3. The Gang’s All Here

3 The Gang's All Here I never did get to soap up Andrea's windows that night. But it was okay. Because the next morning it was Halloween. The best day of the year! At school, Mr. Granite was trying to teach us all kinds of stuff, but I wasn't paying attention. I couldn't concentrate on anything he was saying. All I could think about was candy. I couldn't wait for the bell to ring. It felt like the clock was going backward. But finally it was three o'clock. I ran home to put on my Halloween costume. In our town, you're not allowed to start trick-or-treating until four o'clock in the afternoon. Bummer in the summer! I would have to wait even longer to get the candy.

那天晚上我没来得及用肥皂擦安德里亚家的窗户。 但还好。因为第二天早上是万圣节。 一年中最好的一天！在学校里，格拉尼特先生试图教我们各种各样的东西，但我没有注意。 我无法专心听他说的话。 我满脑子都是糖果。 我等不及下课铃响了。 感觉时钟在倒转。 但终于到了三点钟。 我跑回家穿上我的万圣节服装。 在我们镇上，直到下午四点才允许你开始玩“不给糖就捣蛋”的游戏。 夏天的流浪者！我得等更长的时间才能拿到糖果。

Me and the gang had decided we would all combine two or more things together in our costumes. I had an old Star Wars costume in the closet, and my sister, Amy, let me use the deer costume she wore last year. So this Halloween I was going to be Darth Bambi! Pretty good, huh? No wonder I'm in the gifted and talented program. One by one, the gang came over so we could all go trick-or-treating together. "Who are you?" my mother asked everybody as they came to the door. "I'm a flying robot ninja from outer space," said Michael, who never ties his shoes. "I'm a mutant zombie pirate," said Ryan, who will eat anything, even stuff that isn't food. "I'm a skateboarding hippie dinosaur,"

我和我的伙伴们决定在我们的服装中结合两种或两种以上的东西。 我的衣橱里有一套旧的《星球大战》戏服，我妹妹艾米让我用她去年穿过的那套鹿戏服。 所以今年万圣节我要扮达斯·小鹿斑比！很不错吧？ 难怪我在天才项目里。 他们一个接一个地过来，这样我们就可以一起去玩“不给糖就捣蛋”了。 “你们是谁？”当大家走到门口时，妈妈问他们。 “我是来自外太空的飞行机器人忍者，”从不系鞋带的迈克尔说。 “我是一个变种僵尸海盗，”瑞恩说，他什么都吃，甚至不是食物的东西。 “我是一只玩滑板的嬉皮恐龙。”

said Alexia, who skateboards everywhere she goes. Next came Neil, who we call the nude kid even though he wears clothes. None of us had any idea what he was dressed up as. "I'm a flying mutant pirate hobo ninja robot dinosaur," said Neil, "from outer space."

亚历克西娅说，她走到哪里都玩滑板。 接下来是尼尔，尽管他穿着衣服，我们还是称他为裸体孩子。 我们谁也不知道他打扮成什么样子。 “我是一个会飞的变种海盗、流浪汉、忍者机器人恐龙，”尼尔说，“来自外太空。”

That's just too much stuff. "We're traveling incognito," I told my mom. "Ooooo, you all look so spooky!" my mom said. That's when the most amazing thing in the history of the world happened. The doorbell rang. Well, that's not the amazing part, because doorbells ring all the time. The amazing part was what happened next. "A.J., answer the door, please," my mother said. "It must be our first trick-ortreater. I'll get the candy." But it wasn't our first trick-or-treater. It was my friend Billy, who lives around the corner. Billy goes to another school. I invited him to go trick-or-treating with us. The amazing part was that when I opened the door, Billy was standing there in

东西太多了。 “我们要隐姓埋名旅行，”我告诉妈妈。 “哦哦，你们看起来好可怕！”我妈妈说。 就在那时，世界历史上最神奇的事情发生了。 门铃响了。这还不是最神奇的部分，因为门铃一直在响。 令人惊奇的是接下来发生的事情。 “aj，请开门，”我妈妈说。 “这一定是我们第一个不给糖就捣蛋的人。 我去拿糖果。”但这不是我们第一次玩“不给糖就捣蛋”了。 是我的朋友比利，他就住在街角。 比利去了另一所学校。 我邀请他和我们一起去“不给糖就捣蛋”。 最神奇的是，当我打开门的时候，比利正站在那里

his underwear! You should have been there. It was hilarious. Anything to do with underwear is hilarious. That's the first rule of being a kid. "That's your costume, Billy?" my mom asked with her hands on her hips. "You've heard of the werewolf," said Billy. "Well, I'm the underwerewolf! Grrrrrrrr!" He made scary noises and posed like a werewolf. It was still hilarious. It's hard to look scary when you're in your underwear.

他的内衣!你应该去的。 太搞笑了。任何和内裤有关的事都很搞笑。 这是当孩子的第一准则。 “那是你的戏服，比利？”妈妈双手叉腰问。 “你听说过狼人吧，”比利说。 “好吧，我是地下狼人！Grrrrrrrr !”他发出可怕的声音，摆出狼人的姿势。 还是很搞笑。当你穿着内衣的时候很难看起来很吓人。

The fact is, Billy goes as the underwerewolf every Halloween. If you ask me, Billy just likes to parade around in his underwear. Billy's weird. It was a quarter to four. We couldn't go trick-or-treating yet, so we went into the den to fool around with my dad's computer. I

事实上，比利每个万圣节都会扮成狼人。 要我说，比利就是喜欢穿着内裤到处炫耀。 比利很奇怪。现在是差一刻四点。 我们还不能去玩不给糖就捣蛋的游戏，所以我们就去了书房玩我爸爸的电脑。 我