Chapter 7

CHAPTER 7 LAGUNA WAS HAVING A MUCH better time than Baron Von Grump. She felt way better, a lot more confident, with her friends there. If they could jump into the river and learn to swim, then she could pass her swim test, she thought. Laguna swam just like her mom had taught her, and before she knew it, she had reached the floating marker. "I did it!" Laguna said. Vampyra whistled. Franky clapped. Wolfy howled. They were very excited for Laguna. "Okay, Laguna," Mrs. Lagoon said, "now swim back." But suddenly…

第七章拉古纳比男爵格伦普过得好得多。 有朋友在，她感觉好多了，自信多了。 她想，如果他们能跳进河里学会游泳，那么她就能通过游泳考试了。 拉古娜就像妈妈教她的那样游泳，在她意识到之前，她已经到达了浮动标记。 “我做到了！”拉古纳说。Vampyra吹口哨。 佛朗基都鼓起了掌。似狼的嚎叫起来。 他们为拉古纳感到非常兴奋。 “好了，拉古娜，”泻湖太太说，“现在游回去吧。” 但是突然……

The sky got dark. The air grew windy. And the first few drops of rain spattered down over the river. "That does not look good," said Wolfy. He was looking out toward the lake, and he was right. It did not look good, not good at all. All the little clouds were mashed into one big, supersized monster cloud right over the center of the lake. "Listen to that wind!" said Vampyra. The wind roared like a hundred—no… a thousand—a thousand tractor trailers rushing by on the highway. A thousand tractor trailers filled with hungry, roaring lions. And each of those lions had a bullhorn to roar through. That's how loud the wind was! Trees bent waaaaay over, their tops almost brushing the ground. And the waves! Oh, the waves… The water was a churning, choppy mess. It was a very good thing that

天空变暗了。风越来越大了。 最初的几滴雨点溅落在河上。 “这看起来不太好，”狼说。 他望着外面的湖，他是对的。 看起来不太好，一点都不好。 所有的小云都被揉成了一个巨大的、超大的云，就在湖中心的上方。 “听那风！” 狂风呼啸着，就像一百辆——不……一千辆——一千辆拖拉机拖车在高速公路上呼啸而过。 一千辆拖拉机拖车里装满了饥饿咆哮的狮子。 每头狮子都有一个扩音器来吼叫。 这就是风的声音！树耷拉着身子，树梢几乎碰到地面。 还有海浪！哦，海浪…水是翻腾的，波涛汹涌。 这是一件非常好的事情

Laguna, Vampyra, Franky, and Wolfy were not swimming in the lake. "I've never seen so much rain!" Franky said. "It's all coming down over the lake." That giant gray rain cloud was pouring so much rain on the lake that it was hard to see to the other side. No umbrella, no matter how big or how fancy, would have kept any villager dry in that rain. There was so much rain that the water was beginning to get close to overflowing, like a bathtub when the water keeps running and running and running and— CRACK! SLAM! THUD! Remember those trees that were bending over in the wind? Their tops almost brushing the ground? The roaring winds pushed two of those trees so hard that they broke right in half and fell at the mouth of the river, one

拉古娜、吸血鬼、弗兰克和狼不是在湖里游泳。 “我从来没见过这么大的雨！”佛朗基说。 “都从湖上下来了。” 那片巨大的灰色雨云在湖面上倾盆而下，以至于很难看到湖的另一边。 没有一把伞，不管多大，多花哨，能让村民在雨中保持干燥。 雨下得太多了，水快要溢出来了，就像浴缸里的水不停地流啊流啊流——啪！大满贯!砰的一声!还记得那些被风吹倒的树吗？ 它们的顶部几乎刷到地面？ 咆哮的风把其中两棵树吹得很厉害，它们断成两半，倒在了河口，一棵

after the other, piling together until they stopped most of the water from flowing.

一个接一个，堆积在一起，直到他们阻止了大部分的水流动。

The rain kept falling, the lake water kept rising, and now the water had nowhere to go but up. It could not flow into the river and out of the lake. It started to get deeper, and it started to trickle over the banks. The water kept rising… …and RISING… …AND RISING… "The lake is going to flood the village if we don't do something!" said Vampyra. "We have to clear those trees!" Laguna said. And she was right. If they could just clear those trees, the lake water could drain into the river and flow away. "If the rain doesn't let up, I'm not so sure that anything will stop the lake from flooding the village," Mrs. Lagoon said. Something landed in the river with a KERSPLASH! "It's a duck!" said Franky.

雨不停地下着，湖水也不断地涨，现在水除了涨没有别的地方可去了。 它不能流入河里，也不能流出湖里。 水开始越积越深，并开始渗透到银行。 水一直在涨... ...，涨... ...，涨……“如果我们不采取措施，湖水就要淹没村子了！”万皮拉说。 “我们必须清除那些树！”拉古纳说。 她是对的。如果他们能把那些树清除掉，湖水就会流入河里，然后流走。 “如果雨不停，我不确定有什么能阻止湖水淹没村庄，”泻湖说。 有东西落在河里，哗啦一声！“是一只鸭子！”弗兰基说。

"Quack." Remember how I told you that it was so windy in the village that the ducks could not even fly? Well, that did not stop this particular duck from trying. "Quack, quack," she said. That means Don't worry, I'm okay. "Where are the rest of your friends?" Wolfy asked. Annabelle (that was the name of this brave duck) told them all about the parade and the umbrella contest and the wind and finally… "Quack quack quack quack quack!" "The old windmill?" asked Wolfy. "Out of control?" Vampyra said. "Baron Von Grump must be behind this!" said Franky. "We've got to stop the windmill and clear the trees that are blocking the river," said Laguna.

“庸医”。还记得我告诉过你，村子里风很大，鸭子都飞不起来吗？ 但这并没有阻止这只特别的鸭子去尝试。 “呱，呱，”她说。意思是别担心，我没事。 “你其他的朋友呢？”似狼的问道。 安娜贝尔（这是这只勇敢的鸭子的名字）告诉他们所有关于游行、雨伞比赛和风的事情，最后……“呱、呱、呱、呱！”“老风车？”狼问。 “失控了？”Vampyra说。 “冯·格朗普男爵肯定是幕后主使！”弗兰克说。 拉古纳说：“我们必须停止风车，清除阻塞河流的树木。”