7 Ch7-Bonbons and Footballs

Chapter 7 Bonbons and Footballs The next day Miss Daisy brought in a box with ribbons on it and told us she had a surprise. "What's in the box?" we pleaded. "It's a secret." "Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?" "Well, okay," she said, opening the box.

第七章糖果和足球第二天，黛西小姐带来了一个系着丝带的盒子，告诉我们她有一个惊喜。 “盒子里装的是什么?”我们恳求道。 “这是个秘密。”“Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease ?”“好吧，”她说着，打开了盒子。

"It's bonbons!" Miss Daisy said she thought we might be able to use them for arithmetic problems so we could learn together. She put the bonbons on the table in the front of

“这是糖果!”黛西小姐说她认为我们可以用它们来做数学题，这样我们就可以一起学习了。 她把糖果放在前面的桌子上

the room. There must have been twenty or thirty of them. "Can somebody think up an arithmetic problem using bonbons?" she asked. "Andrea?" "If you had three bonbons in a box," said Andrea as she put three bonbons into her pencil box, "and you had three boxes just like that, how many bonbons would you have all together?" Miss Daisy looked at Andrea's pencil box for a long time, counting in her head and on her fingers. Any dummy would know that three boxes with three bonbons in each box would equal nine bonbons. Three times three is nine. But Miss Daisy didn't seem to know that. Finally she just opened up Andrea's pencil box

了房间。他们大概有二三十个。 “有人能用棒棒糖做一道算术题吗?”她问。 “安德里亚?”“如果你有三个糖果在一个盒子里，”安德里亚边说边把三个糖果放进她的铅笔盒里，“你有三个这样的盒子，你总共有多少个糖果?”黛西小姐久久地看着安德里亚的铅笔盒，在脑子里数着，在手指上数着。 任何笨蛋都知道，三个盒子，每个盒子里有三个糖果，等于九个糖果。 三乘三等于九。 但黛西小姐似乎不知道这一点。 最后她打开了安德里亚的铅笔盒

and popped the three bonbons into her mouth. "Who cares how many bonbons I would have?" she asked. "As long as I get to eat some of them!" Miss Daisy really needs a lot of help with arithmetic. After she had eaten her bonbons, Miss Daisy passed out bonbons for all of us and we had a bonbon party. Then she said that was enough arithmetic for the day and asked what we wanted to talk about for the rest of our math time. "Football!" I shouted. Miss Daisy didn't like that I talked without raising my hand first. Personally, I don't see what raising my hand has to

然后把三块糖果塞进嘴里。 “谁在乎我会吃多少糖果呢?”她问道。 “只要我能吃到一些就行!”黛西小姐在算术方面确实需要很多帮助。 黛西小姐吃完糖果后，把糖果分发给我们大家，我们开了一个糖果派对。 然后她说今天的算术已经讲够了，问我们剩下的数学时间想谈些什么。 “足球!”我叫道。黛西小姐不喜欢我说话不先举手。 就我个人而言，我不觉得举手有什么用

do with talking. I don't talk with my hands. But she did let me talk, and I told her that football is just about my favoritest thing in the world and I know all about it. My dad takes me to every game of the Chargers, a professional football team. "Maybe you can help me," Miss Daisy said. "I always wondered how long is a football field?" "A hundred yards," I told her. "Anybody knows that." "Wow! That's a big field. With a field that big how can you and your father see what's going on?" "My dad always tries to get us seats near the fifty-yard line," I said. "They're

不要再说话了。我不会用手说话。 但她确实让我说话了，我告诉她足球是我在这个世界上最喜欢的事情，我对它了如指掌。 我爸爸带我去看职业橄榄球队——闪电队的每场比赛。 “也许你能帮助我，”黛西小姐说。 “我一直想知道一个足球场有多长?”“一百码，”我告诉她。 “谁都知道。”“哇!这是一个很大的领域。 有这么大的一块地，你和你父亲怎么能看到发生了什么?”“我爸爸总是设法给我们弄到50码线附近的座位，”我说。 “他们

the best tickets." "Why?" Miss Daisy asked. "Because the fifty-yard line is right in the middle of the field." "Does that mean that half of a hundred yards would be fifty yards?" she asked. "Yup." "I see," Miss Daisy said. "So if you know there are a hundred yards on a football field, do you know how many pennies there are in a dollar? Andrea?" "A hundred!" hollered Andrea Young. "Just like a football field!" "Really?" said Miss Daisy. "So if half the football field is fifty yards, how many pennies are in half a dollar?" "Fifty!" Michael Robinson shouted.

最好的票。”“为什么?”黛西小姐问。 “因为50码线就在球场中央。” “这是不是说一百码的一半就是五十码?”她问。 “是的。”“我明白了，”黛西小姐说。 “所以，如果你知道足球场有100码，你知道一美元有多少便士吗?” 安德里亚?”“一百!”安德里亚·杨喊道。 “就像足球场一样!”“真的吗?”黛西小姐说。 “那么如果半个足球场是50码，半美元等于多少便士?”“五十!”迈克尔·罗宾逊喊道。