10. Deer Are Weird

10 Deer Are Weird "Gasp!" we all gasped. Who would take a bite out of a zucchini that was growing in our garden? Andrea looked at Ryan, who will eat anything. Emily looked at Ryan. Michael looked at Ryan. Alexia looked at Ryan. I looked at Ryan. Neil looked at Ryan. Everybody was looking at Ryan.*

“喘气！”我们都倒吸了一口气。 谁会咬一口我们花园里种的西葫芦呢？ 安德里亚看着瑞恩，他什么都吃。 艾米丽看着瑞恩。迈克尔看着瑞恩。 亚历克西娅看着瑞恩。我看着瑞恩。 尼尔看着瑞安。每个人都看着瑞恩

"Don't look at me," said Ryan. "It wasn't Ryan," Miss Nichol said as she looked at the zucchini through a magnifying glass. "I reckon it mighta been... a deer." "Gasp!" we all gasped again. I looked around. I didn't see a deer anywhere.

“别看我，”瑞恩说。 “不是瑞安，”尼科尔小姐边说边用放大镜看西葫芦。 “我想可能是…… 一头鹿。”“喘气！”我们又都倒吸了一口气。 我环顾四周。我哪儿都没看见鹿。

"It could be more than one deer," said Mr. Tony. "Two deers?" I asked. "Arlo," said Andrea, "two of them are still called deer." Huh? How could two deers be a deer? Maybe they were twin deers. "Could it be three deers?" I asked. "No," said Andrea. "If there are three of them, they're still called deer." "So how many do you need before you can call them deers?" I asked. "No matter how many deer ya have, ya still say deer," said Miss Nichol. "But if you have two dogs you don't say dog," I said. "You say dogs." "Deer aren't dogs," said Mr. Tony. "And two deer are still called deer." "A hundred deer are still called deer," said Andrea. Deer are weird. The point is, a deer was eating our veggies. Or maybe a bunch of them were eating our veggies. "Why would a deer do that?" asked Alexia. "I reckon it was hungry," said Miss Nichol.

“可能不止一只鹿，”托尼先生说。 “两鹿?”我问。“阿乐，”安德烈说，“其中有两只还叫鹿。” 嗯?两只鹿怎么可能是一只鹿？ 也许它们是一对鹿。 “会是三只鹿吗？”我问。 “不，”安德烈说。“如果有三只，它们仍然被称为鹿。” “那么你需要多少只才能称它们为鹿呢？”我问。 “不管你有多少只鹿，你还是说鹿，”尼科尔小姐说。 “但如果你有两只狗，你就不会说狗，”我说。 “你是说狗。”“鹿不是狗，”托尼先生说。 “两只鹿仍然叫鹿。” “一百只鹿仍然叫鹿，”安德烈说。 鹿很奇怪。重点是，一只鹿在吃我们的蔬菜。 或者可能有一群人在吃我们的蔬菜。 “鹿为什么要那样做？”亚历克西娅问。 “我想它是饿了，”尼科尔小姐说。

Duh! "We made this garden to feed the kids in our school," said Emily, "not to feed deer." "That's right!" everybody agreed. Mr. Tony suggested we build a fence around the garden to keep the deer out. He should get the Nobel Prize for that idea. That's a prize they give out to people who don't have bells. Mr. Tony got some wood and saws and hammers and stuff. We worked really hard measuring and hammering and nailing. But it was fun. Building stuff out of wood is way more interesting than gardening.

咄!“我们建这个花园是为了喂我们学校的孩子们，”艾米丽说，“不是为了喂鹿。” “没错！”大家都同意。 托尼先生建议我们在花园周围筑一道篱笆，把鹿挡在外面。 他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。 托尼先生拿了些木头、锯子、锤子和其他东西。 我们非常努力地测量、敲打和钉钉子。 但这很有趣。用木头造东西比园艺有趣多了。

Finally, after a million hundred hours, we finished building the fence. It even had a gate that opened and closed. "There!" said Mr. Tony. "This will keep the deer out of our garden."

最后，经过无数个小时的努力，我们终于建起了栅栏。 它甚至有一扇可以打开和关闭的门。 “那里！”托尼先生说。“这将使鹿远离我们的花园。”