9 Ch9-Happy Presidents' Day

Chapter 9 Happy Presidents' Day Monday is usually the worst day of the week, because it means we have five days of school in a row. But not this week. It was Presidents' Day. No school on a Monday! Hooray! Now, you're not going to believe this in a million hundred years, but do you

星期一通常是一周中最糟糕的一天，因为这意味着我们要连续上五天课。 但本周不是这样。那天是总统日。 星期一不上学!万岁!再过一百万年你也不会相信，但你相信

know what I did on Presidents' Day? Of course you don't, because I didn't tell you yet. And I'm not going to tell you. Okay, okay, I'll tell you. I spent the whole morning working on my Presidents' Day oral report! See, I told you that you wouldn't believe it. But it's true! I did homework on a day we didn't even have school! I must have been out of my mind. I'll tell you why I did it. It's because I hate Andrea Young. I am sick and tired of her bragging about how smart she is and how she knows everything and how her oral report was going to be the best in the class. I'm just as gifted and talented as she

知道我在总统日做了什么吗? 你当然不知道，因为我还没告诉你。 我不会告诉你的。 好吧，好吧，我告诉你。 我花了整个上午写我的总统日口头报告!看吧，我说过你不会相信的。 但这是真的!我在没有上学的日子里做了作业!我一定是疯了。 我来告诉你我为什么这么做。 因为我讨厌安德里亚·杨。 我已经厌倦了她吹嘘她有多聪明，她什么都知道，她的口头报告将是班上最好的。 我和她一样有天赋和才华

is. So I decided I was going to make a better oral report than Andrea. I was going to make the best oral report in the history of the world. My oral report was going to blow the doors off Andrea's oral report. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on her! I worked really hard. I looked in my library and got books about my president.

是多少。所以我决定我要做一个比安德里亚更好的口头报告。 我要做世界历史上最好的口头报告。 我的口头报告要让安德里亚的口头报告相形见绌。 所以不，不，不，不，她!我工作很努力。 我在图书馆找了一些关于总统的书。

I looked in the encyclopedia for my president. I went on the Internet and got lots of fun facts about my president. My oral report was going to be great. Andrea wouldn't even know what hit her. I wrote the whole thing out and put it in a nice red binder. I wouldn't let anyone see it, not even my parents or my sister. I wanted it to be a complete surprise. It was top secret. I'm not even going to tell you who my president was. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on you! I worked all morning on my oral report, and then the phone rang. My mom told me Michael wanted to talk to me. Me and my dad are going to buy a big-

我在百科全书中查找我的总统。 我上网查了很多关于总统的趣事。 我的口头报告会很棒的。 安德莉亚都不知道是什么击中了她。 我把整件事都写了出来，装在一个漂亮的红色活页夹里。 我不会让任何人看到，包括我的父母和妹妹。 我希望这是一个完全的惊喜。 这是最高机密。我甚至不会告诉你我的总统是谁。 所以不要不要不要不要不要!我整个上午都在做口头报告，然后电话响了。 我妈妈告诉我迈克尔想和我谈谈。 我和我爸爸打算去买一个大的

screen TV, he said. Wanna come? Sure! Michael's dad drove us to the bigscreen TV store. It was cool. They had a whole wall filled with big-screen TVs, and they were all tuned to the same channel. We were walking around looking for a salesman when this guy asked Michael's dad if he needed any help. You'll never in a million hundred years believe who the guy was. I'm not going to tell you. Okay, okay, I'll tell you. It was Mr. Macky! He was wearing a name tag that said HOWARD MACKY on it. Mr. Macky! I said. To what do we

屏幕电视，他说。一起来吗? 当然!迈克尔的爸爸开车带我们去了大屏幕电视商店。 很酷。他们有一整面墙都是大屏幕电视，而且都调到同一个频道。 我们正四处寻找推销员，这时有个人问迈克尔的爸爸是否需要帮助。 你绝对不会相信那家伙是谁。 我不会告诉你的。 好吧，好吧，我告诉你。 是麦基先生!他戴着一个名牌，上面写着霍华德·麦基。 麦基先生!我说。我们要做什么?

owe the pleasure of your company? I work here on weekends and holidays, said Mr. Macky. Would you like to buy a big-screen TV? They're on sale today. Wow! I never would have thought that a reading specialist would also be a bigscreen TV salesman. I thought reading specialists hated TV. But Mr. Macky told us he loved TV and knew everything about big-screen TVs. Mr. Macky took a Star Wars DVD out of his pocket so we could see what it looked like on a big-screen TV. It was cool. You could almost see inside Darth Vader's nostrils.

有你作伴吗? “我周末和节假日在这里工作，”麦基先生说。 你想买一台大屏幕的电视吗? 今天特价。哇!我从来没有想过一个阅读专家也会成为一个大屏幕电视推销员。 我以为阅读专家讨厌电视。 但麦基先生告诉我们，他喜欢电视，对大屏幕电视了如指掌。 麦基先生从口袋里拿出一张《星球大战》的DVD，这样我们就能在大屏幕电视上看到它是什么样子。 很酷。你几乎可以看到达斯·维德的鼻孔。