6 Ch6-The Opposite of Hanukkah

Chapter 6 The Opposite of Hanukkah During the first week in December, Miss Daisy told us all about the holidays so we'd be ready for the pageant. I already knew the story of Christmas. But I didn't know much about Hanukkah. Now, I don't remember everything Miss Daisy told us. But basically, Hanukkah has something to do with a war. I know

光明节的反面12月的第一个星期，黛西小姐给我们讲了关于节日的一切，好让我们为选美比赛做好准备。 我已经知道了圣诞节的故事。 但我不太了解光明节。 现在，我不记得黛西小姐告诉我们的每件事了。 但基本上，光明节与战争有关。 我知道

all about war. I have some plastic army guys down in my basement, and me and Michael and Ryan line them up and shoot them with rubber bands. Anyway, a million hundred years ago, the Jewish people were fighting a war. They were way outnumbered by another army, but they kicked their butts anyway. So after the war was over, the Jewish people went back to their temple to hang out and play video games and stuff. It was dark out. They didn't have lightbulbs in those days, so they had to light oil lamps or they would bump into the walls when they walked into the kitchen to get more pizza. The problem was that they could only find one jar of oil. That would last one

都是关于战争的。我的地下室里有几个塑料兵，我和迈克尔还有瑞恩让他们站成一排，用橡皮筋打他们。 总之，一百万年前，犹太人在打仗。 他们在人数上远远落后于另一支军队，但他们还是打得很惨。 所以战争结束后，犹太人回到他们的寺庙里玩电子游戏什么的。 外面很黑。那时候他们还没有灯泡，所以他们必须点油灯，否则他们走进厨房去拿披萨的时候会撞到墙上。 问题是他们只能找到一罐油。 它会持续一个小时

night, but they wanted to hang out all week playing video games and eating pizza. I guess they sent somebody to the gas station to get more oil, but he never came back. So they put the one jar of oil they had into the lamp and lit it. The cool thing is that the oil didn't just last one night. It didn't just last two nights. It didn't just last three nights. It lasted eight whole nights! It was a miracle! "Wow!" we all said after Miss Daisy finished telling us the story of Hanukkah. "I saw a miracle like that once," I said. "Tell us about it, A.J.," said Miss Daisy. "We were driving to my grandmother's house," I said. "Suddenly our car stopped right in the middle of the highway. My

但他们想整周都待在一起玩电子游戏，吃披萨。 我猜他们派人去加油站加油了，但他再也没回来。 他们就把这一瓶油放在灯里，点了起来。 有趣的是，油并不是只维持了一晚。 它不只持续了两个晚上。 它不仅仅持续了三个晚上。 它持续了整整八个晚上!这是一个奇迹!“哇!”黛西小姐给我们讲完光明节的故事后，我们都说。 “我曾经见过这样的奇迹，”我说。 “给我们讲讲吧，a.j.，”黛西小姐说。 “我们正开车去我祖母家，”我说。 “突然，我们的车停在了公路中央。 我的

dad said he thought he had a full tank of gas, but it turned out the gas gauge was broken, and the tank was empty." "That doesn't have anything to do with Hanukkah," Andrea said. "Sure it does," I said. "The Jewish people thought they only had a little oil, but it turned out they had a lot. We thought we had a lot of gas, but we only had a little. It was the opposite of Hanukkah." "You're a dumbhead," Andrea said. "So is your face," I told her. Anytime somebody says something mean to you, all you have to do is say, "So is your face." That's the first rule of being a kid. Miss Daisy told me and Andrea to

这个人说:“爸爸说他以为油箱里的油是满的，但是结果是油表坏了，油箱里没有油了。” “这和光明节没有任何关系，”安德里亚说。 “当然有，”我说。“犹太人以为他们只有一点油，但事实证明他们有很多。 我们以为我们有很多汽油，但我们只有一点点。 这与光明节正好相反。” “你是个傻瓜，”安德里亚说。 “你的脸也是，”我告诉她。 每当有人对你说刻薄的话时，你只要说:“你的脸也是。” 这是当孩子的第一准则。 黛西小姐让我和安德里亚

knock it off. She said that Hanukkah lasts for eight nights, and each night they light a candle in the menorah. "They stick the candles in manure?" I asked. "That's disgusting!" "Menorah!" Miss Daisy said "It's like a candleholder." "Oh," I said. "I knew that." To celebrate Hanukkah, Jewish kids play this game with a four-sided top called a dreidel that spins around, and they eat potato pancakes called latkes, and they hunt for chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil. The kids get presents every night, too, of course. Hanukkah is cool. Miss Daisy showed us how to spin a

别闹了。她说光明节持续八个晚上，每天晚上他们在烛台上点一支蜡烛。 “他们把蜡烛插在粪肥里?”我问。 “太恶心了!”“烛台!”黛西小姐说:“它就像一个烛台。” “哦，”我说。“我知道。” 为了庆祝光明节，犹太孩子们玩这个游戏，用一个旋转的四面陀螺，他们吃土豆煎饼，叫做latkes，他们寻找用金箔包着的巧克力硬币。 当然，孩子们每天晚上也会收到礼物。 光明节很酷。黛西小姐教我们如何旋转

dreidel and gave us each a piece of chocolate money. We had a bathroom break after that, and then she said it was time to work on our writing skills. We were learning to write friendly letters, so Miss Daisy asked us if we'd like to write letters to Santa Claus.

德雷德尔给了我们每人一块巧克力钱。 在那之后我们上了个厕所，然后她说我们该练习一下写作技巧了。 我们正在学习写友好的信，所以黛西小姐问我们是否愿意给圣诞老人写信。