Chapter 16

Chapter 16 If science can't help solve this THRILLING national emergency," I said to myself, "that leaves art. But how can art help us now?" That's when I realized it was the skill and vision of an artist that had created a horse statue so lifelike it fooled the giant fly. Perhaps... perhaps that artist could save us now. "Quick, Nina! Take me to the studio of Vanessa Cowcow right now!" "That rhymed," said Nina. "Oh, sorry."

“如果科学不能帮助解决这个惊心动魄的国家紧急情况，”我对自己说，“那就只能靠艺术了。 但现在艺术能帮助我们什么呢？”这时我意识到这是一个艺术家的技巧和远见，他创造了一个如此逼真的马雕像，它愚弄了巨大的苍蝇。 也许……也许那位艺术家现在可以拯救我们了。 “快,尼娜!现在就带我去Vanessa Cowcow的工作室！”“这很押韵，”尼娜说。 “哦,对不起。”

"I don't like rhymes," she said. "I said I was sorry," I pleaded. "You'd better be," she said. Nina was grumpy and rude all the way to Vanessa Cowcow's studio, but she got me there without too much trouble. "Vanessa Cowcow! Vanessa Cowcow!" I yelled, banging on the door with a leaf. The door opened. A cow came out. "Mmmm! Yummers! Lunch!" the cow said and tried to eat me! Nina stepped in the way. No one was having lunch without her. "NO! I'm not lunch! I'm Inspector Flytrap, and I need your help to save the world!" "Oh... OK. Come right in," she said. I explained the problem.

“我不喜欢押韵，”她说。 “我说过我很抱歉，”我恳求道。 “你最好是，”她说。 尼娜在去凡妮莎·考克工作室的路上一直脾气暴躁，很粗鲁，但她没费多大劲就把我送到了那里。 “凡妮莎Cowcow !凡妮莎Cowcow !”我喊道，用一片树叶敲着门。 门开了。一头牛出来了。 “嗯!Yummers !“午饭！”那头牛说着，想要吃掉我！尼娜挡住了去路。 没有她谁也不吃午饭。 “不!我不是午餐！我是捕蝇草探长，我需要你的帮助来拯救世界！”“哦… 好的。进来吧，”她说。 我解释了这个问题。

"Since the President won't let us take the statue down, we need you to make a new, even bigger statue that will make the fly go away." "A bigger statue? OK... but what will it be a statue of?" "It needs to be the scariest thing in the world... to a fly." "A spider?" she guessed. "No, that would scare everybody else, too." "A flyswatter?" she guessed. "No, that would be ugly! We need something beautiful!" "I give up," she said. "Oh, come on... think... something that scares flies... but is also beautiful... or perhaps I should say handsome!" "Oh no," groaned Vanessa Cowcow. "Oh no," moaned Nina.

“既然总统不让我们把雕像取下来，我们需要你做一个新的，更大的雕像，让苍蝇飞走。” “更大的雕像？”好吧……但它会是一个什么雕像呢？”“这必须是世界上最可怕的事情…… 对一只苍蝇。”“蜘蛛？”她猜想。 “不，那也会吓到其他人的。” “苍蝇拍？”她猜想。 “不，那太难看了！”我们需要一些漂亮的东西！”“我放弃了，”她说。 “哦，得了吧……认为……让苍蝇害怕的东西…… 但也很美……或者我应该说漂亮！”“哦，不，”瓦妮莎·奶牛呻吟道。 “哦，不，”尼娜呻吟道。

"Oh yes!" I exclaimed. "What we need is an enormous statue of... ME!"

“哦,是的!”我叫道。“我们需要的是一座巨大的雕像…… 我!”