5. The Little Monsters

5 The Little Monsters Everybody cheered when Mayor Hubble finished his speech. I wasn't sure if they were cheering because it was such a good speech or because it was over. Some guys rolled the red carpet back up and took away the podium. "And now," said Mayor Hubble, "I would like to introduce our hostess for the day, my lovely wife, Bubbles!" Bubbles Hubble? Mrs. Bubbles came running over. She looked like one of those ladies in a shampoo commercial who swirls her hair around in slow motion. Mrs. Bubbles had on a red dress and high heels. She gave the mayor a big kiss and told him how happy she was to

哈伯市长结束演讲时，大家都欢呼起来。 我不确定他们欢呼是因为这是一个如此精彩的演讲，还是因为它已经结束了。 有些人把红地毯卷起来，把领奖台拿走了。 “现在，”哈勃市长说，“我想介绍我们今天的女主人，我可爱的妻子泡泡！”泡沫哈勃望远镜吗? 泡泡太太跑了过来。 她看起来就像洗发水广告里那些慢动作拨弄头发的女士。 泡泡太太穿着一件红色的裙子和一双高跟鞋。 她给了市长一个大大的吻，告诉他她是多么高兴

see him again. Ugh, disgusting! "Hey, everybody!" Mrs. Bubbles announced. "Thanks for coming today! Are you ready for our annual egg roll?" "Egg roll?" I shouted. "Yipee! I love Chinese food!"

再见他。啊,真恶心!“嘿,大家!”泡泡太太宣布。 “谢谢你今天来！”你准备好参加我们一年一度的滚蛋卷了吗？”“蛋卷吗?”我叫道。 “Yipee !我爱中国菜！”

"Not that kind of an egg roll, dumbhead," Andrea said to me, rolling her eyes. "In an egg roll, you roll eggs." "I knew that" I lied. Apparently, an egg roll is when a bunch of kids roll eggs along the grass. The first one to push the egg across a finish line is the winner. If you ask me, that had to be the dumbest contest in the history of the world. What's the point of rolling an egg around somebody's lawn? "I'm not doing that," said Michael. "That's for little kids." "Me neither," said Ryan and Neil. Andrea and Emily said they didn't want to get dirt on their new dresses. "The winner of the egg roll will receive a prize," announced Mrs. Bubbles. "The first child to push his or her egg across the finish

“不是那种蛋卷，笨蛋，”安德里亚翻着白眼对我说。 “在蛋卷里，你要把鸡蛋卷起来。” “我知道。”我撒了个谎。显然，蛋卷就是一群孩子在草地上滚鸡蛋。 第一个把蛋推过终点线的人就是赢家。 如果你问我，那一定是世界历史上最愚蠢的比赛。 在别人的草坪上滚鸡蛋有什么意义？ “我不会那么做的，”迈克尔说。 “那是给小孩子看的。”“我也是，”瑞恩和尼尔说。 安德里亚和艾米丽说她们不想把脏东西弄到新裙子上。 “滚蛋卷的获胜者将获得奖品，”泡泡太太宣布。 “第一个把蛋推过终点的孩子

line will receive a wooden egg, personally autographed by Mayor Hubble and me." Mrs. Bubbles held up the wooden egg. "Wooden egg?" Alexia whispered to me. "Where do you think she got a wooden egg?" "From a wooden chicken," I guessed. Alexia and I decided that it would be cool to win a wooden egg. We went over to the starting line. So did about a million first graders. "Look at these little munchkins ," whispered to Alexia. "No way they're gonna beat us." "This is gonna be a piece of cake," said Alexia. I didn't know what cake had to do with anything. Why is everybody always talking about cake? Mrs. Bubbles gave each of us a plastic

我们将收到一枚由哈勃市长和我亲自签名的木蛋。” 泡泡太太举起了木蛋。 “木蛋?”亚历克西娅低声对我说。 “你觉得她从哪儿弄来的木蛋？”“从一只木鸡身上，”我猜。 亚历克西娅和我觉得赢得一个木蛋会很酷。 我们走到起跑线。 大约一百万名一年级学生也是如此。 “看看这些小芒奇金人，”亚历克西娅低声说。 “他们不可能打败我们。” “这将是小菜一碟，”亚历克西娅说。 我不知道蛋糕有什么关系。 为什么每个人都在谈论蛋糕？ 泡泡太太给了我们每人一张塑料

egg and a long spoon. Then we went over to the starting line. "Okay, is everybody ready?" said Mrs. Bubbles. "On your mark... get set... let's ROLL!" I thought that Alexia and I could just push those first-grade munchkins out of our way, but it was the other way around! They were like animals, yelling and screaming and pushing and shoving and crying and swinging their spoons every which way. It was like a war zone! "Get out of my way!" some kid shouted. "Watch out!" "Mommy!" "Oww! You hit me in the face with your spoon!" I thought I was going to get trampled by those little monsters. They were brutal! And they were actually winning!

鸡蛋和一个长勺子。然后我们走到起跑线。 “好了，大家都准备好了吗？”泡泡太太说。 “各就各位……预备…… 让我们滚!”我以为亚历克西娅和我可以把那些一年级的小顽童赶走，但结果恰恰相反！他们就像动物一样，大喊大叫，推推搡搡，哭喊着，到处挥舞着勺子。 就像战场一样！“别挡我的路！”一个孩子喊道。 “小心!”“妈妈!”“嗷!你用勺子打我的脸！”我还以为我会被那些小怪物踩死呢。 他们太残忍了！他们真的赢了！

If Alexia and I lost the egg roll, the gang would never stop making fun of us. That's when I came up with the greatest idea in the history of the world. "Pssst!" I whispered to Alexia. "Let's just pick our eggs up and throw them across the finish line. Nobody will know." "You should get the Nobel Prize for that idea," Alexia whispered back. I bent down to pick up my egg. But before I could get it, one of those first-grade munchkin girls stomped on it. CRACK. My egg was all over the grass in a bunch of pieces.

如果亚历克西娅和我输了蛋卷，那帮人会一直取笑我们的。 就在那时，我想到了世界历史上最伟大的想法。 “嘿,”我低声对亚历克西娅说。 “让我们把鸡蛋捡起来，扔过终点线。 没人会知道的。”“你应该为这个想法获得诺贝尔奖。”亚历克西娅小声回答。 我弯下腰去捡我的鸡蛋。 但我还没来得及拿，一个一年级的小女孩就把它踩坏了。 裂缝。我的蛋碎得满地都是。