2015-05-21
【Aiden in English】
Welcome, readers, to Montgomery’s annual Olympic Day. This day consists of three parts: the games, the half-time show, and the classic races and tug-of-war. Each and every year, a new theme is chosen, but this year, well, everyone has a limit to his/her ideas, you know? Here is hint: four teams are the Mountaineers (Blue), the Rangers (Green), the Scouts (White), and the Trailblazers (Red) across all grades from Kindergarteners to 6th grader at school. I’m on the Mountaineers.
Try creating eight games physical in the Olympics based on camping. Yeah, that’s right. This year’s theme was called “Going Camping”. As stupid as it sounded, a few games actually asked you of something like one game where the goal was to cross a “river” (a stretch of grass) to save “puppies” (small stuffed toys). To get across, each team got 12 pool noodles. This game used the brain because those noodles were extremely slippery, and to make a platform, two people were allowed to hold the noodles in place in the “river” while there was one walker. I came up with the idea of steps, having platforms of twos across. Other teams made a long bridge, which fell apart quickly. Only thing was, once seeing how successful my strategy worked, the other teams quickly copied it. In the end, whoever got the most toys won, but we could only get the puppies in our own lane. Three of the four teams collected all of theirs, making a tie, even though the Mountaineers came in the 1st.
What I thought that really got me on my moves was the ice game. This game contained absolutely no reason why it should be included. The objective was to pass ice cube containers filled with ice water over your head to the next person to the back. The last person dumped whatever remained into a bucket. Now I was okay playing this game, but first of all, it was only 50oF/10oC, outside. Not to mention the fact that the water felt like stabbing a corpse. That game ruined an unbelievable morning. Besides, who brought melted ice on a camping trip to have kids hold in over their heads? For torture, maybe.
The morning was only half of the day to come, and the scores now were just a lie at your face because the day, like I said, was only half done. And soon, the games began to have competition and every team needed to get a fair share of victories.
【红霞译文】
欢迎读者跟我们一起参加蒙哥马利小学一年一度的奥林匹克节，今天运动会共有三项事宜：比赛、中场表演以及传统赛跑和拔河。每年奥运会都要特设主题，这回大家可算绞尽脑汁，猜出来吗？温馨提示：全校从学前班到初中一年级的全体学生共同组成四支竞技队伍，分别称为登山者队（蓝色）、护林员队（绿色）、童子军队（白色）和尖兵队（红色），我被编排在登山者队。
从野营的角度出发，奥运会试图推出八种比赛项目，说的一点没错。今年的中心思想围绕“野营”一题，甭提有多小儿科，有的比赛索性要你“趟水过河”（一片稻草）营救“狗仔”（小型填充玩具）。为了过河，每个队各有十二根泳池浮条，这个游戏稍微需要动点脑筋，因为浮条非常滑溜，要想把它们当成平面必须得有两个人抓牢，以保证单人过“河”。我找到了窍门，改由每两根浮条一组分部进行；而别的队却先后罗列成长桥，人很快摔了下来。事情往往就是这样，一旦发觉我的构思可行，大家纷纷效仿，比赛结果虽说哪个队得到的玩具最多哪个队赢，可我们只能救护自己圈地的动物，其他三个队也是一样，所以即使我们首先完成任务，最终各队得分还是相等。
我觉得真正难搞的游戏是运冰，不知谁出的馊主意，规定前面一个人要将装在器皿里的冰块从头顶上传到后面一个人，最后一位再把融化的冰水倒入水桶。我个人倒无大所谓，但问题在于眼下户外温度仅有华氏50／摄氏10度，冰水凉得恨不能可以穿透死尸，把手冻成冰棍，好端端的一个上午就这样被这场比赛搅得一塌糊涂。再说，有谁跑到野外宿营会要求孩子从头顶上运送冰水？成心折腾人吧。
到此为止半天光景已过，各队积分高低并非真实成为定局，正如我刚才所说，我们仅完成了一半，接下来人人都有机会在即将到来的比赛中大显身手。
