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right out carrying a snow shovel, and I thought I was going to have to make a run for it. But Dad was heading for my snowball, not me. And in less than a minute, he reduced all our hard work for nothing. Rowley came by a few minutes later. I thought he might actually get a kick out of what happened.

就拿着一把雪铲出来了，我想我得跑开了。 但爸爸是冲着我的雪球而来，不是冲着我。 在不到一分钟的时间里，他让我们所有的努力付诸东流。 几分钟后罗利过来了。 我以为他会从发生的事中得到乐趣。

But I guess he had his heart set on rolling that snowball down the hill, and he was really mad. But get this: Rowley was mad at me for what DAD did. I told Rowley he was being a big baby, and we got in a shoving match. Right when it looked like we were going to get in an all-out fight, we got ambushed from the street. It was a hit-and-run by the Whirley Street kids.

但我猜他一心想把雪球滚下山，他真的很生气。 但你要知道，罗利对我爸爸做的事很生气。 我跟罗利说他太孩子气了，然后我们就推搡起来。 就在我们看起来要全面战斗的时候，我们遭到了街上的伏击。 是威利街的孩子们肇事逃逸。

And if Mrs. Levine, my English teacher, was there, I'm sure she would have said the whole situation was "ironic." Wednesday Today at school they announced there's an opening for the cartoonist job in the school paper. There's only one comic slot, and up until now this kid named Bryan Little has been hogging it all to himself. Bryan has this comic called "Wacky Dawg," and

如果我的英语老师莱文夫人在那里，我肯定她会说整个情况是“讽刺的”。 星期三今天在学校，他们宣布学校报上有一个漫画家的职位空缺。 只有一个喜剧档位，直到现在这个叫布莱恩·利特尔的孩子一直霸占着这个档位。 布莱恩有本漫画叫《古怪的狗狗

when it started off, it was actually pretty funny. But lately, Bryan's been using his strip to handle his personal business. I guess that's why they gave him the axe. As soon as I heard the news, I knew I had to try out. "Wacky Dawg" made Bryan Little a celebrity at our school, and I wanted to get in on some of that kind of fame. I had a taste of what it's like to be famous at my school when I won honorable mention in this antismoking contest they had. nkledc. All I did was trace a picture from one of Rodrick's heavy metal magazines, but luckily, no one ever found out.

刚开始的时候，其实挺有趣的。 但最近，布莱恩一直在用他的漫画来处理他的私人事务。 我想这就是他们给他砍头的原因。 我一听到这个消息，就知道我必须去试一试。 《古怪的狗狗》让布莱恩·利特尔在我们学校成了名人，我也想在这种名声中分一杯羹。 当我在学校举办的反吸烟比赛中获得荣誉奖时，我尝到了在学校成名的滋味。 我只是从罗德里克的一本重金属杂志上找到了一张照片，但幸运的是，没人发现。

The kid who won first place is named Chris Carney. And what kind of ticks me off is that Chris smokes at least a pack of cigarettes a day. Thursday Me and Rowley decided to team up and do a cartoon

获得第一名的孩子名叫克里斯·卡尼。 最让我恼火的是克里斯每天至少抽一包烟。 星期四，我和罗利决定合作做一部卡通片

together. So after school today he came over to my house, and we got to work. We banged out a bunch of characters real quick, but that turned out to be the easy part. When we tried to think up some jokes, we kind of hit a wall. I finally came up with a good solution. I made up a cartoon where the punch line of every strip is "Zoo-Wee Mama!" That way we wouldn't get bogged down with having to write actual jokes, and we could concentrate on the pictures. For the first couple of strips, I did the writing and drew the characters, and Rowley drew the boxes around the pictures.

在一起。所以今天放学后他来我家，我们开始工作。 我们很快就创造了许多角色，但这却是最简单的部分。 当我们试图想出一些笑话时，我们有点碰壁了。 我终于想出了一个好办法。 我编了一幅漫画，每一幅的妙语都是“祖妈妈！”这样我们就不会因为要写真正的笑话而陷入困境，我们可以集中精力在图片上。 在最初的几幅漫画中，我负责写作和画人物，罗利在图片周围画方框。