02 MeDullas and ManDibles

M.D. = MeDullas and Mandibles When Judy walked into Class 3T (seven minutes late!) on the un-mumpsy day of Monday, Class 3T was dry as a bone. Or bones! There were bones everywhere. Mr. Todd had made a new bulletin board: Our Amazing Body: From Head to Toe. It had a tall poster of bones with long scientific names. On the front board he taped a chart that showed rodent bones. It looked like the insides of Peanut, the dwarf guinea pig in Class 3T. And . . . sitting behind Mr. Todd's desk in Mr. Todd's chair, using Mr. Todd's pencil, was a glow-inthe- dark skeleton! Class 3T had turned into a bone museum!

当朱迪走进3T班的时候(迟到了七分钟!)，那是周一没有做木乃伊的日子，3T班已经干得像骨头一样。 或骨头!到处都是骨头。 托德先生做了一个新的公告板:我们神奇的身体:从头到脚。 它有一张高高的骷髅海报，上面有长长的学名。 他在前板上贴了一张显示啮齿动物骨骼的图表。 它看起来像3T班的侏儒豚鼠花生的内脏。 还有……坐在托德先生桌子后面的椅子上，用着托德先生的铅笔，是一个在黑暗中发光的骷髅!3T班变成了骨骼博物馆!

Bones were not drippy. Bones were not noisy. Bones were not boring. Bones were dry and quiet and very, very interesting! Things were sure looking up for a no-mumps Monday. Judy handed Mr. Todd her late slip. "Sorry I'm late," she said. "I almost had the mumps." "Well, I'm glad you're healthy, and here now. We're starting a new unit on the Human Body from head to toe." "We're going to get to jump rope," said Jessica Finch. "And measure our heart rates." "And play Twister," said Rocky. "To learn about muscles." "And sing a song about bones," said Alison S. "I can't believe you started the human body without me!" said Judy. "A person can miss a lot

骨头不是滴溜溜的。骨头并不吵闹。 骨头并不无聊。骨头干而安静，非常非常有趣!周一没有流行性腮腺炎，情况肯定会好转。 朱迪把她迟到的纸条递给托德先生。 “对不起，我迟到了，”她说。 “我差点得腮腺炎。”“嗯，我很高兴你身体健康，现在又来了。 我们正在从头到脚开始一个新的人体单元。” “我们要去跳绳，”杰西卡·芬奇说。 “并测量我们的心率。” “玩扭扭游戏，”洛奇说。 “为了了解肌肉。”“唱一首关于骨头的歌，”艾莉森说。 “我真不敢相信你没有我就开始造人体了!”朱迪说。 “一个人会错过很多

in seven minutes." "Don't worry. I think you'll catch up," said Mr. Todd. Mr. Todd taught them a funny song that went, "Da foot bone's connected to da ankle bone. . . ." He read them a book called Frozen Man, the incredible, real-life story of a fivethousand- year-old mummy.

七分钟后。”“别担心。 我认为你会赶上来的。”托德先生说。 托德教他们唱了一首有趣的歌:“脚骨和踝骨相连。” 他给他们读了一本叫《冰雪奇人》的书，这是一个关于五千年前木乃伊的真实故事。

And Class 3T got to turn out the lights and use the glow-in-the-dark skeleton named Bonita to count how many bones were in a human. Two hundred and six! "We'll be learning a lot of new words in this unit. The scientific names for bones and body parts come from Latin. So they may sound a little funny." "Like maxilla is your jaw?" asked Judy, looking at the bulletin board. "And so is mandible," said Jessica. Jessica Finch had already learned to spell microbes (a fancy word for germs, as in cooties!) and medulla (a fancy word for brain stuff). "Can you spell headache?" Judy asked. Frank Pearl cracked up at that one. Then Mr. Todd passed out owl pellets. They

3T班要关掉灯，用一个叫Bonita的能在黑暗中发光的骨骼来数一个人身上有多少块骨头。 260 !“我们将在这个单元学习很多新单词。 骨骼和身体部位的学名来自拉丁语。 所以它们听起来可能有点滑稽。” “就像你的下颚是上颌骨一样?”朱迪看着布告栏问。 “下颌骨也是，”杰西卡说。 杰西卡·芬奇(Jessica Finch)已经学会了拼写“微生物”(微生物的一个花哨的词，就像虱子一样!)和“髓质”(大脑物质的一个花哨的词)。 “你会拼写头痛吗?”朱迪问。 弗兰克·珀尔听到这句话大笑起来。 然后托德先生发了猫头鹰丸。 他们

got to poke them with a pencil to find bones. Rodent bones. Judy and Frank stared at their fuzzy gray lump. "Double bluck! Just think. This is owl spit-up!" said Frank. "It's still interesting," said Judy. "Real bones are in there. Skulls and stuff." "You poke it," said Frank. So Judy poked it

得用铅笔戳它们才能找到骨头。 啮齿动物的骨头。朱迪和弗兰克盯着他们毛茸茸的灰色肿块。 “双bluck !只是觉得。 这是猫头鹰的口水!”弗兰克说。 “还是很有趣，”朱迪说。 “真正的骨头在里面。骷髅之类的东西。” “你戳它，”弗兰克说。 于是朱迪戳了戳它

with her Grouchy pencil. They found a jawbone, a rib, and a bone Mr. Todd called a femur. They glued each bone onto paper and drew in all the missing bones to make a rodent skeleton that matched the one on the board. "Do any rodent bones have the same names as human bones?" asked Mr. Todd. Judy raised her hand. "Tibia," called out Jessica Finch. "Very good," said Mr. Todd. "That's what I was going to say," said Judy. Jessica Finch was a rat fink (like Stink!) for not raising her hand. A rodent fink. "Now let's talk about your Human Body projects," said Mr. Todd. "Projects will be due in two weeks. You can do your project on bones, muscles, joints, the brain —"

用她的格鲁希铅笔。他们发现了一块颚骨、一根肋骨和一块托德先生称之为股骨的骨头。 他们把每块骨头都粘在纸上，然后把所有缺失的骨头都画进去，做出一副与板上的骨头相匹配的啮齿动物骨架。 “有啮齿动物的骨头和人类的骨头名字一样吗?”托德问道。 朱迪举起了手。“胫骨，”杰西卡·芬奇叫道。 “很好，”托德先生说。 “这正是我要说的，”朱迪说。 杰西卡·芬奇(Jessica Finch)因为没有举手而被称为“臭鼬”。 啮齿动物的鳍。“现在让我们谈谈你的人体项目，”托德说。 “项目将在两周内截止。 你可以在骨骼、肌肉、关节、大脑上做项目——”