2 DIP, DIP, CRASH!

DIP DIP CRASH! It was not long before Ivy and Bean realized that they had made a terrible mistake. Bean began to realize it while Madame Joy was talking about first position. You stuck your heels together and your toes apart. Big deal. Where was the leaping? Where was the kicking? Where was the dancing? Then Madame Joy chattered for a long time about nice round arms. Who cared about arms? When Madame Joy started in on second position, which turned out to be just regular standing, Bean stopped listening.

暴跌暴跌暴跌！没过多久，艾薇和比恩就意识到他们犯了一个可怕的错误。 当乔伊夫人在谈论第一名的时候，比恩开始意识到这一点。 你把脚跟夹在一起，脚趾分开。 大不了的。跳跃在哪里？ 踢到哪里去了？在哪里跳舞？ 然后乔伊夫人喋喋不休地说了很长时间关于漂亮的圆胳膊。 谁在乎武器？当乔伊夫人站到第二个位置时，比恩就不听了。

Ivy paid careful attention to first position. Heels, toes. Great! Then she paid careful attention to second position. Arms out, legs out. Great! Then came third position. "Now," said Madame Joy, "third position. For third position, we slide our right foot, like so, to the middle of our left foot. Then we lift one nice round arm up,

艾薇很注意第一名的位置。 高跟鞋,脚趾。太棒了!然后，她仔细注意了第二名的位置。 伸出胳膊，伸出腿。太棒了!然后是第三名。 “现在，”乔伊夫人说，“第三个位置。 第三个姿势，我们把右脚像这样滑到左脚中间。 然后我们举起一只圆润的手臂，

up in the air, leaving our other nice round arm—" Ivy fell over with a thump. "Goodness!" exclaimed Madame Joy. "Let's try that again." Let's not, thought Ivy. But they did. In fact, they did nothing but one, two, three, four, and five for half an hour. After that, Madame Joy showed them something called a plié. She acted like it was the most important thing in the world, but really it was just bending your knees and dipping a little. Dip, dip, dip. Row, row, row your boat, thought Bean. "Hey, guys," she called, "Get this!" She sang, "Dip, dip, dip your knees—" Nobody joined in. Instead, Madame Joy said, "We save our singing for after class, Bean."

在空中，留下我们另一只漂亮的圆胳膊——”艾薇扑通一声倒在地上。 “天哪！” “我们再试一次。”别这样，艾薇想。 但他们做到了。事实上，他们在半小时内只做了一、二、三、四、五件事。 在那之后，乔伊夫人给他们看了一种叫pli<s:1>的东西。 她表现得好像这是世界上最重要的事情，但实际上这只是弯曲你的膝盖，蘸一点。 蘸，蘸，蘸。划，划，划你的船，比恩想。 “嘿，伙计们，”她喊道，“抓住这个！”她唱着：“蘸，蘸，蘸你的膝盖——”没有人跟着唱。 相反，乔伊夫人说：“我们把唱歌留到课后吧，豆子。”

Sheesh Bean said to herself You'd think. she'd be happy to get a little more pep in here. But it was even worse when Madame Joy was peppy. "All right, girls! Time to leap like little kitties!" Madame Joy said, springing into the air with her ballet slippers fluttering. "She doesn't leap like a kitty. She leaps like a frog," Bean whispered to Ivy. "Bean!" called Madame Joy. "You may lead the kitties." She twirled briskly around and hauled Bean to the front of the line.

希什·比恩自言自语道。 她会很高兴这里能多一点活力。 但当乔伊夫人兴高采烈时，情况就更糟了。 “好了，姑娘们！”是时候像小猫一样跳跃了！”乔伊夫人说着，跳了起来，芭蕾舞鞋飘动着。 “她不像小猫那样跳跃。 她跳起来像只青蛙，”比恩低声对艾薇说。 “豆子！”乔伊夫人叫道。 “你可以牵着小猫。” 她轻快地转过身，把比恩拖到队伍的前面。

"Now," she said, smiling, "you are a kitty! Leap!" Madame Joy bounded across the wide, empty floor. Bean closed her eyes and imagined she was a cat. She was a skinny black cat that wanted to catch a bird. And then eat it. Bean crouched. She twitched her tail. She narrowed her eyes. "RRRRRrrrowll!" she screeched and then lunged forward, landing on her hands and knees in the middle of the floor. "Got him!" she yelled. Madame Joy stared at Bean for a second, and then she said, "Dulcie, will you show us how to leap like a kitty?" "Yes, Madame Joy," said Dulcie, only she said, "Madame Jwah." For some reason,

“现在，”她笑着说，“你是一只小猫！飞跃!”乔伊夫人蹦蹦跳跳地穿过宽阔空旷的地板。 比恩闭上眼睛，想象自己是一只猫。 她是一只瘦黑猫，想抓一只鸟。 然后吃掉它。Bean蹲。 她抽动了一下尾巴。她眯起眼睛。 “呜——呜——呜！”她尖叫着向前扑去，双手和膝盖着地，落在地板中央。 “抓到他了！”乔伊夫人盯着比恩看了一会儿，然后说：“达西，你能教我们怎么像小猫一样跳吗？”“是的，乔伊夫人，”杜尔茜说，不过她说的是“乔瓦夫人。” 出于某种原因，

Madame Joy liked that. Dulcie came to the front of the line and stood with her arms out and her toes pointed. Bean rose to her feet. "So I already did it, right?" she asked. "I get to be done, right?" "No," said Madame Joy. "You need more practice. Go to the end of the line." Bean clomped to the end of the line and stood behind Ivy. Dulcie lifted her arms higher and smiled proudly. Then she hopped across the empty floor, ker-plop, ker-plop. When she reached the other side of the ballet studio, Dulcie stood before Madame Joy and held out her tiny pink dance skirt. Then she swirled one leg behind the other and curtseyed. "Show-off," whispered Bean. "I can't believe that we asked for this" said Ivy, her eyes on Dulcie. "We didn't just ask. We begged," Bean said glumly.

乔伊夫人喜欢这样。达西走到队伍前面，伸出双臂，踮着脚尖站着。 比恩站了起来。“所以我已经做了，对吗？”她问。 “我得做完，对吧？”“不，”乔伊夫人说。 “你需要更多的练习。到队伍的尽头去。” 比恩踉跄地走到队伍的尽头，站在艾薇身后。 杜茜把胳膊举得更高，骄傲地笑了。 然后她在空荡荡的地板上跳来跳去，咔嗒，咔嗒。 当达茜走到芭蕾舞教室的另一边时，她站在乔伊夫人面前，拿出她的粉红色小裙。 然后她一条腿绕在另一条腿后面，行了屈膝礼。 “炫耀。”比恩小声说。 “我真不敢相信我们居然要这样，”艾薇说，眼睛盯着杜尔西。 “我们不只是问。我们求过他，”比恩闷闷不乐地说。