Because of Winn-Dixie (IV) 傻狗温迪克（四）

Kate Dicamillo

一天，下雷雨了，温迪克在房间到处乱跑，欧宝这才知道温迪克有雷雨恐惧症。令人感到温暖的是，欧宝爸爸一点儿也不责怪温迪克怕打雷，而是试着保护它。

That night， there was a real bad 1thunderstorm.But what woke me up wasn't the thunder and

lightning. It was Winn-Dixie， 2）whining and3）butting his head against my bedroom door.

"Winn-Dixie，" I said. "What are you doing？"He didn't pay any attention to me. He justkept beating his head against the door and whining and 4）whimpering;and when I got out of bed and went over and put my hand on his head，hewas shaking and 5）trembling so hard that it scared me. I knelt down andwrapped my arms around him， but he didn't turn and look at me or smile orsneeze or wag his tail， or do any normal kind of Winn-Dixie thing; he justkept beating his head against the door and crying and shaking.

"You want the door open？"I said. "Huh？ Is that what you want？"I stoodup and opened the door and Winn-Dixie flew through it like something bigand ugly and mean was chasing him.

"Winn-Dixie，" I 6）hissed， "come back here."I didn't want him going andwaking the preacher up.

But it was too late. Winn-Dixie was already at the other end of the7trailer， in the preacher's room. I could tell because there was a sproi-i-ing sound that must have come from Winn-Dixie jumping up on the bed，and then there was a sound from the preacher like he was real surprised.But none of it lasted long， because Winn-Dixie came tearing back out of thepreacher's room， panting and running like crazy. I tried to grab him， but hewas going too fast.

那晚出现了很大的暴风雨，可是吵醒我的不是闪电，也不是打雷，而是温迪克用头撞卧房门的哀叫声。

“温迪克！”我叫它，“你在干什么？”

它不理我，继续用头撞门、哀号、鸣咽。我起来把手放在它的头上，它全身颤抖得很厉害，把我吓得要命。我跪下来用手搂着它的脖子，可是它不转过来看我，不笑，不打喷嚏，不摇尾巴，也不做任何一件平常做的舉动。它只是继续撞门、哀号和颤抖。

“你想要打开门吗？”我问，“是吗？你只是要开门对不对？”我站起来把门打开，温迪克立刻飞奔出去，像有个怪物在后面追它似的。

“温迪克，”我小声地叫它，“回来。”我怕它把牧师吵醒。

可是太迟了，温迪克己经跑到了牧师的房里。我听到“噗”的一声，一定是温迪克跳到了床上，牧师被惊醒发出的声音。但是没多久，温迪克又冲出房间，像发了疯一样喘着大气跑来跑去。我试着想抓住它，可是它跑得太快了