8 Love Is Dumb

Chapter 8 Love Is Dumb "Girls are weird," I told the guys as we walked away from Andrea. "You can say that again," Michael said. "Girls are weird." We walked down the beach to scope out some of the other sand castles that people were building. They were really lame. "Girls are always falling in love," Ryan said. "Ugh, disgusting!" we all agreed. "I'm never gonna fall in love," said Neil the nude kid. "Me neither," said Michael. "Love is dumb." "Well, if Andrea is in love with Mr. Sunny, at least she won't be bugging me anymore," I told the guys.

“女孩子都很奇怪，”我们离开安德里亚的时候，我对他们说。 “你说得对，”迈克尔说。 “女孩都很奇怪。”我们沿着海滩散步，看看人们正在建造的其他一些沙堡。 他们真的很差劲。“女孩们总是坠入爱河，”瑞恩说。 “呃，真恶心！”我们一致认为。 “我永远不会坠入爱河，”裸体小孩尼尔说。 “我也是。”迈克尔说。 “爱情是愚蠢的。”“好吧，如果安德里亚爱上了桑尼先生，至少她不会再烦我了，”我告诉他们。

"I think you're jealous, A.J.," said Ryan. "What?!" "You're jealous that Andrea's in love with Mr. Sunny." "I am not!" I insisted. "Are too," Ryan said. "You tried to talk her out of being in love with him." "I did not." "Did too." We went back and forth like that for a while. "Oh, come on, A.J.!" said Michael. "It's so obvious you and Andrea are secretly in love. That's why you're so mean to each other. Everybody knows that if you like a girl, you act like you hate her." What? That didn't make any sense. "Yeah," Neil said, "if you really hated Andrea, you would act nice to her. That would prove that you hate her."

“我觉得你嫉妒了，aj，”瑞恩说。 “什么? !”“你嫉妒安德里亚爱上了桑尼先生” “我没有！”我坚持。“我也是，”瑞恩说。 “你试着劝她不要爱上他。” “我没有。”“也是。”我们这样来来回回聊了一会儿。 “哦，得了吧，A.J.!”迈克尔说。 “很明显你和安德里亚在暗中相爱。 所以你们才对彼此这么刻薄。 大家都知道，如果你喜欢一个女孩，你会表现得很讨厌她。” 怎么啦？这没有任何意义。 “是的，”尼尔说，“如果你真的讨厌安德里亚，你会对她表现得很好。 那就证明你恨她了。”

My brain hurt. We went up on the boardwalk and bought saltwater taffy with some money my mom gave us. I got a bag of chocolate taffy. Michael got cinnamon taffy. Neil got strawberry taffy. Ryan got broccoli taffy. Ryan will eat anything, even stuff that isn't food. One time he ate part of the seat cushion on the school bus. I thought about what the guys said. Being mean to Andrea showed that I liked her. And being nice would show that I hated her. So if I wanted the guys to stop teasing me about being in love with Andrea, I would have to be really nice to her. We went back down to the beach to see how Mr. Sunny was doing on his castle. He was talking to the sand with his eyes closed. I called Andrea over.

我的大脑受伤了。我们走上木板路，用妈妈给我们的钱买了盐水太妃糖。 我买了一袋巧克力太妃糖。 迈克尔买了肉桂太妃糖。 尼尔买了草莓太妃糖。 瑞恩买了西兰花太妃糖。瑞恩什么都吃，甚至不是食物的东西。 有一次他在校车上吃了一部分坐垫。 我考虑了他们说的话。 对安德里亚刻薄表明我喜欢她。 对她好就表明我恨她。 所以如果我想让男生们不再取笑我爱上了安德里亚，我就得对她很好。 我们回到海滩，看看桑尼先生在他的城堡里做得怎么样了。 他闭着眼睛对着沙子说话。 我叫安德里亚过来。

"I bought you a present," I said, handing her my bag of saltwater taffy. "Sweets to the sweet." "Oh, thank you, Arlo!" Andrea said. "I didn't know you knew Shakespeare!" "Huh?" "'Sweets to the sweet,'" she said. "Shakespeare wrote that." "He did?" "Oooooh!" Ryan said. "A.J. is talking

“我给你买了一份礼物，”我说着，把我那袋咸水太妃糖递给她。 “给甜心的糖果。”“哦，谢谢你，阿乐！”安德里亚说。 “我不知道你知道莎士比亚！”“嗯?”“‘甜的给甜的，’”她说。 “这是莎士比亚写的。”“他?”“嗡嗡!”瑞恩说。 A.J.在说话

that Shakespeare talk to Andrea and giving her candy. They must be in love!" "When are you gonna get married?" asked Michael. If those guys weren't my best friends, I would hate them.

莎士比亚和安德里亚谈话，并给她糖果。 他们一定是相爱了！”“你打算什么时候结婚？”迈克尔问。 如果他们不是我最好的朋友，我会讨厌他们的。