Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Eyewitness eyewitness (eyewitness), n. A person who actually sees something happen and so can give a first-person account of the event. Jessie stood in the doorway, one foot inside the classroom, one foot outside on the playground. All the other kids had run outside. Everyone except Evan and Megan. They were staying inside to finish their Daily Double. Jessie didn't want to go outside if Megan and Evan weren't there. She still didn't know most of the fourth-graders—not enough to know who was friendly and who wasn't—and she knew she'd probably say the wrong thing to the wrong person

第三章目击证人（目击者），名词。 亲眼目睹某件事发生的人，因此可以用第一人称描述该事件。 杰西站在门口，一只脚在教室里，一只脚在外面的操场上。 其他的孩子都跑出去了。 除了埃文和梅根。 他们待在屋里完成“每日双份”。 如果梅根和埃文不在，杰西不想出去。 她仍然不了解大多数四年级学生——不知道谁是友好的，谁是不友好的——她知道她可能会对错误的人说错误的话

And people would laugh. Or be mean. Or just give her one of those looks—those looks she never understood—and then turn their backs on her. Maybe Jessie could stay inside and read her Independent Reading book instead. It was worth asking. She walked back to her desk and pulled out The Prince and the Pauper. It was a book her grandmother had given to her. Twice, actually. First, Grandma sent it at the beginning of the summer with a note that said, Jessie, I loved this book when I was your age. Then a month later she'd sent another copy of the same book with a note that said, This book made me think of you, Jessie. Hope you enjoy it! Jessie had laughed and said, "I hope she forgets and sends me my birthday money twice!" But Mrs. Treski didn't laugh. She frowned and shook her head and went to the phone to give her mother a call, just to see how she was doing. "Mrs. Overton?" said Jessie. Evan had gone to the boys' room, and Megan was in the hall getting a

人们会笑。或者刻薄一点。 或者只是用那种眼神——那种她永远无法理解的眼神——然后背对她。 也许杰西可以呆在家里读她的独立阅读书。 这是值得一问的。她走回书桌，拿出《王子与乞丐》。 那是她祖母送给她的一本书。 实际上,两次。首先，奶奶在初夏寄给我，并附上一张纸条，上面写着：杰西，我在你这么大的时候很喜欢这本书。 一个月后，她又寄来了同一本书，并附上一张纸条，上面写着：“这本书让我想起了你，杰西。” 希望你喜欢！杰西笑着说：“我希望她忘了，给我寄两次生日钱！”但特雷斯基太太没有笑。 她皱起眉头，摇了摇头，走到电话旁给母亲打了个电话，只是想看看她过得怎么样。 “奥弗顿太太？”杰西说。 埃文去男生房间了，梅根在走廊里拿

drink of water, so the room was empty except for Jessie and her teacher. "Yes, Jessie?" Mrs. Overton looked up from her desk, where she was reading over what the students had written in their Writer's Notebooks that morning. Jessie had written about the fireworks that she and Evan and her mother had watched from their house on Labor Day. She'd used lots of long words, like kaleidoscope and panorama, and vigorous verbs, like exploded and cascading. She thought her paragraph was pretty good. Jessie heard Evan and Megan laughing in the hallway. That stopped her, the way they were laughing together. She didn't want them to see her, staying inside with the teacher during recess. She was pretty sure that Evan would say, "That's not what fourth-graders do." So she mumbled, "Uh, nothing," and carried her book back to her desk. "You should go outside, honey," said Mrs. Overton. "You don't want to miss all of morning recess. Right?"

所以除了杰西和她的老师，房间里空无一人。 “是的,杰西?”奥弗顿夫人从她的书桌上抬起头来，她正在阅读学生们早上在“作家笔记本”上写的东西。 杰西写了劳动节那天她和埃文还有她妈妈在家里看烟花的事。 她用了很多长词，比如万花筒（kaleidoscope）和全景（panorama），还用了很多有力的动词，比如爆炸（explosive）和层叠（cascading）。 她认为她的段落写得很好。 杰西听到埃文和梅根在走廊里笑。 他们在一起笑的样子让她停了下来。 她不想让他们看到她在课间休息时和老师呆在里面。 她很确定埃文会说：“这不是四年级学生该做的事。” 于是她咕哝了一声：“呃，没什么。”然后把书拿回书桌。 “你应该到外面去，亲爱的，”奥弗顿太太说。 “你肯定不想错过整个上午的课间休息。 对吗?”

"Right," said Jessie faintly. She hurried to the back door, the one that opened right onto the playground. When she turned to close the door behindher, she saw Evan and Megan walking into the classroom from the hallway. They both looked pretty happy, considering that they were missing recess and had to do math. Outside, a handful of girls were sitting at the picnic table, folding origami flowers. Some of the fourth-graders were swinging and sliding on the Green Machine. About eight or nine were playing kickball. All of Evan's friends—Paul and Ryan and Adam and Jack—were shooting baskets, along with Scott Spencer. Where should Jessie go? She wondered if the boys were still talking about the 20/20 so she drifted over to the basketball hoop. She sat down on the grass and pretended to concentrate on her book, but really she was listening to the boys' conversation. Jessie overheard Paul ask Scott, "How'd you save up that much?" They weren't playing a real game, just shooting free throws from

“好吧。”杰西有气无力地说。 她急忙跑到后门，那扇门正对着操场。 当她转身关上身后的门时，她看到埃文和梅根从走廊走进教室。 他们俩看起来都很开心，因为他们错过了课间休息，还要做数学。 外面，几个女孩坐在野餐桌旁，折叠着折纸花。 一些四年级的学生在绿色机器上荡秋千、滑行。 大约有八、九个人在玩踢球。 埃文所有的朋友——保罗、瑞安、亚当和杰克——都在投篮，还有斯科特·斯宾塞。 杰西应该去哪里？她想知道男孩们是否还在谈论20/20比赛，于是她飘飘然地走向篮球框。 她坐在草地上，假装在专心看书，但实际上她在听孩子们的谈话。 杰西无意中听到保罗问斯科特：“你是怎么攒那么多钱的？”他们不是在打一场真正的比赛，只是在罚球

the line. "Lots of ways," said Scott. Paul bounce-passed the ball to Scott, and he took his shot. And missed. Jessie was glad to see that. "Like what?" asked Adam. "I did a lot of chores around the house." "There's no way you saved up that much money from doing chores," said Adam. "I did, too," said Scott. Now he held on to the ball and dribbled it in place. Ryan held up his hands for it —it was his turn to shoot—but Scott wouldn't give it up. "What're you saying?" "I'm saying what I said," said Adam. "There's no way you saved up that much money just from chores." What he's saying, thought Jessie, is that you stole all our lemonade money from Evan, and everybody knows it! If only someone had seen him take it. If only there'd been an eyewitness—like the crime shows on TV! Then Scott wouldn't have gotten off... scot-free.

线。“有很多方法，”斯科特说。 保罗弹跳传球给斯科特，斯科特投了球。 和错过。杰西很高兴看到这一点。 “比如什么？”亚当问。“我在家里做了很多家务。” “你不可能从做家务中省下那么多钱，”亚当说。 “我也是，”斯科特说。现在他抓住球，把它运回原位。 莱恩举起双手，轮到他开枪了，但斯科特不肯放弃。 “你在说什么？”“我说的就是我说的，”亚当说。 “光靠做家务是不可能攒那么多钱的。” 杰西想，他的意思是，你从埃文那里偷了我们卖柠檬水的钱，而且大家都知道了！要是有人看见他拿就好了。 要是有目击证人就好了——就像电视上的犯罪节目一样！那么斯科特就不会下车了…… 平安的。

A shadow fell across the page of her book. Jessie looked up, and there was David Kirkorian standing next to her. Jessie still didn't know a lot of the fourth-graders, but David Kirkorian was legendary throughout the school. Everyone said he had all kinds of weird collections at his house. He kept a jar of peach pits on his dresser, and he added a new one every time he ate a peach. He had a box full of shoelaces from every shoe he'd ever worn. He even had a large brown envelope filled with his own toenail clippings. At least, that's what everybody said, though Jessie was pretty sure that no one had actually seen the envelope. "You're not allowed to read outside during recess," said David. "I never heard of that rule," said Jessie. "Just because you don't know a rule doesn't mean it isn't a rule." David started picking at one of his fingernails, and Jessie wondered if he collected those, too.

一个影子落在她的书页上。 杰西抬头一看，大卫·柯克兰就站在她旁边。 杰西还不太了解四年级的学生，但大卫·柯克兰在学校里是个传奇人物。 大家都说他家里有各种奇怪的收藏品。 他在梳妆台上放了一罐桃核，每吃一个桃子就放一个新的。 他有一个装满鞋带的盒子，是他穿过的每一双鞋的鞋带。 他甚至还有一个棕色的大信封，里面装满了他自己剪下来的脚趾甲。 至少，每个人都是这么说的，尽管杰西很确定没有人真正看到过信封。 “课间休息时你不能在外面看书，”大卫说。 “我从来没听说过这个规则，”杰西说。 “你不知道一条规则并不意味着它就不是一条规则。” 大卫开始抠他的一个指甲，杰西想知道他是否也会收集指甲。