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But I wasn't being CAREFUL, and the meatballs slid out of the sub and into a bucket of wet concrete. Luther didn't look like the kind of guy who'd be happy about a meatball sub with no MEATBALLS in it. So I tossed the REST of the sub into the bucket and backed away.

可我当时太不小心了，肉丸从潜艇三明治里滑出来，掉进了一桶湿水泥里。 路德肯定不会开心，谁会喜欢一个没了肉丸的肉丸三明治呀。 于是我把剩下的三明治也扔进桶里，赶紧悄悄走开了。

And I'm glad I got out of there when I DID, too. Because when Luther accused Buddy of stealing his meatball sub, things got UGLY. I snuck back to the house, then locked the door behind me. And, when Dad asked me why I wasn't still out there WORKING, I told him I'd RETIRED.

而且我特别庆幸自己当时跑的够快。 因为后来路德指责巴迪偷了他的肉丸三明治，场面闹得特别难看。 我偷偷溜回了家，进门就锁上了门。 爸爸问我怎么不在外头干活了，我告诉他我“退休”啦。

Sunday Things were really moving along with the extension until our NEIGHBOURS started complaining. Mr Larocca had an issue with the NOISE, because he works the night shift at a hospital and needs to sleep during the day. So Mom's been asking the builders to try and keep it down, but that's not easy to do when you're dealing with HAMMERS. Our other next-door neighbour, Mrs Tuttle, isn't happy about the extension, EITHER.

周日 房子扩建本来进展顺利，直到邻居们开始抱怨不停。 拉罗卡先生受不了施工噪音，因为他在医院上夜班，白天需要睡觉。 所以妈妈一直让工人尽量轻一点，但挥锤子干活根本没办法轻呀。 我们另一位隔壁邻居塔特尔太太，也对扩建工程很不满。

Apparently one of the builders rolled a wheelbarrow on to her property and trampled on some of her flowers, and now she wants us to REPLACE them. And it's not just our NEXT-DOOR neighbours, either. Mrs Rutkowski lives diagonally across the street, and I guess one of her cats got into our yard and stepped on a nail. So she told Dad he had to pay the VET's bill.

听说有个工人把手推车推到了她的院子里，踩坏了她的花，现在她要求我们重新种回去。 而且有意见的还不止隔壁邻居呢。 鲁特科夫斯基太太住在街对面斜对角，她的一只猫跑进我们院子，踩到了一根钉子。 所以她让爸爸必须支付看兽医的费用。

All this complaining is just slowing things down and making the project take LONGER. So the only person who's actually making any PROGRESS around here is MANNY. He found a toy toolbox in the basement, and he took some scrap wood out of the skip. I'm not exactly sure what he's building in the backyard, but it looks pretty IMPRESSIVE. The skip is definitely the best thing about this project. Whenever the waste-paper basket in my bedroom gets full, I just empty it into the skip, which is right outside my window.

这些抱怨拖慢了进度，让整个工程要花更长时间才能完工。 所以这整片地方唯一一个真的有进展的人就是曼尼。 他在地下室找到了一个玩具工具箱，还从废料堆里捡了几块废木料。 我不太清楚他在后院建什么东西，但看起来还挺像模像样的。 这个废料堆绝对是这项工程带来的最好的东西。 我卧室的废纸篓一满，我就直接倒进废料堆，它刚好就在我窗户外头。

What's even better than THAT is how easy it is now when I have to put the trash out on Sunday night. It's my job to put trash stickers on all the bags, then take everything down to the kerb. And that's a giant pain, especially when it RAINS.

还有比这更爽的，周日晚上扔垃圾现在变得超简单。 本来我的任务是给所有垃圾袋贴好垃圾票，再全部搬到路边去。 这活儿可太麻烦了，下雨的时候尤其遭罪。