3 The Good Old Days

Chapter 3 The Good Old Days Mrs. Daisy came in with our reading teacher, Mr. Macky. They were holding hands and making goo-goo eyes at each other. Ugh! Disgusting! Mr. Macky said he would meet her in the teachers' lounge at lunchtime.* Mrs. Daisy and Mr. Macky haven't been married very long. That's why they're so mushy with each other. Once they've been married for a few years, they'll stop doing all that mushy stuff. My parents have been married for like a century, and they hardly ever do mushy stuff.

黛西太太和我们的阅读老师麦基先生走了进来。 他们手牵着手，眉来眼去。 啊!真恶心!麦基先生说他将在午餐时间在教师休息室和她见面。黛西太太和麦基先生结婚不久。 所以他们才会这么亲密。 一旦他们结婚几年后，他们就会停止做那些暧昧的事情。 我父母结婚快一个世纪了，他们几乎从不做伤感的事。

"Are you sick, Mrs. Daisy?" asked Emily. "Mr. Klutz told us you went to the doctor." "It was just a checkup," she replied. "Let's get to work. It's time for our Word of the Day. Today's word is 'unique.'" "What does that mean?" asked Michael. "I have no idea," said Mrs. Daisy, who doesn't know anything. "Does anybody know what 'unique' means?" Andrea stuck her hand in the air, of course. Little Miss I-Know-Everything keeps a dictionary on her desk so she can look up words and show everybody how smart she

“你病了吗，黛西太太？”艾米丽问。 “克鲁茨先生告诉我们你去看医生了。” “这只是一次体检，”她回答说。 “让我们开始工作吧。又到了我们的每日一词的时间了。 今天的单词是unique。’”“这是什么意思？”迈克尔问。 “我不知道，”黛西太太说，她什么也不知道。 “有人知道‘独特’是什么意思吗？”当然，安德里亚把手举了起来。 无所不知的小小姐在她的桌子上放着一本字典，这样她就可以查单词，向大家展示她有多聪明

is. But Mrs. Daisy called on me instead. "'Unique' means furniture that's really old," I said. "My mom has a unique table." Everybody laughed even though I didn't say anything funny. "That's 'antique,' dumbhead!" said Andrea. "'Unique' means something that's one of a kind." "Oh, snap!" said Ryan. "I knew that," I lied. "But a really old piece of furniture that's one of a kind is unique. It's a unique antique." Nah-nah-nah boo-boo on Andrea! In her face! No wonder I'm in the gifted and talented program. After we finished our Word of the Day, it was time for writing. I hate writing. "The school year is almost over," Mrs. Daisy said, as she passed out pieces of

是多少。但是黛西太太来找我了。 “‘独特’是指非常古老的家具，”我说。 “我妈妈有一张独特的桌子。” 大家都笑了，尽管我没说什么好笑的话。 “那是‘古董’，笨蛋！”安德烈说。 “‘Unique’是指独一无二的东西。” “哦，糟了！”瑞恩说。“我知道。”我撒了个谎。 “但一件真正古老的家具是独一无二的。 这是一件独一无二的古董。”不不不，安德里亚！在她脸上！难怪我在天才项目里。 在我们完成了每日一词之后，就到了写作的时间了。 我讨厌写作。“学年快结束了，”黛西太太一边说，一边分发着几张纸

paper. "Let's write about our favorite memories of second grade." Mrs. Daisy told us to close our eyes and remember some of the nice things that happened since September. "Remember the time Mrs. Roopy dressed up like Johnny Appleseed?" asked Andrea. "Yeah," we all said. Mrs. Roopy is loopy. "Remember the time we went on a field trip and Mr. Docker ate a bug?" asked Ryan. "Yeah." Mr. Docker is off his rocker. "Remember the time we drove that substitute teacher Ms. Todd crazy and she ran screaming into the parking lot?" Michael asked. "Yeah." Ms. Todd is odd. I couldn't decide if I should write about the time Mr. Klutz was hanging from the flagpole or the time Neil the nude kid's ferret pooped on Emily's head.

纸。“让我们写一写二年级最美好的回忆吧。” 黛西太太让我们闭上眼睛，回忆一下九月以来发生的一些美好的事情。 “还记得那次鲁比太太打扮成苹果籽约翰尼吗？”安德烈问。 “是的，”我们都说。鲁比太太是疯了。 “还记得有一次我们去实地考察，多克先生吃了一只虫子吗？”瑞恩问。 “是的。”多克先生精神失常了。 “还记得那次我们开车送那个代课老师。 托德疯了，她尖叫着跑进停车场？”迈克尔问道。 “是的。”托德很奇怪。我不知道该不该写克鲁茨先生被吊死在旗杆上的事还是裸体小孩尼尔的雪貂在艾米丽头上拉屎的事。

"Remember the time we had a food fight in the vomitorium?" Neil asked. Yeah, that was great. I must admit, even though I hate school, we had some fun in second grade. "Those were the good old days," I said. "Remember the time we had a sleepover in the natural history museum and a giant hissing cockroach crawled into Emily's sleeping bag?" "That happened last week, Arlo!" Andrea said.

“还记得那次我们在食堂里打架吗？”尼尔问。 是啊，太棒了。我必须承认，尽管我讨厌学校，但我们在二年级时还是玩得很开心的。 “那是美好的旧时光，”我说。 “还记得有一次我们在自然历史博物馆过夜，一只发出嘶嘶声的大蟑螂爬进了艾米丽的睡袋吗？”“那是上星期的事，阿乐！”安德里亚说。

"So did your face," I told her. Mrs. Daisy said she had to go to the ladies' room and that we should get started writing while she was gone. As soon as she left, I crumpled up a piece of paper and threw it at Andrea. "You are so immature, Arlo!" Andrea said. "Maybe you'll get held back." "Huh?" I asked. "What do you mean, 'held back'?" "Didn't you know?" Andrea said. "They take the bad kids and make them repeat the grade all over again. You're a bad kid, so you might be held back." What?! Could they really do that? If I had known they make kids repeat a grade, I wouldn't have done so much bad stuff.

“你的脸也是，”我告诉她。 黛西太太说她要去一下洗手间，她不在的时候我们应该开始写东西。 她一走，我就揉成一团，朝安德里亚扔去。 “你太不成熟了，阿乐！”安德里亚说。 “也许你会受到阻碍。” “嗯?”我问。“你说‘退缩’是什么意思？”“你不知道吗？”安德里亚说。 “他们把坏孩子带走，让他们重考一遍。 你是个坏孩子，所以你可能会被阻止。” 什么? !他们真的能做到吗？ 如果我早知道他们让孩子留级，我就不会做这么多坏事了。