24. Foamy, White Ectoplasm

CHAPTER 24 FOAMY, WHITE ECTOPLASM After school, George and Harold waited until the hallways were empty. Then they opened their secret stall in the boys' restroom. George had an idea. He climbed up on the stilts, and Harold pulled the pants all the way up to the top of George's head. Then George tried walking around, looking out the zipper hole with one eye.

第二十四章泡沫状的白色外质放学后，乔治和哈罗德一直等到走廊里空无一人。 然后他们在男厕所里开了一个秘密摊位。 乔治有了一个主意。他爬上高跷，哈罗德把裤子一直拉到乔治的头顶。 然后乔治试着四处走动，用一只眼睛向拉链洞外看。

"Well," said George. "How do I look?" "I'm not sure," said Harold. "You kinda look like an afro with legs." "Hmmmm..." said George, as he peeked at himself in the bathroom mirror. "I think I'm going to need a haircut!" George's idea would have to wait until tomorrow.

“嗯，”乔治说。“我看起来怎么样？”“我不确定。”哈罗德说。 “你看起来有点像长腿的非洲式发型。” “嗯……”乔治说着，从浴室的镜子里瞥了一眼自己。 “我想我需要理发了！”乔治的想法只好等到明天了。

Fortunately, the two boys had a backup plan. George and Harold ran to the convenience store up the street and bought four cans of shaving cream and a box of bendy straws. Then they hurried back to the school. "We're gonna have to work fast," said Harold. The two boys opened their box of bendy straws and pushed a straw over the spray nozzle of each can of shaving cream. Then George stuck a straw up Kipper's locker vent and began spraying.

幸运的是，这两个男孩有一个备用计划。 乔治和哈罗德跑到街上的便利店买了四罐剃须膏和一盒可弯曲的吸管。 然后他们匆匆赶回学校。 “我们得抓紧了。”哈罗德说。 两个男孩打开装着可弯曲吸管的盒子，把一根吸管插在每罐剃须膏的喷嘴上。 然后，乔治把一根吸管插进了基珀的储物柜通风口，开始喷洒。

Harold took another can, stuck the straw up the vent of Loogie's locker, and started squirting. After a few minutes, George's and Harold's cans were empty. They then took two more cans and did the same thing to Bugg's and Finkstein's lockers. George and Harold hid the empty shaving cream cans in their secret restroom stall. Then they ran out the back door of the school toward the football field, screaming their heads off. The cheerleaders, who were just finishing their practice, saw George and Harold running around like lunatics. "What's wrong, little boys?" asked one of the cheerleaders.

哈罗德又拿了一个罐子，把吸管塞进卢吉储物柜的通风口，开始喷水。 几分钟后，乔治和哈罗德的罐子都空了。 然后他们又拿了两个罐子，对巴格和芬克斯坦的储物柜做了同样的事情。 乔治和哈罗德把空的剃须膏罐藏在洗手间的秘密隔间里。 然后他们从学校后门跑向足球场，尖叫得要命。 拉拉队的队员们刚刚结束训练，看到乔治和哈罗德像疯子一样跑来跑去。 “怎么了，小男孩们？”一个啦啦队长问。

"W-W-W-We just saw a g-g-g-ghost!" cried George. "Y-Y-Yeah!" cried Harold. "He was in the hallway over by the lockers!" The cheerleaders were frightened. "What did he look like?" they asked. "He was invisible," cried George. "But he left a trail of foamy, white ectoplasm wherever he went!" The cheerleaders screamed. They were terrified, but they were also very curious.

“我们刚刚看到了一个鬼！”乔治叫道。 “是——是——是！”哈罗德喊道。“他在走廊的储物柜旁边！”拉拉队的队员们吓坏了。 “他长什么样？”他们问。 “他是隐形的。”乔治叫道。 “但无论他走到哪里，他都会留下一串泡沫状的白色外质！”拉拉队队员尖叫起来。 他们很害怕，但也很好奇。

The girls huddled together in a tight, shivering group as they tiptoed into the school to see for themselves. Everything looked normal, but they still screamed a lot anyway. One of them pushed the button on the drinking fountain, and when water squirted out, they all screamed some more.

女孩们挤成一团，瑟瑟发抖，蹑手蹑脚地走进学校，想亲眼看看。 一切看起来都很正常，但他们还是尖叫得很厉害。 其中一个按下了饮水机的按钮，当水喷出来的时候，他们又尖叫起来。