5 Big Floating Sausages

Chapter 5 Big Floating Sausages After Wind Rider dropped anchor a safe distance away from Bonnie, Max carefully climbed down to the rocks. The chemical smell of oil filled the air, making his nose wrinkle. "Wait!" cried Maisie. She hurried after him while Sofia tossed them a rope from above. The rocks felt slippery beneath Max's feet—from the water or oil? He wasn't sure. But Maisie scrambled over them like a seal pup eager to get back to her mother. When she reached Bonnie, she knelt down beside the cracked hull.

风骑士在离邦妮安全距离的地方抛锚后，麦克斯小心翼翼地爬到岩石上。 空气中弥漫着石油的化学气味，使他的鼻子皱了起来。 “等等！”麦奇叫道。她急忙跟在他后面，索非亚从上面扔给他们一根绳子。 马克斯觉得脚下的岩石很滑——是水还是油？ 他不确定。但麦茜就像一只小海豹急于回到妈妈身边一样，从它们身上爬了过去。 当她走到邦妮身边时，她跪在破裂的船壳旁。

As Max tied the rope to secure Bonnie to Wind Rider, he watched the oil drip, drip, drip from the hull. "Is it slowing down at all?" he asked. "I think so," said Maisie. "That's good, but..." She stared sadly at the pool of oil that had already spread. "So how do we soak it up?" asked Max. Sofia squeezed her eyes shut, trying to remember the report she had written for school. Suddenly she had it. "Big floating sausages!" she shouted over the rail. "Huh?" said Max. "Are you feeling okay, Sofia?"

马克斯把绳子系好，把邦妮绑在风骑士身上，他看着油从船体上滴下来，滴下来，滴下来。 “它到底有没有减速？”他问道。 “我想是的，”麦奇说。 “很好，但是……”她悲伤地盯着已经溢出的油池。 “那我们怎么吸收呢？”马克斯问。 索非亚紧紧地闭上眼睛，努力回忆她为学校写的报告。 她突然明白了。“漂浮的大香肠！”她隔着栏杆喊道。 “嗯？”麦克斯说。“你还好吗，索菲亚？”

"Not real sausages," said Sofia with a laugh. "They're called booms, but they look like big sausages. They're used to stop the oil from spreading, along with big pads that soak it up. Do we have anything like that?" Maisie lifted a seat at the back of Bonnie, which hid a storage compartment. She pulled out a life preserver and some rope, and then sat back on her heels. "We don't," she said with a sigh.

“不是真的香肠。”索菲亚笑着说。 “它们被称为吊杆，但它们看起来像大香肠。 它们是用来阻止石油扩散的，还有大垫子可以吸收石油。 我们有这样的东西吗？”麦茜掀开邦妮后面的一个座位，里面藏着一个储物间。 她拿出一个救生圈和一些绳子，然后坐了下来。 “我们没有，”她叹了口气说。

"But wait... we do!" said Max. "We have some really absorbent blankets belowdecks on Wind Rider. Remember the hot chocolate I spilled, Sofia?" Sofia's eyes lit up. "Yes! Max, you're a genius. Come help me!" As Max and Maisie climbed back onto the sailboat, Sofia raced across the deck. She threw open the hatch and slid down the metal ladder. One blanket was still spread out on the table, a big chocolate stain in the center. She grabbed that, along with more blankets and cushions from the trunk, just as Max led Maisie down the ladder. "Load me up," said Max. He took some blankets from Sofia. "Me too!" said Maisie. Sofia handed her a pile of cushions. As she pulled the last blanket out of the trunk, she saw something else. "Perfect!" She gathered up the pool noodles. "So that's what we're supposed to do with them!" Max exclaimed, shaking his head. "Wind Rider always gives us exactly what we need." Sofia bit her lip and nodded. "Let's hope they work." Once they were all back on the rocks by Bonnie, Sofia showed them how to wrap the pool noodles in blankets and set them down around the edges of the oil

“但是等等…我们有！”麦克斯说。 “我们在风骑士号的甲板下面有一些非常吸水的毯子。 还记得我洒了的热巧克力吗，索菲亚？”索菲亚的眼睛亮了起来。 “是啊!麦克斯，你是个天才。 快来帮帮我！”马克斯和麦奇爬回帆船时，索非亚跑过甲板。 她打开舱门，滑下金属梯子。 桌子上还铺着一条毯子，中间有一块很大的巧克力污渍。 就在马克斯领着麦茜下梯子的时候，她抓起箱子，又从箱子里拿了一些毯子和靠垫。 “给我装上，”马克斯说。他从索菲亚那里拿了些毯子。 “我也是！”麦奇说。索菲亚递给她一堆靠垫。 当她把最后一条毯子从箱子里拉出来时，她看到了别的东西。 “完美!”她把池面收集起来。 “所以这就是我们应该对他们做的！”马克斯摇着头大声说。 “风骑士总能满足我们的需求” 索菲亚咬着嘴唇点了点头。 “希望它们能起作用。”他们回到邦妮身边的岩石上后，索菲亚教他们如何用毯子把泳池面包起来，然后把它们放在油的边缘

spill as makeshift booms. "Let's make a circle around it." "What about the extra blankets and cushions?" asked Maisie. "Those will go in the middle, right?" said Max. When Sofia nodded, he grabbed a blanket by its edges and laid it out over the water like a picnic blanket. Immediately, the blanket turned dark with oil. "I think it's working!" They layered more blankets and cushions on top, until they'd used them all. No oil was spreading outside the circle of pool noodles and blankets. "We did it," Max said. "Great idea, Sofia!" Sofia sank back, heaving a deep sigh of relief. But then she spotted something beyond the blankets. A dark head popped out of the water. Then another. And another. Bright, curious eyes studied the pool noodles and blankets—and started swimming closer.

临时围油栏泄漏。“我们把它围起来吧。” “那额外的毯子和靠垫呢？”麦茜问。 “这些要放在中间，对吧？”马克斯说。 索菲亚点点头，他抓起一条毯子的边，像野餐毯一样铺在水面上。 毯子立刻被油染黑了。 “我想它起作用了！”他们在上面铺了更多的毯子和垫子，直到把它们都用完了。 在泳池面和毯子围成的圆圈之外，没有油在扩散。 “我们做到了，”马克斯说。“好主意，索菲亚！”索非亚向后一靠，深深地松了一口气。 但随后她发现了毯子外的东西。 一个黑黑的脑袋从水里探了出来。 然后另一个。和另一个。 明亮而好奇的眼睛打量着池边的面条和毯子，开始游得更近了。

"The seals!" Sofia cried. Her throat was tight. "They're swimming straight toward the oil spill. We have to stop them!"

“海豹!”索非亚哭了。她的喉咙发紧。 “它们直接游向漏油点。 我们必须阻止他们！”