3 SWIM!

CHAPTER 3 SWIM! The solid girl looked right at Kaz, as though she could actually see him. Kaz glanced down at himself. Was he glowing? No. Then there was no way this girl could see him. Could she? Kaz swam to the right. Claire's eyes followed him to the right. He swam to the left. Claire's eyes followed him to the left. He waved his hand in front of Claire's face and she blinked.

第三章游泳！这个结实的女孩直直地看着和子，好像她真的能看见他似的。 卡兹低头看了看自己。 他在发光吗？否。那么这个女孩就不可能看到他了。 她吗?卡兹向右游去。 克莱尔的眼睛跟着他向右看。 他向左边游去。克莱尔的目光跟着他向左望去。 他在克莱尔面前挥挥手，她眨了眨眼睛。

Kaz stared, wide-eyed. "C-can you see me?" he whispered. "Yes." Kaz gasped. "And you can hear me, too?" "Of course." "Aaaaah!" Kaz shrieked. He'd never heard of a solid who could see ghosts when they weren't glowing. He'd never heard of a solid who could hear ghosts when they weren't wailing. This girl could do both. Was she some sort of magical solid girl? Whatever she was, she scared Kaz. He turned and swam away as fast as he could. "Where are you going?" Claire called as she held tight to her green bag and ran after him. She chased him into the nonfiction room and followed him up one row of bookshelves and down another. She could run almost as fast as Kaz could swim. "Young lady!" An older solid lady tapped her cane on the floor. "Does your grandma let you run in the library?"

卡兹瞪大了眼睛。“你——你能看见我吗？” “是的。”Kaz气喘吁吁地说。“你也能听到我说话吗？”“当然。” “Aaaaah !”Kaz尖叫起来。他从来没听说过有什么固体能看见不发光的鬼魂。 他从来没听说过有什么人能听到鬼魂不哀号时的声音。 这个女孩可以两样都做。她是某种神奇的固体女孩吗？ 不管她是什么，她吓到卡兹了。 他转过身，以最快的速度游开了。 “你要去哪儿？”克莱尔一边喊着，一边紧紧抓着她的绿色袋子跟在他后面跑。 她追着他进了非小说类阅览室，跟着他走过一排书架，又走过另一排书架。 她跑得几乎和和子游泳一样快。 “小姐!”一位身材魁梧的老太太用手杖敲了敲地板。 “你奶奶让你在图书馆跑步吗？”

Claire slowed to a fast walk, but still she stayed right with Kaz. She followed him into the fiction room, then back through the entryway and into a brightly colored room with low bookshelves. The sign on the door read: CHILDREN'S ROOM. Most of the solids in here were Kaz and Claire's size. Or smaller. Kaz sailed right over their heads. Oh no! Another open window! Kaz banked to the left and swam back the way they'd come. Claire spun on her heel and zoomed after him. Kaz swam up to the ceiling. But swimming along the ceiling in this place was scary, too.

克莱尔放慢了脚步，走得很快，但她仍然和卡兹在一起。 她跟着他走进小说室，然后穿过入口通道，走进一间色彩鲜艳、放着低矮书架的房间。 门上的牌子上写着：儿童房。 这里大部分的固体都和卡兹和克莱尔一样大。 或更小。卡兹从他们头顶飞过。 噢,不!又一扇开着的窗户！卡兹向左边倾斜，沿着他们来的路游了回去。 克莱尔转身跟在他后面。 卡兹向天花板游去。 但在这个地方沿着天花板游泳也很可怕。

There were round, bright things up there that felt dangerously hot when Kaz swam too close. Even worse, this room had a—Kaz didn't know what it was—some sort of whirly thing in the middle of the ceiling. Like the Outside wind, it pullllled Kaz toward it and blew him around and around in circles really, really fast. "HELP!" Kaz screamed, his arms and legs flailing. But who would help him? His family wasn't here. As he spun around and around and around, he saw Claire touch a button on the wall. The whirly thing in the middle of the ceiling slowed down. It slowed enough that Kaz could break away. Whoa. Now Kaz felt skizzy. Really skizzy. Before he knew what was happening, his stomach heaved and his insides spewed all over Claire. "Ew!" she cried, leaping out of the way. "I didn't know ghosts could throw up."

水面上有一些又圆又亮的东西，如果和子游得太近，就会觉得热得要命。 更糟糕的是，这个房间里有一个卡兹不知道那是什么——天花板中间有某种旋转的东西。 就像外面的风一样，它把和子拉向它，把他吹得一圈又一圈，速度非常非常快。 “救命!”和子尖叫着，他的胳膊和腿在颤抖。 但谁会帮助他呢？他的家人不在这里。 当他转啊转啊转的时候，他看到克莱尔碰到了墙上的一个按钮。 天花板中间那个旋转的东西慢了下来。 它慢得足以让卡兹挣脱。 哇。现在卡兹感到头晕目眩。 真的skizzy。在他明白发生了什么之前，他的胃开始痉挛，他的内脏都喷到了克莱尔身上。 “哎呀！”她大叫一声，跳开了路。 “我不知道鬼魂会呕吐。”

Two small solid girls looked at Claire like she was crazy. They couldn't see Kaz, so they probably couldn't see the spew on Claire's arm, either. Claire wiped the spew away with the bottom of her shirt as the two girls hurried away. Kaz's stomach felt better now. He kicked his legs and swam to the next room. "Hey, stop!" Claire called, running after him. "Come back! I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to talk." Kaz didn't believe her. She was a solid. His family always said: Never trust a solid.

两个身材矮小的女孩看着克莱尔，好像她疯了一样。 他们看不到卡兹，所以他们可能也看不到克莱尔手臂上的呕吐物。 克莱尔用衬衣下摆擦去呕吐物，两个女孩匆匆走开了。 卡兹的胃现在感觉好多了。 他踢了踢腿，游到隔壁房间。 “喂,站住!”克莱尔喊着，跟在他后面。 “回来!我不会伤害你的。 我只是想谈谈。”卡兹不相信她。 她是一个坚实的人。他的家人总是说：永远不要相信固体。

He swam from room to room to room... through the entryway... and back through all the rooms. Again and again and again. Claire never lagged far behind. Kaz's arms and legs were starting to ache. He didn't know how much longer he could swim. Just then, another ghost—a ghost man—swam out from between two bookshelves. He was about Pops's age, and he wore a fancy black jacket and matching top hat. "This is getting painful to watch," the ghost man said as he swam alongside Kaz. "Do you want to get away from that pesky solid?" Kaz could only nod. He was too tired to speak. "Then follow me!" The ghost man darted out ahead. With a burst of energy, Kaz swam after him. Claire followed close behind. They zipped through the children's room... through the entryway... and into a small room at the back of the entryway. The craft room. There

他从一个房间游到另一个房间。 穿过入口通道……然后穿过所有的房间。 一遍又一遍。 克莱尔从来没有落后太多。 卡兹的胳膊和腿开始疼痛。 他不知道自己还能游多久。 就在这时，另一个鬼魂——一个鬼人从两个书架之间游了出来。 他和老爷子差不多大，穿着一件漂亮的黑色夹克，戴着一顶相配的大礼帽。 “看着越来越难受了，”鬼人边说边在和子身边游着。 “你想离开那个讨厌的固体吗？”和子只能点头。 他累得说不出话来。 “那就跟我来！”鬼人冲在前面。 卡兹鼓起了力气，跟着他游了过去。 克莱尔紧跟在后面。 他们飞快地穿过孩子们的房间。 穿过入口通道……走进门廊后面的一个小房间。 工艺室。有