6. Musicians Are Gross

6 Musicians Are Gross "Let's talk about spit," Mrs. Bacon said as we took our seats the next Thursday. Well, that's a weird way to start class. Mrs. Bacon told us that when you blow into a mouthpiece, some of your saliva gets inside it. She said that brass

“我们来谈谈口水吧，”下个星期四，当我们落座时，培根太太说。 这样开始上课真奇怪。 培根夫人告诉我们，当你对着吹嘴吹气时，你的一些唾液会进入其中。 她说黄铜

instruments like trumpets, trombones, and tubas have this thing called a "spit valve." Every so often you need to open it to blow the spit out of your instrument. Mrs. Bacon took Alexia's trombone and showed her the spit valve. Then she told us to find the spit valve on our instruments. I looked all over my tuba until I found the spit valve. I pushed it, and some spit dripped out. "Hey, look!" I announced. "My tuba is peeing!"

小号、长号和大号等乐器都有一个叫做“吐痰阀”的东西。 每隔一段时间，你需要打开它来吹出你乐器里的口水。 培根太太拿起亚历克西娅的长号，给她看吐槽阀。 然后她让我们去找仪器上的吐痰阀。 我找遍了我的大号，直到找到了排气阀。 我推了一下，一些口水掉了出来。 “嘿,你看!”我宣布。“我的大号在撒尿！”

Everybody thought that was hilarious. Well, everybody except Andrea, of course. "That's disgusting, Arlo," she said. "Why don't you take your tuba to the boys' room and empty your spit there?" Hmmm, not a bad idea. Going to the bathroom is a great way to get out of class. That's the first rule of being a kid.* "Can I go to the bathroom?" I asked

每个人都觉得很好笑。 当然，除了安德里亚。 “真恶心，阿乐，”她说。 “你为什么不把你的大号拿到男厕所去，在那儿吐吐痰呢？”嗯，这主意不错。 上厕所是离开教室的好方法。 这是当孩子的第一准则。“我能去洗手间吗？”我问

Mrs. Bacon. "I hope so," she replied. "If you can't, you should go to a doctor." Oh, yeah, I always forget. Grown-ups don't like it when you say can I go to the bathroom. Nobody knows why. We're supposed to say may I go to the bathroom. "May I go to the bathroom?" I asked. "Certainly," replied Mrs. Bacon. I walked down the hall to the boys' room. It wasn't easy getting into the stall with my tuba. But I did it. I found the spit valve and opened it. Then I blew into the mouthpiece. That's when the weirdest thing in the history of the world happened. MY MOUTHPIECE FELL INTO

培根夫人。“我希望如此，”她回答。 “如果你不能，你应该去看医生。” 哦，是的，我总是忘记。 大人不喜欢你说我能去洗手间吗。 没人知道为什么。我们应该说我能去洗手间吗。 “我可以去洗手间吗？”我问。 “当然，”培根太太回答。 我沿着走廊走到男生的房间。 拿着大号进隔间可不容易。 但我做到了。我找到了排气阀，把它打开了。 然后我对着吹嘴吹气。 就在那时，世界历史上最奇怪的事情发生了。 我的牙套掉进去了

THE TOILET BOWL! Noooooooooo! I thought I was gonna die! This was the worst thing to happen since National Poetry Month! I wanted to run away to Antarctica and live with the penguins. I didn't know what to say. I didn't know what to do. I had to think fast. So I ran back to room 303.

抽水马桶！Noooooooooo !我以为我要死了！这是自全国诗歌月以来最糟糕的事情！我想逃到南极洲和企鹅一起生活。 我不知道该说什么。 我不知道该怎么办。我必须快速思考。 所以我跑回303房间。

"I need your help," I whispered to Ryan. "I dropped my tuba mouthpiece into the toilet bowl." "Dude, I'm not sticking my hand into a toilet bowl," Ryan replied. "Me neither!" I said. "What should I do?"

“我需要你的帮助，”我低声对瑞恩说。 “我把大号吹口掉在马桶里了。” “伙计，我不会把手伸进马桶里的，”瑞恩回答。 “我也是!”我说。“我该怎么办？”