02 Oh,Man,Mummies!

Chapter 2. Oh Man, Mummies. Jack and Annie looked out the window. The treehouse was perched on the top of a palm tree. The tree stood with other palm trees, a patch of green surrounded by a sandy desert. Meow! Jack and Annie looked down. The black cat was sitting at the base of the tree. His yellow eyes were staring up at Jack and Annie.

第二章 我的天呐，是木乃伊 杰克和安妮朝窗外望去。 树屋搭在一棵棕榈树的树顶上。 这棵树和其他棕榈树长在一起，是黄沙漫天的沙漠里的一小片绿地。 喵！ 杰克和安妮低头看去。 那只黑猫正坐在树底下。 它黄色的眼睛正抬眼看着杰克和安妮。

Hi! Annie shouted. Shh! said Jack. Someone might hear you. In the middle of the desert? said Annie. The black cat stood and began walking around the tree. Come back! Annie called. She leaned out the window to see where the cat was going. Oh wow! she said. Look, Jack! Jack leaned forward and looked down. The cat was running away from the palm trees toward a giant pyramid in the desert. A parade was going toward the pyramid. The same parade as in the Egypt book.

嗨！安妮大声喊道。 嘘！杰克说，别被别人听见了。 这沙漠里哪有人啊？安妮说。 黑猫站了起来，开始绕着树走。 回来呀！安妮喊道。 她探出窗外，想看看猫要去哪里。 哇哦！她说，快看呀，杰克！ 杰克往前探了探身子，低头往下看。 那只猫正离开棕榈树林，朝着沙漠里一座巨大的金字塔跑去。 还有一队人也正往金字塔的方向走。 这支队伍和那本埃及书里画的一模一样。

It's the picture from the book," said Jack. What are those people doing? asked Annie. Jack looked down at the Egypt book. He read the words under the picture. When a royal person died, a grand funeral procession took place. Family, servants, and mourners followed the coffin. The coffin was called a sarcophagus. It was pulled on a sled by four oxen. It's an Egyptian funeral, said Jack. The box is called a sarcophagus. Forget it. He looked out the window again. Oxen, sled, Egyptians, black cat. All were moving in a slow, dreamy way. I'd better make some notes about this, said Jack.

这就是书里的那张图呀。杰克说。 那些人在做什么呀？安妮问。杰克低头翻开那本埃及书，读着 图片下面的文字：王室成员去世后，会举办盛大的葬礼游行。家人、 仆人和送葬的人会跟在棺材后面。这种棺材叫石棺，是由 四头公牛拉的雪橇运送的。这是埃及人的葬礼，杰克说，那个盒子叫石棺。 先不管啦。他又看向窗外：公牛、雪橇、埃及人、黑猫，所有的一切都在以 慢悠悠、如梦似幻的速度前进。我最好把这些记下来。杰克说。

He reached into his backpack and pulled out his notebook. Jack always kept notes. Wait, said Jack, and he wrote, coffin called sarcophagus. We'd better hurry, said Annie, if we want to see the mummy. She started down the rope ladder. Jack looked up from his notebook. Mummy? he said. There's probably a mummy in that gold box, Annie called up. We're in ancient Egypt, remember? Jack loved mummies. He put down his pencil. Goodbye, Jack, called Annie. Wait, Jack called. Mummies, Annie shouted. Oh man, said Jack weakly, mummies.

他把手伸进背包，掏出了笔记本。杰克平时总爱记笔记。 等一下，杰克说着，就提笔写道： 棺材名叫 石棺 我们最好快点，安妮说，不然就看不到木乃伊啦。 她开始顺着绳梯往下爬。杰克的视线从笔记本上抬起来。 木乃伊？他说。 那个金盒子里说不定就有一具木乃伊哦。安妮抬头喊道。 我们现在在古埃及呀，你忘了？ 杰克可喜欢木乃伊了。他放下了铅笔。 拜拜啦杰克。安妮喊道。等等我。杰克也喊了起来。 有木乃伊哦。安妮大声喊。 我的天呐，杰克有气无力地说，真的是木乃伊。

She sure knew how to get to him. Jack shoved his notebook and the Egypt book into his pack. Then he started down the ladder. When he got to the ground, he and Annie took off across the sand. But as they ran, a strange thing happened. The closer they got to the parade, the harder it was to see it. Then suddenly, it was gone. The strange parade had disappeared, vanished. But the great stone pyramid was still there, towering above them. Panting, Jack looked around. What had happened? Where were the people? The oxen? The gold box? The cat? They're gone, said Annie. Where did they go, said Jack? Maybe they were ghosts, said Annie. Don't be silly. There's no such thing as ghosts, said Jack. It must have been a mirage.

她可太知道怎么拿捏他了。 杰克把笔记本和埃及书猛地塞进背包里。 然后他也开始往下爬梯子。 他刚落地，就和安妮一起穿过沙地往前跑。 可是他们跑着跑着，怪事发生了。 他们离那支队伍越近，就越看不清队伍的样子。 然后突然之间，队伍就消失了。 那支奇怪的队伍彻底不见了，消失得无影无踪。 可是巨大的石头金字塔还在那儿，高高耸立在他们面前。 杰克喘着气，四下张望。 刚才发生什么事了？那些人去哪里了？ 公牛呢？金盒子呢？那只猫呢？ 他们都不见了。安妮说。 他们去哪儿了？杰克问。 说不定他们是鬼呀。安妮说。 别傻了，这世上根本没有鬼。杰克说。 刚才那肯定是海市蜃楼。