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clear out of the gym so they could have their meeting. But then some of the girls on the Dance Committee got in on the conversation, and it looked like it was about to get ugly. Just when it seemed like a fight was gonna break out, Mrs. Sheer suggested a compromise. She said we could put up the petition in the middle of the gym and the seniors could have their meeting on one half and us kids could have our dance on the other.

离开体育馆，好让他们开会。 但后来舞蹈委员会的一些女孩也加入了谈话，看起来事情就要变得很难看了。 就在一场争吵即将爆发的时候，希尔夫人提出了一个妥协方案。 她说我们可以在体育馆中间张贴请愿书，高年级学生可以在一边开会，我们这些孩子可以在另一边跳舞。

Everybody seemed to be able to live with that idea, and the janitor put up the petition. Losing half of the gym was kind of a bummer, what killed the mood was the LIGHTS. There is only one switch for the overhead lights in the gym, and they had to be either all on or all off. The senior citizens wanted them on for their meeting, so that was the end of the "Midnight in Paris" vibe over on our side of the gym.

每个人似乎都能接受这个想法，于是看门人发出了请愿书。 失去半个健身房是件令人沮丧的事，毁掉气氛的是灯光。 健身房顶灯只有一个开关，它们要么全开，要么全关。 老年人希望他们在见面时穿着它们，所以在我们这边的健身房，“午夜巴黎”的氛围就这样结束了。

The bright lights were bad for Uncle Gary, too, because now all the kids who bought shirts from him could see they'd gotten ripped off, and they started demanding their money back. Uncle Gary tried to distract everyone by turning the music up, and a lot of people hit the dance floor.

明亮的灯光对加里叔叔也不好，因为现在所有从他那里买衬衫的孩子都能看到他们被骗了，他们开始要求退款。 加里叔叔把音乐开大，试图分散大家的注意力，结果很多人都跳上了舞池。

The girls danced in a big group in the middle of the gym. Every once in awhile a guy would try to dance his way into the group, but the girls had formed a kind of wall that kept the boys out. I didn't really understand that until I tried to make a move to break into the circle and got totally blocked. One of the seniors came over to our side of the gym and complained that the music was too loud and it needed to be turned way down.

女孩们在体育馆中央一大群跳舞。 每隔一段时间，就会有一个男孩试图通过跳舞进入这个群体，但女孩们已经形成了一堵墙，把男孩挡在外面。 我真的不明白这一点，直到我试图采取行动闯入圈子，却被完全挡住了。 一个高年级学生来到我们这边的健身房，抱怨音乐太吵了，需要把声音关小一点。

So Uncle Gary lowered the volume by about 80%, and then we could hear every word of the Senior Centre meeting. LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT MRS. FISHBURN HAS SECONDED THE MOTION TO HAVE A COFFEEMAKER IN THE KITCHENETTE. That didn't seem to bother the girls, though. A lot of them took out their personal music players and just kept dancing.

于是加里叔叔把音量调低了80%，这样我们就能听到老年中心会议的每一个字了。 请记录在案。 菲什伯恩支持在厨房里放一台咖啡机的动议。 不过，这似乎并没有影响到女孩们。 他们中的许多人拿出他们的个人音乐播放器，只是继续跳舞。

By that point most of the boys had had enough. All that time being on their best behavior around the girls had taken its toll, and a lot of the guys just totally cut loose. Mrs. Sheer and the rest of the chaperones tried to calm the boys down, but it was hopeless. It was a really wild scene, and it was actually getting a little dangerous. I thought about going over by the bleachers to get out of everyone's way, but at that moment the Mad Pantser struck again and I decided I was better off where I was.

到那时，大多数男孩已经受够了。 一直以来，他们在女孩们面前表现得很好，这让他们付出了代价，很多男孩完全摆脱了束缚。 希尔太太和其他的监护人试图让孩子们平静下来，但无济于事。 这是一个非常狂野的场景，而且实际上变得有点危险。 我本想走到看台那边，躲开所有人，但就在那一刻，疯裤子男又来了，我决定还是呆在那里比较好。