8. Breaking Free

BREAKING FREE 8 They needed to get the table legs free from the ice. But Sam couldn't think. SMASH! SMASH! SMASH! Icicles crashed all around them. Then Sam heard another sound a sort of clanging. "What was that noise?" Lucy asked. "Wait a second," Sam said. "I know that sound! I hear it every day at lunch!"

他们需要把桌腿从冰上弄出来。 但是萨姆不能思考。粉碎!粉碎!粉碎!冰柱在他们周围崩塌。 然后萨姆听到了另一种声音，一种叮当声。 “那是什么声音？”露西问。 “等一下，”萨姆说。 “我知道那声音！”我每天吃午饭的时候都能听到！”

Sam suddenly stuck his arm out. He reached up and felt along the tabletop. "What are you doing?!" Lucy yelled, as an icicle slammed into the tabletop. Then Sam's fingers felt metal. He yanked his hand back under the table. He was holding two metal lunch forks. Lucy's eyes lit up. "Good thinking!" Sam and Lucy quickly began jabbing the forks at the ice around the table legs. Soon, the ice cracked. The table was free.

萨姆突然伸出手臂。 他伸手沿着桌面摸了摸。 “你在干什么？！”一根冰柱砸在桌面上，露西喊道。 然后萨姆的手指摸到了金属。 他猛地把手缩回桌子底下。 他手里拿着两把金属餐叉。 露西的眼睛亮了。“好主意!”萨姆和露西迅速地用叉子戳着桌腿周围的冰。 很快，冰裂开了。那张桌子空着。

"Let's go!" Sam said. He and Lucy grunted as they lifted the table. Icicles shattered against the tabletop, but it shielded them all the way to the kitchen. At the kitchen door, they rushed out from under the table. Sam breathed a sigh of relief. "No ice and no spikey traps in here," he said. "Finally this school cuts us a break," Lucy said, as she grabbed a large bag of salt from the kitchen cabinet.

“我们走吧!”山姆说。他和露茜抬起桌子，哼了一声。 冰柱砸在桌面上，但它挡住了他们一路走到厨房。 到了厨房门口，他们从桌子底下冲了出来。 萨姆松了一口气。 “这里没有冰，也没有尖刺陷阱，”他说。 “这所学校终于给我们放假了，”露西说着，从厨房橱柜里拿了一大袋盐。

Sam and Lucy burst out into the hallway. They raced back to the bathroom, slipping and sliding as they ran. The two friends gasped when they entered the bathroom: Antonio was frozen up to his waist! "What t-t-took you so long?" Antonio said. Lucy tore open the bag of salt and poured it over the ice. Sam helped rub it in. The salt stopped new ice from forming. It was working! But it wasn't working fast enough.

山姆和露西冲进走廊。 他们跑回浴室，一边跑一边打滑。 当他们走进浴室时，两个朋友倒吸了一口冷气：安东尼奥冻到了他的腰部！“你——你——怎么花了这么长时间？”安东尼奥说。 露西撕开那袋盐，把盐倒在冰上。 萨姆帮我捅了一刀。盐阻止了新冰的形成。 它起作用了！但它的工作速度不够快。

"I'm going to chip away at the ice," Sam told Antonio. Sam grabbed the hammer from the sink and began banging away at the ice. Lucy checked the thermometer. "Hurry, guys!" she yelled. "The temperature has already fallen to 19 degrees! Six more degrees, and Orson Eerie will be here in HUMAN form!" Sam swung the hammer one final time. Chunks of ice splintered.

“我要把冰凿开，”萨姆告诉安东尼奥。 萨姆从水池里抓起锤子，开始敲打冰块。 露西检查了温度计。 “快点，伙计们！”她喊道。 “气温已经降到19度了！”再过六度，奥森·怪诞就会以人类的形式出现了！”山姆最后一次挥动锤子。 大块的冰裂开了。

"I'm free!" Antonio said, as he stepped from the crumbling ice. He huddled beneath the hand dryer. Warm air rushed over him. Sam slipped off his jacket. "Take this, buddy," Sam said. "We can't waste any more time in this bathroom. We need to get to that main thermostat in the teachers' lounge! We need to get the heat back on. Now!"

“我自由了!”安东尼奥说着，从破碎的冰层上走了出来。 他蜷缩在烘干机下面。 温暖的空气向他袭来。萨姆脱下夹克。 “拿着这个，伙计，”萨姆说。 “我们不能再在这个浴室里浪费时间了。 我们得找到教师休息室的主恒温器！我们得重新供暖。 现在!”