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than I would have been a week ago. For example, the other day I had a conversation with this neighborhood kid named Shawn Snella. WHEN I GROW UP, I'M GONNA BE A PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER! THINK AGAIN, SHAWN! NEITHER ONE OF YOUR PARENTS IS TALLER THAN FIVE-FOOT-TWO, AND YOU'RE THE ONLY 200-POUND SIX-YEAR-OLD I KNOW! WAAAH! I CANNOT TELL A LIE. And yesterday, Rowley's family had a birthday party for his grandfather.

比一周前的我要好。 例如，有一天我和一个叫肖恩·斯奈拉的邻居孩子聊天。 当我长大了，我要成为一名职业篮球运动员！再想想，肖恩！你父母身高都不超过5英尺2英寸，而你是我认识的唯一一个体重200磅的6岁孩子！WAAAH !我不能说谎。 昨天，罗利的家人为他的祖父举行了一个生日聚会。

NEXT YEAR, I WANT A CHOCOLATE CAKE! THAT IS IF YOU'RE ALIVE NEXT YEAR! HEY, I'M JUST TRYING TO BE REALISTIC! Most people don't seem to appreciate a person as honest as me. So don't ask me how George Washington ever got to be president. Saturday Today I answered the phone, and it was Mrs. Gillman from the PTA, looking for Mom. I tried to hand her the phone, but she whispered for me to tell Mrs.

明年，我想要一个巧克力蛋糕！前提是你明年还活着！嘿，我只是想现实一点！大多数人似乎不喜欢像我这样诚实的人。 所以不要问我乔治·华盛顿是怎么当上总统的。 星期六今天我接了电话，是家长会的吉尔曼太太找妈妈。 我试着把电话递给她，但她低声让我告诉Mrs。

Gillman that she wasn't home. I couldn't tell if Mom was trying to trick me into lying or WHAT, but there was no way I was going to break my honesty streak over something as dumb as THIS. So I made Mom go out on the front porch before I said a word to Mrs. Gillman. MY MOTHER IS NOT INSIDE THE HOUSE RIGHT NOW. And from the look Mom gave me when she came back in the house, I kind of get the feeling she's not gonna hold me to that honesty pledge anymore. Monday

吉尔曼说她不在家。 我不知道妈妈是不是想骗我撒谎，但我不可能在这么愚蠢的事情上打破我诚实的习惯。 所以在我和吉尔曼太太说话之前，我让妈妈到前廊去了。 我妈妈现在不在房子里。 从妈妈回来时给我的表情来看，我觉得她不会再让我遵守诚实的承诺了。 周一

Today was Career Day at school. They have Career Day every year to get us kids to start thinking about our future. They brought in a bunch of adults who had all these different jobs. I think the idea is that us kids will find out about a job we like, and then we'll know what we want to be when we grow up. But what REALLY happens is that you just find out which jobs to rule out. After the presentations, we had to fill out these questionnaires. The first question was," Where do you see yourself in fifteen years?" I know EXACTLY where I'll be in fifteen years: in my pool, at my mansion, counting my money. But there

今天是学校的就业日。 他们每年都有职业日，让我们这些孩子开始思考我们的未来。 他们请来了一群从事各种不同工作的成年人。 我认为我们的想法是，我们孩子会找到我们喜欢的工作，然后我们就会知道我们长大后想成为什么。 但真正发生的是，你只是找到了哪些工作要排除掉。 演讲结束后，我们必须填写这些问卷。 第一个问题是，“你觉得自己15年后会是什么样子？”我很清楚十五年后我会在哪里：在我的泳池里，在我的豪宅里，数我的钱。 但

weren't any check boxes for THAT option. The questionnaires are supposed to predict what kind of job you're going to have when you grow up. When I was finished, I looked up my job on the chart, and I got "Clerk." Well, there must be something wrong with the way they set these forms up or something, because I don't know any clerks who are billionaires. Some other kids were unhappy with the jobs they ended up with, too. But the teacher said we shouldn't take these things too seriously. Well, try telling that to Edward Mealey. Last year, he got "Sanitation Worker" on his job chart, and the teachers have been treating him different ever

那个选项没有任何复选框。 这些问卷的目的是预测你长大后会从事什么样的工作。 当我完成后，我在表格上查了一下我的工作，我得到的是“文员”。 他们填写表格的方式肯定有问题，因为我不知道有哪个职员是亿万富翁。 其他一些孩子也对他们最终的工作不满意。 但是老师说我们不应该把这些事情看得太严重。 你去跟爱德华·米利说去。 去年，他的工作表上写着“环卫工”，老师们对他的态度一直不一样

since. EDWARD, COULD YOU PLEASE CLEAN UP THIS JUICE SPILL? Rowley got "Nurse" on his job chart, and he seemed pretty happy about it. A couple of girls got Nurse, too, and they were chatting away with Rowley after class. Next year I have to remember to sit next to Rowley and copy his job form so I can get in on some of that action.

自。爱德华，你能把洒出来的果汁清理一下吗？ 罗利的工作表上有“护士”一职，他似乎对此很满意。 几个女孩也有护士，下课后她们在和罗利聊天。 明年我得记得坐在罗利旁边，复印他的工作表，这样我就能参与其中了。