Chapter 14

chapter fourteen When June and I step back into Mr. Vogel's room, Quint and Dirk are waiting for us. Quint is leaning against the far window with his arms crossed. He looks like a ticked-off teacher who wants to know why it took you thirty minutes to run to the bathroom. "Uh, hey, buddies," I say. "You're awake?" "You know I can't sleep without my earplugs, Jack. I heard you sneaking out." I roll my eyes. "Oh yes, of course. Your earwax- collecting nuggets..." "They're not earwax-collecting nuggets, Jack! They're earplugs and you know I have sensitive hearing, so I—ugh, never mind. Now that I'm awake, I see that we have a problem." "No, we don't!" I exclaim. "No problems! We have good news! June is coming. Right, June?" June nods yes. She's still trying to rock the

当琼和我回到沃格尔先生的房间时，昆特和德克正在等着我们。 昆特双臂交叉，靠在远处的窗户上。 他看起来就像一个脾气暴躁的老师，想知道为什么你花了30分钟才跑去洗手间。 “嘿，伙计们，”我说。 “你醒了吗?”“你知道我不戴耳塞睡不着，杰克。 我听见你偷偷溜出去了。” 我翻了个白眼。“哦，是的，当然。 你的耳垢——收集鸡块……” “它们不是收集耳垢的金块，杰克！”那是耳塞，你知道我的听力很敏感，所以我，算了。 现在我醒了，我看到我们有麻烦了。” “不，我们没有！”我惊叫。 “没有问题!我们有好消息！六月就要到了。 6月?”琼点头同意。 她还在试着摇滚

attitude, like she doesn't need anyone's help. "Great," Quint says as he splits open the metal blinds, "but that doesn't solve this problem." I walk over and peer through the blinds. Big Mama is parked out front, where we left her. She's surrounded by zombies. A hundred, almost. OK, bad, but that's not the end of the world. (No pun intended.) It's not like— Ohhhh. Farther out, across the street, I see something colossally worse than zombies— Blarg. The monster is sitting on top of some poor dude's house. The roof is caved in in the middle, the wooden walls are bent at the sides, the windows are shattered, and the front door is popped open. Blarg is just perched there, waiting, watching the school. The nerve of this Blarg...

态度，好像她不需要任何人的帮助。 “太好了，”昆特一边打开金属百叶窗一边说，“但这并不能解决这个问题。” 我走过去透过百叶窗往里看。 大妈妈就停在我们放她的地方。 她被僵尸包围了。 差不多100个。好吧，很糟糕，但这不是世界末日。 （没有双关语。）这不是-哦。 在更远的地方，街对面，我看到了比僵尸更可怕的东西——Blarg。 怪物正坐在一个可怜人的房子顶上。 屋顶中间塌陷，木墙两侧弯曲，窗户破碎，前门被砰地一声打开。 布莱格只是坐在那里，等着，看着学校。 这个布莱尔的神经…

I shut the blinds. "So, June, little hiccup here. Nothing to lose our heads over. But it's not just zombies out there. It's also, um, Blarg." June crosses her arms. "I'll probably regret asking this, but... what's a Blarg?" "Blarg is a, uh, well—a big man-eating monster. With a bit of an attitude problem." "Mmm-hmm," June says. "And Jack, I'll probably regret asking this, too. But do you have any idea why this 'Blarg' is here?" The annoyance

我关上了百叶窗。“那么，琼恩，这里有点小问题。 没什么好大惊小怪的。 但不只是僵尸在那里。 这也是，嗯，Blarg。”琼双臂交叉。 “我可能会后悔问这个问题，但是…… 什么是吹牛？”“Blarg是一个，呃，一个吃人的大怪物。 只是态度有点问题。” “嗯——嗯，”琼说。“杰克，我可能也会后悔问这个问题的。 但是你知道为什么这个‘Blarg’会在这里吗？”的烦恼

in June's voice is about as thick as maple syrup. I cough into my hand. "Well, a few months back, I got into, just a, y'know, a little scuffle with him at the CVS. And I, well—" "You what?" June growls. I stabbed him in the forehead. June looks like she's about to punch me in the nose. "Well, you weren't kidding," she says, peeking through the blinds. "He is big." "And he's just chilling out!" I exclaim. "He's watching the school and watching Big Mama. Waiting for us to make a move. Y'know, I've had enough of this guy...." I yank up the blinds and throw open the window. "Hey, Blarg! LEAVE ME ALONE! JUST GET OUTTA HERE, MONSTER JERK!"

六月的声音就像枫糖浆一样浓。 我对着手咳嗽。“好吧，几个月前，我和他在CVS打了一架。 我呢，嗯——”“你说什么？”6月咆哮。 我刺伤了他的前额。 琼看起来好像要揍我鼻子一拳。 “好吧，你不是在开玩笑，”她说，透过百叶窗往外偷看。 “他很大。”“他正在冷静下来！”我惊叫。 “他看着学校，看着大妈。 等着我们采取行动。 你知道，我受够了这个家伙....” 我拉上百叶窗，猛地打开窗户。 “嗨,Blarg !别烦我！滚出去，混蛋！”

"Jack, you fool!" Quint says, and runs to the window. Blarg's ear holes open and his big head cranes from side to side. He hops down off the house. The windows rattle as he hits the ground, no more than two hundred feet from us. His head jerks around again. He's sniffing. Hunting for the source of my voice. "Look at that thing!" Dirk says. "He's so dumb, he can't even see us up here!" I shake my head. "He's not dumb. He's the opposite. Of all these monsters out there, he's the smartest. He's got, like, a vendetta against me." "That's why you don't stab monsters in the forehead, Jack," June says. "Look, lesson learned, OK? In the future, I'll try to minimize all monster forehead stabbings." Blarg is stomping closer when he almost trips over a car. The massive monster stumbles before catching himself. Quint lets out a "Hmmm..." "What are you hmmming about?" June asks. Quint runs over to a desk and whips out his

“杰克，你这个傻瓜！”昆特说着，跑到窗前。 布拉格的耳洞打开了，他的大头左右摆动。 他跳下了房子。 当他落到离我们不到200英尺的地面上时，窗户发出嘎嘎声。 他的头又转了一下。 他嗅探。寻找我声音的来源。 “看那东西！”德克说。 “他太笨了，他甚至看不到我们在上面！”我摇了摇头。 “他不笨。他恰恰相反。 在外面所有的怪物中，他是最聪明的。 他好像对我怀恨在心。” “这就是为什么你不捅怪物的额头，杰克，”琼说。 “听着，吸取教训，好吗？” 以后，我会尽量减少所有怪物的额头刺伤。” 当Blarg踏着脚步靠近时，他差点被一辆车绊倒。 巨大的怪物踉跄着才抓住自己。 昆特发出一声“嗯……” “你在哼什么呀？”6月问道。 昆特跑到一张桌子前，拿出他的

dictionary-sized three-ring research binder. The rest of us crowd around, watching Quint flip through pages. Every few moments, he'll pause, think for a moment, then continue flipping. Finally, he stops on one of my photographs and says, "Jack, you magnificent son of a gun!" "Why? What? I did something good? I mean, obviously I did—but uh, which good thing are you talking about?" Quint spins the book around. Quint's going a mile a minute now. "Your photos, Jack. I told you they were useful! See this one here—the one you took when you first fought Blarg at CVS? See how Blarg's eyes are pale white and sort of see-through?" "Yeah, so...?" "That means his low-light vision is poor! That's why he tripped over that car just now. He's built for

字典大小的三环研究活页夹。 我们其他人围过来，看着昆特翻页。 每隔几分钟，他就会停下来，思考一会儿，然后继续翻转。 最后，他停在我的一张照片上说：“杰克，你这个了不起的狗娘养的！”“为什么? 怎么啦？我做了什么好事？ 我的意思是，显然我是这么做的——但是，呃，你在说什么好事呢？”昆特把书转了一圈。 昆特现在速度很快。 “你的照片，杰克。我告诉过你它们很有用！看到这张了吗，你第一次在CVS和布拉特打架时拍的那张？ 看到了吗？布拉格的眼睛是苍白的，有点透明。”“是啊,所以……?”“这意味着他的弱光视力很差！”这就是他刚才被那辆车绊倒的原因。 他生来就是为了