10 This Means War!

10 This Means war! Well, that was humiliating. On Thursday morning, it stopped raining finally. All the bunks gathered at the flagpole for assembly. Uncle Ahdoanwanna was waiting for us. He was wearing underwear over his pants. I had no idea why.

这意味着战争！那太丢脸了。 星期四早上，雨终于停了。 所有的铺位都聚集在旗杆前集合。 Ahdoanwanna叔叔在等我们。 他在裤子外面穿了内衣。 我不知道为什么。

"Why are you wearing underwear on top of your clothes?" somebody asked. "Oh," he replied. "Today is Wear Your Underwear over Your Clothes Day. I probably should have told you before you got dressed." That was weird. Uncle Ahdoanwanna told us it was another big day too. It was Color War Day. He said we would have an all-out competition, like the Super Bowl, the World Series, and the Olympics all rolled into one. "Who are we competing against?" somebody asked. "Camp Botshagotta," he replied. What?! Boys against girls? "We will crush them!" some guy yelled, and then everybody started chanting, "CRUSH THEM! CRUSH THEM! CRUSH THEM!" After we finished chanting, somebody hollered, "What does the winning camp get?" "Bragging rights," said Uncle Ahdoanwanna. Oh. In other words, you win nothing. Bragging rights is what you win when they don't want to give out a prize. It's not fair, but it's still fun to win.

有人问：“你为什么在衣服外面穿内衣？” “哦，”他回答。今天是“穿内衣日”。 也许我应该在你穿好衣服之前告诉你。” 这很奇怪。Ahdoanwanna叔叔告诉我们今天也是个大日子。 今天是颜色战争日。他说我们会有一场全面的竞争，就像超级碗、世界职业棒球大赛和奥运会一样。 “我们在和谁竞争？”有人问。 “博沙哈塔营地，”他回答。 什么? !男孩对女孩？ “我们要打败他们！”有人喊道，然后大家开始高喊：“打败他们！”摧毁他们!摧毁他们!”在我们唱完颂歌后，有人喊道：“获胜的阵营得到了什么？”“吹牛的权利，”阿多旺纳叔叔说。 哦。换句话说，你什么也没赢。 吹牛的权利是当他们不想给奖品时你赢得的东西。 这不公平，但获胜仍然很有趣。

We marched out to the big sports field that we never got to play on because it was always raining. It was pretty muddy. A few minutes later, the girls from Camp Botshagotta arrived. "You're going to lose, Arlo!" Andrea shouted as she walked past us. "Your face is gonna lose!" I shouted back at her. We glared at the girls across the field, and they glared back at us. It was a lot like last night's social. "Welcome to Color War Day!" Uncle Ahdoanwanna hollered into a bullhorn. "It will be the best of seven games, like the World Series. The first camp to win four will be the winner. Game One will be Tug-of-War." In the middle of the field was a long, thick rope. The Ahdoanwanna boys lined up on one side of the rope and the Botshagotta girls lined up on the other side. In a tug-of-war, each team pulls on the rope and tries to pull the other team toward them. We all picked up the rope. "This is gonna be a piece of cake," Ryan said to me.

我们走到一个大运动场，我们从来没有在那里玩过，因为那里一直在下雨。 很泥泞。几分钟后，波沙哈塔营地的女孩们来了。 “你要输了，阿乐！”安德里亚从我们身边走过时喊道。 “你的脸会输的！”我对她喊道。 我们怒视着田野对面的女孩，她们也怒视着我们。 跟昨晚的社交活动很像。 “欢迎来到色战日！”阿多旺纳叔叔对着扩音器喊道。 “这将是七场比赛中最好的一场，就像世界职业棒球大赛一样。 第一个赢得四个的阵营将成为获胜者。 第一场比赛是拔河比赛。” 在田野的中央有一根又长又粗的绳子。 阿多旺纳的男孩们站在绳子的一边，波沙哈塔的女孩们站在另一边。 在拔河比赛中，每一队拉绳子，试图把另一队拉向自己。 我们都捡起了绳子。 “这将是小菜一碟，”瑞安对我说。

Huh? What did cake have to do with anything? Why was everybody always talking about cake? "On your mark! Get set!" shouted Uncle Ahdoanwanna. "Pull!" We pulled. I thought it would be easy, but the girls pulled back hard. We pulled back harder. So did they. The rope wasn't moving one way or the other. It was hard to hold on. The girls were strong. "It's slipping!" Neil shouted. The rope was pulling me forward. It was hard to hold on. Finally, the girls pulled us over the line. Everybody was falling all over everybody else. We had mud all over us. It was gross. "Camp Botshagotta wins Game One!" shouted Uncle Ahdoanwanna. The girls went crazy, yelling

嗯?蛋糕跟这事有什么关系？ 为什么每个人都在谈论蛋糕？ “各就各位！”准备好！”阿多旺纳叔叔喊道。 “拉!”我们把。我以为会很容易，但女孩们拼命地退缩。 我们更用力地向后拉。他们也是。 绳子并没有朝这边或那边移动。 很难坚持下去。女孩们很强壮。 “这是滑!”尼尔喊道。 绳子拉着我向前走。 很难坚持下去。最后，女孩们把我们拉过了线。 每个人都摔倒在别人身上。 我们浑身都是泥。太恶心了。 “博沙哈塔营赢了第一场！”阿多旺纳叔叔喊道。 女孩们都疯了，大喊大叫

and screaming their heads off. "GIRLS RULE! BOYS DROOL!" they chanted. Okay, so they won Game 1. That only made us more determined to beat them. Game 2 was Hula-Hooping. The counselors passed out twenty Hula-Hoops randomly, ten to the girls and ten to the boys. Whichever team had the last hula hooper who was still hula-hooping would be the winner. "Oh, we got this!" shouted one of the girls from Camp Botshagotta. The only boy in my bunk to get a Hula-Hoop was Candyman, so all we could do was cheer him on. "On your mark! Get set!" shouted Uncle Ahdoanwanna. "Hula!" All twenty kids started hula-hooping. A few of them didn't know how to do it, and their hoops dropped to the ground right away. But most of the kids were pretty good. One by one, the hoops dropped to the ground. Finally, it was down to two kids, Candyman and a girl from Camp Botshagotta. They must have hula-hooped for ten minutes. You could tell they were both really tired.

尖叫得要命。 “女孩规则!男孩们流口水！” 好吧，他们赢了第一场。这只会让我们更加坚定打败他们的决心。 第二场比赛是呼啦圈。辅导员们随机发了二十个呼啦圈，十个给女生，十个给男生。 谁的呼啦圈最后一个还在呼啦圈，谁就是赢家。 “哦，我们搞定了！”一个来自波沙哈塔营地的女孩喊道。 我的床铺上唯一一个有呼啦圈的男孩是坎迪曼，所以我们能做的就是给他加油。 “各就各位！”准备好！”阿多旺纳叔叔喊道。 “呼啦!”所有的二十个孩子都开始转呼啦圈。 他们中的一些人不知道怎么做，他们的箍马上掉到了地上。 但大多数孩子都很好。 一个接一个地，铁环掉到了地上。 最后，是两个孩子，坎迪曼和一个来自波沙哈塔营地的女孩。 他们一定转了十分钟呼啦圈。 你可以看出他们都很累。

And then, the girl looked like she was going to pass out. She dropped her hoop. "Camp Ahdoanwanna wins Game Two!" shouted Uncle Ahdoanwanna. "Go, Candyman!" I shouted. We all high-fived Candyman. He told us he is training to be a professional hula hooper when he grows up. That guy is weird. Now it was tied at one game each. The Color War went on all day, except for a break for lunch. We won Game 3, which was Capture the Flag. Camp Botshagotta won Game 4 —Squirt Blaster Battle. They also won Game 5— Relay Races. But we won Game 6—the Smelliest Shoe Contest. It was all tied up again. Camp Ahdoanwanna had won three games, and Camp Botshagotta had won three games. "This is it," announced Uncle Ahdoanwanna. "Game Seven is for all the marbles!" Huh? What do marbles have to do with anything? "Game Seven is the Bed Race," hollered Uncle Ahdoanwanna. "Each camp has to pick up a bed with one camper on it and carry it fifty yards.

然后，那女孩看起来要晕过去了。 她把箍掉了。“阿多旺旺营赢了第二场！”阿多旺旺叔叔喊道。 “去,甜心宝贝!”我叫道。 我们都和糖果侠击掌。 他告诉我们，他正在接受训练，长大后要成为一名专业的呼啦圈手。 那家伙很奇怪。现在双方在一场比赛中打成平手。 除了午休时间外，颜色之战持续了一整天。 我们赢了第三场，也就是夺旗。 Camp Botshagotta赢得第4场-Squirt Blaster Battle。 他们还赢得了第五场接力赛。 但我们赢了第六场，最臭鞋比赛。 它又被捆起来了。阿多旺纳营赢了三场，博沙哈塔营也赢了三场。 “就是这里，”阿多旺纳叔叔宣布。 “第七局是为了所有的弹珠！”嗯? 弹珠和这有什么关系？ “第七场是床上赛跑，”阿多旺纳叔叔喊道。 “每个营地必须搬一张床，上面有一个露营者，并把它搬到50码远的地方。