5 Ch5-Sugar Shock

Chapter 5 Sugar Shock After dismissal, me and Michael and Ryan searched the woods behind the school for Speedy the turtle. We couldn't find him anywhere. I guess he ran away. We were sad. But we were even sadder the next morning when we got to school. Two big guys wearing overalls were wheeling the soda pop and candy machines out of the vomitorium, where we eat lunch. "Say good-bye to sugar!" cried Mrs. Cooney, who is beautiful. "From now on, there will only be healthy food at Ella Mentry School." "NO!" I yelled, hugging the candy machine. "Don't take it away!" Mrs. Cooney told me I was being silly. She said that after I stopped eating junk food, I wouldn't even miss it. "Can I just say my good-byes to the soda and candy machines one last time?" I begged. "Well, I suppose so," said Mrs. Cooney.

下课后，我、迈克尔和瑞恩在学校后面的树林里寻找乌龟斯皮蒂。 我们到处都找不到他。 我猜他跑了。我们很伤心。 但第二天早上，当我们到达学校时，我们更伤心了。 两个穿着工装裤的大个子正把汽水和糖果机推出我们吃午饭的食堂。 “跟糖说再见吧!”漂亮的库尼太太叫道。 “从现在开始，艾拉门特里学校只供应健康食品。” “不!”我喊道，抱着糖果机。 “别把它拿走!”库尼太太说我很傻。 她说，在我停止吃垃圾食品后，我甚至不会想念它。 “我能最后一次跟汽水和糖果机说再见吗?”我恳求。 “嗯，我想是的，”库尼太太说。

I got down on my knees in front of the machines. No more Good & Plenty. No more Almond Joy. No more Jujyfruits or M&M's or Starburst or Laffy Taffy. No more Sprite or Sierra Mist or Mountain Dew. No more junk food! How would we survive? I thought I was gonna die. Tears started welling up in my eyes. Michael suggested we have a moment of silence in honor of junk food. I thought that was a great idea. All the guys gathered around the machines. During the moment of silence, I thought about all the good times we had eating candy and drinking soda pop. I even made up a poem for the occasion. I put my hand over my heart and recited it: "I pledge allegiance to the cans of soda and bags of chips. And to the yumminess for which they stand, two machines in the vomitorium with trans fats and high fructose corn syrup for all" Some other kids joined us and watched as the guys in overalls loaded up the machines and wheeled them out of the vomitorium. We were all sniffling. That's when Andrea and her annoying girly friends came over. "What's the big deal?" she asked. "I like to eat healthy snacks like carrot

我在机器前跪了下来。 不再有“好与富足”。不要再吃杏仁乐了。 不再有Jujyfruits M&M's Starburst太妃糖。 别再喝雪碧，山雾和激浪了。 不要再吃垃圾食品了!我们将如何生存? 我以为我要死了。 泪水开始涌上我的眼睛。 迈克尔建议我们为垃圾食品默哀一分钟。 我觉得这主意不错。 所有人都聚集在机器周围。 在默哀的时刻，我想起了我们一起吃糖果、喝汽水的美好时光。 我甚至为这个场合写了一首诗。 我用手捂着心口，背诵道:“我宣誓效忠于罐装汽水和袋装薯片。 为了表达它们所代表的美味，我们在vomitorium里有两台机器，里面有反式脂肪和高果糖玉米糖浆，供所有人使用。”其他一些孩子也加入了我们，看着穿着工作服的家伙把机器装上，推出了vomitorium。 我们都在抽泣。就在那时，安德里亚和她那些烦人的女友们过来了。 “有什么大不了的?”她问。 “我喜欢吃健康的零食，比如胡萝卜

sticks and fresh fruit. Kids should have a balanced diet." I wish her diet would get unbalanced and fall on her head. All I could think about that morning was junk food. While Miss Daisy was telling the class about precipitation (which is just some fancy grown-up word for rain and snow), I was searching through my desk for something to eat. A Tootsie Roll Pop. A Smaltie. A Froot Loops. A tic tac. ANYTHING. "I need sugar!" I whispered to Ryan. "I'm dying!" Finally, in my back pocket, I found something. An old LifeSaver! It was covered with so much lint that I couldn't even tell what flavor it was. But I ate it anyway. Sometimes, in a survival situation, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. I guess that's why they call LifeSavers lifesavers. Because that LifeSaver was a lifesaver!

树枝和新鲜水果。孩子们应该有一个均衡的饮食。” 我真希望她的饮食不平衡，摔到自己头上。 那天早上我满脑子想的都是垃圾食品。 当黛西小姐在给同学们讲降水的时候(降水是成年人对雨和雪的一种花哨的说法)，我在桌子里找东西吃。 棒棒糖棒棒糖。Smaltie。 果脆圈。一颗薄荷糖。任何东西。 “我需要糖!”我低声对瑞安说。 “我要死了!”最后，在我的后口袋里，我找到了一些东西。 一个老救生员!它上面覆盖着很多绒毛，我甚至分不出它是什么味道。 但我还是吃了。有时候，在生死关头，男人必须做男人该做的事。 我想这就是为什么他们叫救生员救生员。 因为那个救星就是救星!