Chapter 5

Chapter five Halfway to the parking lot, my dad stopped dead in his tracks. "The bags," he shouted. "I forgot the bags." He turned around and ran back to where we were still standing. He grabbed all the bags we had brought and threw them over his shoulders. He looked like a stack of duffel bags with a head. Bags were hanging off every part of him. It was amazing that he could walk with all that stuff on him, let alone run. He took off again, heading for the parking lot. "Dad, where are you going?" I yelled. "As far away from those stingers as I can get!" he shouted back.

第五章开到停车场的半路上，我爸突然停住了脚步。 “那些袋子。”他喊道。“我忘了拿包。” 他转身跑回我们还站着的地方。 他抓起我们带来的所有袋子，扔到肩上。 他看起来就像一堆带头的行李袋。 他身上到处都挂着袋子。 他穿了那么多东西还能走路真是太神奇了，更不用说跑步了。 他又离开了，朝停车场走去。 “爸爸，你要去哪儿？”我喊道。 “离那些毒刺越远越好！”他喊道。

We followed him and didn't stop until we reached the car. "Okay," he said, panting. "This has been a fun trip. Who's ready to head back? I know I am." "There's no reason to leave," my mom said. "How about a nest of buzzing, stinging insects?" he said. "That seems like a pretty good reason to me." "Calm down, Stan," my mom said. "We'll just set up our camp under another tree." "Look, there's a great spot down by the lake," I said. Without waiting for my dad's answer, we all headed for the clearing by the lake. Cheerio whined a little as we walked. I thought maybe his tummy was still pickle sick, so I picked him up and carried him under my arm.

我们跟着他，直到走到汽车旁才停下来。 “好吧，”他气喘吁吁地说。“这是一次有趣的旅行。 谁准备好回去了？我知道我是。” “没有理由离开，”我妈妈说。 “来一窝嗡嗡叫、带刺的昆虫怎么样？”他说。 “对我来说，这似乎是一个很好的理由。” “冷静点，斯坦，”我妈妈说。 “我们就在另一棵树下扎营吧。” “看，湖边有个好地方，”我说。 不等爸爸的回答，我们都朝湖边的空地走去。 我们走着走着，麦里奥呜咽了几声。 我想也许他的肚子还不舒服，所以我把他抱起来，夹在胳膊下。

"Hey, isn't this where that groundskeeper said the possums come at night?" Frankie asked me. I gave him our special signal to be quiet, the one where you just slightly wave your hand under your chin. I didn't want my dad to hear what we were saying. I knew that possum talk would push him right back to the city. We picked out a wooden platform at the lake's edge far from the yellow jackets' nest. It was a lot of work to set up our campsite. Emily took Dad's hand and led him into the

“嘿，这不是那个管理员说的负鼠晚上来的地方吗？”弗兰基问我。 我给了他我们的特殊信号，让他安静下来，你只要在下巴下面轻轻地挥动你的手。 我不想让我爸听到我们说的话。 我就知道负鼠谈话会把他逼回城里。 我们在湖边选了一个木制平台，远离黄马甲的巢穴。 搭建我们的营地需要做很多工作。 爱米丽拉着爸爸的手，把他领进了

woods to gather sticks to make a fire in the fire pit. Mom took the food out of the cooler. Cheerio helped her. Actually, he didn't exactly help her, but he did eat two raw hot dogs directly out of the package. "Any poems popping into your head?" Frankie asked me as we sat down on the edge of our platform. "Funny you ask," I said to him. "I was just trying to think of words that rhyme with 'yellow jacket.'" "Did you come up with anything?" "Yup, I sure did. Jello shacket. Or pellow packet. And then there's wellow wacket."

在树林里收集树枝在火坑里生火。 妈妈把食物从冰箱里拿出来。 Cheerio帮助了她。事实上，他并没有帮她，但他确实直接从包装里吃了两个生热狗。 “你脑子里有什么诗吗？”我们在站台边上坐下时，弗兰基问我。 “你问得真有趣，”我对他说。 “我只是在想和‘黄夹克’押韵的词。’”“你想到什么了吗？”“是的，我确实是这么做的。 果冻shacket。或者是羊皮包。 然后是韦洛瓦克。”

"Tell you what, Zip," Frankie said. "Maybe we should try putting up the tent. Give that brain of yours a rest." "Good idea," I said. "It's been working very hard these last few minutes." I had never put up a tent before, and following the instructions was not easy. There were lots of pictures of hands pushing rods through loops. No matter which way I held the instruction sheet, it looked upside down to me. "How about I read the instructions and tell you what to do," Frankie suggested. "You just listen and do it."

“跟你说，次波，”弗兰基说。 “也许我们应该试着搭起帐篷。 让你的大脑休息一下吧。” “好主意，”我说。“在过去的几分钟里，它一直在努力工作。” 我以前从来没有搭过帐篷，按照指示去做并不容易。 有很多手推着杆子穿过环的照片。 无论我用哪种方式拿着说明书，它看起来都是上下颠倒的。 “要不我读一下说明书，然后告诉你怎么做，”弗兰基建议道。 “你只要听就行了。”

I nodded. "Okay, first find the tarp and lay it on the ground flat. That's our ground sheet." I laid the blue plastic tarp out on the wood platform. That was pretty easy. "Now you take those rods and put them together to make two long poles," Frankie read. I did that, too. It wasn't that hard, either. I was getting the feel for this camping thing. "Okay, Frankie," I said. "Got it. What's next?" "Put the rods through the flaps in the tent so they cross each other at the top." I could hardly believe it myself, but I could do that, too. "Now what?" "The instruction sheet just says that now you raise the tent and it will pop up." "I have no idea how to do that," I said. "Maybe you say a magic word or something."

我点了点头。“好吧，首先找到防水布，把它平铺在地上。 这是我们的底牌。”我把蓝色塑料布铺在木台上。 这很简单。“现在你把这些杆子连在一起，做成两根长杆子，”弗兰基念道。 我也这么做了。其实也没那么难。 我正在摸索露营的感觉。 “好的，弗兰基，”我说。“明白了。 下一个是什么?”“把杆子穿过帐篷的门帘，让它们在顶部交叉。” 我自己都不敢相信，但我也能做到。 “现在什么?”“说明书上只说，现在你举起帐篷，它就会弹出来。” “我不知道该怎么做，”我说。 “也许你会说一句咒语什么的。”