7 Takeof!

Chapter 7 Takeoff! Yasmin and Min-Jun took up their positions, standing up between the glider's wings. Min-Jun held on with both hands. Yasmin held on with just one. Her other hand clutched the anemometer. "Wait until there's a decent gust of wind," she warned.

第七章起飞！雅斯敏和敏君各就各位，站在滑翔机的两翼之间。 敏俊用两只手抓着。 Yasmin只坚持了一个。 她的另一只手紧握着风速计。 “等到刮起一阵像样的风，”她警告说。

"I'm going nowhere until you say so," said Min-Jun. He looked a little pale. The ground was a long way off. There was a sudden gust. The anemometer cups spun vigorously. "NOW!" shouted Yasmin.

“除非你这么说，否则我哪也不去。”敏俊说。 他脸色有些苍白。地面离得很远。 突然刮起一阵风。风速计的杯子旋转得很厉害。 “现在！”亚斯明喊道。

They ran forward, holding on tightly. As they reached the railings around the top of the lighthouse, they both jumped, tucked their legs underneath them and landed flat on their tummies on the glider. There was a lurch as the glider dropped over the edge. For one horrible moment, they plunged downward—until, with a bounce, the wind caught the underside of the glider's wings and they leveled out. They'd done it! They were flying!

他们向前跑，紧紧抓住。 当他们到达灯塔顶部周围的栏杆时，他们都跳了起来，把腿夹在身下，然后俯卧在滑翔机上。 滑翔机从悬崖边上掉下去，引起一阵骚动。 在一个可怕的时刻，他们向下俯冲，直到一阵反弹，风吹到了滑翔机的翅膀下面，他们才平稳下来。 他们成功了!他们在飞！

"Whoo!" shouted Yasmin. "Yeah!" roared Min-Jun. The wind tore at their hair and lashed at their clothes. Yasmin felt like she was catching a ride on an enormous bird. "Cuckoo!" shouted Tempo happily, flapping her wings beside Yasmin's head as she did her best to keep up with the glider. "Cuckoo!" Yasmin had judged the wind direction just right. The nose of the glider began to dip, lower and lower, until the wooden runners beneath met the soft sand of the beach. They skidded down the beach, drifting from side to side, until at last—they stopped.

“呜！”亚斯明喊道。“耶！”敏俊吼道。 风撕扯着他们的头发，抽打着他们的衣服。 雅斯敏觉得自己好像搭上了一只大鸟的便车。 “杜鹃！”天宝高兴地叫着，在雅斯敏的头顶上扇动着翅膀，拼命跟上滑翔机。 “杜鹃!”雅斯敏对风向的判断恰到好处。 滑翔机的机头开始往下陷，越来越低，直到下面的木制滑翔机碰到了沙滩上柔软的沙子。 他们沿着海滩滑行，从一边漂到另一边，直到最后他们停了下来。

Yasmin threw her arms in the air, giddy with the thrill of the flight. "That was AMAZING!" she shouted. Min-Jun grinned weakly as he slid off the glider. "Amazing is one way of putting it," he said. They had landed a short distance from the lighthouse. Yasmin ran back toward the warped wooden door, and the curved wall where their bicycles still stood. She raced inside, hoping DeLay hadn't broken the propeller out of spite. No! It was still there!

雅斯敏在空中挥舞着双臂，因为飞行的刺激而头晕目眩。 “太神奇了！”她喊道。 民俊从滑翔机上滑下来，虚弱地笑了笑。 “可以这么说，令人惊讶，”他说。 他们在离灯塔不远的地方着陆了。 雅斯敏跑回那扇扭曲的木门，还有他们的自行车还停在弯曲的墙上。 她冲了进去，希望迪莱没有因为怨恨而弄坏螺旋桨。 不!它还在那儿！

Yasmin took one end. Min-Jun took the other. They carefully carried the propeller outside, and balanced it on the handlebars of the two bicycles, just as they had earlier. Then they wheeled the bicycles back up to the boardwalk and pushed them toward the hangar. "We need to go faster," Yasmin urged Min-Jun. "I don't want DeLay showing up again and throwing another Time Crunch." "I'm going as fast as I can!" Min-Jun exclaimed.

雅斯敏拿了一头。敏君拿了另一个。 他们小心翼翼地把螺旋桨搬到外面，并把它放在两辆自行车的车把上，就像之前一样。 然后他们把自行车推回到木板路上，推向机库。 “我们需要走得更快，”雅斯敏敦促敏俊。 “我不希望迪莱再次出现，造成又一次‘时间危机’。” “我已经尽可能快了！”Min-Jun喊道。