6 How to Get a Million Dollars

Chapter 6 How to Get a Million Dollars After lunch we went outside for recess. Me and the guys went to the playground where the monkey bars used to be. Andrea, Emily, and some of their girly friends came out there too. Everybody was complaining about what was happening to our school. "Stop whining," I told them. "All we need to do is get a million dollars." "How are you going to get a million dollars, Arlo?" asked Andrea. "Are you going to rob a bank?" "Of course not!" I said. "I'll just go to the bank and get the money from the cash machine. That's what my mom does." Andrea rolled her eyes. "You have to put money into a bank if you want to take it out, dumbhead!" Andrea

第六章如何得到一百万美元午饭后，我们到外面休息。 我和朋友们去了以前有猴架的操场。 安德里亚、艾米丽和她们的一些女朋友也来了。 每个人都在抱怨我们学校发生的事情。 “别抱怨了，”我告诉他们。 “我们需要做的就是弄到一百万美元。” “你打算怎么弄到一百万美元呢，阿乐？”安德烈问。 “你要去抢银行吗？”“当然不会！”我说。 “我要去银行从提款机里取钱。 我妈妈就是这么做的。”安德烈翻了个白眼。 “你必须把钱存入银行，如果你想把钱取出来，笨蛋！”安德里亚

said. "You're the dumbhead!" I told her. "What's the point of putting money in the bank if you're just gonna take it out?" "Let's see how much money we have right now," Michael suggested. We emptied our pockets. I had a nickel and three pennies. Ryan had a quarter. We put all the coins in a pile, and Andrea counted it. "It comes to $1.04," she said. "And a Life-Saver." "That's not even close to a million dollars," said Neil. "Sure it is," I told him. "If we just did that a million more times, we'd have a million dollars."

说。“你才是傻瓜！”我告诉了她。 “把钱存在银行有什么意义？如果你只是想把它取出来？”“让我们看看我们现在有多少钱，”迈克尔建议道。 我们掏空了口袋。我有一个五分镍币和三个便士。 瑞安有一枚硬币。我们把所有的硬币堆在一起，安德里亚数了数。 “是0.04，”她说。 “还有一个救命稻草。”尼尔说：“这离一百万美元还差得远。” “当然是，”我告诉他。“如果我们再这样做一百万次，我们就有一百万美元了。”

"That's ridiculous, Arlo," Andrea said. "So is your face," I told her. "We could bake cookies," Emily suggested. "If we sold a million cookies for a dollar each, we'd make a million dollars." "You're not gonna sell a million cookies," said Ryan. "What if we sold just one really big cookie and charged a million dollars for it?" I suggested. "Maybe we could borrow a million

“这太荒唐了，阿乐，”安德烈说。 “你的脸也是，”我告诉她。 “我们可以烤饼干，”艾米丽建议道。 “如果我们以每块一美元的价格卖出一百万个饼干，我们就能赚一百万美元。” “你卖不了一百万个饼干，”瑞恩说。 “如果我们只卖一块非常大的饼干，然后要价一百万美元呢？”我建议。 “也许我们可以借一百万

dollars from our parents," said Michael. "We would have to pay it back," Andrea said. "So we would still have to get a million dollars." "I know!" I said, snapping my fingers. "We could clean couches." Everybody looked at me like I was crazy. But it made perfect sense. My mom is always picking loose change out of the back of our couch. She calls it her secret couch money. We could go around town asking people if we could clean their couches and keep all the secret couch money. "I don't think so, dude," Michael said. "We could sell my little brother," suggested Neil the nude kid. "That's against the law," said Andrea. "It is not," I said. "Is too," said Andrea. We went back and forth like that for a

我们从父母那里要钱，”迈克尔说。 “我们必须还钱，”安德里亚说。 “所以我们仍然需要一百万美元。” “我知道!”我打了个响指。 “我们可以打扫沙发。”每个人都看着我，好像我疯了一样。 但这是完全合理的。 我妈妈总是从沙发后面捡零钱。 她称之为她的秘密沙发钱。 我们可以到镇上去问问别人我们能不能帮他们打扫沙发然后把所有的秘密沙发费都留着。 “我可不这么认为，伙计，”迈克尔说。 “我们可以卖掉我的弟弟，”裸体小孩尼尔建议道。 “这是违法的，”安德烈说。 “不是的，”我说。“我也是。”安德烈说。 我们就这样来回了一段时间

while. Suddenly, Mr. Tony came over. He's a big guy with a mustache who runs the after-school program. "Hi, Mr. Tony!" we all said. "What are you doing here?" asked Michael. "School doesn't let out until three o'clock." "Because of the budget cuts," he said, "they told me I have to be on duty for recess." We all giggled, because Mr. Tony said "on duty," which sounds exactly the same as "on doody." The weird thing is, it's okay to say "duty," but you're not supposed to say "doody." Nobody knows why. So, any time anybody says "duty," you have to giggle because it sounds like they said "doody." That's the first rule of being a kid. Mr. Tony asked us what we were talking about, and we told him some of our ideas to

时间。突然，托尼先生走了过来。 他是个留着小胡子的大个子，负责课外活动。 “嗨，托尼先生！”我们都说。 “你在这里做什么？”迈克尔问。 “学校三点才放学。” “由于预算削减，”他说，“他们告诉我，休会期间我必须值班。” 我们都咯咯地笑起来，因为托尼先生说“值班”，听起来和“上厕所”一模一样。 奇怪的是，你可以说“职责”，但你不应该说“便便”。 没人知道为什么。所以，任何时候只要有人说“职责”，你就得傻笑，因为听起来他们说的是“便便”。 这是当孩子的第一准则。 托尼先生问我们在谈什么，我们把我们的一些想法告诉了他

get a million dollars. He gathered us around him, like we were having a football huddle. "I have a better idea," Mr. Tony whispered. "Here's the plan. We tell the government we have a thousand kids at our school. Yeah, that's it. And we tell 'em our school is ten stories high. We tell 'em our school is the biggest school in the whole country." "Why would that get us a million dollars?" asked Andrea.

得到一百万美元。他把我们聚集在他周围，就像我们在一起踢足球一样。 “我有个更好的主意，”托尼低声说。 “计划是这样的。我们告诉政府我们学校有一千个孩子。 是的，就是这样。我们告诉他们我们的学校有十层楼高。 我们告诉他们我们学校是全国最大的学校。” “为什么这能让我们得到一百万美元？”安德里亚问。