1 Ch1-Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa

Chapter 1 Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa "Me llano A.J. y odio la escuela." That's "My name is A.J. and I hate school" in Spanish. Miss Holly translated it for me. She's the Spanish teacher at Ella Mentry School. "It's not fair," I said as our class walked down the hall to the language lab. "Why

第一章圣诞节、光明节和宽扎节 Y ' dio la escuela。”那是“我叫A.J.。 我讨厌学校”。 霍莉小姐为我翻译了它。 她是艾拉门特里学校的西班牙语老师。 “这太不公平了，”当我们班的学生沿着大厅走向语言实验室时，我说。 “为什么

do we have to learn a whole nother language?" "Nother' isn't a word, Arlo," said Andrea Young. "You can't even speak English correctly." Andrea is this girl in my class with curly brown hair who thinks she knows everything. She calls me by my real name because she knows I hate it. "Nother' is too a word," I told her. "Is not." "Is too." We went back and forth like that for a while. Andrea said she looked up "nother" in the dictionary once, and it wasn't there. She's probably the only kid

我们非得学一门外语吗?”“‘母亲’不是一个词，阿乐。”安德烈·杨说。 “你连英语都说不好。” 安德里亚是我班上一个棕色卷发的女孩，她自认为无所不知。 她叫我的真名是因为她知道我不喜欢这样。 “‘母亲’这个词太过了，”我告诉她。 “不是。”“太”。我们这样来来回回聊了一会儿。 安德里亚说她曾经在字典里查过“另一个”，没有。 她可能是家里唯一的孩子

in the world who keeps a dictionary on her desk so she can look up words and show everybody how smart she is. "'Another' is a word," Andrea said, "but not 'nother.'" "Oh yeah?" I said. "If 'nother' isn't a word, then why did you just say it?" Nah-nah-nah boo-boo on her. Andrea was wearing this dumb hat that she made all by herself in her knitting class. Andrea takes classes in everything. She probably even takes a class in how to be annoying, because that's the one thing she's good at. After walking a million hundred miles, we finally got to the language lab. What a

世界上最聪明的人是谁，她在桌子上放一本字典，这样她就可以查单词，向大家展示她有多聪明。 “‘Another’是一个词，”安德烈说，“但‘nother’不是。“哦，是吗?”我说。 “如果‘母亲’不是一个词，那你为什么要说出来?”不，不，不，不。 安德里亚戴着这顶傻乎乎的帽子，那是她在编织课上自己做的。 安德里亚什么都上。 她可能还上过如何让人讨厌的课程，因为这是她最擅长的。 走了一百多公里后，我们终于到了语言实验室。 什么是

dumb name. Labs are supposed to have test tubes and mad scientists and hunchbacked guys named Igor who limp. Our language lab is just a plain old room where we learn Spanish. What's up with that? "Isn't learning Spanish fun?" Andrea said to her crybaby friend Emily. "I hope Miss Holly teaches us—" She didn't get the chance to finish her sentence because at that very second Miss Holly danced in the door. Miss Holly was playing a guitar and she had a big basket of fruit on her head. She was singing some crazy song and spinning around and stamping her feet. Her

愚蠢的名字。实验室里应该有试管，有疯狂的科学家，还有一个叫伊戈尔的驼背瘸子。 我们的语言实验室只是一个普通的旧房间，我们在那里学习西班牙语。 这是怎么回事?“学西班牙语不是很有趣吗?”安德里亚对爱哭的朋友艾米丽说。 “我希望霍利小姐教我们——”她还没来得及说完这句话，因为就在那一刻，霍利小姐在门口跳起舞来。 霍莉小姐正在弹吉他，头上顶着一大篮水果。 她唱着一些疯狂的歌，不停地旋转，跺着脚。 她的

red dress had pictures of reindeer on the back. On the front were blinking lights and the words "Happy Holidays!" When she finished the song, Miss Holly yelled, "Olay!" which is the name of the stuff my mom smears on her face at night. "iFeliz Navidad!" Miss Holly said. "Happy Hanukkah! Kwanzaa Yenu Iwe Na Heri!" "What the heck does that mean?" I asked.

一件红色的裙子，背后有驯鹿的图案。 前面是闪烁的灯和“节日快乐!”当霍莉小姐唱完这首歌时，她喊道:“玉兰油!”这是我妈妈晚上涂在脸上的东西的名字。 “iFeliz车站!”霍莉小姐说。 “光明节快乐!宽扎节万岁!”“这到底是什么意思?”我问。