11. Furious George

CHAPTER 11 FURIOUS GEORGE There is not a whole lot you can do when you are a little kid who encounters injustice. Your natural desire is to set things right, but that can often backfire, resulting in even greater injustices. The sad truth is, big people usually have all of the power. You can't force anybody to be kind or fair or honorable, especially if you're only forty-three inches tall and weigh only fifty pounds. That's why it's important to be smart.

第十一章愤怒的乔治当你是一个遭遇不公正待遇的小孩时，你能做的事情并不多。 你的自然愿望是纠正错误，但这往往会适得其反，导致更大的不公正。 可悲的事实是，大人物通常拥有所有的权力。 你不能强迫别人善良、公平或可敬，尤其是当你只有43英寸高、50磅重的时候。 这就是为什么聪明很重要。

George Beard had just witnessed the most hostile and unfair thing he had ever seen. The bad guys outnumbered him by five to one and outweighed him by probably 700 pounds. But George was smarter than all of them put together, and he knew it. As the bullies dragged Harold across the street, George looked around him for the best way to make things right. He focused in on the display sign next to him. The sign read FREE BRAKE INSPECTION. This was a busy intersection, and George knew that a tiny change on this sign could create a great deal of pandemonium, so he reached over to the sign and removed the letters k and e from the word brake.

乔治·比尔德刚刚目睹了他所见过的最敌对、最不公平的事情。 坏人的数量是他的五倍，比他重约700磅。 但乔治比他们所有人加起来都聪明，他也知道这一点。 当恶霸们拖着哈罗德穿过街道时，乔治环顾四周，寻找最好的办法来弥补。 他把注意力集中在他旁边的展示牌上。 牌子上写着免费刹车检查。 这是一个繁忙的十字路口，乔治知道在这个标志上的一个微小的变化可能会造成很大的混乱，所以他伸手到标志上，把“brake”这个词中的字母k和e去掉了。

"HEY!" screamed Billy Bill. "YOU GIT AWAY FROM THAT SIGN RIGHT NOW, Y'HEAR?!!? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU KIDS THESE DAYS?!!?" Billy Bill marched over to George, yelling and waving his hands in the air frantically. He reached out to grab George by the shirt collar, but he never got the chance.

“嘿！”比利比尔尖叫道。 “你现在离那个标志远点，听到了吗？！！ ！？” 你们这些孩子怎么了？！！？”比利·比尔大步走向乔治，一边大喊大叫，一边疯狂地在空中挥舞双手。 他伸手想抓住乔治的衬衫领子，但他一直没有机会。

At that very moment, a violet Volkswagen jumped the curb and screeched up next to Billy Bill. Two old ladies flew out of the car, screaming at the top of their lungs! "Free BRA inspection?!!?" shouted the driver, as she smacked Billy Bill over the head with her purse. "That's OFFENSIVE!!!" "HOW DARE YOU?!!?" yelled the other lady, hitting Billy Bill with her cane. "Women are human beings, not toys for you to play with!"

就在这时，一辆紫色的大众汽车从路边跳了出来，在比利·比尔旁边呼啸而过。 两个老太太从车里冲出来，扯着嗓子尖叫起来！“免费胸罩检查？！！？”司机喊道，她用钱包拍了拍比利·比尔的头。 “进攻!”“你怎么敢？！！？”另一位女士喊道，用手杖打比利·比尔。 “女人是人，不是供你玩的玩具！”

"You're a MALE CHAUVINIST PIG!" screamed a third lady, who had run over from the coffee shop across the street with a group of her angry female friends. They each took turns kicking Billy Bill repeatedly in the knees, as other women drivers slammed on their brakes and rushed forward to join in the ferocious female fight for equality. "You gotta learn to stick up for yourself,"

“你是个大男子主义的猪！”第三位女士尖叫道，她和一群愤怒的女性朋友从街对面的咖啡店跑过来。 她们轮流不停地踢比利·比尔的膝盖，而其他女司机则猛踩刹车，冲上前加入这场为平等而战的激烈女性斗争。 “你得学会维护自己”

George said to Billy Bill, smiling, "or people are gonna bully you your whole life!" George walked past the giant traffic jam that was forming and ignored Billy Bill's tear-filled cries for mercy as the kicking and whacking and hair-pulling and foot-stomping continued. George was looking for that yellow-haired kid.

乔治笑着对比利·比尔说：“不然人们会欺负你一辈子的！”乔治走过正在形成的巨大的交通堵塞，当比利·比尔继续踢、打、扯头发和跺脚时，他没有理睬他含泪的求饶的呼声。 乔治在找那个黄头发的孩子。