Chapter 3

Chapter 3 The World's Greatest Detective needs to look good. So I put on a new tie. Then Nina helped me onto my skateboard and began pushing me to the train station. Normally, it's pretty scary when she pushes me through the city, because she is not as careful of traffic as she should be. I have nearly been run over by cars, trucks, buses, and, once, a nun on roller skates. But this time everybody stopped to let us pass because they could hear us coming. SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK

第三章世界上最伟大的侦探需要看起来很好。 所以我戴上了一条新领带。然后妮娜帮我爬上滑板，开始推我去火车站。 通常，当她推着我穿过城市时，我很害怕，因为她没有像她应该的那样小心交通。 我差点被汽车、卡车、公共汽车碾过，还有一次，被一个穿着轮滑鞋的修女碾过。 但这次大家都停下来让我们过去，因为他们听到我们走过来。 吱吱，吱吱，吱吱

"Nina!" I shouted. "One of the skateboard wheels is squeaking!" "Big squeal," agreed Nina. "Well," I said, "I think it's more of a squeak. What should we do about it?" "Eat it?" asked Nina. "NO!" I shouted. "Then we'll never get to the train station to solve the mystery of the world's greatest pickle paperw—" "We're there," interrupted Nina. She stopped the skateboard so quickly that my pot went flying across the train station and landed sideways in front of a very fancy poodle. "Greetings," said the very fancy poodle. "I am the Countess Zuzu Poodle-doo. And you must be the... the World's Greatest Detective?"

“妮娜!”我叫道。“滑板的一个轮子在吱吱作响！”“大尖叫，”尼娜同意道。 “嗯，”我说，“我觉得更像是吱吱声。 我们该怎么办呢？”“吃？”尼娜问。 “不!”我叫道。“那我们就永远到不了火车站去解开世界上最伟大的泡菜纸之谜了——”“我们到了，”尼娜插嘴说。 她很快就把滑板停了下来，我的花盆飞出了火车站，横着落在一只非常漂亮的贵宾狗面前。 “你好，”漂亮的贵宾犬说。 “我是祖祖·普杜伯爵夫人。 你一定是…世界上最伟大的侦探？”

"I'm—urgh!—working on it," I said, struggling to get my pot upright. "And—yurgh!—now I am— blurgh!—working on your case." "My butler will help you," said the Countess. The butler, a very serious looking Chihuahua, picked me up, dusted off my pot, and placed it back on my skateboard.

“我'm-urgh !——正在努力呢。”我说着，挣扎着把我的锅立起来。 “And-yurgh !——现在我是——呸！——正在处理你的案子。” “我的管家会帮助你的。”伯爵夫人说。 管家，一只看起来很严肃的吉娃娃，把我抱起来，掸掉我的锅上的灰尘，把它放回我的滑板上。

"Thank you!" I said. "Also, I apologize for the fact that my goat is eating your top hat." "Very good, sir," said the butler, very properly putting the half-eaten hat back on his head. "My name is Inspector Flytrap, and this is my assistant, Nina the Goat. She's a goat." "Very good, sir," said the butler, very politely. "My name is MC FunkyFoot, and I am at your service." "MC FunkyFoot seems like a strange name for a butler," I said. "My parents always dreamed that I'd be a rap star," said MC FunkyFoot.

“谢谢你!”我说。“还有，我为我的山羊吃了你的大礼帽这件事道歉。” “很好，先生，”管家说，很得体地把吃了一半的帽子戴回到头上。 “我是捕蝇草探长，这是我的助手，山羊尼娜。 她是一只山羊。”“很好，先生，”管家很有礼貌地说。 “我叫MC FunkyFoot，随时为您服务。” “MC FunkyFoot这个名字对于一个管家来说似乎有点奇怪，”我说。 MC FunkyFoot说：“我父母一直梦想我成为一名说唱明星。

"Mister FunkyFoot! Would you please stop talking about things other than my pickle paperweight?" screeched the Countess. "Inspector Flytrap needs to get right to work!" "Very good, ma'am," MC FunkyFoot and I said at the same time. "I just arrived by train," said the Countess. "But my world's greatest pickle paper-weight was stolen during the trip! Your job is to find it! So get busy!"

“FunkyFoot先生!你能不能别再谈我的泡菜镇纸了？”伯爵夫人尖叫道。 “捕蝇草探长需要马上开始工作了！”“很好，夫人，”MC FunkyFoot和我同时说。 “我刚乘火车来。”伯爵夫人说。 “但是我的世界上最大的泡菜镇纸在旅途中被偷走了！”你的工作就是找到它！所以赶紧行动起来吧！”

I could tell already that the Countess liked for things to go her way, and her way only. I hoped she wouldn't notice that Nina was eating the flowers off her hat.

我已经看得出来，伯爵夫人喜欢一切都按她的意思走，而且只按她的意思走。 我希望她不会注意到妮娜正在吃她帽子上的花。