1 BEAN GETS ANTSY

IVY + BEAN WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA by annie barrows

《艾薇+豆子，什么是大主意》安妮·巴罗斯著

Bean Gets Antsy There had been a problem in Bean's house. The problem was staples. Bean loved staples. She

比恩的家出了问题。 问题是订书钉。Bean喜欢订书钉。 她

loved them so much that she had stapled things that weren't supposed to be stapled. The things looked better stapled, but her mother didn't think so, and now Bean was outside. She was going to be outside for a long time. She looked at her backyard. Same old yard, same old trampoline, same old dinky plastic playhouse, same old pile of buckets and ropes and stilts. None of them was any fun. Maybe she could play junkyard crash. Junkyard crash was when you stacked up all the stuff you could find and then drove the toy car into the stack. But it was no fun alone. Bean got up and scuffed across the nice green lawn until she reached the not-so-nice green lawn. This part of Bean's lawn had holes and lumps in it. The lumps were mostly places where Bean had buried treasure for kids of the future.

她太爱他们了，以至于把不该钉的东西都钉上了。 这些东西看起来钉好了，但她妈妈不这么认为，现在比恩在外面。 她要在外面待很长时间。 她看了看后院。 同样的旧院子，同样的蹦床，同样的小塑料游戏室，同样的一堆桶，绳子和高跷。 没有一个是有趣的。也许她可以玩“垃圾场撞车”。 当你把所有能找到的东西堆在一起，然后开着玩具车撞进堆里时，就会发生“垃圾场撞车”。 但独自一人并不好玩。比恩站起来，穿过漂亮的绿色草坪，一直走到不那么漂亮的绿色草坪。 比恩的这部分草坪上有洞和肿块。 这些土块大多是比恩为未来的孩子们埋下宝藏的地方。

Bean picked up a shovel. To heck with kids of the future. She was bored now. And maybe a secret admirer had added something interesting to her treasure, like a ruby skull or a dinosaur egg. Bean didn't bury her treasure very deep, so it was easy to dig up. This treasure was inside a paper bag, but the paper bag wasn't doing so well. It wasn't really a paper bag anymore. "Holy moly!" Bean said loudly. "I've found treasure!" She pulled the clumps of paper apart. What a disappointment. No ruby skull. No

比恩拿起一把铲子。去管未来的孩子们。 她现在觉得无聊了。也许是一个秘密的仰慕者在她的宝藏中添加了一些有趣的东西，比如红宝石头骨或恐龙蛋。 比恩没有把她的宝藏埋得很深，所以很容易挖出来。 这些财宝装在一个纸袋里，但是纸袋的状况不太好。 它不再是真正的纸袋了。 “神圣的魔草!”比恩大声说。 “我找到宝藏了！”她把一团一团的纸拉开。 真令人失望。没有红宝石头骨。 否

dinosaur egg. Just the same stuff she had buried two weeks ago: dental floss, tweezers, and a magnifying glass. Some treasure. Bean flopped over on her stomach. "I'm dying of boredom," she moaned, hoping her mother would hear, "I'm dyyy-ing." She coughed in a dying sort of way, "huh-ACK!" and then lay still. Anyone looking from the porch would think she was dead. And then that person would feel bad. Bean lay still.

恐龙的蛋。跟她两周前埋的东西一样：牙线、镊子和放大镜。 一些宝藏。比恩扑通一声趴在地上。 “我快无聊死了，”她呻吟着，希望妈妈能听到，“我快死了。” 她用一种垂死的口气咳了一声，“咳——咳！”然后静静地躺着。 从门廊往外看的人会以为她死了。 然后那个人会感觉很糟糕。 比恩静静地躺着。

Very still. She could hear her heart thumping. She could feel the hairs on her arm moving. Bean opened her eyes. There was an ant scurrying over her arm. Bean pulled the magnifying glass over and peered at the ant. Her arm was like a mountain, and the little ant was like a mountain climber, stumbling along with a tired expression on his face. Poor, hardworking ant. She knew how he felt because sometimes her parents made her go hiking. She watched as he dodged between hairs and charged down the other side of her arm toward the ground. She offered him a blade of grass to use as a slide, but that seemed to confuse him. He paused, looked anxiously right and left, and then continued on her arm. He had a plan, and he was going to stick to it. Bean watched through the magnifying glass as he scuttled into the grass, rushing along the ground between blades. He was in a big hurry. He met another

仍然非常。她能听到自己的心怦怦直跳。 她能感觉到手臂上的汗毛在动。 比恩睁开了眼睛。一只蚂蚁在她的胳膊上乱窜。 比恩把放大镜拉过来，盯着蚂蚁看。 她的胳膊像一座山，小蚂蚁像一个登山者，跌跌撞撞地走着，脸上带着疲惫的表情。 可怜、勤劳的蚂蚁。她知道他的感受，因为有时她的父母会让她去远足。 她看着他躲在头发之间，顺着她手臂的另一边冲向地面。 她给了他一片草叶作为滑梯，但这似乎把他弄糊涂了。 他停顿了一下，焦急地左右张望，然后继续搂着她的胳膊。 他有个计划，他要坚持下去。 比恩透过放大镜看着他冲进草丛，在叶片之间的地面上奔跑。 他很着急。他遇到了另一个