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Yesterday, Manny drew a self-portrait on my bedroom door in permanent marker. I thought Mom and Dad were really going to let him have it, but as usual, I was wrong. But the thing that bugs me the most about Manny is the nickname he has for me. When he was a baby, he couldn't pronounce "brother," so he started calling me "Bubby." And he still calls me that now, even though I keep trying to get Mom and Dad to make him stop. Luckily none of my friends have found out yet, but believe me, I have had some really close calls.

昨天曼尼用记号笔在我卧室门上画了一幅自画像。 我以为爸爸妈妈真的会让他得到它，但像往常一样，我错了。 但曼尼最让我恼火的是他给我取的绰号。 当他还是个婴儿的时候，他不会发“兄弟”的音，所以他开始叫我“布比”。 他现在还这么叫我，尽管我一直想让爸妈阻止他。 幸运的是，我的朋友们还没有发现，但相信我，我有过几次死里逃生。

Mom makes me help Manny get ready for school in the morning. After I make Manny his breakfast, he carries his cereal bowl into the family room and sits on his plastic potty.

妈妈让我早上帮曼尼准备上学。 我给曼尼做完早餐后，他端着他的麦片碗走进客厅，坐在他的塑料便盆上。

And when it's time for him to go to day care, he gets up and dumps whatever he didn't eat right in the toilet. Mom is always getting on me about not finishing my breakfast. But if she had to scrape corn flakes out of the bottom of a plastic potty every morning, she wouldn't have much of an appetite either. Tuesday I don't know if I mentioned this before, but I am super good at video games. I'll bet I could beat anyone in my grade head-to-head.

当他该去日托所的时候，他起床后就把没吃的东西扔到厕所里。 妈妈总是因为我没吃完早餐而责备我。 但如果她每天早上都要从塑料便盆底部刮出玉米片，她也不会有太多的食欲。 我不知道我之前是否提到过，但我非常擅长电子游戏。 我敢打赌我能打败同年级的任何人。

Unfortunately, Dad does not exactly appreciate my skills. He's always getting on me about going out and doing something "active." So tonight after dinner when Dad started hassling me about going outside, I tried to explain how with video games, you can play sports like football and soccer, and you don't even get all hot and sweaty. But as usual, Dad didn't see my logic. Dad is a pretty smart guy in general but when it comes to common sense, sometimes I wonder about him.

不幸的是，爸爸并不欣赏我的技能。 他总是跟我说要出去做些“活跃”的事情。 所以今晚晚饭后，当爸爸开始跟我争论出去的事时，我试着向他解释，有了电子游戏，你可以玩足球和足球之类的运动，而且你甚至不会热得满身大汗。 但像往常一样，爸爸不明白我的逻辑。 总的来说，爸爸是一个相当聪明的人，但说到常识，有时我就怀疑他了。

I'm sure Dad would dismantle my game system if he could figure out how to do it. But luckily, the people who make these things make them parent-proof. Every time Dad kicks me out of the house to do something sporty, I just go up to Rowley's and play my video games there. Unfortunately, the only games I can play at Rowley's are car-racing games and stuff like that. Because whenever I bring a game up to Rowley's house, his dad looks it up on some parents' Web site. And if my game has any kind of fighting or violence in it, he won't let us play.

我相信如果爸爸知道怎么做的话，他一定会把我的游戏系统拆了。 但幸运的是，制作这些东西的人让它们成为父母的证明。 每次爸爸把我赶出家门去做运动的时候，我就去罗利家玩电子游戏。 不幸的是，我在罗利店只能玩赛车之类的游戏。 因为每次我把游戏带到罗利家，他爸爸都会在一些家长的网站上查找。 如果我的游戏中有任何打斗或暴力，他不会让我们玩的。

I'm getting a little sick of playing Formula One Racing with Rowley, because he's not a serious gamer like me. All that you have to do to beat Rowley is name your car something ridiculous at the beginning of the game. And then when you pass Rowley's car, he just falls to pieces. Anyway, after I got done mopping the floor with Rowley today, I headed home. I ran through the

我有点厌倦了和罗利一起玩一级方程式赛车，因为他不像我那样是个认真的玩家。 要打败罗利，你所要做的就是在游戏开始时给你的车起个可笑的名字。 当你经过罗利的车时，他就崩溃了。 总之，今天我和罗利拖完地后，我就回家了。 我跑过