4 Ch4-Shakespeare Was a Dumbhead

Chapter 4 Shakespeare Was a Dumbhead When I got to school the next day, there was a big NATIONAL POETRY MONTH tote board on the front lawn. It said the kids of Ella Mentry School wrote two hundred poems already! I didn't get it. I mean, I could see writing lots of poems if we were going to get

第4章莎士比亚是个傻瓜第二天我到学校时，看到学校前面的草坪上挂着一块很大的“全国诗歌月”的提包板。 上面说艾拉门特里学校的孩子们已经写了200首诗了!我没明白。 我的意思是，我可以想象写很多诗，如果我们要得到

a chocolate party or a video games night or something cool. But to have a poet visit our school? No thanks. After we pledged the allegiance, Miss Daisy said our homework for April was to write one poem every day. Ms. Coco was going to publish a

巧克力派对，电子游戏之夜什么的。 但是让一个诗人来我们学校? 不,谢谢。在我们宣誓效忠后，黛西小姐说我们四月的家庭作业是每天写一首诗。 可可女士打算出版一本

National Poetry Month book with some of our best poems in it. Isn't that exciting? Miss Daisy asked. Yes! yelled all the girls. No! yelled all the boys. Just the thought of writing something every day made me wrinkle up my nose like I smelled something bad. What's the matter, A.J.? asked Miss Daisy. I hate poetry, I said. Hate' is not a nice word, Miss Daisy said. You shouldn't say that. Then I strongly dislike poetry, I said. I despise poetry. I detest it. I loathe it. I That's enough, A.J., said Miss Daisy.

全国诗歌月的书，里面有一些我们最好的诗。 这不是很令人兴奋吗?黛西小姐问。 是的!所有的女孩都喊道。 不!所有的男孩都喊道。一想到每天都要写点什么，我就皱起了鼻子，好像闻到了什么不好的味道。 怎么了，A.J.?黛西小姐问。 我讨厌诗歌，我说。“恨”不是一个好词，黛西小姐说。 你不应该这么说。“那么我非常不喜欢诗歌，”我说。 我鄙视诗歌。我讨厌它。 我讨厌它。“够了，a.j.，”黛西小姐说。

Just then, a poem popped into my brain: I hate poetry. Poetry is dumb. It's hard to write poems When you're chewing gum. Genius poems like that come into my brain all the time. I can't stop them! I guess that's why I'm in the gifted and talented program. I was going to think up another verse, but it was time for me and Andrea to go see Ms. Coco again. Arlo, did you know that camels have

就在那时，一首诗突然出现在我的脑海里:我讨厌诗歌。 诗是哑的。嚼口香糖的时候很难写诗。 像这样的天才诗歌一直出现在我的脑海里。 我阻止不了他们!我想这就是为什么我在天才项目里。 我本想再写一段，但我和安德里亚是时候去见她了。 可可了。阿乐，你知道骆驼有

three eyelids? Andrea said as we walked to the G and T room. And cats see six times better than humans at night. And all clams start out as males, but some of them become females later. Ugh. She must have finished the letter C in her encyclopedia. Any dumbhead knows that stuff, I said. When we got to Ms. Coco's room, she was crying again. Nobody had even read her a poem. I figured Ms. Coco's dog must have died or something. What's wrong? asked Andrea. When I woke up this morning, I saw the most beautiful sunrise, Ms. Coco

三眼皮?我们走向总务室时，安德里亚说。 猫在晚上的视力是人类的六倍。 所有的蛤蜊一开始都是雄性，但其中一些后来变成了雌性。 啊。她一定是把百科全书里的字母C写完了。 “傻瓜都知道，”我说。 当我们到达可可女士的房间时，她又哭了。 甚至没有人给她读过一首诗。 我想可可女士的狗肯定死了什么的。 怎么了?安德里亚问道。 当我今天早上醒来时，我看到了最美丽的日出。 椰子树

said. I don't know what came over me. It just made me want to cry. Man, that lady will cry over anything She's worse than Emily. What's so sad about a sunrise? I asked. Wouldn't a beautiful sunrise make you cry, A.J.? Ms. Coco asked. No, I said. A sunrise could make me cry, said Andrea, who always agrees with everything grown-ups say. I might cry if I woke up and the sun didn't rise, I said. Then the weirdest thing in the history of the world happened. Ms. Coco started singing!

说。我不知道我是怎么了。 这让我想哭。 老兄，那女人什么事都会哭她比艾米丽还坏。 日出有什么好悲伤的? 我问。美丽的日出不会让你流泪吗，aj ? 可可问。不，我说。 日出会让我哭的，安德烈说，她总是同意大人说的一切。 我说，如果我醒来时太阳没有升起，我可能会哭。 然后，世界历史上最奇怪的事情发生了。 可可女士开始唱歌了!