3 Raining Cats & Dogs

CHAPTER 3 Raining Cats & Dogs Penny and I picked out flower lollypops at Batts Confections. We wanted the ones from the candy garden, but Dad said those pops were probably dirty from being on display for so long, so we took the mini chocolate lollypops they sell on the Penny Candy Wall. We also got cookie dough, which is a new thing they're selling at the store. Then we went home. "Stella!" Penny called.

第三章 下倾盆大雨啦 我和佩妮在巴茨糖果店挑了花形棒棒糖。 我们本来想要糖果园系列的，可爸爸说那些棒棒糖摆了太久，大概率落灰脏了，所以我们就拿了“一分糖墙”卖的迷你巧克力棒棒糖。 我们还买了曲奇面团，这是店里刚上架的新品。 然后我们就回家了。 “斯特拉！” 佩妮喊道。

I didn't answer her because I was helping Mom choose which brussels sprouts to put on my plate. The big ones are SUPER gross. The littler ones are gross too, but only medium gross. If I had to eat five of them, I wanted to make sure Mom only gave me the little ones. "Hurry up, Stella!" Penny called. "Those two are very small," Mom said, pointing to the littlest ones I'd picked out— the least gross of all, if you asked me. "How about if I give you one more." I shook my head. "That would be six and Dad promised just five," I said. "Stell-ahhhhh!!!" Penny called again. This time she made the last syllable drag out for a really long time, which is how she says my name when she really REALLY wants me

我没答应她，因为我正帮妈妈挑要放到我盘子里的孢子甘蓝。 大的超级难吃。 小的也难吃，但只是中等程度的难吃。 要是我得吃五个，我得确保妈妈只给我挑小的。 “快点呀，斯特拉！” 佩妮喊道。 “这两个太小啦，”妈妈指着我挑出来的最小的那两个说——要我说的话，这两个是最不难吃的。 “我再多给你一个好不好？” 我摇了摇头。 “那就是六个了，爸爸答应过只给我五个的。”我说。 “斯——特——拉——！！！” 佩妮又喊了起来。 这次她把最后一个音拖得特别长，她特别特别想让我

to do something. "Go see what she wants," Mom said. "I'll finish up." "Just five," I reminded Mom. "All right," she said. "I'm coming," I called back to Penny, and I went from the kitchen through the dining room to the den. Penny had dragged in four of the dining room chairs, and put one at each corner of a blanket spread out in the middle of the floor. "What are you doing?" I asked. "You said Willa was going on a picnic for dinner, so I thought we should too. But Dad said we couldn't because it would be too hard for Mom to sit on the ground and then stand back up again." Sitting down and standing up are two more things that are hard for Mom since she's

做什么事的时候，就会这么喊我的名字。 “去看看她想干嘛吧，”妈妈说。 “我来给你装就好。” “就五个哦。”我提醒妈妈。 “好的。”她说。 “我来啦。”我朝佩妮喊回去，接着从厨房穿过餐厅走到了书房。 佩妮拖来了四把餐厅的椅子，在地板中央铺了张毯子，把椅子分别摆在毯子的四个角。 “你在做什么呀？” 我问。 “你之前说薇拉晚餐要去野餐，所以我想我们也可以野餐呀。 但爸爸说我们不行，因为妈妈坐在地上再站起来会很费劲。” 自从妈妈怀孕之后，坐下和站起来就成了另外两件

pregnant. "Dad said I could set up a picnic for just us in here," Penny continued. "Why did you bring four chairs if it's only two of us?" "It's THREE of us," Penny said. "You forgot Belinda." "Okay THREE of us," I said. "But there are still FOUR chairs."

对她来说很费劲的事。 “爸爸说我可以在这儿给咱们俩布置野餐。”佩妮接着说。 “就我们两个人，你为什么拿四把椅子呀？” “是我们三个人哦。”佩妮说。 “你忘了贝琳达啦。” “好吧，我们三个。”我说。 “但还是有四把椅子呀。”

"Stella, it's a picnic," she said slowly, like I was the younger sister and she was the older one, and she had to explain things to me. "You don't sit on chairs at a picnic. They're posts for the tent." "You don't have tents at a picnic either," I said. "Yeah, but it looks like rain and we don't want the food to get all wet. Just look at the sky." She held her arm up toward the ceiling. "Rain clouds." The ceiling in the den is painted white. It looked the way it always did, not sunny or cloudy because it's inside the house. But I decided to play along. Sometimes that's what big sisters have to do. "You're right," I said. "The clouds are super dark too." "It's going to be a big storm," Penny said. "I know." I pointed to the lamp in the

“斯特拉，这可是野餐呀。”她慢悠悠地说，好像她才是姐姐，我是妹妹，得她给我解释道理似的。 “野餐的时候不坐椅子的。 这些是搭帐篷的柱子。” “野餐也不需要帐篷呀。”我说。 “是呀，但是看起来要下雨了，我们不想让食物都淋湿嘛。 你看看天呀。” 她抬起胳膊指向天花板。 “都是雨云哦。” 书房的天花板刷的是白色。 看起来和平时没两样，既不是晴天也不是阴天，毕竟这是在屋子里面呀。 但我决定配合她玩。 当姐姐的有时候就得这样嘛。 “你说得对。”我说。 “云还特别黑呢。” “马上要来大暴雨啦。”佩妮说。 “我知道。” 我指着角落的灯