4 Going Green

Chapter 4 Going Green Boy, Mr. Granite wasn't kidding about making Ella Mentry School green. Everybody was doing their part to save energy and help the environment. Miss Lazar, our school custodian, put solar panels up on the roof to collect the sun's rays and turn them into electricity. Miss Lazar is bizarre! Ms. Hannah, our art teacher, hates throwing stuff away. She told us to bring in plastic bags from home instead of throwing them in the garbage. She showed us how to make plastic bags into butterflies, kites, and dream catchers. Ms. Hannah is bananas! Mr. Docker, our science teacher, is off his rocker. He has a car that runs on potatoes

第4章变绿男孩格拉尼特先生说要把艾拉门特里学校变成绿色可不是在开玩笑。 每个人都在尽自己的一份力量来节约能源和保护环境。 我们学校的管理员拉扎尔小姐在屋顶上安装了太阳能电池板，收集太阳光线并将其转化为电能。 拉扎尔小姐很奇怪！Ms。 汉娜，我们的美术老师，讨厌扔掉东西。 她告诉我们从家里带塑料袋来，而不是把它们扔进垃圾桶。 她教我们如何把塑料袋做成蝴蝶、风筝和捕梦网。 汉娜女士简直疯了！我们的科学老师多克先生精神失常了。 他有一辆以土豆为燃料的汽车

instead of gas. Mr. Docker converted the school bus to run on potatoes, too. And he helped Mrs. Yonkers, our computer teacher, to hook up potatoes to power the school computers. So now she says that "PC" stands for "potato computer." Mrs. Yonkers is bonkers! Mrs. Cooney, our school nurse, brought a giant tube of toothpaste to school one day. It was about the size of a first grader! Mrs. Cooney is loony! She said that when you buy large sizes of stuff, you don't have to go shopping so often. There's less waste, and you save money, too.

而不是气体。多克先生也把校车改装成用土豆做燃料。 他还帮助我们的电脑老师扬克斯太太把土豆连接起来，为学校的电脑供电。 所以现在她说“PC”代表“土豆电脑”。 扬克斯太太是个疯子！一天，我们学校的护士库尼太太带了一大管牙膏来学校。 它有一个一年级学生那么大！库尼太太疯了！她说，当你买大尺寸的东西时，你不必经常去购物。 这样可以减少浪费，还能省钱。

Ms. LaGrange, our lunch lady, told us to pack our lunches in reusable containers instead of in paper bags so we'd have less garbage. She also brought in a bunch of cows to graze on the grass in the field behind the school. Now the lawn doesn't need to be mowed anymore. And we get free milk too!, I don't know where Ms. LaGrange got the cows. I guess she went to Rent-A-Cow. You can rent anything. Ms. LaGrange is strange. Mrs. Roopy, our librarian, read us a book about how trees give off oxygen (which is good stuff) and absorb carbon dioxide (which is bad stuff). Then she helped us plant a tree in the middle of the library. Mrs. Roopy is loopy! And Mr. Klutz, well, he put up a giant windmill in the field behind the school. When the wind turns the blades of the

我们的午餐女士拉格朗日告诉我们用可重复使用的容器而不是纸袋来包装午餐，这样我们的垃圾就会少一些。 她还带了一群牛在学校后面的草地上吃草。 现在草坪不需要再修剪了。 我们还有免费的牛奶！我不知道她在哪里。 拉格朗日得到了奶牛。我猜她去租奶牛店了。 你可以租任何东西。Ms。 拉格朗日很奇怪。我们的图书管理员鲁比夫人给我们读了一本关于树木如何释放氧气（这是好的东西）和吸收二氧化碳（这是不好的东西）的书。 然后她帮我们在图书馆中央种了一棵树。 鲁比太太疯了！还有克鲁茨先生，他在学校后面的地里建了一个巨大的风车。 当风转动叶片

windmill, it makes electricity. The whole school was going green! Part of the reason was that we all knew it was good to save energy and reduce waste. The other part was that we all like chocolate cake. "Do any of you have other ideas to help the environment?" Mr. Granite asked us while we were pedaling to nowhere. Little Miss I-Know-Everything was waving her hand in the air like she was trying to signal a boat across the ocean. But Mr. Granite called on me instead. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on Andrea. "I know a way to save energy," I said. "You should close the school down and let us stay home all day. Then we could sit around and do nothing. That would save a lot of energy." Everybody laughed even though I didn't

风车，它能发电。 整个学校都在绿化！部分原因是我们都知道节约能源和减少浪费是件好事。 另一方面，我们都喜欢巧克力蛋糕。 “你们还有其他帮助环境的想法吗？”格拉尼特先生问我们，这时我们正骑着自行车去哪儿也去不了。 无所不知的小小姐在空中挥舞着她的手，就像她试图向海洋对岸的船发出信号一样。 但格拉尼特先生来找我了。 所以安德里亚的糗事。 “我知道一个节约能源的方法，”我说。 “你应该关闭学校，让我们整天呆在家里。 然后我们就可以无所事事了。 这将节省大量能源。” 大家都笑了，虽然我没有

say anything funny. "How about you, Andrea?" asked Mr. Granite. "Can you think of another way we can help the environment?" "We could use both sides of every scrap of paper," Andrea said. "And then we could recycle it." "That's an excellent idea, Andrea!" said Mr. Granite. Andrea stuck out her tongue at me. What is her problem? "Oh, snap!" whispered Ryan. "Andrea stuck her tongue out at you, A.J. Are you gonna take that?" "At Andrea's house," I told the class, "they use both sides of the toilet paper… and then they recycle it!" "That's gross, Arlo!" Andrea said.

说点有趣的。“你呢，安德里亚？”格拉尼特先生问。 “你能想到其他帮助环境的方法吗？”“我们可以利用每张纸的两面，”安德里亚说。 “然后我们可以回收它。” “这是个好主意，安德烈！”格拉尼特先生说。 安德里亚朝我吐了吐舌头。 她有什么问题？“哦，糟了！”瑞恩小声说。 "安德里亚对你吐了舌头，aj 你会接受吗？”“在安德里亚家，”我告诉同学们，“他们使用厕纸的两面……然后回收利用！”“太恶心了，阿乐！”安德里亚说。

"So is your face," I told her. "Oh, snap!" said Ryan.

“你的脸也是，”我告诉她。 “哦，糟了！”瑞恩说。