3 Ch3-The Giganotosaurus

Chapter 3 The Giganotosaurus "Bingle boo!" said our bus driver, Mrs. Kormel. "Limpus kidoodle!" "Bingle boo!" we all said, as we piled onto the bus. Mrs. Kormel invented her own secret language. So instead of just saying "Hello" and "Sit down," she says "Bingle boo" and "Limpus kidoodle." Mrs. Kormel is not normal. I had to lug my sleeping bag with me, because we were going to be spending the whole night in the natural history museum. Just what I always wanted to do, sleep next to boring dead stuff." At least I had my Batman sleeping bag. Batman is cool. There were some grown-ups on the bus with us too. Mrs. Daisy and Mr. Macky and Mr. Docker were all there. Ryan's mom, Mrs. Dole, came along as a chaperone. That's a fancy word that means "a grown-up who hangs around with kids to make sure we don't have any fun." "Are we there yet?" I asked Mrs. Kormel as soon as she started driving. "No, AJ.," she said. I kept asking Mrs. Kormel every five minutes if we were there yet. Any time you're in a car or bus, always ask if you're there yet— even if you know perfectly well that you're not there yet. That's the first rule of being a kid.

我们的公共汽车司机科梅尔太太说:“砰!” “Limpus kidoodle !”当我们挤上公共汽车时，我们都说:“加油!” 科梅尔太太发明了她自己的秘密语言。 所以她说的不是"你好"和"坐下"而是"宾格勒boo"和"Limpus kidoodle " 科梅尔夫人不正常。 我不得不随身带着睡袋，因为我们要在自然历史博物馆里过夜。 这正是我一直想做的，睡在无聊的死人旁边。” 至少我有蝙蝠侠睡袋。 蝙蝠侠很酷。公共汽车上也有一些成年人。 黛西太太、麦基先生和多克先生都在那儿。 瑞安的妈妈多尔夫人作为监护人来了。 这是一个很花哨的词，意思是“一个和孩子们在一起的成年人，确保我们没有任何乐趣。” “我们到了吗?”科梅尔太太一开始开车，我就问她。 “不,AJ。她说。我每隔五分钟就问考梅尔太太我们到了没有。 任何时候你在汽车或公共汽车上，总是问你是否到了——即使你很清楚你还没有到。 这是当孩子的第一准则。

It took a million hundred hours to get to the natural history museum. "Pinkle burflenobin!" announced Mrs. Kormel when the bus finally stopped. That means "Everybody get off the bus" in Mrs. Kormel's secret language. As soon as we walked into the museum, we heard an announcement: "The museum will be closing in five minutes." "Yay!" I shouted. "We can go home!" "That means everybody else has to go home, Arlo," said Andrea. "I knew that," I lied. I hate it when Andrea calls me by my real name. In the entrance of the museum, I looked up and saw the most amazing thing in the history of the world! It was a huge dinosaur skeleton that just about filled the whole room! Dinosaurs are cool. "WOW!" everybody said, which is "MOM" upside-down. "It's a Giganotosaurus!" said Andrea. "He was one of the biggest meat-eating dinosaurs in the world— even bigger than T. rex!" "That's right, Andrea!" said Mr. Docker. "How did you know that?" "I read about the Giganotosaurus in my encyclopedia," said Andrea, all proud of herself. "He weighed eight tons!"

我们花了无数个小时才到达自然历史博物馆。 “Pinkle burflenobin!”当公共汽车终于停下来时，科尔梅尔太太宣布。 用科梅尔夫人的密语来说就是"所有人都下车" 我们一走进博物馆，就听到广播:“博物馆将在五分钟后关门。” “耶!”我叫道。“我们可以回家了!”“这意味着其他人都得回家了，阿乐。”安德烈说。 “我知道。”我撒了个谎。我讨厌安德里亚叫我的真名。 在博物馆的入口处，我抬头看到了世界历史上最神奇的东西!那是一具巨大的恐龙骨架，几乎占满了整个房间!恐龙很酷。 “哇!”每个人都说，这是颠倒的“妈妈”。 “是南方巨兽龙!”安德里亚说。 “它是世界上最大的食肉恐龙之一，甚至比霸王龙还要大。 雷克斯!”“对了，安德烈!”多克先生说。 “你怎么知道的?”“我在我的百科全书里读到了南方巨兽龙，”安德里亚说，她为自己感到骄傲。 “他有八吨重!”

"He should have gone to Weight Watchers," I said. "My mom lost twenty pounds that way." "Where do you think they got a Giganotosaurus?" asked Ryan. "They probably went to Rent-a-Dinosaur," Michael said. "You can rent anything." Next to the Giganotosaurus was a big bear that was standing up on its hind legs like it was about to attack. It was cool, and scary.

“他应该去减肥中心，”我说。 “我妈妈用这种方法瘦了20磅。” “你觉得他们是从哪里弄到南方巨兽龙的?”瑞恩问。 “他们可能去了恐龙租赁店，”迈克尔说。 “你可以租任何东西。”南方兽龙的旁边是一头大熊，它用后腿站立着，好像要进攻似的。 很酷，也很吓人。

Ryan's mom and the other grown-ups told us to spread out our sleeping bags on the floor underneath Giganotosaurus. Then they went off to do boring grownup stuff, like drink coffee and talk about the weather. What's up with that? Grown-ups are always drinking coffee and talking about the weather. I tasted coffee once, and I thought I was gonna throw up. But if they didn't drink coffee and talk about the weather, I don't know what grown-ups would do all day. They're weird. Speaking of grown-ups, I wrote a poem about my dad. It goes like this: My dad has hair growing out of his nose. If he didn't cut it, it would reach his toes. He also has hair coming out of his ears. I tried to tell him, but he couldn't hear. Why do men grow hair in such strange places? I thought it was weird when it grew on their faces. I unrolled my sleeping bag right next to Ryan's. Then I turned around and saw... THE COOLEST THING IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD! I'm not gonna tell you what it was. Okay, okay, I'll tell you. But you have to read the next chapter. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on you!

瑞恩的妈妈和其他大人让我们把睡袋铺在南方巨兽龙下面的地板上。 然后他们去做一些无聊的成年人做的事情，比如喝咖啡，谈论天气。 这是怎么回事?大人们总是一边喝咖啡一边谈论天气。 我喝过一次咖啡，我觉得我要吐了。 但如果他们不喝咖啡，不谈论天气，我不知道成年人整天会做什么。 他们是奇怪的。说到大人，我写了一首关于我爸爸的诗。 故事是这样的:我爸爸的鼻子长出了毛发。 如果他不剪，就会长到脚趾头。 他的头发也从耳朵里掉出来了。 我试着告诉他，但他听不见。 为什么男人会在这么奇怪的地方长头发? 我觉得长在他们脸上很奇怪。 我把我的睡袋在瑞恩的旁边展开。 然后我转过身来，看到…… 世界历史上最酷的东西!我不会告诉你是什么。 好吧，好吧，我告诉你。 但你得读下一章。 所以不，不，不，不，不对你!