1 DROP EVERYTHING!

IVY + BEAN BREAK THE FOSSIL RECORD by annie barrows

《常春藤+豆子打破化石记录》安妮·巴罗斯著

DROP EVERYTHING! Boring. Boring! Boring! Bean turned her book upside down and tried to read it that way. Cool. Well, sort of cool. No. Boring. Bean sighed and turned her book back right side up. It was a book about cats that she had picked from the school library. There was a different cat on each page. Bean liked cats, but reading about them was driving her crazy. All the cats looked the same except the sphynx cat, who didn't have any fur. He looked halfway between a dog and a rat. Bean liked him the best. I bet Ivy's never seen a sphynx cat, thought Bean. She knew she wasn't

掉一切!无聊。无聊!无聊!比恩把她的书倒过来，试着那样读。 酷。嗯，挺酷的。否。 无聊。比恩叹了口气，把书翻过来。 那是一本关于猫的书，是她从学校图书馆里挑出来的。 每一页上都有不同的猫。 比恩喜欢猫，但读有关猫的书让她发疯。 所有的猫看起来都一样，除了那只没有毛的斯芬克斯猫。 他看上去既像狗又像老鼠。 比恩最喜欢他。我敢打赌艾薇从没见过斯芬克斯猫，比恩想。 她知道她不是

supposed to talk during Drop Everything and Read, so she poked Ivy in the ribs. Ivy's eyes were binging across the pages of her book. Bing, bing, bing. She looked like she was watching a Ping-Pong game. She didn't even notice Bean. So Bean poked her again. "Hey!" she whispered. "Earth to Ivy!" "Hmm?" Ivy mumbled. "Looky here! It's a dog-rat!" Bean whispered louder. Ivy looked for a little tiny second.

应该在《放下一切，阅读》节目中说话，所以她戳了艾薇的肋骨。 艾薇的眼睛不停地翻着书页。 叮，叮，叮。她看起来像是在看乒乓球比赛。 她甚至没有注意到比恩。 于是比恩又捅了她一下。“嘿！”她低声说。 “地球到艾薇！”“嗯?”艾薇咕哝道。 “看这里!这是一只狗鼠！”比恩更大声地小声说。 艾薇看了一小会儿。

"Oh," she said and went back to reading. Bean sighed again. All the other kids in Ms. Aruba-Tate's second-grade classroom were bent over their books. Even Eric, who usually fell out of his chair two or three times during Drop Everything and Read, was quiet. He had a book about man- eating sharks. MacAdam was picking his nose. Bean raised her hand. Ms. Aruba-Tate didn't see because she was reading, too, so Bean called out, "Ms. Aruba-Tate!"

“哦，”她说，然后继续看书。 比恩又叹了口气。所有其他的孩子在Ms。 阿鲁巴-泰特小学二年级的学生都在埋头读书。 就连在“放下一切，阅读”节目中经常从椅子上摔下来两三次的埃里克也很安静。 他有一本关于食人鲨鱼的书。 麦克亚当在挖鼻子。 比恩举起了手。阿鲁巴-塔特没有看到，因为她也在读书。 Aruba-Tate !”

"Shhh," whispered Ms. Aruba-Tate. "What is it Bean?", "There's a problem, and it starts with M," began Bean, looking hard at MacAdam. "And then N and P." She wiggled her finger next to her nose, just in case Ms. Aruba- Tate needed an extra hint. Ms. Aruba-Tate looked at MacAdam, too. Then she put down her book and came over to Bean's table.

“嘘，”阿鲁巴-塔特悄声说。 “有个问题，它是以M开头的。”比恩盯着麦克亚当说。 “然后是N和p。”她用手指在鼻子旁边晃来晃去，以防万一。 阿鲁巴-塔特需要一个额外的提示。 阿鲁巴-塔特也看了看麦克亚当。 然后她放下书，走到比恩的桌子旁。