5 A helping wing

Chapter 5 A helping wing "We can't let Orville and Wilbur give up," said Yasmin in determination as they cycled back down the boardwalk. "It's too important." "Cuckoo," agreed Tempo, perched on Yasmin's handlebars. The ocean breeze was blowing her feathers around, so she

“我们不能让奥维尔和威尔伯放弃，”亚斯明坚定地说，他们沿着木板路骑车回去。 “这太重要了。”“咕咕。”站在雅斯敏车把上的节拍同意道。 海风把她的羽毛吹来吹去，所以她

looked more like a mop than a bird. "They seem pretty certain that they couldn't do it without that propeller," said Min-Jun gloomily. "I think it's time to call the others," said Yasmin. "They may have some ideas." They wheeled their bicycles in among the sand dunes, to get out of the wind. Then they laid them down carefully on the sandy ground, and pushed up their sleeves. Their special Timekeeper watches blinked at them. Yasmin and Min-Jun both flipped them up, and pressed a button.

看起来更像拖把而不是鸟。 “他们似乎很确定，如果没有螺旋桨，他们就做不到，”民俊沮丧地说。 “我想是时候叫其他人来了，”亚斯明说。 “他们可能有一些想法。” 他们把自行车推到沙丘中，以避风。 然后，他们小心翼翼地把衣服放在沙地上，挽起袖子。 他们特制的计时表眨着眼睛看着他们。 雅斯敏和敏君都把它们翻过来，按下一个按钮。

The other Timekeepers appeared: a tiny gallery of faces on the screens concealed inside the watches. "Hey there," said Kingsley. "How's it going?" asked Rosa. She still had a speck of mud on her nose. "Not great," Yasmin confessed. "DeLay has stolen a propeller from the Wright brothers' plane. We can't find it anywhere. They're talking about giving up and going home to Ohio before they've made the first powered flight in history." Sarah looked concerned. "You've looked everywhere you can think of?" "There's too much ground to cover," said Min-Jun. "Kitty Hawk beach is enormous. The propeller could be

其他计时员出现了：隐藏在手表内部的屏幕上的一小群面孔。 “你好。”金斯莱说。 “怎么样？”罗莎问。 她的鼻子上还有一点泥。 “不太好，”亚斯明承认。 迪莱从莱特兄弟的飞机上偷了一个螺旋桨。 我们到处都找不到。 他们在谈论放弃，在他们完成历史上第一次动力飞行之前回到俄亥俄州。” 萨拉看起来很担心。“你能想到的地方都找遍了吗？”“要覆盖的领域太多了，”敏俊说。 “基蒂霍克海滩非常大。 螺旋桨可以是

anywhere. And we've only got a couple of bicycles between us." "I wish we could borrow a plane to cover a wider area," said Yasmin gloomily. "But we can't borrow a plane which hasn't been invented yet!" The other Timekeepers looked thoughtful. Tempo started pecking Yasmin's watch screen. "Cuckoo," she said. She sounded insistent. "Cuckoo, cuckoo!" "Tempo!" said Sarah suddenly. "That's it!"

任何地方。我们之间只有几辆自行车。” “我希望我们能借一架飞机来覆盖更大的区域，”亚斯明沮丧地说。 “但是我们不能借还没有发明出来的飞机！”其他计时员看上去若有所思。 Tempo开始敲打Yasmin的手表屏幕。 “布谷鸟，”她说。她听起来很坚持。 “杜鹃,杜鹃!”“节奏！”萨拉突然说。 “就是这样!”

"What do you mean?" asked Min-Jun. Tempo spread her wings and flapped them vigorously, clinging to Yasmin's arm. "Humans may not be able to fly yet," Sarah said, "but Tempo can!" "Cuckoo!" shouted Tempo. Finally, she seemed to be saying! "Of course!" exclaimed Min-Jun. Yasmin rolled her eyes at herself. They'd had a perfect flying machine all along, and hadn't even realized it! "Thanks guys," she said gratefully. "You're the best." The others waved and disappeared. The screens on Yasmin and Min-Jun's watches went dark. "Looks like this is up to you, Tempo,"

“你是什么意思？”敏俊问。 Tempo张开翅膀，使劲拍打着翅膀，紧紧地抱在Yasmin的手臂上。 “人类也许还不能飞，”萨拉说，“但是天宝可以！”“布谷鸟！” 最后，她似乎在说！“当然！”敏俊叫道。 雅斯敏对自己翻了个白眼。 他们一直有一个完美的飞行器，甚至没有意识到这一点！“谢谢你们，”她感激地说。 “你是最棒的。”其他人挥了挥手，消失了。 雅斯敏和敏君的手表屏幕变暗了。 “看来这得看你了，Tempo ”

Yasmin said to the little cuckoo perched on her arm. "Fly up as high as you can, and tell us if you see anything!" "Up," said Min-Jun, pointing helpfully at the mass of clouds in the December sky. "Up!" Tempo cocked her head. Then she spread her wings and took off, spiraling up into the sky until she was just a striped dot far above their heads. Down on the

雅思敏对栖息在她胳膊上的小布谷鸟说。 “飞得越高越好，看到什么就告诉我们！”“起来，”敏君说，一边指指12月天空中的乌云。 “起来!”Tempo歪着头。 然后她展开翅膀起飞了，盘旋着飞向天空，直到她只是他们头顶上方的一个条纹点。 往下看