5 Swamp-hoppin

CHAPTER FIVE Swamp-hoppin' Pamela sat in her nest at the top of the Magic Tower. She adjusted her night-vision goggles. 'Ha!' she squawked. 'Finally, I have eagle-eyed vision!' Which was a weird thing to say, given that she was an eagle. She fiddled about with all the junk she had collected in her nest: old wires, bits of mobile phones and radios. She found a

第五章跳沼泽帕梅拉坐在魔法塔顶的巢里。 她调整了一下夜视镜。 “哈!她尖声说。“我终于有了锐利的视力！”说起来很奇怪，毕竟她是只鹰。 她摆弄着她在巢里收集的所有垃圾：旧电线、手机碎片和收音机。 她找到了一个

rusty walkie-talkie and pressed the button. It screeched and buzzed to life. 'Agent Pamela reporting for duty,' she squawked. 'No alien life detected. Lasagne for dinner. Quite tasty. Over and out.' She continued to scan the skies, hoping to see something unusual. Then she saw the flash and glow of Sharon the Party Crow crashing into Grimwood. 'Invaders!' she cried. She adjusted her goggles and saw Ted and Nancy running over to help Sharon down from the tree. 'Hmm, the orange furries do not seem alarmed,' she said. 'Interesting.' Then she fiddled with some complicated-looking radio equipment and put some headphones on. Thanks to a higgledypiggledy network of microphones she had hidden all over Grimwood, she was now able to hear their conversation perfectly. 'A party crow? A glitter cannon?!' she gasped. 'I must meet this bird at ONCE.' After a nap, breakfast and a bath in an empty butter dish (for Sharon, at least), Ted and Nancy set off on the hunt for Twinklenuts. Ted ran after his big sister, trying to keep up. Sharon the Party Crow was sitting in his rucksack, honking on a kazoo every couple of seconds. 'Where are we going, Nance?' panted Ted. Nancy pointed at the ground.

罗斯蒂拿起对讲机，按下按钮。 它尖叫着，嗡嗡地活了起来。 “帕梅拉探员报到，”她尖声说。 “没有发现外星生命。晚餐吃千层面。 很好吃。结束，结束。”她继续扫视天空，希望能看到一些不寻常的东西。 接着，她看见派对乌鸦沙伦的闪光和光芒撞向格里姆伍德。 “侵略者!她叫道。她调整了一下护目镜，看到泰德和南希跑过来帮莎伦从树上下来。 “嗯，橙色的毛茸茸的好像并不惊慌，”她说。 “有趣。”然后她摆弄了一些看起来很复杂的无线电设备，戴上了耳机。 多亏了她在格里姆伍德各处隐藏的一个杂乱的麦克风网络，她现在能够完美地听到他们的谈话。 “派对乌鸦？”闪光炮？！她喘着气说。 “我必须马上去见这只鸟。”打了个盹，吃了早饭，在一个空的黄油盘子里洗了个澡（至少对莎伦来说是这样），泰德和南希就出发去找Twinklenuts了。 泰德追着他姐姐跑，试图跟上她。 派对乌鸦沙伦正坐在他的背包里，每隔几秒钟就吹一次卡祖笛。 “我们去哪儿，南希？”泰德喘着气说。 南希指着地面。

'We're following the glitter trail,' she said. Ted looked down and saw a messy line of colourful sparkles. It was glitter that had fallen from Sharon as she had been blasted through the air. 'OI!' shouted someone from behind a large mushroom. 'Where are you lot going without me?' It was Willow. She was knee-deep in Cosmic Knobblers, her fave forest snack (even though they made her parp uncontrollably). Ted told her everything really quickly so don't worry, we won't have to go through it all again. The glitter led them past Bunnyville. They stopped for a bit and watched hundreds of small furry rabbits flinging themselves off the top of the very tall tree onto the pile of mattresses. 'It's the most exciting thing that's happened in ages,' said Willow. 'Well, since the waterslide we made out of dustbin lids, at least.' 'Guys, look,' said Ted, pointing at the path of glitter ahead of them. Everyone looked up and moaned. They were heading straight for the Swamp of Despair. The Swamp of Despair was a horrible smelly swamp on the outskirts of Grimwood. It was impossible to cross, because if you stepped on it, you'd get sucked down into gloopy, sloopy mud. Nancy had fallen into it once and had almost come to a very sticky end. Sharon's glittery sparkles had mixed in with all the mud.

她说：“我们正在追踪闪光的踪迹。” 泰德低下头，看见一排杂乱的彩色闪光。 那是沙伦被炸飞时从她身上掉下来的闪光。 “OI !有人从一个大蘑菇后面喊道。 “没有我，你们要去哪儿？”是威洛。 她吃着她最喜欢的森林零食“宇宙疙瘩”（Cosmic Knobblers），吃得没膝深（尽管它们让她无法控制地抽搐）。 泰德很快就把一切都告诉她了，所以别担心，我们不用再从头讲一遍。 闪闪发光的灯光带着他们走过邦尼维尔。 他们停了一会儿，看着几百只毛茸茸的小兔子从那棵很高的树顶上跳到一堆床垫上。 “这是多年来发生的最令人兴奋的事情，”威罗说。 “嗯，至少从我们用垃圾桶盖做的滑水道开始。“伙计们，快看。”泰德指着前面那条闪闪发光的路说。 每个人都抬起头来，唉声叹气。 他们直奔绝望沼泽而去。 绝望沼泽是格里姆伍德郊区一个恶臭的沼泽。 它是不可能穿过的，因为如果你踩到它，你就会被吸进粘糊糊的泥里。 南希曾经掉进过一次，差点落得个悲惨的下场。 沙伦闪闪发光的光芒和泥土混在一起。

'Look, it's turned into a disco mud pit!' hooted Ted. 'Yeah, and we'd still die if we fell in,' said Nancy. 'AHA!' shouted Willow, bouncing up and down. 'I gots a plan, I gots a plan! Let's use the mattresses! We could pile them high and then do a massive BOUNCE right over this stinky old swamp.' 'Great idea!' said Ted, hopping from foot to foot. Nancy scratched at her snout for a while. 'Your plan might not be entirely useless,' she said. 'We could use them like, you know, stepping stones.' 'But all those mattresses look really heavy and they're covered in bunnies,' said Ted. 'I know someone who can help,' said Nancy, with a grin. WHOcould it be? Is it… me?! Oh goodness, I haven't even brushed my hair. Wiggy the badger revved the engine of his Jeep. Behind him, a long, thick rope had been lashed around the tall pile of mattresses. About a squillion excited bunnies were holding the

“看，它变成了迪斯科泥坑！”泰德叫道。 “是啊，如果掉进去，我们还是会死的。”南希说。 “啊哈!”威洛大叫着，跳上跳下。 “我有个计划，我有个计划！”我们用床垫吧！我们可以把它们堆得高高的，然后在这片臭烘烘的老沼泽上跳个大跟头。“好主意！”泰德边说边跳来跳去。 南希抓了一会儿她的鼻子。 “你的计划也许不是完全没用，”她说。 “我们可以把它们当作垫脚石。“但是那些床垫看起来真的很重，而且上面都是小兔子。”泰德说。 “我知道有人能帮上忙，”南希笑着说。 会是谁呢？是我吗？！天哪，我还没梳头呢。 獾威格发动了他吉普车的引擎。 在他身后，一根又长又粗的绳子绑在高高的床垫堆上。 大约有十亿只兴奋的兔子拿着

mattresses together like a tangle of furry elastic bands. It was quite a sight. Wiggy honked his horn. Willow stood at the very top of the pile of bunnies, holding a megaphone. 'TUCK IN YOUR EARS AND DON'T LOOK DOWN!' she bellowed. She gave Wiggy the thumbs up. The wheels of the Jeep skidded in the mud. 'HEAVE-HO!' cried Willow. 'COME ON, EVERYBODY! LET'S GET MOVING!' A thousand tiny paws scrabbled until slowly but surely, the pile of mattresses started to move. Ted and Nancy sat in the back of the Jeep and looked behind them. The gigantic clump of bunnies, as big as a house, was being dragged through the woods. The rabbits began to scream and hoot in excitement. 'Faster!' they yelled. 'Make it go faster!'

床垫像一团毛茸茸的橡皮筋。 那真是一幅壮观的景象。威吉按响了喇叭。 威洛站在那堆兔子的最上面，拿着一个扩音器。 “把耳朵收起来，不要往下看！”她吼道。 她对威格竖起大拇指。 吉普车的轮子在泥里打滑。 “开除!威罗叫道。“加油，大家！”我们走吧！”一千只小爪子慢慢地抓着，直到那堆床垫开始移动。 泰德和南希坐在吉普车的后面，看着身后。 那一大群兔子，有房子那么大，正被拖着穿过树林。 兔子们开始兴奋地尖叫起来。 “快!他们喊道。“让它跑快一点！”

'I can't watch!' whimpered Ted through his paws. 'Someone's going to get hurt!' Please can someone inform health and safety? This is ridiculous. Hang on. Am I health and safety? Oh no… Soon they reached the Swamp of Despair. The bunnies loosened the ropes and then dropped to the ground, cheering. 'That was the best fun EVER!' whooped Jacko, one of Willow's 276 siblings. 'Again, again!' Willow stood on the bonnet of Wiggy's Jeep. 'NOW, EVERYONE, CHUCK A MATTRESS AS HARD AS YOU CAN ONTO THIS HORRIBLE SWAMP,' she shouted. 'Hooray!!!' yelled the bunnies, who were up for anything. Soon, the mattresses were floating on the surface of the swamp like giant marshmallows in a sea of glittery hot chocolate. Nancy jumped onto the closest mattress. It wobbled and sank a little deeper into the mud. But then it held firm. Nancy looked up and grinned. 'It's working!' she yelled to the others. 'Come on!'

“我看不下去了！泰德从爪子里抽泣着说。 “有人会受伤的！”谁能告诉我健康和安全？ 这太荒谬了。坚持下去。 我健康安全吗？很快他们就到了绝望沼泽。 兔子们松开绳子，然后倒在地上，欢呼起来。 “这是有史以来最有趣的事！”杰克喊道，他是威洛276个兄弟姐妹中的一个。 “再来一次,再来一次!”威洛站在威基吉普车的引擎盖上。 “现在，每个人，用你们最大的力气把床垫扔到这片可怕的沼泽上。”她喊道。 “万岁! !兔子们喊道，他们什么都愿意做。 很快，床垫漂浮在沼泽的表面上，就像巨大的棉花糖漂浮在闪闪发光的热巧克力海洋里。 南希跳到最近的床垫上。 它摇晃着，往泥里陷得更深了一点。 但后来它站稳了脚跟。南希抬起头，咧嘴一笑。 这是工作!她对其他人喊道。 “来吧!”