Chapter 10

Sunday– late morning WOO-HOO! We had all three vouchers at last! After a blissful second of letting it sink in, we had a maniacal five-minute victory conga around the dining room of the B&B. Everyone except Agung, that is, who claimed his sciatica was playing up but really he was too busy scoffing the complimentary shortbread. Even Princess joined in bounding around, until her delicate ankles gave way under her colossal body weight and she toppled into the crockery cabinet. Wendy

星期天——上午晚些时候！我们终于拿到了全部三张代金券！沉浸在幸福的一秒钟之后，我们在民宿的餐厅里疯狂地跳了五分钟胜利的康加舞。 除了阿贡，所有人都声称他的坐骨神经痛加重了，但实际上他正忙着狼吞虎咽地吃着赠送的酥饼。 甚至连公主也跟着跳了起来，直到她娇嫩的脚踝被她巨大的体重压垮，跌进了碗柜里。 温迪

reassured us that there was no damage as even though Princess was built like a World War Two tank, all the decorative crockery on the premises was glued down due to her clumsiness (Princess's not Wendy's). I sprang upstairs, fetched the other vouchers and hustled everyone out of the door. We were so excited. The whole reason we were in Sudmouth was about to happen! There was a longish queue at the ticket booth but for once we had plenty of time. The park wasn't closing for another four hours so we could take it easy. It was difficult though. No matter how hard I conjured up calming images of wicker baskets full of baby sloths in tutus, I could not relax.

让我们放心的是，尽管“公主”的造型像二战时期的坦克，但由于她的笨拙，所有的装饰陶器都被粘住了（“公主”不是“温迪”）。 我跳上楼，拿了其他的凭证，把所有人都赶出了门。 我们都很兴奋。我们来萨德茅斯的全部原因就要发生了！售票处排了很长的队，但这一次我们有足够的时间。 公园还有四个小时才关门，所以我们可以放松一下。 不过这很难。无论我多么努力地想象出柳条篮子里装满穿着芭蕾舞裙的树懒宝宝的平静画面，我都无法放松。

How to stay calm by thinking about these... Baby sloth in a tvtv Gerbil in an egg cup Duckling in a daisy hat Panda in pants It had been one disaster after another since we arrived, so why shouldn't anything else go wrong at any minute? I took a deep breath and hummed, 'OMMMM', like Mam does every time an electric bill comes through the door. But then Oli swatted me with his doll.

如何通过思考这些来保持冷静…… 电视里的树懒宝宝沙鼠在蛋杯里戴雏菊帽的小鸭穿着裤子的熊猫自从我们来了以后，灾难就一个接一个地发生了，所以为什么不让别的事情随时发生呢？ 我深吸了一口气，哼了一声，就像妈妈每次收到电费账单时那样。 但是奥利用他的娃娃打了我。

'What did you do that for?' I said. 'I thought that humming sound was a wasp!' he said. So much for that calming technique. The queue was getting shorter. We were nearly there. THE MEGA BEAST was within our grasp! Just then I saw something that made my stomach lurch. It wasn't the pigeon pecking at the squashed kebab on the tarmac, or Oli picking his nose and eating it. It was GED SPONGER, the BULLY, from school! He was by the waffle stand with an old lady in a woollen waistcoat. I knew it was his granny because Ged visited her at the Autumnal Leaves care home's open evening when I helped out on the cake stall. They

“你为什么要那样做？”我说。 “我还以为那嗡嗡的声音是黄蜂呢！”他说。 镇定技巧到此为止。 队伍越来越短了。 我们就快到了。巨兽被我们抓住了！就在这时，我看到了一件使我恶心的东西。 不是鸽子啄着停机坪上压扁的烤肉串，也不是奥利挖鼻孔吃。 那是学校里的恶霸格德·海波！他和一位穿着羊毛马甲的老太太在华夫饼摊旁。 我知道那是他的奶奶，因为在秋叶护理之家开放的晚上，格德去看望了她，当时我在蛋糕摊帮忙。 他们

must have been on a day trip. Nice for them, but hell on earth for me. 'Dev, don't look now, but Ged Sponger's in town getting a toffee sauce tower!' I whispered loudly. Immediately Dev did a most obvious three-hundred-and-sixty-degree pirouette with a bobbing meerkat head movement. Subtlety has never been his strong point. 'Oh my god, Ged Sponger's in town getting a toffee sauce tower!' he hissed. Dev also likes repeating what you've said, while adding his own theatrical twist for effect. It is very irritating. I didn't want Ged to see us. He still hadn't got me and Dev

肯定是一日游。 对他们来说是好事，但对我来说是地狱。 “戴夫，现在别看，海绵哥到城里去买太妃酱塔了！”我大声耳语道。 戴夫立刻做了一个最明显的三百六十度旋转，像猫鼬一样摆动头部。 他从来都不善于捉摸。 “哦，我的天哪，海绵哥来城里买太妃酱塔了！”他嘶嘶地说。 Dev还喜欢重复你说过的话，同时加入他自己的戏剧性转折来达到效果。 这很烦人。我不想让格德看到我们。 他还是没抓到我和戴夫

back for making him fall into the care home's ornamental fish pond. I swore it was an accident! We were meant to catch Oli's runaway guinea pig, but due to my uncoordinated upper limbs and Dev's useless aim, we chucked the tablecloth/net over Ged's hard-to-miss massive bonce by mistake, thereby obscuring his vision and directing him into the huge stagnant puddle– HA! HA! I didn't want to lose our place in the queue but there was no telling what Ged would do if he spotted us. I moved everyone away to hide behind a nearby photo board. A classic one with the skinny man and portly woman in matching one-piece bathing suits painted on it. Once everyone was safely behind, me and Dev stuck our heads through the face

因为你让他掉进了养老院的观赏鱼池。 我发誓那是个意外！我们本来是要抓住奥利那只逃跑的豚鼠，但由于我的上肢不协调，加上戴夫的瞄准不准确，我们把桌布/网错误地扔在了格德那难以错过的巨大的跳跃上，从而模糊了他的视线，把他引向了一个巨大的停滞的水坑——哈！哈!我不想失去我们在队伍中的位置，但谁也不知道如果格德发现我们会怎么做。 我把所有人都移开，躲在附近的照相板后面。 这是一张经典的画，画上瘦男人和胖女人穿着配套的连体泳衣。 等所有人都安全就位后，我和戴夫把头伸进了那张脸