6 Ch6-What Do You Want to Be？

Chapter 6 What Do You Want to Be? At the end of the day, Miss Daisy sat on the floor and we all sat around her. She told us to talk about what we want to be when we grow up. "I want to be a veterinarian," said Andrea Young. "Does anyone know what the word

第六章你想成为什么样的人? 一天结束的时候，黛西小姐坐在地板上，我们都围着她坐着。 她告诉我们要谈谈我们长大后想做什么。 “我想成为一名兽医，”安德里亚·杨说。 “有人知道这个词是什么吗?

veterinarian means?" asked Miss Daisy. "That's somebody who doesn't eat meat," said Michael Robinson. "It is not!" I said. "That's a vegetarian. A veterinarian is somebody who fought in a war." "That's a veteran," Miss Daisy said. "Andrea, would you like to tell the class what a veterinarian does?" "A veterinarian is an animal doctor." That Andrea Young thinks she knows everything. But for once, I knew she was wrong. "Animals can't be doctors," I said. Everybody laughed, even though I didn't say anything funny. Miss Daisy said a veterinarian is a doctor who takes

兽医是什么意思?”黛西小姐问。 “那是一个不吃肉的人，”迈克尔·罗宾逊说。 “不是的!”我说。“那是素食主义者。 兽医是参加过战争的人。” “那是个老兵，”黛西小姐说。 “安德里亚，你能告诉同学们兽医是做什么的吗?”“兽医就是动物医生。” 安德里亚·杨自以为无所不知。 但这一次，我知道她错了。 “动物不能当医生，”我说。 大家都笑了，尽管我没说什么好笑的话。 黛西小姐说兽医是一名医生

care of animals. That made a lot more sense than that dumb thing Andrea said. Emily was next and she said she wanted to grow up and become a nurse in a hospital. "Why do you want to do that?" I asked. "People come into hospitals all sick and injured, their arms falling off, their guts hanging out...." "A.J.!" Miss Daisy said in her serious voice. Emily got all upset and ran out of the room crying. "What did I say?" I asked. "What do you want to be when you grow up, A.J.?" Miss Daisy asked. "I'm going to be a famous football

爱护动物。这可比安德里亚说的傻话好多了。 艾米丽是下一个，她说她长大后想成为一名医院的护士。 “你为什么想这么做?”我问。 “人们来到医院，都是生病或受伤的，他们的胳膊掉了下来，内脏露在外面....” “抗干扰!”黛西小姐用她严肃的声音说。 艾米丽非常沮丧，哭着跑出了房间。 “我说什么来着?”我问。 “你长大后想做什么，A.J.?”黛西小姐问。 “我要成为一名著名的足球运动员

player," I said. "Really? And why did you choose that field?" "Because I love football," I said, "and if I was a football player, I wouldn't have to read or write or do arithmetic or go to school. My friend Billy told me that football

我说。“真的吗?你为什么选择这个领域?”“因为我喜欢足球，”我说，“如果我是一名足球运动员，我就不用读书、写字、做算术或上学了。 我的朋友比利告诉我那个足球

players are really dumb." "Your friend told you that?" said Miss Daisy. "Yeah, Billy is really smart. He also told me that if you dig a hole deep enough, you can dig all the way to China. And if you fall into that hole, you'd fall all the way through the Earth and pop right out the other side. And you'd be moving so fast that you'd shoot all the way into outer space." Michael Robinson said that sounded cool. He decided that instead of becoming a firefighter, he wanted to become one of those hole-digging astronauts. Emily came back into the room with

运动员真的很笨。” “你朋友告诉你的?”黛西小姐说。 “是的，比利真的很聪明。 他还告诉我，如果你挖一个足够深的洞，你可以一直挖到中国。 如果你掉进那个洞里，你就会穿过地球，从另一边跳出来。 你会移动得非常快，以至于你会一直射向外太空。” 迈克尔·罗宾逊说这听起来很酷。 他决定不再做一名消防员，而是成为一名挖洞的宇航员。 艾米丽回到房间

a tissue. Everybody else went around in a circle saying what they wanted to be. This girl named Lindsay said she wanted to be a singer. Ryan said he wanted to be a businessman like his dad. Andrea Young said that if she couldn't be a veterinarian, she wanted to be a teacher like Miss Daisy. Then she gave Miss Daisy a big smile. I hate her.

一个组织。其他人围成一圈说着自己想成为什么样的人。 一个叫琳赛的女孩说她想成为一名歌手。 瑞安说他想成为像他爸爸一样的商人。 安德里亚·杨说，如果她不能成为一名兽医，她想成为一名像黛西小姐一样的老师。 然后她给了黛西小姐一个大大的微笑。 我恨她。