9. All the Marbles

9 All the Marbles

9所有的弹珠

"Okay, it all comes down to round three," announced Mr. Porky. "This last question is for both teams. Write your answer on the sheet of paper in front of you. It's worth six points." "Ooooooh!" everybody oooooohed. "Dirk has a five-point lead," continued Mr. Porky. "So if both teams get this question right, Dirk wins. If both teams get it wrong, Dirk also wins. If Dirk gets it right and Ella Mentry gets it wrong, Dirk still wins. But if Dirk gets it wrong and Ella Mentry gets it right, Ella Mentry wins. Does everybody understand?" "Yes," I lied. "We have to get this one right, Arlo," Andrea whispered to me. "Okay," said Mr. Porky. "This one is for all the marbles." Marbles? What did marbles have to do

“好了，现在只剩下第三局了，”波奇先生宣布。 “最后一个问题是问两队的。 把你的答案写在你面前的纸上。 它值6分。”“哦哦！”每个人都发出了哦哦的声音。 “德克领先五分，”波奇先生继续说。 所以如果两支球队都回答对了这个问题，德克就赢了。 如果两队都做错了，德克也会赢。 如果德克做对了，艾拉·门特里做错了，德克还是赢。 但如果德克做错了而艾拉·门特里做对了，艾拉·门特里就赢了。 大家都明白了吗？”“是的，”我撒谎说。 “我们必须把这件事做好，阿乐。”安德里亚低声对我说。 “好吧，”猪先生说。“这是给所有弹珠的。” 弹珠吗?弹珠要做什么

with anything? "Get ready to lose, losers!" said Morgan Brocklebank, rubbing her hands together. "This will be the icing on the cake." Why is everybody always talking about marbles and cake? Was the winning team going to get marble cake? I was confused. In the audience, nobody was making a sound. It was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop. That is, if anybody had brought pins with them. That would be weird. But everybody was on the edge of their seats. Well, not really. There might have been a few little kids on the edge of their seats, but most normal-size people were just sitting in the middle of their seats. Anyway, it was really tense. Andrea picked up our pencil and got ready to write the answer. "Okay, here's your final question," said

与什么吗?“准备输吧，失败者！”摩根·布罗克班克搓着手说。 “这将是锦上添花。” 为什么每个人都在谈论弹珠和蛋糕？ 获胜的队伍会得到大理石蛋糕吗？ 我很困惑。观众中没有人发出声音。 那里很安静，连一根针掉在地上的声音都能听见。 也就是说，如果有人带了别针的话。 那会很奇怪。但是每个人都很紧张。 嗯，不完全是。可能有几个小孩坐在座位边上，但大多数正常身材的人只是坐在座位中间。 总之，气氛真的很紧张。 安德里亚拿起我们的铅笔，准备写下答案。 “好吧，这是你的最后一个问题。

Mr. Porky. "And before I give it to you, let me just say that Porky's Pork Sausages will be on sale at your local supermarket next week." Everybody laughed even though he didn't say anything funny. "Okay, here's the final question," said Mr. Porky, reading from a card. "My birthday was January seventeenth. My wife was named Deborah. I played the violin, the harp, and the guitar. I was a slave owner. I died when I was eighty-four years old. Who am I? You have thirty seconds." That annoying music from the TV show Jeopardy! started playing.* I looked at Andrea. "Do you know who it is?" I asked. "No," she replied. "Do you?" "No." "Of course you don't," Andrea said. "You

猪肉的先生。“在我把它给你之前，让我告诉你，波奇的猪肉香肠下周将在你们当地的超市打折。” 大家都笑了，尽管他没说什么好笑的话。 “好吧，这是最后一个问题，”波奇先生读着一张卡片说。 “我的生日是一月十七日。 我的妻子名叫黛博拉。 我拉小提琴，弹竖琴，弹吉他。 我是一个奴隶主。我84岁时就去世了。 我是谁？你有30秒的时间。” 电视节目《危险边缘》里烦人的音乐！开始玩。我看着安德里亚。 “你知道是谁吗？”我问。 “不，”她回答。“你呢?”“没有。” “你当然不知道，”安德烈说。 “你

didn't know any of the answers." I looked over at the Dirk dorks. They were whispering to each other. "Twenty seconds left," said Mr. Porky.

我不知道任何答案。” 我看了看德克的笨蛋们。 他们在窃窃私语。 “还剩20秒，”波奇先生说。

"You're the smart one," I whispered to Andrea. "You memorized the encyclopedia. You keep a dictionary on your desk at school. Your parents got a tutor to teach you all about the presidents. How can you not know the answer?" "I just don't, okay?" Andrea whispered back angrily. "You're part of this team too, you know. You were supposed to help, Arlo. Maybe if you weren't making paper airplanes and goofing off all week, you would know the answer!" "Fifteen seconds left," said Mr. Porky. The dumb Jeopardy! song was still playing. "Why are we wasting time arguing?" I whispered to Andrea. "We should be trying to come up with the answer." I saw Morgan Brocklebank write something on her paper. She and Tommy probably knew the answer. They were going

“你才是聪明的那个，”我低声对安德里亚说。 “你背了百科全书。 你在学校的桌子上放了一本字典。 你父母请了家教教你所有关于总统的事。 你怎么可能不知道答案呢？”“我就是不喜欢，好吗？”安德烈生气地小声回答。 “你知道，你也是这个团队的一员。 你应该帮忙的，阿尔洛。 如果你不做纸飞机，不偷懒，也许你就知道答案了！”“还剩15秒，”波奇先生说。 愚蠢的Jeopardy！歌曲还在播放。 “我们为什么要浪费时间争吵？”我低声对安德里亚说。 “我们应该努力找出答案。” 我看到摩根·布罗克班克在纸上写了些东西。 她和汤米可能知道答案。 他们说