1. By the time Ben was tired out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with; and so on, and so on, hour after hour.
    等到本累垮了，汤姆早已把粉刷权转让给比利·费希尔，换来一只完好的风筝。比利·费希尔干不下去了，约翰尼·米勒把粉刷权买了下来，代价是一只死耗子，和一条甩着玩的绳子。于是买主一个接着一个地来了，时间也一小时又一小时地过去了。

2. Artists such as Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrator of children's literary classics, and Johnny Gruelle, creator of Raggedy Ann, were very influential in the development of her early drawings.
    诸如杰西·威尔科克斯·史密斯和约翰尼·格鲁埃尔这样的艺术家对她早期绘画的发展产生了非常大的影响。前者是儿童文学经典作品的插图画家，后者是"蓬发安"的创作者。

3. So, on his tenth birthday, Johnny goes to the brain-control center. He sits for an hour or so under a machine that looks something like a hair-dryer, with him attached to it.
    所以，约翰尼在10岁生日那天来到了大脑控制中心。他坐在一个形似吹风头罩的机器下面，并和机器连接在一起，就这样坐了一个小时左右。

4. Johnny, who's almost 10, can't read, but no one is worried. Indeed, Johnny has been going to school since he was 3, but it hasn't been the kind of school that we are familiar with. The kids learn all sorts of things about living together and getting
    约翰尼快10岁了，但他还不会认字。但是没有人为此担忧。事实上，约翰尼3岁就开始上学了，但这种学校和我们所熟悉的那种学校不一样，孩子们学的都是有关如何与人一起生活、友好相处的知识，而不是什么课程。