9 DORKOSAURUS

DORKOSAURUS "I think we better stop now. We've got to start putting them together," Ivy said. "Okay." Bean's arms were tired anyway. "We can always dig up more later." There seemed to be no end to the bones in the ground. They had found four more since they had begun. The bone pile was getting high. Both girls stared at it. "Hmm," said Ivy. "Hmm" said Bean., "They never talk about this part in books," said Ivy. "Should we lay them out and see what fits? That's how you do puzzles." "Sure, okay," said Bean. "There's some clean grass over there."

“我想我们最好现在就停下来。 我们必须开始把它们放在一起，”艾薇说。 “好吧。”反正比恩的胳膊也累了。 “我们可以以后再挖更多。” 地下的骨头似乎没有尽头。 从开始到现在，他们又找到了四个。 骨头堆得越来越高。 两个女孩都盯着它。“嗯，”艾薇说。 “嗯，”比恩说。艾薇说：“书里从来没有提到过这一部分。” “我们应该把它们摆出来，看看哪个合适吗？” 这就是解谜的方法。” “当然，好吧。”比恩说。“那边有一些干净的草地。”

Lying out on the grass, the 21 bones didn't look much like a dinosaur. It didn't look much like anything. "Maybe it's just one part of a dinosaur," said Bean. "Or maybe it's a small dinosaur," said Ivy. "Remember, the small ones were more common." "Right." Ivy picked up the rounded piece that Bean had found the day before. "Let's start with this. It's a piece of skull." She put it down on the ground, apart from the other bones. "So now we have to find a neck." Bean picked up the long, thick bone. "I bet this is a neck." Ivy tilted her head to one side as she looked at it. "I think you're right." This was fun. "Oh, the neck bone's connected to the shoulder bone," sang Bean. Ivy put down a small bone that was

躺在草地上，这21块骨头看起来不太像恐龙。 它看起来不太像任何东西。 “也许这只是恐龙的一部分，”比恩说。 “也可能是一只小恐龙，”艾薇说。 “记住，小的更常见。” “对的。”艾薇捡起比恩前一天捡到的那块圆形的东西。 “让我们从这个开始。这是一块头骨。” 她把它放在地上，和其他骨头分开。 “所以现在我们必须找到一个脖子。” 憨豆捡起又长又粗的骨头。 “我打赌这是一条脖子。”艾薇看着它，把头歪向一边。 “我想你是对的。”这很有趣。 “哦，颈骨和肩骨相连，”比恩唱道。 艾薇放下一根小骨头

almost the shape of a shoulder. "And the shoulder bone's connected to the arm bone! There it is!" Ivy put down a narrow bone. "And the arm bone's connected to the hand bone!" "They didn't have hands!" Ivy giggled. "How about the backbone?" "Okay, the backbone." Ivy put down the first bone they had found. It flared out at one end. "That's the hip," said Ivy. "Right," said Bean. Then she sang, "The

几乎是肩膀的形状。 “肩骨和臂骨连在一起！”它在那儿！”艾薇放下一根细骨头。 “而且胳膊的骨头和手的骨头连在一起！”“他们没有手！”艾薇咯咯笑了。 “那脊骨呢？”“好的，脊梁骨。” 艾薇放下他们找到的第一根骨头。 它的一端发出闪光。“那是臀部，”艾薇说。 “对，”比恩说。然后她唱到：“The

hip bone's connected to the leg bone." Piece by piece, they made a dinosaur. It was a small dinosaur, and some parts of it were missing, but they would probably find those the next time they dug. When they had it all arranged, they stood back to look at it. "Pretty good," said Ivy. "Don't you think we should stick it together?" "Yeah. I think they do it with wire in museums. Do you have any wire?" "Wire? I don't think so" said Bean., Ivy thought for a minute. "Just for now, we could use tape. We can take it off when we get some wire."

髋骨和腿骨相连。” 一块一块地，他们做成了一只恐龙。 这是一只小恐龙，它的一些部分不见了，但他们下次挖掘的时候可能会找到。 当一切都安排好后，他们退后一步看了看。 “很好，”艾薇说。“你不觉得我们应该团结在一起吗？”“是的。 我想博物馆里是用电线做的。 你有电线吗？”“线? 我不这么认为。”比恩说。艾薇想了一会儿。 “现在，我们可以用胶带。 等我们弄到电线就可以把它取下来了。”

"Tape. You got it." Bean ran inside. "I think it's almost three-thirty," she said when she came out. In-betweens were hard. She was only positive when it was exactly an o'clock. "This won't take long," Ivy said, pulling out a long piece of tape. She wrapped it around the skull and connected the other end to the neck bone. She had to wrap it four times before it stuck. Bean began to work on the foot. It only had one foot. They were working so hard that they didn't see Nancy until she was standing right next to them. "That's disgusting," she said, staring at their dinosaur.

“胶带。你明白了。”比恩跑了进去。 “我想已经快三点半了，”她出来时说。 中间阶段很难。她只有在一点钟整的时候才肯定。 “这不会花很长时间的，”艾薇说着，抽出一长段胶带。 她把它缠在头骨上，另一端与颈骨相连。 她包了四次才卡住。 比恩开始在脚上工作。 它只有一只脚。他们工作很努力，直到南希站在他们旁边才看到她。 “太恶心了，”她盯着他们的恐龙说。

Bean jumped. For some reason, she didn't want Nancy to know about the dinosaur. "Go away!" she said. "What is that?" Nancy asked. Bean would never have answered in a million years, but Ivy didn't know about sisters. "It's a, dinosaur she said. "A compsognathus, I think." "A dinosaur?" Nancy began to laugh a high, mean laugh. "You think that's a dinosaur?" "Bug off, potato face!" yelled Bean. She was getting a bad feeling.

豆子吓了一跳。出于某种原因，她不想让南希知道恐龙的事。 “走开！”她说。“那是什么？”南希问。 比恩永远也不会回答，但艾薇不知道什么是姐妹。 她说：“这是一只恐龙。 “我想是一种合颌龙吧。” “恐龙?”南希发出一声尖厉而刻薄的大笑。 “你觉得那是恐龙吗？”“滚开，土豆脸！”比恩喊道。 她有一种不好的感觉。