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I gave Mom and Dad their gifts. I get them the same kind of thing every year, but parents eat that stuff up. The rest of the relatives started showing up around 11:00, and Uncle Charlie came at noon.

我给了爸爸妈妈他们的礼物。 我每年都给他们买同样的东西，但父母会把这些东西吃掉。 其他亲戚11点左右开始出现，查理叔叔中午就来了。

Uncle Charlie brought a big trash bag full of gifts, and he pulled my present out of the top of the bag. The package was the exact right size and shape to be a Twisted Wizard game, so I knew Uncle Charlie came through for me. Mom got the camera ready and I tore open my gift. But it was just an 8 x 10 picture of Uncle Charlie.

查理叔叔带来了一个装满礼物的大垃圾袋，他把我的礼物从袋子的顶部拉了出来。 包裹的大小和形状与扭曲巫师游戏的形状完全吻合，所以我知道查理叔叔是为了我而来的。 妈妈准备好了相机，我撕开了礼物。 但那只是一张8 x 10的查理叔叔的照片。

I guess I didn't do a good job of hiding my disappointment, and Mom got mad. All I can say is, I'm glad I'm still a kid, because if I had to act happy about the kinds of gifts grown-ups get, I don't think I could pull it off. I went up to my room to take a break for a while. A

我想我没有很好地掩饰我的失望，妈妈生气了。 我能说的是，我很高兴我还是个孩子，因为如果我必须对大人们收到的礼物表现出高兴的话，我想我做不到。 我上楼到我的房间去休息一会儿。 一个

couple minutes later, Dad knocked on my door. He told me he had my gift for me out in the garage, and the reason it was out there was because it was too big to wrap. And when I walked down to the garage, there was a brand-new weight set. That thing must have cost a fortune. nkledc. I didn't have the heart to tell Dad that I kind of lost interest in

几分钟后，爸爸敲了我的门。 他告诉我，他把我的礼物放在车库里了，之所以放在那里是因为它太大了，包装不起来。 当我走到车库的时候，发现了一套全新的举重器械。 那东西一定花了不少钱。 我不忍心告诉爸爸我对

the whole weight-lifting thing when the wrestling unit ended last week. So I just said "thanks" instead. I think Dad was expecting me to drop down and start doing some reps or something, but I just excused myself and went back inside. At about 6:00, all the relatives cleared out. I was sitting on the couch watching Manny play with his toys, feeling pretty sorry for myself. Then Mom came up to me and said that she found a gift behind the piano with my name on it, and it said, "From Santa." The box was way too big for Twisted Wizard, but Mom pulled the same "big box" trick on me last year

举重的事上周摔角组结束了。 所以我只说了“谢谢”。 我想爸爸是想让我趴下，开始做些运动什么的，但我只是找了个借口，然后回到屋里。 大约6点，所有的亲戚都离开了。 我坐在沙发上看着曼尼玩他的玩具，为自己感到难过。 然后妈妈走到我面前，说她在钢琴后面发现了一个礼物，上面写着我的名字，上面写着：“圣诞老人送的。” 这个盒子对扭曲巫师来说太大了，但妈妈去年对我耍了同样的“大盒子”把戏

when she got me a memory card for my video game system. So I ripped open the package and pulled out my present. Only this wasn't Twisted Wizard, either. It was a giant red wool sweater. At first I thought Mom was playing some kind of practical joke on me, because this sweater was the same kind we bought for our Giving Tree guy. But Mom seemed pretty confused, too. She said she did buy me a video game, and that she had no idea what the sweater was doing in my box. And then I figured it out. I told Mom there must have been some kind of mix-up, and I got the Giving Tree guy's gift, and he got mine.

当她给我的电子游戏系统买存储卡的时候。 于是我撕开了包装，拿出了我的礼物。 只不过这也不是扭曲巫师。 那是一件巨大的红色羊毛衫。 一开始我以为妈妈在跟我开玩笑，因为这件毛衣和我们买给“捐赠树”的人的毛衣是一样的。 但妈妈似乎也很困惑。 她说她确实给我买了一个电子游戏，而且她不知道毛衣在我的盒子里做什么。 然后我就明白了。 我告诉妈妈一定是搞错了，我收到了送礼物树的人的礼物，他也收到了我的礼物。