17. Monday

CHAPTER 17 MONDAY On Monday morning, the boys woke up early, gathered their supplies, and headed to school about fifteen minutes before the rest of the students started to arrive. George and Harold carried their stilts and supplies into the boys' restroom upstairs and placed them inside one of the empty stalls.

第十七章星期一星期一的早晨，男孩们起得很早，收拾好补给品，比其他学生早15分钟去学校。 乔治和哈罗德拿着他们的高跷和补品走进楼上的男厕所，把它们放在一个空隔间里。

Finally, they closed the stall door and locked it. If you were standing outside the stall, looking underneath the door, it appeared as if somebody was sitting down in there taking care of business. George and Harold knew that nobody would dare go near this stall, so it was now the safest place in the school to hide stuff.

最后，他们关上了隔间的门，锁上了门。 如果你站在摊位外面，从门下面往下看，就会发现好像有人正坐在那里处理生意。 乔治和哈罗德知道没人敢靠近这个摊位，所以现在这里是全校藏东西最安全的地方了。

Soon the students began arriving and the day started pretty much like normal. Mr. Krupp marched up and down the hallways screaming and making children cry, Kipper and his creeps stole money and distributed wedgies to the kindergartners, and a general feeling of hopelessness and despair filled the morning air. At lunchtime, as usual, the downtrodden kindergartners sat at their table with no food at all. Mr. Krupp stomped up to the kindergarten table and started getting angry. "How come you kids never have any food at lunchtime?" he shouted. "Um..." said one kid, "we're on diets." "Oh," said Mr. Krupp, as he pulled his belt up over his giant stomach. "Well, good!" he said. "It's important to stay fit and healthy like me!"

很快，学生们陆续来了，这一天就像往常一样开始了。 克虏伯先生在走廊上走来走去，尖叫着，把孩子们弄哭，基珀和他的手下偷钱，给幼儿园的孩子们分发拖鞋，早晨的空气中弥漫着一种绝望和绝望的气氛。 午餐时间，像往常一样，受压迫的幼儿园孩子们坐在桌子旁，没有任何食物。 克虏伯先生大步走到幼儿园的桌子前，开始生气起来。 “你们这些孩子午餐怎么从来不吃东西？”他喊道。 “嗯……”一个孩子说，“我们在节食。” “哦，”克虏伯先生说着，把腰带拉到他巨大的肚子上。 “嗯，很好！”他说。“像我一样保持身材和健康很重要！”

In the afternoon, George and Harold asked to be excused so they could use the restroom. They only had about five minutes to set things up, so they had to hurry. Harold opened the locked door of their secret restroom stall, and George climbed up on the stilts. Quickly, they sneaked out into the hallway.

下午，乔治和哈罗德请求原谅，以便他们可以使用洗手间。 他们只有大约五分钟的时间来布置，所以他们必须抓紧时间。 哈罗德打开了他们秘密厕所隔间锁着的门，乔治爬上了高跷。 他们迅速溜到走廊里。

George stilt-walked over to Kipper's locker, and Harold handed him the long spool of shelf-lining paper. Carefully, George placed the paper on top of the lockers and rolled it down to the end. The paper flipped over the edge of the locker tops and rolled down the side. Harold caught it and taped it to the side of the lockers, marking off some measurements with a ruler.

乔治高跷地走到基珀的储物柜前，哈罗德把一长卷架子衬纸递给他。 乔治小心翼翼地把那张纸放在储物柜上，把它卷到最后。 那张纸从储物柜顶部的边缘翻了过来，从侧面滚了下来。 哈罗德接住它，把它粘在储物柜的侧面，用尺子标出了一些尺寸。

George put the padlock that he and Harold had bought on the end of the paper, two lockers down from Kipper's. They were ready. Quickly, they put their supplies back into the restroom stall, locked the door, and hurried back to their classroom.

乔治把他和哈罗德买的挂锁放在报纸的末尾，离基珀百货公司有两个储物柜。 他们准备好了。他们迅速地把他们的用品放回洗手间隔间，锁上门，然后匆匆回到教室。