8 FROM BAD TO WORSE

FROM BAD TO WORSE They all stood there watching Katy run away. Suddenly, Dino slapped his hand against his forehead. "Oh no!" he groaned. "Now I've got it, too!" He looked sideways at Bean. "I think I've got it bad!" Sophie W. smiled. "Me, too," she said. "I've got it worse." "Now wait a second," began Ivy. "I'm the bad one around here!" said Bean. "You wish," said Liana. She glanced at the row of front yards that lined the street. "First dibs on all the mailboxes" she said. Kids were swarming around Pancake Court. Dino stole one of Mrs. Trantz's white rocks. Ivy begged him to stop, but he just

他们都站在那里看着凯蒂跑开。 突然，迪诺用手拍了拍额头。 “哦，不！”他呻吟道。“现在我也有了！”他斜眼看着比恩。 “我想我病得很严重！”苏菲W。 笑了。“我也是，”她说。 “我经历过更糟的。”“现在等一下，”艾薇开始说。 “我是这里最坏的一个！”比恩说。 “你想得美。”莉安娜说。她瞥了一眼沿街排列的一排前院。 “所有的邮箱都是我的优先权。”她说。 孩子们聚集在煎饼阁周围。 迪诺偷了特兰兹太太的一块白石头。 艾薇求他住手，但他

stuck the rock in the exhaust pipe of Jake the Teenager's car. Sophie W. ripped a bunch of grass out of her lawn. "Stop it," Ivy pleaded, and Sophie obeyed. But a minute later she hid her baby sister's shovel and pail in a bush. "Look at me!" Bean hollered. She took off her sneakers and tried to throw them onto Mrs. Trantz's roof. One bounced off the living room window and the other landed in the camellia bush. Bean was glad she hadn't broken the window, but she turned to Ivy and said, "Dang! I was trying to break the window." "Bean! Breaking windows is really bad!" cried Ivy. "You can't do that! Reform!" But Bean wasn't listening. She whirled around, looking for another bad thing to do.

把石头塞进少年杰克汽车的排气管里 苏菲·w把一束草从她的草坪上拔了下来。 “住手。”艾薇恳求道，索菲照做了。 但一分钟后，她把小妹妹的铲子和桶藏在灌木丛里。 “看着我！”豆大声喊道。 她脱下运动鞋，想把它们扔到特兰兹太太的屋顶上。 一枚弹到了客厅的窗户上，另一枚落在了山茶花丛里。 比恩很高兴她没有打破窗户，但她转身对艾薇说：“该死！我想打破窗户。” “豆!打破窗户真的很糟糕！”艾薇叫道。 “你不能这么做！”改革!”但比恩不听。 她转过身来，想再做一件坏事。

Ivy dropped down on her front lawn. She had been running back and forth between badnesses, but nobody was getting any better. Dino was stepping on ants. Sophie S. was rubbing dirt into her shirt. Liana was tying her mother's hose in a knot. Bean was hanging upside down from the handrail on her front stairs. Sophie W. had swallowed her gum. Ivy glanced up into the trees. Still no birds. Even the crows had flown away. Bean sat down beside her. "I can't think of anything else. Can you?"

艾薇倒在她家门前的草坪上。 她一直在各种不幸之间来回奔波，但没有人有所好转。 迪诺正在踩蚂蚁。 苏菲·s正在往衬衫上擦土。 莉安娜正在把她妈妈的长筒袜打结。 比恩倒挂在她家前楼梯的扶手上。 苏菲·w把口香糖吞了下去。 艾薇抬头望着树林。 还是没有鸟。连乌鸦都飞走了。 比恩在她身边坐下。“我想不出别的了。 你能吗?”

"No." Ivy looked around the yard for ideas. "Hey! A squirrel!" Ivy whispered, pointing at her hedge. "He's looking at me!" Inside the hedge, a little brown squirrel was sitting among the leaves. He was holding a strawberry in his tiny claws. Every few moments he lifted the berry to his mouth and tore it to bits with his chattering teeth. Little pieces of strawberry flew through the air, but he paid no attention.

“没有。”艾薇在院子里四处寻找灵感。 “嘿!一只松鼠!”艾薇指着她的树篱小声说。 “他在看我！”树篱里，一只棕色的小松鼠正坐在树叶中间。 它的小爪子里抓着一颗草莓。 每隔几分钟，他就把浆果举到嘴边，用他打颤的牙齿把它撕成碎片。 小片的草莓在空中飞舞，但他没有注意。

His bulging brown eyes were fixed on Ivy. "He's trying to tell me something with his eyes," whispered Ivy, staring at the squirrel. Bean nodded. "Cool." "He's saying, 'O pure one, I will follow you till the end of time because your heart is like a squirrel's.'" Ivy stood and stepped toward the squirrel. "Greetings," she whispered. The squirrel leaped to its feet as though it had been stuck with a pin. Stuffing the rest of the berry in its mouth, it scampered away. Ivy frowned. She turned to Bean. "I've got it. Let's pick a bunch of strawberries and squash them. That would be pretty

他那双鼓鼓囊囊的棕色眼睛盯着艾薇。 “他想用他的眼睛告诉我什么，”艾薇盯着松鼠小声说。 豆点了点头。“酷”。“他说，‘纯洁的人啊，我要跟随你直到地老天荒，因为你的心像松鼠的心。’”艾薇站起来，朝松鼠走去。 “你好，”她低声说。 松鼠跳了起来，就像被别针夹住了一样。 把剩下的浆果塞进嘴里，它就跑开了。 艾薇皱起了眉头。她转向比恩。 “我知道了。让我们摘一束草莓，把它们压碎。 那就太好了

bad." "Great idea!" said Bean. Dino ran by, dragging a big branch behind him. "I'm worse than you!" he hollered over his shoulder at Bean. "We're going to touch Mr. Columbi's car!" shrieked Sophie S. and Sophie W. Mr. Columbi was always telling them not to touch his car. He washed it two times a week with special soap. The two Sophies bounded toward Mr. Columbi's driveway. Liana was stuffing her mother's welcome mat into her mailbox. Bean looked up and down Pancake Court. What more could she do? The strawberries were squished, her sneakers were gone, she was sick to her stomach from candy, she had spit on Mrs. Trantz's rose, and she had said the worst word in the world. She was pooped. "These guys are ruining everything,"

坏。”“好主意！”比恩说。 迪诺拖着一根大树枝跑了过去。 “我比你还坏！”他回过头对比恩喊道。 “我们要去摸科伦比先生的车！” 科伦比先生总是告诉他们不要碰他的车。 他用特制的肥皂一周洗两次。 两个索菲蹦蹦跳跳地朝科伦比先生的车道走去。 莉安娜正在把她妈妈的欢迎垫塞进信箱。 比恩上下打量了一下煎饼庭。 她还能做什么呢？草莓被压扁了，她的运动鞋不见了，她因为吃糖而反胃，她在特兰茨太太的玫瑰上吐口水，她说了世界上最糟糕的话。 她累坏了。“这些家伙把一切都毁了。”