Chapter 7

CHAPTER 7 SIXTY MINUTES LATER CLIVE'S DINER CEDAR, WASHINGTON Jess and the twins and Mr. Rowan walked through the front door of Clive's. Mom took one look at them and nearly dropped the coconut cake she was carrying. Jess knew they must look bad, streaked

第七章六十分钟后克莱夫的晚餐雪松，华盛顿杰西、双胞胎和罗文先生走进克莱夫家的前门。 妈妈看了一眼，手里的椰子蛋糕差点掉在地上。 杰西知道他们看起来一定很糟糕，有条纹

with dirt and covered with scratches from their run down the mountain. "What on earth?" Mom cried, putting the cake on the counter and hurrying over to them. Mom listened with wide eyes as they told her about the quake. She wrapped her arms around Jess and hugged her tight. Jess opened her mouth ready to tell her about Dad's camera. But then Mr. Rowan announced the big news. "We heard that St. Helens might erupt." Mom stared at him in shock. "That's ridiculous," she said. "Who would say such a thing?" A voice from the end of the counter called out. "I would." Mom had been so busy fussing over Jess and the twins that she hadn't noticed Dr. Morales, who'd walked in behind them. Mr. Rowan had invited him to join everyone at Clive's, and he'd followed them down the highway in his car — that beat-up Toyota they'd spotted in the parking

满是泥土和从山上跑下来的抓痕。 “到底是怎么回事?”妈妈哭着，把蛋糕放在柜台上，匆匆走向他们。 妈妈睁大眼睛听他们讲地震的事。 她抱住杰西，紧紧地拥抱着她。 杰西张开嘴准备告诉她爸爸的相机。 但随后，罗文先生宣布了一个重大消息。 “我们听说圣海伦火山可能会喷发。” 妈妈震惊地盯着他。 “这太荒谬了，”她说。 “谁会说这种话?”柜台那头一个声音喊道。 “我会的。”妈妈一直忙着照顾杰茜和双胞胎，没有注意到杰茜医生。 莫拉莱斯从他们后面走了进来。 罗文先生邀请他和大家一起去克莱夫家，他开着自己的车跟着他们沿着高速公路行驶——他们在停车场看到的那辆破旧的丰田

lot. Turned out that living through an earthquake made people fast friends. "Tim here is a volcano expert," Mr. Rowan said. "He works at a lab in Seattle." Mom looked Dr. Morales up and down with surprise. "You're a scientist?" With his overgrown curls and faded jeans, Dr. Morales looked more like a singer in a rock band than a person who worked in a laboratory. "I'm not wearing my scientist uniform today." Dr. Morales laughed. "But yes. I've been studying St. Helens for the past eight years." Mom sent Jess and the twins to get cleaned up. When they returned, they found Mom and the men sitting in a booth. There were mugs of hot chocolate waiting for Jess and the boys. There were no other customers in the diner, so Mom was free to sit with them. "But I didn't think St. Helens could erupt," Mom said.

很多。事实证明，经历过地震的人们成为了好朋友。 “蒂姆是火山专家，”罗文说。 “他在西雅图的一个实验室工作。” 妈妈惊讶地上下打量着莫拉莱斯医生。 “你是科学家?”留着蓬乱的卷发和褪了色的牛仔裤。 莫拉莱斯看起来更像是摇滚乐队的歌手，而不是在实验室工作的人。 “我今天不穿科学家制服。” 莫拉莱斯医生笑了。“但是的。 在过去的八年里，我一直在研究圣海伦火山。” 妈妈让杰茜和双胞胎去洗衣服了。 当他们回来的时候，他们发现妈妈和男人坐在一个小隔间里。 有几杯热巧克力在等着杰西和孩子们。 餐厅里没有其他顾客，所以妈妈有空和他们坐在一起。 “但我没想到圣海伦火山会爆发，”妈妈说。

"I didn't either," Mr. Rowan said. "I figured it was the kind of volcano that's dead, or whatever that word is…" "You mean extinct," Dr. Morales said. "But no. St. Helens is not extinct. It's just been dormant, which means it's been quiet." "But it's always been so peaceful," Mom said. "It has been perfectly quiet, for one hundred and twenty-three years," Dr. Morales said. "The last time it erupted was in 1857. But St. Helens is the most active volcano in the West. It has erupted dozens of times over the past few thousand years. There have been massive explosions, lava flows, avalanches, and mudslides. One eruption about five hundred years ago buried much of the valley under about two hundred feet of rock and ash and mud." "What about Cedar?" Mom asked. "Cedar is up on a ridge. And I don't think any of the eruptions have reached this far. It's a safe place."

“我也不知道，”罗文说。 “我想它是那种死火山，或者不管那个词是什么……”“你是说死火山吗?” 莫拉莱斯说。“但没有。圣。 海伦还没有灭绝。它只是处于休眠状态，这意味着它一直很安静。” “但这里一直都很平静，”妈妈说。 “123年来，它一直非常安静。” 莫拉莱斯说。“它上次喷发是在1857年。 但圣海伦火山是西部最活跃的火山。 在过去的几千年里，它爆发了几十次。 有大规模的爆炸、熔岩流、雪崩和泥石流。 大约500年前的一次火山爆发把山谷的大部分地区埋在大约200英尺深的岩石、火山灰和泥浆之下。” “雪松呢?”母亲问。 “雪松长在山脊上。而且我不认为任何一次喷发都达到了这样的程度。 这是一个安全的地方。”

"Good," Mom said with a nervous smile. "I was about to start packing up." "Amazing that nobody around here knows about all this," Mr. Rowan said, shaking his head. "Actually, people did know," Dr. Morales said. "Native Americans had been living here in the Cascades for about seven thousand years before the American settlers arrived. They knew St. Helens was dangerous and stayed away from it. They wouldn't even fish from the lakes on the mountain. The Cowlitz tribe called this mountain Lawetlat'la. It means 'mountain of fire.'" The words seemed to hang in the air. "What's the most dangerous part of an eruption?" Mom asked. "Lava?" said Sam, with just a little too much excitement. "Lava is dangerous," said Mr. Morales. "But around here, the bigger dangers are mudslides and rock avalanches. And I worry about the pyroclastic surge. That's a wave of hot air that

“很好，”妈妈带着紧张的微笑说。 “我正准备收拾东西呢。” “这里居然没有人知道这一切，真是令人惊讶，”罗文摇着头说。 “实际上，人们是知道的。” 莫拉莱斯说。“在美国移民到来之前，印第安人已经在喀斯喀特生活了大约七千年。 他们知道圣海伦斯岛很危险，所以远离它。 他们甚至不愿在山上的湖里钓鱼。 考利茨部落称这座山为lawwetlat 'la。 它的意思是“火之山”。’”这句话似乎悬在空中。 “火山喷发最危险的部分是什么?”母亲问。 “熔岩?”山姆说，有点太兴奋了。 “熔岩很危险，”莫拉莱斯说。 “但在这里，更大的危险是泥石流和岩石雪崩。 我还担心火山碎屑涌流。 那是一波热空气

explodes out of the volcano. It's truly devastating. That's what happened in the eruption of Mount Pelée." "Never heard of Mount Pelée," Mr. Rowan said. None of them had. "What happened?" Eddie asked. "I don't know if you want to hear about that," Dr. Morales said. "It's a grim story." "We do! We do!" Sam begged. "Go ahead," Mom said. And so, as the hot chocolates grew cold, Dr. Morales told the story of the deadliest volcanic eruption in the twentieth century.

从火山喷发出来。 这真的是毁灭性的。这就是佩尔萨伊火山喷发时发生的情况。” “从没听说过佩尔萨伊山，”罗文说。 他们都没有。“发生什么事了?”埃迪问。 “我不知道你是否想听这些。” 莫拉莱斯说。“这是一个残酷的故事。” “我们所做的!我们做的!”山姆恳求。 “去吧，”妈妈说。因此，当热巧克力变冷时。 莫拉莱斯讲述了20世纪最致命的火山爆发的故事。