38 THE NEW FRIENDSHIP

CHAPTER 38 THE NEW FRIENDSHIP Chitchat wasn't speechless for long. She'd already been alive for a whole twelve and a half weeks, and she wanted to tell Brightbill about every exciting thing, and every boring thing, that had ever happened to her. And so, as the new friends played and explored and ate together, the squirrel shared her stories. "I was born on the other side of the hill and then last week I decided I was ready to build my first drey which is what you call a squirrel nest and now I live in that tree with the weird bump in its trunk," she said while the two of them kicked pebbles into the pond. "One time a weasel chased me through the treetops until he missed a branch and fell all the way down and crashed into a bush and walked away all wobbly and he never bothered me again," she said while the two of them crawled through a hollow log. "Eww gross I saw you eat that ant one time I ate a

第三十八章新的友谊谈话持续了很长时间。 她已经活了整整十二个半星期了，她想把发生在她身上的每一件激动人心的事和每一件无聊的事都告诉布莱特比尔。 于是，当这对新朋友一起玩耍、探索和吃饭时，松鼠分享了她的故事。 “我出生在山的另一边，上周我决定建我的第一个房子，就是你所说的松鼠窝，现在我住在那棵树干上有一个奇怪的凸起的树上，”她说，他们两个把鹅卵石踢进池塘。 “有一次，一只黄鼠狼在树梢追我，直到他错过了一根树枝，一路掉下来，撞在灌木丛里，摇摇晃晃地走开了，再也没有打扰过我，”她说，两人爬过一根空心的原木。 “真恶心，我有一次看见你吃那只蚂蚁。

gnat by accident and I didn't like it at all I mostly eat acorns and bark and tree buds and sometimes the yummy berries that grow in your garden," she said while the two of them took a snack break. But Chitchat was as good a listener as she was a talker. And whenever it was Brightbill's turn to speak, she'd keep quiet and hang on his every word. Do you know who enjoyed their conversations most of all? Our robot Roz. The protective mother was never far away, and she felt something like amusement at the silly conversations she overheard, and she felt something like happiness that her son had made such a good friend.

我不喜欢它，我主要吃橡子、树皮和树芽，有时吃你花园里生长的美味的浆果，”她说，他们俩在吃零食休息。 但奇chat是一个很好的倾听者，就像她是一个很好的倾诉者一样。 每当轮到布莱特比尔讲话时，她总是保持沉默，仔细听他说的每一句话。 你知道谁最喜欢他们的谈话吗？ 我们的机器人Roz。这位保护欲太强的母亲从不远离她，她听到那些愚蠢的谈话，觉得有点好笑，也为儿子交了这么一个好朋友感到高兴。