Chapter 9

9 Dave the Test Pigeon 'Hide,' Fienne hissed, shoving me down under the grains of birdseed. He pushed and pushed as we sank down, like pigeon eggs disappearing deep into a playground sandpit. Birdseed filled my beak as I wrestled to make a tiny vent in the piles of feed so I could breathe.

“躲起来，”费安嘶嘶地说，把我推到鸟食的下面。 他推啊推，我们沉了下去，就像鸽子蛋消失在操场的沙坑里。 鸟食填满了我的嘴，我挣扎着在成堆的饲料中做一个小通风口，这样我就可以呼吸了。

I heard Reginald Grimster pound across the dining room and into the fattening room. He was on the phone again. 'Hess, hmer,' he said. 'Aha. Hup. Hum. Hup. Hmmhmm. Hof morrrse.' 'He just said that he's going to take Dave to a supermarket,' Fienne mumbled through the darkness under the seed. 'Dave is to be the test pigeon.' 'How. Do. You. Know. That?' I asked, trying not to swallow birdseed each time I opened my beak. 'I learnt to decipher muffled Human at I-PLOP.' 'Hem-mem-memt. Himp him-mum him heery hat.' 'What did he say now?' I said.

我听见雷金纳德·格里姆斯特大步走过餐厅，走进了增肥室。 他又在打电话了。 “赫斯，赫斯，”他说。“啊哈。 玫瑰。嗡嗡声。玫瑰。Hmmhmm。霍夫morrrse。“他刚刚说他要带戴夫去超市，”费安在种子下面的黑暗中喃喃自语。 戴夫将成为测试鸽。“怎么做。 做的。你。知道。呢?”我问，每次张开嘴都尽量不把鸟食吞下去。 “我在I- plop学会了解读闷声的人类语言。“Hem-mem-memt。 给他戴上沉重的帽子。“他又说什么了？”我说。

'He said Dave will be the perfect test pigeon on account of how fat he is.' That's not what he said! What did he say then? Himp him-mum him heery hat. Which means? Himp him-mum him heery hat. Obviously.

“他说戴夫是个完美的测试鸽子，因为他很胖。”他不是这么说的！然后他说了什么？ 给他戴上沉重的帽子。 这意味着?给他戴上沉重的帽子。 很明显。

'Help me, Skipper!' I heard Dave shriek as Reginald Grimster shushed him and slammed the door of a cage shut. Then there was silence. Suddenly a beak pecked through the piles of birdseed above my head, and I blinked as shards of light blinded me. Fienne pulled me up and flapped off the grains of birdseed trapped under my feathers. 'We need to go -NOW!' We took flight. The front door slammed shut and we shot towards it. Through the glass panel in the door, I saw Dave being piled into the passenger seat of a rusty red car. He caught my eye and bashed at the cage with his wing just as Reginald Grimster started the car and set off down the road.

“救救我，船长！”我听到戴夫尖叫，雷金纳德·格里姆斯特让他安静下来，砰地关上了笼子的门。 然后是沉默。突然，一只鸟嘴在我头顶上的鸟食堆中啄来啄去，我眨了眨眼睛，因为碎片的光弄瞎了我的眼睛。 费安把我拉起来，拍打着我羽毛下的鸟食粒。 “我们得走了——现在！”我们起飞了。 前门砰的一声关上了，我们朝它冲去。 透过门上的玻璃板，我看到戴夫被塞进一辆生锈的红色汽车的副驾驶座位上。 它吸引了我的目光，就在雷金纳德·格里姆斯特发动汽车沿着公路出发的时候，用翅膀猛击着笼子。

'Follow that car,' Fienne yelled at me. 'Where are the keys for the cages?' My mind went blank. All I could think about was Dave. I needed to get to Dave.

“跟着那辆车。”费安对我喊道。 “笼子的钥匙在哪儿？”我的大脑一片空白。 我满脑子都是戴夫。 我得去找戴夫。

'The keys, Skipper!' Fienne screeched. 'Where are the keys?' 'I can't remember!' 'Think,' he said urgently. 'Think hard!' Was it the kitchen? Or did I see them in the bathroom? 'Think quicker, Skipper,' Fienne yelled. 'Dave is on the way to being nuggeted. The cookbooks! 'The dining room!' I shrieked back. 'I remember I saw keys on the cupboard shelf, above the cookbooks.' Fienne tapped the top of his head with his wing in a salute, and I raced upstairs and took off out of the bathroom window. I tore across the sky, chasing the red car and the evil Human who had birdnapped

“钥匙，船长！”Fienne尖叫声。 “钥匙在哪儿？”“我不记得了！”“想一想，”他急切地说。 “仔细想想!”是厨房吗？ 还是我在浴室看到他们了？ “再想想，船长。” 戴夫就要被挖成金块了。 食谱!“餐厅！”我尖叫着回答。 “我记得我在橱柜架子上看到过钥匙，就在烹饪书的上面。”费安用翅膀拍了拍头顶，向他敬礼，我跑上楼，从浴室的窗户飞了出去。 我飞奔着穿过天空，追逐着那辆红色的汽车和那个绑架小鸟的邪恶人类