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the basket came to me, I made a big deal of putting the dollar in the basket to make sure Holly could see how generous I was. But when I put the money in the basket, I realized Mom had given me a twenty, not a single. I tried to grab the basket to make change, but it was too late. All I can say is, I better get some points in Heaven for that donation. I've heard that when you do good deeds, you're supposed to be all private about it, but that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me. If I start hiding my good deeds, I'm sure I'll just regret it later on.

篮子来到我面前，我把那一美元放在篮子里，让霍莉看到我是多么慷慨。 但当我把钱放进篮子里时，我意识到妈妈给我的是20元，而不是1元。 我想抓住篮筐换零钱，但已经太迟了。 我只能说，我最好能在天堂为我的捐款得到点积分。 我听说当你做好事的时候，你应该对它保密，但这对我来说真的没有多大意义。 如果我开始隐瞒我的善行，我肯定我以后会后悔的。

BUT WHAT ABOUT THAT SQUIRREL I HELPED WITH THE BROKEN LEG? SORRY... I MUST'VE MISSED THAT. Like I said before, the Easter service is superlong. One of the songs was going on for about five minutes, and I started looking for ways to entertain myself. The way that Rodrick keeps himself busy when he's bored is by picking at this scab on the back of his hand that he never lets heal, but I'm not really interested in going that route. Manny has it made in church. Mom and Dad let him bring all sorts of stuff with us to keep him entertained. Believe me, Mom and Dad never let me bring anything to church when I was his age.

那我帮的那只断了腿的松鼠呢？ 对不起……我一定是错过了。 就像我之前说的，复活节礼拜太长了。 其中一首歌持续了大约五分钟，我开始寻找娱乐自己的方式。 罗德里克无聊时的消遣方式就是挠他手背上的伤疤他从不让伤疤愈合，但我对这条路没兴趣。 曼尼在教堂做的 爸爸妈妈让他带各种各样的东西，让他开心。 相信我，我像他这么大的时候，爸妈从来不让我带任何东西去教堂。

Mom and Dad always baby Manny, though, and I'll give you an example of what I'm talking about. Last week Manny was at preschool, and when he opened up his lunchbox his sandwich was cut in half, not in quarters, the way he likes it. Manny threw a huge temper tantrum, and the teachers had to call Mom. So she left work and drove all the way down to Manny's school to make the extra slice. Anyway, I was thinking about this at church, and all

爸妈总是把曼尼当宝贝，我给你举个例子。 上周曼尼在幼儿园，当他打开午餐盒的时候，他的三明治被切成了两半，而不是他喜欢的四分之一。 曼尼大发脾气，老师们不得不打电话给妈妈。 所以她辞掉工作，一路开车到曼尼的学校去多做一块。 总之，我在教堂的时候就在想这个问题

of a sudden I got an idea in my head. I leaned over to Manny and whispered— Well, Manny completely lost it. He started bawling, and everyone in the church turned their heads our way. Even the minister stopped talking to see what was going on. Mom couldn't calm Manny down, so we had to leave. Instead of walking out the side door, though, we walked right down the center aisle. I tried to look as cool as possible when we walked past the Hills family, but it was pretty tough. nkledc. considering the circumstances.

我突然有了一个主意。 我凑到曼尼身边小声说-嗯，曼尼完全失控了。 他开始大喊大叫，教堂里的每个人都把头转向我们这边。 就连牧师也不说话了，想看看发生了什么事。 妈妈没法让曼尼冷静下来，所以我们不得不离开。 不过，我们没有从侧门走出去，而是径直走到中间的过道。 当我们走过希尔斯一家的时候，我尽量让自己看起来很酷，但这很难。 考虑到情况。

The only person more embarrassed than me was Dad. Dad tried to cover his face with the church bulletin, but his boss spotted him and gave Dad the "thumbs up" on the way out. Wednesday Things have kind of been tense around the house since the mess the other day. First of all, Mom was really mad at me for calling Manny "Ploopy," so I had to remind her that she didn't have any problem when Manny said it. So Mom banned the word for everyone, and she said that if anyone was caught saying it, they'd be grounded for a week. But of course it didn't take long for Rodrick to find a loophole.

唯一比我更尴尬的人是爸爸。 爸爸试图用教堂的布告盖住自己的脸，但他的老板发现了他，并在出去的时候对爸爸竖起了大拇指。 自从那天乱七八糟的事情之后，家里的气氛一直很紧张。 首先，妈妈很生我的气因为我叫曼尼“臭小子”所以我得提醒她曼尼这么叫她的时候她没有任何问题。 所以妈妈禁止所有人使用这个词，她说如果有人被发现说这个词，就会被禁足一周。 当然，没过多久罗德里克就找到了漏洞。

This isn't the first time Mom has banned us from saying certain words in the house. A while back, Mom made a "no swearing" rule, because Manny was picking up new words left and right.

这不是妈妈第一次禁止我们在家里说某些话了。 前段时间，妈妈制定了一个“不准说脏话”的规则，因为曼尼一直在学习新单词。