Chapter 14

CHAPTER 14 Michael spent the entire afternoon devising his scheme. The thought of treating Edgar the way he himself would want to be treated seemed silly. Why would he do that? Edgar didn't deserve it. What he deserved was a taste of his own medicine! When Michael should have been paying attention to Ms. McKay's lesson in long division,

第十四章迈克尔花了整个下午制定他的计划。 以埃德加自己所希望的方式来对待他，这种想法似乎很愚蠢。 他为什么要这么做？埃德加不配。 他活该以其人之道还治其人之身！迈克尔本应该专心听她的。 麦凯的长除法课，

he was drawing pulley diagrams and figuring out how much rope, how big of a bucket, and how high of a tree branch he would need to pull off his plan. A few times, Michael passed his drawings to Justin, who was trying his best to concentrate on the lesson. Then Ms. McKay noticed the boys passing notes to each other. "What is this?" Ms. McKay snatched the paper from Justin's desk. "Ummm..." Justin stammered, terrified that a trip to Principal P.'s office was in his near future. "Oh! Good work, boys!" Ms. McKay said cheerfully. "It's nice to see you applying yourselves!" She handed the note back to Justin. Michael shot Justin a "what just happened?" look. Justin handed Michael back the note. Luckily, Justin had used division to calculate how long it would take a bucket of goo to fall from a 10-foot tree branch onto Edgar's head. Michael smiled and gave Justin a thumbs-up.

他在画滑轮图，计算需要多少绳子，多大的水桶，多高的树枝才能完成他的计划。 有几次，迈克尔把他的画递给贾斯廷，贾斯廷正努力集中精力上课。 然后，麦凯注意到男孩们在互相传递纸条。 “这是什么？”麦凯女士从贾斯汀的桌子上抢过报纸。 “嗯……”贾斯廷结结巴巴地说，害怕去P校长那里。他的办公室就在不久的将来。 “哦!干得好，孩子们！”Ms。 麦凯高兴地说。“很高兴看到你们努力学习！”她把纸条递给贾斯汀。 迈克尔给了贾斯汀一个“发生什么事了？”的表情。 贾斯汀把纸条递给迈克尔。 幸运的是，贾斯汀用除法算出了一桶粘稠物从10英尺高的树枝上掉到埃德加头上所需的时间。 迈克尔笑了笑，对贾斯汀竖起大拇指。

Next, when Michael should have been paying attention to the social studies lesson about the Pilgrims, he was trying to figure out what he could use for the goo. Goo, as you probably know, is a general term for something slimy and disgusting, but it's not as easy as you might think to find a whole bucket full of it. It would take forever to collect that much worm slime. How much used kitty litter could he get from Mr. Nemesis on such short notice? Soon Michael had a list of crossed-out ideas, none of which had anything to do with the Pilgrims, taking up an entire page of notebook paper. The bell rang. "Did you figure it all out?" asked Justin. "Nope. Not yet," Michael answered. "Come on. Let's find Merle and Pearl."

接着，当迈克尔本应该专心学习关于清教徒的社会研究课程时，他却在想他可以用什么来做这件好事。 你可能知道，Goo是对黏糊糊、令人恶心的东西的总称，但要找到满满一桶Goo可不像你想象的那么容易。 收集那么多蠕虫黏液要花很长时间。 在这么短的时间内，他能从克星先生那里得到多少用过的猫砂？ 很快，迈克尔就列了一张单子，上面划掉了一串与清教徒无关的想法，这些想法占据了整整一页笔记本纸。 铃响了。“你都想明白了吗？”贾斯汀问。 “不。“还没有。”迈克尔回答。 “来吧。我们去找莫尔和珠儿吧。”