1. Surprise Mystery Field Trip!

1 Surprise Mystery Field Trip! My name is A.J. and I know what you're thinking. You're thinking about the future. Because that's what I'm thinking about. I don't know what the future is gonna be like, but I know it's gonna be cool. In the future, we're going to have all kinds of awesome stuff like flying cars, jetpacks,

1惊喜神秘实地考察！我叫A.J. 我知道你在想什么 你在考虑未来。 因为这就是我在想的。 我不知道未来会是什么样子，但我知道会很酷。 在未来，我们将会拥有各种各样很棒的东西，比如飞行汽车、喷气背包、

and microwavable underwear. And we're definitely going to have virtual-reality time-machine headbands. That's for sure. I can't wait until I get my virtual-reality time-machine headband. Think of it—we'll be able to travel back to any year we want! When I have my own virtual-reality time-machine headband, I know where I'm gonna go—to the year 1857. Do you want to know why? Because that was the year Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper. I wonder what they used before 1857. On second thought, maybe I'll use my virtual-reality time-machine headband to travel back to today. Yeah! That way, I'll be able to tell myself what the future is gonna be like. It would be cool to predict the future. I hope A.J. from the future gets here soon. Hey, maybe when he gets here, both of us can go back to 1857 and watch Joseph Gayetty invent toilet paper.* My point is: it was Monday. Our

还有微波炉内衣。 我们肯定会有虚拟现实的时光机发带。 那是肯定的。我等不及要拿到我的虚拟现实时光机发带了。 想想看——我们可以回到任何我们想回到的年代！等我有了自己的虚拟现实时光机发带，我就知道我要去哪里了，去1857年。 你想知道为什么吗？因为那一年约瑟夫·盖耶蒂发明了卫生纸。 我想知道1857年以前他们用的是什么。 转念一想，也许我会用我的虚拟现实时光机发带回到今天。 是啊!这样，我就能告诉自己未来会是什么样子。 预测未来会很酷。 希望未来的aj能快点来。 也许等他来了，我们俩可以一起回到1857年看约瑟夫·盖耶蒂发明卫生纸。我的意思是：那天是星期一。 我们的

teacher—Miss Banks—was late to class because there was a retirement party in the teachers' lounge for Mr. Loring. He's been the music teacher at our school for a million hundred years. I don't think music even existed when boring Mr. Loring started teaching. He probably taught Beethoven how to play the piano. "I can't wait to see Miss Banks's new hairdo," said Alexia, this girl who rides a skateboard all the time. "Oh, yeah," said Andrea, this annoying girl with curly brown hair. "She said she was going to the hair salon after school on Friday." "I bet she's going to be beautiful," said Emily, Andrea's crybaby friend. I couldn't care less what Miss Banks's hair looked like. But then she walked into the classroom. Her hair was purple! Bright purple! "AHHHHHHHHHHH!" we all shouted. "Do you like it?" Miss Banks asked,

班克斯小姐上课迟到了，因为教师休息室里为洛林先生举行了一个退休晚会。 他在我们学校当音乐老师已经有一百万年了。 我觉得无聊的洛林老师开始教音乐的时候根本不存在音乐。 他可能教贝多芬如何弹钢琴。 “我等不及要看班克斯小姐的新发型了，”经常玩滑板的女孩亚历克西娅说。 “哦，是的，”安德里亚说，这个棕色卷发的讨厌女孩。 “她说她星期五放学后要去发廊。” “我打赌她一定很漂亮，”安德里亚爱哭的朋友艾米丽说。 我一点也不在乎班克斯小姐的头发是什么样子。 然后她走进了教室。 她的头发是紫色的！明亮的紫色!“啊啊啊啊啊啊！” “你喜欢吗？”班克斯小姐问，

spinning around so we could get a good look at her hair. "Yes!" said Alexia. "Then you can have it!" Miss Banks said as she pulled a purple wig off her head and tossed it up in the air. Miss Banks pulls lots of pranks. "Ha-ha-ha!" she said. "Time is fun when you're having flies!"

转来转去，好让我们好好看看她的头发。 “是的！”阿列克谢说。“那就给你吧！”班克斯小姐一边说，一边从头上摘下一顶紫色的假发，抛向空中。 班克斯小姐爱搞恶作剧。 “哈哈哈！”她说。“当你有苍蝇的时候，时间是有趣的！”

That's Miss Banks's catchphrase. A catchphrase is something people say all the time for no reason. "Okay everyone, it's time for math," Miss Banks told us. "Today we're going to learn about irrational numbers. An irrational number—" She didn't have the chance to finish her

这是班克斯小姐的口头禅。 口头禅是指人们总是无缘无故地说出来的话。 “好了，同学们，该做数学题了，”班克斯老师告诉我们。 “今天我们要学习无理数。 一个无理数——”她没来得及说完