9 Ch9-Slinking Around

Chapter 9 Slinking Around The horrible sound got louder and louder! It got deeper and deeper. I thought I was gonna die. Finally, I climbed out of my sleeping bag to see what was making all that noise. It was Mr. Docker and Mr. Macky! They were snoring! I thought I was in the middle of a herd of hippos! Man, what is the problem with grown-ups? Kids don't snore like that. It must have something to do with the hair growing out of their noses. I hope I never grow up to be a grown-up.

第九章鬼鬼祟祟的声音越来越大!它变得越来越深。 我以为我要死了。 最后，我从睡袋里爬出来，想看看是什么发出了那么大的声音。 是多克先生和麦基先生!他们在打鼾!我还以为我在一群河马中间呢!伙计，大人有什么问题吗? 小孩子不会那样打鼾的。 这一定和他们鼻子上长出来的毛发有关。 我希望我永远不会长大成人。

"Pssssst! A.J.!" Michael whispered. "Are you up?" "Yeah!" "I can't sleep with all this snoring," Michael said. "Me neither." That's when I got the greatest idea in the history of the world. "Hey," I said. "You wanna go get candy?" "Do you have any money?" Michael asked. "No. Do you?" "No." Bummer in the summer! I really wanted candy. "Let's go get a drink from the water fountain," Michael whispered. "Okay!" I stepped over a few kids in sleeping bags, and then my foot bumped into something hard. "Owwww!" somebody yelled. "You kicked me in the head, Arlo!" Ugh, it was Andrea! "SOR-reeee!" I said. Whenever you have to say you're sorry to someone but you don't really feel sorry, just say "SOR-reeee." Because "SOR-reeee" is the opposite of "sorry." When you say "SOR-reeee," it means you're not sorry at all. But nobody can punish you, because at least you did say you were sorry. So it's a win-win! That's the first rule of being a kid.

“Pssssst !抗干扰!”迈克尔低声说。 “你起床了吗?”“是啊!”“鼾声这么大，我睡不着，”迈克尔说。 “我也没有。”就在那时，我想到了世界历史上最伟大的主意。 “嘿，”我说。“你想去拿糖果吗?”“你有钱吗?”迈克尔问道。 “没有。你呢?”“没有。”夏天的流浪者!我真的很想要糖果。 “我们去饮水机那儿喝点东西吧。”迈克尔小声说。 “好吧!”我踩过几个穿着睡袋的孩子，然后我的脚撞到了硬物。 “哇哦!”有人喊道。“你踢了我的头，阿乐!”啊，是安德里亚!“SOR-reeee !”我说。 当你不得不对某人说对不起，但你并不是真的感到抱歉时，就说“SOR-reeee”。 因为"抱歉"的反义词是"抱歉" 当你说“SOR-reeee”时，意思是你一点也不抱歉。 但没人能惩罚你，因为至少你说了对不起。 所以这是双赢的!这是当孩子的第一准则。

"Do you have any money?" Michael asked Andrea. "Of course," she replied. "My mother gave me a ten-dollar bill to buy something educational at the gift shop." Everything Andrea does is educational. When she blows her nose, she probably writes an essay about boogers for extra credit. "Can we borrow some of your money?" I asked. "We wanna get candy." "Only if I can get some, too," she replied. I didn't want Andrea coming with us to the candy machine, but I did want candy. "Okay," I said. "I have money too," a voice whispered. "I want to come." Oh, man! It was that crybaby Emily. This thing was turning into a party. The four of us grabbed our flashlights and tiptoed around the other sleeping bags. "Hey, you know what would be cool?" I said. "We should pick up one of the snoring grown-ups and put them in a diorama! Can you imagine Mr. Docker or Mr. Macky waking up next to a wild yak?" "That would be hilarious," Michael agreed. "But I don't think we could pick them up." "We could if they went to Weight Watchers," I told him. "Can we go already?" said Andrea. The four of us slinked around in the dark like secret agents. "How come they don't have a security guard?" Emily whispered. "Anybody could come in here and murder us."

“你有钱吗?”迈克尔问安德烈。 “当然，”她回答。“我妈妈给了我一张十美元的钞票，让我在礼品店买一些有教育意义的东西。” 安德里亚所做的一切都很有教育意义。 当她擤鼻涕的时候，她可能会写一篇关于鼻屎的论文来获得额外学分。 “我们能借点你的钱吗?”我问。 “我们想要糖果。”“除非我也能得到一些，”她回答。 我不想让安德里亚和我们一起去糖果机，但我确实想要糖果。 “好吧，”我说。“我也有钱，”一个声音低声说。 “我想去。”哦,男人!是爱哭鬼艾米丽。 这事快变成派对了。 我们四个人拿起手电筒，蹑手蹑脚地绕过其他睡袋。 “嘿，你知道什么会很酷吗?”我说。 “我们应该挑一个打鼾的成年人，把他们放在一个立体模型里!”你能想象多克先生或麦基先生在一头野牦牛旁边醒来吗?”“那会很搞笑的，”迈克尔同意道。 “但我不认为我们能把它们捡起来。” “如果他们去慧俪轻体减肥中心，我们就可以。”我告诉他。 “我们可以走了吗?”安德烈说。 我们四个像秘密特工一样在黑暗中鬼鬼祟祟地走动。 “他们怎么没有保安?”艾米丽低声说。 “任何人都可以进来谋杀我们。”

"The doors are locked, dumbhead," I told her. "They have chains on them." "If there are chains on the door," Michael whispered, "that means we can't get out, either." We all looked at each other. I thought I heard scary music playing again. "Relax," I finally said. "Who's gonna murder us? The dead animals?" We slinked over to the candy machine. Awesome! It had all my favorite candy bars. This was the best night of my life! Andrea put her ten-dollar bill in the slot, but it popped back out. She tried it again, and it popped out again. "The machine doesn't take ten-dollar bills," Andrea said. This was the worst night of my life! "Hey, look!" Michael said, pointing to some boxes that were stacked next to the candy machine. "They're boxes of candy!" said Emily. "Great!" Michael said. "The candy is free!" "You mean it can fly wherever it wants?" I asked. "No, dumbhead," Andrea told me. "It means they're giving the candy away."

“门是锁着的，笨蛋，”我告诉她。 “他们身上有锁链。” “如果门上有锁链，”迈克尔低声说，“那就意味着我们也出不去了。” 我们都面面相觑。 我好像又听到可怕的音乐了。 “放轻松，”我最后说。“谁会杀了我们?” 那些死去的动物?”我们偷偷溜到糖果机那里。 太棒了!里面有我最喜欢的糖果棒。 这是我一生中最美好的夜晚!安德里亚把她的十美元钞票放进投币口，但它又弹了出来。 她又试了一次，它又弹了出来。 “这台机器不收10美元的钞票，”安德里亚说。 这是我一生中最糟糕的一晚!“嘿,你看!”迈克尔指着堆放在糖果机旁边的一些盒子说。 “那是几盒糖果!”艾米丽说。 “太好了!”迈克尔说。“糖果是免费的!”“你是说它可以飞到任何它想飞的地方?”我问。 “不，笨蛋，”安德里亚告诉我。 “这意味着他们要把糖果送人。”

All right! I was so happy, I didn't even bother saying anything mean to Andrea. We all grabbed the candy and started stuffing it in our mouths. I ate about a million hundred candy bars. It was the greatest night of my life.

好吧!我太高兴了，都懒得对安德里亚说什么难听的话。 我们都抓起糖果，开始往嘴里塞。 我吃了大约一百万个糖果棒。 那是我一生中最美好的夜晚。