6 Crazy-Hat Day

Chapter 6 Crazy-Hat Day Wednesday was Crazy-Hat Day. Usually we're not allowed to wear hats in school. We were at recess one day and I asked everybody why. "Hats might spread germs," Andrea said. "Maybe the teachers are afraid we would hide stuff in our hats," said Ryan. "Like what?" asked Michael. "Like a mouse," said Neil. "Who's gonna hide a mouse in their hat?" I asked. "A few years ago," Neil said, "I heard about some kid who hid his mouse in his hat and brought it to school." "So just because some weird kid hid his mouse in his hat, that means nobody can

星期三是疯狂帽子日。 通常我们在学校是不允许戴帽子的。 一天课间休息，我问每个人为什么。 “帽子可能会传播细菌，”安德里亚说。 “也许老师们害怕我们会把东西藏在帽子里，”瑞恩说。 “比如说？”迈克尔问。 “像老鼠一样，”尼尔说。 “谁会在帽子里藏只老鼠？”我问。 “几年前，”尼尔说，“我听说有个孩子把老鼠藏在帽子里带到学校来了。” “所以仅仅因为某个奇怪的孩子把老鼠藏在帽子里，就意味着没有人能做到

ever wear hats in school?" I asked. "That doesn't make sense. What if that kid hid his mouse in his pants? Would they say we can't wear pants to school? Would we have to come to school in our underwear?" "Nobody hides mice in their pants, Arlo!" said Andrea. "Well, nobody hides them in their hat either," I told her. Anyway, for Crazy-Hat Day I wore a hat with a little propeller on the top. Michael wore his football helmet. Ryan wore a pirate hat. Neil the nude kid wore an army helmet with leaves attached to it. Andrea wore a hat with pieces of fruit piled on top of it. Emily wore a stuffed animal on her head. Everybody had on crazy hats.

在学校戴过帽子吗？”我问。 “这说不通。如果那孩子把老鼠藏在裤子里呢？ 他们会说我们不能穿裤子上学吗？ 我们必须穿着内衣来上学吗？”“没有人会把老鼠藏在裤子里，阿乐！”安德烈说。 “嗯，也没有人把它们藏在帽子里，”我告诉她。 总之，在疯狂帽子日，我戴了一顶顶上有个小螺旋桨的帽子。 迈克尔戴着他的橄榄球头盔。 瑞恩戴着一顶海盗帽。尼尔这个裸体小孩戴着一顶贴有树叶的军用头盔。 安德里亚戴着一顶顶上堆着水果的帽子。 艾米丽头上戴着一个毛绒玩具。 每个人都戴着疯狂的帽子。

The only bad thing was that it was raining outside. That meant we had to have indoor recess, in our classroom. Bummer in the summer! Indoor recess is no fun at all because we don't get to run around. Mr. Granite told us that Mr. Klutz was going to come and keep an eye on us while he went to the teachers' lounge to eat lunch. He said we should be on our best behavior while he was gone. So as soon as he left the room, Ryan and I got up and shook our butts at the class. Most of the kids laughed.

唯一不好的是外面正在下雨。 这意味着我们必须在教室里进行室内休息。 夏天的流浪者！室内休息一点也不好玩，因为我们不能跑来跑去。 格拉尼特先生告诉我们，当他去教师休息室吃午饭时，克鲁茨先生会过来照看我们。 他说他不在的时候我们要好好表现。 所以他一离开教室，瑞安和我就站了起来，在课堂上摇了摇屁股。 大多数孩子都笑了。

My friend Billy who lives around the corner told me that the teachers' lounge is a secret, magical world where the teachers play pin the tail on the donkey and swim in hot tubs and watch big-screen TVs. But when I went in there once, the teachers were just sitting around eating lunch. I think maybe they heard I was coming so they quick got rid of the hot tub and the TV so I wouldn't know they were having so much fun. While we were waiting for Mr. Klutz to show up, guess who came into our

我的朋友比利住在拐角处，他告诉我教师休息室是一个神秘而神奇的世界，老师们在那里玩给驴钉尾巴、在热水浴缸里游泳和看大屏幕电视。 但是有一次我进去的时候，老师们只是坐在那里吃午饭。 我想可能是他们听说我要来，所以他们很快就把热水浴缸和电视扔掉了，所以我不知道他们玩得这么开心。 当我们在等克鲁茨先生出现的时候，猜猜谁走进了我们的

classroom? It was Mrs. Lizzy! She was holding an accordion and wearing one of those green Robin Hood hats with a feather sticking out of the top. "Hi boys and girls!" she said. "Hi Mrs. Lizzy!" "Did you wear that for Crazy-Hat Day?" asked Emily.

教室吗?是丽萃太太！她拿着手风琴，戴着一顶顶上插着一根羽毛的绿色罗宾汉帽。 “嗨，孩子们！”她说。 “嗨，丽萃太太！”“你在疯狂帽子日戴的那个吗？”艾米丽问。

"No," she said. "I always wear this hat on Wednesdays." "What are you going to teach us today for recess enrichment?" asked Michael. "Today I'm going to teach you how to yodel," Mrs. Lizzy said. "Yodel?" I asked. "What's that?" "Yodeling is a kind of singing," said Little Miss I-Know-Everything. Andrea keeps a dictionary on her desk so she can look up words and show everybody how smart she is. "That's right, Andrea," said Mrs. Lizzy. "Yodeling was developed in Switzerland as a way for people to communicate on mountain peaks. It sounds like this…. Yo-delay-hee-hoo!" I never heard anybody sing like that before. It was the weirdest kind of singing in the history of the world.

“不，”她说。“我总是在星期三戴这顶帽子。” “你今天要教我们什么来充实课间休息？”迈克尔问。 “今天我要教你们怎么唱约德尔，”丽萃太太说。 “岳得尔歌?”我问。“那是什么?”“约德尔调是一种歌唱，”万事通小姐说。 安德里亚在桌子上放了一本字典，这样她就可以查单词，向大家展示她有多聪明。 “说得对，安德烈，”丽萃太太说。 “约德尔调起源于瑞士，是人们在山峰上交流的一种方式。 听起来像这样....Yo-delay-hee-hoo !”我从来没听过有人那样唱歌。 这是世界历史上最奇怪的歌声。