Book 4 Raining Cats,Dogs,and Other Animals

Raining Cats, Dogs, and Other Animals. Written by J .F. Blaine. Illustrated by Joel Snyder.

下猫下狗，还有其他小动物。 J·F·布雷恩 著 乔尔·斯奈德 绘

In part three, Charlie put an end to the town's drought. She made it rain on her garden, but also on the swing into spring parade, which put a smile on no one's face but Charlie's. I did it! I really did it! I sang out, I made it rain! About that, said Dad. I know you helped with the rain stick, and Aunt Dee helped with the rain dance, But I wrote the rain song and it was my rain cloud experiment with the fan and ice cubes that really did it Isn't the rain glorious?

第三部分里，查莉终结了小镇的旱灾。 她给自己的花园唤来了雨，可雨也落在了迎春游行的场地上，除了查莉没人开心。 我做到啦！ 我真的做到啦！ 我大声喊：是我唤来雨的！ 爸爸开口说道：说起这件事呀。 我知道你帮忙做了唤雨棒，迪阿姨也跳了求雨舞，可是求雨歌是我写的，用风扇冰块做雨云实验的也是我，这场雨是不是棒极了？

Well, if you are a garden of wild oats, watermelon seeds, and apple pits struggling to grow in parched ground, rain is glorious. But if you are a town full of people in the middle of an outdoor festival, rain is not so glorious. You are always ruining everything, cried Ethan Jordan, a boy in my class who is also my number

如果你是一片在干裂土地上拼命发芽的野燕麦、西瓜籽和苹果核，那这场雨当然棒极了。 可如果你是小镇上正办户外庆典的居民，这场雨可一点都不棒。 你总是搞砸一切！我同班同学伊森·乔丹大喊，他还是我的头号

Hold on now, kids," said Dad. Charlie didn't make it rain. Her Aunt Delilah had some of her pilot friends do a cloud -seeding experiment with special chemicals. They made it rain. Isn't that right, Dee? Aunt Dee looked at me, my rain hat dripping, my spirits dampened. I tried to tell you before that I wasn't able to get my friends to come through. But if they didn't make it rain, then I started. I really did it? I made it rain on everyone's parade? I looked at Ethan and the other kids. Now they looked like they really wanted to throttle me. Before they got the chance, I grabbed Murray, my big old chocolate Labrador, and took off.

“先别激动，孩子们，”爸爸说。 不是查莉唤来的雨。 她迪莱拉阿姨找了几位飞行员朋友，用特殊药剂做了人工增雨实验。 是他们催来的雨。 我说的对不对， 迪？ 迪阿姨看着我，我的雨帽滴着水，我的心情也湿漉漉的提不起劲。 “我之前就跟你说了，我没能请到我的朋友过来帮忙。” 可如果不是他们下的雨，那不就是说……是我 真的做到了？ 是我把雨下到大家的游行上的？ 我看向伊森和其他小朋友。 他们现在的眼神，看起来真的想掐住我。 没等他们动手，我抓过我的老伙计穆雷，我的巧克力色拉布拉多，转身就跑了。

See you at home, Dad." I took a shortcut through the hole in the fence behind Mr. Magruder's yard just to make sure Ethan and the other kids didn't follow me. I made it home just as the rain let up. I couldn't keep the grin off my face. "'That was quite a storm we just had,' said Great Aunt Tess as I banged through the door. Her friends from the Scrabble Society were coming over that evening for a tournament. Gaddy's apartment wasn't big enough for tournament night, so dad let her use our house.

“爸爸，我们回家见。” 我从马格路德先生家后院的篱笆破洞抄近路，就怕伊森他们跟着我。 我刚到家，雨就停了。 我脸上忍不住一直挂着笑。 “刚才那场暴风雨可真大呀，”我撞进门的时候，泰丝姑奶奶说道。 她拼字协会的朋友们今晚要来参加比赛。 加迪的公寓不够大，放不下比赛，所以爸爸让她用我们家。

Folding tables and chairs filled the living room. Little glass bowls with little balls of hard candies in flavors like toffee and butter rum that don't taste good until you are at least 60 years old sat on side tables. It was raining cats and dogs, she added.

折叠桌和椅子挤满了客厅。 边桌上放着玻璃小碗，装着硬糖球，有太妃味和黄油朗姆味，这些口味得你至少六十岁才会觉得好吃。 “刚刚可是下倾盆大雨哟，”她补充道。