4. Don’t Go to Sleep!

Chapter 4 Don't Go to Sleep! Marvin woke up screaming. His mother came running up the stairs. "Linzy?" she called. "Linzy, are you all right?" "It wasn't Linzy," Marvin called to her. "It was me, Marvin." "Marvin?" asked his mother. She opened the door to his room. "I had a nightmare," Marvin explained. "Do you want to talk about it?" "No!" Marvin said right away. He couldn't tell his mother that he wore a dress! "I'm okay," he said. His mother kissed his forehead. "Good night," she said,

第四章不要睡觉!马文尖叫着醒来。 他妈妈跑上楼来。 “琳兹?”她叫道。“琳兹，你还好吗?”“不是琳姿，”马文对她喊道。 “是我，马文。”“马文?”他妈妈问。 她打开了他房间的门。 “我做了个噩梦，”马文解释道。 “你想谈谈吗?”“不!”马文马上说。 他不能告诉他妈妈他穿了裙子!“我没事，”他说。 他的母亲吻了吻他的额头。 “晚安，”她说，

and started out the door. "Why'd you think I was Linzy?" Marvin asked. "I don't know," said his mother. "You sounded like Linzy. Go back to sleep." But he didn't go back to sleep. He was afraid of turning into a girl. "It's already started," he said aloud. "I already sound like a girl." That's what his mother had said. "I sound like Linzy." He listened to the sound of his voice as he spoke. To see if it was true. Maybe. It was hard to tell. He spoke some more. "Mary had a little lamb. Her fleece was white as snow." His voice did sound a little bit funny. "Wait! Why am I talking about Mary and her dumb lamb?" That's a girl poem! But his voice did sound different. He was sure of it! In school his class had been learning about butterflies and moths. A caterpillar goes to sleep. And when it wakes

然后走出了门。“你为什么认为我是琳兹?”马文问道。 “我不知道，”他妈妈说。 “你听起来像琳兹。回去睡觉吧。” 但他没有继续入睡。 他害怕变成一个女孩。 “已经开始了。”他大声说。 “我听起来已经像个女孩了。” 这是他妈妈说的。 “我听起来像琳兹。”他听着自己说话的声音。 看看这是不是真的。也许吧。 这很难说。他又说了几句。 “玛丽有一只小羊羔。她的羊毛洁白如雪。” 他的声音听起来确实有点滑稽。 “等等!为什么我要谈论玛丽和她的哑巴羔羊?”那是一首女孩的诗!但他的声音听起来确实不一样了。 他对此很有把握!在学校里，他的班级一直在学习蝴蝶和飞蛾。 毛毛虫要睡觉了。 当它醒来

up, it's a butterfly. He remembered Mrs. North had said, "No one knows exactly how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly." Now Marvin had an answer. Maybe it kisses its elbow. He got out of bed. He felt safe, as long as he was awake. He just couldn't go to sleep. Not until he kissed his elbow again. Two hours later he was still trying to kiss his elbow. He held his elbow in front of his face and jumped up and down. He thought that maybe if he could jump high enough and fast enough, his mouth would bump into it. He stopped jumping. He looked at his bed. "I have to go to sleep sometime," he said, listening to the strange sound of his own voice. "I can't stay awake forever!" He yawned. "Boys don't turn into girls," Marvin told General Jackson. "I'm just having strange thoughts because it's so late at night." He looked at his clock. It was almost three thirty! He

向上看，是一只蝴蝶。他记得诺斯夫人说过:“没有人确切知道毛毛虫是如何变成蝴蝶的。” 现在马文有了答案。也许它会亲吻自己的肘部。 他下了床。只要他醒着，他就感到安全。 他就是睡不着。 直到他又吻了他的胳膊肘。 两个小时过去了，他还在试着亲吻自己的胳膊肘。 他把胳膊肘举在面前，跳上跳下。 他想，如果他能跳得足够高、足够快，他的嘴可能会撞到它。 他停止了跳跃。他看了看自己的床。 “我得去睡觉了，”他说，听着自己奇怪的声音。 “我不能永远保持清醒!”他打了个哈欠。 “男孩不会变成女孩，”马文告诉杰克逊将军。 “我只是有一些奇怪的想法，因为时间太晚了。” 他看了看时钟。都快三点半了!他

had school in five hours. His eyes closed. He forced them back open. "Casey Happleton is just a weird girl," he told the General. General Jackson stuck out his tongue. "My mother heard a scream in the night," Marvin explained to his lizard. "So of course she thought it was Linzy. Because Linzy is her little darling! That doesn't mean I sound like a girl!" That made sense. Except his voice did sound different. "I'm probably just getting a cold. From no sleep!" He got on his knees. He bent his elbow around one of the legs of his desk chair. Then he tried to meet it from the other side with his mouth.

还有五个小时就要上学了。他闭上了眼睛。 他把它们重新打开。“凯西·哈普尔顿是个古怪的女孩，”他告诉将军。 杰克逊将军伸出了舌头。 “我妈妈夜里听到一声尖叫，”马文向他的蜥蜴解释道。 所以她当然以为是琳姿。 因为琳兹是她的小宝贝!这并不意味着我听起来像个女孩!”这很有道理。 只是他的声音听起来不太一样。 “我可能只是感冒了。 因为没有睡觉!”他跪了下来。 他把胳膊肘弯在办公椅的一条腿上。 然后他试着用嘴从另一边迎着它。

He tried another way. He tried the other elbow. "Casey Happleton is so weird!" he said. He looked at his bed. When he kissed his elbow the first time, he had been all tangled up in his sheets. Like a mummy. So all he had to do was get tangled up in his sheets

他试了另一种方法。他试了试另一只胳膊肘。 “凯西·哈普尔顿太奇怪了!”他说。 他看了看自己的床。当他第一次吻他的胳膊肘时，他已经被床单缠住了。 像个木乃伊。所以他要做的就是把自己裹在床单里

again! He climbed back into bed. He tried to wrap the sheets around himself exactly the way they were before. But the bed felt so good. The sheets so cozy. He hugged his soft pillow. His eyes closed. He went to sleep. Just like a caterpillar in a cocoon.

再一次!他爬回床上。 他试图像以前那样把床单裹在自己身上。 但是床感觉很好。床单好舒服。 他抱着柔软的枕头。 他闭上了眼睛。他睡着了。 就像茧里的毛毛虫。