4. Less Is More

4 Less Is More I could hardly sleep that night. I kept thinking about how Mrs. Barr tricked us into learning geography. That makes me so mad! No way I'm gonna fall for that again. The next day, Mr. Cooper didn't even try to teach us math. As soon as he saw Mrs. Barr come into the class with her

少即是多那天晚上我几乎无法入睡。 我一直在想巴尔太太是怎么骗我们学地理的。 这让我很生气！我不会再上你的当了。 第二天，库珀先生甚至没有教我们数学。 他一看到巴尔夫人就跟着她进了教室

suitcase, he closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead. He sure rubs his forehead a lot. I guess he needs to moisturize. "Konnichiwa!" Mrs. Barr said as she went over and opened the window. "That means hello in Japanese." "Have you visited Japan?" asked Andrea. "I've been there many times," Mrs. Barr replied. "Japan is amazing!" "How about the United States?" asked Ryan. "Have you traveled around our country?" "Sure!" she replied. "I've been all over America. It is amazing!" "Did you go to the Grand Canyon?" asked Emily. "No," replied Mrs. Barr. "How about Mount Rushmore?" asked Alexia. "Nope. But I went to the SPAM

手提箱，他闭上眼睛，揉了揉额头。 他确实经常揉自己的额头。 我猜他需要保湿。 “你们好,”巴尔太太说着走过去打开了窗户。 “这在日语里是你好的意思。” “你去过日本吗？”安德烈问。 “我去过很多次，”巴尔夫人回答。 “日本太神奇了！”“那美国呢？”瑞恩问。 “你在我们国家旅行过吗？”“当然！”她回答。 “我走遍了美国。 太神奇了！”“你去大峡谷了吗？”艾米丽问。 “没有，”巴尔太太回答。“去拉什莫尔山怎么样？”亚历克西亚问。 “不。但是我去了SPAM

Museum in Minnesota." WHAT?! "There's a museum about SPAM?" Ryan asked. "Oh yes!" said Mrs. Barr. "It is amazing! Did you know that SPAM stands for spiced ham?* I also visited the largest ball of twine in the world. It's in Kansas and it's over ten feet tall! It is amazing!" Wait. Mrs. Barr has never been to the

明尼苏达州的博物馆。”什么? !“有一个关于午餐肉的博物馆？”瑞恩问道。 “哦，是的！”巴尔太太说。“太神奇了!”你知道SPAM是五香火腿的意思吗？*我还参观了世界上最大的麻线球。 它在堪萨斯州，有十多英尺高！太神奇了！”等待。 巴尔夫人从来没去过

Grand Canyon or Mount Rushmore, but she's visited the SPAM Museum and a giant ball of twine? That lady is weird. "Let's talk about geography!" said Mrs. Barr. "I know something about geography," said Little Miss Know-It-All. "The word 'geography' comes from ancient Greece. It means to write or describe the earth." "I didn't know that!" said Mrs. Barr. Andrea smiled the smile that she smiles to let everybody know she knows something nobody else knows. "Let's talk about water," said Mrs. Barr. "Did you know that water covers more than two-thirds of the earth blah blah blah blah..." She went on about water for a million hundred minutes. I was starting to feel sleepy again."... blah blah blah blah the Nile is the longest river in the world blah blah blah

大峡谷和拉什莫尔山，但她参观了午餐肉博物馆和一个巨大的线球？ 那位女士很奇怪。“我们来谈谈地理吧！”巴尔夫人说。 “我对地理略知一二，”万事通小姐说。 “‘地理’这个词来自古希腊。 它的意思是写或描述地球。” “我不知道！”巴尔夫人说。 安德烈笑了笑，她笑的目的是让大家知道她知道一些别人不知道的事情。 “我们来谈谈水吧，”巴尔夫人说。 “你知道吗，水覆盖了地球的三分之二以上，等等，等等……” 她没完没了地讲水的事。 我又开始觉得困了。” 尼罗河是世界上最长的河流等等等等

blah over four thousand miles long and blah blah blah blah..." I felt like my eyelids had ten-pound weights on them."... blah blah blah blah Antarctica is the coldest continent blah blah blah blah. It's the only continent that gets larger and smaller as it freezes and melts and blah blah blah blah... Antarctica... Antarctica... Antarctica... Antarctica... Antarctica... Antarctica... Antarctica...." The next thing I knew, I was having a wild dream... I'm in Antarctica. There are no schools here. Nobody has to learn stuff. Nobody has to wear a tie or go to tea parties. There are no bedtimes, and no Andrea. Nobody is making fun of me.

四千多英里长等等等等……” 我觉得我的眼皮好像有十磅重的东西。” 南极洲是最冷的大陆，等等等等。 它是唯一一个随着它的冻结和融化而变得越来越大和越来越小的大陆。 南极洲……南极洲…… 南极洲……南极洲…… 南极洲……南极洲…… 南极洲……”接下来，我做了一个疯狂的梦…… 我在南极洲。这里没有学校。 没有人需要学习东西。 没人非得打领带或参加茶话会。 没有睡觉时间，也没有安德莉亚。 没人取笑我。

I don't have to do anything I don't want to do in Antarctica. I'm eating frozen pizza,

在南极洲，我不需要做任何我不想做的事情。 我在吃冷冻披萨，