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Then we found out they were those old-fashioned instant cameras that develop your pictures right away, and everyone was a little disappointed, because those kinds don't have a screen or anything. Our team went down to the science lab, where we could take our photo in private. The first thing we had to do was figure out who was gonna be in the picture. George Fleer said we should take a picture of his belly button. But everybody thought that would be too obvious because George has a serious outie, and

后来我们发现那是一种老式的能立即冲洗照片的相机，大家都有点失望，因为那种相机没有屏幕之类的东西。 我们的团队去了科学实验室，在那里我们可以私下拍照。 我们要做的第一件事就是找出谁会出现在照片里。 乔治·弗勒说我们应该拍一张他肚脐的照片。 但大家都觉得这太明显了因为乔治要出去玩，而且

all the other groups would know EXACTLY who it was. We tried taking pictures of different kids in our group, but most of them were too obvious. Nicky Wood wanted the picture to be of him, but he's totally covered in freckles and we couldn't find a single part of him that wouldn't be a dead giveaway. We took a picture of Christopher Brownfield's back, but we caught one of the Team Four kids spying on us and we had to pick someone else.

所有其他小组都知道他是谁。 我们试着给我们组里不同的孩子拍照，但大多数都太明显了。 尼基·伍德想拍他的照片，但他满脸都是雀斑，我们找不到他身上任何一个不暴露身份的地方。 我们拍了一张克里斯托弗·布朗菲尔德的背部照片，但我们发现了四人组的一个孩子在监视我们，所以我们不得不选别人。

We took a bunch of pictures of Tyson Sanders, but the best one was of his bent arm. You couldn't even tell what the picture was of, so that's the one we went with. When all the teams got back together in the library,

我们拍了一堆泰森·桑德斯的照片，但最棒的一张是他弯曲的手臂。 你甚至看不出照片上的是什么，所以我们就用了这个。 当所有的队伍在图书馆集合时，

we put our picture up on the wall with everybody else's. And as soon as we saw the other pictures, we knew we were gonna win. Some of the pictures were so easy to identify that it was actually kind of pathetic. In fact, don't even ask me what the people on Rowley's team were thinking. We were eager to get on with the guessing part of the game, since we knew nobody would be able to figure out who was in our picture. But Mr. Tanner

我们把自己的照片和其他人的一起挂在墙上。 我们一看到其他照片，就知道我们会赢。 有些照片太容易辨认了，实际上有点可悲。 事实上，不要问我罗利团队的人是怎么想的。 我们急切地想继续游戏的猜测部分，因为我们知道没人能猜出我们的照片上是谁。 但是坦纳先生

just stood there looking at our photograph. HMM... Then Mr. Tanner said that he didn't appreciate Team Three's "juvenile stunt" and that we were disqualified from the competition. We all looked at one another, trying to figure out what the heck Mr. Tanner was talking about. But Mrs. Dean was mad, too. She said it was completely inappropriate to take a picture of someone's "posterior." No one on my team knew what "posterior" meant, but luckily we were in the library, so we looked it up in the dictionary. And you'll never believe this, but it means "butt." In fact, we found out that there are about a million OTHER words for "butt," too.

只是站在那里看着我们的照片。 嗯…然后，坦纳先生说，他不欣赏第三队的“幼稚行为”，我们被取消了比赛资格。 我们都面面相觑，想弄明白坦纳先生到底在说什么。 但迪恩太太也很生气。 她说，拍摄别人的“臀部”是完全不合适的。 我的团队中没有人知道“posterior”是什么意思，但幸运的是我们在图书馆里，所以我们在字典里查了一下。 你绝对不会相信，但它的意思是“屁股” 事实上，我们发现还有大约一百万个关于“屁股”的其他单词。

But the teachers were MAD. They actually thought we took a picture of somebody's butt, and I guess if you held the picture at a certain angle, you could see how a person could make a mistake like that. Mr. Tanner said he was gonna call our parents and tell them to come take us home, and he said that the kid whose butt was in the picture was gonna be in REALLY big trouble. I knew that if Mr. Tanner called my parents at 11:00 at night, they were not gonna be happy, and I could

但是老师们都疯了。 他们以为我们拍的是别人的屁股，我想如果你把照片放在某个角度，你就能看到一个人是如何犯这样的错误的。 坦纳先生说他要打电话给我们的父母，让他们来接我们回家，他说那个屁股出现在照片里的孩子会有大麻烦的。 我知道如果坦纳先生在晚上11点给我父母打电话，他们会不高兴的，而我可以