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was the only thing on his list that he didn't get. Well, I'm glad someone got what they wanted today. New Year's Eve In case you're wondering what I'm doing in my room at 9:00 p.m. on New Year's Eve, let me fill you in. Earlier today, me and Manny were horsing around in the basement. I found a tiny black ball of thread on the carpet, and I told Manny it was a spider. Then I held it over him pretending like I was going to make him eat it.

是他单子上唯一没拿到的东西。 我很高兴今天有人得到了他们想要的。 如果你想知道我晚上9点在房间里干什么的话。 除夕之夜，让我来告诉你。 今天早些时候，我和曼尼在地下室胡闹。 我在地毯上发现了一团黑色的线，我告诉曼尼那是蜘蛛。 然后我拿在他面前假装要让他吃。

Right when I was about to let Manny go, he slapped my hand and made me drop the thread. And guess what? That fool swallowed it. Well, Manny completely lost his mind. He ran upstairs to where Mom was, and I knew I was in big trouble. Manny told Mom I made him eat a spider. I told her there was no spider, and that it was just a tiny ball

就在我要让曼尼走的时候，他打了我的手，让我把线掉了。 你猜怎么着？那个傻瓜把它吞下去了。 曼尼完全疯了 他跑上楼去找妈妈，我知道我有大麻烦了。 曼尼告诉妈妈我逼他吃了一只蜘蛛。 我告诉她没有蜘蛛，那只是一个小球

of thread. Mom brought Manny over to the kitchen table. Then she put a seed, a raisin, and a grape on a plate and told Manny to point to the thing that was the closest in size to the piece of thread he swallowed. Manny took a while to look over the things on the plate. Then he walked over to the refrigerator and pulled out an orange.

的线程。妈妈把曼尼带到厨房的桌子旁。 然后，她把一粒种子、一粒葡萄干和一颗葡萄放在盘子里，让曼尼指着和他吞下的那根线大小最接近的东西。 曼尼看了看盘子里的东西。 然后他走到冰箱前，拿出一个橙子。

So that's why I got sent to bed at 7:00 and I'm not downstairs watching the New Year's Eve special on TV. And that's also why my only New Year's resolution is to never play with Manny again. January Wednesday I found a way to have some fun with the Big Wheel Rowley got me for Christmas. I came up with this game where one guy rides down the hill and the other guy tries to knock him off with a football. nkledc. Rowley was the first one down the hill, and I was the thrower.

这就是为什么我7点就被送上床了而我现在不在楼下看电视上的跨年特别节目。 这也是为什么我唯一的新年决心就是再也不和曼尼玩了。 1月的星期三，我找到了一种方法来玩罗利送给我的圣诞大轮子。 我想出了一个游戏，一个人骑马下山，另一个人试图用足球把他撞倒。 罗利是第一个下山的，我是投掷者。

It's a lot harder to hit a moving target than I thought. Plus, I didn't get a lot of practice. It took Rowley like ten minutes to walk the Big Wheel back up the hill after every trip down. Rowley kept asking to switch places and have me be the one who rides the Big Wheel, but I'm no fool. That thing was hitting thirty-five miles an hour, and it didn't have any brakes.

击中移动目标比我想象的要难多了。 而且，我也没怎么练习过。 每次下山后，罗利都要花大约十分钟的时间把摩天轮走上山。 罗利一直要求调换位置让我来坐摩天轮，但我不傻。 那东西以每小时35英里的速度行驶，而且没有刹车。

Anyway, I never did knock Rowley off the Big Wheel today. But I guess I have something to work at over the rest of Christmas vacation. Thursday I was heading up to Rowley's today to play our Big Wheel game again, but Mom said I had to finish my Christmas thank-you's before I went out anywhere. I thought I could just crank out my thank-you cards in a half hour, but when it came to actually writing them, my mind went blank.

总之，我今天没把罗利从摩天轮上撞下来。 但我想圣诞节剩下的时间里我有事情要做。 星期四，我打算今天去罗利家再玩一次我们的“大转轮”游戏，但是妈妈说我得在出去之前写完我的圣诞感谢信。 我以为我能在半小时内写出感谢卡，但当真正要写的时候，我的大脑一片空白。