1 On the Right Track

Hamster Holmes held up two pencils. "What do you think, Dr. Watt? Which pencil is longer?" he asked his firefly friend. "Remember that things are not always what they seem." Dr. Watt scratched his head.

仓鼠福尔摩斯举着两支铅笔。 “你怎么看，瓦特博士？ 哪支铅笔更长呀？” 他问自己的萤火虫朋友。 “记住哦，事情往往不是表面看起来的那样。” 瓦特博士挠了挠头。

Dr. Watt used Morse code to get his point across. He blinked his light on and off to form the dashes and dots. A long flash of light was a dash. A short flash of light was a dot.

瓦特博士用摩尔斯电码来表达自己的想法。 他一明一暗地闪着光，组成信号的长划和点。 长的闪光就是长划。 短的闪光就是点。

"Dot-dot-dot-dot, dash-dash, dash-dash," flashed Dr. Watt. He pointed at a pencil. "Actually," Hamster Holmes said, "the pencils are the same length! Holding them in a T-shape just makes one seem longer!"

“点点点点，长划长划，长划长划，”瓦特博士闪着信号。 他指了指其中一支铅笔。 “其实呀，”仓鼠福尔摩斯说，“这两支铅笔一样长！ 把它们摆成T字形，只是看起来有一支更长而已！”

That is when Springy Beaver, a famous inventor, dropped by. His hat flew off his head and landed on the coatrack! "You invented a hat that hangs itself up?" Hamster Holmes asked.

就在这时，著名发明家弹簧 Beaver 来串门了。 他的帽子从头上飞出去，刚好落在了衣帽架上！ “你居然发明了会自己挂起来的帽子？” 仓鼠福尔摩斯问。

Springy nodded and said, "But I'm here because my tools and notebooks keep going missing. I thought I was imagining it because they always turn up again, but yesterday I found paw prints!"

弹簧点了点头说：“可我来是因为我的工具和笔记本总在失踪。 我之前还以为是我记错了，因为它们总会再出现，可昨天我发现了爪印！”