8 This Is Not a Drill

8 This Is Not a Drill I don't know what happened to Mrs. Jafee after that. She wasn't in school the next morning. I don't know if she's ever coming back. Other than that, it was a perfectly normal day at Ella Mentry School. And by that I mean the weirdest thing in the history of the world happened.

这不是演习我不知道在那之后杰菲太太发生了什么事。 第二天早上她没来学校。 我不知道她还会不会回来。 除此之外，在艾拉门特里学校，这是非常正常的一天。 我的意思是世界历史上最奇怪的事情发生了。

We were in Mr. Cooper's class. Well, that's not the weird part. We're in Mr. Cooper's class every day. We pledged the allegiance and did Word of the Day. "Okay, everybody," said Mr. Cooper. "Turn to page twenty-three in your math books." Ugh. Not again! Why do we have to learn math if we have calculators? That's when the weird stuff started happening. An announcement came over the loudspeaker. It was Mrs. Stoker. "Good morning, students and teachers," she said. "Hey, did you hear they're going to start putting babies in the army? Yeah, they'll be in the infantry. Get it? Infantry? Babies?" I didn't get it. "But seriously," continued Mrs.

我们在库珀先生的班上。 这还不是奇怪的地方。 我们每天都上库珀先生的课。 我们宣誓效忠，并做了每日一词。 “好了，各位，”库珀先生说。 “翻到数学课本的第二十三页。” 啊。又不是!如果我们有计算器，为什么还要学数学？ 就在那时，奇怪的事情开始发生了。 扩音器里传来了通告。 是斯托克太太。“同学们，老师们，早上好，”她说。 “嘿，你听说了吗？他们要开始让婴儿参军了。” 是的，他们会在步兵里。 明白了吗?步兵?婴儿?”我没明白。 “但说真的，”她继续说。

Stoker, "our security guard, Officer Spence, has an announcement to make." That was weird. Officer Spence hardly ever makes announcements. "Starting right now," said Officer Spence, "we are in a lockdown situation. You all know what to do." A lockdown drill? You know what that means. No math! Yay! Mr. Cooper slammed his math book closed. He looked really mad. Every time he tries to teach page twenty-three in our math books, there's some kind of interruption.* "We had a lockdown drill last week," Mr. Cooper said. "Why do we have to do another one so soon?"

斯托克，“我们的保安，斯宾塞警官，要宣布一件事。” 这很奇怪。斯宾塞警官几乎从不发表声明。 “从现在开始，”斯宾塞警官说，“我们处于封锁状态。 你们都知道该怎么做。”封锁演习？ 你知道这意味着什么。没有数学!耶!库珀先生猛地合上数学书。 他看上去真的很生气。每次他试图教我们数学书的第23页时，总会被打断。“我们上周进行了一次封锁演习，”库珀说。 “为什么我们要这么快再做一个？”

Do they have lockdown drills in your school? That's when you have to lock the whole school down. So it has the perfect name. At our school, we have a lockdown drill every few months. Mr. Klutz always said we had to be prepared for any kind of emergency situation. We knew what to do. Everybody got out of their seats and moved to the wall

你们学校有封锁演习吗？ 那时候你就得封锁整个学校。 所以它有一个完美的名字。 在我们学校，我们每隔几个月就有一次封锁演习。 克鲁茨先生总是说我们必须为任何紧急情况做好准备。 我们知道该怎么做。每个人都从座位上站起来，走到墙边

in the corner of the classroom, away from the doors and windows. "I bet some aliens from another planet have landed," whispered Neil. "It could be zombies," whispered Michael. "It's probably alien zombies," whispered. "I'm scared," whispered Emily, who's scared of everything. "Shhhhhhh!" said Mr. Cooper. "Quiet, everyone." "Speaking of drills," said Mrs. Stoker over the loudspeaker, "the other day I drilled some holes in two pieces of metal and bolted them together. At first it was boring, but then it was riveting. Get it? Drills? Boring? Riveting?" I didn't get it.

在教室的角落里，远离门窗。 “我敢打赌，来自另一个星球的外星人已经登陆了。”尼尔小声说。 “可能是僵尸。”迈克尔小声说。 “可能是外星僵尸。” “我害怕，”爱米丽小声说，她什么都害怕。 “嘘！”库珀先生说。 “安静,每一个人。”“说到钻头，”斯托克太太通过扩音器说，“前几天我在两块金属上钻了几个洞，然后用螺栓把它们拴在一起。 一开始很无聊，但后来很吸引人。 明白了吗?演习吗?无聊吗?铆接?”我没明白。

"Mrs. Stoker shouldn't be making jokes during a lockdown drill," whispered Andrea. "It's not appropriate." For once in her life, Little Miss Perfect was right. Lockdowns are serious stuff. We're supposed to stay completely quiet and wait until somebody announces "all clear." "Did you hear about the guy who got caught drilling a hole in a fence?" Mrs. Stoker continued over the loudspeaker. "The police are looking

“斯托克夫人不应该在封锁演习期间开玩笑，”安德里亚低声说。 “这不合适。”在她的一生中，这一次完美小姐是对的。 封锁是很严重的事 我们应该保持绝对的安静，直到有人宣布“安全”。 “你听说有个家伙在篱笆上钻洞被抓了吗？”斯托克太太通过扩音器继续说。 “警察正在找