11 Heading to School

CHAPTER ELEVEN HEADING TO SCHOOL ten degressFahrenheit ON MONDAY MORNING we got to Simon's garage fifteen minutes early. Rosie and I ran almost the whole way. It was super cold and we couldn't wait to test the wagon. The thermometer read ten degrees. Simon was waiting for us in the garage. "Check this out," Simon said and pointed to the side of the wagon. You could tell he was proud of something. Along the side of the wagon, Simon had painted the name of the invention. "Awesome, right?" Simon yelled. Rosie and I laughed. I'm not sure Rosie wanted to

第十一章上学华氏十度星期一早上，我们提前十五分钟到了西蒙的车库。 罗西和我几乎一路都是跑着来的。 天气超级冷，我们迫不及待地想测试一下马车。 温度计上的读数是十度。 西蒙在车库里等我们。 “看看这个，”西蒙指着马车的一侧说。 你可以看出他有什么值得骄傲的事。 在马车的侧面，西蒙画上了这项发明的名字。 “棒极了,对吗?”西蒙喊道。 罗西和我都笑了。我不确定罗茜是否愿意

brag and have her name on the side, but I also think she felt proud of her invention. So I think it was okay. We put our backpacks in the wagon through the flap at the back. Simon's was already inside. Then Rosie and I climbed in and Simon tied all the shoelaces except for the top one. Then he ran back to his house to get the hair dryer. "How many tickets did you make?" Rosie asked me.

吹嘘自己的名字，但我也认为她为自己的发明感到自豪。 所以我觉得还可以。我们把背包从后面的门缝里放进去。 西蒙的已经在里面了。 然后罗茜和我爬进去，西蒙系好了所有的鞋带，除了最上面的那条。 然后他跑回家去拿吹风机。 “你买了多少张票？”罗茜问我。

"About twenty," I said and patted my backpack. "Me too." "He's going to be surprised," I said and shivered. "I hope he hurries." "Do you want to start with the rubbing?" Rosie suggested. "That will warm us up some." It totally did. We put on the gardening gloves, picked up the sandpaper, and started to rub it against the metal poles. We rubbed faster and faster. We moved that sandpaper up and down for almost a full minute.

“大约20个。”我说着拍了拍我的背包。 “我也是。”“他会大吃一惊的。”我说着打了个寒颤。 “我希望他快点。”“你想从按摩开始吗？”罗西。 “那会使我们暖和些。” 确实如此。我们戴上园艺手套，拿起砂纸，开始在金属杆上摩擦。 我们擦得越来越快。 我们把砂纸上下移动了将近一分钟。

Then we stopped to rest and took the gloves off to test the temperature of the metal. It was really warm. I could feel the heat a few inches away from the metal. It was like holding my hands up to a fireplace. Rosie smiled. For a minute, I thought that she smiled because the whole rubbing-the-metal-pole-heat-generating friction thing had worked to perfection. But that wasn't what she was smiling at.

然后我们停下来休息，摘下手套测试金属的温度。 天气真的很暖和。我能感觉到离金属几英寸远的热量。 就像把我的手举到壁炉前。 罗西笑了。有一分钟，我以为她笑了，因为整个摩擦金属杆产生热量的摩擦已经达到了完美的效果。 但这并不是她微笑的原因。

Simon had come back into the garage. She pointed at him—and laughed. I turned to see. It took me a few seconds to figure out what I was looking at. We could see through the burlap, but it was kind of blurry. Simon was wearing his muscleman costume from Halloween. The only difference was that he wore his winter coat and hat too. And he was carrying the hair dryer. He waddled up to us. "What are you doing?!" Rosie yelled and laughed at the same time.

西蒙回到了车库。 她指着他笑了。 我转过身去看。我花了几秒钟才弄明白我在看什么。 我们可以透过粗麻布看到，但有点模糊。 西蒙穿着万圣节的肌肉男服装。 唯一不同的是他也穿着冬天的外套和帽子。 他拿着吹风机。 他摇摇摆摆地向我们走来。“你在干什么？！”罗茜一边喊一边笑。

"I told you I got really warm in this thing on Halloween," Simon yelled back as he plugged the hair dryer into the extension cord. They didn't really need to yell, but it helped since we were separated by the burlap. "Plus, I look totally cool, right? I mean, I look like this super strong guy pulling you two in Rosie's

“我告诉过你，万圣节的时候我穿着这件衣服真的很暖和，”西蒙一边把吹风机插到延长线上，一边喊道。 他们真的不需要大喊大叫，但这有帮助，因为我们被粗麻布隔开了。 “另外，我看起来很酷，对吧？” 我看起来就像在罗西家拉着你们俩的超级壮汉