7. There, There

7 There, There When we got to class the next day, we pledged the allegiance and did Word of the Day. Then Miss Banks did the weirdest thing in the history of the world. She started spinning around in circles, skipping around the room, climbing up onto the windowsill, and doing cartwheels.

第二天，当我们去上课时，我们宣誓效忠并做每日一词。 班克斯小姐做了一件史上最奇怪的事。 她开始转圈，在房间里跳来跳去，爬上窗台，做侧手翻。

"Miss Banks," asked Andrea, "what are you doing?" "I'm pretending to be an irrational number," she replied. "Get it? Time is fun when you're having flies!" Miss Banks is weird. "As I was saying yesterday," she continued, "blah blah blah blah blah blah..." She went on and on about irrational numbers. I thought I was going to die from old age. Finally, it was time for lunch, and then recess. Do you know what rotini is? It's this curly pasta. We have a cool slide on our playground that looks a lot like rotini. We call it the Rotini Slide. So it has the perfect name. We were all taking turns sliding down the Rotini Slide, and you'll never believe in a million hundred years who showed up out of nowhere. I'm not going to tell you. Okay, okay, I'll tell you.

“班克斯小姐，”安德烈问，“你在干什么？”“我在假装自己是一个无理数，”她回答。 “明白了吗?当你有苍蝇的时候，时间是有趣的！”班克斯小姐很奇怪。 “就像我昨天说的，”她继续说，“废话，废话，废话……” 她没完没了地讲无理数。 我以为我要老死了。 最后，到了吃午饭的时间，然后休息。 你知道罗蒂尼是什么吗？ 就是这个卷面食。我们的操场上有一个很酷的滑梯，看起来很像罗蒂尼。 我们称之为罗蒂尼滑梯。 所以它有一个完美的名字。 我们都在轮流滑下罗蒂尼滑梯，你永远也不会相信谁突然冒出来了。 我不会告诉你的。 好吧，好吧，我告诉你。

It was Uncle Fred! It's true! A car pulled up to the playground; he stepped out and walked right over to us! "Uncle Fred!" we all shouted. "What are you doing here?" asked Michael. "Can I play with you kids?" he asked. Grown-ups never ask to play with us on the playground. Uncle Fred looked a little sad, and that made me feel sad too. "Sure, you can play with us," I told him.

是弗雷德叔叔！这是真的!一辆汽车停在操场上；他走了出来，径直朝我们走来！“弗雷德叔叔！” “你在这里做什么？”迈克尔问。 “我能和你们一起玩吗？”他问。 大人们从不要求和我们一起在操场上玩。 弗雷德叔叔看起来有点伤心，这让我也感到难过。 “当然，你可以和我们一起玩，”我告诉他。

"Would you like to slide down the Rotini Slide?" Alexia asked him. "Yeah!" Uncle Fred said excitedly. He climbed up the ladder to the top of the Rotini Slide and slid down. "Wheeeee!" he yelled. "Look at me. I'm flying! Yippeeee!" It was a little weird. Grown-ups aren't supposed to slide down slides, and they never say "Yippeeee!" That's the first rule of being a grown-up. When he got to the bottom of the slide, Uncle Fred wanted to climb up and do it again, but Andrea grabbed him by his shoulders. "We need to talk, Uncle Fred," she said. "How old are you?" "I'm fifty years old," he replied. Fifty?! Wow, that's like half a century! "Shouldn't you be at home, Uncle Fred?" Andrea asked. "Or at the TV studio getting ready for the next episode of Funderama?"

“你想从罗蒂尼滑梯上滑下来吗？”亚历克西娅问他。 “是啊!”弗雷德叔叔兴奋地说。 他爬上梯子，来到罗蒂尼滑梯的顶端，然后滑了下来。 “嘘！”他喊道。“看着我。 我飞起来了!Yippeeee !”有点奇怪。 大人不应该在滑梯上滑下来，而且他们从来不会说“yippeee !”这是成年人的第一准则。 当他到达滑梯底部时，弗雷德叔叔想爬上去再做一次，但安德里亚抓住了他的肩膀。 “我们得谈谈，弗雷德叔叔。”她说。 “你多大了？”“我五十岁了，”他回答。 五十? !哇，那好像有半个世纪了！“你不是应该在家吗，弗雷德叔叔？”安德里亚问道。 “或者在电视演播室里为下一集《方达玛》做准备？”

"I don't like being at home or in the studio," Uncle Fred whined, a pout on his face. "I want to be here, playing with you kids." "Why don't you leave him alone, Andrea?" I asked. "He's not bothering anybody." "You're a fifty-year-old man!" Andrea told Uncle Fred. "You shouldn't be playing on a playground and acting like a little kid. Don't you think it's time for you to grow up?"*

“我不喜欢呆在家里或画室里，”弗雷德叔叔撅着嘴抱怨道。 “我想留在这里，和你们这些孩子一起玩。” “你为什么不放过他呢，安德里亚？”我问。 “他没有打扰任何人。” “你都五十岁了！”安德里亚告诉弗雷德叔叔。 “你不应该在操场上玩，表现得像个小孩子。 你不觉得你该长大了吗？“*