5 Problem Solved

Chapter 5 Problem Solved The next day me and the guys were waiting in line for lunch in the vomitorium when we saw some kids nearby sobbing and crying and freaking out. They were talking with Mr. Loring, the music teacher, and Ms. Hannah, the art teacher. Both of them were carrying big cardboard boxes. "What's going on?" asked Neil the nude kid. "We're going home," Ms. Hannah replied. "We just got fired. We wanted to say good-bye." "WHAT?!" I said. "I thought the school wasn't closing until June." "That's right," said Mr. Loring. "But they're starting to fire the teachers now."

第5章问题解决了第二天，我和伙伴们在体育馆排队吃午饭时，看到附近有几个孩子在抽泣、哭泣、惊慌失措。 他们正在和音乐老师洛林先生和老师罗林女士谈话。 汉娜，美术老师。他们俩都提着大纸板箱。 “发生什么事了？”裸体小孩尼尔问。 “我们要回家了，”汉娜回答。 “我们刚刚被解雇了。我们想说再见。” “什么? !”我说。“我以为学校要到六月才关门呢。” “没错，”洛林说。 “但他们现在开始解雇老师了。”

"Art and music are always the first to go," Ms. Hannah told us. "Some people think the arts aren't important." "What are you gonna do now?" asked Ryan. "I'm going to make dresses out of old pot holders and sell them on eBay," said Ms. Hannah. "I might get back together with the guys in my old rock band and go on tour," said

“艺术和音乐总是最先被淘汰的。” 汉娜告诉我们的。“有些人认为艺术不重要。” “你现在打算怎么办？”瑞恩问。 “我打算用旧锅架做裙子，然后在eBay上卖，”她说。 汉娜。他说：“我可能会和以前的摇滚乐队成员重聚，去巡演。

Mr. Loring. It was hard to believe that Mr. Loring used to be in a rock band. He's like a million hundred years old. "What was the name of your band?" I asked. "The Rolling Stones," he said. We took our trays and found seats next to Andrea and her annoying friends. They looked like they had been crying. Everybody was sad about the teachers being fired. Nobody was in the mood to eat lunch. Not even Ryan, who will eat anything, even stuff that isn't food. One time he took a bite out of the cushion on the school bus. We were sitting there quietly when those two guys in overalls carried this big thing out of the vomitorium. "What's that?" I asked. "That's the salad bar," said Andrea.

劳瑞先生。很难相信洛林曾经是一个摇滚乐队的成员。 他好像有一百多岁了。 “你们乐队叫什么名字？”我问。 “滚石乐队，”他说。 我们拿起托盘，在安德里亚和她那些讨厌的朋友旁边找了个座位。 他们看起来好像哭过。 每个人都为老师被解雇感到难过。 没人有心情吃午饭。 连莱恩也不吃，他什么都吃，甚至不是食物的东西。 有一次，他在校车的垫子上咬了一口。 我们静静地坐在那里，那两个穿工作服的家伙把这个大家伙拎出了体育馆。 “那是什么?”我问。“那是沙拉吧，”安德里亚说。

"Is that like a candy bar made out of salad?" I asked. Andrea rolled her eyes. "You probably never tasted salad in your life, Arlo," she said. "I did too," I told her. "I tasted a salad once. Then I spit it out." "I don't care if they take away the salad bar," Michael said, "as long as they don't take away the monkey bars." All of us looked out the window toward the playground. And you'll never believe in a million hundred years what we saw. That's right! Two guys in overalls were

“那是不是像沙拉做的糖果棒？”我问。 安德烈翻了个白眼。“你可能一辈子都没吃过沙拉，阿乐，”她说。 “我也是，”我告诉她。“我吃过一次沙拉。 然后我就吐出来了。”“我不在乎他们把沙拉吧拿走，”迈克尔说，“只要他们不把猴架拿走就行。” 我们大家都望着窗外的操场。 再过一百万年你也不会相信我们所看到的。 这是正确的!两个穿工装裤的人

moving the monkey bars! "They're taking the school apart while we're sitting here!" yelled Andrea. "It's not fair!" yelled Ryan. "We've got to do something!" yelled Emily, and then she went running out of the room. Sheesh! Get a grip! What a crybaby! But Emily was right for once in her life. We did have to do something. The question was, What? I thought and thought and thought and thought.* I thought so hard that I thought my head was gonna explode. But that's when I thought of the greatest idea in the history of the world! "Hey," I said. "Mr. Klutz told us it would take a million dollars to keep the school open, right?" "Right," everybody said.

移动单杠！“他们在我们坐在这里的时候把学校拆了！”安德里亚喊道。 “这不公平！”瑞恩喊道。 “我们得做点什么！”爱米丽喊道，然后跑出了房间。 天哪!控制一下！真是个爱哭鬼！但艾米莉这辈子总算说对了一次。 我们必须做点什么。 问题是，什么？我想啊想啊想。我想得太厉害了，我觉得我的头要爆炸了。 但就在那时，我想到了世界历史上最伟大的主意！“嘿，”我说。 “克鲁茨先生告诉我们需要100万美元才能让学校继续运营，对吗？”“对，”大家都说。

"So if we could get a million dollars, we could save the school!" "A.J., you're a genius!" said Michael. "No wonder you're in the gifted and talented program!" said Neil the nude kid. So the solution to our problem was simple. All we had to do was get a million dollars.

“所以如果我们能得到一百万美元，我们就能拯救学校！”“aj，你真是个天才！”迈克尔说。 “难怪你在天才班！”裸体小孩尼尔说。 所以这个问题的解决方法很简单。 我们只需要弄到一百万美元。