Chapter 4

Chapter 4 Partnership partnership (partnership) n. Two or more people pooling their money, skills, and resources to run a business, agreeing to share the profits and losses of that business. Jessie had been waiting for this moment—the moment when Evan would see their lemonade stand, see the wonderful decorations they had made, see the crowds of people waiting in line, see Megan Moriarty standing by her side. He would see it all and be so impressed. He would think to himself, Wow, Jessie is one cool kid. She sure knows how to run a lemonade stand right! And then he'd jog over and say, "Hey, can I help out?" And Jessie would

第四章合伙企业合伙（合伙） 两个或两个以上的人把他们的钱、技能和资源集中在一起经营一家企业，并同意分享企业的利润和损失。 杰西一直在等待这一刻——埃文看到他们的柠檬水摊，看到他们制作的精美装饰，看到排队等候的人群，看到梅根·莫里亚蒂站在她身边。 他会看到这一切，然后印象深刻。 他会想，哇，杰西真是个很酷的孩子。 她确实知道如何经营一个柠檬水摊！然后他会跑过来说：“嘿，我能帮忙吗？”杰西会

say, "Sure! We were hoping you'd come over." And it would be like old times. Why hadn't it worked out like that? With one part of her brain, Jessie continued to take money from customers and make change. That was the part of her brain that worked just fine. With the other part of her brain, Jessie went over what had happened with Evan. That was the part of her brain that tended to run in circles. She and Megan were selling lemonade. Business had been good. Then Mrs. Pawley, a neighborhood mom, walked up. She had had a bunch of kids in her backyard running through the sprinkler, and now they wanted twelve cups of lemonade. Twelve! It was the biggest sale of the day. Megan got cracking pouring the lemonade and Jessie took the six singles that Mrs. Pawley handed her. All the kids from Mrs. Pawley's backyard were chanting, "Lemon-ADE! Lemon-ADE! Lemon-ADE!" A fly buzzed by Jessie's ear—they'd been having a problem with flies because of the sticky lemonade

说:“当然!我们正希望你能来呢。” 就像以前一样。 为什么事情没有那样发展呢？ 杰西用她大脑的一部分，继续从顾客那里拿钱，找零钱。 这是她大脑中工作正常的部分。 杰西用大脑的另一部分回想着埃文的遭遇。 这是她大脑中倾向于绕圈运转的部分。 她和梅根在卖柠檬水。 生意一直很好。这时，邻居的妈妈波利太太走了过来。 她让一群孩子在后院的洒水器旁跑来跑去，现在他们想要12杯柠檬水。 十二个!这是当天最大的一笔买卖。 梅根开始倒柠檬水，杰西接过了波利太太递给她的六张单。 波利太太家后院的孩子们都在喊：“柠檬汽水！”Lemon-ADE !Lemon-ADE !”一只苍蝇在杰西耳边嗡嗡作响——因为柠檬水黏糊糊的，他们一直有苍蝇的问题

spills on their stand—and she cocked her head to one side to shoo it since her hands were busy with the money. And that's when Jessie looked up and saw Evan standing there, staring. So she smiled. But he didn't smile back. So she waved, even though she had all that money in both hands. She waved so he'd know that she was happy to see him. And then he stalked off, all stiff-legged and bristly. And she never got to say, "Sure! We were hoping you'd come over," like she'd rehearsed in her head. And just then, Tommy Pawley, who was two years old, pulled down his bathing suit and peed right on the lawn. And Megan laughed so loud, Jessie was sure you could hear it all over the neighborhood. That's what had happened. That's exactly what had happened. But Jessie knew that something else entirely had happened. And she didn't get it. The way

她的手正忙着拿钱，于是她把头歪向一边，想把它赶走。 就在这时，杰西抬起头，看见埃文站在那里，凝视着。 于是她笑了。但他没有回以微笑。 于是她挥了挥手，尽管她手里拿着所有的钱。 她挥了挥手，好让他知道她见到他很高兴。 然后他昂首阔步地走了，四肢僵硬，毛发浓密。 她从来没有机会说：“当然！我们希望你能过来，”就像她在脑子里排练过一样。 就在那时，两岁的汤米·波利，脱下泳衣，在草坪上撒尿。 梅根笑得那么大声，杰西确信你能在整个社区听到。 事情就是这样发生的。事情就是这样发生的。 但杰西知道发生了完全不同的事情。 但她没有明白。的方式

she didn't get a lot of things about people. All she knew was that the sight of Evan walking away—walking away from her for the second time that day—made her feel so sad and alone that she just wanted to run home to her room and curl up on her bed with Charlotte's Web. "Hey, Madam Cash Register," said Megan, nudging her. "You're falling behind. Ring three for this lady and one for this kid here." Jessie turned away from the retreating figure of Evan. "That's a dollar fifty," she said to the woman standing in front of her. She took the five-dollar bill the woman was holding out and made change from her lock box, focusing all her energy on the part of her brain that worked just fine. It's true that when Evan had first walked out of the garage, Jessie had banged up to her room and tried to think of every way possible that she could make his life a living misery.

她不太了解人。 她只知道，看到埃文走开——这一天第二次离开她——她感到如此悲伤和孤独，她只想跑回自己的房间，蜷缩在床上抱着夏洛的网。 “嘿，收银机女士，”梅金说，用胳膊肘推了推她。 “你落后了。给这位女士打三响，给这个孩子打一响。” 杰西转过身去，不理睬正在后退的埃文。 “一共50美元，”她对站在她前面的女人说。 她拿起那女人递给她的5美元钞票，从她的锁箱里找了些零钱，把所有的精力都集中在她大脑正常工作的那部分上。 的确，当埃文第一次走出车库时，杰西已经冲进了她的房间，试着想各种可能的方法让他的生活变得痛苦。

She'd thought of telling Mom that Evan was the one who broke the toaster (by playing hockey in the house, which is not allowed). She'd thought of taking back every one of her CDs from his room (even though she knew that would mean she'd have to give back all of his CDs). She'd even thought of putting peanut butter in his shoes. (This was something she'd read in a book, and she loved to imagine that moment of horror when he'd think he'd somehow gotten dog doo inside his shoes.) But when these ideas had finished bouncing around her brain, and when her breathing had returned to normal and her fists weren't clenched at her sides anymore, she knew that what she really wanted was to get the old Evan back. The one who was so much fun to be around. The one who helped her out of every jam. Like when she ate all the Lorna Doones that Mom had set aside for the Girl Scout meeting. And Evan had ridden his bike to the 7-Eleven and bought a new package before Mom even noticed. Or when

她想告诉妈妈是埃文打碎了烤面包机（因为他在家里打冰球，这是不允许的）。 她想过把他房间里的所有cd都拿回来（尽管她知道这意味着她必须把他的所有cd都还给他）。 她甚至想过在他的鞋子里加点花生酱。 （这是她在一本书中读到的，她喜欢想象他觉得自己不知怎么把狗屎弄进鞋子里的那一刻的恐怖。）但当这些想法不再在她脑子里蹦来蹦去，当她的呼吸恢复正常，她的拳头不再紧握在身体两侧时，她知道她真正想要的是让过去的埃文回来。 那个和你在一起很有趣的人。 那个每次帮她摆脱困境的人。 就像她吃了妈妈为女童子军会议准备的洛娜·杜恩饼干一样。 埃文骑着自行车去了7- 11便利店，在妈妈注意到之前买了一个新包裹。 或者当

she accidentally—well, not accidentally, but how was she supposed to know?—picked the red flowers in Grandma's garden that were a hybrid experiment. Evan had said they'd both done it so that Grandma's disappointment was spread around. Or the time that Jessie had smashed the ceramic heart that Daddy had given her because she was so mad that he had left them. And then, when she had cried about her broken heart, Evan had glued every single last piece back together again. She wanted back the Evan who was her best friend. But Evan didn't want her, because he thought she was a baby and she was going to embarrass him in Mrs. Overton's class. So she had to prove to him that she was a big kid. That she could keep up with the crowd. That she could fit in—even with his fourth- grade class. I'll show him I can sell lemonade, too. Just as good as him and Scott. I won't embarrass him. So Jessie got down to business.

她不小心——好吧，不是不小心，但她怎么可能知道呢？——在祖母的花园里摘了一种杂交实验用的红花。 埃文说他们俩都这么做了，这样奶奶的失望就传开了。 还有一次，杰西把爸爸送给她的陶瓷心打碎了，因为她很生气爸爸离开了他们。 然后，当她为她破碎的心哭泣时，埃文又把每一块最后的碎片粘在一起。 她想要回那个她最好的朋友埃文。 但埃文不想要她，因为他觉得她是个婴儿，她会在奥弗顿夫人的课上让他难堪。 所以她必须向他证明她是个大孩子。 她能跟得上人群。 她能和他合得来，甚至和他的四年级班级。 我要让他知道我也能卖柠檬水。 跟他和斯科特一样好。 我不会让他难堪的。于是，杰西开始干正事。