1. Three Months of Recess!

1 Three Months of Recess!

三个月的假期！

My name is A.J. and I hate ghosts. Ghosts are creepy! They're always following you around, pestering you, and haunting your house. They like to make scary noises in the middle of the night to freak people out. I guess they have nothing better to do with their time. When I drop dead someday, I'm not going to bother people or scare them by making noises in the middle of the night. I'm just going to sit around playing video games. That would be a great life. I mean, death. When I was a little kid, I was sure there was a ghost living in my bedroom closet. I couldn't sleep at night. So my parents took out the vacuum cleaner and sucked up the ghost. It was like Ghostbusters! But I never go into my closet anymore. And I'm never going to use the vacuum cleaner, because

我叫aj，我讨厌鬼。 鬼是令人毛骨悚然的！他们总是跟着你，缠着你，在你的房子里游荡。 他们喜欢在半夜发出可怕的声音来吓唬人。 我猜他们没有更好的事情可做。 当我有一天死去的时候，我不会在半夜发出噪音来打扰别人或吓唬他们。 我要坐着打电子游戏。 那将是一种很棒的生活。 我是说，死亡。当我还是个小孩子的时候，我确信我卧室的壁橱里住着一个鬼。 我晚上睡不着。 于是我父母拿出吸尘器把鬼吸走了。 就像捉鬼敢死队一样！但我再也不进衣柜了。 我永远也不会用吸尘器，因为

there's a ghost inside it. Just kidding! I'm a big guy now, and I don't believe in ghosts anymore. I don't know why I started talking about ghosts in the first place. There won't be anything else in this book about ghosts. I promise. What I really want to talk about is the summer. Summer is going to be here soon, and it's my favorite time of the year. Why? Because we don't have to go to school in the summer, of course. Think about it—three whole months with no school! That's about ninety days. I worked it out on a calculator. Ninety days is 2,160 hours; 2,160 hours is 129,600 minutes; 129,600 minutes is 7,776,000 seconds—more than seven million seconds! That's a lot of time! And I'm not going to waste any of those seconds. Summer is still a few months away, but I

里面有个鬼。 只是开个玩笑!我现在是个大人了，我不再相信有鬼了。 我不知道我一开始为什么要谈论鬼魂。 这本书里不会再有关于鬼魂的内容了。 我保证。我真正想说的是夏天。 夏天就要来了，这是我一年中最喜欢的时候。 为什么?当然，因为我们夏天不用去上学。 想想吧——整整三个月没上学！大约是九十天。 我用计算器算出来的。 90天等于2160小时；2160小时等于129600分钟；129,600分钟等于7,776,000秒——超过700万秒！那可是很多时间啊！我不想浪费任何一秒。 离夏天还有几个月，但我

believe in advance planning. So here's my plan for this coming summer. I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget.... Go swimming. Eat ice cream.* Play ball. Lie in the grass. Go to the beach.

相信提前计划。 这就是我今年夏天的计划。 我把它写下来以免忘记.... 去游泳。吃冰淇淋。*玩球。 躺在草地上。去海滩。

Catch fireflies. Watch TV. Play video games. Throw Frisbees. Have water balloon fights. Play Ping-Pong. Peel off my sunburned skin. Eat more ice cream. Hang out with my friends Ryan, Michael, Neil, and Alexia. Eat candy.

抓萤火虫。看电视。 玩电子游戏。扔飞盘。 打水球。 打乒乓球。剥掉我晒伤的皮肤。 多吃冰淇淋。和我的朋友Ryan， Michael， Neil和Alexia一起玩。 吃糖果。