9 Rosie-Dozy-Ding-Dong

CHAPTER NINE ROSIE DOZYDING DONG *12° F ROSIE SHOOK HER head at Simon's name suggestion. But that didn't stop him. Simon kept shouting names as we worked—and Rosie shook her head after each one. We used more duct tape to secure the bottom edges of the burlap all along the wagon's sides. It was starting to look like a sagging, badly shaped bubble.

第九章ROSIE DOZYDING DONG *12°c罗茜对西蒙提出的名字摇了摇头。 但这并没有阻止他。在我们工作的时候，西蒙不停地喊着名字——罗西每喊一个名字就摇一摇头。 我们用了更多的管道胶带把粗麻布的底部边缘固定在马车的两边。 它开始看起来像一个下垂的、形状糟糕的气泡。

"Raging Rosie!" Simon exclaimed. "Like the Raging Inferno monster truck!" It took a little time to tape the front by the wagon handle, but we figured it out. "Rosie's Winter Wagon!" Rosie and I made a vertical cut in the burlap at the back of the wagon. That was how we would get in. While we did that, Simon tested some sandpaper on a gardening stake that we didn't use. He wanted to see if it got warm like the coat hanger had. "Whoa!" Simon said when he touched the metal. "This thing is hot!" "That's why we'll wear the gardening gloves," Rosie said. "They're rubbery on the palms, so we won't burn our hands."

“愤怒的罗西!”西蒙喊道。 “就像愤怒的地狱怪物卡车！”我们花了一点时间把车头的把手绑起来，但我们还是解决了。 “罗西的冬季马车！”罗西和我在马车后面的粗麻布上做了一个垂直的切口。 我们就是这样进去的。 与此同时，西蒙在一根我们没用过的园艺木桩上测试了一些砂纸。 他想看看它会不会像衣架那样暖和起来。 “哇!”西蒙摸到金属时说。 “这东西好热！”“这就是为什么我们要戴园艺手套，”罗西说。 “它们的手掌是橡胶的，所以我们不会烫伤手。”

We poked holes along both sides of the back seam. "We need to close up this seam," Rosie said and twirled her hair. "I'm on it," Simon said and went over to a cardboard box against the wall. Rosie and I knew what was in there—a bunch of his old, beat-up sneakers. When we cleaned the garage in the summer,

我们在后缝的两边戳了几个洞。 “我们需要把这条缝缝起来，”罗茜说着捻了捻头发。 “我这就去，”西蒙说着走到靠墙的纸板箱前。 罗西和我知道里面是什么——他的一堆破旧的运动鞋。 夏天我们打扫车库的时候，

Simon wouldn't let us throw them away. "You're going to let us use your sneakers?" Rosie asked, surprised. "But what about all your special memories?" Simon hadn't let us throw them away because he remembered doing certain things in each pair. He loved his sneakers. "Not the sneakers," Simon said, bringing two pairs. "Just the shoelaces." As we took the laces out, Simon told us what was special about each pair. "I caught a wicked garter snake when I was wearing the black ones," he said. "It was green with a

西蒙不让我们扔掉。 “你打算让我们用你的运动鞋吗？”罗茜惊讶地问。 “但是你那些特别的回忆呢？”西蒙没有让我们扔掉它们，因为他记得每双鞋都做过一些特定的事情。 他喜欢他的运动鞋。“不是运动鞋，”西蒙说着，拿来了两双。 “只是鞋带。”当我们把鞋带拿出来的时候，西蒙告诉我们每双鞋的特别之处。 他说：“当我穿着黑色的袜带时，我抓住了一条邪恶的袜带蛇。” 它是绿色的，有一个

yellow stripe." "What about the red ones?" Rosie asked. "With those, I slipped on a wet rock down by the creek and cracked my head against another rock," Simon said casually. "It didn't hurt that much, but I

黄色的条纹。”“那红色的呢？”罗西问道。 “说着，我在溪边一块潮湿的岩石上滑倒了，头撞到了另一块岩石上，”西蒙漫不经心地说。 “没那么疼，但我

got a bad cut. And I had a lot of blood on my cheek." "That's a special memory?" I asked. We had the laces out now. "No, that's not the special part." Rosie asked, "What is?" "When Mom saw all the blood, she felt sorry for me," Simon answered. "She got me some gelato for the first time. Have you guys had gelato? It's delicious! It's way better than ice cream!"

伤得很严重。我的脸颊上流了很多血。” “那是一段特别的记忆？”我问。 我们现在把鞋带拿出来了。“不，这不是特别的部分。” 罗茜问：“是什么？”“当妈妈看到所有的血时，她为我感到难过，”西蒙回答。 “她第一次给我买了冰淇淋。 你们吃过冰淇淋吗？它是美味的!这可比冰淇淋好吃多了！”