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QUIT PLAYING IN THE TULIPS! I have to admit, it was probably a good thing that Dad stayed on my case tonight. There were about a million them down at my end of the field, and in the second half I was starting to get a little twitchy. Monday Well, yesterday we had another soccer game, and luckily Dad wasn't there to see it. We lost our first game of the season, 1-0. Somehow the other team got the ball past me in the last few seconds, and they won the game. So that ruined our perfect

别在郁金香里玩了！我得承认，老爸今晚留下来调查我的案子可能是件好事。 在我的球场那头有大约100万球迷，下半场我开始有点紧张了。 星期一嗯，昨天我们又踢了一场足球，幸运的是爸爸没有看到。 我们以0比1输掉了本赛季的第一场比赛。 不知怎么的，对方队在最后几秒钟把球传给了我，他们赢得了比赛。 这毁了我们的完美

record. After the game, everyone on my team was in a sour mood, so I tried to cheer them up. WELL, IT'S JUST A STUPID GAME, RIGHT, FELLAS? My teammates thanked me for being positive by pelting me with orange peels. Back at home, I was nervous to tell Dad about the game. I guess he seemed a little disappointed, but he got over it pretty quick.

记录。比赛结束后，我们队的每个人都心情不好，所以我试图让他们振作起来。 这只是个愚蠢的游戏，对吧，伙计们？ 我的队友为了感谢我的积极态度，向我扔橘子皮。 回到家，我很紧张，不敢告诉爸爸这场比赛的事。 我猜他看起来有点失望，但他很快就好了。

DID YOU BEND YOUR KNEES? MM HMM. But tonight, when Dad got home from dinner, he looked really mad. He plopped the newspaper down in front of me on the kitchen table, and here was the picture on the Sports page- A "Blown" Opportunity Red Socks goalie Gregory Heffley takes a break from the action as a fifty- yard kick by Demon Dawgs midfielder James Byron rolls in. The score ended the Socks' bid for an undefeated season. Apparently, Dad found out about the paper from his boss at work.

你屈膝了吗？嗯嗯。 但是今晚，当爸爸吃完晚饭回家时，他看起来真的很生气。 他把报纸扔在厨房的桌子上，放在我面前，这是体育版上的照片——“错失的”机会红袜队守门员格里高利·赫夫利在比赛中休息，魔鬼狗队中场詹姆斯·拜伦在50码外踢进了球。 这个比分结束了袜队本赛季不败的努力。 很显然，爸爸是从他老板那里得知这篇论文的。

ok, so maybe I didn't tell Dad All the details of the game. In my defense, though, I didn't really know what happened until I read about it in the paper myself. Dad didn't say a word to me for the rest of the night. If he's still mad at me, I just hope he gets over it pretty quick. Twisted Wizard 2 finally came out today, and I'm kind of counting on Dad to float me some money so I can get it. Friday Tonight after dinner, Dad took me and Rodrick out to a movie. It's not because he was trying to be nice, though. He just needed to get out of the house.

好吧，也许我没有告诉爸爸游戏的所有细节。 不过，我要为自己辩护的是，直到我自己在报纸上读到这件事，我才真正知道发生了什么。 整个晚上爸爸都没跟我说一句话。 如果他还在生我的气，我只希望他能快点好起来。 《扭曲巫师2》今天终于出来了，我有点指望爸爸给我点钱，这样我就能买到它了。 星期五今晚晚饭后，爸爸带我和罗德里克出去看电影。 但这并不是因为他想对人好。 他只是想离开家。

Remember how I told you that Mom got on an exercise kick a few months ago? Well, she quit after her first class. Dad took a picture of Mom decked out in all her exercise gear the first day she went to the gym, and tonight the pictures came in the mail. The photo place gives you duplicate prints, so as a joke Dad wrote labels on the two pictures of Mom and put them up on the refrigerator.

还记得我告诉过你妈妈几个月前开始锻炼吗？ 她上完第一堂课就退学了。 爸爸给妈妈拍了一张她第一天去健身房时穿着运动服的照片，今晚照片寄来了。 照相的地方会给你重复的照片，所以爸爸开玩笑地在妈妈的两张照片上写了标签，贴在冰箱上。

Well, Dad was pretty proud of himself for coming up with that one, but Mom wasn't so amused.

嗯，爸爸为自己想出这个主意感到非常自豪，但妈妈却不那么开心。