11 My Teacher Is an Alien

Chapter 11 My Teacher Is an Alien Mr. Granite was building a spaceship! It was red and black and silver, and it looked just like the spaceships you see in movies. It was cool! "Andrea was right!" I whispered. "Mr. Granite is from another—" But I never got the chance to finish my sentence because at that moment, the garage door started going up. Mr. Granite, the alien, was standing there looking right at us!

第11章我的老师是外星人格拉尼特先生正在建造一艘宇宙飞船！它是红色、黑色和银色的，看起来就像你在电影中看到的宇宙飞船。 太酷了！“安德烈是对的！”我低声说。 “花岗岩先生来自另一个——”但我还没来得及说完这句话，因为就在那一刻，车库的门打开了。 格拉尼特先生，那个外星人，正站在那里看着我们！

I didn't know what to say! I didn't know what to do! I had to think fast! "Freeze, dirtbag!" I yelled. "You're an alien, and we know it!" Mr. Granite put his hands in the air. Then he realized we didn't have a gun or

我不知道该说什么！我不知道该怎么办！我必须快速思考！“冻结,垃圾袋(失败者)!”我喊道。 “你是外星人，我们都知道！”格拉尼特先生举起双手。 然后他意识到我们没有枪或者

anything, so he put them down. "Yes, I admit it," he said sadly. "I'm not from New Jersey. I'm from the planet Etinarg in a galaxy far, far away." "WOW!" we all said, which is "MOM" upside down. "Etinarg?" I said. "Isn't that 'Granite' spelled backward?" "Yes," Mr. Granite said. "Everyone on Etinarg is named Granite." "Doesn't it make things confusing when everybody has the same name?" asked Ryan. "It does," Mr. Granite replied. "I was sent to Earth to help you stop global warming and to come back with some new names for our people. Now my work here is done. I must return to Etinarg. My spaceship is finished. I just need some rocket fuel so I can blast off."

什么都行，于是他放下了。 “是的，我承认，”他伤心地说。 “我不是新泽西人。我来自遥远星系的艾蒂纳尔星球。” “哇！”我们都说，这是“妈妈”的上下颠倒。 “Etinarg ?”我说。“‘花岗岩’不是倒着写吗？”“是的，”格拉尼特先生说。 “艾蒂纳尔岛上的每个人都叫花岗岩。” “每个人的名字都一样，这不会让事情变得混乱吗？”瑞恩问道。 “是的，”格拉尼特先生回答。 “我被派往地球是为了帮助你们阻止全球变暖，并为我们的人民带来一些新名字。 现在我的工作完成了。我必须回艾蒂纳尔。 我的宇宙飞船完工了。我只需要一些火箭燃料，这样我就可以升空了。”

"Wait a minute!" Michael said. "How do we know you're not yanking our chain? Prove you're an alien!" "Yeah," I said. "Let's see you peel off your face." "Well… okay," Mr. Granite said as he put his hand under his chin. I covered my eyes with my hands. I wanted to see Mr. Granite peel off his face; but at the same time, I didn't want to see what was underneath. What if it was scary? So I covered my eyes, but I opened my fingers so I could look between them. Mr. Granite pulled at his neck, and the skin started to come loose. Then he peeled off his entire face! And you'll never believe in a million hundred years what he looked like underneath. He looked exactly the same! "Hey!" Ryan said. "That face looks just

“等一下！”迈克尔说。 “我们怎么知道你不是在拉我们的链子？” 证明你是个外星人！”“是的，”我说。 “让我看看你把脸剥下来。” “嗯……好吧，”格拉尼特先生把手放在下巴下面说。 我用手蒙住眼睛。 我想看格拉尼特先生撕掉他的脸；但与此同时，我不想看到下面是什么。 如果它很可怕呢？所以我蒙住了眼睛，但我张开了手指，这样我就可以从它们之间看到。 格拉尼特先生拉着他的脖子，皮肤开始松动。 然后他把整张脸都剥了下来！再过一百万年你也不会相信他的真面目。 他看起来一模一样！“嘿!”瑞恩说。 “那张脸看起来很

like the one you peeled off!" "It never hurts to have an extra face," said Mr. Granite. Even though Mr. Granite's peeled-off face looked the same as his regular face, it was still cool. "Don't tell Mr. Klutz!" Mr. Granite said. "Our lips are sealed," I told him. But not with glue. That would be weird.

就像你剥下来的那个！”“多一张脸永远不会有坏处，”格拉尼特先生说。 尽管格拉尼特先生剥了皮的脸看起来和他平常的脸一样，但仍然很酷。 “别告诉克鲁茨先生！”格拉尼特说。 “我们守口如瓶，”我告诉他。 但不是用胶水。那会很奇怪。