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I was getting really uncomfortable listening to this guy go on and on, and I was hoping Frew would help me talk some sense into him. But then Frew started with a speech of his OWN. Frew started talking about how his parents make him get up at 5:00 in the morning six days a week to study for the geography bee, and how he's never gotten to play laser tag because his parents say it's a waste of time. This was all getting to be a little much for me, and I decided I'd rather be raking leaves than listening to these guys tell their sob stories.

听这家伙说个不停，我真的很不舒服，我希望弗鲁能帮我跟他讲点道理。 但接着，弗鲁开始了他自己的演讲。 弗鲁开始谈论他的父母如何让他每周六天早上5点起床，为地理比赛学习，以及他如何从来没有玩过激光射击游戏，因为他的父母说那是浪费时间。 这一切对我来说有点多了，我决定我宁愿去扫落叶也不愿听这些人讲他们的悲伤故事。

So I started heading back to the playground. But all of a sudden that Brownie appeared out of nowhere and TOTALLY caught me off guard. HEY! My instincts kicked in and I RAN. Frew and Billy saw me take off, and they were right on my heels. But the Brownie was carrying a WHISTLE, and the next thing I knew, the whole Girl Scout troop was in hot pursuit. I started to run FASTER when I realized me and Frew might get in serious trouble for harboring a fugitive.

于是我开始朝操场走去。 但突然间，布朗尼不知从哪里冒出来，完全让我措手不及。 嘿!我的本能发挥了作用，我跑了。 弗鲁和比利看见我走了，他们就跟在我后面。 但是布朗尼拿着一个哨子，然后我知道的是，整个女童子军都在紧追不舍。 当我意识到我和弗鲁可能会因为窝藏逃犯而惹上大麻烦时，我开始跑得更快。

I didn't know if the Girl Scouts actually had the authority to ARREST anyone, but I wasn't gonna stick around to find out. For all I knew, that was something they needed to do to earn one of their badges. Once the chase was on, Billy took the lead, and me and Frew just followed HIM. It was pretty obvious he'd had experience with this kind of thing, because he seemed to know what he was doing.

我不知道女童子军是否真的有逮捕任何人的权力，但我不想再呆在这里去找答案了。 据我所知，这是他们为了获得勋章而必须做的事。 追逐一开始，比利就走在前面，我和弗鲁就跟在他后面。 很明显，他对这种事很有经验，因为他似乎知道自己在做什么。

After a while we were able to put some distance between ourselves and the Girl Scouts, and we could barely hear the whistle. So we stopped for a minute to catch our breath. Billy said we were gonna need our energy to stay ahead of the Girl Scouts.

过了一会儿，我们和女童子军保持了一定的距离，几乎听不到哨声了。 所以我们停了一会儿喘口气。 比利说我们需要精力来领先女童子军。

Then he took out a few rolls of Thin Mints that were tucked away in his jumpsuit and split them up between us. I'm just gonna assume he PAID for those cookies, because if he DIDN'T, I don't wanna know. After we fueled up on cookies, Billy said we should all ditch our CLOTHES, because if they used DOGS to track us, we could throw them off our trail.

然后他拿出几卷藏在他连衣裤里的薄薄荷糖，分给我们两个人。 我就假设他付了饼干的钱，因为如果他没有，我也不想知道。 我们吃完饼干后，比利说我们都应该脱下衣服，因为如果他们用狗来跟踪我们，我们就可以甩掉它们了。

Then it dawned on me that if this guy couldn't get away with stealing a pack of sour gummy worms, he was probably the LAST person I should be taking this kind of advice from. I realized I'd made a HUGE mistake and started looking for a way out of the situation. So I told the guys we should split up, saying if we DID, we'd be harder to catch. But Frew said we should stick TOGETHER. He said we could travel around the country and have crazy adventures, and maybe even join the circus somewhere along the way.

然后我恍然大悟，如果这个家伙偷了一包酸软糖都不能逃脱惩罚，他可能是我最不应该听取这种建议的人。 我意识到我犯了一个巨大的错误，并开始寻找摆脱这种情况的方法。 所以我告诉他们我们应该分头行动，说如果我们分头行动，就更难被抓住了。 但弗鲁说我们应该团结一致。 他说我们可以周游全国，进行疯狂的冒险，甚至可以在途中加入马戏团。