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Now, I don't want to say exactly what happened next. Because if Rowley ever tries to run for President and someone finds out what these guys made him do, he won't have a chance. So I'll put it to you this way: They made Rowley _ _ _ the Cheese. I knew they were gonna make me do it, too. I started to panic, because I knew I wasn't going to be able to fight my way out of this situation. So I did some fast talking instead.

现在，我不想说接下来发生了什么。 因为如果罗利想竞选总统而被人发现这些人让他做了什么，他就没机会了。 所以我这么跟你说吧：他们把罗利做成了奶酪。 我就知道他们也会逼我这么做。 我开始恐慌，因为我知道我不可能摆脱这种情况。 所以我就说了几句快话。

I WOULD, BUT I'M ALLERGIC TO DAIRY! And believe it or not, it actually worked. YOU'RE LUCKY, PUNK! I KNOW, I KNOW! I guess the teenagers were satisfied they had made their point, because after they made Rowley finish off the rest of the Cheese, they let us go. They got back in their truck and took off down the road.

我会的，但是我对奶制品过敏！信不信由你，它真的起作用了。 你真幸运，小混混！我知道，我知道！我猜那些青少年很满意他们的观点，因为他们让罗利吃完剩下的奶酪后，就放我们走了。 他们回到卡车上，沿着这条路出发了。

Me and Rowley walked home together. But neither one of us really said anything on the way back. I thought about mentioning to Rowley that maybe he could have pulled out a couple of his karate moves back there, but something told me to hold off on that thought for right now. Tuesday At school today, the teachers let us outside after lunch. It took about five seconds for someone to realize the Cheese was missing from its spot on the blacktop.

我和罗利一起走回家。 但在回来的路上我们谁也没说什么。 我本想跟罗利提一下，也许他可以在后面表演几招空手道，但我有一种感觉，让我暂时搁置这个想法。 星期二今天在学校，老师让我们午饭后出去。 大约五秒钟后，有人才意识到奶酪从柏油路上的位置消失了。

Everybody crowded around to look at where the Cheese used to be. Nobody could believe it was actually gone. People started coming up with these crazy theories about what happened to it. Somebody said that maybe the Cheese grew legs and walked away. It took all my self-control to keep my mouth shut. And if Rowley wasn't standing right there, I honestly don't know if I could have kept quiet.

大家都围过来看看奶酪原来在哪里。 没人相信它真的不见了。 人们开始提出各种疯狂的理论来解释它到底发生了什么。 有人说，也许奶酪长出了腿，然后走开了。 我费了很大劲才把嘴闭上。 如果罗利没有站在那里，我真的不知道我还能不能保持沉默。

A couple of the guys who were arguing over what happened to the Cheese were the same ones who were egging me and Rowley on yesterday afternoon. So I knew it wasn't going to be long before someone put two and two together and figured out that we must have had something to do with it. Rowley was starting to panic, and I don't blame him, either. If the truth ever came out about how the Cheese disappeared, Rowley would be finished. He'd have to move out of the state, and maybe even the country. That's when I decided to speak up.

有几个人在为奶酪的事争吵，他们就是昨天下午给我和罗利吃鸡蛋的人。 所以我知道用不了多久就会有人根据事实推断出我们一定和这件事有关。 罗利开始恐慌了，我也不怪他。 如果奶酪消失的真相大白，罗利就完蛋了。 他必须离开这个州，甚至可能离开这个国家。 就在那时，我决定说出来。

I told everyone that I knew what happened to the Cheese. I said I was sick of it being on the blacktop, and I just decided to get rid of it once and for all. For a second there, everyone just froze. I thought people were going to start thanking me for what I did, but boy, was I wrong. I really wish I had worded my story a little differently. Because if I threw away the Cheese, guess what that meant? It meant that I have the Cheese Touch.

我告诉所有人我知道奶酪怎么了。 我说我厌倦了它在柏油路上，我决定把它一劳永逸地处理掉。 有那么一瞬间，所有人都僵住了。 我以为人们会开始感谢我所做的一切，但是天哪，我错了。 我真希望我的叙述能有所不同。 因为如果我扔掉奶酪，你猜这意味着什么？ 意思是我有奶酪之感。