25. Twelve Days of Chaos

CHAPTER 25 TWELVE DAYS OF CHAOS It didn't take long before the cops showed up. They attempted to restore order, but things didn't go very well. "We can either do this the easy way, or the hard way!" shouted Officer McWiggly. "Let's do it the FUN way!" cried Miss Fitt, as she yanked Officer McWiggly's pants down around his ankles. "I've got a good idea," said George. "What?" asked Harold. "RUN!" said George.

第二十五章十二天的混乱没过多久警察就来了。 他们试图恢复秩序，但事情进展不太顺利。 “我们要么用简单的办法，要么用艰难的办法！”麦克威格利警官喊道。 “让我们用有趣的方式来！”菲特小姐喊道，一边把麦克威格利警官的裤子扯下来，绕着他的脚踝。 “我有个好主意，”乔治说。 “什么？”哈罗德问。“快跑！”乔治说。

By the time it was all over, the entire staff of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School was in jail. The charges ranged from indecent exposure and resisting arrest to reckless endangerment and pantsing a police officer. The cops didn't quite know what to do with Mr. Krupp, though. He hadn't really done anything wrong. He'd just stood there in the same spot for hours and hours, saying "B-B-Bubba bobba hob-hobba-hobba wah- wah" over and over and OVER again. So it was decided that he should be admitted into the Piqua Valley Home for the Reality-Challenged, where he remained, unchanged, for nearly two weeks. George and Harold and their twins spent the next twelve days being VERY careful.

当一切结束的时候，杰罗姆·霍维茨小学的全体教职员工都进了监狱。 这些指控包括猥亵暴露、拒捕、鲁莽危害和给警察穿裤子。 不过，警察不知道该拿克虏伯怎么办。 他并没有做错什么。 他只是在同一个地方站了好几个小时，一遍又一遍地说“B-B-Bubba bobba hob-hobba- hoba wah- wah”。 因此，医生决定让他住进皮瓜谷现实挑战之家，在那里他呆了将近两个星期，没有任何变化。 乔治、哈罗德和他们的双胞胎在接下来的12天里非常小心。

"Great job!" shouted Yesterday George angrily. "Our teachers are in jail, and Mr. Krupp is in the goof house. These past two weeks have been a total disaster!" "Two weeks?" said Harold inquisitively. "Yeah," Yesterday George continued. "In the past two weeks you guys have— "No, wait," Harold interrupted. "Wasn't something BAD supposed to happen in two weeks?" George, Yesterday George, and Yesterday Harold all thought back to Melvin Sneedly's cryptic warning in chapter 11. "Oh, yeah," they all said simultaneously. The four boys looked around them. They checked the horizon. They sniffed the air. They put their ears to the floor and listened. Nothing. There was no sign of any trouble. "Huh!" said George. "I guess nothing bad is going to happen after all!"

“干得好！”昨天乔治生气地喊道。 “我们的老师进了监狱，克虏伯先生进了疯人院。 过去的两个星期简直是一场灾难！”“两个星期？”哈罗德好奇地问。 “是的，”昨天乔治继续说。 “在过去的两个星期里，你们……”“不，等等。”哈罗德打断了他。 “两周后不是应该有坏事发生吗？”乔治、昨天的乔治和昨天的哈罗德都想起了第十一章中梅尔文·史尼利的神秘警告。 “哦，是的。”他们异口同声地说。 四个男孩环顾四周。 他们检查了一下地平线。他们嗅了嗅空气。 他们把耳朵贴在地板上听着。 什么都没有。没有任何麻烦的迹象。 “哼！”乔治说。“我想根本不会发生什么坏事！”

Suddenly, a fireball shot out from behind the clouds. Then came an echoing, eardrum- piercing sound of relentless terror. It was a laugh. A horrifying, sinister, stomach- churning laugh that the boys had not heard for many months. A laugh that they'd hoped they would never hear again. "Uh-oh," said the Georges. "We're doomed!" cried the Harolds.

突然，一个火球从云层后面射出。 然后传来一声回响，无情的恐怖的声音刺痛耳膜。 这是一个笑话。这是孩子们好几个月没听到过的可怕的、阴险的、令人反胃的笑声。 他们希望再也听不到的笑声。 “哦哦，”乔治夫妇说。 “我们死定了！”哈罗德夫妇叫道。