4 Ch4-Secret Santa

Chapter 4 Secret Santa After the assembly we walked a million hundred miles back to our class. Andrea was all excited about the holiday pageant. She loves to be in plays because she's a big show-off. "Last year I was in The Nutcracker," she bragged.

第4章神秘的圣诞老人集会结束后，我们走了一百万英里回到教室。 安德里亚对节日庆典非常兴奋。 她喜欢演戏，因为她很爱炫耀。 “去年我出演了《胡桃夹子》，”她吹嘘道。

"They made a play about nuts?" I asked. "No wonder you were in it!" Andrea got all mad. "Why do you have to be so mean, Arlo?" "Why do you have to be so annoying?" I asked. "Enough chitchatting," Miss Daisy said when we were all sitting in our seats. "I have some important news. This year we're going to have a Secret Santa in our class." Secret Santa? Who's that? None of us had ever heard of Secret Santa. But Santa is cool, and anything that involves secrets is cool. So Secret Santa must be cool. Miss Daisy told us that she wrote everyone's name on slips of paper and

“他们演了一出关于坚果的戏?”我问。 “难怪你在里面!”安德里亚非常生气。 “你为什么要这么刻薄，阿乐?”“你为什么要这么烦人?”我问。 “别闲聊了，”当我们都坐在座位上时，黛西小姐说。 “我有一些重要的消息。 今年我们班要有一位神秘的圣诞老人。” 秘密圣诞老人?那是谁?我们都没听说过神秘圣诞老人。 但圣诞老人很酷，任何有秘密的东西都很酷。 所以神秘圣诞老人一定很酷。 黛西小姐告诉我们她把每个人的名字都写在纸条上

put them all into a fishbowl. Each of us would take a slip of paper out of the fishbowl, and then we'd have to get a present for that kid. But we couldn't tell the kid we were getting them a present. That's what made it a secret. Miss Daisy said we would exchange our Secret Santa presents in a few weeks, just before the big holiday pageant. If anyone forgot to bring in a present, they wouldn't be allowed to get a present either. Everybody was all excited. We lined up to pick slips of paper out of the fishbowl. I hoped I wouldn't pick some lame girl like Andrea or Emily. I'd rather get a present for Ryan or Michael or one of the other boys.

把它们都放进一个鱼缸里。 我们每个人都要从鱼缸里拿出一张纸条，然后我们要给那个孩子买一份礼物。 但我们不能告诉孩子我们要送他们礼物。 这就是它成为秘密的原因。 黛西小姐说过几个星期，就在盛大的节日庆典之前，我们会交换秘密圣诞老人的礼物。 如果有人忘记带礼物，他们也不会被允许得到礼物。 每个人都很兴奋。 我们排着队从鱼缸里捡纸条。 我希望我不会选像安德里亚或艾米丽那样的蹩脚女孩。 我宁愿给瑞恩或迈克尔或其他男孩买礼物。

We lined up in ZYX order, which is the opposite of ABC order. Everybody picked a slip of paper out of the fishbowl and giggled a little when they saw the name on it. Finally it was my turn. There were only a couple of slips of paper left. "No peeking, A.J.," Miss Daisy told me

我们按照ZYX顺序排队，这与ABC顺序相反。 每个人都从鱼缸里拿出一张纸条，当他们看到上面的名字时，都咯咯地笑了起来。 终于轮到我了。只剩下几张纸条了。 “别偷看，a.j.，”黛西小姐告诉我

as I reached my hand into the fishbowl. I picked out a slip of paper. I looked at the paper. The paper said... I'm not going to tell you. Okay, okay, I'll tell you. The paper said, "Emily." Nooooooooooooooooooooo! Not Emily! What could I possibly get for Emily? She is a real girly-girl. I will have to go to some girly-girl store and buy some girly-girl present like smelly perfume. It will be horrible. Secret Santa is stupid.

当我把手伸进鱼缸的时候。 我挑出一张纸条。 我看了看报纸。报纸上说…… 我不会告诉你的。 好吧，好吧，我告诉你。 报纸上写着:“艾米丽。”Nooooooooooooooooooooo !不是艾米丽!我能给艾米丽买什么? 她真是个娘娘腔。我得去一些女孩子的商店买一些女孩子的礼物，比如难闻的香水。 太可怕了。神秘圣诞老人是愚蠢的。