4 Ch4-A Dumb Balancing Act

Chapter 4 A Dumb Balancing Act "Are we gonna play football?" I asked Miss Small. "No," Miss Small said. "How about basketball?" asked Ryan. "Nope." "Soccer?" "Not even close."

“我们要去踢足球吗?”我问斯莫尔小姐。 “不，”斯莫尔小姐说。“打篮球怎么样?”瑞恩问。 “不。”“足球?”“差远了。”

"Baseball? Hockey? Tennis?" "No. No. No." "Curling?" I asked. "No." "I thought you said we were gonna have fun," Michael complained. "I did," said Miss Small. "So what are we gonna do?" I asked. Miss Small went to a box near the bleachers and pulled out some giant feathers that were as long as her arms. "We're going to balance these peacock feathers," she said. "What!" I asked. "Whoever can balance a feather on their finger the longest is the winner,"

“棒球?曲棍球吗?网球吗?”“没有。 不。没有。”“冰壶?”我问。 “没有。”“我记得你说过我们会玩得很开心。”迈克尔抱怨道。 “是的，”斯莫尔小姐说。“那我们该怎么办?”我问。 斯莫尔小姐走到露天看台附近的一个箱子前，拿出一些和她的胳膊一样长的巨大羽毛。 “我们要平衡这些孔雀羽毛，”她说。 “什么!”我问。“谁能把羽毛放在手指上的时间最长，谁就是赢家。”

Miss Small said. She took a feather and balanced it on her finger. "See, it's easy!" She gave each of us a feather. I put the feather on my finger. It fell off right away. I put it back on my finger, and it fell off again. I tried moving my finger back and forth like Miss Small did to hold the feather up, but it fell off anyway.

斯莫尔小姐说。她拿起一根羽毛，在手指上平衡着。 “看，这很容易!”她给了我们每人一根羽毛。 我把羽毛戴在手指上。 它马上就掉下来了。我把它戴回手指上，它又掉了下来。 我试着像斯莫尔小姐那样前后移动手指，把羽毛举起来，但它还是掉了下来。

Balancing feathers was not fun. It was dumb. I looked up to see if Ryan could balance his feather. But his fell off. I turned around to see how Michael was doing. His feather fell off too. In fact, there was only one kid in the whole class who was still balancing the dumb feather. It was Andrea Young! Her dumb feather was just standing up all straight on her dumb finger like it was glued there.

平衡羽毛并不好玩。 这是愚蠢的。我抬起头，想看看瑞安能不能平衡他的羽毛。 但是他的掉了。我转过身去看看迈克尔怎么样了。 他的羽毛也掉了。事实上，全班只有一个孩子还在平衡那根哑巴羽毛。 是安德里亚·杨!她那愚蠢的羽毛笔直地竖在她愚蠢的手指上，就像被粘在那里一样。

"Good job, Andrea!" said Miss Small. "You have excellent balance," And she gave Andrea a certificate that said she was a feather-balancing expert. "Thanks, Miss Small," Andrea said. "Maybe Fizz Ed won't be so bad after all!" I hate her.

“干得好，安德烈!”斯莫尔小姐说。 "你的平衡感很好"她给了安德里亚一张证书，证明她是羽毛平衡专家。 “谢谢你，斯莫尔小姐，”安德烈说。 “也许Fizz Ed根本就不会那么糟糕!”我恨她。