Chapter 7

Chapter SEVEN Five minutes later, Mum came running back out of the house. 'Alvin!' she shouted. 'Mirabelle's not in her bedroom!' 'What do you mean?' I heard Dad say. 'You know what she's like, Seraphina. She's probably hiding or has snuck up to your potion turret.'

七分钟后，妈妈从房子里跑了出来。 “阿尔文!她喊道。“米拉贝尔不在卧室里！”“你这是什么意思？”我听见爸爸说。 “你知道她是什么样的人，塞拉菲娜。 她可能躲起来了，或者已经偷偷溜到你的魔药塔那里去了。”

'NO!' said Mum. 'I've searched the whole house and I can't find her!' 'What?' said Wilbur, running out of the sprinkler with Oswald and almost squashing me as he passed. 'Has Mirabelle gone missing? I was a bit mean to her earlier, what if she ran away...' I was shocked to see that he looked genuinely sorry.

“不!妈妈说。“我找遍了整个房子，就是找不到她！”“什么?威伯说着，和奥斯瓦尔德一起跑出了洒水车，他经过的时候差点压扁了我。 “米拉贝尔失踪了吗？” 我之前对她有点刻薄，要是她跑了怎么办……”我很震惊地看到他看起来真的很抱歉。

'I lost my temper with her too!' said Mum, worriedly. 'I'm here! I'm here!' I squeaked in my tiny voice, jumping up and down in the grass and waving the little cocktail umbrella in the air. But of course, no one paid me any attention.

“我也对她发脾气了！”妈妈担心地说。 “我在这里!我在这里!”我用细小的声音尖叫着，在草地上跳上跳下，在空中挥舞着小鸡尾酒伞。 当然，没有人注意到我。

'Bat wings and frog legs!' shrieked Mum. 'What are we going to do?!' 'We'll help you look!' said Frederick. 'Yes, of course!' said Felice, standing up, still with her glass in her hand. I stared at the chaos I had caused, feeling really guilty. I needed to get big again as soon as possible! Now that Wilbur and Oswald were no longer playing in the sprinkler, the path was clear. I ran towards it, using the umbrella to bat away bugs and blades of grass. I could feel droplets of water starting to patter down around me, but they only lasted for a second before the

“蝙蝠翅膀和青蛙腿！”妈妈尖叫道。 “我们该怎么办？”“我们会帮你找的！”弗雷德里克说。 “是的，当然！”费利斯说着站了起来，手里仍然拿着杯子。 我盯着自己造成的混乱，感到很内疚。 我需要尽快变大！现在威尔伯和奥斯瓦尔德不再在洒水车里玩耍了，路就畅通了。 我朝它跑去，用伞拍开虫子和草叶。 我能感觉到水滴开始在我周围啪嗒啪嗒地落下来，但它们只持续了一秒钟，就消失了

sprinkler moved away again. It wasn't enough to clean the wings properly, so I kept running, as fast as I could, towards the centre of the sprinkler where the jets were. If I washed my wings in those then they would get clean in no time! Still holding the umbrella, I leapt backwards into the jets.

洒水车又走开了。 这还不足以清洁机翼，所以我继续跑，以最快的速度，朝着喷水装置的中心，也就是喷水装置所在的地方。 如果我用它洗我的翅膀，它们很快就会变干净！我仍然拿着伞，向后跳进了飞机。

WOOOOSHHH! WOAHHHH! The sprinkler did more than just clean my wings!

WOOOOSHHH !WOAHHHH !洒水器不仅仅是清洁了我的翅膀！