12 Ch12-My Turn at Last

Chapter 12 My Turn at Last Just when it was my turn to give my oral report, Mr. Macky came into our class. Good, I thought. I wanted him to see me blow the doors off Andrea. I took my report and went to the front of the room with my cane and glasses and fur hat.

第十二章终于轮到我了轮到我作口头报告时，麦基先生走进了我们班。 很好，我想。我想让他看到我把安德里亚炸飞。 我拿了报告，拿着手杖、眼镜和皮帽走到教室前面。

My name is Benjamin Franklin, I read from my report. I'm on the hundred-dollar bill, and I lived a very interesting life. I told the class all the cool stuff I learned about Benjamin Franklin. Like how he ran away from home when he was a teenager. And how he became a famous printer and

我的名字是本杰明·富兰克林，我念着我的报告。 我是靠百元钞票过活的，我过着非常有趣的生活。 我把我学到的关于本杰明·富兰克林的趣事都告诉了全班。 比如他十几岁的时候离家出走。 他是如何成为一名著名的印刷商的

writer. And how he became a famous inventor and discovered that lightning was electricity. And how he helped to write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. And how he turned three hundred years old in 2006. Everybody was totally silent while I read my awesome oral report, so I knew it must have been really good. I was blowing Andrea's doors off! Nah-nah-nah boo-boo on her! Finally I came to the last line of my report. I looked up. Everybody was staring at me. They had weird looks on their faces. What's wrong? I asked. Andrea was the only one who said

作家。以及他如何成为一名著名的发明家，并发现闪电是电。 以及他如何帮助撰写《独立宣言》和《宪法》。 以及2006年他是如何度过三百岁生日的。 当我读我的口头报告时，每个人都沉默了，所以我知道它一定很好。 我把安德里亚的门都炸飞了!不，不，不，不，她!最后我写到了报告的最后一行。 我抬起头来。每个人都盯着我看。 他们脸上的表情很奇怪。 怎么了?我问。只有安德里亚说

anything. Benjamin Franklin wasn't even a president, dumbhead. Huh? I said. I looked at Mr. Macky. I was sure he was going to tell little Miss Smarty Pants that she was wrong and that she should keep her big mouth shut. She doesn't know everything.

任何东西。本杰明·富兰克林甚至都不是总统，笨蛋。 嗯?我说。我看着麦基先生。 我确信他会告诉小机灵小姐，她错了，她应该闭上她的大嘴巴。 她不是什么都知道。

But he didn't. A.J., Mr. Macky said, Benjamin Franklin was a great man, but he was never president of the United States. He wasn't? I read a lot of stuff about Benjamin Franklin. It never said he wasn't president. I just figured he had to be a president. Why would they put him on a hundred-dollar bill if he wasn't even a president? I didn't know what to say. I didn't know what to do. I had to think fast. So I said the only thing I could say. I knew that! Then I did the only thing I could do. I ran out of the room. And I'm never going back.

但他没有。a.j.麦基先生说，本杰明·弗兰克·林是一个伟大的人，但他从来没有当过美国总统。 他不是吗?我读了很多关于本杰明·富兰克林的书。 它从未说过他不是总统。 我只是觉得他一定是个总统。 如果他不是总统，为什么要把他印在百元美钞上? 我不知道该说什么。 我不知道该怎么办。我必须快速思考。 所以我说了我唯一能说的话。 我就知道!然后我做了我唯一能做的事。 我跑出了房间。我再也不回去了。

I'm going to Antarctica to live with the penguins. Penguins are cool. And it won't matter to them that I did my Presidents' Day oral report on a guy who wasn't even a president. Maybe Neil the nude kid will catch President Wiggles. Maybe Mr. Macky will become a full-time big-screen TV sales-

我要去南极洲和企鹅住在一起。 企鹅很酷。他们不会在意我在总统日做的口头报告是关于一个甚至不是总统的人。 也许裸体小子尼尔能抓住维格斯总统。 也许麦基先生会成为一名全职的大屏幕电视销售员