7. Sugar Shock

7 Sugar Shock The Halloween Monster was real! I thought I was gonna die. The disgusting, horrifying creature was standing a foot away from me, staring at me with his beady monster eyes. He was holding open a big black garbage bag. I didn't know what to say. I didn't know what to do. I had to think fast. But I was frozen.*

万圣节怪物是真的！我以为我要死了。 那个令人恶心、可怕的家伙站在离我一英尺远的地方，用他那闪亮的怪物眼睛盯着我。 他手里拿着一个打开的黑色大垃圾袋。 我不知道该说什么。 我不知道该怎么办。我必须快速思考。 但我被冻住了

"Did you hear me?" the Halloween Monster barked at me. "Your candy or your life!" "I'm thinking, I'm thinking," I said. It was a hard decision. If I gave the Halloween Monster all my candy, I wouldn't have any candy left, but I would still have my life. I had to ask myself, is life really

“你听到我说话了吗？”万圣节怪物对我咆哮。 “你的糖果还是你的命！”“我在想，我在想，”我说。 这是一个艰难的决定。如果我把我所有的糖果都给了万圣节怪物，我就没有糖果了，但我还有我的命。 我不得不问自己，人生真的

worth living without candy? And if I gave him my life, I would still have my candy; but I wouldn't be able to eat it, because I would be dead. I was faced with the toughest decision in the history of the world. I was thinking so hard that my brain hurt. Why is making decisions so complicated? In the end it didn't matter what I decided, because everybody else rushed forward to dump their candy into the bag that the Halloween Monster was holding. Then he grabbed my pillowcase from my hand and dumped all my candy into his bag. "Hey! That's my candy!" I yelled at him. But he didn't care. The Halloween Monster ran down the street with all our candy. This was the worst thing to happen since TV Turnoff Week! It was the worst thing to

没有糖果值得活着吗？ 如果我把我的生命给他，我还会有我的糖果；但我不能吃它，因为我已经死了。 我面临着世界历史上最艰难的决定。 我想得太认真了，脑子都疼了。 为什么做决定这么复杂？ 最后，我做什么决定都不重要了，因为其他人都冲上前，把他们的糖果扔进了万圣节怪物拿着的袋子里。 然后他从我手里抢过我的枕套，把我所有的糖果都倒进了他的包里。 “嘿!那是我的糖果！”我对他大喊大叫。 但他不在乎。万圣节怪物带着我们所有的糖果跑到街上。 这是电视关闭周以来发生的最糟糕的事情！这是最糟糕的事情

happen since National Poetry Month! It took a few minutes for us to calm down after the Halloween Monster ran away. "That was mean!" Alexia yelled. "Why would somebody steal candy from kids?" "Just be thankful that he didn't chop us up into little pieces," said Ryan. "Wow," I said, "I didn't know the Halloween Monster was real. I just thought he was a pigment of my imagination." "That's 'figment,' dumbhead," Andrea said. "Pigment is what they use to make paint." "They should put paint on your face," I told Andrea. What is her problem? Why can't a truck full of paint fall on Andrea's head? "It wasn't a monster," said Michael. "It was just some grown-up disguised as a monster."

从全国诗歌月开始！万圣节怪物跑掉后，我们花了几分钟才平静下来。 “那太卑鄙了！”亚莉克希亚喊道。 “为什么有人会偷孩子们的糖果？”“谢天谢地，他没有把我们剁成碎片，”瑞恩说。 “哇，”我说，“我不知道万圣节怪物是真的。 我只是认为他是我想象中的颜料。” “那是‘虚构’，笨蛋，”安德烈说。 “颜料是他们用来制作颜料的。” “他们应该在你脸上涂上颜料，”我告诉安德里亚。 她有什么问题？为什么一卡车油漆不能砸在安德里亚的头上？ “那不是怪物，”迈克尔说。 “只是一个大人伪装成怪物而已。”

"He's traveling in a cognito," Ryan said. "What's a cognito?" asked Billy. "It's what secret agents travel in," Ryan told him. We were all depressed, because we had worked so hard to get that candy and now it was gone. We would have to start all over again. Bummer in the summer! We turned the corner and went to the first house on that street and got some candy there. Then we hit another house. Soon we were back in the groove, scooping up candy left and right and filling up our pillowcases with it as we made our way down the street. "Y'know, we should start eating some of this candy now," Ryan suggested. "That way the Halloween Monster won't be able to get it." "Good point, dude," said Billy. "Nobody

“他是开着cognito旅行的，”瑞安说。 “什么是cognito?”比利问。 “这是特工们旅行的地方，”瑞安告诉他。 我们都很沮丧，因为我们那么努力工作才得到那颗糖，现在却不见了。 我们得从头再来。 夏天的流浪者！我们拐了个弯，来到这条街上的第一家房子，在那里买了一些糖果。 然后我们袭击了另一所房子。 很快，我们又回到了最佳状态，在街上走的时候，我们把糖果从左到右舀起来，然后把它们塞满枕套。 “你知道，我们现在应该开始吃一些糖果了，”瑞恩建议道。 “这样万圣节怪物就拿不到它了。” “说得好，老兄，”比利说。 “没有人

can steal our candy if we eat it." "I'm not eating mine," said Alexia. "I'd rather save some for a rainy day." "What does the weather have to do with eating candy?" I asked her. "I'm hungry now." "My mother told me that if you eat too much candy, you'll get sick," Andrea said. "You could go into sugar shock." Nobody tells me how much candy I can eat. And I'm sure not going to listen to a smarty-pants know-it-all like Andrea. I stuffed a 3 Musketeers bar into my mouth and swallowed it in one gulp. "Oh, yeah?" said Ryan. "Watch this!" Ryan unwrapped two Twix bars and shoved them into his face. It didn't even look like he chewed them. "WOW," everybody said, which is "MOM" upside down.

如果我们吃了它，它就会偷走我们的糖果。” “我不吃我的。”亚历克西娅说。 “我宁愿存一些以备不时之需。” “吃糖和天气有什么关系？”我问她。 “我现在饿了。”“我妈妈告诉我，如果你吃太多糖果，你会生病的，”安德里亚说。 “你可能会陷入糖休克。” 没人告诉我能吃多少糖果。 我肯定不会听安德里亚这种自以为是的万事通的话。 我把一块三剑客棒子塞进嘴里，一口吞了下去。 “哦，是吗？”瑞恩说。“看这个!”瑞恩打开两块巧克力的包装，把它们塞到他的脸上。 看起来都不像是他嚼过的。 “哇，”每个人都说，这是“妈妈”的颠倒。