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for Manny's first birthday, and it was love at first sight. Manny carried that thing around with him everywhere he went. He wouldn't even let Mom take it away from him so she could wash it. It started falling apart, and by the time Manny was two, his blanket was basically a couple of pieces of yarn held together by raisins and boogers. I think that's when Manny started calling his blanket "Tingy." For the past couple of days, Manny's been dragging Tingy around the house just like he did when he was a baby, and I've been trying to stay out of his way as much as possible.

曼尼的一岁生日礼物，我们一见钟情 曼尼走到哪里都带着那东西。 他甚至不让妈妈把它拿走，让她洗一洗。 它开始散开，曼尼两岁的时候，他的毯子基本上是用葡萄干和鼻屎把几条纱线绑在一起的。 我想就是从那时起曼尼开始叫他的毯子“丁丁” 过去的几天里，曼尼一直拖着婷蒂在屋子里走来走去就像他小时候一样，我一直尽量不打扰他。

Wednesday I'm getting really tired of walking to school every day, so this morning I asked Mom if she would drive me and Rowley. The reason I didn't ask her sooner is because Mom's car is covered in all these embarrassing bumper stickers, and kids at my school are brutal when it comes to that sort of thing. I've tried scraping the bumper stickers off, but whatever kind of glue they put on those things is meant to last until the end of time. My child is a graduate of TenderCuddles Preschool

我真的厌倦了每天走路上学，所以今天早上我问妈妈她是否愿意开车送我和罗利。 我之所以没有早点问她，是因为妈妈的车上贴满了令人尴尬的保险杠贴纸，而我学校的孩子们在遇到这种事情时都很粗鲁。 我试过把保险杠上的贴纸刮掉，但不管他们用什么胶水粘在那些东西上，都是要一直用下去的。 我的孩子是从温柔拥抱幼儿园毕业的

Today me and Rowley got a ride from Mom, but I told her to let us out behind the school. Well, I made the dumb mistake of leaving my backpack in the car, so Mom brought it to me in fourth period. And of course she picked today to finally start going to the gym. YOU FORGOT THIS, SWEETIE!

今天我和罗利搭了妈妈的车，但我告诉她让我们在学校后面下车。 我犯了个愚蠢的错误，把背包落在车里了，所以妈妈在第四节课的时候给我带来了。 当然，她选择今天终于开始去健身房了。 你忘了这个，亲爱的！

It was just my luck, too. Fourth period is the only time I have a class with Holly Hills, and I've been trying to make a good impression on her this year. I figure this incident probably set me back about three weeks. I'm not the only one who's trying to impress Holly Hills, either. I think just about every boy in my class has a crush on her. Holly is the fourth-prettiest girl in the class, but the top three all have boyfriends. So a lot of guys like me are doing everything they can to get in good with her. I've been trying to come up with an angle to separate myself from the rest of the goobers who like Holly. And I think I finally figured it out: humor. See, the kids in my class are like Neanderthals when it comes to jokes. To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, here's the kind of thing that passes for comedy at my school —

这也是我的运气。第四节课是我唯一一次和霍莉·希尔斯一起上课，今年我一直想给她留下好印象。 我想这件事可能会耽误我三个星期的时间。 我也不是唯一一个想给霍莉·希尔斯留下好印象的人。 我想我们班上几乎每个男生都喜欢她。 霍莉是班上第四漂亮的女孩，但前三名都有男朋友。 所以很多像我这样的人都在想尽办法和她搞好关系。 我一直在想办法把自己和其他喜欢霍莉的谷歌人区分开来。 我想我终于明白了：幽默。 你看，我班上的孩子在讲笑话方面就像穴居人一样。 为了让你们明白我在说什么，这里有一种东西在我的学校里被认为是喜剧

Anytime Holly's in the area, I make sure I use my best material. I've been using Rowley as my comedy partner, and I've actually trained him on a couple of pretty decent jokes. WHATCHYA DOIN'? (EATIN' CHOCOLATE. WHERE'D YA GET IT? A DOGGIE DROPPED IT!

只要霍莉在这里，我就一定用最好的材料。 我一直让罗利做我的喜剧搭档，我还训练他讲了几个相当不错的笑话。 你在干什么呢?(品尝巧克力。 你从哪弄来的？一只狗把它弄掉了！

The only problem is, Rowley's starting to get a little greedy about who gets to say what, so I don't know if this partnership is gonna workout long - term. Friday Well, I learned my lesson about getting a ride from Mom, so I'm back to walking to school. But when I was heading home with Rowley this afternoon, I seriously didn't think I had the energy to make it up the hill to my house. So I asked Rowley if he'd give me a piggyback ride. Rowley didn't exactly jump at the idea, so I had to remind him that we're best friends and this is the kind of thing best friends do for each other. He finally caved when I offered to carry his backpack

唯一的问题是，罗利开始对谁说了算有点贪心了，所以我不知道这种合作关系能不能长久。 星期五嗯，我从妈妈那里学到了搭车的教训，所以我又开始走路上学了。 但是今天下午我和罗利一起回家的时候，我真的觉得自己没有力气爬上山回家了。 所以我问罗利能不能载我一程。 罗利并没有欣然接受这个主意，所以我不得不提醒他，我们是最好的朋友，这是最好的朋友为彼此做的事情。 当我提出帮他背背包时，他终于屈服了