5. Not Fair!

5 Not Fair! The next meeting of the Beaver Scouts was in the gym at school. Miss Blake was waiting for us. "I hope you all memorized the Beaver Scout Handbook," she barked. "I did!" shouted Andrea, who always does anything grown-ups tell her to do.

5不公平！海狸童子军的下一次集会是在学校的体育馆里。 布莱克小姐在等我们。 “我希望你们都记住了《海狸童子军手册》。”她吼道。 “是我！”安德烈叫道，大人叫她做什么她就做什么。

"Can I get a drink of water?" asked Neil. "No!" barked Miss Blake. "Water is for wimps. What if you're out in the desert and there's no water? Today we're going to learn survival skills." "I thought Beaver scouting was gonna be fun," I grumbled under my breath. "It's not about fun, buster!" barked Miss Blake. "Beaver scouting is about survival! It's dog-eat-dog out there." I didn't know that dogs eat other dogs. But what did dog food have to do with anything? "Let's warm up with some jumping jacks!" barked Miss Blake. Ugh. I hate jumping jacks. Who came up with that idea?* "Jumping jacks are fun!" shouted Andrea.

“我能喝点水吗？”尼尔问。 “不！”布莱克小姐吼道。“胆小鬼才喝水。 如果你在沙漠里没有水怎么办？ 今天我们要学习生存技能。” “我以为海狸的侦察会很有趣，”我低声嘟囔着。 “这不是为了好玩，小鬼！”布莱克小姐吼道。 “海狸侦察是为了生存！”外面是狗咬狗。” 我不知道狗会吃别的狗。 但是狗粮有什么关系呢？ “我们来做开合跳热身吧！”布莱克小姐咆哮道。 啊。我讨厌开合跳。 谁想出这个主意的？“开合跳很有趣！”安德里亚喊道。

"ONE... TWO... THREE... FOUR..." We did about a million hundred jumping jacks. I thought I was gonna die. By the end, Andrea was the only one who was still jumping, so Miss Blake gave her a decal. Not fair! "On to the obstacle course!" barked Miss Blake. She had set up a long line of upside-down desks, buckets, brooms, barrels, and all kinds of other junk. We had to crawl under, around, and over all that stuff to get to the other side of the gym. "This is going to prepare you for the real world," barked Miss Blake. "Go! Go! Go!" One by one, we ran the obstacle course. I thought I was gonna throw up. "I don't see how this prepares us for

“一个……两个……三个……四个……” 我们做了一百万个开合跳。 我以为我要死了。 到最后，只有安德里亚还在跳，所以布莱克小姐给了她一个贴纸。 不公平的!“去障碍训练场！”布莱克小姐吼道。 她摆了一长排颠倒的桌子、水桶、扫帚、木桶和其他各种各样的杂物。 我们必须从下面爬过去，绕过去，爬过那些东西，才能到达健身房的另一边。 “这会让你为现实世界做好准备，”布莱克小姐咆哮道。 “去!走吧!去吧!”我们一个接一个地跑过了障碍赛。 我以为我要吐了。 “我看不出这对我们有什么帮助

the real world," I grumbled. "Enemy planes are dropping bombs on you!" barked Miss Blake. "Get down low!" She used a stopwatch to see how long it took each of us to get through the obstacle course. Naturally, Andrea had the fastest time, so Miss Blake gave her a ribbon. Not fair! "Next, it's time to jump over chairs!" barked Miss Blake. "Jumping over chairs is fun!" shouted Andrea. "Why would we ever have to jump over chairs in the real world?" complained Ryan. "What if you're in a jungle and you get attacked by alligators?" asked Miss Blake. "You'll need to jump over them to escape."

真实的世界，”我抱怨道。 “敌机在向你们投炸弹！”布莱克小姐吼道。 “趴下！”她用秒表看了看我们每个人通过障碍赛花了多长时间。 当然，安德里亚是最快的，所以布莱克小姐给了她一个丝带。 不公平的!“接下来，是跳椅子的时候了！”布莱克小姐吼道。 “跳过椅子很有趣！”安德里亚喊道。 “为什么我们要在现实世界中跳过椅子呢？”Ryan抱怨道。 “如果你在丛林里被鳄鱼袭击了怎么办？”布莱克小姐问。 “你需要跳过它们才能逃脱。”

"I would just punch their faces in," I said. "That's inappropriate, Arlo," said Andrea. "I don't approve of violence." "What do you have against violins?" I asked. "Not violins! Violence!" I was just yanking Andrea's chain. But Little Miss Perfect could jump over more chairs than anybody, of course. So Miss Blake gave her a badge. Not fair! "Let's move on to the climbing wall!" barked Miss Blake. One wall of the gym had little knobs

“我会直接打他们的脸，”我说。 “那是不合适的，阿乐，”安德烈说。 “我不赞成暴力。” “你为什么不喜欢小提琴？”我问。 “不是小提琴!暴力!”我只是在拉安德里亚的链子 当然，小完美小姐能跳过的椅子比任何人都多。 所以布莱克小姐给了她一枚徽章。 不公平的!“我们去攀岩墙吧！”布莱克小姐吼道。 健身房的一面墙上有小把手

all over it so we could grab on with our hands and push up with our feet. It was still really hard to climb. "Climbing a wall is fun!" shouted Andrea. Needless to say, she was able to climb the wall faster than anybody else. Miss Blake gave Andrea a belt loop. Not fair! "Next, it's time to climb the rope!" barked Miss Blake. There was a thick rope hanging from the ceiling of the gym. "Climbing rope is fun!" shouted Andrea, who immediately started climbing as if she had been doing it all her life. "Why do we have to climb a rope?" asked Michael. "When are we ever going to have to do that?"

到处都是，这样我们就可以用手抓住它，用脚往上推。 爬上去还是很困难。 “爬墙很有趣！”安德里亚喊道。 不用说，她爬墙的速度比任何人都快。 布莱克小姐给了安德里亚一个皮带环。 不公平的!“接下来，该爬绳子了！”布莱克小姐吼道。 体育馆的天花板上挂着一根粗绳子。 “爬绳子很有趣！”安德里亚喊道，她立刻开始爬起来，好像她已经做了一辈子了。 “我们为什么要爬绳子？”迈克尔问。 “我们什么时候才能这么做？”