Chapter 9

CHAPTER 9 STARGAZER'S POINT WAS A VERY stinky place. The villagers put all their garbage in bins and boxes, and then Boris and the rats brought that garbage here, piling it into one big, towering heap of rubbish: moldy banana peels, dirty socks, tin cans, and fish bones. Rusted springs, coffee grounds, fuzzy cheese, and sour milk. Do you want to know how bad it smelled? Take a pair of your shoes that you wore all day, maybe ones that you wore without socks. Now put your nose in your shoe. Take a big, deep breath! Gross! You just smelled your stinky shoe! But at least now you might

第九章占星人的角是个臭气熏天的地方。 村民们把他们所有的垃圾都放进箱子和箱子里，然后鲍里斯和老鼠们把这些垃圾搬到这里来，堆成一堆又大又高的垃圾：发霉的香蕉皮、脏袜子、锡罐和鱼骨。 生锈的泉水，咖啡渣，模糊的奶酪和酸牛奶。 你想知道它有多难闻吗？ 拿一双你穿了一整天的鞋子，也许是一双你不穿袜子的鞋子。 现在把你的鼻子放进鞋子里。 深吸一口气！恶心!你刚刚闻到了你臭鞋子的味道！但至少现在你可以了

have an idea of how smelly the garbage heap was. The flies loved it. The rats treasured it. And the Trash Heap ate it. She was very good at keeping it all contained on Stargazer's Point, and now she had babies to feed. That's right! The Trash Heap had made a home on Stargazer's Point, and the villagers had given her so much trash since then that she had little trash babies… several little Trash Heap babies that were always hungry for more smelly trash!

知道那堆垃圾有多臭。 苍蝇喜欢它。老鼠很珍惜它。 垃圾堆把它吃了。 在占星者角，她很善于控制一切，现在她有孩子要喂养。 这是正确的!“垃圾堆”在观星者角安家了，从那以后，村民们给了她很多垃圾，以至于她有了几个“垃圾宝宝”……几个“垃圾堆”宝宝总是渴望更多的臭垃圾！

But when Wolfy and his friends arrived, Madame Trash Heap did not shuffle forward to say hello. The babies did not open their mouths wide and cry for more gross garbage. The rats didn't put on a show-and-tell of the things they found in the villagers' tossed-out trash. Because as you have probably guessed, Madame Trash Heap, and the babies, and the rats were all turned to stone. "We're running out of places to check," said Franky. "We've been to the village, to the Gloomy Woods, to the lake and river, and now here." "Look," said Neveen, "what's on that old boot?" "It's another beetle," said Vampyra. "Cleo must have left us another riddle." "I'm not sure how many riddles I can handle," said Wolfy. "My brain hurts!"

但是当狼和他的朋友们到来的时候，“垃圾夫人”并没有拖着脚步向前打招呼。 婴儿们不会张大嘴巴，哭着要更多的垃圾。 老鼠并没有展示它们在村民丢弃的垃圾里找到的东西。 因为你可能已经猜到了，垃圾堆夫人、婴儿和老鼠都变成了石头。 “我们没有地方检查了，”弗兰基说。 “我们去过村子，去过幽暗的森林，去过湖泊和河流，现在又到了这里。” “看，”妮文说，“那只旧靴子上是什么？”“又是一只甲虫。”万皮拉说。 “克利奥一定又给我们留了一个谜语。” “我不知道我能猜多少谜语，”狼说。 “我的脑子好痛！”

"Go ahead, Vampyra," Franky said. "Use your lucky scarab." Vampyra placed her gold beetle against the image on the boot, and just like the tree, and the stone, there was a glow and a POP! Another stone tablet with hieroglyphics appeared. "Tall and old and made of stone," Neveen read, "the opposite of day might call me home. What am I?" Do you know what the answer is? Can you figure it out? I'll give you a minute to think about it.… "The opposite of day is night," said Franky. "What does night call home?" "The sky?" Vampyra asked. "Yeah," said Wolfy. "That's where the moon lives." "We howl at the moon all the time," said Spike. He began to howl, and the rest of the

“说吧，吸血鬼。”弗兰基说。 “用你的幸运圣甲虫吧。”Vampyra把她的金甲虫放在靴子上的图像上，就像树和石头一样，有一个发光和砰的一声！又一块刻有象形文字的石碑出现了。 “又高又老，石头做的，”妮雯读道，“白天的反面可能会叫我回家。 我是什么？”你知道答案是什么吗？ 你能算出来吗?我给你一分钟时间考虑一下。“白天的反义词是黑夜，”弗兰基说。 “黑夜叫什么家？”“天空吗?”Vampyra问道。 “是的，”狼说。“那是月亮住的地方。” “我们一直对着月亮嚎叫，”斯派克说。 他开始嚎叫，其余的

Little Junior Monster Scouts howled with him. "But that doesn't have anything to do with stone," said Neveen. "What's tall, and old, and made of stone?" Franky scratched his bolts again. You know what that means—he was puzzling things out. Franky was a very good puzzler. "What if it's not 'night,'" he said, "but 'knight,' with a k?" "And everyone knows where knights live," said Wolfy. "In a castle!" said Vampyra. "Cleo has gone to the castle!" "You didn't even need a clue for that one," said Neveen. "You're becoming pretty good at solving riddles." "We have to," said Franky. "We can't let everyone stay statues forever." "I know," said Neveen.

小怪兽童子军和他一起嚎叫。 “但这和石头没有任何关系，”妮文说。 “什么东西又高又老，还是石头做的？”弗兰克又抓了抓螺栓。 你知道那是什么意思——他在琢磨事情。 弗兰克是个很好的解谜者。 “如果不是‘night’，”他说，“而是‘knight’呢？”“每个人都知道骑士住在哪里，”狼说。 “在城堡里！” “克利奥去城堡了！”“你甚至不需要线索，”内文说。 “你越来越擅长解谜语了。” “我们必须这么做，”弗兰基说。 “我们不能让每个人都永远是雕像。” “我知道，”妮文说。

"And if we don't solve them and find Cleo soon," said Wolfy, "everyone at Castle Dracula might get turned to stone next." "Good point," said Vampyra. "Follow me!" She spun in a circle one time… two times… three times, and POOF! Vampyra turned into a bat. She flapped and flittered off toward Castle Dracula, and everyone quickly followed.

“如果我们不尽快解决这些问题，找到克利奥，”狼说，“接下来德古拉城堡里的每个人都可能变成石头。” “说得好。” “跟我来!”她转了一圈，转了两圈，转了三圈，噗！吸血鬼变成了蝙蝠。 她拍着翅膀，飞向德古拉城堡，大家迅速跟上。