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MARCH Sunday I've read that in ancient times they used to bury kings and pharaohs with all their possessions. Back then I guess they thought you could take your things WITH you into the afterlife. Well, if I get buried with all MY junk, I might really REGRET it later on.

三月 星期日 我之前读过，古时候人们会把国王和法老的所有财物都跟他们一同下葬 我猜那时候他们觉得，人死后还能把自己的东西带去另一个世界 唔，如果我的这些破烂都跟着我下葬，我之后肯定会特别后悔的

Mom's having me do some spring cleaning to get rid of things I don't NEED. Well, that seemed like a good idea until I realized just how much stuff I've actually GOT. I spent the whole morning going through my closet, and it's crazy how much was packed in there. And it's not like it was ORGANIZED or anything. I've basically been throwing things in my closet since we first moved in.

妈妈让我做春季大扫除，清理掉我不需要的东西 本来我觉得这主意不错，直到我发现我居然攒了这么多东西 我花了一整个上午翻衣柜，里面塞的东西多到离谱 而且里面本来就没整理过，一点都不整齐 从我们刚搬进来开始，我就一直往衣柜里乱塞东西

Digging through my closet was like going through my CHILDHOOD. And the further back I went, the further back in TIME it took me. The stuff near the front of the closet was all junk I tossed in there over the past year, like homework and comic books. But after I got those things out of the way I started finding stuff I'D FORGOTTEN about. I found a model rocket I got for my tenth birthday and a costume I wore for Halloween a few years ago. And there was a bunch of other things I didn't even know I still had.

翻衣柜就像重温我的童年一样 我翻得越深，就越能想起更早的往事 衣柜靠外的都是我这一年塞进去的破烂，比如作业和漫画书 把这些清走之后，我找到了好多我早就忘掉的东西 我找到了十岁生日收到的火箭模型，还有好几年前万圣节穿的戏服 还有好多东西，我都不知道我还留着它们

When I dug a little DEEPER, I found something I thought I'd lost YEARS ago. It was a binder full of stickers I'd collected in the third grade. I used to be OBSESSED with stickers, especially the scratch-and-sniff kind. I collected all the GOOD smells, like bubble gum and candyfloss and that sort of thing, but I had all the really GROSS ones, too. So, when a kid on my street wanted to know what giraffe poop or rotten meat loaf smelled like, they'd come to ME.

我往更深处翻，找到了一件我以为好几年前就弄丢的东西 是一本活页夹，塞满了我三年级收集的贴纸 我以前超级迷贴纸，尤其是那种刮刮香贴纸 我收集了所有好闻的味道，比如泡泡糖、棉花糖这类，不过我也有好多特别恶心味道的 所以街上的小朋友要是想知道长颈鹿便便或者烂肉糕是什么味道，都会来找我

One of these days I'm gonna write my AUTOBIOGRAPHY, and it's gonna include scratch-and-sniff stickers to mark all the different moments in my life.

总有一天我要写一本自传，我要给我人生里每个不同的时刻都贴上刮刮香贴纸