8 Ch8-The Secret of the Secret Room

Chapter 8 The Secret of the Secret Room I wrote this note and slipped it to Michael: Meet after school by the big turtle. We can sneak into Miss Lazar's secret room. Pass note to Ryan. Michael read the note and gave me the thumbs-up sign. Then he passed the note

第8章密室的秘密我写了这张纸条塞给迈克尔:放学后在大乌龟旁边见。 我们可以溜进拉扎尔小姐的密室。 把纸条传给瑞恩。迈克尔看了纸条，对我竖起大拇指。 然后他把纸条递给他

over to Ryan. Ryan read the note and gave me the thumbs-up sign. Then he put the note in his mouth and started chewing it. Ryan will eat anything, even stuff that is not food. He's weird. At the end of the day, me and Michael and Ryan met in the playground near the big turtle. "I just saw Miss Lazar mopping the vomitorium," said Michael. "She'll be there at least a half an hour." "Let's go!" I said. We snuck back in the school through the side door, being quiet like mice. We tiptoed down the steps to the basement. "Hey, why did you eat the note?" I whispered to Ryan.

轮到瑞恩了。瑞恩看了纸条，对我竖起大拇指。 然后他把纸条放进嘴里，开始咀嚼。 瑞恩什么都吃，甚至不是食物的东西。 他很奇怪。一天结束的时候，我、迈克尔和瑞恩在操场上的大乌龟附近碰面。 “我刚才看见拉扎尔小姐在拖体育馆，”迈克尔说。 “她至少要在那儿待半个小时。” “我们走吧!”我说。我们从侧门偷偷溜回学校，像老鼠一样安静。 我们蹑手蹑脚地走下台阶来到地下室。 “嘿，你为什么要吃纸条?”我低声对瑞安说。

"I had to destroy the evidence so it wouldn't fall into the wrong hands," said Ryan. "I saw somebody do that in a movie once." "Good thinking," I said, even though I think Ryan just likes eating paper. "Shhh!" Michael shushed. We slid against the walls and crouched down low so nobody would see us. We were like real secret agents, except we didn't have guns or trench coats. It was cool. The door to Miss Lazar's office was wide open. We went inside. "Quick!" Ryan said. "Somebody could come in any minute." I went to the door of the secret room. It

“我必须销毁证据，这样它就不会落入坏人之手，”瑞安说。 “我曾经在一部电影里看到有人这样做过。” “好主意，”我说，尽管我觉得瑞恩只是喜欢吃纸。 “嘘!”迈克尔嘘。我们靠在墙上，蹲得很低，这样就没人会看到我们了。 我们就像真正的特工，只不过我们没有枪，也没有风衣。 很酷。拉扎尔小姐办公室的门大开着。 我们进去了。“快!”瑞恩说。 “随时都可能有人进来。” 我走到密室的门口。 它

was closed. I put my hand on the knob. It turned. I pulled open the door. It was a little room, not much bigger than a closet. It was dark in there. We couldn't see much. Something was hanging on the walls. "Turn on the light," said Michael. I found a switch on the wall. You'll never guess in a million hundred years what was hanging all over the walls in Miss Lazar's secret room. I'm not going to tell you. Okay, okay, I'll tell you. Toilet bowl plungers! There must have been about twenty of them! There were big plungers and little plungers. Fat plungers and skinny

被关闭了。我把手放在把手上。 结果。我拉开了门。 那是一个小房间，比壁橱大不了多少。 里面很黑。我们什么也看不见。 墙上挂着什么东西。 “把灯打开，”迈克尔说。 我在墙上发现了一个开关。 你永远也猜不到拉扎尔小姐密室的墙上挂满了什么东西。 我不会告诉你的。 好吧，好吧，我告诉你。 马桶柱塞!他们大概有20个人吧!有大活塞和小活塞。 胖胖的和瘦瘦的

plungers. Plungers in every color. Some of them had little cards next to them explaining what company made the plunger or what year it was made. It was like a museum of toilet bowl plungers! "Wow!" I said. "Miss Lazar really likes toilet bowl plungers! My mom collects glass papetweights, and my uncle Eric collects old radios, but I never heard of anyone who collected toilet bowl plungers. That's a weird thing to collect. We closed the door to the secret room and got out of there fast. Miss Lazar is bizarre!

活塞。各种颜色的柱塞。 他们中的一些人在旁边放了小卡片，说明是哪家公司生产的，或者是哪一年生产的。 它就像一个马桶柱塞博物馆!“哇!”我说。 “拉扎尔小姐真的很喜欢马桶柱塞!”我妈妈收集玻璃镇纸，我叔叔埃里克收集旧收音机，但我从没听说过有人收集马桶柱塞。 收集这种东西很奇怪。 我们关上密室的门，迅速地离开了那里。 拉扎尔小姐很奇怪!