快樂的娛人節(jié)

Mackenzie put a whoopee cushion1)

On the teacher's chair.

Makayla told the teacher

That a bug was in her hair.

Alyssa brought an apple

With a purple gummy worm2)

And gave it to the teacher

Just to see if she would squirm3).

Elijah left a piece of plastic

Dog doo4) on the floor，

And Vincent put some plastic vomit5)

In the teacher's drawer.

Amanda put a goldfish

In the teacher's drinking glass.

These April Fool's Day pranks6)

Are ones that you could use in class.

Before you go and try them， though，

There誷 something I should mention:

The teacher wasn't fooling

When she puts us in detention7).

賞析：

Kenn Nesbitt(1962~)，美國詩人，著名兒童詩歌網(wǎng)站poetry4kids.com的創(chuàng)立者。他著有兒童幽默詩歌集，如The Aliens Have Landed at Our School、When the Teacher Isn't Looking等，還同詩人Linda Knaus合著有圣誕詩集Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney。其兒童詩歌常常會先描述大量荒誕不經(jīng)的事情，之后以現(xiàn)實(shí)的基調(diào)結(jié)尾，從而產(chǎn)生獨(dú)特的幽默效果。April Fool's Day這首詩便是一個很好的例證。這首詩的前四節(jié)描繪了愚人節(jié)當(dāng)天，學(xué)生對老師搞了很多惡作劇，最后一節(jié)卻筆鋒一轉(zhuǎn)，告誡學(xué)生，老師對此會有什么樣的反應(yīng)，讀來令人忍俊不禁。同時，詩歌每節(jié)偶數(shù)句采用尾韻，充滿了兒童詩歌的輕快、活潑之感。

Vocabulary

1.whoopee cushion: 人坐上去就會發(fā)出響聲的坐墊，俗稱“放屁坐墊”。

2.gummy worm: 一種軟糖，外形酷似蚯蚓

3.squirm [skwE:m] vi. 局促不安，坐立不安

4.dog doo: 狗的糞便

5.vomit [5vRmIt] n. 嘔吐物

6.prank [prANk] n. 胡鬧，開玩笑，惡作劇

7.detention [dI5tenFEn] n. (處罰學(xué)生的)課后留校