4. Wednesday

Chapter 4 Wednesday Marvin knew what he had to do. He just had to stand up to Suicide Hill and say, "I'm not afraid of you!" It was like his father had said. The fear was all inside his head. There was nothing on the outside that was scary. His mother would never let him ride down Suicide Hill if it was really dangerous. Would she? Jacob had gone down Suicide Hill lots of times. If Jacob could do it, so could he. "Keep your tongue inside your mouth," said Casey Happleton. Marvin was eating lunch. He thought his tongue was inside his mouth. "My brother's friend knows someone who bit off the tip of his tongue while riding down Suicide Hill," said Casey. Marvin touched the tip of his tongue to his teeth. "It wasn't even a wipe-out," said Casey. "He was going

马文知道他必须做什么。 他只需要站在自杀山面前说:“我不怕你!”就像他父亲说的那样。 恐惧全在他的脑子里。 外面没有什么可怕的东西。 如果真的很危险，他妈妈是不会让他从自杀山骑下来的。 她会吗?雅各布已经去过自杀山很多次了。 如果雅各布能做到，他也能。 “把舌头放在嘴里，”凯西·哈普尔顿说。 马文正在吃午饭。他以为他的舌头在嘴里。 凯西说:“我哥哥的朋友认识一个人，他在骑下自杀山的时候咬掉了舌尖。” 马文用舌尖碰了碰牙齿。 “这甚至不是一场彻底的胜利，”凯西说。 他说

down Suicide Hill real fast, and the tip of his tongue was sticking out of his mouth, like this." Casey held her fists out in front of her, like she was gripping handlebars. She looked like she was concentrating really hard. Her tongue stuck out of her mouth. Everybody else at the table laughed, but Marvin didn't see anything funny about it. "Then his bike hit just a tiny little itty-bitty rock," said Casey, "and he bit it off. He didn't even know he did it until he got to the bottom of the hill and tried to talk." Casey did an impersonation of someone trying to talk without a tongue. Again, everyone except Marvin laughed.

从自杀山飞快地滑下去，他的舌尖从嘴里伸出来，像这样。” 凯西把拳头举到身前，像是在抓车把。 她看起来很努力地集中注意力。 她的舌头伸出了嘴。 桌子上的其他人都笑了，但马文不觉得有什么好笑的。 “然后他的自行车撞上了一块很小很小的石头，”凯西说，“他把石头咬掉了。 他甚至不知道自己做了什么，直到他走到山脚下，试图说话。” 凯西模仿了一个没有舌头说话的人。 除了马文，大家又笑了。

"What happened to his tongue?" asked Stuart. "No one knows," said Casey. "They had a whole huge search party out to look for it, but no one ever found it. It's still up there, somewhere." "Maybe Marvin will find it," said Judy. Marvin shrugged. His mouth was closed tight. His tongue was safely on the inside. "Be sure your shoelaces are tied real good," warned Kenny. "My cousin knows someone whose shoelace got wrapped around his bike pedal. He was riding his bike real fast, and every time the pedal went around, it made his shoe tighter … and tighter … and tighter … and tighter … and tighter. There was nothing he could do. He was going too fast to stop." "What happened?" asked Nick. "It strangled his foot. He lost two toes." "How?" asked Casey. "What'd they do, pop off his foot?" "I don't know how it happened," said Kenny. "I wasn't there. Somebody told my cousin about it, and my cousin doesn't lie." "Which toes did he lose?" asked Judy.

“他的舌头怎么了?”斯图亚特问。 “没人知道，”凯西说。 “他们派出了一个庞大的搜索队去寻找它，但没有人找到它。 它还在上面的某个地方。” “也许马文会找到它，”朱迪说。 马文耸耸肩。他的嘴紧闭着。 他的舌头安全地在里面。 “一定要把鞋带系好，”肯尼警告说。 “我表哥认识一个人，他的鞋带缠在自行车踏板上了。 他骑得很快，每次踏板一转，他的鞋就会越来越紧，越来越紧，越来越紧，越来越紧。 他什么也做不了。 他开得太快了，停不下来。” “发生什么事了?”尼克问。 它勒死了他的脚。他失去了两个脚趾。” “怎么做?”凯西问。“他们做了什么，把他的脚踢断了吗?”“我不知道是怎么回事，”肯尼说。 “我不在场。有人把这件事告诉了我表弟，我表弟从不撒谎。” “他失去了哪个脚趾?”朱迪问。

"The thumb-toe and the pinky-toe, I think. He still has his three middle ones." "They're not called the thumb-toe and pinky-toe," said Stuart. "It's big toe and little toe." "My thumb-toe isn't my biggest toe," said Melanie. "My second toe is bigger than my thumb-toe." "My toes are different on each foot," said Judy Jasper. Judy took off her shoes and socks. She explained that her parents' feet were different. On her mother's feet, the thumb-toe was the biggest. On her father's feet, the second toe was the biggest. Judy showed everyone her feet. On her left foot, her thumb-toe was the biggest. On her right foot, the second toe was the biggest. "I call this one my mommy foot, and this one my daddy foot," she said. Nick stared at Judy's feet. "That's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my whole life," he said. Marvin didn't even look at Judy's amazing feet. He was thinking about how often his shoelaces came untied, even when they were double-knotted. The lunch teacher, Mrs. Grant, came by and made Judy put her shoes and socks back on.

“大拇指脚趾和小拇指脚趾，我想。 他还留着中间的三个。” “它们不叫拇指趾和粉趾，”斯图亚特说。 “是大脚趾和小脚趾。” “我的大拇指脚趾还不是最大的，"媚兰说。 “我的第二个脚趾比大拇指脚趾大。” “我每只脚的脚趾都不一样，”朱迪·贾斯帕说。 朱迪脱下鞋子和袜子。 她解释说，她父母的脚不一样。 在她妈妈的脚上，大拇指脚趾是最大的。 在她父亲的脚上，第二个脚趾最大。 朱迪给大家看她的脚。 在她的左脚上，她的大拇指脚趾最大。 在她的右脚上，第二个脚趾最大。 “我把这只脚叫做妈妈脚，这只叫爸爸脚，”她说。 尼克盯着朱迪的脚。 “这是我这辈子见过的最神奇的事情，”他说。 马文甚至没看朱迪那双神奇的脚。 他在想他的鞋带有多常被解开，即使它们是双结的。 午餐老师格兰特太太过来让朱迪把鞋子和袜子穿上。