4 Ch4-Sharpening Pencils Can Be Dangerous

Chapter 4 Sharpening Pencils Can Be Dangerous Mrs. Yonkers wasn't too worried about Speedy the turtle. She said he runs away all the time. But thanks to Turtle Cam, she can usually find him. She turned on another computer, one that was plugged into the wall socket this time. "There he is!" we shouted when Mrs. Yonkers clicked on Turtle Cam. "How did that rascal get outside?" she said. We all watched the screen closely. Speedy was heading toward some cars in the parking lot. "Maybe he climbed out the window," Neil the nude kid guessed. We saw some bushes on the computer screen, and then the screen got darker. All we could see were leaves and sticks. "Speedy went into the woods!" I said. "He'll be lost forever!" said Michael. "We've got to do something!" shouted Emily, and she went running out of the room. Emily is weird. "Don't worry," said Mrs. Yonkers. "I'm sure Speedy will come back. In the meantime, would you like to see my latest top secret invention?" "Yeah!" we all shouted. Mrs. Yonkers took a small box out of her desk drawer.

第四章削铅笔可能很危险扬克斯太太并不太担心乌龟斯皮蒂。 她说他经常离家出走。 但多亏了乌龟摄像头，她通常能找到他。 她打开了另一台电脑，这次是插在墙上的插座上的。 “他在那儿!”当扬克斯太太打开乌龟相机时，我们喊道。 “那个坏蛋是怎么跑出去的?”她说。 我们都紧盯着屏幕。 飞毛腿朝停车场里的几辆车走去。 “也许他是从窗户爬出去的，”裸体小孩尼尔猜测。 我们在电脑屏幕上看到一些灌木，然后屏幕变暗了。 我们能看到的只有树叶和树枝。 “飞毛腿进树林里去了!”我说。 “他会永远消失的!”迈克尔说。 “我们得做点什么!”爱米丽喊道，然后跑出了房间。 艾米丽很奇怪。“别担心，”扬克斯太太说。 “我相信飞毛腿会回来的。 与此同时，你想看看我最新的绝密发明吗?”“耶!”我们都喊道。 扬克斯太太从书桌抽屉里拿出一个小盒子。

"Is that a remote control?" I asked. "Yes!" she said. "I'm a remote control freak! At home I use a remote control to open my garage, turn on the TV and microwave, and even start my car. But this remote control is different. It's a remote control remote control!" "What's a remote control remote control?" asked Ryan. "It's a remote control you use when you don't feel like getting off the couch to pick up your regular remote control," said Mrs. Yonkers. "You just press a button on the remote control remote control, and then you can control your remote control." "That's cool!" we all agreed. Mrs. Yonkers is a genius. She should get the No Bell Prize. That's a prize they give to people who don't have bells. "You should invent a remote control remote control remote control," suggested Michael. "That would be silly," Mrs. Yonkers said. She took another box out of her desk drawer. "But check this out. It's the world's first remote control pencil sharpener!" "Wow!" we all said. "How does it work?" I asked.

“那是遥控器吗?”我问。 “是的!”她说。“我是个遥控狂!”在家里，我用遥控器打开车库，打开电视和微波炉，甚至发动我的车。 但是这个遥控器是不同的。 这是遥控器，遥控器!”“遥控器是什么?遥控器?”瑞恩问。 “当你不想离开沙发拿起你的常规遥控器时，你就可以用这个遥控器，”扬克斯太太说。 “你只要按一下遥控器上的按钮，就可以控制遥控器了。” “太酷了!”我们一致同意。 扬克斯太太是个天才。她应该得诺贝尔奖。 那是他们给没有铃铛的人的奖励。 “你应该发明一个遥控器，遥控器，遥控器。”迈克尔建议道。 “那太愚蠢了，”扬克斯太太说。 她从抽屉里拿出另一个盒子。 “但是看看这个。这是世界上第一台遥控卷笔刀!”“哇!”我们都说。 “它是怎么工作的?”我问。

"You put your pencil in this little hole, and you can go as far as fifty feet away to turn it on," Mrs. Yonkers said. "Then you go back and get your pencil— all sharpened and ready to use." "That's cool!" I said. "Why would anybody want to do that?" asked Andrea. "Isn't it easier just to stay right there at the pencil sharpener?" "It's cooler to sharpen pencils by remote control," I told Andrea. Doing anything by remote control is cool, if you ask me. "Also, this is the first pencil sharpener that gives you a workout," Mrs. Yonkers explained. "I like to jog around the room while my pencil is being sharpened. It's a win-win!" "Can we try it out?" asked Neil the nude kid. "Well, I'm still ironing out the bugs," Mrs. Yonkers said. "Please? Please? Please? Please?" "Well... okay." Mrs. Yonkers stuck a pencil into the sharpener. Then she picked up her remote control and led us over to the other end of the computer lab. "Now watch this," she said, and she pushed a button on the remote. The pencil sharpener started making noises. We all clapped our hands. And then... BAM! There was a huge explosion! Pieces of pencil and pencil sharpener went flying all over the computer lab! "Duck!" I shouted. We all stopped, dropped, and rolled like we do during a fire drill.

“你把铅笔放在这个小洞里，你可以走到50英尺远的地方去打开它，”扬克斯太太说。 “然后你回去拿你的铅笔——都削尖了，准备使用。” “酷!”我说。“为什么会有人想这么做呢?”安德烈问。 “呆在卷笔刀旁不是更容易吗?”“用遥控器削铅笔更酷，”我告诉安德里亚。 要我说，用遥控器做任何事都很酷。 “而且，这是第一个可以锻炼身体的卷笔刀，”扬克斯太太解释说。 “当我的铅笔被削尖时，我喜欢在房间里慢跑。 这是双赢!”“我们可以试试吗?”裸体小孩尼尔问。 “嗯，我还在处理这些虫子，”扬克斯太太说。 “请吗?好吗?好吗?请?”“嗯…… 好吧。”扬克斯太太把一支铅笔插进卷笔刀里。 然后她拿起遥控器，把我们带到电脑室的另一端。 “现在看这个，”她说，然后按了遥控器上的一个按钮。 卷笔刀开始发出声音。 我们都拍手。然后…… 砰!发生了巨大的爆炸!铅笔和卷笔刀的碎片飞得到处都是!“鸭!”我叫道。 我们都停下来，摔倒，打滚，就像我们在消防演习中做的那样。

When we got up off the floor, there was smoke pouring out of what was left of the pencil sharpener. It was cool! I thought Mrs. Yonkers was going to be upset that her remote control pencil sharpener had exploded into a million hundred pieces. But she didn't seem to mind at all. "Lucky I used the remote control," she said. "We were out of harm's way, and nobody got hurt. Imagine how many kids would have been injured if we had used a regular pencil sharpener and it exploded. Remote control pencil sharpeners are much safer." Mrs. Yonkers is bonkers!

当我们从地板上爬起来时，卷笔刀的残骸里冒出了烟。 太酷了!我以为扬克斯太太会因为她的遥控卷笔刀爆炸成一百万个碎片而生气。 但她似乎一点也不介意。 “幸好我用了遥控器，”她说。 “我们没有受到伤害，没有人受伤。 想象一下，如果我们用的是普通的卷笔刀，然后它爆炸了，会有多少孩子受伤。 遥控卷笔刀要安全得多。” 扬克斯太太是个疯子!