2 Quazjex!

CHAPTER 2 QUAZJEX?! If you're like most of our readers you're probably wondering what my favourite word in the whole world is. Well, it's Andy, of course! It's the best word with the best letters.

第二章魁兹杰克斯？！如果你和我们的大多数读者一样，你可能想知道我最喜欢的单词是什么。 嗯，当然是安迪！这是最好的单词配上最好的字母。

'A is for Awesome, N is for Never-wrong, D is for Dazzling and Y is for—'

“A是Awesome， N是Never-wrong， D是dizzy， Y是——”

'Your turn,' says Terry. 'Please don't interrupt me, Terry,' I say. 'But it's your turn!' Excuse me, readers. As you can see, I'm in the middle of playing a game of Scrabble with Terry. Now

“该你了，”特里说。“请不要打断我，特里，”我说。 “可是轮到你了！”对不起，读者们。 如你所见，我正在和特里玩拼字游戏。 现在

let me see… Hang on, what's that word? 'Quazjex?' I say. 'What's that? That's not a word!' 'Yes it is,' says Terry. 'What does it mean?' I say. 'It means I win,' says Terry. 'Because I used up all my letters and I got 260 points!'

等一下，那个词是什么？ “Quazjex ?”我说。“那是什么? 那不是一个词！“是的，”特里说。 “这是什么意思？”我说。 “这意味着我赢了，”特里说。 “因为我用完了所有的字母，却得了260分！”

'It means you cheated!' I say. 'There's no such word as quazjex.' 'Yes there is,' says Terry. 'Prove it then,' I say. 'Use it in a sentence.' 'Easy,' says Terry. 'I got a new pet axolotl and its name is Quazjex!'

“这意味着你作弊了！”我说。 “没有quazjex这个词。“有，”特里说。 “那就证明给我看，”我说。在句子中使用它。“简单，”特里说。 “我有了一只新的宠物蝾螈，它的名字叫夸兹杰克斯！”

'That doesn't count,' I say. 'You can't use proper nouns in Scrabble.' 'What about your name?' says Terry. 'That's a proper noun, and you've used it over and over. If you can have Andy, then I can have Quazjex.' 'Andy may be a proper noun,' I say, 'but at least it's a proper proper noun.' 'So is Quazjex,' says Terry. 'Why don't we let the word-o-matic decide?' I say. 'Hey, word-o-matic, is Quazjex a real name?'

“那不算，”我说。 “你不能在拼字游戏中使用专有名词。“你叫什么名字？”特里说。 这是个专有名词，你已经用了一遍又一遍了。 如果你能得到安迪，那我就能得到夸兹杰克斯。“安迪也许是个专有名词，”我说，“但至少它是个专有名词。”“夸兹杰克斯也是，”特里说。 为什么我们不让文字来决定呢？我说。 “嘿，单词-o-matic， Quazjex是真名吗？”