4. The Ghost

4 The Ghost I don't know how long I was sleeping. But sometime in the middle of the night, I heard something moving in my room. And then I heard an eerie voice. "Andrea... Andrea..." I was in a deep sleep. I had forgotten that Arlo was sleeping on my floor. I just heard that creepy voice. When I opened my eyes, there was a big, shapeless creature

我不知道我睡了多久。 但是在半夜的某个时候，我听到房间里有什么东西在动。 然后我听到一个奇怪的声音。 “安德里亚…安德里亚……”我睡得很沉。 我忘了阿乐睡在我的地板上。 我刚听到那个可怕的声音。 当我睁开眼睛时，看到了一个巨大的、没有形状的生物

standing next to my bed and scary shadows on the wall behind it. "Eeeeeeeeeeek!" I screamed. Then I realized it was just Arlo. He had the sleeping bag over his head. "Andrea... Andrea..." "Knock it off, Arlo!" I told him. "I'm trying to sleep." "I'm not Arlo," he replied. "I'm the ghost of Arlo." "Oh, yeah?" I said. "If you're the ghost of Arlo, that must mean Arlo is dead." "That's right," he said. "He ran away to Antarctica to live with the penguins. But he fell off an ice floe and froze to death. It was tragic."

站在我床边，身后的墙上有可怕的影子。 “Eeeeeeeeeeek !”我尖叫起来。 然后我意识到那只是阿乐。 他把睡袋套在头上。 “安德里亚…安德里亚……”“别闹了，阿乐！”我告诉了他。 “我想睡觉。”“我不是阿乐，”他回答。 “我是阿乐的鬼魂。”“哦,是吗?”我说。 “如果你是阿乐的鬼魂，那就说明阿乐已经死了。” “没错，”他说。“他逃到南极洲和企鹅一起生活。 但他从浮冰上掉下来冻死了。 这是一个悲剧。”

I decided to play along.

我决定配合。

"What's your name?" I asked. "Name?" he said. "My name is... the ghost of Arlo." "That's not a name," I told him. "You're supposed to have a name. Ghosts have names." "How do you know what ghosts are supposed to have?" Arlo said. "Have you ever met a ghost?" "This is silly, Arlo! Take the sleeping bag off your head. You almost scared me to death." "You should be scared," Arlo said in a scary voice. "After you go to sleep, I'm going to paint your pink room black." "You are not." "Yes, and I'm going to hide under your bed," Arlo said. "And when you go to sleep, I'm going to replace your Barbies with G.I. Joe action figures. Because that's what Arlo

“你叫什么名字？”我问。 “名字？”他说。“我叫…… 阿乐的鬼魂。”“那不是一个名字，”我告诉他。 “你应该有名字的。 鬼魂是有名字的。”“你怎么知道鬼应该有什么？”奥尔罗说。 “你见过鬼吗？”“这太愚蠢了，阿乐！”把你头上的睡袋拿下来。 你差点把我吓死了。” “你应该害怕。”阿乐用可怕的声音说。 “你睡觉后，我要把你粉红色的房间漆成黑色。” “你不是。”“是的，我要躲在你的床底下。”阿乐说。 “等你睡着了，我会把你的芭比娃娃换成大兵。 乔的人偶。因为阿乐就是这样

would do. If he was still alive. Which he isn't." "Don't you dare touch my Barbies," I warned him. "Then I'm going to take away your encyclopedia," Arlo said. "And I'm going to change all your As to Fs on your next report card." "Go to sleep," I told him. "There's no such thing as ghosts. You're Arlo." "I am not." "Are too!" "R2D2." At that moment, the door opened. "Eeeeeeeeeeek!" Arlo and I screamed. It was Arlo's dad and my dad. "We heard a noise," Arlo's dad said. "Is everything okay?"

要做的事情。如果他还活着。 但他不是。”“你敢碰我的芭比娃娃，”我警告他。 “那我就拿走你的百科全书。”阿乐说。 “我要把你下一张成绩单上所有的a改成f。” “去睡吧，”我对他说。 “没有鬼这种东西。 你老公。”“我不是。”“太!”“R2D2。” 就在这时，门开了。 “Eeeeeeeeeeek !”阿乐和我尖叫起来。 是阿乐的爸爸和我的爸爸。 “我们听到了声音，”阿乐的爸爸说。 “一切都好吗？”

"I'm dead," Arlo said. "This is my ghost." "Go to sleep!" they both shouted. And then they slammed the door. The #4 reason why I love school... We get to learn new things!

“我死了。”阿乐说。“这是我的鬼魂。” “睡觉吧！”他们俩喊道。 然后他们砰地关上了门。 我爱学校的第四个原因…… 我们可以学到新东西！