2 Ch2-Dumb Miss Daisy and Principal Klutz

Chapter 2 Dumb Miss Daisy and Principal Klutz Miss Daisy said it was time for us to clear off our desks and see how much we knew about arithmetic. Ugh! "If I gave you fifty-eight apples and Principal Klutz took twenty-eight of them away," Miss Daisy asked, "how many apples would you have left? A.J.?"

黛西小姐说，是时候让我们收拾一下课桌，看看我们对算术了解多少了。 啊!“如果我给你五十八个苹果，克鲁茨校长拿走了其中的二十八个，”黛西小姐问，“你还剩下几个苹果?” 抗干扰?”

"Who cares how many apples you would have left?" I said. "I hate apples. If you ask me, you and Principal Klutz can take all the apples away and it wouldn't bother me one bit." "You would have thirty apples," said that girl Andrea Young in the front of the class. She had a big smile on her face, like she had just opened all her birthday presents. Andrea Young thinks she's so smart. "I hate arithmetic," I announced. "You know what?" Miss Daisy said. "I hate arithmetic too!" "You do?" we all said. Sure! I don't even know what you get if you multi-

“谁在乎你还剩下多少苹果?”我说。 “我讨厌苹果。要我说，你和克鲁茨校长可以把所有的苹果都拿走，我一点也不介意。” “你会有30个苹果，”坐在教室前面的那个叫安德里亚·杨的女孩说。 她脸上挂着灿烂的笑容，好像她刚刚打开了所有的生日礼物。 安德里亚·杨觉得自己很聪明。 “我讨厌算术。”我宣布。 “你知道吗?”黛西小姐说。 “我也讨厌算术!”“是吗?”我们都说。 当然!我甚至不知道如果你乘-会得到什么

ply four times four." "You don't?" "I have no idea," Miss Daisy said, scratching her head and wrinkling up her forehead like she was trying to figure it out. "Maybe one of you kids can explain it to me?" Boy, Miss Daisy was really dumb! Even

四乘四。”“你不?”“我不知道，”黛西小姐说，一边搔着头，皱着额头，好像想弄明白是怎么回事。 “也许你们哪位孩子能给我解释一下?”天哪，黛西小姐真笨!甚至

I know what you get when you multiply four times four. But that smarty-pants-I-know-everything-girl Andrea Young beat me to it and got called on first. "If you put four crayons in a row," she told Miss Daisy as she put a bunch of crayons on the top of her desk, "and you make four rows of four crayons, you'll have sixteen crayons. See?" Then she counted the crayons from one to sixteen. Miss Daisy looked at the crayons on Andrea's desk. She had a puzzled look on her

我知道4乘以4得到什么。 但那个自作聪明，自以为无所不知的女孩安德里亚·杨抢在我前面，先被邀请了。 “如果你把四支蜡笔排成一排，”她一边把一束蜡笔放在黛西小姐的桌子上，一边对她说，“你把四支蜡笔排成四排，你就有十六支蜡笔了。” 看到了什么?”然后她从一数到十六。 黛西小姐看着安德里亚桌子上的蜡笔。 她一副迷惑不解的样子

face. "I'm not sure I understand," she said. "Can somebody else explain it to me?" Michael Robinson, this kid wearing a red T-shirt with a dirt bike on it, explained four times four again, using pencils. He had sixteen pencils on his desk, in four rows of four pencils. Miss Daisy still had a look on her face like she didn't understand. "What would happen if you subtracted half of the pencils?" she asked. Michael took away two of the rows of pencils and put them in his pencil box. "Then you would have eight pencils!"

脸“我不太明白，”她说。 “谁能给我解释一下吗?”迈克尔·罗宾逊，这个穿着红色t恤，上面有一辆越野车的孩子，又用铅笔解释了4乘4。 他的桌子上有十六支铅笔，排成四排，每排四支。 黛西小姐脸上仍然有一种不懂的表情。 “如果你减去一半的铅笔会怎么样?”她问。 迈克尔拿走了两排铅笔，放进他的铅笔盒里。 “那你就有八支铅笔了!”

we all said. Andrea Young added, "Half of sixteen is eight." Miss Daisy wrinkled up her forehead until it was almost like an accordion. She still didn't get it! She started counting the pencils on Michael's desk out loud and using her fingers. She got it all wrong. We gathered around Michael's desk and tried to explain to Miss Daisy how to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers using the pencils. Nothing worked. Miss Daisy had to be the dumbest teacher in the history of the world! No matter how many times we

我们都说。安德里亚·杨补充说:“16的一半是8。” 黛西小姐把额头皱得像手风琴一样。 她还是不明白!她开始大声地用手指数着迈克尔桌上的铅笔。 她完全搞错了。我们围在迈克尔的桌子旁，试着向黛西小姐解释如何用铅笔做加法、减法、乘法和除法。 毫无效果。黛西小姐一定是世界历史上最笨的老师!无论我们多少次