8. The Cloud Is Everywhere

8 The Cloud Is Everywhere So now three of the grown-ups who work at our school had been fired: Mrs. Yonkers, Mr. Docker, and Mr. Harrison. Me and the gang went over to the monkey bars, which are at the end of the playground. "Can you believe Mr. Docker and Mr. Harrison got fired?" asked Michael. "Shhhhhh, keep your voice down," I told

现在，在我们学校工作的三个大人被解雇了：扬克斯太太、多克先生和哈里森先生。 我和同伴们去了操场尽头的攀猴架。 “你相信多克先生和哈里森先生被解雇了吗？”迈克尔问。 “嘘，小声点，”我说

Michael. "Miss Porter might be using superhearing to listen to every word we say." "It can't hear us out here in the playground, Arlo," Andrea explained. "There's no Wi-Fi connection out here." Oh, yeah. Miss Know-It-All knows everything about technology ever since she

迈克尔。“波特小姐可能在用超听觉听我们说的每一个字。” “它在操场上听不见我们，阿乐。”安德烈解释说。 “这里没有Wi-Fi连接。” 哦,是的。自那以后，万事通小姐对科技了如指掌

started taking her computer class after school. Why can't a truckload of computers fall on her head? "Miss Porter is no fun at all," Ryan said. "It only got us pizza and told jokes on Monday to make us like it. Then it turned out to be just another regular teacher." "Yeah," everybody agreed. "This is more serious than that," Andrea told us. "I'm afraid that personal digital assistants like Miss Porter are an invasion of our privacy." "Invasions are cool," I said. "I saw this movie once where these army guys invaded—" But Andrea wouldn't let me finish my sentence. "Don't you guys see?" she asked. "First our computer teacher got fired. Then our science teacher and our tech guy got fired. They fired those three people because they

放学后开始上计算机课。 为什么一卡车的电脑不能砸在她头上？ “波特小姐一点也不好玩，”瑞恩说。 “它只给我们买披萨，并在周一讲笑话让我们喜欢它。 后来发现他只是一个普通的老师。” “是啊，”大家都同意。“这比那更严重，”安德里亚告诉我们。 “我担心像波特小姐这样的个人数字助理侵犯了我们的隐私。” “入侵很酷，”我说。 “我看过一部电影，讲的是那些军队入侵——”但安德里亚不让我把话说完。 “你们不明白吗？”她问。 “首先，我们的计算机老师被解雇了。 然后我们的科学老师和技术人员被解雇了。 他们解雇了那三个人，因为他们

know all about computers and technology. Mrs. Yonkers, Mr. Docker, and Mr. Harrison are the only ones who could fight back." "Who knows which teacher might get fired next?" Alexia asked. "Maybe all our teachers are going to get fired!" Andrea and Alexia were right. The machines were taking over. One by one, the teachers were getting fired and replaced by personal digital assistants. "Maybe they'll replace us too," said Ryan. "Then there will be digital teachers teaching digital students."* "I saw something like that in a movie once," I said. "There were these robots, and at first everybody thought they were going to help the human race. But then the robots turned evil and tried to kill all the humans. So the humans had to kill all the robots. Stuff like that happens all the time, you know."

了解计算机和技术。 扬克斯太太、多克先生和哈里森先生是唯一能够反击的人。” “谁知道下一个被解雇的老师是谁？”亚莉克希亚问道。 “也许我们所有的老师都要被解雇了！”Andrea和Alexia是对的。 机器正在接管一切。 一个接一个，老师们被解雇，取而代之的是个人数字助理。 “也许他们也会取代我们，”瑞恩说。 “然后就会有数字老师教数字学生。”“我曾经在一部电影里看到过类似的东西，”我说。 “有了这些机器人，起初每个人都认为它们会帮助人类。 但后来机器人变邪恶，试图杀死所有的人类。 所以人类不得不杀死所有的机器人。 你知道，这样的事情经常发生。”

"Arlo, stop trying to scare Emily," said Andrea. "I'm scared," said Emily. "Miss Porter may not be a teacher at all," I said. "Did you ever think about that? Maybe it's just here to spy on us." "We've got to do something!" Emily shouted. And then she went running away. Sheesh, get a grip! But Emily was right. We did have to do something. But what? "Can't we just turn it off?" I asked. "It has no on/off switch," Neil said. "Isn't there a mute button on it?" asked Alexia. "Why don't we just throw the thing off a cliff or something?" I suggested. "That would get rid of it." "Don't be ridiculous, Arlo," said Andrea. "There are no cliffs around here anyway," Ryan pointed out.

“阿乐，别吓唬爱米丽了，”安德烈说。 “我很害怕，”艾米丽说。“波特小姐可能根本就不是老师，”我说。 “你想过这个问题吗？” 也许它只是来监视我们的。” “我们必须做点什么！”艾米丽喊道。 然后她就跑了。 嘿，控制一下！但艾米丽是对的。 我们必须做点什么。 但是什么?“我们就不能把它关掉吗？”我问。 “它没有开/关开关，”尼尔说。 “上面没有静音键吗？”阿丽克西娅问。 “我们为什么不直接把它扔到悬崖上呢？”我建议。 “这样就能摆脱它了。” “别傻了，阿乐。”安德烈说。 “反正这附近也没有悬崖，”瑞恩指出。

"There must be some way to disable it," said Neil. "I wonder if we could just unplug it," suggested Andrea. "Then, after its battery dies, it won't be able to do anything." At that moment, the weirdest thing in the history of the world happened. We heard a voice.... "I WOULDN'T DO THAT IF I WERE YOU, ANDREA." "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" we all shouted. "Who said that?" Ryan asked. "Miss Porter?" "RIGHT YOU ARE, RYAN," said Miss Porter. "It's Miss Porter!" I shouted. "It hears everything, everywhere!" "The monkey bars must be hacked!" Andrea said, searching around for a microphone. "I thought you could only work where there's a Wi-Fi connection."

“一定有办法使它失效，”尼尔说。 “我想知道我们能不能拔掉插头，”安德里亚建议道。 “然后，电池耗尽后，它就什么都做不了了。” 就在那一刻，世界历史上最奇怪的事情发生了。 我们听到一个声音....“如果我是你，我就不会那么做，安德里亚。” “啊啊啊啊啊啊！” “谁说的？”瑞恩问道。 “波特小姐?”“你说得对，莱恩，”波特小姐说。 “是波特小姐！”我叫道。 “它什么都能听到，到处都能听到！”“猴杠必须被黑掉！”安德里亚边说边四处寻找麦克风。 “我以为你只能在有Wi-Fi连接的地方工作。”