13 Made by Hand

CHAPTER 13 MADE BY HAND Well, so much for peace on Earth... back to the cash register, and I'm way behind. It's cash or crash! Miss Swamp, the art teacher, suggests that we make presents for one another. That sounds good to me. OK!

第十三章手工制作好了，地球上的和平到此为止了…… 回到收银台，我已经远远落后了。 要么付现，要么崩溃！美术老师沼泽小姐建议我们互相制作礼物。 听起来不错。好的!

YUM! But Penny starts whining, "I already spent five dollars plus tax and my present better cost at least that." Somehow I think we've lost the spirit of Christmas here. Then I have another idea. They say time is money. So if I spend five hours—at a dollar per hour— making Penny's present, we'll be even. SUPER! NO WAY! COOL.

YUM !但是佩妮开始抱怨，“我已经花了5美元加上税，而我的礼物至少花了5美元。” 不知怎么的，我觉得我们已经失去了圣诞节的精神。 然后我有了另一个主意。人们说时间就是金钱。 所以如果我花5个小时——每小时1美元——给佩妮做礼物，我们就扯平了。 超级!没门!酷。

When I get home, I get to work. I get papier-måché and make a doll's head. I paint on two blue eyes and two pink lips. I use yellow wool for hair and my other gym sock for a cap. I make a body out of a pop bottle and cover it with a piece of cloth, sort of like a dress— more like a sarong. I hope it's not sa-wrong dress.

当我回到家，我开始工作。 我用纸做了一个娃娃头。 我画了两只蓝色的眼睛和两只粉红色的嘴唇。 我用黄色羊毛做头发，用另一只运动袜做帽子。 我用一个汽水瓶做了一个身体，然后用一块布盖住它，有点像裙子——更像纱笼。 我希望这不是一件错误的衣服。

I lose track of time and work the whole weekend on it. I take the boots off my G.I. Joe and glue them on the bottle. Then I tie on a hair bow, and I'm nearly done.

我忘了时间，整个周末都在做这件事。 我把大兵的靴子脱了 乔，把它们粘在瓶子上。 然后我打个发结，差不多就完成了。

Finally I wrap the doll in pink polka-dotted paper and make up a poem on a card.

最后，我用粉红色的圆点纸把娃娃包起来，在卡片上编了一首诗。

PENNY, PENNY, I DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY FUNNY BUT I MADE THIS DOLL MADE EVERY PART (EXCEPT FOR THE BOOTS) FROM MY HEART TO YOU MERRY CHRISTMAS, HUBIE I put the present on my dresser, and that night I count reindeer instead of sheep to fall asleep. Then visions of sugar plums dance in my head. Well, they don't actually dance, they sort of roll around.

佩妮，佩妮，我没有钱，但我做了这个娃娃，把我心送给你的每一部分都做了（除了靴子）圣诞快乐，我把礼物放在我的梳妆台上，那天晚上我数驯鹿而不是羊睡着了。 然后糖李子的画面在我脑海里飞舞。 其实它们并不跳舞，它们只是打滚而已。