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I showed the guy where the hot tub was, and he put some straps around it. Then he attached the straps to a giant HOOK and lifted the hot tub off the deck. But when he tried to reverse his vehicle, he COULDN'T, because the movers had piled up a bunch of FURNITURE in our yard. So now the hot tub was dangling above our ROOF.

我给那个工人指了热水浴缸在哪儿，他用带子把浴缸绑好 接着他把带子系在一个大钩子上，把热水浴缸吊离了露台 可当他试着倒车的时候，却动不了，因为搬家工人把一堆家具堆在了我们院子里 所以现在热水浴缸就悬在了我们屋顶的上方

As if the whole situation wasn't stressful enough ALREADY, all of a sudden ROWLEY showed up in my front yard.

本来这整件事已经够让人头大了，罗利突然就出现在了我家前院

But I didn't have TIME to deal with Rowley, because now I had a NEW problem. That guy from Whirley Street had pulled up in front of our house, and he was taking the FURNITURE that the movers had left by the kerb. And that's when I remembered it was SUNDAY, which is the day we leave our TRASH out. I tried to wave the guy off to make him go away. But the crane operator thought I was giving him a signal that it was OK to reverse his vehicle, which is what he DID.

但我根本没时间搭理罗利，因为我又碰到了一个新麻烦 那个从惠利街来的人把车停在我家门口，正往他车上搬搬家工人丢在路边的家具 这时候我才想起今天是周日，是我们把垃圾拿出来放到路边的日子 我挥着手想让那个人赶紧走 可起重机司机误以为我在给他发可以倒车的信号，他就真的倒车了

And that was the end of our living-room COUCH. The CRANE stopped, but the hot tub DIDN'T. It started swinging in crazy circles above the house, and then it slammed into our CHIMNEY.

然后我们家客厅的沙发就这么没了 起重机停下了，可热水浴缸没停。它在房子上方疯了似的转圈，然后狠狠撞到了我们的烟囱

The bricks slid off the roof and just missed my PARENTS, who had come outside to see what all the COMMOTION was. After that, I thought it was OVER, because I couldn't imagine anything ELSE happening. But something DID. Some wasps had built a nest in our CHIMNEY, which explains how they'd been getting into the house all this time. And now they were LOOSE, looking for REVENGE. We all ran for cover inside the house, but the crane operator wasn't quick enough to get away.

砖块从屋顶掉下来，差一点就砸到我爸妈，他俩本来是出来看看外面吵成这样是出了什么事 在那之后，我以为事情已经结束了，毕竟我实在想不出还能出什么别的岔子 可偏偏就出事儿了 有一群黄蜂在我们烟囱里筑了巢，这下就明白这么久它们一直是怎么进我们家的了 现在黄蜂全都跑出来了，它们要找我们报仇 我们全都跑回屋里躲着，可起重机司机没来得及跑掉

The wasps flew into the cabin of his vehicle, which made him kick the lever that released the HOT TUB, which fell through the ROOF. And at that point, to tell the truth, I was kind of RELIEVED. Because now I knew for SURE that things really couldn't get any WORSE.

黄蜂飞进了操作舱，害得他不小心碰到了松脱热水浴缸的控制杆，浴缸掉了下来，砸穿了屋顶 说实话，事到这里，我反而有点松了口气 因为我现在可以确定，事情真的不可能再坏到哪儿去了