1 A Ghost in the Bathroom

Miss Mary Is Scary!

玛丽小姐很可怕！

Chapter 1 A Ghost in the Bathroom My name is A.J. and I hate school. It was a couple of weeks before Halloween, which is the coolest holiday of the year. We get to wear our costumes to school on Halloween and have a big candy party. At the end of the day we parade around the block with all the parents watching. Marching in a parade is way better than watching a parade, because you don't have to stand in one place for a million hundred hours. "Hang up your coats in the cloakroom," said my teacher, Mr. Granite, who is from another planet. What a weird name for a room: "cloakroom." Who wears a cloak? I don't even know what a cloak is.

第一章浴室里的鬼我叫A.J. 我讨厌学校。万圣节是一年中最酷的节日，离万圣节还有几周。 我们可以在万圣节穿上戏服去学校，开一个盛大的糖果派对。 一天结束时，我们在所有家长的注视下绕着街区游行。 在游行队伍中行进比观看游行队伍要好得多，因为你不必在一个地方站上一百万个小时。 “把你们的外套挂在衣帽间里，”我的老师格拉尼特先生说，他来自另一个星球。 多奇怪的房间名字啊，衣帽间 谁会穿斗篷？我都不知道斗篷是什么。

After we finished circle time and Word of the Day, Mr. Granite told us to take out our math books and turn to page twenty-three. "Can I go to the bathroom?" I asked. "Do you really need to, A.J.?" said Mr. Granite. "Yes!" I didn't really need to go to the bathroom. Sometimes I go to the bathroom even though I don't have to. Like when Mr. Granite is teaching math. I hate math. Math is the perfect time to go to the bathroom. "Arlo doesn't need to go to the bathroom," said Andrea Young, this annoying girl with curly brown hair. She calls me by my real name because she knows I don't like it. "I do too." "Do not."

在我们完成了分组时间和“每日一词”之后，格拉尼特老师让我们拿出数学书，翻到第二十三页。 “我能去洗手间吗？”我问。 “你真的需要吗，A.J.?”格拉尼特先生说。 “是的!”我其实不需要去洗手间。 有时我去洗手间，即使我不需要。 就像花岗岩老师教数学一样。 我讨厌数学。数学是上厕所的最佳时间。 “阿乐不需要去洗手间，”安德里亚·杨（Andrea Young）说，她是一个棕色卷发的讨厌女孩。 她叫我的真名，因为她知道我不喜欢这样。 “我也是。”“不要。”

We went back and forth like that for a while. But the teachers have to let you go to the bathroom. It's a law. If they don't let you go to the bathroom, they have to go to jail. "Go ahead, A.J.," Mr. Granite grumbled. "The boys' bathroom is haunted, y'know," whispered my friend Ryan. "I heard there's a ghost in there." "Yeah, watch out for that ghost," said my friend Michael. "He eats kids for lunch." That's ridiculous. There's no such thing as a ghost. And even if there were ghosts, they wouldn't go to the bathroom. They don't have to. Even if ghosts did have to go to the bathroom, they wouldn't haunt one. Ghosts haunt graveyards, basements, and old houses of people who died. Not bathrooms. Everybody knows that. I'm not afraid of

我们这样来来回回聊了一会儿。 但是老师不得不让你去洗手间。 这是法律。如果他们不让你上厕所，他们就得进监狱。 “去吧，a.j.。”格拉尼特先生嘟囔着。 “男厕所闹鬼，你知道的，”我的朋友瑞恩小声说。 “我听说里面有鬼。” “是啊，小心那个鬼，”我的朋友迈克尔说。 “他把孩子当午餐吃。”那太荒唐了。 根本就没有鬼这种东西。 即使有鬼魂，他们也不会去洗手间。 他们不必这么做。即使鬼真的要去厕所，它们也不会去。 鬼魂出没于墓地、地下室和死者的老房子里。 没有浴室。每个人都知道。 我不害怕

ghosts. Still, I was going to be careful, just to be on the safe side. I walked down the hall and pushed open the door to the bathroom. "Anybody in here?" I asked. Nobody answered. I sat down in one of the stalls. There was nothing to do, but it was better than learning math. That's when something really weird happened. The toilet in the stall next to me flushed. "Who's in there?" I asked, alarmed.*

鬼。不过，为了安全起见，我还是会小心的。 我走过大厅，推开浴室的门。 “这里有人吗？”我问。 没有人回答。我在其中一个隔间里坐了下来。 没有什么可做的，但这比学习数学要好。 就在这时，一些奇怪的事情发生了。 我旁边隔间的马桶冲水了。 “谁在里面？”我惊恐地问

Nobody answered. I peeked under the stall to see who was in there. Nobody. "Are you a… ghost?" I asked. The ghost didn't answer. Maybe it was invisible. I picked up the extra roll of toilet paper in case I had to hit the invisible ghost over the head with it. That's when something even weirder happened. The toilet on the other side of me

没有人回答。我偷看了一下隔间下面，想看看谁在里面。 没有人。“你是……鬼吗？”我问。 鬼魂没有回答。也许它是看不见的。 我拿起多余的一卷卫生纸，以防我得用它打看不见的鬼魂的头。 这时更奇怪的事情发生了。 厕所在我的另一边