7 Monty Monopolize

MONTY MONOPOLIZE ONCE THERE WERE two brothers who dreaded their birthdays, Christmas time and even Easter. Surely all children love receiving presents? No. Not these two. Moe and Curly loathed those times of the year. The

从前有两兄弟，他们害怕自己的生日，害怕圣诞节，甚至害怕复活节。 想必所有的孩子都喜欢收到礼物吧？ 否。不是这两个。莫伊和卷毛讨厌一年中的这些时候。 的

reason was simple. Their father, Monty Monopolize, would give the boys toys, and then NEVER let them play with them. Instead, he would hog them all for himself. A car-and-racing-track set went straight into the garage for Monty to amuse himself with alone. Moe and Curly were not even allowed to look at it "in case they broke it with their eyes". A train set suffered a similar fate. It was kept under lock and key in the attic. And Father had hidden the key! A remote-controlled fighter plane would be taken to the park, and only flown by Monty. Although when he crashed into the park keeper he handed the remote control to his sons so they had to take the blame.

原因很简单。他们的父亲Monty Monopolize会给孩子们玩具，然后从不让他们玩。 相反，他会把它们都占为己有。 一套汽车和赛马场的玩具被直接送到了车库，供蒙蒂独自玩耍。 莫伊和卷毛甚至不允许看它一眼，“以防它们的眼睛把它弄坏了”。 一列火车也遭遇了类似的命运。 它被锁在阁楼里。 爸爸把钥匙藏起来了！一架遥控战斗机将被带到公园，只由蒙蒂驾驶。 虽然当他撞到公园管理员时他把遥控器给了他的儿子们所以他们不得不承担责任。

However, Monty's favourite toy in the world was BRICKO. BRICKO is a line of building sets, with bricks made of different-coloured plastic. Monty bought his two sons boxes and boxes of the stuff. "Merry Christmas, chaps!" Monty would announce. "Thank you, Father!" they would reply, their little eyes lighting up with glee. Then, as soon as they had unwrapped it and exclaimed, "BRICKO! BRILLIANT!", the man would snatch it back from them. "Don't you worry, chaps. Father will put this one together for you!" With that, he would disappear up to his bedroom and start building. Over the years, Monty had collected every single BRICKO set.

然而，蒙蒂在这个世界上最喜欢的玩具是砖头。 BRICKO是一系列由不同颜色塑料制成的砖块组成的建筑组合。 蒙蒂给他的两个儿子买了一箱又一箱的东西。 “圣诞快乐，伙计们！”蒙蒂会宣布。 “谢谢您，爸爸！”他们会这样回答，他们的小眼睛里闪烁着喜悦的光芒。 然后，他们一打开包装就喊道：“砖头！太棒了！”，那人就会把它夺回来。 “别担心，伙计们。爸爸会帮你把这个拼起来的！”说完这句话，他就会消失在卧室里，开始建造房子。 多年来，蒙蒂收集了每一套BRICKO。

A BRICKO Queen Victoria A BRICKO clog A BRICKO jelly A BRICKO beard A BRICKO gerbil A BRICKO mobility scooter A BRICKO cactus A BRICKO marshmallow A BRICKO microwave oven A BRICKO poop* *WALLYFACT: BRICKO poop comes in three different sizes: small, medium and elephant. Mr Monopolize was bananas about BRICKO. He would snap the bricks to one another all day. CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! And all night. CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! If Moe and Curly tried to help snap the bricks together, he would shoo them out of his bedroom. "BEGONE! BRICKO IS ONLY TO BE PLAYED WITH BY GROWN-UPS! NOT CHILDREN!" Kids love to use BRICKO to build their own weird and wonderful creations. Not Monty. No, he followed the impossibly long instruction booklets to the absolute letter. BRICKO sets had to be built perfectly to plan.

砖块维多利亚女王砖块木屐砖块果冻砖块胡须砖块沙鼠砖块机动摩托车砖块仙人掌砖块棉花糖砖块微波炉砖块大便wallo事实：砖块大便有三种不同的尺寸：小，中，大。 垄断者先生痴迷于BRICKO。 他整天都在把砖头劈啪地打在一起。 点击!点击!点击!整个晚上。 点击!点击!点击!如果莫伊和卷毛想帮忙把砖头拼起来，他就会把他们赶出他的卧室。 “走开!布里克只有成年人才能玩！不是孩子!”孩子们喜欢用BRICKO来建造他们自己奇怪而奇妙的作品。 蒙蒂。不，他严格遵照那些长得令人难以置信的说明书。 BRICKO布景必须按照计划完美地建造。

One afternoon, Monty Monopolize was on his way home from work at the frozen-pea factory. His job was counting out the peas for each bag: 327. Not one more. Not one less. The man always walked home the long way round so that he could go past the BRICKO superstore. That afternoon Monty spotted a gigantic new building- set box that took up the whole of the shop window. It was the largest set BRICKO had ever produced. One million pieces! The Earth. Yes! A gigantic model of the Earth!

一天下午，Monty Monopolize在冷冻豌豆工厂下班回家的路上。 他的工作是数出每袋豆子的数量：327颗。 一个也不能再多了。一个也不能少。 这个人总是走很远的路回家，这样他就可以经过布里克超市。 那天下午，蒙蒂发现了一个巨大的新建筑，占据了整个橱窗。 这是BRICKO有史以来制作的最大的套装。 一百万件！地球。 是的!一个巨大的地球模型！