5 WHAT’S UP

WHAT'S UP? Things were not going the way Bean wanted. Dino pulled a blade of grass from the lawn. "Look!" he yelled. "It's the Mystery of the Piece of Grass!" Sophie S. kicked off her flip-flop. "Oh my gosh! It's the Mystery of the Missing Shoe!" Prairie held her finger in front of her face. "I see a mysterious hand!" Bean felt herself get hot and embarrassed. No one laughed at Al Seven. She was doing exactly what he did. Why was he cool and tough, while Bean was hot and embarrassed? It wasn't fair. Ivy stomped her foot. "There are strange and mysterious things on Pancake Court. You just don't notice them."

有什么事吗?事情并不像比恩想的那样发展。 迪诺从草坪上拔出一片草。 “看！”他喊道。“这就是那块草的奥秘！”索菲娅。 踢掉她的人字拖。“哦，我的天哪！这是遗失的鞋子之谜！”普雷里用手指捂着脸。 “我看到一只神秘的手！”比恩觉得自己又热又尴尬。 没有人嘲笑阿尔·七。 她做的和他做的一模一样。 为什么他冷静而强硬，而比恩却又热又尴尬？ 这不公平。艾薇跺着脚。 “煎饼阁上有很多奇怪而神秘的东西。 你只是没有注意到它们。”

Sophie S. and Ruby giggled. Trevor said, "You're loonies. Nothing strange ever happens around here. This is the most boring place in the world." Trevor and Ruby went to school at home. They got bored a lot. "I'll bet you fifty cents you can't show me one strange thing on Pancake Court. One!" Bean looked quickly around Pancake Court for one strange thing. Houses. Yards. Cars. Mr. Columbi going to work. Two cats. A bicycle. Jake the Teenager and his shopping bag. Nothing strange. She had to think. She could say she had a buried treasure map, and then she could draw it really quick. Trevor made a snorty sound. "It's the case of the missing mystery!" he said. Then he laughed.

苏菲和露比咯咯地笑起来。 特雷弗说：“你疯了。 这里从来没发生过奇怪的事。 这是世界上最无聊的地方。” 特雷弗和鲁比在家里上学。 他们觉得很无聊。“我跟你赌五毛钱，你不能给我看一件煎饼场上的怪事。 一个!”比恩迅速地环顾了一下煎饼庭院，寻找一件奇怪的东西。 房屋。码。汽车。哥伦比先生要去上班了。 两只猫。一辆自行车。少年杰克和他的购物袋。 没有什么奇怪的。她必须思考。 她可以说她有一张埋藏的藏宝图，然后她可以很快地画出来。 特雷弗哼了一声。 “这是失踪之谜的案子！”他说。 然后他笑了。

"Bean's hat is pretty strange," giggled Prairie. Bean yanked her hat off. "Come on, Ivy," she said, as toughly as she could. "We have mysteries to solve." Ivy nodded in an Al Sevenish way. "Look tough," muttered Bean. Ivy rubbed her face, and they walked quickly away around Pancake Court.

“憨豆的帽子很奇怪，”草原咯咯地笑着。 比恩猛地摘下她的帽子。“来吧，艾薇。”她尽可能强硬地说。 “我们有谜团要解开。” 艾薇用阿尔·塞文式的方式点了点头。 “看起来很坚强。”比恩喃喃地说。 艾薇揉了揉脸，他们很快地绕过煎饼阁离开了。

Bean needed a mystery on the double. A lost puppy. Or a lost necklace. Or strange people hiding behind trees. Or smudged handprints on cars. Or anything. "Do you see anything that looks mysterious?" she whispered to Ivy. "Mrs. Trantz's rocks?" suggested Ivy. Mrs. Trantz had white rocks in her front yard instead of grass. Why would anyone do that? "Not good enough," said Bean. "We need something strange and mysterious, like—" She stopped. "That," she said, pointing. It was Dino's house she was pointing at, but the house wasn't the mysterious part. The mysterious part was a bright yellow rope that dangled from the roof of the house to the ground. One end was tied around the chimney. The other end was sitting in the middle of Dino's front lawn. "What is that?" asked Ivy. "It's a mystery!" said Bean. Whew! Just in the nick of time!

比恩需要一个秘密。 一只迷路的小狗。或者丢失的项链。 或是躲在树后的陌生人。 或者汽车上的手印。 或任何东西。“你看到什么神秘的东西了吗？”她小声对艾薇说。 “特兰茨太太的石头？”艾薇建议道。 特兰茨太太的前院里没有草，而是白色的石头。 为什么会有人这么做？“不够好，”比恩说。 “我们需要一些奇怪而神秘的东西，比如——”她停了下来。 “那个，”她指着说。 她指的是迪诺的房子，但房子并不是神秘的部分。 神秘的部分是一根亮黄色的绳子，从屋顶吊到地上。 一头系在烟囱上。 另一头坐在迪诺家前草坪的中央。 “那是什么？”艾薇问。 “这是个谜！”比恩说。 唷!来得正是时候！

Ivy began to smile. "It's a rope of mystery." "Still not scared!" hollered Trevor. He and Dino were picking bark off sticks and throwing it at each other. "Hey, Dino!" called Bean. "What's that rope on your house?" Dino stopped throwing bark and looked at his house. He frowned. "I don't know." He threw another piece of bark. Then he came to stand next to Bean and Ivy. "It wasn't there before."

艾薇开始微笑。“这是一根神秘的绳子。” “还是不害怕！” 他和迪诺从树枝上捡树皮，互相扔向对方。 “嘿，迪诺！”比恩喊道。“你房子上的绳子是什么？”迪诺停止扔树皮，看着他的房子。 他皱起了眉头。“我不知道。” 他又扔了一块树皮。 然后他走过来站在比恩和艾薇旁边。 “以前没有。”

"So this is the first time you've seen it?" asked Bean. Dino nodded. Then he frowned some more. "Weird." "Strange," Bean corrected him. "And mysterious," said Ivy. Trevor threw a piece of bark at Dino. It bounced off. "What are you guys doing?" he asked, coming closer. "I'm going to ask my mom," said Dino. "She probably did it. Or something." Bean and Ivy and Trevor watched the rope until Dino and his mom came back. Dino's mom looked busy. She had two pairs of glasses on her head and a sticky note on her shirt that said Don't forget Friday! "That," said Dino, pointing at the rope.

“所以这是你第一次看到它？”比恩问。 恐龙点点头。然后他又皱起了眉头。 “奇怪。”“奇怪。”比恩纠正他。 “而且很神秘，”艾薇说。 特雷弗朝迪诺扔了一块树皮。 它被弹开了。“你们在干什么？”他问，走近了一点。 “我要去问我妈妈，”迪诺说。 “可能是她干的。什么的。” 比恩、艾薇和特雷弗一直看着绳子，直到迪诺和他妈妈回来。 迪诺的妈妈看起来很忙。她头上戴着两副眼镜，衬衫上贴着一张便签，上面写着：不要忘记星期五！“那个，”迪诺指着绳子说。