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That really bugged Rodrick, so he drove off to the store and came back fifteen minutes later with some headphones. And that pretty much took care of the problem. Thursday Yesterday Rodrick got a new heavy metal CD, and it had one of those "Parental Warning" stickers on it. I have never gotten to listen to one of those Parental Warning CDs, because Mom and Dad never

这让罗德里克很恼火，所以他开车去了商店，十五分钟后带着耳机回来了。 这基本上解决了问题。 星期四昨天罗德里克得到了一张新的重金属CD，上面有一张“家长警告”的贴纸。 我从来没听过那些家长警告的cd，因为爸妈从来没

let me buy them at the mall. So I realized the only way I was gonna get a chance to listen to Rodrick's CD was if I snuck it out of the house. This morning, after Rodrick left, I called up Rowley and told him to bring his CD player to school. Then I went down to Rodrick's room and took the CD off his rack. You're not allowed to bring personal music players to school, so we had to wait to use it until after lunch when the teachers let us outside. As soon as we got the chance, me and Rowley snuck around the back of the school and loaded up Rodrick's CD. But Rowley forgot to put batteries in his CD player, so it was pretty much worthless. Then I came up with this great idea for a game. The object was to put the headphones on your head and

让我去商场买吧。 所以我意识到我唯一能有机会听罗德里克的CD的办法就是把它偷带出去。 今天早上，罗德里克走后，我打电话给罗利，让他把CD播放机带到学校来。 然后我下楼到罗德里克的房间，从他的架子上取下CD。 学校是不允许带个人音乐播放器的，所以我们不得不等到午饭后老师让我们出去的时候再用。 我们一有机会，我和罗利就偷偷溜到学校后面把罗德里克的CD装进去。 但是罗利忘了给他的CD播放器装电池，所以它几乎一文不值。 然后我想到了一个很棒的游戏理念。 目标是把耳机戴在头上，然后

then try to shake them off without using your hands. The winner was whoever could shake the headphones off in the shortest amount of time. I had the record with seven and a half seconds, but I think I might have shook some of my fillings loose with that one. Right in the middle of our game, Mrs. Craig came around the corner and caught us red-handed. She took the music player away from me and started chewing us out.

然后试着不用手把它们抖掉。 谁能在最短的时间内摘下耳机，谁就是赢家。 我以7秒半的成绩打破了世界纪录，但我想我可能因为那一秒而失去了一些信心。 就在我们玩到一半的时候，克雷格太太从拐角处走过来，当场抓住了我们。 她从我手里拿走了音乐播放器，开始骂我们。

But I think she had the wrong idea about what we were doing back there. She started telling us how rock and roll is "evil" and how it's going to ruin our brains. I was going to tell her that there weren't even any batteries in the CD player, but I could tell she didn't want to be interrupted. So I just waited until she was done, and then I said, "Yes, ma'am." But right when Mrs. Craig was about to let us go, Rowley started blubbering about how he doesn't want rock and roll to ruin his "brains." Honestly, sometimes I don't know about that boy. Friday Well, now I've gone and done it. Last night, after everyone was in bed, I snuck

但我觉得她对我们在那里做的事误会了。 她开始告诉我们摇滚乐是多么的“邪恶”，它会如何毁掉我们的大脑。 我本来想告诉她CD机里连电池都没有了，但我看得出来她不想被打断。 所以我就等她说完，然后说，“好的，女士。” 但就在克雷格太太要放我们走的时候，罗利开始哭了起来，说他不想让摇滚乐毁了他的“大脑”。 说实话，有时候我不太了解那个男孩。 好吧，现在我已经去做了。 昨晚，在大家都上床睡觉后，我偷偷溜了出去

downstairs to listen to Rodrick's CD on the stereo in the family room. I put Rodrick's new headphones on and cranked up the volume really high. Then I hit "play." First, let me just say I can definitely understand why they put that "Parental Warning" sticker on the CD. But I only got to hear about thirty seconds of the first song before I got interrupted. It turns out I didn't have the headphones plugged into the stereo. So the music was actually coming through the speakers, not the headphones.

在楼下用家庭活动室的立体声音响听罗德里克的CD。 我戴上了罗德里克的新耳机，把音量调得很高。 然后我点击“播放”。首先，我想说的是，我完全可以理解为什么他们把“家长警告”标签贴在CD上。 但我只听了第一首歌的30秒就被打断了。 原来我没有把耳机插到音响上。 所以音乐实际上是通过扬声器发出的，而不是耳机。

Dad marched me up to my room and shut the door behind him, and then he said— LET'S YOU AND ME HAVE A TALK, FRIEND. Whenever Dad says "friend" that way, you know you're in trouble. The first time Dad ever said

爸爸把我带到我的房间，关上了他身后的门，然后他说：“让我们谈谈吧，朋友。” 每当爸爸这样说“朋友”的时候，你就知道你有麻烦了。 爸爸第一次说