3. I Can Dig It

3 I Can Dig It The next day, Miss Nichol arrived on her tractor again. This time, she was wearing a T-shirt that said GIVE PEAS A CHANCE on it. And this time, there was a man with her. You'll never believe in a million hundred years who she got to help us work on the garden.

第二天，尼科尔小姐又开着她的拖拉机来了。 这一次，她穿着一件t恤，上面写着给豌豆一个机会。 这一次，她身边有个男人。 你永远也不会相信她雇了谁来帮我们打理花园。

I'm not gonna tell you. Okay, okay, I'll tell you. It was Mr. Tony, who runs our after-school program! He's a cool guy. One time he helped us try to get into Guinness World Records by making the biggest pizza in the world.* The first thing Miss Nichol and Mr. Tony did was take some long wooden boards and nail them together to make the borders of our garden. Then they gave each of us a shovel and told us to start digging. We had to loosen up the dirt before we could plant anything. "Y'all ready? Set? DIG!" shouted Miss Nichol. We all started digging. We dug. And we dug. And we dug. Hey, digging in the dirt with a shovel is hard work! "Isn't this what they make prisoners do on a chain gang?" Michael asked as he stopped to wipe the sweat off his face. "Maybe we'll find buried treasure under here," said Alexia. "Yeah," said Neil, "buried treasure from an ancient civilization."

我不会告诉你的。好吧，好吧，我告诉你。 是托尼先生，他负责我们的课后活动！他是个很酷的人。 有一次，他帮助我们制作了世界上最大的披萨，试图进入吉尼斯世界纪录。*尼科尔小姐和托尼先生做的第一件事是拿了一些长木板，把它们钉在一起，做成我们花园的边界。 然后他们给了我们每人一把铲子，让我们开始挖掘。 我们得先把泥土弄松，然后才能种东西。 “你们准备好了吗?准备好了吗?挖！”尼科尔小姐喊道。 我们都开始挖掘。我们挖了。 然后我们挖。然后我们挖。嘿，用铲子挖泥土是件辛苦的工作！“这不是他们让戴着镣铐的囚犯做的吗？”迈克尔停下来擦了擦脸上的汗，问道。 “也许我们会在这下面找到宝藏。”亚历克西娅说。 “是的，”尼尔说，“埋藏在远古文明中的宝藏。”

"Maybe we'll find a dead body," I said. "That's not appropriate, Arlo!" said Andrea. "This is a children's book." Ha! Andrea thinks she's in a book. Can you believe that? What a dumbhead. We dug in the dirt for a million hundred hours. It was long, hard, boring work. We were all sweating. In the end, do you know what we found?

“也许我们会找到一具尸体，”我说。 “那不合适，阿乐！”安德烈说。 “这是一本儿童读物。” 哈!安德里亚觉得她在书里。 你能相信吗？真是个笨蛋。 我们在泥土里挖了无数个小时。 这是一项漫长、艰苦、枯燥的工作。 我们都在流汗。最后，你知道我们发现了什么吗？

Nothing. Just more dirt. "I reckon I'm gonna to pass out..." said Miss Nichol. "She's gonna pass out!" shouted Ryan. "Give her some air!" shouted Alexia. "Call an ambulance!" shouted Michael. "I'm gonna pass out water and snacks," said Miss Nichol. Oh. We sat in the shade eating apple slices. Miss Nichol explained that our next step would be to plant seeds in the garden to grow stuff. So if we want to grow corn, we would plant corn seeds. If we want to grow apples, we would plant apple seeds. And so on. Duh! Everybody knows that. "What kind of seeds are we going to plant?" asked Andrea. "That's for you young 'uns to decide," replied Miss Nichol. "It's your garden. You should plant what you love to eat." "I love hot dogs," I said. "Can we plant hot dog seeds?" Andrea rolled her eyes.

什么都没有。只是更多的污垢。“我想我要晕过去了……” 尼科尔小姐说。“她要晕过去了！”瑞恩喊道。 “让她透透气！” “叫救护车！”迈克尔喊道。 “我要分发水和零食，”尼科尔小姐说。 哦。我们坐在阴凉处吃苹果片。 尼科尔小姐解释说，我们下一步要在花园里种下种子来种东西。 所以如果我们想种玉米，我们就种玉米种子。 如果我们想种苹果，我们就种苹果籽。 等等......。咄!每个人都知道。 “我们要种什么样的种子？”安德里亚问。 “这要由你们这些年轻人来决定，”尼科尔小姐回答。 “这是你的花园。你应该种你爱吃的东西。” “我喜欢热狗，”我说。 “我们能种热狗种子吗？”安德烈翻了个白眼。

"You can't plant hot dogs, dumbhead," she said. "Oh, snap!" said Ryan. Why can't a truck full of hot dogs fall on Andrea's head? I was going to say something mean to her, but I didn't have the chance because everybody started yelling out the stuff they wanted to plant. "I love doughnuts," said Neil. "Hey, if we plant Cheerios, maybe they'll grow up to be doughnuts." Great idea. Neil should really be in the gifted and talented program. "If we plant straws," said Alexia, "we can grow strawberries." "Can we plant peppermints?" asked Emily. "Then we can grow candy canes."

“你不能种热狗，笨蛋，”她说。 “哦，糟了！”瑞恩说。为什么一卡车热狗不能砸在安德里亚的头上？ 我想对她说些刻薄的话，但我没有机会，因为每个人都开始大喊他们想要种植的东西。 “我喜欢甜甜圈，”尼尔说。 “嘿，如果我们种麦圈，也许它们会长成甜甜圈。” 好主意。尼尔真的应该参加天才项目。 “如果我们种稻草，”亚历克西娅说，“我们就能种草莓。” “我们可以种薄荷糖吗？”艾米丽问。 “这样我们就可以种拐杖糖了。”

"I'd like to plant jellybeans," said Ryan. "They probably will grow into lollipops." "I bet that if we planted eggs we'd grow eggplants," said Michael. "That would make sense." "And we could plant birdseed to grow birds," said Neil.

“我想种豆粒软糖，”瑞恩说。 “它们可能会长成棒棒糖。” “我敢打赌，如果我们种鸡蛋，我们就会长出茄子，”迈克尔说。 “这是有道理的。”“我们可以种植鸟食来养鸟，”尼尔说。