08 The Worst Thing Ever

The Worst Thing Ever D-day. Doomsday. Dumbday. Saturday. The day of Frank Eats-Paste Pearl's birthday party. I'd rather eat ten jars of paste myself than go to that party, Judy thought. For three whole weeks she had kept the hand-delivered-by-Frank-Pearl birthday invitation hidden inside the bottom of her Tip-It game, where Mom and Dad (who hated Tip-It) would NEVER find it. Then today, the very day of the party, it happened. Dad found out. She, Judy Moody, just had to ask Dad to take her to Fur & Fangs for some toad food. She just happened to be looking at a tadpole kit

有史以来最糟糕的事情。 世界末日。Dumbday。星期六。 弗兰克吃糊珍珠的生日派对那天。 我宁愿自己吃十罐浆糊也不去参加那个聚会，朱迪想。 整整三个星期，她一直把弗兰克·珀尔亲手送来的生日请柬藏在她的Tip-It游戏的底部，这样妈妈和爸爸(他们讨厌Tip-It)就永远找不到它了。 然后今天，就在聚会的那天，事情发生了。 爸爸发现了。她，朱迪·穆迪，只需要让爸爸带她去Fur & Fangs买一些蟾蜍食物。 她只是碰巧在看一个蝌蚪套件

with real live frog eggs — Watch tadpoles turn into frogs! See tails shrink, feet grow, legs form! — hoping to talk Dad into buying it for her when another kit just like it bumped into her. Holding the kit was Frank's mom. "Judy!" Frank's mom said. "Isn't that funny? It looks like we had the same idea for Frank's present! I thought he'd love watching a tadpole turn into a frog. I was about to buy him the same kit!"

用真实的青蛙卵-看蝌蚪变成青蛙!看，尾巴缩了，脚长了，腿成形了!-希望说服爸爸给她买一个，当另一个和它一模一样的东西撞到她身上时。 拿着工具箱的是弗兰克的妈妈。 “朱迪!”弗兰克的妈妈说。“这不是很有趣吗?” 看来我们对弗兰克的礼物有相同的想法!我以为他会喜欢看蝌蚪变成青蛙。 我还打算给他买同样的装备呢!”

"Um, I wasn't . . . I mean, you were?" "Frank's really looking forward to seeing you at his party." "Party?" Dad's ears perked up. "Whose party?" "Frank's!" said his mom. "I'm Mrs. Pearl, Frank's mom." "Nice to meet you," said Dad. "Very nice to meet you," said Mrs. Pearl. "And Judy, I'll see you this afternoon. Bye for

“嗯，我不是……我是说，你是?”“弗兰克很期待在他的派对上见到你。” “宴会?”爸爸的耳朵竖起来了。 “谁的聚会?”“弗兰克的!”他妈妈说。 “我是珍珠太太，弗兰克的妈妈。” “很高兴见到你，”爸爸说。 “很高兴见到你，”珍珠太太说。 “朱迪，今天下午见。” 再见了

now." Mrs. Pearl put the tadpole kit she was holding back on the shelf. "Frank LOVES reptiles," she said. Amphibians, thought Judy. "Judy, why didn't you just say you needed to come here to get your friend a birthday present? Did I know you had a party to go to today?" Dad asked. "No." In the car, Judy tried to convince her dad that there would be kids at the party making rude body noises and calling each other animalbreath names. "You'll have fun." "You know, Frank Pearl eats paste," said Judy. "Look. You've already got the tadpole kit,"

现在。”珀尔太太把手里拿着的蝌蚪用具放在架子上。 “弗兰克喜欢爬行动物，”她说。 两栖动物，朱迪想。“朱迪，你为什么不直接说你要来这里给你朋友买生日礼物呢?” 我知道你今天要去参加一个聚会吗?”爸爸问。 “没有。”在车里，朱迪试图说服她爸爸，派对上会有孩子发出粗鲁的肢体噪音，用动物的口气叫对方的名字。 “你会玩得很开心的。”“你知道，弗兰克·珀尔吃糊，”朱迪说。 “看。你已经有了蝌蚪套件。”

Dad said. "I was kind of sort of hoping I could keep it." "But Mrs. Pearl put hers back when she saw yours. At least take it over, Judy." "Do I have to wrap it?" asked Judy. From the look on his face, she knew the answer. Judy Moody wrapped the too-good-for-apaste- eater present in boring newspaper (not the comics). Even though the party started at two o'clock, she told Mom and Dad that the party didn't start until four o'clock, so she would only have to go for the last disgusting minutes.

爸爸说。“我有点希望我能保留它。” “可是珠儿太太看见你的，就把她的放回去了。 至少接手吧，朱迪。” “我一定要把它包起来吗?”朱迪问。 从他脸上的表情，她知道了答案。 朱迪·穆迪(Judy Moody)用无聊的报纸(不是漫画)包装了这个太好了，不适合吃浆糊的礼物。 虽然派对两点就开始了，但她告诉爸爸妈妈，派对四点才开始，所以她只需要在最后几分钟才去。

The whole family rode in the car to Frank Pearl's house. Even Toady went along, carried by Stink in a yogurt container. Judy held Frank's lumpy present and fell into a bad-mood backseat slump. Why did Rocky have to go to his grandma's TODAY of all days? "She's crying!" Stink reported to the front seat. "Am not!" she said back with her best troll eyes ever. "Wait here," Judy told her family when they got to Frank's house. "Go ahead. Have fun," Dad said. "We'll be back for you in half an hour. Forty minutes tops." "We're only going to the supermarket," said Mom. But they might as well have been going to New Zealand.

全家人一起坐车去了弗兰克·珀尔的家。 就连“癞蛤蟆”也跟着去了，被“臭臭”放在一个酸奶容器里。 朱迪拿着弗兰克那份凹凸不平的礼物，在后座上陷入了心情不好的消沉。 为什么洛奇偏偏要在今天去他奶奶家? “她哭了!”臭气传到了前座。 “我没有!”她用她最漂亮的巨怪眼睛回答。 “在这里等着，”朱迪告诉她的家人，当他们到达弗兰克的家。 ”继续。玩得开心，”爸爸说。 “我们半小时后回来接你。 最多四十分钟。”“我们只去超市，”妈妈说。 但他们也可能去了新西兰。