4. Finding Facts

4 Finding Facts That day when I got home from school, Mother was already back from work. I like it when that happens. She was in the kitchen with my dog named Tickle. I gave her a paper Mr. Scary sent home about the play. Her face smiled when she read it. "Oh boy! Your class is going to do a play for Parents' Night, huh?" she said. "How

那天我从学校回到家时，母亲已经下班回来了。 我喜欢这种情况。 她和我的狗在厨房，叫痒痒。 我给了她一篇吓人先生寄回家的关于戏剧的论文。 当她读到这封信时，脸上露出了微笑。 “哦,男孩!你们班要为父母之夜表演一出戏，是吗？”她说。 “如何

fun!" I shrugged my shoulders. "Yeah, only it would be funner if it was a mouse play," I said. "But Mr. Scary says it has to be about dumb old Columbus Day." Mother kept on reading. "Oh, and look at this," she said. "It says that over the weekend you're supposed to look up facts about Columbus and his ships. And whoever has the most facts will get to choose their part first." I rolled my eyes.

有趣!”我耸了耸肩。 “是啊，不过如果是玩老鼠游戏会更有趣，”我说。 “可吓人先生说一定是关于愚蠢的老哥伦布日的。” 妈妈继续看书。“哦，看看这个，”她说。 “上面说，周末你应该去查阅有关哥伦布和他的船只的资料。 谁掌握最多的事实，谁就可以先选择自己的立场。” 我翻了个白眼。

"Fact number one," I said. "Columbus is not a mouse. And so I don't even care about being in this dumb play." After that, I turned around. And I clomped out of the kitchen kind of grumpy. Tickle clomped with me. We were almost to my room when my mother called after me. "I just don't get it, Junie B.," she hollered. "I thought you always wanted to be a star!"

“事实一，”我说。 “哥伦布不是一只老鼠。所以我根本不在乎是否要出演这部愚蠢的戏。” 在那之后，我转过身。 我愤愤不平地走出厨房。 痒痒跟着我。我们快到我的房间时，我妈妈在后面叫我。 “我就是不明白，朱妮·B，"她大声嚷道。 “我以为你一直想当明星呢！”

I stopped clomping. Tickle stopped clomping, too. "A star?" I said. "Whoa. I never even thought about that situation." I quick turned around and zoomed back to the kitchen. "A star?" I asked. "I could really be a star, do you think? Like the one and only star of the whole entire production, you mean?" Mother grinned. "Well… maybe not the one and only star," she said. "But still, if you bring in the most facts about Columbus, you'll be able to choose any part you want." Just then, my legs jumped all around very excited. "The star part, Mother!" I said. "I am going to choose the star part!" I quick grabbed her hand.

我停止了跺脚。挠痒痒也不跳了。 “星星?”我说。“哇。我从来没有想过那种情况。” 我迅速转过身，飞快地跑回厨房。 “星星?”我问。“你觉得我真的可以成为明星吗？” 你是说，就像整个演出中唯一的明星一样？”妈妈笑了。 “嗯……也许不是唯一的明星，”她说。 “但是，如果你把关于哥伦布的大部分事实都写进去，你就可以选择你想要的任何部分。” 就在那时，我的腿跳了起来，非常兴奋。 “星星的部分，妈妈！”我说。 “我要选星星的部分！”我赶紧抓住她的手。

"Let's go! Hurry! Hurry! We have to go to the library to get my facts straight!" Mother undid my hand. "Sorry, honey. But we can't go now," she said. "Ollie's right in the middle of his nap. And I don't have a babysitter." I slumped my shoulders very glum. "Darn it," I said. "Darn it, darn it, darn it. That dumb old baby ruins everything." Mother wrinkled her eyebrows at me. "Ollie's not dumb, Junie B.," she said. "And besides, you and I can go to the library tomorrow. Tomorrow will be plenty of time for you to collect your facts." She stood there for a minute. "Or," she said, "if you want to do it right now… we can look up some Columbus facts on the computer. How does that sound?" I grabbed her hand again and pulled her to

“我们走吧!快点!快点!我们得去图书馆把我的事实搞清楚！”母亲松开了我的手。 “对不起,蜂蜜。但我们现在不能去，”她说。 “奥利正在睡觉呢。 而且我没有保姆。” 我闷闷不乐地耷拉着肩膀。 “该死，”我说。“可恶，可恶，可恶。 那个笨孩子把一切都毁了。” 母亲对我皱起眉毛。 “奥利不笨，朱妮·B，”她说。 “而且，你和我明天可以去图书馆。 明天有足够的时间让你收集事实。” 她在那儿站了一会儿。 “或者，”她说，“如果你想马上做……我们可以在电脑上查一些关于哥伦布的资料。” 听起来怎么样？”我又抓住她的手，拉她停下来

her desk. "Perfect!" I said real squealy. "That sounds perfect!" And so me and Mother sat down at her desk. And she typed the name of Christopher Columbus on her computer. And wowie wow wow! A jillion pages came up about that guy! 'Cause he was famouser than I thought! There were easy pages. And hard pages. And shortie pages. And longie pages. And picture pages. And poem pages. And there were even song pages! Me and Mother read the pages out loud together. I read the easy pages. And she read the hard ones. Then I wrote down lots of important facts we found out. And before I even knew it, I had eighteen whole facts printed on my

她的书桌上。“完美!”我说得非常刺耳。 “听起来太棒了！”于是我和妈妈在她的书桌前坐下。 她在电脑上输入了克里斯托弗·哥伦布的名字。 哇，哇，哇！关于那家伙的报道有无数页！因为他比我想象的要出名！有简单的页面。 还有硬页。还有更短的页面。 还有长页。还有图片页。 还有诗歌页。甚至还有歌曲页！我和妈妈一起大声朗读。 我读简单的书页。她读了那些难读的。 然后我写下了许多我们发现的重要事实。 在我意识到之前，我已经在我的