3 Ch3-George Washington's Teeth

Chapter 3 George Washington's Teeth I'm no dumbhead. My mom told me that George Washington had wooden teeth. So this army guy with the wig couldn't be George Washington unless he had wooden teeth. "If you're really George Washington, let's see your teeth," I said The army guy with the wig reached into his pocket and

第三章乔治·华盛顿的牙齿我不是傻瓜。 我妈妈告诉我乔治·华盛顿的假牙是木制的。 所以这个戴假发的军人不可能是乔治·华盛顿除非他的牙齿是木制的。 “如果你真的是乔治·华盛顿，让我们看看你的牙齿，”我说。戴假发的军人把手伸进口袋，然后

pulled out a set of teeth. Then he wound a little thing on it and the teeth started chattering up and down in his hand. Emily took one look at the teeth and ran out of the room crying. That girl cries at anything. "Wow!" I said. "Maybe he is George Washington. Those teeth are cool! I wish I had wooden teeth." "You can't fool me," Andrea Young said. "You're not George Washington. You're Mrs. Roopy, the new librarian, dressed up to look like George Washington. You're supposed to read stories to us and help us use the computers." "Computers?" George Washington said, his forehead all wrinkly. "I don't know

拔了一副牙。 然后他在上面缠了一个小东西，牙齿开始在他手里上下打颤。 艾米丽看了一眼牙齿，哭着跑出了房间。 那个女孩什么事都哭。 “哇!”我说。“也许他就是乔治·华盛顿。 那些牙齿真酷!我希望我的牙齿是木制的。” “你骗不了我，”安德里亚·杨说。 “你不是乔治·华盛顿。 你是鲁比夫人，新图书管理员，打扮得像乔治·华盛顿。 你应该给我们讲故事，帮我们使用电脑。” “电脑?”乔治·华盛顿说，他的额头满是皱纹。 “我不知道

what you're talking about, young lady. This is the year 1790. Computers haven't been invented yet!" No matter what we said, the army guy with the wig insisted that he was really George Washington. He read us a story about when he was a boy and he chopped down a cherry tree. Then he showed us a bunch of books about the United States. All through library period, the army guy with the wig said that he was George

你在说什么，小姐。 这是1790年。那时还没有发明计算机呢!”不管我们说什么，那个戴假发的军人坚持说他真的是乔治·华盛顿。 他给我们读了一个关于他小时候砍倒一棵樱桃树的故事。 然后他给我们看了一堆关于美国的书。 整个图书馆期间，那个戴假发的军人都说他是乔治

Washington. After a while, we started calling him George Washington, "General Washington," I asked, "may I go to the bathroom?" Everybody laughed even though I didn't say anything funny. Kids think anything to do with bathrooms is funny. If you want to make your friends laugh, all you have to do is stick your face in their face and say either "bathroom" or "underwear." It works every time. "I'm sorry," George Washington said "This is the year 1790. Bathrooms have not been invented yet." It wasn't an emergency or anything, so I waited. We were allowed to check out any book we wanted from the library. I took out a book about jet fighter planes

华盛顿。过了一段时间，我们开始叫他乔治·华盛顿，“华盛顿将军，”我问，“我可以去洗手间吗?”大家都笑了，尽管我没说什么好笑的话。 孩子们觉得跟厕所有关的事都很有趣。 如果你想让你的朋友笑，你所要做的就是把脸贴在他们的脸上，说“浴室”或“内衣”。 每次都很有效。“对不起，”乔治·华盛顿说，“现在是1790年。 浴室还没有被发明出来。” 又不是什么紧急情况，所以我就等着。 我们可以从图书馆借阅任何我们想要的书。 我拿出一本关于喷气式战斗机的书

because it had cool pictures in it. For a president, this George Washington guy seemed to know a lot about finding books in the library and checking them out. It was time to go to lunch. We all had to salute George Washington as we left the library. "Hey. how come you chopped down that cherry tree, anyhow?" I asked him as we left the library. "I cannot tell a lie," he said "I needed some wood for my wooden teeth." Then he showed us his chattering teeth again. I'm still not sure if that army guy with the wig was George Washington or not. But he was weird.

因为里面有很酷的照片。 作为一个总统，乔治·华盛顿这个家伙似乎知道很多在图书馆找书和借书的事。 该去吃午饭了。 离开图书馆时，我们都向乔治·华盛顿敬礼。 “嘿。你到底是怎么砍倒那棵樱桃树的?”离开图书馆时我问他。 “我不能说谎，”他说，“我需要一些木头来做我的木牙。” 然后他又向我们展示了他的牙齿。 我还是不确定那个戴假发的军人是不是乔治·华盛顿。 但他很奇怪。