” 黄樟呼噜。接着我给他读了材料清单：萨萨弗拉斯把头撞在科学杂志上，还在咕噜咕噜地叫着。 “下一个程序!”我把每一步都大声念给他听。

Sassafras sat up and meowed. "I didn't have to do zero sprays because we know all living things need water," I replied. Sassafras blinked once and then lay back down. I continued reading:

黄樟坐起来，喵喵叫着。 “我不用零喷，因为我们知道所有的生物都需要水，”我回答。 萨萨弗拉斯眨了一下眼睛，然后又躺下了。 我继续读：

I paused. "Mom?" I hollered. Once she came over I asked, "I shouldn't leave the bips for more than a day, right? Since they're living things and I don't really know what they eat and all that…" Mom patted my head. "Smart thinking! In my experience most magical creatures grow pretty quickly, so hopefully you'll have some results in a few hours. But I agree, it's safest to return the bips to the forest roses at the end of the day." I added one more step: I had created a data chart that would be all ready to fill in, but it would be hard to read that out loud to Sassafras. So, I looked it over myself again and added some lines to make it easier to fill in later.

我停了下来。“妈妈?”我大声喊道。 有一次她过来，我问她：“我不应该离开臀部超过一天，对吧？” 因为它们是生物，我不知道它们吃什么……”妈妈拍了拍我的头。 “智能思维!根据我的经验，大多数神奇生物都长得很快，所以希望你能在几个小时内看到结果。 但我同意，在一天结束的时候把它们放回森林玫瑰是最安全的。” 我又增加了一个步骤：我已经创建了一个可以随时填写的数据图表，但很难向Sassafras大声读出。 所以，我自己又看了一遍，并添加了一些线条，以便稍后更容易填充。

I'd left space for my conclusion, which was perfect. I took a breath and then flipped to the next page to start reading the next experiment aloud. Dad cleared his throat, and I jumped. "Whoa! Sorry, Dad—I didn't even see you there!" I was so busy I hadn't noticed the whole kitchen table was filled with dinner food. "I know you're probably busy saving the world with science," Dad chuckled, "but even scientists need to eat." Mom winked at me, and I grinned. Dad had no idea because he doesn't know about the

我给我的结论留了空间，这是完美的。 我吸了一口气，然后翻到下一页，开始大声朗读下一个实验。 爸爸清了清嗓子，我吓了一跳。 “哇!对不起，爸爸——我根本没看见你在那儿！”我太忙了，没有注意到整张餐桌都摆满了晚餐的食物。 “我知道你可能正忙着用科学拯救世界，”爸爸笑着说，“但即使是科学家也需要吃饭。” 妈妈对我使眼色，我咧嘴一笑。 爸爸不知道，因为他不知道

magical creatures (he can't see them), but I kind of was working on saving the world. Well, saving the baby hippogriffs at least! After dinner Mom let me stay up a bit past my bedtime, so I managed to write up all four experiments. As I fell asleep, I reminded myself that everything was ready to go the next morning for a full day of science.

神奇的生物（他看不见它们），但我一直在努力拯救世界。 好吧，至少救了小鹰头马身有翼兽！晚饭后，妈妈让我晚睡一会儿，所以我设法把四个实验都写了出来。 在我入睡的时候，我提醒自己，一切都准备好了，第二天早上要去做一整天的科学研究。