2 Ch2-Weird Words

Chapter 2 Weird Words "iFIola!" Miss Holly said. "Today we're going to learn Spanish vocabulary words." "Yay!" said the girls. "Boo!" said the boys. "The first word is 'toupee,'" said Miss Holly.

第二章奇怪的单词“iFIola!”霍莉小姐说。 “今天我们要学习西班牙语词汇。” “耶!”女孩们说。“嘘!”男孩们说。 “第一个词是‘假发’，”霍莉小姐说。

I know what a toupee is. It's fake hair that guys wear so they won't look bald. Our principal, Mr. Klutz, should get one because he's as bald as a bowling ball. "The Spanish word for 'toupee' is el peluquin," said Miss Holly. "El peluquin," we all repeated. "Good," said Miss Holly. "The next word is 'lifeguard' The Spanish word for 'lifeguard' is el salvavidas." "El salvavidas," we all repeated. "Good," said Miss Holly. "The next word is 'toilet.' The Spanish word for 'toilet' is el inodoro!" "El inodoro," we all repeated. This was getting weird. I figured Miss

我知道假发是什么。那是男人戴的假头发，这样他们就不会看起来秃顶了。 我们的校长，克鲁茨先生，应该得到一个，因为他像保龄球一样秃顶。 “‘假发’在西班牙语里的意思是el peluquin，”霍莉小姐说。 “El peluquin，”我们都重复着。 “很好，”霍莉小姐说。“下一个单词是‘救生员’。‘救生员’的西班牙语单词是el salvavidas。” “救星。”我们都重复着。 “很好，”霍莉小姐说。“下一个单词是‘toilet’。‘厕所’的西班牙语单词是el inodoro!”“El inodoro，”我们都重复着。 这变得越来越奇怪了。我想小姐

Holly would teach us words we'd use every day, like "When do we eat?" or "Where is the skate park?" But she was teaching us weird words instead. Neil the nude kid raised his hand. "Why do we need to learn those words?" he asked. "Well," said Miss Holly, "what if you're at the beach and you need to tell somebody that the lifeguard's toupee fell in the toilet?" Miss Holly is weird. "Okay, that's enough vocabulary for now," Miss Holly said.

霍莉会教我们一些日常用语，比如“我们什么时候吃饭?”或者“滑冰公园在哪里?”但她却教我们一些奇怪的单词。 裸体男孩尼尔举起了手。 “我们为什么要学这些词?”他问道。 “嗯，”霍莉小姐说，“如果你在海滩上，需要告诉别人救生员的假发掉到厕所里了怎么办?”霍莉小姐很奇怪。 “好了，现在词汇量够了，”霍莉小姐说。

"Let's learn how they celebrate the holidays in a Spanish-speaking country like Mexico!" Miss Holly told us that eleven days after Christmas in Mexico, kids put their shoes out on the balcony before they go to sleep. If they've been good, their shoes will be filled with treats when they wake up the next morning. "Eww, that's disgusting!" I said. "I wouldn't eat those smelly treats!" Miss Holly said that was silly. Then she told us that for nine days before

“让我们来学习一下，在像墨西哥这样讲西班牙语的国家，他们是怎么庆祝节日的!”霍莉小姐告诉我们，在墨西哥，圣诞节过后十一天，孩子们睡觉前会把鞋子放在阳台上。 如果他们表现得很好，第二天早上醒来时，他们的鞋子里就会装满好吃的。 “哎呀，太恶心了!”我说。 “我才不吃那些臭东西呢!”霍莉小姐说那很傻。 然后她在九天前告诉我们

Christmas in Mexico, people act out the journey of Mary and Joseph going to Bethlehem. After a big feast, they play the pinata game. "Repeat after me," said Miss Holly. "Pinata!" "Pinata," we all repeated. I knew what a pinata was because Ryan had one at his birthday party. It's this big, hollow, paper thing you hang from a tree, and kids take turns whacking it with a stick. When the pinata breaks open, candy falls out and everybody grabs it. Pinatas are cool because you get to do two very cool things— eat candy and whack something with a stick.

在墨西哥的圣诞节，人们表演玛利亚和约瑟去伯利恒的旅程。 在一顿大餐之后，他们玩皮纳塔游戏。 “跟我念，”霍莉小姐说。 “皮纳塔!”“皮纳塔，”我们都重复着。 我知道皮纳塔是什么因为瑞恩在他的生日派对上有一个。 它是一个大的，中空的，纸的东西，你挂在树上，孩子们轮流用棍子敲它。 当皮纳塔打开时，糖果掉了出来，每个人都抓住它。 皮纳塔很酷，因为你可以做两件很酷的事情——吃糖果和用棍子敲东西。

Miss Holly went to the closet, and guess what she took out? I'm not going to tell you. Okay, okay, I'll tell you. A pinata! It was in the shape of a star. We were going to play the pinata game! All right! Miss Holly climbed up on her desk and tied the pinata to a bar on the ceiling. "Can I go first?" we all yelled. Miss Holly said we'd go in ABC order, which meant that Andrea (AN) got to go first. I lined up behind her because my real name, Arlo, begins with AR. Miss Holly told us that in Mexico the kids are blindfolded when they play the

霍莉小姐走到壁橱前，猜猜她拿出了什么? 我不会告诉你的。 好吧，好吧，我告诉你。 皮纳塔!它是一颗星星的形状。 我们要玩皮纳塔游戏!好吧!霍莉小姐爬上她的桌子，把皮纳塔系在天花板上的一根棍子上。 “我能先走吗?” 霍莉小姐说我们要按ABC的顺序去，这就意味着安德里亚要先去。 我排在她后面，因为我的真名阿罗(Arlo)以AR开头。 霍莉小姐告诉我们在墨西哥孩子们在玩