0 Introduction

Stella Batts Needs a New Name

斯特拉·巴茨需要个新名字

INTRODUCTION (that means some background at the beginning of the story): My name is Stella Batts. I'm going to be a writer when I grow up, because writing is one of my favorite things. Except I'm not waiting until I grow up, because this is my first book. It's going to be an autobiography. That means I'm writing it and it's all about me. I am eight years old. I live in California. I was born at a hospital in a city called San Francisco, and now I live in a house in a town called Somers. You say it like "summers."

引言（就是故事开头的背景介绍哦）： 我叫斯特拉·巴茨。 我长大了要当作家，因为写作是我最喜欢的事之一。 不过我可没等到长大，你现在看的就是我的第一本书。 这会是一本自传哦。 就是说这本书是我写的，讲的全是我的事。 我今年八岁啦。 我住在加利福尼亚州。 我出生在旧金山的一家医院，现在住在萨默斯镇的一栋房子里。 读起来和“夏天（summers）”的发音一样哦。

My favorite place in Somers is my parents" candy store, which is called Batts Confections. "Confections" is just a big word that means candy. They sell M&Ms, gumdrops, jelly beans, toffee, and basically any other sweet you can imagine. There's also a special fudge counter. The fudge is made at our store—and it's called Stella's Fudge. It was named after

萨默斯镇上我最喜欢的地方就是我爸妈的糖果店，叫巴茨甜品屋。 “甜品”就是个指糖果的大词啦。 店里卖MM豆、橡皮糖、吉利豆、太妃糖，基本上你能想到的所有甜食都有。 店里还有个特别的软糖柜台。 软糖都是我们店里自己做的——叫斯特拉软糖。 它的名字是取自

me because fudge is one of my favorite things to eat. I know how to make it too, but I'm not allowed to write it here because it's our family's secret recipe. Here are some of my other favorite things: 1. The color yellow 2. Using big words 3. Dolphins 4. Getting to press the buttons in elevators 5. Making lists When this book is finished it's going to be in all the bookstores and anyone can buy it. It'll say "By Stella Batts" in big letters on the cover. I'll be famous and people will know my name. Except my name is not one of my favorite things.

我，因为软糖是我最爱吃的东西之一。 我也知道怎么做软糖，不过我不能把做法写在这儿，因为这是我们家的秘方。 我还有些其他喜欢的东西：1. 黄色 2. 用难的大词 3. 海豚 4. 按电梯里的按钮 5. 列清单 等这本书写完，所有书店都会卖它，谁都能买。 封面上会用大大的字印着“作者：斯特拉·巴茨”。 我会变得有名，大家都会知道我的名字。 可名字不是我喜欢的东西之一。

Last week something happened on our class nature walk that I don't really want to write about—this is my book, so I get to pick what's in it. But afterwards, this boy in my class named Joshua called me Smella. He would've

上周我们班去郊外自然散步的时候发生了一件事，我实在不想写出来——这是我的书，所以写什么我说了算。 但那之后，我们班一个叫约书亚的男生叫我“臭斯特拉”。 要是我出生的时候叫别的名字，他绝对

never said what he did if I was born with a different name. Also I think maybe if I had another name, it would look better on the cover of a book. I'm not sure what else I should write so that will be the end of my introduction.

不会说这种话的。 而且我觉得要是我有别的名字，印在书的封面上会更好看。 我不知道还要写点什么了，引言就到这里吧。