8 The Biggest Pizza in the World

Chapter 8 The Biggest Pizza in the World Instead of going out for recess, we all rushed over to the school library. Our media specialist, Mrs. Roopy, was in there eating her lunch. "To what do I owe the pleasure of your company?" she asked. That's grown-up talk for "What are you doing here?" "We need to see The Guinness Book of World Records right away!" I told her. I was all out of breath. Mrs. Roopy put her hand on my forehead. "A.J., are you feeling okay?" she asked. "I've never heard you say you wanted to

第八章世界上最大的披萨课间休息时，我们没有出去，而是都冲到学校图书馆。 我们的媒体专家鲁比夫人正在里面吃午饭。 “什么风把我吹来了？”她问。 这是成年人说的“你在这里干什么”“我们需要马上看到《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》！”我告诉了她。 我上气不接下气。鲁比太太把手放在我的额头上。 “aj，你还好吗？”她问。 “我从来没听你说过你想这么做

read a book before. Maybe I should call an ambulance and get you to the hospital." "He's fine," said Neil the nude kid. "We need to do some research, Mrs. Roopy," said Andrea. "We want to find out how big the biggest pizza in the world is." Mrs. Roopy got The Guinness Book of World Records off a shelf, and we all gathered around her to look at it. "Let's see," she said, leafing through the book. "Here's a man who balanced a refrigerator on his teeth for ten seconds. That's remarkable! And here's a man who

之前读过一本书。也许我应该叫辆救护车送你去医院。” “他很好，”裸体小孩尼尔说。 “我们需要做一些调查，鲁比太太，”安德烈说。 “我们想知道世界上最大的披萨有多大。” 鲁比太太从架子上拿了本《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》，我们都围着她看。 “让我看看，”她一边说，一边翻着书。 “这个人用牙齿顶着冰箱十秒钟。 这是非凡的!这里有一个人

ate a whole bicycle. That's amazing!" "Nothing about giant pizzas in there?" asked Ryan. Finally Mrs. Roopy found the section on food, and there it was: the biggest pizza in the world was made in South Africa in 1990. It was 386 feet around, and it had 1,764 pounds of cheese and 1,985 pounds of tomato sauce on it. "WOW!" Michael said, which is "MOM" upside down. "That's a big pizza!" "How could we possibly make a pizza bigger than that one?" asked Ryan. That's when I came up with the greatest idea in the history of the world. "Our school collected over 3,000 pounds of food," I said. "We could use the food from the food drive to make our pizza!" "The food we collected is for hungry people, A.J.," Mrs. Roopy said. "It would be

吃了一整辆自行车。那太神奇了!”“里面没有关于大披萨的东西吗？”瑞恩问。 最后，鲁比太太找到了关于食物的部分，在那里：世界上最大的披萨是1990年在南非制作的。 它长386英尺，上面有1764磅的奶酪和1985磅的番茄酱。 “哇!”迈克尔说，这是“妈妈”的上下颠倒。 “那是一个大披萨！”“我们怎么可能做一个比那个更大的披萨呢？”瑞恩问道。 就在那时，我想到了世界历史上最伟大的想法。 “我们学校募集了3000多磅食物，”我说。 “我们可以用募捐得来的食物来做披萨！”“我们收集的食物是给饥饿的人的，a.j.，”鲁比太太说。 “那将是

wrong to use that food just to break a world record." "Nobody puts beans or soup on pizza anyway," said Ryan. Okay, so maybe my idea wasn't so great after all. We all thought and thought and thought. I thought so hard that I thought my head was going to explode. Suddenly, Andrea got this gleam in her eye. "I know!" she said. "The Six Moms can supply the ingredients for our pizza! Our school could be the first customer of our moms' new catering company!" "Yeah!" said Emily, who always agrees with everything Andrea says. It was a good idea, I had to admit. But there wasn't any lightbulb over Andrea's head, and I wasn't about to admit out loud that she had a good idea.

用那种食物来打破世界纪录是不对的。” “反正没人会在披萨上放豆子或汤，”瑞恩说。 好吧，也许我的主意根本就没那么好。 我们都想啊想啊想。 我拼命地想，我的头都要爆炸了。 突然，安德里亚眼中闪过一丝光芒。 “我知道！”她说。“六位妈妈可以为我们的披萨提供配料！”我们学校可能是我们妈妈新开的餐饮公司的第一个客户！”“是啊！”艾米丽说，她总是同意安德里亚说的每句话。 我不得不承认，这是个好主意。 但安德里亚的脑袋上没有灯泡，我也不打算大声承认她有个好主意。

"That's the dumbest idea in the history of the world," I said.

“这是世界历史上最愚蠢的想法，”我说。