3 The Opposite Direction of the Opposite Direction

3 The Opposite Direction of the Opposite Direction Is the Opposite-opposite Direction Presently, Lin wondered how long it took for Fu to "make panda cake'. He'd been gone an awfully long time and as Lin began to look for him,

3 反方向的反方向是反反方向 这会儿，林心里琢磨着，福做“熊猫蛋糕”要花多长时间。 他都走了老半天了，于是林准备去找他，

Fu was very much nowhere to be found. Since the end of the mouldy banana flinging competition, the zoo had returned to its now normal chaos of tigers skating across the penguins" ice, elephants steaming in the snow monkeys" sauna and giraffes shopping at the gift shop. All the while, visitors to the zoo headed straight through the open gates to the animal cages, where they enjoyed the mayhem safely behind bars. Because of this, the zoo map could no longer

却哪儿都找不到福的影子。 自从发霉香蕉投掷大赛结束后，动物园就恢复了现在这种日常的混乱状态：老虎在企鹅的冰面上溜冰，大象在雪猴的桑拿房里蒸得浑身冒热气，长颈鹿在礼品店里逛来逛去。 与此同时，来动物园的游客们径直穿过敞开的大门，走到动物笼舍前，隔着栏杆安安全全地看着这一片乱糟糟的场面，看得不亦乐乎。 因为这个原因，动物园的地图再也没法

help Lin to locate her best friend, which didn't really matter because she was a panda and couldn't read a map anyway. Lin hurried towards the cafe, looking for Fu, and when she couldn't find him there, she decided the best thing to do was head in the opposite direction. But then she thought that perhaps he might've done the same thing looking for her, so she turned and crawled in the opposite- opposite direction. She was starting to get that uncomfortable "I ate a buffalo bogey" feeling

帮林找到她最好的朋友了，不过这其实也没什么关系，因为她是只熊猫，本来也看不懂地图。 林急匆匆往咖啡馆走，想找到福，在那儿没找着之后，她觉得最好的办法就是往反方向走。 可她又想，说不定福找她的时候也做了一样的打算，所以她又转了个身，往反反方向爬去。 她肚子里又开始冒起那种不舒服的感觉，就好像“吃了水牛的鼻涕”似的。

in her tummy again. It then occurred to her that Fu might guess she'd gone in the opposite-opposite direction to find him, so Lin really had only one choice. She walked off in the opposite direction of the opposite-opposite direction and threw in an extra opposite direction to make sure they would absolutely definitely bump into each other. As Lin approached the panda enclosure, she

这时候她又想到，福说不定猜到她会往反反方向找他，所以林实在只有一个选择了。 她朝着反反方向的反方向走去，还额外多拐了个相反的方向，就为了确保他俩绝对、肯定能撞上。 等林快走到熊猫馆的时候，她 吸了吸鼻子，想闻闻她那带着熊猫味儿的朋友的气息。

sniffed the air for her panda-scented friend. "Fu?" Lin called out. Her call was met with silence. "Fu?" she tried again. "FU?" she yelled.

嗅着空气，寻找身上带着熊猫气味的小伙伴。 “福？” 林喊出声来。 回应她的只有一片寂静。 “福？”她又试了一次。 “福！” 她大叫起来。

"He's not here," Malo the capuchin monkey said as he swung across the low branches of a willow tree to join Lin. He was Lin's closest friend at the zoo after Fu, having helped Lin take over the zoo. With the growing anxious wobble in her belly, Lin had never been more relieved to see a friendly snout.

“他不在这儿。”卷尾猴马洛说着，从柳树的矮树枝上荡过来，落到林身边。 他是林在动物园里除了福之外最要好的朋友，之前还帮林拿下了整个动物园的控制权。 林肚子里正因为焦虑突突直跳，这会儿看到一张友善的小脸蛋，她从来没这么松过口气。