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SEPTEMBER Saturday. Grown-ups are always talking about the "good old days" and how things were so much better when THEY were kids. But I think they're just jealous because MY generation has all this fancy technology and stuff they didn't have growing up. Believe me, I'm sure when I have kids of my own, I'm gonna be the exact same way my parents are NOW. WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE, WE USED OUR LEGS FOR GETTING AROUND! YEAH, WHATEVER, POPS!

星期六9月。大人们总是谈论“美好的旧时光”，以及他们小时候的生活是多么美好。 但我认为他们只是嫉妒，因为我们这代人拥有这些他们在成长过程中没有的高科技和东西。 相信我，我敢肯定，等我有了自己的孩子，我也会像我父母现在一样。 我像你这么大的时候，我们是用腿走路的！是啊，管它呢，老爷子！

Mom's always saying that when SHE was younger, it was great because everybody in town knew everybody else and it was like one giant family. But that doesn't sound so great to ME. I like my privacy, and I really don't need everyone knowing my personal business. Mom says the problem with society these days is that everybody's got their nose in a screen and nobody takes the time to get to know the people who live around them. I don't really see eye to eye with Mom on that issue, though.

妈妈总是说，她年轻的时候，那真是太棒了，因为镇上的每个人都互相认识，就像一个大家庭。 但对我来说，这听起来不太好。 我喜欢我的隐私，我真的不想让每个人都知道我的私事。 妈妈说现在社会的问题是每个人都盯着屏幕，没有人花时间去了解身边的人。 不过，在这个问题上，我和妈妈的看法并不一致。

Personally, I think a little separation is a GOOD thing. Lately, Mom's been going around town with a petition to get people to stop using their phones and electronic gadgets for forty-eight hours. Let's UNPLUG to RECONNECT! Electronics are cluttering our lives! Let's put down our devices for a weekend and get to know one another! Who's in?

就我个人而言，我认为稍微分开是件好事。 最近，妈妈带着一份请愿书在城里四处奔走，要求人们在48小时内停止使用手机和电子产品。 让我们拔掉插头重新连接吧！电子产品正在扰乱我们的生活！让我们在周末放下手机，互相了解一下吧！在是谁?

Mom needs a hundred signatures before she can take the petition to Town Hall, but she's having trouble getting people to put their names on it. I'm just hoping she gives up on this idea soon, because it's kind of exhausting for the rest of us to pretend we don't know her. I really don't understand why Mom thinks we need to go BACKWARD, anyway. From what I can tell, the old days weren't that much fun. If you think about it, you never see anyone in those black-and-white photos SMILING.

妈妈需要100个签名才能把请愿书拿到市政厅，但她很难让人们在请愿书上签名。 我只是希望她能尽快放弃这个想法，因为对我们其他人来说假装不认识她有点累。 我真的不明白为什么妈妈认为我们需要倒退。 据我所知，过去的日子没那么有趣。 如果你仔细想想，你从来没有在那些黑白照片中看到任何人微笑。

In the old days, people were just a whole lot TOUGHER than they are today. But human beings have EVOLVED, and now we need things like electric toothbrushes and shopping malls and soft-serve ice cream to survive.

在过去，人们比现在要坚强得多。 但是人类已经进化了，现在我们需要像电动牙刷、购物中心和软冰淇淋这样的东西来生存。