Chapter 12

ChAPTER THElVE "Drop your weapon." "This isn't a weapon!" protested Kate. "We-" "Well, it sure looks like one to us, slap-jack." Kate didn't have any other options. She dropped the fishing rod. Two more birds swooped aboard and began stuffing the friends" possessions into swag bags. One was silver with spangled, glittering wings,

第十二章 “放下你的武器。” “这不是武器！” 凯特抗议道。 “我们——”“哦，在我们看来它可太像武器了，小毛孩。” 凯特没有别的选择。 她扔下了钓鱼竿。 又有两只鸟猛地飞到船上，开始把朋友们的东西往赃物袋里塞。 一只是银色的，翅膀上缀着亮片闪闪发光，

and the other looked very much like a large feathered blueberry. Both were wearing silky bandanas. "Tie them up, Toot!" instructed the long-legged green bird. "TOOOOT," went the flying blueberry, and zoomed around the children with a rope. "Look at this!" said the glittery bird, fingering the boat's tattered canopy. "They've called themselves the Swindlers! Here to snatch us and shamelessly stuff us all into jars, are you?" Kate groaned- this looked terrible. "We're not here to swindle at all!" said Bertie. "We just want to find- Ow!" Kate had given him a hard pinch on

另一只看起来活像颗长了羽毛的大蓝莓。 它们俩都系着丝滑的印花头巾。 “把他们绑起来，嘟嘟！”长腿绿鸟命令道。 “嘟——！”会飞的蓝莓应了一声，叼着绳子绕着孩子们嗖嗖转。 “看这个！”亮闪闪的鸟摸着船上破破烂烂的棚顶说道。 “他们自称是骗子团伙！ 是来抓我们，要无耻地把我们全塞进罐子里的，对吧？” 凯特呻吟了一声——这下情况糟透了。 “我们根本不是来骗东西的！”伯蒂说。 “我们只是想找—— 哎哟！” 凯特狠狠掐了他的

the arm. He mustn't say anything about the silver wibbler- who knew what these birds would do to them! "What's that, you tittering toothpick?" said the green bird. "N-nothing, sir— or is it madam?" The bird hooted. "We don't do that stuff, us birds." Kate could see that the berries were now firmly tucked into the silver bird's sack. They were about as far away from the wibbler as Captain Mustard was from changing her menu, and, as the glittery bird took the boat's wheel and turned them around, they were soon plunging even further into the dark unknown, totally and utterly kidnapped.

胳膊一下。 他绝对不能提起银色摇摆鸟的事——谁知道这些鸟会对他们做什么！ “你说什么呢，你个笑兮兮的小牙签？”绿鸟开口道。 “没、没什么，先生——还是该叫女士？” 鸟儿叫了一声。 “我们鸟类不搞那一套。” 凯特看见那些浆果现在被牢牢塞在银鸟的袋子里。 他们离找到摇摆鸟的距离，就跟芥末船长改菜单的距离一样远，而且当那只亮闪闪的鸟握住船舵调转方向时，他们很快就朝着更黑暗的未知深处冲去，完完全全被绑架了。