2 CAN! CAN’T! CAN!

CHAPTER 2 CAN! CAN'T! CAN! If you're like most of our readers, you're probably wondering why it's always me who tells the story and never Terry. "Yeah," says Terry. "I've wondered that, too. How come I never get to tell the story?" "Because I'm the narrator," I say, "and you're the illustrator—that's why!" "I can narrate, too, you know," says Terry.

第二章可以！不能!可以!如果你和我们的大多数读者一样，你可能想知道为什么总是我讲故事，而不是特里。 “是的，”特里说。“我也想知道。 我怎么就没机会讲这个故事呢？”“因为我是叙述者，”我说，“而你是插画师——这就是原因！”“你知道，我也会讲故事，”特里说。

"No, you can't," I say. "Yes, I can!" says Terry. "CAN'T!" "CAN!"

“不，你不能，”我说。“是的，我能！”特里说。 “不能!”“可以!”

"CAN'T!" "CAN!" "CAN'T!" "CAN!" "CAN'T!" "CAN!"

“不能!”“可以!”“不能!”“可以!”“不能!”“可以!”

"CAN'T!" "CAN!" I'm just about to yell "CAN'T" even bigger when Jill comes along. "What are you two arguing about?" she says.

“不能!”“可以!”吉尔来的时候，我正准备更大声地喊“不行”。 “你们两个在争论什么？”她说。

"Terry says he can narrate, and I say he CAN'T!" "There's a better way to settle this than by shouting at each other," says Jill.

“特里说他会讲故事，我说他不会！”“有一个更好的办法来解决这个问题，而不是互相大喊大叫。”吉尔说。

"Really?" I say. "How?" "Let Terry do some narration and see how it goes," says Jill. "But he's an illustrator. Illustrators can't narrate —everybody knows that!" "That's not true," says Jill. "What about Dr. Moose? He wrote and illustrated The Splat in the Hat."

“真的吗?”我说。“如何?”“让特里来叙述一下，看看结果如何，”吉尔说。 “但他是个插画家。插图画家不能叙述——大家都知道这一点！”“那不是真的，”吉尔说。 “穆斯医生呢？”他写了《帽子里的碎片》并配了插图。”