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In the past few years, the grown-ups in my neighborhood have been getting cranky about my lame costumes, and I'm starting to think it's actually having an effect on the amount of candy I'm bringing in.

在过去的几年里，我家附近的大人们一直对我蹩脚的服装很生气，我开始觉得这实际上影响了我带进来的糖果的数量。

But I don't really have time to put together a good costume, because I'm in charge of planning out the best route for me and Rowley to take tomorrow night. This year I've come up with a plan that' will get us at least twice the candy we scored last year. Halloween About an hour before we were supposed to start trick-or-treating, I still didn't have a costume. At that point I was seriously thinking about going as a cowboy for the second year in a row. But then Mom knocked at my door and handed me a pirate costume, with an eye patch and a hook and everything.

但我真的没时间做一套好戏服，因为我要负责规划明晚我和罗利的最佳路线。 今年我想出了一个计划，让我们得到至少是去年两倍的糖果。 万圣节前夜大约在我们开始“不给糖就捣蛋”的前一个小时，我还没有准备好戏服。 那时，我正在认真考虑连续第二年去当牛仔。 但后来妈妈敲了我的门，递给我一套海盗装，上面有眼罩和钩子等等。

Rowley showed up around 6:30 wearing his knight costume, but it didn't look anything like it looked yesterday. Rowley's mom made all these safety improvements to it, and you couldn't even tell what he was supposed to be anymore. She cut out a big hole in the front of the helmet so he could see better, and covered him up in all this reflective tape. She made him wear his winter coat underneath everything, and she replaced his sword with a glow stick. I grabbed my pillowcase, and me and Rowley started to head out. But Mom stopped us before we could get out the door.

罗利六点半左右穿着他的骑士服出现了，但看起来和昨天完全不一样。 罗利的妈妈对它做了很多安全改进，你甚至都不知道它应该是什么了。 她在头盔前面剪了一个大洞，让他看得更清楚，然后用反光胶带把他盖住。 她让他穿上冬衣，把他的剑换成了荧光棒。 我抓起枕套，和罗利开始往外走。 但我们还没来得及出门，妈妈就拦住了我们。

I WANT YOU TO TAKE MANNY WITH YOU! Man, I should have known there was a catch when Mom gave me that costume. I told Mom there was no way we were taking Manny with us, because we were going to hit 152 houses in three hours. And plus, we were going to be on Snake Road, which is way too dangerous for a little kid like Manny. I should never have mentioned that last part, because the next thing I knew, Mom was telling Dad he had to go along with us to make sure we didn't step foot outside our neighborhood. Dad tried to squirm out of it, but once Mom makes up her mind, there's no way you can change it.

我要你带上曼尼！妈给我那套戏服的时候我就该知道有圈套的。 我告诉妈妈我们不可能带曼尼一起去，因为我们要在三小时内拜访152户人家。 而且，我们要去蛇路，对曼尼这样的小孩来说太危险了。 我不应该提到最后一件事，因为我知道的下一件事是，妈妈告诉爸爸，他必须和我们一起去，以确保我们不会走出我们的社区。 爸爸试图逃避，但一旦妈妈下定决心，你就没办法改变了。

Before we even got out of our own driveway, we ran into our neighbor Mr. Mitchell and his kid Jeremy. So of course they tagged along with us. Manny and Jeremy wouldn't trick-or-treat at any houses with spooky decorations on them, so that ruled out pretty much every house on our block. Dad and Mr. Mitchell started talking about football or something, and every time one of them wanted to make a point, they'd stop walking.

我们还没走出自家车道，就遇到了邻居米切尔先生和他的孩子杰里米。 所以他们当然跟着我们。 曼尼和杰里米不会在任何有幽灵装饰的房子里玩不给糖就捣蛋的游戏，所以这就排除了我们街区几乎所有房子的可能性。 爸爸和米切尔先生开始谈论橄榄球之类的话题，每次他们中有人想表达观点时，他们就会停下来。

So we were hitting only about one house every twenty minutes. After a couple of hours, Dad and Mr. Mitchell took the little kids home. I was glad, because that meant me and Rowley could take off. My pillowcase was almost empty, so I wanted to make up as much time as possible. A little while later, Rowley told me he needed a "potty break." I made him hold off for another

所以我们每二十分钟才去一户人家。 几个小时后，爸爸和米切尔先生把孩子们带回家。 我很高兴，因为这意味着我和罗利可以起飞了。 我的枕套几乎是空的，所以我想尽可能多地弥补时间。 过了一会儿，罗利告诉我他需要“上厕所休息一下”。 我让他再等一次