6 Shake-up

Chapter 6. Shake -up. Jack! cried Annie. She ran to him. Are you okay? Jack just nodded. He put on his wet glasses. He felt shaky and mad at himself. I never should have tried to stand, he thought. Kama picked up Jack's surfboard from the shallow water and brought it over to him. I told Drew not to stand. She said, laughing. You fell hard. It's not funny, thought Jack. I nearly drowned.

第六章 突发变故 “杰克！”安妮大叫着朝他跑过去。“你没事吧？”杰克只是点了点头，他戴上自己湿乎乎的 眼镜。他浑身发抖，生自己的气。我真不该试着站起来的，他心里想。 卡玛从浅水区捞起杰克的冲浪板，拿到了他身边。 “我早就跟你说过别站起来呀。”她笑着说道，“你摔得可狠了。” 一点都不好笑，杰克心里想。我差点就淹死了。

The best thing to do is to go right back out," said Boka. You go, said Jack. His eyes and nose burned from the salt water. I'll stay here. He walked over to his pack, picked it up, and took out the research book. Come on, Jack, said Annie. Try it again. Stay on your belly this time. No, this time I'm going to read about surfing first, he said. Aw, you should just try it again, said Annie. Not read about it. She ran to him and pulled the book out of his hands. Jack jerked it away from her. He slipped and fell onto the sand. Kama and Boka laughed again. Why are you laughing? Jack snapped. You don't even know how to read. Boka and Kama looked hurt.

“最好的办法就是马上再回到水里去。”博卡说。 “你去吧。”杰克说。 海水咸得他眼睛和鼻子都火辣辣的疼。 我要待在这儿。 他走到自己的背包旁，拿起包，掏出了那本研究手册。 “来吧，杰克。”安妮说。 再试一次嘛。 这次你就趴在板上别起来。 “不了，这次我要先看看冲浪相关的知识再试。”他说。 “哎呀，你就该直接再试一次嘛。”安妮说。 不用先看书啦。 她跑到他身边，一把把书从他手里抽走。 杰克猛地把书从她手里抢了回来。 他脚一滑，摔在了沙子上。 卡玛和博卡又笑了起来。 “你们笑什么？” 杰克怒气冲冲地吼道。 你们根本就不认字。 博卡和卡玛看上去都很难过。

Jack !" said Annie. That was mean. Say you're sorry. Jack opened his book and pretended to read it. He did feel sorry, but he was too upset to say so. Fine. Stay here," said Annie. She went back to Boca and Kama. Let's go. As Jack sat alone on the beach, he looked up from his book. He watched the other kids paddling through the water. I don't care, he muttered. I'm never going back out in those waves. Morgan didn't send us here to surf anyway, he thought. She told us to build a ship. But how the heck are we supposed to do that? Jack heaved an angry sigh. Now he was cross with Morgan. He turned to the back of the book and searched the index for ship.

“杰克！”安妮喊道。 你太过分了。 快跟他们道歉。 杰克打开书，假装看了起来。 他确实觉得抱歉，可他现在太生气了，说不出口。 “随便你。” “你就待在这儿吧。”安妮说。 她走回到博卡和卡玛身边。 “我们走吧。” 杰克一个人坐在沙滩上，看书的间隙抬了抬头。 他看着其他孩子在水里划着冲浪板。 “我才不在乎呢。”他小声嘟囔着。 我再也不要进到那些浪里去了。 反正摩根派我们来这儿也不是让我们冲浪的，他心里想。 她是让我们来造一艘船的。 可我们到底要怎么造船啊？ 杰克气呼呼地重重叹了口气。 现在他连摩根也生上气了。 他翻到书的末尾，在索引里查找“船”相关的内容。

Suddenly, Jack heard a rumbling from under the sand. The ground started to shake. It shook so hard the book flew out of Jack's hands. Jack bounced up and down on the beach. Shells were jumping up and down, too. Rocks tumbled down from the cliff. It's an earthquake, thought Jack. The rumbling stopped. The shaking stopped. Jack looked around. Everything was normal again, except some rocks rolled around at the bottom of the cliff. Jack looked out to sea. Kama, Boka, and Annie were past the breakers. They were sitting on their surfboards laughing and talking.

突然，杰克听到沙子底下传来一阵轰隆隆的声响。 地面开始晃动起来。 晃动得太厉害了，书直接从杰克手里飞了出去。 杰克在沙滩上被颠得上下弹跳。 贝壳也跟着上下蹦跳。 石块从悬崖上滚落下来。 是地震，杰克心里想。 轰隆隆的声响停了。 晃动也停了。 杰克环顾四周。 一切又恢复了正常，只有悬崖底部还有些石块在滚来滚去。 杰克朝大海望去。 卡玛、博卡和安妮已经划到了碎浪区外面。 他们正坐在冲浪板上，笑着聊天呢。

Everything seemed okay. But Jack felt sure that something was wrong. He grabbed the Hawaii book from the sand. He looked up earthquake. He read, Earthquakes in Hawaii have been known to cause tsunamis, which used to be called tidal waves. An earthquake can cause water out at sea to be set in motion. The water grows higher and higher as it moves toward land. Just before the tsunami strikes, water may pull away from the shore. Then it returns in a gigantic wave that crashes over the land and washes everything away. Oh, man, thought Jack, a tsunami might be coming.

看起来一切都还好。 可杰克总觉得有什么不对劲。 他从沙子上抓起那本讲夏威夷的书。 他查找了“地震”的条目。 他看到上面写着： 夏威夷的地震常会引发海啸， 海啸过去也被称作潮汐波。 地震会让远海的海水开始流动。 海水在向陆地移动的过程中会变得越来越高。 就在海啸来袭之前， 海水可能会从岸边退去。 之后它会化作滔天巨浪席卷陆地， 把所有东西都冲走。 天啊，杰克心里想，可能要有海啸来了。