7 Ch7-Performance Art

Chapter 7 Performance Art There's a garden in the back of the Museum of Hanging Garbage. We went out there, and Ms. Hannah gave out pretzels and punch to all of us. She said we could run around and burn off some energy. We were munching the pretzels when

第七章行为艺术悬挂垃圾博物馆后面有一个花园。 我们去了那里。 汉娜给我们大家发糖果和潘趣酒。 她说我们可以到处跑，消耗点能量。 我们在嚼椒盐脆饼的时候

Michael noticed a statue at the other end of the garden. It was a statue of a guy. He was dressed in a raincoat and he was holding an umbrella. The cool thing was that the statue guy was painted gold from head to toe. "Now that is cool," I said. A bunch of people were standing around in a circle looking at the statue guy. "Hey, wait a minute!" Michael said. "I just saw that statue guy move." "He did not," I said. "Did too," said Michael. I went over to the statue guy. There was a hat on the ground in front of him,

迈克尔注意到花园另一端有一座雕像。 那是一个男人的雕像。他穿着雨衣，拿着伞。 最酷的是那个雕像的人从头到脚都被涂成了金色。 “这太酷了，”我说。 一群人围成一圈站着，看着那个雕像男。 “嘿，等一下!”迈克尔说。 “我刚看到那个雕像男的动了。” “他没有，”我说。“我也是。”迈克尔说。 我去找修雕像的人。 他面前的地上有一顶帽子，

and there was money in it. That was weird. If it was a statue, why would anybody give it money? The statue guy wasn't moving at all. I walked around him real slow. I said "Boo!" to him. He didn't move. I wanted to touch him to see if he was a real statue, but I was scared. I looked in the statue guy's eyes. They sure looked real, but he wasn't moving a muscle. "See, I told you," I said to Michael, "It's just a stat—" But just as I said it, the statue guy suddenly picked up his hand and put it on my head!

而且里面还有钱。 这很奇怪。如果它是一座雕像，为什么会有人给它钱呢? 修雕像的人根本没动。 我慢慢地绕着他走。 我对他说:“嘘!”他没有动。 我想摸摸他，看看他是不是真的雕像，但我很害怕。 我看着雕像那家伙的眼睛。 看起来是真的，但他一动也不动。 “你看，我告诉过你，”我对迈克尔说，“这只是一个统计——”但就在我说这句话的时候，雕像的人突然举起手来，放在我的头上!

I screamed and jumped about three feet in the air! All the people who were watching started to laugh even though there wasn't anything funny about it. I hadn't been so scared since I went to this haunted mansion on Halloween and

我尖叫着，跳到了三英尺高的地方!所有观看的人都笑了起来，尽管这并没有什么好笑的。 自从万圣节那天我去了鬼屋之后我就没这么害怕过

all these zombies were jumping out from behind the walls. When that statue guy moved, I thought I was going to die. Ms. Hannah came over and put her arm around me. "See, that's art too, A.J.!" she said as she put some money in the statue guy's hat. "This man has turned himself into a work of art! It's just like I always tell you. Art is everywhere. This is called performance art!" Performance art? Performance art? I think maybe when I grow up, I will paint myself gold and stand around doing nothing but scaring kids all day. That performance art stuff is cool.

所有的僵尸都从墙后跳出来。 当那个雕像男的移动的时候，我以为我要死了。 汉娜女士走过来，搂着我。 “看，那也是艺术，A.J.!”她边说边把一些钱放进雕像人的帽子里。 “这个人把自己变成了一件艺术品!”就像我一直跟你说的那样。 艺术无处不在。这叫表演艺术!”表演艺术? 表演艺术?我想也许等我长大了，我会把自己涂成金色，整天站在那里除了吓唬孩子什么都不做。 表演艺术的东西很酷。