7 A New Way to Learn

7 A New Way to Learn When I woke up on Wednesday morning, my mom told me to put on my bathing suit. "Do I have the day off from school?" I asked hopefully. "Are we going to the beach?" "No," my mom said. "I got an email from Mrs. Jafee that said everybody has to wear a bathing suit today." That's weird! As I crossed Walnut Street in front of the school, the first person I bumped into was Andrea. "Do you like my new swimsuit, Arlo?" she asked me. "It has polka dots on it." "So does your face," I said. Andrea was going to say something mean to me, but she didn't get the chance.

一种新的学习方法星期三早上我醒来时，妈妈叫我穿上泳衣。 “我放假一天吗？”我满怀希望地问。 “我们要去海滩吗？”“不，”我妈妈说。 “我收到杰菲太太的一封电子邮件，说今天每个人都必须穿泳衣。” 这是奇怪的!当我穿过学校门前的核桃街时，第一个撞到的人是安德里亚。 “你喜欢我的新泳衣吗，阿乐？”她问我。 “上面有圆点花纹。” “你的脸也是，”我说。 安德里亚本来想对我说些刻薄的话，但她没有机会。

Because as we came around the corner to the side entrance of the school we saw the strangest thing in the history of the world. There was a swimming pool in the playground! "WOW," I said, which is "MOM" upside down. Me and Andrea went running over to the pool. Mrs. Jafee was standing there in her

因为当我们转过拐角来到学校的侧门时，我们看到了世界历史上最奇怪的事情。 操场上有一个游泳池！“哇，”我说，这是“妈妈”的上下颠倒。 我和安德里亚跑到泳池边。 杰菲太太穿着她的衣服站在那里

bathing suit with some kids. "Where did you get the swimming pool, Mrs. Jafee?" Andrea asked. "From Rent-A-Pool," she said. "You can rent anything." Mrs. Jafee told us to go to our class. She said she would call us down when it was our turn to use the pool. It felt like a million hundred years until Mrs. Patty finally made the announcement over the loudspeaker…. "Will Mr. Granite's class please report to the playground?" "Yay!" everybody yelled as we ran out of the classroom. Mr. Granite told us not to run, but we were all so excited to go swimming, it was hard not to. We were all out of breath when we got to the pool. "Can we go swimming now?" Ryan asked.

穿着泳装，带着孩子。 “你从哪儿弄来的游泳池，杰菲太太？”安德里亚问道。 “Rent-A-Pool，”她说。 “你可以租任何东西。”杰菲太太叫我们去上课。 她说轮到我们用游泳池时她会叫我们下来。 感觉像是过了一百万年，帕蒂夫人终于通过扬声器宣布了这一消息.... “请格拉尼特先生的班级到操场报到好吗？”“耶！”当我们跑出教室时，每个人都喊道。 格拉尼特先生叫我们不要跑，但我们都很兴奋要去游泳，很难不去。 我们到游泳池时都上气不接下气了。 “我们现在能去游泳吗？”瑞恩问道。

"Gee golly, no," said Mrs. Jafee. "I didn't get the pool for swimmin'." "Why did you get it then?" asked Michael. "For learnin'!" she said. "Studies show that guys and gals learn better underwater." "WHAT?!" Mrs. Jafee gave each of us a pair of goggles and a sheet of paper that was covered with plastic. The page had a bunch of words on it, like "Lincoln," "Union," "Grant," "Lee," and "South." "What are we supposed to do with this?" asked Neil the nude kid. "I want you to learn how to spell these Civil War vocabulary words," she said. "Okeydokey, everybody into the pool!" "Can't we just learn the words out here and then go swimming for fun?" asked Michael.

“天哪，不，”杰菲太太说。 “我没有得到游泳用的游泳池。” “那你为什么要得到它？”迈克尔问。 “为了学习！”她说。“研究表明，男女在水下学习效果更好。” “什么? !”杰菲太太给了我们每人一副护目镜和一张覆盖着塑料的纸。 那张纸上有一堆词，比如“林肯”、“联邦”、“格兰特”、“李”和“南方”。 “我们应该怎么做呢？”裸体小孩尼尔问。 “我想让你们学会如何拼写这些内战词汇，”她说。 “好吧，大家都到池子里去！”“我们就不能在这儿学单词，然后去游泳玩吗？”迈克尔问。

"No!" said Mrs. Jafee, and she pushed Michael into the pool. "You'll learn better underwater." "But I can't swim!" yelled Emily. "You'll learn to swim better underwater, too!" Mrs. Jafee said, pushing Emily into the pool. Then she ran around pushing the rest of us into the water.

“不！”杰菲太太说着，把迈克尔推进了游泳池。 “你在水下会学得更好。” “但我不会游泳！” “你在水下也会游得更好的！”杰菲太太说着，把埃米莉推到游泳池里。 然后她跑来跑去，把我们其他人推到水里。

"But this isn't any fun!" yelled Ryan.

“但这一点也不好玩！”瑞恩喊道。