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SEPTEMBER Monday I guess Mom was pretty proud of herself for making me write in that journal last year, because now she went and bought me another one. But remember how I said that if some jerk caught me carrying a book with "diary" on the cover they were gonna get the wrong idea? Well, that's exactly what happened today.

九月的星期一我想妈妈一定很为自己去年让我在那本日记本上写字而自豪，因为现在她又去给我买了一本。 但还记得我说过如果有混蛋发现我拿着一本封面上有“日记”的书他们就会误解我了吗？ 这正是今天发生的事情。

Now that Rodrick knows I have another journal, I better remember to keep this one locked up. Rodrick actually got a hold of my LAST journal a few weeks back, and it was a disaster. But don't even get me started on THAT story. Even without my Rodrick problems, my summer was pretty lousy. Our family didn't go anywhere or do anything fun, and that's Dad's fault. Dad made me join the swim team again, and he wanted to make sure I didn't miss any meets this year.

既然罗德里克知道我还有一本日记，我最好把这本锁起来。 罗德里克几周前拿到了我的最后一本日记，那简直是一场灾难。 但是不要让我开始讲那个故事。 即使没有罗德里克的问题，我的暑假也很糟糕。 我们家哪儿都没去，什么好玩的事都没做，都是爸爸的错。 爸爸让我再次加入游泳队，他想确保我今年不会错过任何比赛。

Dad's got this idea that I'm destined to be a great swimmer or something, so that's why he makes me join the team every summer. At my first swim meet a couple of years ago, Dad told me that when the umpire shot off the starter pistol, I was supposed to dive in and start swimming. But what he DIDN'T tell me was that the starter gun only fired BLANKS. nkledc. So I was a whole lot more worried about where the bullet was gonna land than I was about getting myself to the other end of the pool.

爸爸认为我注定会成为一个游泳健将什么的，所以他每年夏天都让我加入球队。 几年前，在我第一次参加游泳比赛时，爸爸告诉我，当裁判发出发令枪时，我就应该跳入水中开始游泳。 但他没有告诉我的是，启动枪只能发射空包弹。 所以我更担心的是子弹会落在哪里而不是如何把自己送到泳池的另一端。

Even after Dad explained the whole "starter pistol" concept to me, I was still the worst swimmer on the team. But I did end up winning "Most Improved" at the awards banquet at the end of the summer. That's only because there was a ten-minute difference between my first race and my last one. So I guess Dad's still waiting for me to live up to my potential.

即使在爸爸向我解释了整个“起跑手枪”的概念之后，我仍然是队里最差的游泳运动员。 但我最终在夏末的颁奖宴会上获得了“进步最大奖”。 那只是因为我的第一场比赛和最后一场比赛差了十分钟。 所以我猜爸爸还在等我发挥我的潜力。

In a lot of ways, being on the swim team was worse than being in middle school. First of all, we had to be at the pool by 7:30 every morning, and the water was always FREEZING cold. And second of all, we were all crammed into two lanes, so I always had somebody on my tail trying to get around me. The reason we had to use two lanes was because swim practice was at the same time as the Water Jazz class. I actually tried to convince Dad to let me do Water Jazz instead of swim team, but he wouldn't go for it.

在很多方面，在游泳队比在中学还糟糕。 首先，我们必须在每天早上7:30到达游泳池，而水总是很冷。 其次，我们都挤在两条车道上，所以总是有人在我后面试图绕过我。 我们不得不使用两条泳道的原因是游泳练习和水上爵士课是在同一时间进行的。 我试着说服爸爸让我加入水上爵士而不是游泳队，但他不同意。