5 Ch5-Checking for Headlights

Chapter 5 Checking for Headlights To make Mrs. Cooney fall in love with me, I would have to be on my best behavior. Luckily I got my chance the very next day. After we finished pledging the allegiance, Miss Daisy told the class that we had to go to Mrs. Cooney's office one at a time. Ryan and Michael wanted to go

第五章检查车灯要想让库尼太太爱上我，我必须表现得很好。 幸运的是，我第二天就得到了机会。 在我们宣誓效忠后，黛西小姐告诉全班，我们必须一个一个地去库尼太太的办公室。 瑞恩和迈克尔也想去

first. But I got to go first because my name starts with a. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on them. When I got to Mrs. Cooney's office, she didn't seem mad at me anymore. I was determined to be the most perfect kid in the history of the world. "Good morning, A.J.," Mrs. Cooney said. "Every year at this time, I have to check the students for headlights." Headlights? Why would a kid bring a headlight to school? Headlights belong on cars. I kept my mouth shut, though. I didn't want Mrs. Cooney to get mad at me again. Mrs. Cooney put on a pair of rubber

第一。但我得先说，因为我的名字是以。 所以不，不，不，不。 当我到库尼夫人的办公室时，她似乎不再生我的气了。 我决心要成为世界历史上最完美的孩子。 “早上好，a.j.，”库尼太太说。 “每年这个时候，我都要检查学生的车灯。” 头灯?为什么一个孩子要带车灯来学校? 大灯属于汽车。 尽管如此，我还是保持沉默。 我不想让库尼太太再生我的气。 库尼太太戴上了一双橡胶鞋

gloves. She told me to sit on a chair, and she turned on a bright light over the chair. It was like one of those lights they shine at bad guys in police TV shows when they're trying to get them to confess. I wanted to tell Mrs. Cooney that checking kids for headlights was dopey but I was trying to be on my best behavior. "Is this really necessary?" I asked politely. "It's nothing to be ashamed of," she said. "Lots of kids have headlights." Nobody I know! Mrs. Cooney started looking through my hair and rubbing a stick against my head. What a waste of time! If I had a headlight up there, she

手套。她让我坐在椅子上，然后在椅子上打开一盏明亮的灯。 就像警匪片里那些想让坏人招供的人身上的灯一样。 我想告诉库尼太太，检查孩子们的车灯是愚蠢的，但我试图表现得最好。 “这真的有必要吗?”我礼貌地问道。 “这没什么好羞愧的，”她说。 “很多孩子都有车灯。” 我不认识任何人!库尼太太开始梳理我的头发，用一根棍子在我头上摩擦。 真是浪费时间!如果我有个车灯，她

wouldn't have to look very hard to see it. "What happens if I have one?" I asked. "You'll have to stay home from school for a few days," Mrs. Cooney said. Hmm, that didn't sound like such a bad idea. I could use a vacation. I started thinking of how I could get a headlight. Maybe my dad had an extra one in the garage. But even if I could get a headlight, how would I attach it to my head? With a strap or something? As Mrs. Cooney was poking around in my hair, I started to think about what it would be like if the two of us were married. Maybe she would make me hop

不用很费劲就能看出来。 “如果我有一个会怎么样?”我问。 “你得在家休学几天，”库尼太太说。 嗯，这主意听起来不错。 我可以休个假。我开始想怎样才能弄个前灯。 也许我爸在车库里还有一台。 但即使我有一个大灯，我怎么把它装在头上呢? 用皮带什么的? 当库尼太太拨弄我的头发时，我开始想，如果我们俩结婚了会是什么样子。 也许她会让我跳起来

around the house with a ruler on my nose and cluck like a chicken all day. Maybe I would have to wear a headlight all the time. My mom once told me that all people are different and that's what makes people so interesting. She said we should accept people for who they are instead of

鼻子上顶着尺子在屋子里转来转去，整天像鸡一样咯咯叫。 也许我就得一直戴着车灯了。 我妈妈曾经告诉我，所有的人都是不同的，这就是人们如此有趣的原因。 她说我们应该接受人们本来的样子，而不是

trying to change them. Maybe I could live with Mrs. Cooney even if she was weird. "Okay" Mrs. Cooney said. "You can go back to class, A.J. You don't have headlights." Duh! Mrs. Cooney is weird, but I still loved her. I decided that I still wanted to marry her when I grow up. When I got back to class, I told Ryan and Michael that Mrs. Cooney tried to find headlights in my hair. "It's head lice, dumbhead!" Michael said. "Not headlights!" Oh, That explained a lot.

试图改变他们。也许我可以和库尼太太住在一起即使她很奇怪。 “好吧，”库尼太太说。“你可以回去上课了，aj 你没有车头灯。” 咄!库尼太太很怪，但我还是爱她。 我决定长大后还是要娶她。 当我回到教室，我告诉瑞恩和迈克尔，库尼太太试图在我的头发里找到车灯。 “这是头虱，笨蛋!”迈克尔说。 “没有头灯!”哦，这解释了很多。