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At lunch a bunch of girls invited Rowley over to their table so they could feed him. What really ticks me off about that is that Rowley is right-handed, and it's his left hand that's broken. So he can feed himself just fine. Tuesday I realized Rowley's injury thing is a pretty good

午餐时，一群女孩邀请罗利到她们的桌子旁，好让她们喂他吃饭。 真正让我生气的是罗利是右撇子，而他的左手骨折了。 这样他就能养活自己了。 周二，我意识到罗利的伤病是件好事

racket, so I decided it was time for me to have an injury of my own. I took some gauze from home, and I wrapped up my hand to make it look like it was hurt. I couldn't figure out why the girls weren't swarming me like they swarmed Rowley, but then I realized what the problem was. See, the cast is a great gimmick because everyone wants to sign their name on it. But it's not exactly easy to sign gauze with a pen. So I came up with a solution that I thought was just as good.

所以我决定是时候让我自己受伤了。 我从家里拿了一些纱布，把我的手包起来，让它看起来像受伤了。 我不明白为什么女孩们没有像围着罗利那样围着我，但后来我意识到问题出在哪里。 看，演员阵容是一个很棒的噱头，因为每个人都想在上面签名。 但用笔在纱布上签名并不容易。 所以我想到了一个我认为同样好的解决方案。

That idea was a total bust, too. My bandage did end up attracting attention from a couple of people, but believe me, they were not the type of people I was going for. Monday Last week we started the third quarter at school, so now I have a whole bunch of new classes.

那个想法也彻底失败了。 我的绷带最终确实吸引了一些人的注意，但相信我，他们不是我想要的那种人。 上星期一我们在学校开始了第三节课，所以现在我有一大堆新课程。

One of the classes I signed up for is something called Independent Study. I wanted to sign up for Home Economics 2, because I was pretty good at Home Ec 1. But being good at sewing does not exactly buy you popularity points at school. Anyway, this Independent Study thing is an experiment they're trying out at our school for the first time. The idea is that the class gets assigned a project, and then you have to work on it together with no teacher in the room for the whole quarter. The catch is that when you're done, everyone in

我报了一门名为“独立学习”的课程。 我想报家政2，因为我家政1学得很好。 但擅长缝纫并不能为你在学校赢得人气。 不管怎样，这个独立学习的东西是他们第一次在我们学校进行的实验。 这个想法是，全班被分配一个项目，然后你们必须一起完成它，整个季度都没有老师在教室里。 问题是你做完后，所有人都进去

your group gets the same grade. I found out that Ricky Fisher is in my class, which could be a big problem. Ricky's big claim to fame is that he'll pick the gum off the bottom of a desk and chew it if you pay him fifty cents. So I don't really have high hopes for our final grade. Tuesday Today we got our Independent Study assignment, and guess what it is? We have to build a robot. At first everybody kind of freaked out, because we thought we were going to have to build the robot from scratch. But Mr. Darnell told us we don't have to build an actual robot. We just need to come up with ideas for what our robot might look like and what kinds

你的小组得到相同的分数。 我发现里奇·费舍尔在我班上，这可能是个大问题。 里奇最出名的事情是，如果你付给他50美分，他就会捡起桌子底下的口香糖嚼起来。 所以我对我们的期末成绩不抱太大希望。 星期二今天我们有独立学习的作业，猜猜是什么？ 我们得造一个机器人。一开始，每个人都有点害怕，因为我们认为我们必须从头开始制造机器人。 但达内尔先生告诉我们，我们不必制造一个真正的机器人。 我们只需要想出我们的机器人可能是什么样子以及什么样的想法

of things it would be able to do. Then he left the room, and we were on our own. We started brainstorming right away. I wrote down a bunch of ideas on the blackboard. the robot would do my homework do the dishes make my breakfast brush my teeth Everybody was pretty impressed with my ideas, but it was easy to come up with them. All I did was write down all the things I hate doing myself. But a couple of the girls got up to the front of the room, and they had some ideas of their own. They erased my list and drew up their own plan. They wanted to invent a robot that would give you dating advice and have ten types of lip gloss on its fingertips.

它能做的事情。 然后他离开了房间，只剩我们俩了。 我们立即开始头脑风暴。 我在黑板上写下了一些想法。 机器人会帮我做作业，洗碗，做早餐，刷牙，每个人都对我的想法印象深刻，但想出它们很容易。 我所做的就是写下所有我自己讨厌做的事情。 但是有几个女孩走到教室前面，她们有了自己的想法。 他们删除了我的名单，制定了他们自己的计划。 他们想发明一种机器人，它会给你约会建议，手指上有十种唇彩。