27. Something Wedgie This Way Comes

CHAPTER 27 SOMETHING WEDGIE THIS WAY COMES At 2:45 P.M., when the final bell rang, George and Harold ran to their secret restroom stall and grabbed two empty glass jelly jars. Then they headed out toward the groundskeeper's shed. There were always a ton of spiders back there, and George and Harold worked very hard to safely capture as many as they could. "We gotta hurry," said George. "It looks like it's going to rain!"

下午2点45分，当最后的铃声响起时，乔治和哈罗德跑到他们的秘密厕所隔间，抓起两个空的玻璃果冻罐。 然后他们朝饲养员的小屋走去。 后面总是有大量的蜘蛛，乔治和哈罗德非常努力地捕捉尽可能多的蜘蛛。 “我们得快点了。”乔治说。 “看起来要下雨了！”

Once they had collected about twenty harmless garden spiders each, they ran back upstairs to the lockers in the empty hallway. Harold held a piece of paper under one of the lower vent slots of Kipper's locker. George opened his glass jelly jar and sprinkled some spiders onto the paper as Harold blew softly. About ten spiders gently slid across the paper and through the slot, disappearing into the darkened depths of Kipper's locker. Next they moved on to Loogie's, Bugg's, and Finkstein's lockers, gently blowing an assortment of eight- legged residents into their vents, too.

他们每人抓了大约二十只无害的花园蜘蛛后，就跑到楼上空荡荡的走廊里的储物柜那里。 哈罗德拿着一张纸，从基珀储物柜底部的一个通风口下面拿了下来。 乔治打开他的玻璃果冻罐，把一些蜘蛛洒在纸上，哈罗德轻轻地吹气。 大约十只蜘蛛轻轻地从纸上滑过，穿过狭缝，消失在基珀柜子的黑暗深处。 接下来，他们又去了Loogie's、Bugg's和Finkstein's的储物柜，轻轻地把各种各样的八条腿的居民也吹进了它们的通风口。

George and Harold knew that it takes about an hour for a spider to build a completed web. They looked at the clock on the wall and realized they had only forty-four minutes until wrestling practice was over. "I hope those spiders work fast," said Harold. "We gotta work fast, too," said George. "There's still lots of stuff to be done!" The two boys grabbed some supplies and sneaked into the boys' locker room next to the gym. Harold found Kipper's deodorant stick, pulled off the cap, and twisted the dial on the bottom until the deodorant stuck all the way out of the canister. George pulled the thick, white deodorant off and threw it into the garbage can.

乔治和哈罗德知道一只蜘蛛需要一个小时才能织成一张完整的网。 他们看了看墙上的钟，意识到离摔跤练习结束只有44分钟了。 “我希望那些蜘蛛动作快点。”哈罗德说。 “我们也得快点。”乔治说。 “还有很多事情要做！”这两个男孩拿了一些用品，偷偷溜进了健身房旁边的男孩更衣室。 哈罗德找到了基珀的除臭剂棒，扯下瓶盖，拧了拧底部的刻度盘，直到除臭剂一直粘在罐子外面。 乔治把厚厚的白色除臭剂扯下来，扔进了垃圾桶。

Then he opened a package of extra-spicy jalapeno cream cheese and began packing it into the plastic deodorant canister with a spoon. When the canister was filled, Harold molded the cream cheese into shape with his fingers, then popped the cap back on. George put the deodorant back in Kipper's gym locker next to his soap and his towel, while Harold started working on Loogie's deodorant. It took about thirty minutes, but soon George and Harold had transformed all four of the bullies' deodorant sticks into jalapeno cream cheese applicators. Once everything was back where it belonged, George and Harold rushed to their secret stall in the boys' restroom. Time was running out.

然后，他打开了一包特辣的墨西哥胡椒奶油奶酪，开始用勺子把它塞进塑料除臭剂罐里。 罐子装满后，哈罗德用手指把奶油奶酪捏成形状，然后把盖子盖上。 乔治把除臭剂放回了基珀的健身房储物柜里，放在他的肥皂和毛巾旁边，哈罗德开始研究卢吉的除臭剂。 大约花了三十分钟，但很快，乔治和哈罗德就把四个恶霸的除臭剂棒都变成了墨西哥胡椒奶油奶酪涂抹器。 一切都放回原处后，乔治和哈罗德冲向男厕所的秘密隔间。 时间不多了。

George climbed onto his stilts as Harold gathered the ancient-looking comics and an old walkie-talkie. Quickly, the two friends sneaked out to the hallway and got to work. Harold slid a comic book through one of the lower vent slots of each bully's locker while George placed the walkie-talkie on top of the lockers and pumped up the volume. They finished just as wrestling practice ended. Dark clouds were beginning to gather outside, and a distant thunder could be heard rumbling miles away. A terrible storm was coming.

乔治爬上他的高跷，哈罗德把看起来很古老的漫画和一个旧对讲机收起来。 两个朋友迅速溜到走廊开始工作。 哈罗德把一本漫画书塞进每个恶霸的储物柜底部的一个通风口，乔治把对讲机放在储物柜顶部，加大音量。 摔跤练习刚结束，他们就结束了。 外面开始乌云密布，几英里外传来隆隆的雷声。 一场可怕的风暴即将来临。

Meanwhile, back in the locker room, Kipper and his cohorts changed their clothes, smeared on some deodorant, and strutted out to their lockers. Lightning was beginning to flash outside, filling the school windows with crackling bursts of fluorescence.

与此同时，在更衣室里，基珀和他的队友们换了衣服，抹了一些除臭剂，昂首阔步地走向他们的储物柜。 外面开始电闪雷鸣，学校的窗户里充满了噼里啪啦的荧光。