Chapter 3

Chapter 3 still still! She might not have seen us." There, on the stage, amid a pile of old ballet slippers and discarded tutus, were four little bunny rabbits standing as still as statues. "How long do we stay still?" Four TALKING bunnies! "Just stay still!" "But I'm stuck in arabesque. I'm not sure how much longer I can hold this."

第三章 不许动！ 她可能没看见我们。” 舞台上，在一堆旧芭蕾舞鞋和被丢弃的芭蕾舞裙中间，四只小兔子站得像雕像一样一动不动。 “我们要保持不动多久呀？” 是四只会说话的兔子！ “就乖乖待着别动！” “可我现在摆着阿拉贝斯克的姿势动不了。 我不知道这个姿势我还能撑多久。”

"I can hear you, you know," Millie said. "Oh, bunny fluff!" one of the bunnies sighed. "You aren't going to scream, are you? Because that's what always happens in the movies." "It's true," another bunny piped up. "When humans see something they don't understand in the movies, they scream, and then the thing they don't understand screams back. And then the humans scream again, and they all scream because everyone feels terrified." "All I feel is hungry for ice cream," Millie confessed. The bunnies giggled, their furry bellies jiggling, and Millie laughed with them. "I told you she was a good one," another bunny announced smugly to the others. Millie reached out her hand, and the tallest of the group jumped onto it. "Who are you?" Millie asked. She raised her palm so that she and the bunny were nose to nose. "What are you?"

“你们说的话我都能听见哦。”米莉开口说。 “哎呀，兔毛都要吓炸了！” 一只兔子叹了口气。 “你不会尖叫的对不对？ 电影里碰到这种情况大家总会尖叫的。” “真的是这样。”另一只兔子尖声接过话头。 “电影里人类看到自己理解不了的东西，就会尖叫，然后那个他们理解不了的东西也会跟着尖叫。 接着人类又尖叫，最后大家都在叫，因为所有人都吓坏了。” “我现在只有一个感觉，就是好想吃冰淇淋。”米莉老实说。 小兔子们都咯咯笑起来，毛茸茸的肚子晃来晃去，米莉也跟着一起笑。 “我早跟你们说过她是个好人嘛。”另一只兔子得意洋洋地对同伴们宣布。 米莉伸出手，这群兔子里个子最高的那只一下跳到了她手上。 “你是谁呀？” 米莉问。 她抬起手掌，让自己和这只兔子脸对着脸。 “你们是什么呀？”

"I'm Fifi," the bunny said, resting her paws on her hips. "And we are the Ballet Bunnies." A golden-colored bunny spun forward in perfect circles and curtsied. "I'm Dolly." The bunny with a tuft of glossy black fur hanging over his eye, stuck out his paw, and Millie shook it very gently. "I'm Pod," he said. The tiniest bunny let out a yawn and took Millie's outstretched hand next. "I'm Trixie," she said as Millie tickled her softly under her chin. Millie climbed carefully onto the stage. She looked at the piles of ballet shoes that had been stacked and filled with balled-up pom-poms to make a row of beds. Tutus had been laid delicately over the slippers like fluffy bedcovers.

“我是菲菲。”兔子把小爪子叉在腰上说。 “我们是芭蕾小兔团。” 一只金色的兔子转着完美的圈圈蹦到前面，还行了个屈膝礼。 “我是多莉。” 那只眼睛前垂着一撮亮黑绒毛的兔子伸出爪子，米莉轻轻和他握了握手。 “我是波德。”他说。 最小的那只兔子打了个哈欠，接着也凑过来抓住米莉伸出来的手。 “我是特里克茜。”米莉轻轻挠她下巴的时候，她开口说道。 米莉小心翼翼地爬到舞台上。 她看见那堆芭蕾舞鞋被摞起来，里面塞着成团的绒球，排成了一排小床。 芭蕾舞裙轻轻盖在舞鞋上面，就像毛茸茸的小被子。

She sat back on her feet. "I'm Millie, by the way." "We know," Dolly said. She hopped up Millie's arm all the way to her shoulder. "We saw you in class today." Dolly spun three perfect pirouettes down Millie's other arm. "How did you do that?" Millie asked, amazed. "I've tried to do pirouettes at home, but I keep falling over." Fifi leapt forward and pirouetted alongside Dolly. "We can show you if you want." "Yes, please," Millie said. She watched carefully as Pod joined in. She stood in a clear spot on the stage as the bunnies talked her through the spin.

她跪坐下来。 “对啦，我叫米莉。” “我们知道呀。”多莉说。 她沿着米莉的胳膊一路蹦到了米莉肩膀上。 “我们今天看到你上课啦。” 多莉转了三个完美的单脚脚尖旋转，顺着米莉的另一只胳膊滑下来。 “你怎么做到的呀？” 米莉惊讶地问。 我在家试过练单脚转，可是每次都会摔倒。” 菲菲往前一跳，和多莉并排转起圈来。 “你想学的话我们可以教你呀。” “好呀，麻烦你们啦。”米莉说。 波德也加入转圈的时候，她看得特别认真。 她站到舞台上空着的地方，小兔子们一步步教她怎么转。