7 We’ll Get a Cat!

CHAPTER SEVEN WE'LL GET A CAT! WE DIDN'T GO straight to Picasso Park after school. We decided to go to Simon's house first. We thought there might be something in his garage that we could use to get the ball down. On the way, we tried to think of ways to get it out. "Fire trucks have really tall ladders," Simon said as we left school and reached the sidewalk. "Maybe we could use one of those." "How are we going to get a fire truck?" I asked. "We'll get a cat!" Simon said quickly. "Why?" asked Rosie.

第七章我们要养只猫！放学后我们没有直接去毕加索公园。 我们决定先去西蒙家。 我们想他车库里可能有什么东西可以让我们把球弄下来。 在路上，我们试着想办法把它弄出来。 “消防车的梯子真的很高，”我们离开学校走到人行道上时，西蒙说。 “也许我们可以用其中一个。” “我们怎么才能弄到消防车呢？”我问。 “我们去养只猫！”西蒙赶紧说。 “为什么？”罗茜问。

"Sometimes firefighters rescue cats that get stuck in trees," Simon said. He liked this idea. He got that hazy look in his eyes and started to talk faster. "We'll get a cat and take it to the tree! It will climb up and get totally stuck!" "Then what?" I asked. "Then we'll call 911," Simon answered. His eyes were kind of bulged out with excitement. "And we'll be like, 'Help! Our cat is trapped in a tree! Can you bring your truck with a big ladder and get her out?! Oh, and by the way, there happens to be a soccer ball up there too. Would you mind getting that down while you're up there?' That might work."

西蒙说：“有时消防员会救出被困在树上的猫。” 他喜欢这个主意。他眼睛里露出迷糊的神情，开始说得更快了。 “我们去找一只猫，把它带到树上！”它会往上爬，然后完全卡住！”“然后呢?”我问。 “那我们就打911，”西蒙回答。 他的眼睛因兴奋而鼓了出来。 “我们会说，‘救命！我们的猫被困在树上了！你能把你的卡车和大梯子开过来把她弄出来吗！哦，顺便说一下，上面碰巧也有一个足球。 你上去的时候能把那个拿下来吗？”这可能行得通。”

Rosie had her doubts.

罗茜有她的疑虑。

"None of us have a cat," Rosie said. "So we'd have to find one. Then we'd have to hope it gets stuck. And what if there's an actual fire somewhere? We don't want to take firefighters away from their real job." "Okay, forget the cat," Simon said, already admitting that part of his plan wouldn't work. "But we can still use the idea!" "How?" I asked. "We'll start an actual fire!" Simon exclaimed. "In the tree itself! If the tree is burning, firefighters have to come! Heck, the soccer ball might fall out as the branches burn and break!" "Simon!" Rosie and I exclaimed. "What?" "We can't start a fire on purpose!" Rosie said. "It's against the law! It's dangerous! And the soccer ball would probably catch on fire too. Then you'd have to give Max a pile of ashes instead of his ball. I don't think he'd like that very much."

“我们都没有猫，”罗西说。 “所以我们必须找一个。 那我们只能希望它卡住了。 如果真的有什么地方着火了呢？ 我们不想让消防员离开他们真正的工作。” “好吧，别管那只猫了。”西蒙说，他已经承认他的部分计划行不通了。 “但我们仍然可以利用这个想法！”“如何?”我问。 “我们要燃起一场真正的大火！”西蒙喊道。 “就在树上！”如果树着火了，消防员就得过来！哎呀，足球可能会因为树枝燃烧而掉出来！”“西蒙!”罗西和我惊呼道。 “什么?”“我们不能故意放火！”罗西说。 “这是违法的！”是很危险的!足球可能也会着火。 那你就得给麦克斯一堆骨灰而不是他的球了。 我想他不会喜欢的。”