When you are little, the whole world feels like a big playground. I was living in Conyers, Georgia the summer it all happened. I was a second grader, but my best friend Stephanie was only in the first grade. Both of our parents were at work and most of the time they let us go our own way.
当你还小的时候，整个世界就像一个大操场。这一切发生的那个夏天，我住在佐治亚州的康耶斯。我是一名二年级学生，但我最好的朋友斯蒂芬妮才上一年级。我们的父母都在工作，大多数时候他们让我们上下学。

It was a hot afternoon and we decided to have an adventure in Stephanie's basement. As I opened the basement door, before us lay the biggest room, full of amazing things like guns, dolls, and old clothes. I ran downstairs, and spotted a red steel can. It was paint. I looked beyond it and there lay even more paint in bright colors like purple, orange, blue and green.
那是一个炎热的下午，我们决定在斯蒂芬妮的地下室冒险。当我打开地下室的门时，最大的房间呈现在我们的面前，里面装满了枪支、玩偶和旧衣服等令人惊叹的东西。我走下台阶，发现了一个红色的钢罐。那是油漆桶。我向远处看，还有更多的油漆桶，颜色鲜艳，比如紫色、橙色、蓝色和绿色。

"Stephanie, I just found us a project for the day. Get some paintbrushes. We are fixing to paint." She screamed with excitement as I told her of my secret plans and immediately we got to work. We gathered all the brushes we could find and moved all of our materials to my yard. There on the road in front of my house, we painted big stripes of colors across the pavement. Stripe by stripe, our colors turned into a beautiful rainbow. It was fantastic!
“斯蒂芬妮，我刚给我们找了一个当天的项目。拿一些画笔。我们准备画画。”当我告诉她我的秘密计划时，她兴奋地尖叫着，我们马上开始工作。我们收集了所有能找到的画笔，把所有的材料都搬到了我的院子里。在我家前面的路上，我们在人行道上画了一条条的彩色条纹。一条又一条，我们的颜色变成了一道美丽的彩虹。太棒了！

The sun was starting to sink. I saw a car in the distance and jumped up as I recognized the car. It was my mother. I couldn't wait to show her my masterpiece. The car pulled slowly into the driveway and from the look on my mother's face, I could tell that I was in deep trouble.
太阳开始下山了。我看到远处有一辆车，一认出那辆车就跳了起来。那是我妈妈。我迫不及待地想向她展示我的杰作。车缓缓驶入车道，从我妈妈脸上的表情可以看出我陷入了困境。

My mother shut the car door and walked towards me. Her eyes glaring, she shouted, "What in the world were you thinking? I understood when you made castles out of leaves, and climbed the neighbors' trees, but this! Come inside right now !" I stood there glaring back at her for a minute, angry because she had insulted my art.
我母亲关上车门，向我走来。她瞪着眼睛喊道：“你到底在想什么？当你用树叶建造城堡，爬上邻居的树时，我明白了，但这一点！现在就进来！”我站在那里盯着她看了一会儿，我很生气，因为她侮辱了我的艺术。

"Now go clean it up!" Mother and I began cleaning the road. Tears ran down my cheeks as I saw my beautiful rainbow turn into black cement.
“现在去清理吧！”我和妈妈开始清理道路。当我看到美丽的彩虹变成黑色水泥时，眼泪顺着脸颊流了下来。

Though years have now passed, I still wonder where my rainbow has gone. I wonder if, maybe when I get older, I can find my rainbow and never have to brush it away. I guess we all need some sort of rainbow to brighten our lives from time to time and to keep our hopes and dreams colorful.
尽管岁月流逝，我仍然想知道我的彩虹去了哪里。我想知道，也许当我长大后，我能找到我的彩虹，而不必把它刷掉。我想我们都需要某种彩虹来不时照亮我们的生活，让我们的希望和梦想变得丰富多彩。