6 THE WORST WORD IN THE WORLD

THE WORST WORD IN THE WORLD "Let me get this straight," Bean said. "I do something bad, and then you talk me into being good?" "Yeah," said Ivy. "I reform you. Just like that guy reformed the wolf." "I'm not licking your feet," said Bean. "No way, no how." "I don't want you to lick my feet," Ivy said. "I just want to make you good." "And I'll still get to share the wolf and the birds when they come along?" "Sure. They'll love you extra because you turned from bad to good." Bean thought about that. "But I won't be bad in the end, right? The wolf is going to know I'm like him inside, right?"

“让我把话说清楚，”比恩说。 “我做了坏事，你却劝我做个好人？”“是的，”艾薇说。 “我改造你。就像那个人改造了狼一样。” “我不会舔你的脚，”比恩说。 “不可能，不可能。”“我不想让你舔我的脚，”艾薇说。 “我只是想让你变好。” “等狼和鸟来了，我还能分享它们吗？”“当然。 他们会因为你改过自新而更加爱你。” 比恩想了想。“但我最后不会变坏的，对吧？” 狼会知道我的内心和它一样，对吧？”

"Right," Ivy said. "You'll only be bad for a few minutes. Then I'll reform you, and you'll be good again. It's like a play we're putting on for the birds." "What's going on over there?" yelled Liana from the curb. "I thought you said birds were going to flutter around your head!" She pointed to the three crows who lived on the telephone pole. "I don't see them fluttering!" "Hang on!" Ivy called.

“好的，”艾薇说。“你只会坏几分钟。 然后我会改造你，你又会变好的。 这就像我们为鸟儿们上演的一出戏。” “那边发生什么事了？”莉安娜在路边喊道。 “我记得你说过鸟儿会在你的头顶上飞舞！”她指着住在电线杆上的三只乌鸦。 “我没看见它们在飘扬！”“等等!”常春藤。

"We're pausing for station identification," Bean yelled. She turned back to Ivy. "Am I just bad once?" "Well, that depends," said Ivy, "on how long it takes for the birds to show up." Wow. Being bad was actually good. Bean jumped to her feet. "Okay, guys!" she yelled at the kids on the curb. "I'm going to be really bad, and then Ivy's going to make me good. Then we'll have birds galore. Not just those crow losers." "How bad are you going to be?" yelled Dino. "You wait and see" called Bean. "You, won't believe it." She'd better think of something quick. She looked around Ivy's front yard. She scratched her mosquito bites. She searched through her brain for badness. The problem was that she usually

“我们要停下来确认车站身份，”比恩喊道。 她转向艾薇。“我只是坏了一次吗？”“嗯，那要看，”艾薇说，“要看鸟儿多久才会出现。” 哇。做坏人其实是好事。 比恩跳了起来。“好了，伙计们！”她对路边的孩子们喊道。 “我会变得很坏，然后艾薇会让我变好。 然后我们会有很多鸟。 不仅仅是那些乌鸦失败者。” “你会有多坏？”迪诺喊道。 “你等着瞧吧。”比恩说。 “你不会相信的。”她最好赶快想个办法。 她环顾了艾薇家的前院。 她抓了抓蚊子咬的地方。 她在脑子里寻找坏事。 问题是她经常

didn't decide to be bad. For example, she knew that she wasn't supposed to call Nancy a doody head, but when she got really mad, she forgot. She didn't mean to be bad; she was just too mad to remember to be good. Maybe she should call Ivy a doody head. But she didn't truly think Ivy was a doody head, so that probably wouldn't count. Bean pulled a leaf off a bush and looked at Ivy. "Bad?" she asked. Ivy shrugged. "Not really. My mom cuts them with clippers." Okay. She would have to do something worse. She just couldn't think of anything. "What's bad?" she asked. "Bad words," Ivy said instantly. Of course! Bean should have thought of that herself! Just a few days ago she had heard a lot of bad words at the hardware

我没想做坏人。例如，她知道她不应该称南希为doody head，但当她真的生气时，她忘了。 她并不想做坏人；她只是太生气了，不记得要做好人。 也许她该叫艾薇傻蛋。 但她并不真的认为艾薇是个笨蛋，所以这可能不算数。 比恩从灌木上扯下一片叶子，看着艾薇。 “坏？”她问。艾薇耸耸肩。 “不是真的。我妈妈用剪刀剪它们。” 好吧。她会做出更糟糕的事。 她就是想不出什么来。 “有什么不好的？”她问。“脏话，”艾薇立刻说。 当然!宾自己应该想到的！就在几天前，她听到了很多硬件上的坏话

store. Some of them were so bad that she didn't know what they meant, so she picked the one that had sounded the worst. She turned to face the kids on the curb. "I'm about to say a bad word!" she yelled. "A super-duper bad word!" Dino, Liana, and the Sophies nodded. Katy clapped. Bean stood very close to Ivy and whispered the bad word in her ear. Ivy tried not to giggle, but it came out her nose. She sniffed hard and then put her hands over her heart and cried, "NO! I beg you, Bean, not to say that terrible word! Promise you won't!" Bean looked at Ivy for a moment. What was she supposed to do? "Um, okay."

商店。有些太难听了，她听不懂是什么意思，于是她挑了听起来最难听的那个。 她转过身来面对路边的孩子们。 “我要说脏话了！”她喊道。 “一个超级糟糕的词！”迪诺、莉安娜和苏菲姐妹点了点头。 凯蒂都鼓起了掌。比恩站得离艾薇很近，在她耳边低声说了这个难听的话。 艾薇强忍着不笑出声来，但还是从鼻子里冒了出来。 她使劲地嗅了嗅，然后用手捂着心口喊道：“不！我求你了，豆子，别说那个可怕的词！答应我你不会！”比恩看了艾薇一会儿。 她该怎么做？ “嗯,好。”

"She's good again! She's changed!" Ivy said loudly. Bean checked the crows. They were still sitting on the telephone pole. They hadn't even noticed Bean's bad word. "Stupid birds," said Bean. "We didn't hear anything!" Dino yelled. "Say it louder!" Whoa, Nellie. Bean was not going to say that word out loud Um. um... "BRA!" she screamed. Liana and the Sophies giggled, but Dino

“她又乖了！”她改变了!”艾薇大声说。 比恩制止了乌鸦。他们还坐在电线杆上。 他们甚至没有注意到比恩的坏话。 “愚蠢的鸟儿，”比恩说。 “我们什么也没听到！”恐龙喊道。 “大声点说！”哇,内莉。 比恩不打算把那个词大声说出来。 嗯…“胸罩！”她尖叫道。 莉安娜和苏菲姐妹咯咯地笑，但迪诺