4. We Don’t Bite

Chapter 4 We Don't Bite Bradley's eyes got wide. Was he seeing things? "But why are your sneakers like these little ones?" Bobby asked Ms. Tery. "I don't know," the teacher said. "It's very curious!" "Um, there are other green sneakers, too," Bradley said. He told Ms. Tery and the class about

第四章我们不咬人布拉德利睁大了眼睛。 他看到什么了吗？“但为什么你的运动鞋像这些小的？”鲍比问道。 Tery。“我不知道，”老师说。 “真奇怪！”“嗯，还有其他绿色运动鞋，”布拉德利说。 他告诉特里女士和同学们

the ones they'd seen hanging from the tree branch. "Only those were regular size." "Well, I don't know what's going on," Ms. Tery said. "But I think someone is having some fun with us." "But what about the stuff they took?" Caitlyn asked. "And Mr. Vooray's hamster?" Brian added. "That's not funny!" "I wish I had an answer," Ms. Tery said. "We'll just have to wait and see what happens next with the Green Lawn sneaker sneak!" Ms. Tery walked to the chalkboard. "Take out your pencils, please." Then she wrote: CLASS RULES: WE ARE POLITE. WE DON'T FIGHT. WE DON'T BITE. "It rhymes!" Nate said. "Cool!" "Who likes rhyming?" Ms. Tery asked. Most of the kids raised their hands.

他们看到挂在树枝上的那些。 “只有那些是正常尺寸的。” “嗯，我不知道发生了什么。” Tery说。“但我觉得有人在跟我们开玩笑。” “但是他们拿走的东西呢？”Caitlyn问道。 “沃雷先生的仓鼠呢？”布莱恩说。 “这一点都不好笑！”“我希望我有一个答案。” Tery说。“我们只能等着看绿草坪运动鞋的下一步会发生什么！”Ms。 特里走到黑板前。 “请拿出你们的铅笔。” 然后她写道：班级规定：我们是有礼貌的。 我们不打架。我们不咬人。 “它押韵!”内特说。“酷!”“谁喜欢押韵？”Ms。 Tery问道。大多数孩子都举手了。

"Good! I do, too," she said. "We're going to write every morning. Today, try to write a rhyming poem. It can be about anything, even our sneaker mystery." She passed out paper. Kids opened their desks and book bags and pencil boxes. "Be as quiet as mice," Ms. Tery whispered. The class hunched over their desks and began writing. Bradley had never written a poem before. He stared at the boy in front of him. All he could think of was Goldi being stolen. "How are you doing, second-grade writers?" Ms. Tery suddenly asked. She swooped down the aisles like a pterodactyl. Bradley grabbed his pencil and wrote the first thing that popped into his head: once i met a talking worm. His name was sherm. Ms. Tery's shadow fell on Bradley's paper. "That's a nice beginning," she said. "Capital O and capital I, please."

“好!我也是，”她说。 “我们每天早上都要写信。 今天，试着写一首押韵的诗。 它可以是任何事情，甚至是我们的运动鞋之谜。” 她发了纸。孩子们打开课桌、书包和铅笔盒。 “要像老鼠一样安静。” Tery低声说。全班都伏在课桌前开始写作。 布拉德利以前从未写过诗。 他盯着面前的男孩。 他满脑子想的都是戈尔迪被偷了。 “二年级的作家们，你们好吗？”Ms。 特里突然问道。她像翼龙一样冲过过道。 布拉德利抓起铅笔，写下了他脑子里蹦出的第一件事：有一次我遇到了一只会说话的虫子。 他的名字叫舍姆。特里女士的影子落在布拉德利的纸上。 “这是一个很好的开始，”她说。 “请大写O和大写I。”

"Thank you, Ms. Tery," Bradley mumbled. He fixed the O and the I. After a while, Ms. Tery had some of the kids read their poems. Then they practiced adding and subtracting. At noon, they all went to the school cafeteria for lunch. It was pretty noisy, so everyone ate fast, then went outside for recess. Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy sat under a tree. Across the playground, they saw Ms. Tery talking with a few other teachers. She was at least a foot taller than they were.

“谢谢你，特里女士。”布拉德利喃喃地说。 他把O和i修好了。 特里让一些孩子读了他们的诗。 然后他们练习加减法。 中午，他们都去学校的自助餐厅吃午饭。 很吵，所以每个人都吃得很快，然后出去休息。 布拉德利、布莱恩、内特和露西坐在一棵树下。 在操场的另一边，他们看到了李小姐。 我在和其他老师聊天。 她至少比他们高一英尺。

Lucy sipped her milk. "What if Ms. Tery is the person who's taking stuff and leaving the tiny sneakers?" she asked. "There has to be a reason why the little sneakers look exactly like hers." "And the ones in the tree," Nate said. "None of it makes sense," Bradley said. "I just want Goldi back!" "So what do we do?" Brian asked. "We should follow Ms. Tery home," Bradley whispered. "If she's stealing stuff, maybe we'll catch her in the act!"

露西呷了一口牛奶。“如果奥巴马夫人。 特里就是那个拿走东西却留下小球鞋的人？”她问。 “这双小运动鞋看起来和她的一模一样，肯定是有原因的。” “还有树上的那些，”内特说。 “这些都说不通，”布拉德利说。 “我只想要戈尔迪回来！”“那我们该怎么办？”布莱恩问。 “我们应该跟着特里女士回家。”布拉德利低声说。 “如果她在偷东西，也许我们能当场抓住她！”