4. Cray-Z Is in the House!

4 Cray-Z Is in the House! When we got to the mall, the parking lot was jammed. Ryan's mom circled around trying to find a spot. "Everybody must be here to see Santa," she said. "I wonder where he parked his sleigh," Michael said, looking around. "Santa doesn't park his sleigh in a parking lot, dumbhead," said Neil the nude kid. "That would be crazy." "Where do you think he parked it?" asked Alexia. "Up on the roof, of course," said Neil. Right next to the mall entrance was a big

4克雷- z来了！当我们到达购物中心时，停车场已经挤满了人。 瑞恩的妈妈在周围转圈想找个地方。 她说：“大家一定是来这里看圣诞老人的。” “我想知道他把雪橇停在哪儿了。”迈克尔说着环顾四周。 “圣诞老人不会把雪橇停在停车场的，笨蛋，”裸体小孩尼尔说。 “那太疯狂了。”“你觉得他把车停在哪儿了？”亚历克西娅问。 “当然是在屋顶上了。”尼尔说。 就在商场入口旁边有一个大的

bus. On the side of bus, in big red letters, it said: CHRISTMAS RAPPIN' WITH CRAY-Z. "Cray-Z is here!" shouted Alexia. "That must be his tour bus!" "Cray-Z?" asked Ryan's mom. "Who's Cray-Z?" Ryan's mom is really old, so she doesn't know anything. We had to tell her that Cray-Z is this kid rapper, and his song "The Christmas Klepto" is on the radio all the time. "Do you like his music?" Ryan's mom asked us. "Ugh, no!" said Ryan. "That kid is horrible," said Michael. "I call him Justin Timberfake," said Neil. We all said how much we couldn't stand Cray-Z's music. I didn't tell anyone that Cray-Z's dumb song had been stuck in my head all week.

公共汽车。在巴士的一侧，用红色的大字写着：CHRISTMAS RAPPIN' WITH CRAY-Z。 “克雷- z来了！” “那一定是他的旅游巴士！”“克雷- z ?”瑞恩的妈妈问。 “Cray-Z是谁?”瑞恩的妈妈很老了，所以她什么都不知道。 我们得告诉她，克雷- z是一个少年说唱歌手，他的歌《圣诞窃贼》一直在广播里播。 “你喜欢他的音乐吗？”瑞恩的妈妈问我们。 “啊，不！”瑞恩说。“那孩子太可怕了，”迈克尔说。 “我叫他Justin Timberfake，”Neil说。 我们都说我们有多受不了克雷兹的音乐。 我没告诉任何人克雷- z那首蠢歌在我脑海里萦绕了整整一个星期。

Suddenly, a bunch of girls came running out of the mall. They surrounded the bus. "We love Cray-Z!" they were shouting. "Marry me, Cray-Z!" Those girls were screaming and crying and fainting all over the place. What is their problem? "Girls are weird," said Alexia, who is technically a girl but likes cool boy stuff anyway. Finally, Ryan's mom found a parking spot. We had to walk a million hundred

突然，一群女孩从商场里跑出来。 他们围住了公共汽车。“我们爱疯z !”他们喊道。 “嫁给我吧，克雷- z !”那些女孩尖叫着，哭着，昏倒在地。 他们的问题是什么？“女孩都很奇怪，”亚历克西娅说，她严格来说是个女孩，但无论如何都喜欢酷男孩的东西。 最后，瑞恩的妈妈找到了一个停车位。 我们得走上百万条路

miles to get to the entrance of the mall. "WOW!" we all said, which is "MOM" upside down. When we walked through the door, everything was Christmas-y. There were candy canes, wreaths, colored lights, jingle bells, and huge paper snowflakes all over the place. MEET SANTA TODAY said a banner on the wall. I could hear "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" playing. Big Christmas ornaments were hanging from the upper level of the mall. Zillions of people were walking around. There was electricity in the air! Well, not really. If there was electricity in the air, we would get electrocuted. "You're big kids now," Ryan's mom told us as she took a cell phone out of her pocketbook. "I'm going to do some Christmas shopping. We can stay in touch

要走几英里才能到商场的入口。 “哇！”我们都说，这是“妈妈”的上下颠倒。 当我们走进那扇门时，一切都充满了圣诞节的气氛。 到处都是糖果手杖、花圈、彩灯、铃铛和巨大的纸雪花。 墙上的横幅上写着：“今天见圣诞老人。” 我能听到《红鼻子驯鹿鲁道夫》的演奏。 商场的上层悬挂着巨大的圣诞装饰品。 成千上万的人走来走去。 空气中充满了电！嗯，不完全是。 如果空气中有电，我们就会触电。 “你们现在都是大孩子了，”瑞恩的妈妈一边从钱包里拿出手机一边告诉我们。 “我要去圣诞购物。 我们可以保持联系

by phone." She gave Ryan the cell phone and told him to put it in his pocket. Cell phones are cool. My mom said I could get one when I'm in high school. "We'll meet at the food court in two hours," Ryan's mom told us. "I need you kids to stay together and be careful. Don't get into trouble, do you hear me?"

通过电话。”她把手机给了瑞恩，让他把手机放在口袋里。 手机很酷。我妈妈说我上高中的时候可以买一个。 “我们两小时后在美食广场见，”瑞恩的妈妈告诉我们。 “我需要你们这些孩子待在一起，小心点。 别惹上麻烦，听到了吗？”

"Us get into trouble?" I asked. "What could possibly happen?" asked Alexia. "We never get into trouble," said Michael. Ryan's mom looked at us with those crazy grown-up eyes that make it seem like

“我们惹上麻烦了？”我问。 “会发生什么事呢？”阿丽克西娅问。 “我们从来没有遇到过麻烦，”迈克尔说。 瑞恩的妈妈看着我们，那双疯狂的成年人的眼睛让人觉得