8 MORE TROUBLE BACKSTAGE

CHAPTER 8 MORE TROUBLE BACKSTAGE The next morning, Beckett was still trying to figure out how to make something disappear from the solid world. "How close were you to that lamp when you made it disappear?" Beckett asked Kaz. "Were you hovering above it or were you beside it? Were you upside down or right side up?" "I don't know!" "How do you not know?" Beckett cried, pulling at his hair. "You were there, too," Kaz pointed out. "If you don't remember, how do you expect me to?"

第二天早上，贝克特还在想办法让什么东西从现实世界中消失。 “你让那盏灯消失的时候离它有多近？”贝克特问卡兹。 “你是在它上面盘旋，还是在它旁边？” 你是头朝下还是头朝上？”“我不知道！”“你怎么不知道？”贝克特扯着头发叫道。 “你也在那儿。”卡兹指出。 “如果你不记得，你指望我怎么记得？”

"Because you're the one who did it!" "Good morning," Claire said cheerfully as she joined Kaz and Beckett in the craft room. "Good morning," Kaz said. Beckett grunted. Kaz swam over to Claire. "Can I come to school with you today?" he whispered as he hovered near Claire's ear. He needed a break from Beckett. "Of course," Claire said. "You should come to school. We still haven't solved the case of the backstage ghost. We can't stop until we solve the case!" So Kaz went to school with Claire. While Claire was busy in her classroom, Kaz drifted up and down hallways... in and out of classrooms... He didn't find any clues. But he did find a wadded-up piece of paper on the floor in an empty hallway. He swam over and tried to pick it up. His hand passed through it.

“因为是你干的！”“早上好，”克莱尔高兴地说，她加入卡兹和贝克特在工艺室。 “早上好。”卡兹说。贝克特哼了一声。 卡兹游向克莱尔。“我今天能和你一起去学校吗？”他在克莱尔耳边徘徊，小声说。 他需要远离贝克特。 “当然，”克莱尔说。“你应该来学校。 我们还没解决后台鬼的案子。 在破案之前我们不能罢手！”卡兹和克莱尔一起上学。 克莱尔在教室里忙的时候，卡兹在走廊里走来走去。 在教室内外…… 他没有发现任何线索。但他在空荡荡的走廊里的地板上发现了一张揉成一团的纸。 他游过去，想把它捡起来。 他的手穿过它。

He tried to make that paper disappear from the solid world. He stared hard at it and reached for it again. His hand passed through it again. What did I do differently last night to make that lamp disappear from the table in the craft room? While he was thinking about that, he heard a familiar voice coming from the classroom behind him: "I don't know where my science book is." Kaz glided over to the doorway to see who had said that. It was Andy, the boy who would be working in the control room during the play. "You haven't had your science book all week," the teacher told Andy. She did not look happy. "I know," Andy said, his shoe digging into the floor. "I wish I knew what happened to it." At lunch, Kaz hovered around Claire and Jonathan. While they were talking, Noah snuck up behind Jonathan and yelled, "BOO!"

他试图让那张纸从现实世界中消失。 他紧紧盯着它，又伸手去拿。 他的手又穿过它。 昨晚我做了什么不同的事让那盏灯从工艺室的桌子上消失了？ 当他正在思考的时候，他听到一个熟悉的声音从他身后的教室里传来：“我不知道我的科学书在哪里。” 卡兹滑到门口，想看看是谁说的。 是安迪，那个在演出期间在控制室工作的男孩。 “你整个星期都没拿到科学书，”老师告诉安迪。 她看上去并不高兴。“我知道，”安迪说，他的鞋陷进了地板里。 “我希望我知道它发生了什么事。” 午餐时，卡兹在克莱尔和乔纳森周围徘徊。 他们正在谈话的时候，诺亚偷偷溜到约拿单的身后，大声喊道：“嘘！”

Both Claire and Jonathan jumped. "Got you, Ghost Boy!" Noah laughed. "You jumped a mile!" "Stop calling me 'Ghost Boy,'" Jonathan said. "Ghost Boy! Ghost Boy!" Noah taunted as he walked away. "That isn't very nice!" Claire called to Noah. "No one's ever nice to me," Jonathan said. "Except for you. When I was in third grade, they called me Puke Boy. Because I threw up in school once. Ghost Boy is actually better." "No, it's not," Claire said. "People shouldn't call names at all." Kaz agreed. He wished he could make kids stop calling Jonathan "Ghost Boy." But what could he do? He was just a ghost. Then he got an idea. He wasn't sure it would work, but it was worth a try. Kaz floated over to Noah and... blew into his hair. Surprisingly enough, the hair around Noah's

克莱尔和乔纳森都跳了下去。 “抓到你了，鬼孩！”诺亚笑了。 “你跳了一英里！”“别再叫我‘鬼小子’了，”乔纳森说。 “鬼小子!鬼小子!”诺亚一边走开一边嘲弄着。 “那可不太好！”克莱尔对诺亚喊道。 “从来没有人对我好，”乔纳森说。 “除了你。我三年级的时候，他们叫我呕吐男孩。 因为我曾经在学校吐过一次。 《鬼男孩》其实更好。” “不，不是，”克莱尔说。 “人们根本不应该骂人。” Kaz同意了。他希望他能让孩子们不再叫乔纳森“鬼男孩”。 但是他能做什么呢？他只是个幽灵。 然后他有了一个主意。他不确定这是否可行，但值得一试。 卡兹飘向诺亚，然后…… 吹进他的头发。令人惊讶的是，诺亚周围的头发

ear moved a little. Kaz blew into Noah's hair again. This time Noah reached up and pushed the piece of hair back into place. Kaz did it again. Harder this time. Noah shivered, then turned all around like he was trying to figure out what was making his hair move. Claire grinned at Kaz as Noah left the cafetorium. Kaz felt pleased with himself. He may not have

耳朵动了一下。卡兹又吹了吹诺亚的头发。 这次诺亚伸手把那根头发推回原位。 卡兹又做了一次。这次更难了。 诺亚打了个寒颤，然后转过身来，好像想弄清楚是什么让他的头发动了起来。 诺亚离开食堂时，克莱尔朝卡兹咧嘴一笑。 卡兹对自己很满意。 他可能没有

figured out how to pick up a solid object or make it disappear, but he'd found a way to move a solid object. "I'd like you all to try on costumes today," Mr. Hartshorn said at the beginning of rehearsal that afternoon. "Amber and Kenya went through all the costumes the other day. I pinned your names to the ones I'd like each of you to try on. You'll find them hanging on a rack in the storage room." Claire and the other performers went back behind the curtain. Kaz waited in the cafetorium. He watched the backstage workers piece together the beanstalk. They were building it right beside Jack's house. A few minutes later, the performers wandered back onto the stage. None of them were in costume. Mr. Hartshorn glanced up at them in surprise. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Our costumes are missing," Claire said.

弄清楚了如何捡起一个固体物体或让它消失，但他也找到了移动固体物体的方法。 “我希望你们今天都能试穿一下服装，”那天下午排练开始时，哈茨霍恩说。 “安珀和肯亚前几天把所有的服装都看了一遍。 我把你们的名字别在我想让你们每个人试穿的衣服上。 你会发现它们挂在储藏室的架子上。” 克莱尔和其他表演者回到幕布后面。 卡兹在餐厅等着。 他看着后台的工人把豆茎拼在一起。 他们就在杰克的房子旁边建的。 几分钟后，表演者又回到舞台上。 他们都没穿戏服。 哈茨霍恩先生吃惊地抬头看了他们一眼。 “怎么了？”他问。 “我们的戏服不见了，”克莱尔说。