5 LITTLE BOY BLUE

CHAPTER 5 LITTLE BOY BLUE You came back," David's little brother, Ben, said as he strolled into the living room. "Yes. I brought some special equipment this time to help me find your ghosts," Claire said. She peered at Ben through her "ghost glass." But neither Claire nor Kaz saw any ghosts. Ben crossed his arms. "Ally says you're probably a fake," he told Claire. "Who's Ally?" Claire asked. "Our big sister," Ben replied. "I didn't know you had a sister," Claire said to David.

第五章小男孩布鲁你回来了，”大卫的弟弟本边说边走进客厅。 “是的。这次我带了一些特殊的设备来帮助我找到你的鬼魂，”克莱尔说。 她透过“幽灵镜”凝视着本。 但克莱尔和卡兹都没看到鬼。 本交叉双臂。“艾丽说你可能是个骗子，”他告诉克莱尔。 “谁的盟友?”克莱尔问道。 “我们的大姐姐，”本回答。 “我不知道你还有个妹妹，”克莱尔对大卫说。

David shrugged. "She's thirteen. She's supposed to watch us after school, but all she does is sit in her room and text her friends." "I saw her yesterday," Kaz told Claire. "That's exactly what she was doing. Sitting in her room, texting her friends." "Hm," Claire grunted. She shifted the antenna on her ghost catcher. Then with the ghost glass in one hand and the ghost catcher in the other, she started moving sloooowly around the room. "Do you see any ghosts?" David asked. "Are they here yet?" "I'm not sure," Claire said. Ben set his car on the floor and wandered over to the musical instrument in the corner. Kaz was curious what that instrument was, so he and Cosmo swam over to see. It had keys that looked like piano keys, but they weren't all on the same row. There were two rows. And lots of buttons. Ben flipped a switch on the instrument, and the buttons labeled FLUTE 1, VIOLIN, and FRENCH HORN

大卫耸耸肩。“她是十三。 她应该在放学后照看我们，但她只是坐在房间里给朋友发短信。” “我昨天看到她了，”卡兹告诉克莱尔。 “这正是她所做的。 坐在房间里，给朋友发短信。” “嗯，”克莱尔咕哝道。她移动了捕鬼器上的天线。 然后，她一只手拿着幽灵玻璃，另一只手拿着捕鬼器，开始在房间里慢慢地移动。 “你看见鬼了吗？”大卫问。 “他们到了吗？”“我不确定，”克莱尔说。 本把车停在地板上，走到角落里的乐器旁。 卡兹很好奇那是什么仪器，于是他和科斯莫游过去看了看。 它的键看起来像钢琴键，但它们并不都在同一排。 有两排。还有很多按钮。 本拨动了乐器上的开关，按钮上标着长笛1、小提琴和法国号

lit up. Ben started playing a song with one finger. Kaz knew that song. It was called "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." His mom used to sing it to him, Finn, and Little John. "What are you doing, Ben?" David said. "You can't play the organ now." "Why?" Ben asked. "Because Claire's going to try to catch our ghosts, and we need to be able to hear them when they come," David explained. "I don't want to hear them," Ben said. He turned off the FLUTE 1 and VIOLIN buttons, and turned on the FLUTE 2 and CLARINET buttons. Then he started playing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" all over again. It sounded completely different with the different buttons pushed. Kaz was fascinated. He noticed one of the buttons said TRIANGLE. Kaz loved the sound of a triangle. They'd had one back at the old schoolhouse. He wondered how "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" would sound with the

亮了起来。本开始用一个手指弹奏一首歌。 卡兹知道这首歌。这首歌叫《一闪一闪小星星》。 他妈妈以前常唱给他，芬恩和小约翰听。 “你在干什么，本？”大卫说。 “你现在不能弹风琴了。” “为什么?”本问。“因为克莱尔会试图抓住我们的鬼魂，我们需要在他们来的时候能听到他们的声音，”大卫解释道。 “我不想听，”本说。 他关掉了长笛1和小提琴的按钮，打开了长笛2和单簧管的按钮。 然后他又开始弹《一闪一闪小星星》。 按不同的按钮听起来完全不同。 卡兹被迷住了。他注意到其中一个钮扣上写着“三角形”。 卡兹喜欢三角形的声音。 他们在旧校舍里有过一次。 他想知道“一闪，一闪，小星星”配上这个声音会怎样

TRIANGLE button pushed. Without thinking, Kaz touched his finger to the button. He'd never been able to turn a solid switch or push a solid button, so he didn't expect anything to happen. But the button slid forward... and when it did, the sound through the organ changed. K

按下三角形按钮。卡兹不假思索地用手指按下了按钮。 他从来没能转动一个可靠的开关或按下一个可靠的按钮，所以他不指望会发生什么。 但是按钮向前滑动…… 当它这样做时，通过器官发出的声音就改变了。 K

az stared wide-eyed. Ben pulled his fingers back from the keys as if he'd been burned. "D-did you see that?" he cried. "That button changed all by itself!" "And it's not even five o'clock," David said. "The ghost is early today!" Claire glared at Kaz, the ghost glass dangling at her side. "Sorry," Kaz said to Claire, even though he didn't feel sorry. He, Kaz, had moved that button! All by himself. He hadn't even been trying to move it. Kaz remembered the first time he ever picked up a solid object. It happened at Claire's school. He didn't think about it; he just went right over to that mean boy and grabbed the sword out of his hand. Then there was the time he accidentally turned a solid lamp into a ghostly lamp. He'd actually been trying to flip the switch on the lamp, but somehow, without thinking about it, he had turned

阿兹瞪大了眼睛。本把手指从钥匙上缩回来，好像被烧伤了一样。 “你看见了吗？”他叫道。 “那个按钮自己变了！”“现在还不到五点钟，”大卫说。 “今天鬼来早了！”克莱尔怒视着卡兹，幽灵杯在她身边晃来晃去。 “对不起，”卡兹对克莱尔说，尽管他并不觉得对不起。 他，卡兹，动了那个按钮！全靠他自己。 他甚至没有试着移动它。 和子还记得他第一次拿起一个固体物体的情景。 事情发生在克莱尔的学校。 他没有多想；他径直走向那个坏男孩，从他手里夺过了剑。 还有一次，他不小心把一盏实体灯变成了一盏幽灵灯。 他其实一直在试着打开灯的开关，但不知怎的，他想都没想就转过身来了

the whole lamp ghostly. Was it possible Kaz sometimes tried too hard to master his ghost skills? While Kaz was thinking about that, the big hand on the clock inched toward the twelve. It was five o'clock. All at once, the garage door went up, the table lamp blinked on, and that same garbled voice that they'd all heard yesterday boomed into the room. But today that voice didn't come just through the TV. It also blared through the organ. "Ahhh!" Ben cried, scooting the organ bench back. Claire, Kaz, and David all backed up, "Woof! Woof!" Cosmo barked at the organ. The voice was loud and scary when it came through the TV. It was even louder and scarier when it came through the organ. "Pick up that ghost glass!" David exclaimed.

整盏灯阴森森的。卡兹有时会不会太过努力去掌握他的幽灵技能？ 就在和子想着这些的时候，时钟上的大针慢慢地指向十二点。 这时是五点钟。突然间，车库的门打开了，台灯亮了，他们昨天听到的那个浑浊的声音轰隆隆地走进了房间。 但是今天，这个声音不仅仅是通过电视传来的。 它也轰鸣着穿过风琴。 “啊!”本叫道，把风琴凳往后挪了挪。 克莱尔、卡兹和大卫都附和道：“汪！汪!”科斯莫对着风琴咆哮。 电视里传来的声音又大又吓人。 从管风琴传出来的声音更大更可怕。 “把那个幽灵玻璃捡起来！”大卫喊道。