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Saturday I usually sleep IN on weekends, but this morning Mom had OTHER plans for me. She said I was going to spend the whole day OUTSIDE. I told her I'd go out in the snow after I played some video games, but she reminded me about Screen-Free Weekends, and I knew she wasn't gonna budge. When I was younger, I could spend HOURS playing in the snow. But nowadays, after about ten minutes, I'm ready to come inside. Grown-ups act like being in the snow is the most fun you can ever have. But you never see THEM out there rolling around in it.

周末我一般都会睡懒觉，可今天早上妈妈给我安排了别的计划 她说我得一整天都待在户外 我告诉她打完电子游戏再出去玩雪，可她提醒我说现在是无屏幕周末，我知道她肯定不会让步 我小的时候，可以一连好几个小时都在雪地里玩 可现在，差不多十分钟我就想进屋了 大人们总觉得在雪地里玩是天底下最有意思的事 可你从来没见过他们自己在雪地里滚来滚去呀

I can only remember one time Dad played with us out in the snow. But THAT ended the second Rodrick dumped snow down the back of Dad's NECK. Mom's ALWAYS making us kids go outside, because she says we need our vitamin D, which you get from the sun. I tell Mom I get PLENTY of vitamin D from the sun in my video games, but that kind of reasoning never works on her.

我只记得爸爸有一次陪我们在雪里玩 可罗德里克把雪倒进爸爸后脖子里，那次玩雪立马就结束了 妈妈总催我们小孩出门，说我们需要维生素D，那是从太阳光里获取的 我跟妈妈说 我玩电子游戏的时候也晒到太阳，能补够维生素D，可这套说辞在她那儿根本不好使

When I went outside today, Manny was already in the front yard making snowmen, or WHATEVER you'd call those things. We never finished raking the lawn in the fall, so Manny used the leaves we didn't pick up to decorate his snow friends.

今天我出门的时候，曼尼已经在前院堆雪人了，嗯，也就勉强能叫那些东西雪人吧 去年秋天我们没耙完院子里的落叶，所以曼尼就用剩下没捡的叶子装饰他的雪朋友

Manny had used up most of the snow in the yard, so there wasn't a whole lot I could even DO outside. I decided to head up to Rowley's, which meant I had to pass by FREGLEY'S house. And sure enough, he was out in his front yard. The reason I went to Rowley's was because his family just got heated floors. So on cold days, I try to spend as much time at his house as POSSIBLE.

院子里大部分的雪都被曼尼用完了，我在外头根本没什么事可做 我打算去找罗利，这就得路过弗雷格利家 果不其然，他就在自家前院里 我去找罗利是因为他家刚装了地热 所以天冷的时候，我总想尽量多在他家待着

But Mom must've KNOWN I was gonna go to Rowley's, because she called his parents and he was outside when I got there. As long as we both had to be outdoors, I figured we should make the most of it. Since I'd already done all the hard work of getting up the hill, I told Rowley we should get in a little sledding. The plow usually comes through by late morning, so we can only get in a few good runs before the street is cleared. But the regular plow guy was on VACATION, and the kids at the top of the hill told the SUBSTITUTE driver that Surrey Street was two miles down the road. So that bought us some extra time.

可妈妈肯定猜到我要去找罗利，她提前给罗利爸妈打了招呼，所以我到的时候罗利也得待在屋外 既然我们俩都得待在室外，那我想不如好好利用这段时间 反正我都费劲爬上山顶了，我就跟罗利说我们去滑会儿雪橇吧 扫雪车一般上午晚些就会来，所以街道清干净前我们只能滑几趟 可这次平常的扫雪工去度假了，山顶的小孩告诉替班司机，萨里街还要往下走两英里 所以这就给我们多争取了一些时间

I don't actually think it's a good idea to mess around with substitutes, because it ALWAYS comes back to bite you. Last year we had a long-term sub in Algebra, and on his first day, me and my classmates all switched seats with each other because we knew the sub would be relying on the seating chart.

其实我觉得捉弄替班的人不是什么好主意，因为最后总会反过来坑到自己 去年我们代数课来了个长期代课老师，第一天上课，我和同学们全都换了座位，因为我们知道代课老师会依赖座位表点名