5 Ch5-Mr. Hynde Gets Funky

Chapter 5 Mr. Hynde Gets Funky If Andrea and her mother got Mr. Hynde fired, it would be a horrible disaster. I was determined to stop them. But in the meantime, I had another problem to worry about. Multiplication. We were just starting to learn about

如果安德里亚和她妈妈让海德先生被解雇，那将是一场可怕的灾难。 我决心要阻止他们。 但与此同时，我还有另一个问题需要担心。 乘法。我们才刚刚开始了解

multiplication, and I didn't get it. I understood how 2 plus 2 equals 4. But then how was it possible for 2 times 2 to equal 4 too? I mean, 3 plus 3 and 3 times 3 don't equal the same number. It just didn't make sense. The way I looked at it, if 2 plus 2 equals 4, and 2 times 2 also equals 4, then addition and multiplication were the same thing. And if they were the same thing, why did we have to learn both of them? I was having a tough enough time with addition

乘法，我没弄懂。 我明白了2加2等于4。 但是2乘以2怎么可能也等于4呢? 我的意思是，3 + 3和3 * 3不等于相同的数。 这根本说不通。 我是这样看的，如果2加2等于4,2乘以2也等于4，那么加法和乘法是一样的。 如果它们是一样的，为什么我们要同时学习它们呢? 我学加法的时候已经够难的了

and subtraction before this multiplication stuff messed everything up. I asked Miss Daisy to explain how 2 plus 2 and 2 times 2 can both equal 4. "How should I know?" she replied. "I don't know anything about math." Miss Daisy is crazy! "Everybody line up," Miss Daisy said after we finished putting away our math books. "Line up for what?" "It's time for music with Mr. Hynde," Miss Daisy said. "Yippee!" shouted me and Michael and Ryan. "Boo!" said Andrea and Emily.

在乘法之前的减法把一切都搞砸了。 我请黛西小姐解释2加2和2乘2怎么都等于4。 “我怎么知道?”她回答。 “我对数学一无所知。” 黛西小姐疯了!“大家都排好队，”Daisy老师在我们把数学书放好后说。 “排队干什么?”“和海德先生一起听音乐的时间到了，”黛西小姐说。 “耶!”我、迈克尔和瑞恩喊道。 “嘘!”安德里亚和艾米丽说。

"Andrea, I thought you loved music," Miss Daisy said. "You've been playing piano ever since you were four." "She must be really tired," I said. Nobody laughed at my joke again, but I didn't care. I'm going to keep telling that joke until somebody laughs. "Mr. Hynde doesn't play music," Andrea said. "He just makes noise." "Well, we have to go to music anyway," said Miss Daisy. Nah-nah-nah boo-boo on Andrea! I hate her. We went to the music room in single file. This girl Annette was the line leader. Andrea and Emily were at the end of the

“安德里亚，我以为你喜欢音乐呢，”黛西小姐说。 “你从四岁起就开始弹钢琴了。” “她一定很累了，”我说。 没人再为我的笑话发笑，但我不在乎。 我要一直讲那个笑话，直到有人笑为止。 “海德先生不演奏音乐，”安德里亚说。 “他只是在制造噪音。”“好吧，反正我们也得去听音乐，”黛西小姐说。 不不不，安德里亚!我恨她。 我们排成纵队去了音乐室。 这个叫安妮特的女孩是领班。 安德里亚和艾米丽在

line, which was a first in the history of the world. They always want to get everywhere before anyone else. The music room was empty. But suddenly Mr. Hynde swept in and threw off his cape. "Should we sit like pretzels, Mr. Hynde?" somebody asked. "No way, homeys," Mr. Hynde said. "You sit for reading and writing and arithmetic. In music you get up and shake your booty! The only way to get down is to get up!" Mr. Hynde jumped around like a lunatic, and so did we. It was cool. "Okay, my little peeps," Mr. Hynde said.

这是世界历史上的第一次。 他们总是想在别人之前到达每个地方。 音乐室是空的。突然，海德先生冲了进来，脱下了他的斗篷。 “我们应该像椒盐卷饼一样坐着吗，海德先生?”有人问。 “不可能，伙计们，”海德说。 “你坐着读书、写作和算术。 在音乐中，你站起来摇你的屁股!下来的唯一方法就是爬起来!”海德先生像个疯子一样跳来跳去，我们也一样。 很酷。“好吧，小家伙们，”海德说。

"Today we're gonna learn about percussion. Which one of you shorties can tell me what percussion is?" I raised my hand and Mr. Hynde called on me. "Percussion is when you say bad words," I said. "That's cussin' brother," Mr. Hynde said. "Andrea?" "Percussion is when one object hits against another object," she said, all proud of herself. "Word up, Andrea!" Mr. Hynde said. Andrea thinks she knows everything. I'd like to percussion her with a stick. "Listen up," Mr. Hynde said. He picked

“今天我们要学习打击。 你们谁能告诉我打击乐是什么?”我一举手，海德先生就叫我。 “打击乐就是你说脏话的时候，”我说。 “那是在骂人，兄弟，”海德说。 “安德里亚?”“打击乐就是一个物体撞击另一个物体，”她自豪地说。 “快说，安德烈!”海德说。 安德里亚自以为无所不知。 我想用棍子打她。 “听着，”海德说。 他选择了