Chapter 3

Chapter three, Everyone but Emily and my dad gathered in the kitchen, which seemed to make Judith Ann very happy. I could tell she liked being the center of attention. I mean, why else would a person walk around wearing a puffy chef's hat? First, we had to watch Judith Ann unpack and wash her vegetables. That was about as exciting as watching your toenails grow. She had brought two suitcases. One was for her clothes, and the other was filled to the brim with vegetables. "You have to treat vegetables gently," she explained, "so they won't bruise." "Talking about bruises," I blurted out. "You should have seen the one I got last week when

除了爱米丽和爸爸，所有人都聚集在厨房里，这似乎使朱迪思·安很高兴。 我看得出来，她喜欢成为人们关注的焦点。 不然为什么一个人会戴着一顶臃肿的厨师帽走来走去？ 首先，我们必须看着朱迪思·安打开包装并清洗她的蔬菜。 那就像看着你的脚趾甲长出来一样令人兴奋。 她带了两个手提箱。 一个是装衣服的，另一个装满了蔬菜。 “你必须温柔地对待蔬菜，”她解释说，“这样它们才不会被擦伤。” “说到瘀伤，”我脱口而出。 “你应该看看我上周收到的那张

we were playing dodgeball." "You mean when Nick McKelty nailed you in the knee with the ball?" Frankie asked. "Your whole kneecap turned totally purple," Ashley added. "Yeah." I laughed. "It looked like Judith Ann's eggplant was growing out of my leg." I reached out and grabbed her eggplant off the kitchen counter and held it to my knee. "See how purple and gross I am," I said, doing my best eggplant voice. I had never talked like an eggplant before, but I have to say, I did a pretty good job. I wondered what other

我们在玩躲避球。” “你是说尼克·麦凯尔蒂用球打中你膝盖那次吗？”弗兰基问道。 “你的整个膝盖骨都变成紫色了，”阿什利补充道。 “是的。”我笑了。“看起来就像朱迪思·安的茄子从我腿上长出来了。” 我伸手从厨房柜台上抓起她的茄子，放在膝盖上。 “看看我有多紫，多恶心。”我说，尽力用茄子的声音说话。 我以前从来没有像茄子一样说话，但我不得不说，我做得很好。 我想知道还有什么

vegetables I could sound like. A carrot would have a looooong voice. And a cauliflower would have a b-b-b-bumpy voice. Frankie and Ashley burst out laughing. My mom didn't. In fact, she gave me that I don't approve look. "Hank, be respectful," she said. "Judith Ann is trying to win a competition, and we need to support her." Judith Ann took the eggplant from me, put it on our wooden chopping block, and began to cut it into little pieces. "Henry," she said, "you can help me by peeling the carrots."

我听起来像蔬菜。 胡萝卜会有很长的声音。 花椰菜的声音会很。 弗兰基和艾希礼突然大笑起来。 我妈妈没有。事实上，她给了我一个我不赞成的眼神。 “汉克，尊重点，”她说。 “朱迪思·安正在努力赢得一场比赛，我们需要支持她。” 朱迪思·安从我手里接过茄子，放在我们的木头砧板上，开始把茄子切成小块。 “亨利，”她说，“你可以帮我削胡萝卜皮。”

"Sorry, Judith Ann," I said. "The only thing I know how to peel is a banana." She wasn't taking no for an answer. Instead, she took out a vegetable peeler and demonstrated how you scrape it along the carrot to take the skin off. "All professional cooks have an assistant," she said, handing me the peeler. "I'd like you to be mine." "Wait a minute! Since when did I become your assistant?" "Since just now," she said. I took the peeler and started scraping the carrot. Nothing was happening. "The peel of the carrot is not going anywhere," I said. "It must be glued on." "You're using the wrong side," Ashley whispered. "You have to use the sharp side." "I knew that," I said, which of course i didn't.

“对不起，朱迪思·安，”我说。 “我只会剥香蕉皮。” 她不接受我的拒绝。 相反，她拿出了一个蔬菜削皮器，演示如何沿着胡萝卜刮去皮。 “所有专业厨师都有助手，”她说着，把削皮器递给我。 “我希望你是我的。” “等一下！”我什么时候成了你的助手？”“从刚才开始，”她说。 我拿起削皮器开始刮胡萝卜。 什么也没发生。“胡萝卜皮哪儿也去不了，”我说。 “一定是粘上去的。”“你用错边了，"艾希礼低声说。 “你必须用锋利的那一面。” “我知道，”我说，当然我不知道。

Judith Ann spent the next half hour chopping everything—carrots, mushrooms, celery, little chunks of toasted bread. Luckily, she stopped short of chopping up her socks. She was chopping so fast that if my mom hadn't stopped her, she would have chopped the kitchen table into little pieces. "Hey, guys," Frankie whispered to Ashley and me as Judith Ann started rolling her meatballs. "Who wants to come with me tomorrow to the hockey game? My dad's got tickets." "No, thanks," Ashley said. "I'm not a hockey fan. I can never even see that little puck." "Well, you can count me in," I said. "It sounds great." I couldn't stop smiling. That is, until I asked my dad if I could go. He had only one word for me. It was a short word. I'll give you a hint. It starts with an N and ends with an O.

接下来的半个小时，朱迪思·安把所有的东西都切了——胡萝卜、蘑菇、芹菜、小块烤面包。 幸运的是，她没有把袜子剁碎。 她切得太快了，要不是我妈妈阻止她，她早就把厨房的桌子切成碎片了。 “嘿，伙计们，”当朱迪思·安开始卷肉丸时，弗兰基低声对我和艾希礼说。 “明天谁想和我一起去看冰球比赛？” 我爸爸有票。”“不用了，谢谢，"艾希礼说。 “我不是冰球迷。我甚至都看不到那个小冰球。” “好吧，你可以算我一个，”我说。 “听起来不错。”我忍不住笑了。 直到我问我爸爸我能不能去。 他只对我说了一句话。 这是一个简短的词。我给你个提示。 它以N开头，以O结尾。