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shovel and go dig a hole somewhere else, so I headed up to Rowley's house. I haven't been going up to Rowley's much lately, mostly because of Fregley. Fregley has been spending a lot of time in his front yard, and sure enough, that's where he was today. DOES THIS SCAB SMELL FUNNY TO YOU? My new strategy with Fregley is to just avoid eye contact and keep walking, and it seemed to do the trick today. When I got to Rowley's, I told him my idea, and how the two of us would practically be ninjas if we stuck with this hole-jumping program I planned out.

然后去别的地方挖个洞，所以我去了罗利的家。 我最近不怎么去罗利了，主要是因为弗雷利的事。 弗雷格利花了很多时间在他的前院，毫无疑问，他今天就在那里。 你觉得这个痂有怪味吗？ 我对弗雷格利的新策略是避免眼神接触，继续走，今天看来很管用。 当我到了罗利家，我告诉他我的想法，如果我们俩坚持我计划的跳洞计划，我们就会变成忍者。

But Rowley didn't seem so hot on the idea. He said his parents might get mad if we dug a ten-foot hole in his front yard without asking them, so he was gonna have to get their permission first. Now, if there's one thing I know about Rowley's parents, it's that they never like my ideas. I told Rowley we could just cover the hole up with a tarp or a blanket or something and put some leaves on top of it, and his folks would never even find out. That seemed to convince him. ok, so I admit that Rowley's parents might eventually find out. But that wouldn't be for at least three or four months.

但罗利似乎不太喜欢这个主意。 他说如果我们没征得他父母的同意就在他的前院挖了一个10英尺的洞，他父母可能会生气，所以他得先征得他们的同意。 如果说我对罗利的父母有什么了解的话，那就是他们从来不喜欢我的想法。 我告诉罗利，我们可以用防水布或毯子之类的东西把洞盖上，再在上面放些树叶，他的父母根本不会发现。 这似乎说服了他。 好吧，我承认罗利的父母最终可能会发现。 但至少三四个月后才会有。

Me and Rowley found a good spot in the front yard to start digging, but we ran into a problem right away. The ground was pretty much frozen solid, and we could hardly even make a dent.

我和罗利在前院找了个好地方开始挖，但我们马上就遇到了一个问题。 地面几乎被冻住了，我们几乎不能在地面上留下任何痕迹。

I spent a few minutes trying before I handed the shovel over to Rowley. He couldn't really make any progress, either, but I gave him an extra-long turn so he could feel like he was contributing to the project. Rowley got a little bit further than I did, but when it started to get dark out, he gave up. nkledc. I guess we'll have to take another crack at this thing tomorrow.

我试了几分钟才把铲子递给罗利。 他也不能取得任何进展，但我给了他一个额外的时间，让他觉得自己在为这个项目做出贡献。 罗利比我走得更远，但当外面开始变黑时，他放弃了。 我想我们明天还得再试一次。

Sunday Well, I thought about it a lot overnight, and I realized that at the rate me and Rowley are going, we're gonna to be in college before this hole is ten feet deep. So I came up with a totally different idea for what we could do. I remembered this thing I saw on TV where scientists made a "time capsule" and filled it with a bunch of stuff like newspapers and DVDs and things like that. Then the scientists buried their time capsule in the ground. The idea was that in a few hundred years someone will come along and dig it up, and they can learn how people from our time used to live. I told Rowley about my idea, and he seemed pretty

星期天嗯，我一夜之间想了很多，我意识到，按照我和罗利的速度，这个洞还不到十英尺深，我们就上大学了。 所以我想到了一个完全不同的办法。 我记得我在电视上看到的一个东西，科学家做了一个“时间胶囊”，里面装满了一堆东西，比如报纸和dvd之类的东西。 然后科学家们把他们的时间胶囊埋在地下。 他们的想法是，几百年后会有人来把它挖出来，他们可以了解我们这个时代的人过去是如何生活的。 我把我的想法告诉了罗利，他看起来挺帅的

enthusiastic about it. Mostly, I think he was just glad we weren't gonna spend the next few years digging a hole. I asked Rowley to donate some items to put in the time capsule, and that's when he got cold feet. I told Rowley that if he put some of his Christmas presents in the time capsule, people in the future would get some really cool stuff when they opened the box. Rowley told me it wasn't fair, because I wasn't putting any of my Christmas presents in the time capsule. So I had to explain to him that the people in the future would think we were really lame if they opened the box and it was filled with clothes and books. Then I told Rowley I'd throw in three dollars of my own money to prove I was making sacrifices, too. That seemed to be enough to convince him to fork

对此充满热情。最主要的是，我想他只是很高兴我们不用在接下来的几年里挖洞。 我让罗利捐一些东西放进时间胶囊里，然后他就临阵退缩了。 我告诉罗利，如果他把他的一些圣诞礼物放在时间胶囊里，未来的人们打开盒子时就会得到一些非常酷的东西。 罗利告诉我这不公平，因为我没有把圣诞礼物放进时间胶囊里。 所以我不得不向他解释，如果未来的人打开盒子，里面装满了衣服和书，他们会认为我们真的很蹩脚。 然后我告诉罗利，我要拿出自己的三美元来证明我也做出了牺牲。 这似乎足以说服他用餐了