1 Ch1-Science Is for Nerds

Chapter 1 Science Is for Nerds My name is A.J. and I hate school. Why do we need to learn how to read if we have books on CD? Why do we need to learn social studies if that stuff happened a long time ago and we can't do anything about it now? I hate that stuff. But there's one subject I really hate.

第一章科学是书呆子的事我叫A.J. 我讨厌学校。如果我们有CD上的书，为什么我们需要学习如何阅读? 如果这些事情发生在很久以前，而我们现在对此无能为力，为什么我们还需要学习社会研究呢? 我讨厌那些东西。但有一门课我真的很讨厌。

Andrea Young. Well, Andrea is not exactly a subject. She's this annoying girl in my class. Even her curly brown hair is annoying. "Guess what, A.J.?" Andrea said as we were putting our backpacks away. "Your butt," I replied, (Anytime somebody asks, "Guess what?" you should always say "Your butt." That's the first rule of being a kid.) "I know what A.J. stands for," Andrea said. "Do not." "Do too." We went back and forth like that for a while. There's no way Andrea could

安德里亚年轻。安德莉亚不是我的研究对象。 她是我班上一个讨厌的女孩。 就连她的棕色卷发也让人讨厌。 “猜猜怎么着，A.J.?”我们把背包放好时，安德里亚说。 “你的屁股，”我回答。(每当有人问你:“你猜怎么着?”你应该总是说:“你的屁股。”) 这是当孩子的第一条规则。)“我知道A.J. 代表，”安德里亚说。“不要。” “也是。”我们这样来来回回聊了一会儿。 安德里亚不可能

know what A.J. stands for. I never told anyone. Even my best friends, Ryan and Michael, don't know. If anyone ever found out what A.J. stands for, I'd have to get a new name. I'd have to leave town. "A.J. stands for—" Andrea never got the chance to finish her sentence because our teacher, Miss Daisy came in. "Enough chitchatting," Miss Daisy said "It's time for Show and Share." Oh man! I forgot all about Show and Share! We were supposed to bring in something that starts with the letter D and tell the class about it. I looked in my desk for a D word. Nothing. I looked in

我知道A.J.代表什么 我从没告诉过任何人。就连我最好的朋友莱恩和迈克尔也不知道。 如果有人发现a。j 代表，我得给自己起个新名字。 我得离开这里。“A.J. 因为我们的老师黛西小姐进来了，安德里亚还没来得及把话说完。 “别闲聊了，”黛西小姐说，“是‘展示与分享’的时间了。” 哦,男人!我把“展示”和“分享”都忘了!我们应该带一些以字母D开头的东西，然后告诉全班。 我在桌子里找了个D字。 什么都没有。我看了看

my pockets. All I had was lunch money. But wait! A dime! "Dime" begins with D! "I brought in a dime," I told Miss Daisy. "Good!" she said. "What can you tell us about the dime, A.J.?" "It's worth ten cents," I said, and everybody laughed even though I didn't say anything funny. Andrea was waving her hand in the air, and she got called on, of course. "The word 'dime' comes from the Latin word 'decimus,'" Andrea said. I hate her.

我的口袋里。我只有午餐钱。 但是等等!一分钱!“Dime”以D开头!“我带来了一角钱，”我告诉黛西小姐。 “很好!”她说。“你能告诉我们关于一角硬币的事吗，A.J.?”“它值十美分，”我说，大家都笑了，尽管我没说什么好笑的话。 安德里亚在空中挥舞着她的手，当然，她被叫去了。 “‘dime’这个词来自拉丁语‘decimus’，”安德里亚说。 我恨她。

"Very good, Andrea!" said Miss Daisy. "How did you know that?" "I looked it up in my D word," Andrea said. "I brought in a dictionary. I use it all the time at home to look up words." Andrea grinned her little I'm-so-smart grin. Ryan, who sits next to me, whispered, "If she was really smart, she wouldn't have to look stuff up." "Andrea, would you please look up the word 'science'?" asked Miss Daisy. "S-C-I-E-N-C-E." What a dumb spelling! There's no reason why that word should have a C in it. Andrea turned the pages of her dictionary.

“很好，安德里亚!”黛西小姐说。 “你怎么知道的?”“我在我的D字里查了一下，”安德里亚说。 “我带来了一本字典。 我在家总是用它来查单词。” 安德里亚露出“我很聪明”的笑容。 坐在我旁边的瑞恩低声说:“如果她真的很聪明，她就不用查资料了。” “安德里亚，请你查一下‘科学’这个词好吗?”黛西小姐问。 “S-C-I-E-N-C-E。”多么愚蠢的拼写!没有理由说这个词里面有个C。 安德里亚翻着字典。