儿童故事集：Katie and No More Miss Perfect Part Two
时间：2019-01-18 作者：英语课 分类：Children’s Stories-儿童故事集
英语课
It was half past five and Isis’s mum was now beginning to worry about her daughter. She should have been back at home by now and she wasn’t answering her phone. She tried calling the school but there was no answer there either. The truth was, Isis was at Samantha’s house, and she was having so much fun that she forgot to call her mum.
Samantha had decided 1 to become a millionaire by the time she was fourteen. Her plan was simple. She was going to star in her own YouTube vlog and rake in loads of money. Everyone knows that YouTube vloggers are rolling in free cash. So far, she had published 12 videos, she had 7 subscribers, and she had made 20p. It wasn’t as easy as she had hoped. As she mulled things over, she arrived at the logical conclusion that her videos might be more fun and more importantly, would surely generate a faster financial return if she included some of her friends.
Samantha held up her phone, looked into the camera, and said:
“Hey guys, Sammy here! This is video number 13. My friends Isabel and Isis are here, and they are both up for the fun person challenge. Stick around for loads of laughs!”
She pointed 2 the phone at her friends. Isis had changed into some of Samantha’s clothes that were too tight and too short. She giggled 3. Isabel pouted 4.
“First off, we are going to play ‘Big Grin’, in which Isis and Isabel are going to give us two lovely big smiles from ear to ear and hold them for 15 seconds.”
It sounded easy, but actually grinning into the camera for 15 seconds was surprisingly hard, especially as Isis knew how insane she must look. Isabel didn’t seem to find it at all difficult.
“Well done you two, you both looked like perfect idiots,” chirped 5 Samantha.
“Oh no, anything but perfect!” exclaimed Isis.
Samantha did not respond as she didn’t do ad-libbing and was sticking to the script: “Next we are going to play a personal favourite of mine – Chubby 6 bunny,” She declared.
Isis and Isabel had to stuff their faces with marshmallows until their cheeks were full and the soft sweets were popping out of their mouths. When they were totally, grossly over stuffed, they had to say ‘Chubby Bunny’.
“Murr wurr, wurr,” they both said idiotically, and Samantha laughed hysterically 7.
“Ok you two, those were the easy tests. Now for Trial By Water Torture. Take your places!”
The two challengers sat opposite each other, and drank water from large pint 8 glasses – only they kept the water in their mouths so that their cheeks were puffed 9 out like Chubby Bunnies. Samantha danced around the room, pulled faces, and tickled 10 them until at last Isis could stand it no more. She laughed and spluttered water all over Isabel who shrieked 11 and spat 12 water back at Isis. Both girls were dripping wet. Samantha was in fits of laughter.
“How do you feel?” she said pointing the camera at Isabel: “It’s cool to drool,” replied her friend. Then she asked the same question to Isis. She said out loud what she was actually thinking:
“I might be dripping wet, but I hope everyone can see that I’m just a normal person.”
“Well not quite!” replied Isabel with a laugh.
“Yeah, I don’t think our friend Isis will ever be normal,” added Samantha looking into the camera. “Even when she’s trying to make an idiot of herself, she comes out as too perfect to be true.”
“Hey!” shouted Isis. “Who says I’m perfect?”
“Everyone does,” said Isabel and Samantha simultaneously 13.
Half a minute later the whole house shook with the sound of Isis slamming the front door behind her. She ran down to the bus stop and found that she did not have any money and had to walk home. When she got home, her mother flung her arms around her and said:
“Darling, we were so worried. I was about to call the police to report you missing.”
And Isis, fighting back the tears, stomped 14 up to her room.
Samantha’s video came out later that night. She changed the intro to say “Hello everyone. Today we are going to meet two people from my class. One is my best friend Isabel, and the other is Isis, otherwise known as Miss Perfect Pants, who is so desperate to be cool that she’s agreed to come onto my show and be humiliated 15. Boy, this is going to be fun!”
By Saturday morning it had been viewed 100 times. Then it went viral. By Sunday night the views were up to half a million. By Monday morning a million people around the world had viewed Isis’s ritual humiliation 16 and Samantha had decided to buy a new top-of-the-range phone and a connected watch to go with it, just for starters.
Isis stayed in her room all day. It was the first time she had missed school since she had chicken pox aged 17 four and a half. On Tuesday, her mother made her go in. The first person she saw was Desdemonia, who said:
“Hey Isis, let’s set up a Latin channel on YouTube and make loads of money.”
“No thanks,” said Isis. Some of the boys actually thought she looked pretty good on the video, but Isis never got to hear about that. She ran up to Katie and said:
“Please Katie.. I don’t want to be normal, it’s so humiliating. Make me perfect again? I just want to be the real me.”
And Katie looked surprised and said: “But Isis, I never did put a magic spell on you. I couldn’t find one that had been verified as safe. You know, a responsible witch only puts a spell on a person if she can be sure that she can reverse it. I couldn’t be sure, so I didn’t do the spell.”
“But why didn’t you tell me?’ asked Isis.
“Well you were managing to act stupid without the help of magic.”
“Oh Katie,” said Isis. “I think I tried a bit too hard to be normal, don’t you?”
“Well yes I do,” agreed Katie. “And if you are going back to being perfect, I’m glad, because you were always the perfect friend, and besides, the world needs a few people who aren’t perfectly 18 normal.”
And the two friends, both totally abnormal in their own different ways, hugged each other.
And that was the story of Katie and No More Miss Perfect. Bertie would like to thank everyone who wrote in with loads of wonderful ideas for Katie plots after the last story. Storynory listeners really are a creative and imaginative lot, and we love the fact that our characters live and breathe for you. It was Nisha Abbey who suggested:
How about Isis is tired of being miss perfect of the seventh grade, so she asks Katie for help? Katie’s not sure about It but she does the spell anyway. Then Isis stops paying that much attention to her work and perfect self, and gets into trouble more often.
Samantha had decided 1 to become a millionaire by the time she was fourteen. Her plan was simple. She was going to star in her own YouTube vlog and rake in loads of money. Everyone knows that YouTube vloggers are rolling in free cash. So far, she had published 12 videos, she had 7 subscribers, and she had made 20p. It wasn’t as easy as she had hoped. As she mulled things over, she arrived at the logical conclusion that her videos might be more fun and more importantly, would surely generate a faster financial return if she included some of her friends.
Samantha held up her phone, looked into the camera, and said:
“Hey guys, Sammy here! This is video number 13. My friends Isabel and Isis are here, and they are both up for the fun person challenge. Stick around for loads of laughs!”
She pointed 2 the phone at her friends. Isis had changed into some of Samantha’s clothes that were too tight and too short. She giggled 3. Isabel pouted 4.
“First off, we are going to play ‘Big Grin’, in which Isis and Isabel are going to give us two lovely big smiles from ear to ear and hold them for 15 seconds.”
It sounded easy, but actually grinning into the camera for 15 seconds was surprisingly hard, especially as Isis knew how insane she must look. Isabel didn’t seem to find it at all difficult.
“Well done you two, you both looked like perfect idiots,” chirped 5 Samantha.
“Oh no, anything but perfect!” exclaimed Isis.
Samantha did not respond as she didn’t do ad-libbing and was sticking to the script: “Next we are going to play a personal favourite of mine – Chubby 6 bunny,” She declared.
Isis and Isabel had to stuff their faces with marshmallows until their cheeks were full and the soft sweets were popping out of their mouths. When they were totally, grossly over stuffed, they had to say ‘Chubby Bunny’.
“Murr wurr, wurr,” they both said idiotically, and Samantha laughed hysterically 7.
“Ok you two, those were the easy tests. Now for Trial By Water Torture. Take your places!”
The two challengers sat opposite each other, and drank water from large pint 8 glasses – only they kept the water in their mouths so that their cheeks were puffed 9 out like Chubby Bunnies. Samantha danced around the room, pulled faces, and tickled 10 them until at last Isis could stand it no more. She laughed and spluttered water all over Isabel who shrieked 11 and spat 12 water back at Isis. Both girls were dripping wet. Samantha was in fits of laughter.
“How do you feel?” she said pointing the camera at Isabel: “It’s cool to drool,” replied her friend. Then she asked the same question to Isis. She said out loud what she was actually thinking:
“I might be dripping wet, but I hope everyone can see that I’m just a normal person.”
“Well not quite!” replied Isabel with a laugh.
“Yeah, I don’t think our friend Isis will ever be normal,” added Samantha looking into the camera. “Even when she’s trying to make an idiot of herself, she comes out as too perfect to be true.”
“Hey!” shouted Isis. “Who says I’m perfect?”
“Everyone does,” said Isabel and Samantha simultaneously 13.
Half a minute later the whole house shook with the sound of Isis slamming the front door behind her. She ran down to the bus stop and found that she did not have any money and had to walk home. When she got home, her mother flung her arms around her and said:
“Darling, we were so worried. I was about to call the police to report you missing.”
And Isis, fighting back the tears, stomped 14 up to her room.
Samantha’s video came out later that night. She changed the intro to say “Hello everyone. Today we are going to meet two people from my class. One is my best friend Isabel, and the other is Isis, otherwise known as Miss Perfect Pants, who is so desperate to be cool that she’s agreed to come onto my show and be humiliated 15. Boy, this is going to be fun!”
By Saturday morning it had been viewed 100 times. Then it went viral. By Sunday night the views were up to half a million. By Monday morning a million people around the world had viewed Isis’s ritual humiliation 16 and Samantha had decided to buy a new top-of-the-range phone and a connected watch to go with it, just for starters.
Isis stayed in her room all day. It was the first time she had missed school since she had chicken pox aged 17 four and a half. On Tuesday, her mother made her go in. The first person she saw was Desdemonia, who said:
“Hey Isis, let’s set up a Latin channel on YouTube and make loads of money.”
“No thanks,” said Isis. Some of the boys actually thought she looked pretty good on the video, but Isis never got to hear about that. She ran up to Katie and said:
“Please Katie.. I don’t want to be normal, it’s so humiliating. Make me perfect again? I just want to be the real me.”
And Katie looked surprised and said: “But Isis, I never did put a magic spell on you. I couldn’t find one that had been verified as safe. You know, a responsible witch only puts a spell on a person if she can be sure that she can reverse it. I couldn’t be sure, so I didn’t do the spell.”
“But why didn’t you tell me?’ asked Isis.
“Well you were managing to act stupid without the help of magic.”
“Oh Katie,” said Isis. “I think I tried a bit too hard to be normal, don’t you?”
“Well yes I do,” agreed Katie. “And if you are going back to being perfect, I’m glad, because you were always the perfect friend, and besides, the world needs a few people who aren’t perfectly 18 normal.”
And the two friends, both totally abnormal in their own different ways, hugged each other.
And that was the story of Katie and No More Miss Perfect. Bertie would like to thank everyone who wrote in with loads of wonderful ideas for Katie plots after the last story. Storynory listeners really are a creative and imaginative lot, and we love the fact that our characters live and breathe for you. It was Nisha Abbey who suggested:
How about Isis is tired of being miss perfect of the seventh grade, so she asks Katie for help? Katie’s not sure about It but she does the spell anyway. Then Isis stops paying that much attention to her work and perfect self, and gets into trouble more often.
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
adj.尖的，直截了当的
- He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
- She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
v.咯咯地笑( giggle的过去式和过去分词 )
- The girls giggled at the joke. 女孩子们让这笑话逗得咯咯笑。
- The children giggled hysterically. 孩子们歇斯底里地傻笑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.撅（嘴）( pout的过去式和过去分词 )
- Her lips pouted invitingly. 她挑逗地撮起双唇。
- I pouted my lips at him, hinting that he should speak first. 我向他努了努嘴，让他先说。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
鸟叫，虫鸣( chirp的过去式 )
- So chirped fiber gratings have broad reflection bandwidth. 所以chirped光纤光栅具有宽的反射带宽，在反射带宽内具有渐变的群时延等其它类型的光纤光栅所不具备的特点。
- The crickets chirped faster and louder. 蟋蟀叫得更欢了。
adj.丰满的，圆胖的
- He is stocky though not chubby.他长得敦实，可并不发胖。
- The short and chubby gentleman over there is our new director.那个既矮又胖的绅士是我们的新主任。
ad. 歇斯底里地
- The children giggled hysterically. 孩子们歇斯底里地傻笑。
- She sobbed hysterically, and her thin body was shaken. 她歇斯底里地抽泣着，她瘦弱的身体哭得直颤抖。
n.品脱
- I'll have a pint of beer and a packet of crisps, please.我要一品脱啤酒和一袋炸马铃薯片。
- In the old days you could get a pint of beer for a shilling.从前，花一先令就可以买到一品脱啤酒。
adj.疏松的v.使喷出( puff的过去式和过去分词 )；喷着汽（或烟）移动；吹嘘；吹捧
- He lit a cigarette and puffed at it furiously. 他点燃了一支香烟，狂吸了几口。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He felt grown-up, puffed up with self-importance. 他觉得长大了，便自以为了不起。 来自《简明英汉词典》
（使）发痒( tickle的过去式和过去分词 )； （使）愉快，逗乐
- We were tickled pink to see our friends on television. 在电视中看到我们的一些朋友，我们高兴极了。
- I tickled the baby's feet and made her laugh. 我胳肢孩子的脚，使她发笑。
v.尖叫( shriek的过去式和过去分词 )
- She shrieked in fright. 她吓得尖叫起来。
- Li Mei-t'ing gave a shout, and Lu Tzu-hsiao shrieked, "Tell what? 李梅亭大声叫，陆子潇尖声叫：“告诉什么？ 来自汉英文学 - 围城
n.口角，掌击；v.发出呼噜呼噜声
- Her parents always have spats.她的父母经常有些小的口角。
- There is only a spat between the brother and sister.那只是兄妹间的小吵小闹。
adv.同时发生地，同时进行地
- The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
- The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。
v.跺脚，践踏，重踏( stomp的过去式和过去分词 )
- She stomped angrily out of the office. 她怒气冲冲，重步走出办公室。
- She slammed the door and stomped (off) out of the house. 她砰的一声关上了门，暮暮地走出了屋了。 来自辞典例句
感到羞愧的
- Parents are humiliated if their children behave badly when guests are present. 子女在客人面前举止失当，父母也失体面。
- He was ashamed and bitterly humiliated. 他感到羞耻，丢尽了面子。
n.羞辱
- He suffered the humiliation of being forced to ask for his cards.他蒙受了被迫要求辞职的羞辱。
- He will wish to revenge his humiliation in last Season's Final.他会为在上个季度的决赛中所受的耻辱而报复的。
adj.年老的，陈年的
- He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
- He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。