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Everyone was calling the smallest kid Juicebox, and he seemed to be the one in charge. The kid with the inner tube was Big Marcus, and I couldn't tell if he was wearing that thing for fun or if he couldn't actually get OUT of it. The tall skinny kid was Weevil, and the boy with the shaved head was called DooDoo. I don't wanna be mean or anything, but that boy really lived up to his nickname.

大家都管年纪最小的孩子叫果汁盒，看起来他才是这群孩子的头儿。 套着游泳圈的孩子叫大马库斯，我搞不清他戴这玩意儿是图好玩，还是根本脱不下来。 高高瘦瘦的孩子叫象鼻虫，剃光头的男孩外号叫便便。 我不是故意要说坏话啦，但那个男孩真的人如其名。

A few other kids joined us and they all had nicknames too. So I guess that's a thing around here. FIVEHEAD CUTTER REGULAR MARCUS Juicedox asked me MY name, ano I figured since everyone ELSE was using made-up names, I might as well, too. JIMMY DOGFISH.

又有几个孩子加入我们，他们也都有外号。 所以我猜，在这儿大家都兴这么玩儿。 大脑袋！ 切割机、正经马库斯。果汁盒问我叫什么名字，我心想反正别人都用编出来的名字，那我干脆也编一个好了。 吉米·狗鱼。

The stream was pretty shallow in this spot, so I didn't see how these guys were gonna catch any fish. But I found out the real reason they came here wasn't to fish, it was to TALK. And they argued about EVERYTHING. The first topic was which superhero would win in a fight, and that turned into a conversation about which superpower was best. And somehow that turned into a debate about what kind of animal you'd choose to fight if you were sentenced to death.

这个位置的溪水很浅，我想不通这帮人来这儿能钓到什么鱼。 但我很快发现，他们来这儿根本不是钓鱼的，就是来聊天的。 而且他们什么话题都能吵起来。 第一个话题是哪个超级英雄打架能赢，吵着吵着就变成讨论哪种超能力最棒。 不知道怎么的，最后又吵成：如果你被判死刑，你会选择跟哪种动物打架。

Then they got into an argument about whether it would be better to fight a person with the head of a shark or a shark with the head of a person. And the guys were split down the middle on that one. The conversation got pretty heated, and then it got PHYSICAL. I didn't wanna get hurt, so I tried to stay out of the way.

接着他们又吵：跟长鲨鱼头的人打，和长人头的鲨鱼打，哪一种更好。 在这个问题上，大家刚好各占一半，各持己见。 聊到后来气氛越来越火爆，最后居然动起手来。 我可不想受伤，所以一直躲得远远的。

but just like that it was OVER, and everyone acted like nothing happened. I was starting to get nervous hanging around a bunch of guys who liked to settle things with their FISTS, and I told them maybe I should be heading back. But Juicebox said that, since I was the NEW kid around here, it was their job to show me the ropes. And I decided to go along with it, mostly because I didn't want Doo Doo putting me in a headlock. GULP. CRACK It turns out these guys have been coming here for years, so they knew all the ins and outs of the place. They knew how to get a free bag of pretzels from the vending machine at the lodge, the exact time the delivery truck came to resupply the camp store, and where you needed to be when they threw out the day-old doughnuts.

可就这么一下子，争吵就结束了，所有人都跟没事发生一样。 跟一帮爱用拳头解决问题的家伙混在一起，我越来越慌，就跟他们说我差不多该回去了。 但果汁盒说，既然我是新来的，他们就得带我熟悉这儿的路数。 我只好答应跟着他们，主要是我不想被便便锁喉。 咕嘟咽口水。 咔嚓。原来这帮人来这儿玩好多年了，对这儿的一切都门儿清。 他们知道怎么从小木屋的自动贩卖机免费拿脆饼，知道补给车什么时候给营地商店补货，还知道扔隔夜甜甜圈的时候该去哪捡。

Plus, they knew where all the cute girls in camp were staying and when they each ate lunch.

对了，他们还知道营地里所有可爱的女生住在哪，每个人几点吃午饭。