7 Simon Picks a Name

CHAPTER SEVEN SIMON PICKS A NAME WE WALKED TO my house from school and Rosie explained her plan to us. Simon and I thought it might actually work. "How do we start?" I asked as we got to the back patio. "We need to get our supplies," Rosie said as she unzipped her backpack and pulled out ten magnifying glasses. "Mr. Willow let me borrow these from the science closet. I told him they were for the science fair." "Did he ask you what our project is?"

第七章西蒙取名字我们从学校走到我家，罗茜向我们解释了她的计划。 西蒙和我觉得这可能真的有用。 “我们怎么开始呢？”我们走到后院时，我问道。 “我们得去拿补给品，”罗茜一边说一边拉开背包的拉链，掏出十个放大镜。 “威罗先生让我从科学柜里借这些。 我告诉他这是为科学博览会准备的。” “他问过你我们的项目是什么吗？”

"Yes," Rosie answered and nodded. "But guess who came back into the room to get something from her desk right then?" "Copycat Katie?" I asked. Rosie squeezed her lips together, squinted her eyes, and nodded again. Rosie almost never looked mad—but she looked kind of mad right then.

“是的，”罗茜回答并点了点头。 “但是你猜谁又回到房间，从她的桌子上拿了什么东西？”“模仿凯蒂?”我问。 罗茜抿紧嘴唇，眯起眼睛，又点了点头。 罗茜几乎从不生气——但她当时看起来有点生气。

"No way!" Simon exclaimed. "She wants to take your idea? Again?!" "I didn't want to take the chance, so I told Mr. Willow I wanted it to be a surprise," Rosie said and shook the mad look off her face. She knew we had to get moving. "Let's get what we need." "We need some big plastic bottles," Rosie said after we'd collected everything else. "Regular water bottles won't work. We need big two-liter soda bottles." We didn't have any at my house. But some of my neighbors did. Simon, Rosie, and I found ten of them in the big

“不可能!”西蒙喊道。 “她想采纳你的想法？” 再次呢? !”“我不想冒这个险，所以我告诉威罗先生我想给他一个惊喜，”罗茜说着，甩掉了脸上愤怒的表情。 她知道我们得走了。 “我们去拿我们需要的东西吧。”“我们需要一些大塑料瓶，”罗西在我们收集完其他东西后说。 “普通的水瓶不能用。 我们需要两升的大瓶装苏打水。” 我们家没有。 但我的一些邻居是这样做的。 西蒙，罗西和我在大

blue recycling bins at the end of their driveways. It was kind of weird looking through my neighbors' garbage. But it wasn't gross things—like old food and wet stuff. It was just recycling things—newspapers, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and cardboard. We took those ten bottles back to my patio and put them with the other supplies. "We need an awesome name for our project," Simon said. Rosie and I thought that was a good idea. "We're inventing something to attract fireflies,"

车道尽头的蓝色回收箱。 翻邻居的垃圾感觉有点奇怪。 但不是恶心的东西，比如变质的食物和潮湿的东西。 它只是回收一些东西——报纸、塑料瓶、铝罐和纸板。 我们把那十瓶酒拿回我的院子，和其他用品放在一起。 “我们需要为我们的项目取一个很棒的名字，”西蒙说。 罗西和我觉得这是个好主意。 “我们正在发明一种吸引萤火虫的东西，”

Rosie said. "What's a good name for that?" "The Great Firefly Catcher?" I suggested. "It's good, but we're not really catching them," Rosie said. "It's more like we're getting them to meet up in one place." "I've got it!" Simon exclaimed. "The Fantastic Firefly Fetcher!" It was perfect. Rosie and I both loved it. "Okay, we have a name," Rosie said. "Now we have to turn these soda bottles into clear plastic tubes. Oh, and there's something else." Simon asked, "What's that?" "We have to figure out one more thing," Rosie

罗西说。“给它起个什么好名字？”“伟大的萤火虫捕手？”我建议。 “这很好，但我们并没有真正抓住它们，”罗西说。 “这更像是我们让他们在一个地方见面。” “我找到了！”西蒙喊道。 “神奇的萤火虫捕手！”这是完美的。 罗西和我都很喜欢。 “好吧，我们有名字了，”罗茜说。 “现在我们必须把这些汽水瓶变成透明的塑料管。 哦，还有一件事。” 西蒙问：“那是什么？”“我们还得弄清楚一件事，”罗西说

said. "And it's going to be tricky."

说。“这将会很棘手。”