Chapter 4

Chapter four After we ate our ice cream, we headed right to our apartment. As we walked, I began to wonder whether Cheerio was going to like Fred. Then I started to worry about it. "Do dogs and frogs get along?" I asked Papa Pete. "It depends on which dog and which frog," he answered. "If you're talking about Cheerio, we'll just have to wait and see how he reacts." We walked into the living room and put Fred's tank down on the coffee table. Cheerio,

我们吃完冰淇淋后，直奔我们的公寓。 我们走着走着，我开始怀疑麦圈会不会喜欢弗雷德。 然后我开始担心了。 “狗和青蛙能和睦相处吗？”我问皮特爸爸。 “这取决于是哪只狗和哪只青蛙，”他回答说。 “如果你说的是Cheerio，我们只能等着看他的反应。” 我们走进客厅，把弗雷德的水箱放在咖啡桌上。 恭喜恭喜,

who had been asleep, jumped off the couch and sniffed all around the tank. His little nose was working overtime, and his tail was wagging like crazy. And the strange thing was that Fred was not afraid of Cheerio. In fact, he came out from behind the plants in his tank and jumped onto the glass. His bulging little eyes opened wide and stared right into Cheerio's. "Well, look at that," Papa Pete said. "It looks like they want to meet each other." "Ms. Flowers said it was okay for us to take Fred out of the tank, as long as we keep our eyes on him," Frankie said. "Hank, you should hold him," Ashley suggested, "since he likes you best." Ashley carefully took the screen top off the tank, and I reached in to pick up Fred. He settled into my hand and never took his eyes off Cheerio. Cheerio let out the sweetest little whimper and put his nose right on the top of Fred's head. Fred let out the funniest little croak you've ever heard. That scared Cheerio, who backed up on

他已经睡着了，从沙发上跳下来，在水箱周围嗅来嗅去。 他的小鼻子在加班加点地工作，他的尾巴疯狂地摇着。 奇怪的是，弗雷德并不害怕麦圈。 事实上，他从水箱里的植物后面出来，跳到玻璃上。 他鼓鼓囊囊的小眼睛睁得大大的，直勾勾地盯着麦圈。 “嗯，看那个，”皮特爸爸说。 “看起来他们很想见见对方。” “弗劳尔斯女士说，我们可以把弗雷德从水箱里拿出来，只要我们盯着他就行，”弗兰基说。 “汉克，你应该抱着他，“艾希礼建议说，”因为他最喜欢你。" 阿什利小心翼翼地把水箱上的纱窗盖打开，我伸手把弗雷德抱起来。 他坐在我的手里，目不转睛地盯着麦圈。 麦圈发出一声最甜美的呜咽，把鼻子贴在弗雷德的头顶上。 弗雷德发出了你听过的最有趣的叫声。 这吓到麦圈了，他退出了

his short legs. "It's okay, boy," I said to him. "Fred is just talking to you." "I wonder what he's saying," Ashley said. Before we even had a chance to guess, Fred leaped out of my hands and onto Cheerio's back. Cheerio waited until Fred was comfortable, then took off trotting around the apartment. Fred looked all around, checking out the carpets and furniture legs, croaking happily. "Now we know what Fred was saying," Ashley said as we all laughed. "He was saying, 'Hey, Cheerio, take me for a ride.'" "In all my years," Papa Pete said, "I have never seen anything like this. It's amazing."

他的短腿。“没事的，孩子，”我对他说。 “弗雷德在跟你说话呢。” “我不知道他在说什么，"艾希礼说。 我们还没来得及猜，弗雷德就从我手里跳到了麦圈的背上。 麦圈一直等到弗雷德舒服了，才在公寓里跑来跑去。 弗雷德环顾四周，检查着地毯和家具腿，高兴地呱呱叫着。 “现在我们知道弗雷德在说什么了，"艾希礼说，我们都笑了。 “他说，‘嘿，麦圈，带我去兜风。’”“在我的一生中，”皮特爸爸说，“我从未见过这样的事情。 这简直就是奇迹”。

He took out his phone and snapped a picture of Cheerio and Fred. "Wait until I show this to my bowling team," he said. "They're not going to believe it. I don't even believe it, and I'm watching it happen!" We were so interested in Cheerio and Fred that we didn't even hear the front door open. It was my dad and my sister, Emily. My dad was carrying a large bunch of red and pink roses. "Hi, everyone," he called out. "Emily and I got your mom's favorite flowers for her birthday tomorrow. She's going to be so—" He was interrupted by Cheerio, who bolted across the living room to say hello. Fred had to hang on with all four of his little legs. As Cheerio ran across the room, Fred looked like a rodeo star riding a bucking bronco.

他拿出手机，给麦圈和弗雷德拍了张照片。 “等我把这个拿给我的保龄球队看看，”他说。 “他们不会相信的。 我简直不敢相信，我看着这一切发生！”我们对麦圈和弗雷德太感兴趣了，连前门打开的声音都没听见。 是我爸爸和我妹妹艾米丽。 我爸爸拿着一大束红色和粉色的玫瑰。 “大家好，”他喊道。 “艾米丽和我明天为你妈妈的生日准备了她最喜欢的花。 她会很——”他的话被麦圈打断了，麦圈跑过客厅向他打招呼。 弗雷德不得不用四条腿撑着。 当麦里奥跑过房间时，弗雷德看起来就像一个骑着野马的竞技明星。

I lunged for him and grabbed him off Cheerio's back just before he went flying into the air. "What is that, and why is it here?" Emily asked, pointing to my hands. "It is a he, and his name is Fred. He's my guest for the weekend." "Have you gotten Katherine's permission for him to stay here?" she asked. Katherine is Emily's iguana, who doesn't have a friendly bone in her body. I could say the same thing about Emily, but I won't. "I'm sure Katherine will be glad to have another reptile in the house," I told her. "Frogs are amphibians, not reptiles," Emily

就在麦圈飞向空中之前，我扑向他，把他从背上抓了下来。 “那是什么，为什么在这里？”爱米丽指着我的手问。 “是一只公猫，它的名字叫弗雷德。 他是我周末的客人。” “你得到凯瑟琳允许他留在这儿了吗？”她问。 凯瑟琳是艾米丽的鬣蜥，她身体里没有一根友好的骨头。 我也可以对艾米丽说同样的话，但我不会说。 “我相信凯瑟琳会很高兴家里多了一只爬行动物，”我告诉她。 “青蛙是两栖动物，不是爬行动物，”艾米丽说

said in her most know-it-all voice. "Reptiles have scales." "Just like you," I said in my most funny voice. "Hank, you and your sister are turning this house into the Zipzer zoo," my dad said. "Where is this frog going to stay? He can't stay on the coffee table. That's where I'm putting your mother's birthday flowers." "He'll stay in Hotel Hank," I said. "Otherwise known as my room." "Ashley and I will help you carry the tank in there," Frankie said. "Come on, Ash." Frankie and Ashley picked up the tank and headed to my room. I said a quick good-bye to Papa Pete, then followed them, carrying Fred in my hands. We all knew that we had to get out of there fast, before my dad said Fred couldn't stay. We placed the tank on my desk, next to my bed. Carefully, I put Fred down on his plastic log, and Ashley put the screen cover on tightly.

用她那无所不知的声音说。 “爬行动物有鳞片。”“就像你一样。”我用最滑稽的声音说。 “汉克，你和你妹妹把这房子变成了Zipzer动物园，”爸爸说。 “这只青蛙要住在哪里？” 他不能待在咖啡桌上。 我要把你妈妈的生日花放在那里。” “他会住在汉克旅馆，”我说。 “也就是我的房间。” “我和艾希礼会帮你把箱子搬到那儿去，”弗兰基说。 “来吧，艾什。”弗兰基和阿什莉拿起坦克来到我的房间。 我飞快地向皮特爸爸道别，然后抱着弗雷德跟他们走了。 我们都知道我们必须尽快离开那里，在我爸说弗雷德不能留下来之前。 我们把水箱放在我床边的桌子上。 我小心翼翼地把弗雷德放在他的塑料圆木上，阿什利把纱窗盖紧。