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He was so popular that they even made a statue of him, which they put in the front courtyard. But after Larry Mack opened his fifth car dealership, some reporters started poking around, trying to learn how he got the money to start his business. With a little detective work, they figured out he'd been stealing from the middle school for years. And it was a huge scandal at the time. The Daily Herald END OF THE ROAD FOR EX-PRINCIPAL LARRY MACK

他当年太受欢迎，大家甚至给他塑了一尊雕像，摆在学校前院里。 但在拉里·麦克开了第五家汽车经销店后，有记者开始四处打探，想弄清他创业的启动资金从哪来。 稍微调查了一番，他们就发现拉里多年来一直在偷这所中学的钱。 这件事在当时可是一桩天大的丑闻。 《先驱日报》 前校长拉里·麦克穷途末路

From what I heard, the police arrested him at his dealership, right in the middle of a sale. "Tell "em LARRY sent ya!" After that, the school took down the statue, or at least the Larry Mack part of it. The only evidence that he was ever there is his shoes, which they couldn't get off the pedestal.

我听说，警察是在他的经销店里抓的他，抓他的时候他正在谈买卖呢。 “就说是我拉里派你来的！” 那之后，学校拆掉了雕像，至少拆掉了拉里·麦克的部分。 唯一证明他曾经存在的痕迹只剩他的鞋了，他们没法把鞋从基座上弄下来。

They never did change the name of the school, though. And I think that's because some people like being linked to someone famous, even if that person's famous for doing a terrible thing. You'd think people in my town would be embarrassed to have their middle school named after a crook, but nobody around here seems too bothered by it. Even the school mascot, the Looter, was inspired by Larry Mack.

不过，他们从来没改过学校的名字。 我觉得原因是，有些人就喜欢和名人沾边，哪怕这个名人是因为做坏事出的名。 你肯定觉得我们镇的人会尴尬，毕竟中学用骗子命名，但这儿好像没人在意这件事。 就连学校的吉祥物“抢劫者”，灵感都来自拉里·麦克。

The fact that Larry Mack landed in prison didn't stop him from making money, though. He wrote an autobiography, DRIVE How to Succeed in Life and Business by Larry Mack which apparently sold a ton of copies. I know my school bought at least fifty of them, because they take up two whole shelves in the Larry Mack section of the library.

不过，拉里·麦克进了监狱也没耽误他赚钱。 他写了一本自传，名叫《前进：拉里·麦克教你人生与经营成功之道》，据说卖了超级多本。 我们学校至少买了五十本，图书馆拉里·麦克专区里，这书占了整整两个书架。

A kid named Albert Sandy who sits at my lunch table said that Larry Mack only used HALF the money he stole to start his car dealership, and he buried the other half under the school. That got everyone all stirred up, and people started bringing in tools from home to try and find Larry Mack's secret treasure. DINK DINK CLONK CLINK CLINK

和我一起吃午饭的男孩艾尔伯特·桑迪说，拉里偷来的钱只有一半拿去开汽车店，另一半埋在学校底下。 这话一下子让大家兴奋起来，人们都开始从家里带工具，想要找到拉里藏的秘密宝藏。 丁 丁 哐 叮 叮

Last week, this kid named Danny Tang got the idea that the money could be hidden in the WALLS. So he broke a hole through the back of his locker to see if he could find anything. Unfortunately for me, Danny's locker is on the other side of MINE, and now there's nothing between them.

上周，一个叫丹尼·唐的男孩想到，钱可能藏在墙里面。 所以他在自己储物柜的后壁凿了个洞，想看看能不能找到东西。 我可太倒霉了，丹尼的储物柜刚好就在我储物柜的对面，现在我俩柜子中间什么遮挡都没有了。