4 HOW DO YOU FIND A MISSING GHOST

CHAPTER 4 HOW DO YOU FIND A MISSING GHOST? Claire hugged her orange juice bottle of ghosts with one arm while she opened the door to the library with her other hand. Beckett hovered in the library entryway, close to the front door, but not so close that he might blow into the Outside. "Well? Did you find Dave?" he asked hopefully. "No," Claire said, kicking the door closed behind her. "What happened?" Beckett asked as Kaz, Cosmo, Finn, and Little John passed through the bottle and expanded to their normal sizes. He backed away when Mom and Pops passed through.

第四章如何找到失踪的鬼魂？ 克莱尔一只手抱着她的橙汁鬼瓶，另一只手打开了图书馆的门。 贝克特在图书馆入口处徘徊，离前门很近，但还没有近到他可能会吹到外面去。 “嗯?你找到戴夫了吗？”他满怀希望地问。 “不，”克莱尔说着，把身后的门踢上了。 “发生什么事了?”贝克特问道，卡兹、科斯莫、芬恩和小约翰穿过瓶子，膨胀到正常大小。 爸爸妈妈经过的时候，他往后退了。

"We met some of Finn's friends," Little John said. "But not Dave. Dave's gone." "Gone!" Beckett said. "Yeah. No one knows what happened to him," Kaz said. "We looked for him in a bunch of stores and restaurants downtown. So did the other ghosts at the movie theater—" "Wait, there are other ghosts at the movie theater?" Beckett said, scratching his head. "Yes," Finn said. "Jessie, Conrad, George, and Dave. Dave used to be there. I just don't know what could have happened to him." "It's a mystery all right," Little John said. Beckett peered into the empty orange juice bottle. "Where are your grandparents?" he asked. "Did something happen to them, too?" "No. I took them back to Valley View," Claire said as she wiggled out of her jacket. "They're old. And tired," Mom said. She sounded pretty tired herself. "They don't think we'll ever find my brother. Frankly, I don't think

“我们遇到了芬恩的一些朋友，”小约翰说。 “但戴夫不是。大卫走了。” “走了!”贝克特说。“是的。 没有人知道他发生了什么事，”卡兹说。 “我们在市中心的一堆商店和餐馆里找过他。 那么电影院的其他鬼魂——”“等等，电影院还有其他鬼魂吗？”贝克特挠着头说。 “是的，”芬恩说。“杰西、康拉德、乔治和戴夫。 戴夫以前也在那里。我不知道他到底出了什么事。” “这确实是个谜，”小约翰说。 贝克特凝视着空的橙汁瓶。 “你的祖父母在哪里？”他问。 “他们也发生了什么事吗？”“没有。 我把它们带回了山谷景城，”克莱尔一边说一边扭动着衣服。 “他们老了。而且很累，”妈妈说。 听起来她自己也很累。 “他们认为我们永远找不到我哥哥了。 坦率地说，我不这么认为

we will, either." With that, she and Pops drifted up through the ceiling. "I'm so sorry," Beckett said, hanging his head. "Come on," Claire said to Kaz, Finn, and Little John as she headed for the craft room. Kaz picked up Cosmo, and the ghosts followed Claire. "We will find your Uncle Dave!" Claire declared. She pulled out a chair and sat down. "How?" Kaz asked. "He's been gone forever!" "We can start by finding my friend, Dave," Finn said. "He's only been gone a day. If we can

我们也会。”说完，她和老爷子从天花板上飘了上去。 “我很抱歉，”贝克特低下头说。 “来吧，”克莱尔对卡兹、芬恩和小约翰说，她朝工艺室走去。 卡兹抱起科斯莫，鬼魂跟着克莱尔。 “我们会找到你的戴夫叔叔的！”克莱尔说。 她拉出一把椅子坐了下来。 “如何?”Kaz问道。“他永远地消失了！”“我们可以从找到我的朋友戴夫开始，”芬恩说。 “他才走了一天。 如果可以的话

find him, we can at least find out whether he's our Uncle Dave." "How are we going to find him?" Kaz asked. "Have Claire knock on every door in this whole town until we find him? There are too many." "He may not even be in this town anymore," Little John said. "The wind may have blown him to a whole different town." "You sound like you're giving up," Claire said to Little John. "I've never known you to give up before." Little John bit his lip. "Well, it does seem kind of impossible," he said in a small voice. Claire leaned back in her chair. "You guys! We found your whole family! You thought that was impossible, too. But we did it." "I'm not giving up," Finn said, folding his arms. "If they want to give up, maybe you need to change the name of your little detective agency to C & F Ghost Detectives."

找到他，我们至少可以知道他是不是我们的戴夫叔叔。” “我们怎样才能找到他呢？”Kaz问道。 “让克莱尔挨家挨户敲门，直到我们找到他？” 他们太多了。”“他可能已经不在这个镇上了，”小约翰说。 “风可能把他吹到了一个完全不同的城镇。” “听起来你好像要放弃了，”克莱尔对小约翰说。 “我以前从没见过你会放弃。” 小约翰咬着嘴唇。“嗯，这似乎是不可能的。”他低声说。 克莱尔向后靠在椅子上。 “你们!我们找到你全家了！你也认为那是不可能的。 但我们做到了。”“我不会放弃的，”芬恩双手交叉着说。 “如果他们想放弃，也许你需要把你的小侦探事务所的名字改成c&f幽灵侦探。”

C & F Ghost Detectives? No way, Kaz thought. "I'm not giving up, either," he said. "I just don't know what to do." "Same," Little John said. "Well," Claire said as she unzipped her bag and pulled out her notebook and pen. "I like Finn's idea of looking for his friend, Dave. It's a lot easier to find someone who's only been missing for a day rather than someone who's been missing for years and years. If he's your long-lost uncle, the case is solved. If he's not, well... then we'll have to figure out what to do next." Kaz wasn't sure he agreed that it was any easier to find someone who's only been missing for a day. "So how do we find him?" he asked again. "We could put up flyers like people do when they're trying to find a lost dog," Claire suggested. "Woof! Woof!" Cosmo barked when he heard the word dog.

C & F幽灵侦探？不可能，卡兹想。 “我也不会放弃，”他说。 “我只是不知道该怎么办。” “一样，”小约翰说。“嗯，”克莱尔一边说一边拉开包的拉链，拿出笔记本和笔。 “我喜欢芬恩寻找他的朋友戴夫的想法。 找一个只失踪一天的人要比找一个失踪多年的人容易得多。 如果他是你失散多年的叔叔，案子就解决了。 如果他不是，那么……然后我们得想想下一步该怎么做。” 卡兹不确定他是否同意找到只失踪一天的人会更容易。 “那么我们怎样才能找到他呢？”他又问了一遍。 克莱尔建议说：“我们可以像人们寻找走失的狗一样贴传单。” “汪!汪!”科斯莫听到狗这个词就叫了起来。

"It could say, 'Have you seen this ghost? If so, call C & K Detectives,'" Claire went on. "Who's going to call and say 'yeah, I saw that ghost'?" Finn asked. "Most solids aren't like you. They can't see ghosts." "They can if the ghost is glowing," Claire reminded him. "That boy Eli called Claire because you kept glowing around him," Little John pointed out. "True," Finn said. Claire turned to a clean sheet of paper in her notebook and said, "What does your friend Dave look like, Finn?" "I bet he has hair and wears clothes," Kaz said. Finn snorted. "He definitely wears clothes. I can't say much about his hair. It's covered up by a baseball cap."

“它可能会说，‘你见过这个鬼吗？ 如果是这样，打电话给c&k侦探公司，’”克莱尔接着说。 “谁会打电话说‘是的，我看到那个鬼了’？”芬恩问道。 “大多数固体都不像你。 他们看不见鬼。”“如果鬼魂在发光，他们就可以。”克莱尔提醒他。 “那个男孩，伊莱叫他克莱尔，因为你在他身边总是容光焕发，”小约翰指出。 “没错，”芬恩说。克莱尔翻开笔记本上的一张白纸，问道：“芬恩，你的朋友戴夫长得什么样？”“我打赌他有头发，穿衣服，”卡兹说。 芬恩哼了一声。“他肯定会穿衣服。 关于他的头发我不能说太多。 它被一顶棒球帽遮住了。”