9. Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

9 Teamwork Makes the Dream Work As soon as my mother walked out the door, I grabbed the phone and called Ryan. "Get over to my house ASAP!" I shouted into the phone. "Bring the gang! It's an emergency!" Five minutes later, the doorbell rang. It was Ryan, Michael, Alexia, and Neil.

团队合作让梦想成真妈妈刚一出门，我就抓起电话给瑞恩打了个电话。 “快到我家来！”我对着电话喊道。 “把大家都带来！”这是紧急情况！”五分钟后，门铃响了。 他们是瑞安、迈克尔、亚历克西亚和尼尔。

"What's up, dude?" Ryan asked. "Are you okay?" I told them about the auction and the thousand dollars I was going to get. "WOW," they all said, which is "MOM" upside down. "What are you gonna do with all that money?" asked Ryan. "I thought I might buy the Super Bowl," I said. "I don't think the Super Bowl is for sale, A.J.," Alexia told me. "Professor Armpit says everything has its price," I explained. "Listen, I've got a problem. I need you guys to help me make twenty more pieces of art, real fast." "I don't know anything about art," said Neil. "Neither do I!" I replied. "It doesn't matter! I need you to help me." I told them Professor Armpit said I could have a one-man art show and sell my dumb art for bazillions of dollars. "If

“怎么了，伙计？”瑞恩问道。 “你还好吗？”我告诉他们拍卖的事，以及我将得到的一千美元。 “哇，”他们都说，这是“妈妈”的上下颠倒。 “你打算怎么花这些钱？”瑞恩问。 “我想我可能会买超级碗，”我说。 “我不认为超级碗是可以出售的，aj，”Alexia告诉我。 “腋窝教授说任何东西都有价格，”我解释说。 “听着，我有个问题。 我需要你们帮我再做二十件艺术品，要快。” “我对艺术一窍不通，”尼尔说。 “我也不知道！”我回答说。 “没关系！”我需要你的帮助。” 我告诉他们，腋窝教授说我可以办一个个人画展，把我愚蠢的作品卖个好几百万美元。 “如果

you guys help me, I'll split the money with you." "Cool!" everybody said. "So does anybody have an idea?" I asked. "Nope," said Michael. "Not me," said Alexia. "Don't look at me," said Neil. "Hey, have you got anything to eat in here?" Ryan asked. "I'm starved." Ryan is always starved. He'll eat anything. I told him to see what's in the

你们帮我，我就把钱分给你们。” “酷！”大家都说。“那么，有人有什么主意吗？”我问。 “不，”迈克尔说。“不是我。”亚历克西娅说。 “别看我，”尼尔说。 “嘿，这里有什么吃的吗？”瑞恩问道。 “我饿死了。”瑞恩总是很饿。 他什么都吃。我让他看看里面有什么

fridge. "Hurry up," I told Ryan as he opened the door. "My mom will be home soon." "There's a potato," Ryan said, reaching into the fridge, "and a cucumber..." "Hey," said Alexia. "What if A.J. nailed the potato to the cucumber?" "Why would he do that?" asked Neil. "So he can put it in a museum and call it art!" said Alexia. Hmmmmm. "You're a genius!" I shouted. "Those art nerds will fall for anything!" Alexia should get the Nobel Prize for that idea. That's a prize they give out to people who don't have bells. We went down the basement so I could get a hammer and nail the potato to the cucumber.

冰箱。“快点，”瑞安开门时我对他说。 “我妈妈马上就回来了。” “有一个土豆，”瑞恩把手伸进冰箱说，“还有一个黄瓜……” “嘿，”亚历克西娅说。“如果A.J. 把土豆钉在黄瓜上？”“他为什么要这么做？”尼尔问。 “这样他就可以把它放在博物馆里，称之为艺术了！” 嗯……“你真是个天才！”我叫道。 “那些艺术迷什么都会上当！”亚历克西娅应该为此获得诺贝尔奖。 那是他们发给没有铃铛的人的奖品。 我们去了地下室，这样我就能拿个锤子把土豆钉在黄瓜上。

"There's all kinds of junk down here," said Michael. "Maybe you can make it into art." "Yeah, anything can be art," said Ryan. "Here's an old frying pan," said Neil. "And here's a kazoo," said Alexia. "Perfect!" I shouted, as I took a piece of string and tied the kazoo to the frying pan. "That's art!" The gang was really helpful, and we created lots of cool art. We glued a stapler

“这里有各种各样的垃圾，”迈克尔说。 “也许你可以把它变成艺术。” “是的，任何东西都可以成为艺术，”瑞恩说。 “这是一个旧煎锅，”尼尔说。 “这是卡祖笛，”亚历克西娅说。 “完美!”我喊道，一边拿起一根绳子，把卡祖笛绑在煎锅上。 “这是艺术!”这个团队真的很有帮助，我们创造了很多很酷的艺术。 我们粘了一个订书机

to a broken eggbeater. Then we attached a garden hoe to a plastic statue of Santa Claus. "I will call this Hoe Hoe Hoe!" I said. "You're a genius!" Ryan shouted. When we ran out of junk down in the basement, we went outside. The next day was garbage day, so I figured people would be throwing out lots of stuff we could use. "You can't go poking around in people's garbage cans, A.J.," Alexia told me. "It might even be illegal." She was probably right. Then I remembered that around the corner from my house there are some stores, and they always have a dumpster in the back. "Follow me!" I said. Michael, Ryan, and I climbed into the dumpster for stuff while Neil and Alexia stood guard.* "There's lots of great art in here!" said Michael as we rooted around in the dumpster.

敬打碎的打蛋器。然后我们把一把锄头绑在圣诞老人的塑料雕像上。 “我要叫它‘锄锄锄’！”我说。 “你真是个天才！”瑞安喊道。 地下室的垃圾用完了，我们就出去了。 第二天是垃圾日，所以我想人们会扔掉很多我们可以使用的东西。 “你不能在别人的垃圾桶里乱翻，aj，”Alexia告诉我。 “这甚至可能是违法的。” 她可能是对的。然后我想起我家附近有一些商店，他们后面总是有一个垃圾箱。 “跟我来!”我说。迈克尔、瑞安和我爬进垃圾箱里捡东西，尼尔和亚历克西娅在旁边站岗。“这里有很多很棒的艺术品！”我们在垃圾箱里翻来翻去的时候迈克尔说。