5 Harry

HARRY, Who Never, Ever Did His Homework HARRY HATED HOMEWORK. He did everything he could to avoid doing it. The boy had a long list of excuses he would recite to teachers explaining why he couldn't hand it in: My goldfish ate it.

哈利从不做家庭作业哈利讨厌家庭作业。 他想尽一切办法避免做那件事。 这个男孩有一长串的借口，他会背给老师解释为什么他不能交作业：我的金鱼吃了它。

My mum ate it. She's been on a diet and was extremely peckish. The house was robbed by a gang of burglars and the first thing they took was my Geography exercise book. There is a big criminal black market in Geography homework. My homework was deemed so superb that it went straight to the British Library, where it will be kept under glass for future generations. I left it on the back seat of my dad's car, but unfortunately a hippopotamus escaped from the zoo and sat on the car, destroying everything inside.

我妈妈吃了。她一直在节食，而且特别饿。 房子被一帮窃贼洗劫了，他们拿走的第一件东西是我的地理练习本。 在地理作业中存在着一个巨大的犯罪黑市。 我的作业被认为是如此出色，以至于它直接被送到了大英图书馆，在那里它将被保存在玻璃下，留给后代。 我把它放在爸爸车的后座上，但不幸的是，一只河马从动物园跑出来，坐在车上，把车里的东西都毁了。

My Little sister is an origami master and used the pages of my exercise book to make a huge paper re-creation of Ancient Tokyo. It was put in a rocket and blasted into space by NASA scientists attempting to seek contact with aliens to show there is intelligent life on Earth. We were all out of loo paper, so my Aunt Rose used it to wipe her bottom. It was struck by a bolt of lightning and it burst into a ball of flames. Secret Service agents confiscated it as they said it contained a top-secret algebra equation.

我的小妹妹是折纸大师，她用我的练习本做了一个巨大的古代东京的再现。 美国国家航空航天局的科学家们试图与外星人取得联系，以证明地球上有智慧生命，于是将它放入火箭并送入太空。 我们的厕纸用完了，所以我的萝丝阿姨用它来擦屁股。 它被一道闪电击中，突然变成一个火球。 特勤局特工没收了它，因为他们说里面有一个绝密的代数方程。

Because Harry never, ever did his homework, he had time to do all the fun things he wanted to do after school, like play on his games console for hours and hours, and... Actually, that's it. Playing computer games was all the boy liked doing. If he had his way, he would play computer games all day and all night. His thumbs working the controller, the boy would-laugh to himself... "Ha! Ha! Ha!" ...as he thought about all his classmates having to do their homework while he drove racing cars through the streets of Monte Carlo, or flew through space shooting lasers, or scored the winning goal in the World Cup.

因为哈利从来没有做过家庭作业，所以放学后他有时间做所有他想做的有趣的事情，比如在游戏机上玩上几个小时，还有…… 事实上，就是这样。那个男孩只喜欢玩电脑游戏。 如果让他为所欲为的话，他会整天整夜地玩电脑游戏。 他用拇指操纵着控制器，男孩暗自发笑…… “哈!哈!哈!”…当他在蒙特卡洛的街道上开着赛车，或者在太空中发射激光，或者在世界杯上打进致胜一球时，他想到所有的同学都要做作业。

The boy had not handed in his homework for so many years that his teachers had all given up on him. However, one day a new teacher arrived at the school, a mysterious old History teacher, called Madame Magna. This lady was dressed from head to toe in black, with a lace scarf covering her head, which all but obscured her eyes. Madame Magna smelled like an old, musty book that you might find in a jumble sale, and she spoke with a thick foreign accent that nobody could quite place. Rumours about the old lady swirled around the school. On her arrival some children thought she might be a witch.

这个男孩多年没有交作业了，他的老师们都对他不抱希望了。 然而，有一天学校来了一位新老师，一位神秘的老历史老师，名叫麦格纳夫人。 这位女士从头到脚都穿着黑色衣服，用蕾丝围巾遮住了她的头，几乎遮住了她的眼睛。 麦格纳夫人身上散发着一股旧货拍卖会上那种发了霉味的旧书的味道，说话带着浓重的外国口音，谁也听不清她在说什么。 关于那位老太太的谣言在学校里满天飞。 当她到来时，一些孩子认为她可能是个女巫。