Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Mushrooms Take Over the World personification (n) giving lifelike characteristics to an inanimate object or an abstract idea; describing an object as if it were alive Candy! A box of candy hearts fell out of Jessie's Valentine's Day shoebox, and now all the kids were tearing open the lids of their own boxes and finding candy, too. "Sweet!" Evan shouted, scooping up the miniature box of candy conversation hearts. "Thanks, Mrs. Overton!" said Nina Lee when Mrs. Overton hurried into the classroom from the hallway. She'd been at the photocopier, making copies of the Poem of the Day.

拟人化(n)赋予无生命的物体或抽象的概念以栩栩如生的特征；把一个物体当作活的来描述Candy！一盒心形糖果从杰西的情人节鞋盒里掉了出来，现在所有的孩子都在撕开自己盒子的盖子，发现里面也有糖果。 “甜!”埃文喊道，舀起了小盒子的糖果交谈心。 “谢谢，奥弗顿夫人！”当奥弗顿夫人从走廊匆匆走进教室时，尼娜·李说。 她一直在复印机前复印《今日之诗》。

"Thanks for what?" asked Mrs. Overton. "The candy!" shouted Jack, holding his box high and rattling it as if it were a maraca. "Where did this candy come from?" asked Mrs. Overton, looking surprised. "Who cares?" said Scott, popping three candy hearts into his mouth and crunching loudly. "I care!" said Mrs. Overton, her voice rising with alarm. "Hey, look what my hearts say," said Tessa. She held one up. "GREAT VOICE." "That's so weird!" said Cindy. Tessa had the best singing voice in the whole school. Every year, she sang in the talent show, and it was like watching an episode of American Idol. "Look at this!" said Christopher. He held up his candy heart. "Mine says MASTERPIECE." Christopher was always drawing, and when he grew up he planned to be an artist. "What does yours say?" asked Jessie, turning to Salley Knight.

“谢谢你什么？”奥弗顿太太问。 “糖果！”杰克喊道，把他的盒子高高举起，把它弄得嘎嘎作响，就好像它是一只沙鸭。 “这些糖果是从哪儿来的？”奥弗顿太太惊讶地问道。 “谁在乎呢？”斯科特说着，把三颗心形糖果塞进嘴里，大声嘎吱作响。 “我在乎！”奥弗顿太太说，她的声音因惊恐而提高了。 “嘿，看看我的心在说什么，”特莎说。 她举起一个。“伟大的声音。” “太奇怪了！”辛迪说。 特莎的歌声是全校最好的。 每年，她都在选秀节目中唱歌，就像在看一集《美国偶像》。 “看这个！”克里斯托弗说。 他举起他的心形糖果。 “我的上面写着杰作。”克里斯托弗总是画画，他长大后打算成为一名艺术家。 “你的怎么说？”杰西转向莎莉·奈特问道。

"It says BEST LUNCH." No one could argue with that. Salley's mom owned a restaurant, and she always packed the best food in Salley's lunchbox. "Who brought these candies to school?" asked Mrs. Overton. No one had a clue. "Well, don't eat them," she said, but almost everyone had already popped the sugary hearts into their mouths. "Should we spit them out?" asked David, sticking out his tongue with the melting candy on the tip of it. "No! No spitting!" said Mrs. O. "Just..." She went to the class phone and made a quick call, then returned to the front of the class. "Let's refocus and get started on our morning work," she said. "We've got a lot to do today." But it was a good five minutes before everyone stopped comparing the messages written on their candy hearts: BEAUTIFUL HAIR, YOU MAKE ME LAUGH, MATH GENIUS. All of them seemed to say something about the person.

“上面写着最好的午餐。”没有人会反对这一点。 莎莉的妈妈开了一家餐馆，她总是把最好的食物装在莎莉的午餐盒里。 “谁把这些糖果带到学校来了？”奥弗顿夫人问。 没人知道。“好吧，别吃了，”她说，但几乎每个人都已经把甜心放进嘴里了。 “我们应该把它们吐出来吗？”大卫问，伸出舌头，舌尖上有正在融化的糖果。 “不!不准随地吐痰！”欧太太说。 “只是……”她走到教室电话旁，打了个电话，然后又回到教室前面。 “让我们重新集中精力，开始早上的工作，”她说。 “我们今天有很多事情要做。” 但在大家停止比较糖果心上写的信息之前，这是一个美好的五分钟：漂亮的头发，你让我笑，数学天才。 所有这些似乎都说明了这个人的一些情况。

All of them except for Evan's. His just said FOR YOU. Well, he didn't care what the candy said as long as it was candy. He popped three hearts in his mouth and shoved the box in his back pocket. On the playground at lunch recess, most of the kids agreed that it must have been Mrs. Overton who had left the candy hearts for them. She had pulled a few sneaky-surprise tricks on them during the year. In January when they were studying the Revolutionary War, she'd had Officer Ken come to school and arrest them all on charges of sedition. During their famous inventors unit, which happened to fall around Halloween, she had left strange things around the classroom (burned-out light bulbs, bits of wire and springs, an antique crank phonograph, and a few ghoulish notes on the blackboard) that seemed to suggest that the ghost of Thomas Edison was haunting 4-O. Evan figured this was just one more prank.

所有的，除了埃文的。 他只说给你。他不在乎糖果上写了什么只要它是糖果就行。 他把三个红心塞进嘴里，把盒子塞进后口袋。 在操场上的午餐休息时间，大多数孩子都认为一定是奥弗顿夫人给他们留下了心形糖果。 在这一年里，她对他们耍了一些鬼鬼祟祟的把戏。 一月份，当他们正在学习独立战争时，她让肯警官来到学校，以煽动叛乱的罪名逮捕了他们。 在他们著名的发明家小组活动期间（正好在万圣节前后），她在教室里留下了一些奇怪的东西（烧坏的灯泡、电线和弹簧的碎片、一台古董曲柄留声机，黑板上还有一些令人毛骨悚然的笔记），似乎表明托马斯·爱迪生的鬼魂在4- 0徘徊。 埃文以为这只是又一个恶作剧。

"I'm home!" Evan shouted the next day as he walked through the front door after practice, dropping his basketball in the hall and taking off his sneakers. "Garage, please," said his mom, pointing to the ball and the shoes. "How was practice?" she asked after Evan came back into the kitchen to grab a snack. "Great. My team won both scrimmages. Can I eat this in my room?" He held up a banana. "Yes, but don't leave the peel in your trash can. It'll smell." Mrs. Treski was standing at the kitchen counter, chopping vegetables. She had already made a neat pile of diced carrots and another one of onions, and now she was slicing up celery. That meant enchiladas for dinner! This day just kept getting better and better. "And don't eat more than that," said Mrs. Treski as Evan headed up the stairs. "Dinner's in an hour."

“我回来了!”第二天，埃文在训练结束后穿过前门时喊道，他把篮球扔在大厅里，脱掉了运动鞋。 “请到车库，”妈妈指着球和鞋子说。 “练习怎么样？”埃文回到厨房拿点心后，她问。 “好了。我的队两次都赢了。 我能在房间里吃吗？”他举起一根香蕉。 “是的，但是不要把果皮丢在垃圾桶里。 它的气味。”特雷斯基太太正站在厨房柜台前切菜。 她已经把胡萝卜丁和洋葱丁整整齐齐地堆了一堆，现在她正在切芹菜。 这意味着晚餐要吃玉米卷饼！今天真是越来越好了。 艾凡上楼时，特雷斯基太太说：“不要吃太多。” “一小时后开饭。”

Evan went up to his room and stuck the Locked sign on the outside of his door before closing it. There weren't any actual locks on the bedroom doors in their house, but Mrs. Treski believed everyone—even kids—had a right to privacy. So they each had a laminated cardboard sign that they could hang on their doors. When the sign was up, it meant everyone else in the family had to act as if the door was actually locked. Before this school year, Evan had almost never "locked" his door. But now that he and Jessie were in the same class at school—together all

埃文回到自己的房间，在关门前把上锁的牌子贴在门外。 他们家的卧室门上没有任何真正的锁，但特雷斯基夫人相信每个人——甚至孩子——都有隐私权。 所以他们每个人都有一个叠层纸板的标志，他们可以挂在他们的门上。 当这个牌子挂起来的时候，就意味着家里的其他人都得假装门是真的锁着的。 在本学年之前，埃文几乎从来没有“锁门”过。 但现在他和杰西在学校的同一个班级——一起