11 Ch11-The Last Straw

Chapter 11 The Last Straw I don't know if all that mumbo jumbo Andrea said was true or not. But I had to admit, Mr. Klutz was acting weirder and weirder. After we finished the list of a hundred thousand spelling words and he pogo sticked down Main Street in a turkey

第十一章最后一根稻草我不知道安德里亚说的那些胡言乱语是真是假。 但我不得不承认，克鲁茨先生的行为越来越奇怪了。 在我们完成了十万个拼写单词的清单之后，他在火鸡里蹦蹦跳跳地走在大街上

costume, he offered to paint his bald head orange if our school got the highest reading score in the county. We did, and he came into school the next day with an orange head. Then he offered to let every kid in the school shoot a Ping-Pong ball at him if

他说，如果我们学校的阅读成绩在全县名列前茅，他就把自己的光头涂成橙色。 我们照做了，第二天他带着一个橙色的头来到学校。 然后他提出让学校里的每个孩子都朝他打乒乓球

we collected enough box tops to buy new computers for the school media center. We did that, too. It was fun shooting Ping-Pong balls at Mr. Klutz, but even I was beginning to worry that there was something troubling him. And then came the day when it was obvious to everybody that Mr. Klutz had gone off the deep end. It was at the end of morning announcements. Miss Daisy had stepped out of the room for a minute. "Boys and girls," Mr. Klutz said over the loudspeaker, "winter vacation is coming up. If the students at our school read with their parents for one million

我们收集了足够的盒盖为学校媒体中心购买新电脑。 我们也这么做了。向克鲁茨先生打乒乓球很有趣，但就连我也开始担心，是不是有什么东西在困扰着他。 后来有一天，大家都很明显，克鲁茨先生已经做得太离谱了。 那是在晨报快结束的时候。 黛西小姐离开了房间一会儿。 “孩子们，”克鲁兹通过扩音器说，“寒假快到了。 如果我们学校的学生和他们的父母一起读书100万

minutes before school lets out, I will bungee-jump off the roof of the school dressed as Santa Claus!" Me and Ryan and Emily and Andrea and Michael all looked at one another.

放学前几分钟，我会装扮成圣诞老人从学校屋顶蹦极!”我、瑞安、艾米丽、安德里亚和迈克尔都面面相觑。

"That's the last straw!" Andrea said. "There are plenty of straws," I told her. "Do you want me to get you one?" "She means we can't take this anymore," Ryan told me. "Is that what the last straw means?" I asked. "I always wondered what the last straw meant." "At first I thought Mr. Klutz was just a funny guy," Andrea said seriously. "And he is. But he's also a deeply disturbed man. We've got to do something. If he keeps going like this, he might hurt himself again. Or even worse. If we don't stop him and something terrible happens, it would be our fault."

“真是忍无可忍了!”安德里亚说。 “有很多吸管，”我告诉她。 “你想让我给你拿一个吗?”“她的意思是我们不能再这样下去了，”瑞恩告诉我。 “这就是最后一根稻草的意思吗?”我问。 “我一直想知道最后一根稻草是什么意思。” “一开始我以为克鲁茨先生只是个有趣的家伙，”安德里亚严肃地说。 “他确实是。但他也是个精神错乱的人。 我们得做点什么。 如果他继续这样下去，他可能会再次伤害自己。 甚至更糟。如果我们不阻止他，发生了可怕的事情，那就是我们的错了。”

"I never thought of it that way," I said. "What can we do?" Emily asked. "We're just kids." "We have to have an intervention: Andrea said. "What's that?" Ryan asked. "It's when you sit down and tell somebody they have a problem," Andrea explained. "You force them to do something about it. My mother has to do interventions all the time." "I'm not telling Mr. Klutz he has a problem," Ryan said. "Me neither," agreed Michael. "A.J., you started this whole thing," Andrea told me.

“我从来没有那样想过，”我说。 “我们能做什么?”艾米丽问。 “我们还只是孩子。”安德烈说:“我们必须进行干预。 “那是什么?”瑞恩问道。 “就是你坐下来告诉别人他们有问题，”安德里亚解释说。 “你强迫他们做点什么。 我妈妈总是要做干预。” “我不会告诉克鲁茨先生他有问题，”瑞安说。 “我也是，”迈克尔同意道。 “aj，这一切都是你挑起来的，”安德里亚告诉我。