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him keep it. At dinner Mom said we should come up with a name for the dog. I wanted to name it something cool like Shredder or Ripjaw, but Mom said my ideas were too "violent." Manny's ideas were a whole lot worse, though. He wanted to name the dog an animal name like Elephant or Zebra. ZEEB FOR SHORT! Rodrick liked the animal name idea, and he said we should call the dog Turtle.

他留着吧。晚饭时，妈妈说我们应该给狗取个名字。 我想给它取个很酷的名字，比如施莱德或里普下巴，但妈妈说我的主意太“暴力”了。 不过曼尼的想法更糟糕。 他想给这只狗取一个动物的名字，比如大象或斑马。 简称Zeeb ！罗德里克喜欢这个动物名字的主意，他说我们应该叫这只狗乌龟。

TURD FOR SHORT. Mom said we should call the dog Sweetheart. I thought that was a really terrible idea, because the dog is a boy, not a girl. But before any of us could fight it, Dad agreed with Mom's idea. SWEETIE FOR SHORT! I think Dad was willing to go with anything Mom came up with if it meant he didn't have to take the dog back. But something tells me Uncle Joe would not approve of our dog's name. Dad told Rodrick he should go to the mall to buy a

简称大便。妈妈说我们应该叫它甜心。 我觉得这主意糟透了，因为那只狗是个男孩，不是女孩。 还没等我们反抗，爸爸就同意了妈妈的主意。 简称“甜心”！我想爸爸愿意接受妈妈提出的任何条件，只要这意味着他不必把狗带回去。 但直觉告诉我乔叔叔不会同意我们的狗的名字。 爸爸告诉罗德里克他应该去商场买个

bowl and get the dog's name printed on it, and here's what Rodrick came back with— SWEATY I guess that's what you get when you send the worst speller in the family off to do your errands. Wednesday I was really happy when we got our dog at first, but now I'm starting to have second thoughts. The dog's actually been driving me crazy. A few nights ago a commercial came on TV, and it showed some gophers popping in and out of their holes. sweetie seemed pretty interested in that, so Dad said—

把狗狗的名字印在碗上，这是罗德里克带回来的——汗流浃背——我猜这就是你让家里拼写最差的人去帮你跑腿时得到的结果。 刚开始我们养狗的时候我真的很高兴，但是现在我开始重新考虑了。 这狗快把我逼疯了。 几天前的一个晚上，电视上出现了一个广告，广告上有一些地鼠从它们的洞里蹦进蹦出。 小甜心似乎对此很感兴趣，所以爸爸说

WHERE ARE THE GOPHER, SWEETIE? WHERE ARE THEY, BOY? That got Sweetie all riled up, and he started barking at the TV. Now Sweetie barks at the TV constantly, and the only thing that gets him to stop is when the commercial with the gophers comes back on. But what really bugs me about the dog is that he likes to sleep in my bed, and I'm afraid he'll bite my

亲爱的，地鼠在哪儿？ 孩子，他们在哪儿？这让小甜心很生气，他开始对着电视叫。 现在小甜心不停地对着电视叫，唯一能让他停下来的就是地鼠的广告重新播放。 但这只狗真正让我烦恼的是它喜欢睡在我的床上，我担心它会咬我的

hand off. if I try to move him. And he doesn't just sleep in my bed. He sleeps right smack in the middle. Dad comes in my room at 7:00 every morning to take Sweetie out. But I guess me and the dog have something in common, because he doesn't like getting out of bed in the morning, either. So Dad turns the lights on and off to try to make the dog wake up.

手了。如果我试图移动他。 他不只是睡在我的床上。 他睡在正中间。 爸爸每天早上7点到我的房间带小甜心出去。 但我想我和狗有一些共同之处，因为它也不喜欢早上起床。 所以爸爸把灯开了又关，试图让狗醒来。

Yesterday Dad couldn't get Sweetie to go outside, so he tried something new. He went to the front of the house and rang the doorbell, which made the dog shoot out of bed like a rocket. The only problem was, he used my face as a launching pad. It must've been raining outside this morning, because

昨天爸爸没能让小甜心出去，所以他尝试了新的方法。 他走到房前按响了门铃，狗像火箭一样从床上蹿了起来。 唯一的问题是，他把我的脸当作跳板。 今天早上外面一定下过雨，因为