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We decided to really stick it to Slacksville by putting up a billboard right on the border between our two towns. And apparently their property values went down by 30% after that. So Slacksville's plan to get us back is to rename our middle school. But even though they were willing to pay, Principal Bottoms decided to reject it anyway.

我们决定好好给懒鬼镇一点颜色看看，在两镇边界立了一块广告牌。 很明显，那之后他们的房价直接跌了三成。 所以懒鬼镇报复我们的计划，就是给我们的初中改名字。 哪怕他们愿意出钱，波顿姆斯校长最终还是回绝了这事。

The school decided to lower the asking price AGAIN and finally found a taker, which was the exterminator whose contract the school canceled a couple of weeks back. The president of the company even came to the school to make the offer in person. And even though no one's thrilled our new name is gonna be 1-800-DED-BUGS Middle School, everyone seems to agree that it's still better than the name Slacksville came up with.

学校再次降低冠名报价，终于找到了接盘方，就是几周前被学校取消合同的杀虫公司。 公司老板还亲自来学校敲定了这次合作。 虽然没人对"1-800灭虫中学"这个新名字满意，但大家都同意，这总比懒鬼镇想的名字强。

The exterminator and the school put on a big press conference to announce the deal, and all the local stations came out to cover it. But the exterminator probably should've waited until AFTER his company got rid of the pests in the school. Because I doubt that press conference was good for his business.

杀虫公司和学校开了盛大的新闻发布会公布合作，所有本地电视台都来报道了。 不过杀虫公司真该等他们清完学校的害虫再开这场发布会。 毕竟那场发布会对他的生意估计没什么好处。

Friday Apparently, a lot of parents aren't thrilled with the new name of the school, and they don't like all the advertising we're being exposed to, either. So they let Principal Bottoms know about it at a PTA meeting. Now Principal Bottoms has a new scheme to raise money, and it's already created some pretty big changes at school.

周五 显然很多家长都不满意学校的新名字，也不喜欢我们整天被广告包围。 所以他们在家长会上把想法告诉了波顿姆斯校长。 现在波顿姆斯校长又想了个新筹款点子，已经给学校带来了不小的变化。

The school figured they could get a lot of money by renting out classrooms to people who needed space. So now the C wing is full of grown-ups who are using the classrooms for all sorts of different things. Some of them rented classrooms for extra storage, and now they're filled with boxes that people couldn't fit in their garages. A few others have set up rooms to do remote work so they don't have to drive into the city every day. And some are even using the rooms to create their own businesses.

学校觉得把教室租给需要场地的人就能赚一大笔钱。 所以现在C栋全是大人，他们在教室里做各式各样的事。 有些人租教室当仓库，里面堆满了自家车库放不下的箱子。 还有人租房间远程办公，这样就不用每天开车进城了。 甚至还有人在这里开自己的小公司。

One of my neighbors, Mrs. Jackson, started renting our Home Ec room, and she's using the ovens to run a bakery. Now there's a line around the block for her blueberry muffins every morning. Unfortunately, my Science classroom is across the courtyard from the C-wing classrooms, and sometimes the smell of whatever she's baking is a little too much. Today she made snickerdoodles smack in the middle of a pop quiz, and it drove everybody in my class totally wild. SNIFFFF PANT, PANT!

我的邻居杰克逊太太租了家政教室，用里面的烤箱开了家面包店。 现在每天早上，她的蓝莓松饼都要排起绕街区的长队。 不巧我的科学教室就在C栋院子对面，有时候她烤东西的香味实在太浓烈了。 今天她居然在突击小测的时候烤了肉桂甜曲奇，把我们全班都勾得坐不住。 吸吸吸 呼哧 呼哧！