還有……
拉切爾、露西、埃斯佩朗莎和蕾妮。
那上面那朵，那是積雲。每個人都仰起頭來看。
Chicken lips.
我有個表妹，拉切爾說，她有三個不同的名字。
積雲好可愛呀。拉切爾說。她只會說些這樣的話。
Richie, Yolanda, Hector, Stevie, Vincent……
Reynaldo, Angelo, Albert, Armando, Mario……
誰蠢？
不是我的臉。是像你的胖臉。
你知道你是什麼嗎，埃斯佩朗莎？你就像麥片上的奶油。你就像那些奶泡。
Esperanza's fat face, that's who. Looks like Esperanza's ugly face when she comes to school in the morning.
Phyllis, Ted, Alfredo and Julie……
不是你。是你媽媽。是說她。
Whose fat face?
何塞、達戈貝爾托、阿莉西婭、勞爾、愛德娜、阿爾瑪和里奇……
No, she says. That there is Nancy, otherwise known as Pig-eye. And over there her cousin Mildred, and little Joey, Marco, Nereida and Sue.
哦，那你就是腳虱，你就是。
You know what you are, Esperanza? You are like the Cream of Wheat cereal. Yo
九-九-藏-書u're like the lumps.
Your mama's frijoles.
蕾妮，隨你做什麼，可是如果想做我妹妹的話，最好別和露西或拉切爾講話。
你的丑媽媽的腳指頭。
Your ugly mama's toes.
That's cumulus too. They're all cumulus today. Cumulus, cumulus, cumulus.
……像九月的光腳丫！
I can think of thirty Eskimo words for you, Rachel. Thirty words that say what you are.
Mimi, Michael, Moe……
Jose and Dagoberto, Alicia, Raul, Edna, Alma and Rickey……
是誰的胖臉？
那邊那朵叫什麼？蕾妮問，一個手指指著。
You can do what you want to do, Nenny, but you better not talk to Lucy or Rachel if you want to be my sister.
Rosemary, Dalia, Lily……
Oh, we're only playing.
Well, there's these already that look like shaving cream……
蟑螂肉。
嗯，那邊就有一些看上去像剃鬚泡沫的……
Cockroach jelly.
世界上有億萬種雪，蕾妮說，沒有兩種看上去一模一樣。可你怎麼記得哪種是哪種？
埃斯佩朗莎的胖臉，是她的。像埃斯佩朗莎早上上學去時難看的臉。
嘿，蕾妮。去拿掃帚來。今天我們家院子里垃圾九*九*藏*書太多了。
Cold frijoles.
……like bare feet in September！
Rachel, Lucy, Esperanza, and Nenny.
貝貝、布蘭卡、賓尼……
愛斯基摩人給雪取了三十個不同的名字。我說。我在一本書里讀到的。
芮奇、約蘭達、赫克托、史蒂夫、文森特……
Jean, Geranium and Joe……
愛尼塔、斯妲拉、丹尼斯和蘿蘿……
There are clouds that look like big fields of sheep, Rachel says. Them are my favorite.
I'm saying your mama's ugly like……ummm……
Bebe, Blanca, Benny……
冰菜豆。
Who you calling ugly, ugly?
世界上有各種各樣的雲。你能想起來多少種？
Oh yeah, well I can think of some more.
Reggie, Elizabeth, Lisa, Louie……
That up there, that's cumulus, and everybody looks up.
Cumulus are cute, Rachel says. She would say something like that.
Uh-oh, Nenny. Better get the broom. Too much trash in our yard today.
What's that one there? Nenny asks, pointing a finger.
There's that wide puffy
https://read.99csw.com cloud that looks like your face when you wake up after falling asleep with all your clothes on.哦，我們只是說著玩的。
那些看上去像是你用梳子梳過它的毛的呢？是的，那些也是雲。
Yeah, and you're foot fleas, that's you.
My mama? You better not be saying that, Lucy Guerrero. You better not be talking like that……else you can say goodbye to being my friend forever.
吉恩、天竺葵和喬……
咪|咪、邁克爾、莫兒……
別忘了雨雲，下雨的雲。我說。那也是很重要的雲。
I got a cousin, Rachel says. She got three different names.
世界上沒有三十種不同的雪，露西說，只有兩種。乾淨的和髒的，凈雪和臟雪。只有兩種。
她有三個名字，讓我想想，還有兩個姓。一個英語的，一個西班牙語的……
好吧！你們兩個最好滾出我家院子，別等我叫我弟弟出來。
Not my face. Looks like your fat face.
那邊有那種寬寬的胖乎乎的雲朵，有點像你沒脫衣服就睡著以後醒來的臉。
不。她說。那邊那朵是南茜，或者叫豬眼。再那邊是她的表弟米爾珏德，還有小喬伊、馬可、妮雷達和淑兒。
弗蘭奇、里查、瑪利亞、皮威……
Nenny, you better tell your sister she is really crazy because Lucy and mhttps://read.99csw.come are never coming back here again. Forever.
小雞嘴唇。
That does it！Both of yous better get out of my yard before I call my brothers.
Rita, Margie, Ernie……
我可以想起三十個愛斯基摩詞來說你，拉切爾。三十個罵你的名字。
雲的名字？蕾妮問。像你我一樣的名字？
哦，好，我能想起更多。
雲至少有十個不同的名字。我說。
And don't forget nimbus the rain cloud, I add, that's something.
There ain't thirty different kinds of snow, Lucy says. There are two kinds. The clean kind and the dirty kind, clean and dirty. Only two.
And what about the kind that looks like you combed its hair? Yes, those are clouds too.
蠢呀。
那邊的雲看上去像是大片的羊群。拉切爾說，它們我最愛。
芮塔、瑪吉、愛妮……
Frankie, Licha, Maria, Pee Wee……
你在說誰難看？難看嗎？
There are a million zillion kinds, says Nenny. No two exactly alike. Only how do you remember which one is which?
你媽媽的菜豆。
The Eskimos got thirty difｒｅad•99ｃsｗ•cｏmferent names for snow, I say. I read it in a book.
And clouds got at least ten different names, I say.
Not you. Your mama, that's who.
There are all different kinds of clouds. How many different kinds of clouds can you think of?
雷納爾多、安傑洛、阿爾伯特、阿曼多、馬里奧……
蕾妮，你最好告訴你姐姐，她真是瘋掉了，露西和我不會再來這裏了。永遠。
羅絲瑪麗、達麗婭、莉莉……
That's stupid.
我是說你媽媽難看，就像……嗯……
那也是積雲。今天全都是積雲。積雲。積雲。積雲。
And Some More
Names for clouds? Nenny asks. Names just like you and me?
我媽媽？你最好別這麼說，露西·格萊羅。你最好別這麼說話……否則你就永遠做不成我的朋友了。
Anita, Stella, Dennis, and Lolo……
Who's stupid?
菲力斯、特德、阿爾弗萊德和茱莉……
She got three last names and, let me see, two first names. One in English and one in Spanish……
若吉、伊麗莎白、莉莎、路易……