14. Bladderwort!

14 Bladderwort! I love Flamin' Hot Cheetos. They're my favorite kind of Cheetos, and believe me, I've tried them all. Nobody thought putting Flamin' Hot Cheetos in the garden would keep the bugs away from our

14狸藻类植物!我喜欢火辣辣的奇多。 这是我最喜欢的奇多，相信我，我都吃过了。 没人认为把火红热奇多放在花园里会让虫子远离我们的

veggies, but Miss Nichol said we could try it. Nothing else had worked. We were desperate. So we tried it. We sprinkled a bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos around the garden. And you know what we found the next morning? You probably think we found a bunch of Flamin' Hot Cheetos plants. That would have been cool. But the truth is, the bugs didn't touch the Flamin' Hot Cheetos. The only things they wanted to eat were our veggies.

蔬菜，但尼科尔小姐说我们可以试试。 其他方法都不起作用。我们绝望了。 所以我们尝试了一下。我们在花园里撒了一袋热辣奇多。 你知道第二天早上我们发现了什么吗？ 你可能以为我们找到了一堆火辣辣的奇多植物。 那会很酷。 但事实是，虫子并没有碰火红热奇多。 他们唯一想吃的就是我们的蔬菜。

The wooden fence didn't work. The electric fence didn't work. The video camera didn't work. The stakeout didn't work. The bug traps didn't work. The Flamin' Hot Cheetos didn't work. Nothing worked!

木栅栏坏了。 电栅栏坏了。 摄像机坏了。 监视没起作用。捕虫器不起作用。 烈焰热奇多没用。 没有工作!

"I give up," said Mr. Tony. "We tried everything. Nothing will keep those bugs away." "Yeah," said Miss Banks, "let's just forget about starting a vegetable garden." It was sad. We all got up to go back into school. But that's when Miss Nichol snapped her fingers again. "Wait!" she said. "I know how to get rid of the bugs! Bladderwort!" "HUH?" That's also "HUH" backward. We all looked at Miss Nichol. She had a wild look in her eyes. "Bladderwort!" she repeated. "Bladderwort! Of course! Why didn't I think of it sooner? Bladderwort!" Maybe Andrea was right. Miss Nichol really did need to talk to somebody. Now she was just making up nonsense words. She must be totally losing her marbles. "Are you okay, Miss Nichol?" asked Mr. Tony.

“我放弃了，”托尼先生说。 “我们什么都试过了。没有什么能把这些虫子赶走。” “是啊，”班克斯小姐说，“让我们忘掉开辟菜园的事吧。” 这是悲伤的。我们都起身回学校去了。 但就在这时，尼科尔小姐又打了个响指。 “等等！”她说。“我知道怎么除掉虫子！”狸藻类植物!”“嗯?”这也是反向的“HUH”。 我们都看着尼科尔小姐。 她的眼睛里流露出狂野的神情。 “狸藻！”她重复道。 “狸藻类植物!当然!我怎么没早点想到呢？ 狸藻类植物!”也许安德里亚是对的。 尼科尔小姐确实需要找人谈谈。 现在她只是在瞎编一些废话。 她一定是疯了。 “你还好吗，尼科尔小姐？”托尼先生问。

He put his hand on her forehead, because that's what grown-ups always do when somebody isn't feeling well. Nobody knows why. "Bladderwort!" Miss Nichol shouted. "A bladderwort is a carnivorous plant." "Huh?" we all huhhed.

他把手放在她的额头上，因为大人们在别人不舒服的时候总是这样做。 没人知道为什么。“狸藻类植物!”尼科尔小姐喊道。 “狸藻是一种食肉植物。” “嗯？”我们都哈哈大笑。

"Carnivores eat meat," said Andrea. Then she smiled the smile she smiles to let everybody know she knows something nobody else knows. What is her problem? "And carnivorous plants eat bugs!" said Miss Nichol. "I learned about 'em in my botany class." Miss Nichol told us that there are more than two hundred kinds of bladderwort plants. They have small hollow sacs with a hinged flap on them. When a bug touches the bristles on the surface of the flap, it gets sucked inside the plant and digested. Cool! We had tried everything else, and nothing had worked. It was worth a shot. Miss Nichol went to a plant store and bought a bunch of bladderworts. We planted them all over the garden. It only took a few days for them to sprout. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking the bladderworts didn't work either. Well, you're wrong again! So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on you! It turned out that Miss Nichol was right this time! The bladderworts must have eaten all the bugs. There were no more bites taken

“食肉动物吃肉，”安德里亚说。 然后她笑了笑，她笑是为了让每个人都知道她知道一些别人不知道的事情。 她有什么问题？“肉食植物吃虫子！”尼科尔小姐说。 “我在植物学课上学到了它们。” 尼科尔小姐告诉我们，有200多种狸藻植物。 它们有一个小的空心囊，上面有一个铰链瓣。 当虫子接触到叶子表面的刚毛时，它就会被吸入植物内部并被消化。 太酷了!我们尝试了所有的方法，但都没有效果。 值得一试。尼科尔小姐去植物商店买了一束狸藻。 我们把它们种满了花园。 它们只花了几天就发芽了。 我知道你在想什么。 你在想狸藻也没用。 好吧，你又错了！所以不要不要不要不要不要！事实证明，尼科尔小姐这次是对的！狸藻一定吃光了所有的虫子。 没有再被咬了