4 A WORD WITH “GHOST BOY”

CHAPTER 4 A WORD WITH "GHOST BOY" Kaz couldn't stop thinking about that wad of paper. It could be an important clue. But he couldn't pick it up. He couldn't unfold it. And as he floated above the trash can, Kaz wasn't even sure which wad of paper was the one he wanted anymore. What if he was letting an important clue slip away? Maybe Claire could help. She said she would be in room 125. All Kaz had to do was find room 125 and tell Claire about the wad of paper. Then she could find the right paper, open it up, and

第四章与“鬼男孩”的对话卡兹一直在想那张纸。 这可能是一条重要线索。 但是他不能把它捡起来。 他无法打开它。当卡兹漂浮在垃圾桶上方时，他甚至不确定哪一团纸是他想要的。 如果他漏掉了一条重要线索呢？ 也许克莱尔能帮上忙。她说她住125号房。 卡兹所要做的就是找到125房间，告诉克莱尔那团纸的事。 然后她就能找到合适的纸，打开它，然后

decide whether it was important. Kaz read the numbers on the signs outside each classroom door: 108... 110... 112. Claire's classroom didn't appear to be down that hallway, so he tried a different one: 120... 122... 124... and across the hall he saw 125. Kaz swam over, but there weren't any solids in room 125. Just rows of empty desks. Where's Claire? Kaz wondered. He was sure she'd said she'd be in room 125. Was she lost? Did she leave the school without him? She wouldn't do that, would she? Kaz didn't know what to do. He hovered outside room 125, wondering if Claire would come back. He waited... and waited... and waited... Soon he heard voices at the end of the hall. He looked up and saw a line of solid children walking toward him. Claire was second in line, right behind a grown-up solid. "Claire!" Kaz said, swimming alongside her.

决定它是否重要。 卡兹读着每个教室门外牌子上的数字：108…… 110年……112. 克莱尔的教室似乎不在走廊尽头，所以他试了另一个：120…… 122年……124年……穿过大厅，他看到了125。 卡兹游了过去，但125房间里没有固体物质。 只有一排排空桌子。克莱儿在哪里? Kaz很好奇。他确信她说过她住在125房间。 她迷路了吗？她自己离开学校了吗？ 她不会那么做的，对吧？ 卡兹不知道该怎么办。 他在125号房外徘徊，不知道克莱尔会不会回来。 他等待着……等着…… 等着……不久，他听到大厅尽头有说话声。 他抬起头，看见一排结实的孩子向他走来。 克莱尔排在第二位，排在一个成熟的固体之后。 “克莱尔!”卡兹边说边游到她身边。

"You have to come with me. I think I found a clue in the library, but I can't open it. I can't even find it because it's in a trash can with all these other wads of paper. Come on!" "I can't," Claire mouthed at him. "I have to stay with my class." "What? Why?" Kaz asked. Claire didn't answer. It was so hard to communicate with Claire when other solids were around.

“你得跟我来。 我想我在图书馆找到了线索，但我打不开。 我甚至找不到它，因为它和其他纸团一起在垃圾桶里。 来吧!”“我不能，”克莱尔用嘴对他说。 “我必须和我的班级呆在一起。” “什么?为什么?”Kaz问道。克莱尔没有回答。 周围有其他固体的时候我很难和克莱尔沟通。

Kaz followed Claire into room 125 and over to a desk in the middle of the room. As soon as she sat down, Claire stuck her hand in the air. Kaz darted out of the way before Claire's hand passed through him. "Mrs. Galway?" Claire said. "Yes?" said the grown-up solid at the front of the room. "Can I go to the bathroom?" Claire asked. "Go quickly," Mrs. Galway said. "Everyone else, please take out your math books." Desks creaked open all around the room as Claire got up from her seat and hurried to the door. Kaz swam behind her. "Remember, I can't talk to you when other people are around," Claire whispered once they were out in the hallway. Kaz knew that. "And I can't go with you whenever I want to," Claire added. "I have to stay with my class unless I have permission to go someplace by myself."

卡兹跟着克莱尔走进125号房间，走到房间中央的一张桌子前。 克莱尔一坐下，就把手伸到空中。 卡兹在克莱尔的手穿过他之前迅速闪开。 “戈尔韦太太?”克莱尔说。 “什么事？”站在房间前面的大人说。 “我能去洗手间吗？”克莱尔问道。 “快去，”戈尔韦太太说。 “其他人，请拿出你们的数学书。” 克莱尔从座位上站起来，急忙向门口走去，房间里所有的桌子都吱吱作响地打开了。 卡兹游在她后面。“记住，别人在的时候我不能和你说话。”他们走出走廊后，克莱尔小声说。 卡兹知道这一点。“我也不能随时跟你一起去，”克莱尔补充说。 “我必须和我的班级呆在一起，除非我得到允许独自去某个地方。”

"Oh," Kaz said. He didn't know that. "But we're alone now," Claire said. "So, tell me about this clue." Kaz told Claire all about the boy in the library and the wad of paper with the word ghost on it. "That sounds like Jonathan," Claire said as they turned a corner. They were outside the library now. "I heard people calling him Ghost Boy in the hall this morning." "We have to find out what he wrote on that paper. You have to come in here and find the paper he put in the trash can," Kaz said. Claire glanced up and down the hallway. "Okay," she said. "But we have to do it quick. If Mrs. Galway finds out I went to the library instead of the bathroom, I could get in trouble." There wasn't anyone in the library now. Kaz led Claire over to the trash can. "It's in there," he said. Claire reached into the trash can and pulled out several wads of paper.

“哦，”卡兹说。他不知道。 “但现在只有我们俩了，”克莱尔说。 “那么，跟我说说这个线索吧。” 卡兹把图书馆里那个男孩的事和那卷写着“鬼”的纸都告诉了克莱尔。 “听起来像乔纳森，”他们转过一个弯时克莱尔说。 他们现在在图书馆外面。 “今天早上我在大厅里听到人们叫他鬼孩。” “我们必须找出他在那张纸上写了什么。 你必须到这里来，找到他放在垃圾桶里的那张纸，”卡兹说。 克莱尔在走廊上扫视了一下。 “好吧，”她说。“但我们必须尽快行动。 如果戈尔韦夫人发现我去了图书馆而不是上厕所，我可能会有麻烦的。” 现在图书馆里一个人也没有。 卡兹把克莱尔领到垃圾桶前。 “就在里面，”他说。克莱尔把手伸进垃圾桶，拿出几团纸。

"That's not it," Kaz said as she unfolded the first one. She tossed it back and opened another. "That's not it, either," Kaz said. Claire opened a third wad. "That's it!" Kaz exclaimed as he saw the word ghost. Claire smoothed the paper against her leg, then held it up so she could read it. She frowned. "It's a book report. Or the start of one. It's about a book called The Ghost at Mike's House." She dropped the paper back into the trash can.

“不是这样的，”卡兹一边打开第一个盒子一边说。 她把它扔了回去，又打开了另一只。 “也不是这样，”卡兹说。 克莱尔打开第三包。 “就是这样!”和子看到“鬼”这个词时惊叫起来。 克莱尔在腿上把纸弄平，然后把它举起来，这样她就可以读了。 她皱起了眉头。“这是一份读书报告。 或者是一个的开始。是关于一本叫《迈克家的鬼魂》的书。” 她把纸扔回了垃圾桶。