5 SHOUTING

Chapter five, shouting. Pip waved his hand back and forth. "I was right about here when it happened." I looked around—nothing. I bent down and looked closely at the ground and the plants—nothing. I listened quietly—nothing. What was I going to tell Pip? How was I going to fix this for him? "Mrow?" Sassafras pointed his ears over to a section of the forest farther away. "Do you hear something, buddy?" I strained my ears, and I still didn't hear

第五章，呐喊。匹普前后挥动着他的手。 “事情发生的时候我就在这里。” 我环顾四周，一无所获。 我弯下腰，仔细地看了看地面和植物——什么也没有。 我静静地听着——什么也没听到。 我该怎么跟匹普说？ 我要怎么帮他解决这个问题呢？ “Mrow ?”萨萨弗拉斯把耳朵指向远处的一片森林。 “你听到什么声音了吗，伙计？”我竖起耳朵，还是没听见

anything. But Sassafras blinked up at me once and took off through the forest. "Hey, wait for us!" I called. I jogged after my cat, and Pip hopped alongside me, green curls bouncing. "WHOAAAAA!" I turned around a tree and almost ran into two forest monsters who were having a big fight. "UGHHH, stop touching me!" shouted the girl monster. "YOUUUU stop touching me!" the boy monster shouted back. "AAAAGHHH!" they both screamed as Sassafras skidded to a stop at their feet. I dashed forward and scooped up a loudly purring Sass. "Sorry about my cat." I held my squirmy Sassafras just a little tighter. "I'll make sure he stays over here. Is everything OK?" The two monsters shook their heads no at the same time. "I was just playing with my brother," said the girl monster. "Yeah, and then she wouldn't stop grabbing my hand," said the brother.

任何东西。但是檫檫朝我眨了眨眼睛，然后穿过森林飞走了。 “嘿，等等我们！”我叫。 我跟在我的猫后面慢跑，匹普在我旁边跳来跳去，绿色的卷发蹦蹦跳跳。 “WHOAAAAA !”我拐过一棵树，差点撞上两个正在大吵一架的森林怪物。 “啊，别碰我！”女怪物喊道。 “你别再碰我了！”小怪物喊道。 “啊——啊——啊！”他们俩尖叫起来，萨萨拉斯在他们脚下滑了下来。 我冲上前，抱起一只大声呜呜叫的萨斯。 “对不起，我的猫死了。”我把扭动的黄樟抓得更紧了一点。 “我会让他待在这儿的。 一切都还好吗？”两个怪物同时摇了摇头。 “我只是在和我哥哥玩，”女孩怪物说。 “是啊，然后她就不停地抓我的手，”弟弟说。

"No, you wouldn't stop grabbing my hand!" said the sister. I plopped Sassafras down and wagged a finger at him. "You stay here!" Then I turned to the monsters. "Can I take a closer look at your hands?" They nodded at the same time. "What happens when you try to pull them apart?" They pulled back a little and I bent over and looked really closely. It kind of looked like gum or glue was in there because their hands wouldn't come apart at all. "Are you sure you didn't touch anything? Like a strange plant? Neither of you was chewing gum or anything like that?" They shook their heads. This was definitely weird. "My mom might know a way to get your hands unstuck. Do you want to come back to my house?"

“不，你不停地抓我的手！”姐姐说。 我把黄樟扑通一声放下，朝他摇了摇手指。 “你呆在这儿！”然后我转向怪物。 “我能仔细看看你的手吗？”他们同时点了点头。 “当你试图把它们分开时会发生什么？”他们往后退了一点，我弯下腰仔细地看了看。 看起来有点像口香糖或胶水，因为他们的手根本不会分开。 “你确定你什么也没碰吗？” 像一种奇怪的植物？你们俩都没有嚼口香糖之类的东西吗？”他们摇了摇头。 这确实很奇怪。 “我妈妈可能知道一个让你的手松开的方法。 你想回我家吗？”

"Yes, please!" said the girl monster. The boy monster nodded. As the group of us walked back toward my house, my mind was spinning. Was Pip's hair related to these stuck hands? Were two different things going wrong? What was happening in our forest!?

“是的，谢谢！”小女孩说。 小怪物点点头。当我们一群人朝我的房子走去时，我的脑子在旋转。 皮普的头发和这些被卡住的手有关吗？ 是两件不同的事情出了问题吗？ 我们的森林里发生了什么？