2 DISASTER TWINS

DISASTER TWINS

灾难的双胞胎

Ivy wouldn't want to miss out on a volcano, that was for sure. Bean zipped up the street to Ivy's house and rang the doorbell. But that was too slow. "Hey!" she yelled through the mail slot. "There's a volcano at Sophie W.'s!" "A what?" said Ivy, opening the door. Ivy was reading. She was reading a really big book with long words even on the cover, which was something Bean couldn't stand. It was bad enough when there were big words inside the book. "A volcano!" Bean yelled. "Come on!" Ivy looked at her book. Bean rolled her eyes. "Ivy! It's a natural disaster! You have to be there!" "Okay," said Ivy. She put down her book. "It's a good book, though." "You are so weird sometimes," said Bean. "Come on!" The two girls ran back to Sophie's house. Leo was there now, and Sophie S. and Prairie and Prairie's little brother, Isaiah.

艾薇肯定不想错过火山。 比恩飞快地穿过街道来到艾薇家，按响了门铃。 但这太慢了。“嘿！”她对着信箱口喊道。 “苏菲·W家有座火山！”“什么？”艾薇说着打开了门。 艾薇在看书。她正在读一本非常大的书，连封面都有很长的字，这是比恩无法忍受的。 书里有大字已经够糟糕的了。 “一座火山!”豆喊道。“来吧!”艾薇看着她的书。 比恩翻了个白眼。“常春藤!这是一场自然灾害！你一定要去！”“好吧，”艾薇说。 她放下了书。“不过，这是一本好书。” “你有时真奇怪，”比恩说。 “来吧!”两个女孩跑回苏菲家。 利奥现在在那里，苏菲S。 还有普雷里和普雷里的弟弟，以赛亚。

When she got to the front yard, Bean fell onto the grass. "Earthquake!" she hollered. Volcanoes made the earth shake, too. Volcanoes and earthquakes were like disaster twins.

当她走到前院时，比恩摔倒在草地上。 “地震！”她喊道。 火山也使地球震动。 火山和地震就像一对灾难双胞胎。

Ivy grabbed a bush and shook it back and forth to show that the earth was quaking. Sophie W. and Prairie pretended they were being crushed by falling buildings. Leo pretended his car blew up, which was a little strange, but he said it happened all the time during earthquakes. "Smoke!" screeched Bean, pretending to be terrified. She pointed to the dirt mountain. "She's going to blow!" They all stopped what they were doing and looked at the mound of dirt. "It would be better if we had real smoke," said Sophie S. "It would be better if we had real lava," said Bean. Ivy glanced around the yard, looking for lava. There wasn't any, but she did see a hose lying on the lawn. Hmmm. She picked it up. "That's good," said Bean. "Lava flows, just like water." "Yup," said Ivy. "But how are we going to get it to come out the top of the dirt?"

艾薇抓住一丛灌木，来回摇动，表示大地在震动。 Sophie W.和Prairie假装自己被倒塌的建筑物压死了。 里奥假装他的车爆炸了，这有点奇怪，但他说地震时经常发生这种事。 “烟！”比恩假装害怕地尖叫道。 她指着那座土山。 “她要爆炸了！”他们都停下手中的活，看着那堆土。 “如果我们有真正的烟会更好。” “如果我们有真正的熔岩就更好了，”比恩说。 艾薇环视了一下院子，寻找熔岩。 没有，但她看到草坪上有一根水管。 嗯。她把它捡起来。“那很好，”比恩说。 “熔岩就像水一样流动。” “是的，”艾薇说。“但是我们怎样才能把它从土里挖出来呢？”

They all thought about that for a minute. "I know," said Prairie, her eyes shining. "Let's stick him inside." She pointed to Isaiah. "We dig a hole at the top, and then we bury him with the hose." Isaiah looked worried. "If we bury him," said Bean, "he won't be able to breathe." Isaiah nodded. "We'll just dig a hole," said Leo. "We won't bury him."

他们都想了一会儿。 “我知道，”普雷里说，她的眼睛闪闪发光。 “我们把他塞进去吧。”她指着以赛亚。 “我们在顶部挖个洞，然后用水管把他埋起来。” 以赛亚看起来很担心。“如果我们把他埋了，”比恩说，“他就不能呼吸了。” 以赛亚书点了点头。“我们就挖个洞，”利奥说。 “我们不会埋葬他的。”

"It'll be like a sacrifice to the gods," said Ivy in a dreamy voice. "I'm going home," said Isaiah. He ran. Prairie caught him. She promised to give him her stuffed seal plus three glow-in-the-dark stickers. Also a lollipop the next time she got two. That was a lot, just for being the lava. Isaiah said okay. It took quite a while to build the volcano. At first, they tried climbing to the top of the mound to dig the crater. A lot of dirt slid off the mound, and

“这就像给诸神献祭一样。”艾薇用梦幻般的声音说。 “我要回家了，”以赛亚说。 他跑。普雷里抓住了他。 她答应给他她的毛绒海豹和三张夜光贴纸。 下次她得到两个棒棒糖的时候再给她一个棒棒糖。 这是很多，只是作为熔岩。 以赛亚说好的。建造这座火山花了相当长的时间。 起初，他们试图爬到土堆的顶部挖掘陨石坑。 土墩上滑了很多土，然后