9. A Bunch of Squirrels

9 A Bunch of Squirrels "Wake up! Dude, are you okay?" I opened my eyes. Billy was kneeling over me. "Huh? What? Where am I?" I asked. The whole gang was standing there in a circle around me: Ryan, Michael, Alexia, Neil, Andrea, Emily. I checked my arms and legs. They were clean. I didn't have any green paint on me.

一群松鼠“醒醒！伙计，你还好吗？”我睁开眼睛。 比利跪在我身边。 “嗯?怎么啦？我在哪儿？”我问。 所有人都围着我站成一圈：瑞恩、迈克尔、亚历克西娅、尼尔、安德里亚、艾米丽。 我检查了一下我的胳膊和腿。 他们很干净。我身上没有任何绿色的油漆。

"You must have had some kind of a nightmare, dude," Billy said. "You were out. We thought we might have to call an ambulance." "You kept mumbling something about going around the corner," said Ryan. "The teachers at school were trying to steal my candy," I told them. "They were walking around like zombies. All of them! When I refused to give them the candy, they dumped green paint all over me." "Paint?" asked Neil. "I guess it wasn't real paint," I said. "It was just a pigment of my imagination." "That was scary!" said Emily, who's scared by just about anything. "Why would the teachers want to dump green paint on you?" Alexia asked. "That doesn't make any sense." "It was a dream!" I told her. "Dreams

“你一定是做了什么噩梦，老兄，”比利说。 “你出去了。我们想我们可能得叫救护车了。” “你一直嘟嘟囔囔地说要拐弯，”瑞安说。 “学校里的老师想偷我的糖果，”我告诉他们。 “他们像僵尸一样走来走去。 所有人！当我拒绝给他们糖果时，他们就把绿漆泼了我一身。” “油漆？”尼尔问。“我猜那不是真漆，”我说。 “那只是我想象中的颜料。” “太可怕了！”艾米丽说，她什么都怕。 “为什么老师要往你身上泼绿漆？”亚莉克希亚问道。 “这没有任何意义。” “那是个梦！”我告诉了她。 “梦

don't always make sense. It was horrible! But then I was rescued by some nice penguins. They wanted me to run away with them to Antarctica." "You should have listened to me, Arlo," Andrea told me. "I told you that eating so much candy would make you sick." "Your face makes me sick," I told Andrea. "Oh, snap!" said Ryan. I got up off the ground and brushed the dirt off my costume. "That was one weird dream you had, dude," Billy said. "Maybe you should stop eating so much candy." As it turned out, I had to stop eating so much candy, because my pillowcase had nothing in it except for candy wrappers. I had eaten all my candy! Ryan and Michael said they only had a few candy bars left. The only ones who had a lot of candy were

不要总是说得通。太可怕了！但后来我被一些善良的企鹅救了。 他们想让我和他们一起逃到南极洲去。” “你应该听我的，阿乐，”安德里亚告诉我。 “我告诉过你，吃这么多糖果会让你生病的。” “你的脸让我恶心，”我告诉安德里亚。 “哦，糟了！”瑞恩说。我从地上站起来，拂去戏服上的污垢。 “老兄，你做了一个奇怪的梦，”比利说。 “也许你应该停止吃那么多糖果。” 结果，我不得不停止吃这么多糖果，因为我的枕套里除了糖纸什么都没有。 我吃光了所有的糖果！瑞恩和迈克尔说他们只剩下几块糖了。 唯一有很多糖果的是

Andrea and Emily. It was dark out, and it was getting late. Soon trick-or-treating would be over, and we would have to go home. Bummer in the summer! "Hey," Ryan suddenly said, "if I go home without any candy, I won't have any candy to eat tomorrow." "That's right," agreed Michael. "The only candy we have in our house is Halloween candy." "Same here," said Neil the nude kid. "I might have to wait a whole year until next Halloween before I can get more candy." This was a horrible situation! "What are we going to do?" asked Alexia. There was only one thing we could do. "Get more candy!" we all shouted. We took off down the street, knocking on

安德里亚和艾米丽。外面天黑了，天也晚了。 不给糖就捣蛋的游戏很快就要结束了，我们也得回家了。 夏天的流浪者！“嘿，”赖安突然说，“如果我不带糖果回家，明天就没有糖果吃了。” “没错，”迈克尔同意道。 “我们家里唯一的糖果就是万圣节糖果。” “我也是，”裸体小孩尼尔说。 “我可能要等整整一年，直到下一个万圣节才能得到更多的糖果。” 这是一个可怕的情况！“我们该怎么办？”亚历克西娅问。 我们只能做一件事。 “拿更多的糖果！”我们都喊道。 我们沿着街道出发，敲着门

every door we could find. When we finished the street, we turned down the next street and went trick-or-treating there. I didn't even know which direction we were heading in anymore. I didn't care. I just wanted to fill my pillowcase with candy. We were like a bunch of squirrels, gathering nuts so we would be able to make it through the winter.

我们能找到的每一扇门。当我们走完这条街后，我们转到下一条街去玩“不给糖就捣蛋”的游戏。 我甚至不知道我们朝哪个方向走了。 我不在乎。我只是想在枕套里塞满糖果。 我们就像一群松鼠，收集坚果，这样我们就能熬过冬天。