So Betsy mounted a soap box and began joyfully to wash the dishes.

于是贝琪装上一个肥皂盒，高兴地开始洗碗。

Get off your soap box, Jimmy.

把你这些东西拿走 吉米。

No, Glenn Childs cannot stand on a soap box.

不行哦 查尔兹脚下不能垫箱子。

So anyway, we'll get off the soap box now and back to our article.

因此，无论如何，我们现在将结束肥皂盒并回到我们的文章。

Soon, newspapers in other cities learned about this story, and they started sponsoring their own soap box derbies.

很快， 其他城市的报纸都知道了这个故事，纷纷开始赞助自己的肥皂盒德比。

The cars are no longer made out of soap boxes, however.

然而，汽车不再是用肥皂盒制成的。

Children from 34 different states showed up with their soap box cars to compete in this competition.

来自34个不同州的孩子们带着他们的肥皂盒车参加了本次比赛。

Finally, it was decided that there would be a national competition of these children racing in their soap boxes.

最后，决定举办一场全国比赛， 让这些孩子在肥皂盒里赛跑。

However, in the 1970s, girls started to build their own soap boxes and began competing as well.

然而， 在 20 世纪 70 年代，女孩们开始制作自己的肥皂盒并开始参加比赛。

In the year 2012, for example, there were more than 500 children who competed in the soap box derby.

例如， 在2012年，有超过500名儿童参加了肥皂盒比赛。

A " soap (soap) box" is a large wooden box that used to be used in the early twentieth century for shipping, or transporting, soap.

“肥皂（肥皂）盒” 是二十世纪初用来装运或运输肥皂的大木箱。

Well, soap boxes are very strong, and somehow, probably some children got the idea that you could make a little car out of the box.

好吧，肥皂盒很结实，不知何故，可能有些孩子觉得你可以用肥皂盒做一辆小汽车。

So I basically take this little prep mist, spritz it into the soap box tin, and then I just get it all over the brush, the little spooly.

所以我基本上是拿这个小准备喷雾， 把它喷到肥皂盒罐里，然后我就把它涂在刷子上， 小卷轴。

Specifically, in the city of Dayton, Ohio, there was a photographer for the local newspaper who saw some boys racing their homemade soap box cars down a hill.

具体来说， 在俄亥俄州代顿市，当地报纸的一名摄影师看到一些男孩驾驶着自制的肥皂盒车下山。

This brought even more attention to the concept of a soap box derby, and so it was decided, in 1936, that the derby should have its own place, its own location.

这让人们更加关注肥皂盒德比的概念，因此在 1936 年决定， 德比应该有自己的位置， 有自己的位置。

I have to mention that when I was growing up in the 1970s, we didn't have a soap box derby, but we did have something called the " pinewood derby."

我不得不提一下， 当我在 70 年代长大时，我们没有肥皂盒德比， 但我们确实有一种叫做“松木德比” 的东西。