10 Ch10-You Snooze, You Lose

Chapter 10 You Snooze, You Lose Every day, the tote board in front of the school had a new number on it: 650... 700... 750. We were getting close to a thousand poems. Word must have been getting out about me. In the next week, I sold poems to Ryan and Michael and some of the other boys in my class. During recess, some boys from

第十章你打盹，你就输了每一天，学校门前的布告栏上都写着一个新数字:650…… 700年……750. 我们都快写一千首诗了。 我的事肯定传出去了。 在接下来的一个星期里，我把诗歌卖给了瑞恩、迈克尔和班上其他一些男孩。 课间休息时，一些男孩从

the other classes came over to buy poems from me too. I was raking in the dough! Writing poems was a great way to make money. I almost didn't want National Poetry Month to end. Meanwhile, Andrea was speed-reading her way through her encyclopedia. Every day she would annoy me with some dumb new fact she learned about tigers and unicorns and walruses.* *Did you know that a walrus can get sunburned? I didn't know that. But I didn't tell Andrea. Soon I'll be finished with my encyclopedia, she told me on the way to Ms.

其他班的同学也过来从我这里买诗。 我赚了很多钱!写诗是一种很好的赚钱方式。 我几乎不希望全国诗歌月结束。 与此同时，安德里亚正在快速阅读她的百科全书。 每天她都会用她学到的关于老虎、独角兽和海象的一些愚蠢的新事实来烦我。你知道海象会被晒伤吗? 我不知道。但我没有告诉安德里亚。 “我很快就会完成我的百科全书，”她在去格林夫人家的路上对我说。

Coco's room, and then I'll be the smartest person in the world. I hate her. After we got to the G and T room, Ms. Coco came running in. Sorry I'm late, she said. I had to put on my face. Where was it before you put it on? I asked. Ms. Coco laughed and told us that today's assignment was to write a rhyming poem about animals. I love animals! Andrea said. This will be easy. I thought for a while, tapping my pencil on my desk. I peeked at Andrea's paper. She was writing some lame poem

可可的房间，然后我就是世界上最聪明的人了。 我恨她。我们到了G & T室后，mrs。 可可跑了进来。对不起，我迟到了，她说。 我得去化妆。你戴上之前它在哪里? 我问。可可老师笑着告诉我们，今天的作业是写一首关于动物的押韵诗。 我喜欢动物!安德里亚说。 这很容易。我想了一会儿，用铅笔敲了敲桌子。 我瞥了一眼安德里亚的试卷。 她在写一些蹩脚的诗

about a cat. It was a total rip-off of The Cat in the Hat. Suddenly I got an idea. I started writing a poem called Animals Are Weird. The words just flowed out of my brain: Bats will sleep upside down in trees, and elephants are the only creatures that have four knees. Clams start out as boys and become girls later, but crocodiles don't become alligators! For dinner an aardvark will eat a termite, and cats can see better than humans at night. A hummingbird is the smallest bird and the only one that can fly backward.

关于一只猫。这完全是对《戴帽子的猫》的抄袭。 突然我有了一个主意。我开始写一首叫《动物很奇怪》的诗。 我的脑子里突然冒出一句话:蝙蝠会倒着睡在树上，大象是唯一有四个膝盖的生物。 蛤蜊一开始是男孩，后来变成了女孩，但鳄鱼不会变成鳄鱼!作为晚餐，食蚁兽会吃掉白蚁，猫在晚上比人类看得更清楚。 蜂鸟是最小的鸟，也是唯一能向后飞的鸟。

Did you know a camel has three eyelids, and mosquitoes don't prefer to bite kids? A beaver can hold its breath for five minutes, and mackerels lay eggs almost without limits. You can hear a lion roar five miles away. Most ants are dead by their sixtieth day. A poor little owl can't move its eye, and if it eats chocolate, a parrot will die. Did you know a walrus can get sunburned? These are a few of the things that I learned. You won't see a dog or a cat with a beard, but animals, if you ask me, are weird.

你知道骆驼有三层眼皮吗，蚊子也不喜欢咬小孩? 海狸可以屏住呼吸五分钟，鲭鱼产卵几乎没有限制。 你可以听到五英里外的狮子吼叫。 大多数蚂蚁在60天前就死了。 一只可怜的小猫头鹰不能移动它的眼睛，如果它吃了巧克力，一只鹦鹉就会死掉。 你知道海象会被晒伤吗? 这是我学到的一些东西。 你不会看到有胡子的狗或猫，但如果你问我，我觉得动物很奇怪。