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the dollar before I could pull it down. So me and Rowley had to go up on the boardwalk to get it back. This kid wasn't budging, though. I tried to explain the concept of personal property to him, but he STILL wouldn't give us our money. I was getting pretty frustrated with this kid, and that's when Rowley's parents showed up. I was pretty glad to see them because I figured if ANYONE could talk some sense into this kid, it was Mr. Jefferson. But Mr. Jefferson was mad, and I mean REALLY mad. He said he and Mrs. Jefferson had been looking all over for us for the past hour and they were ready to call the police to report us missing.

我还没来得及把它拉下来，我就把它弄掉了。 所以我和罗利不得不走上木板路把它拿回来。 但这孩子一点也不动。 我试着向他解释个人财产的概念，但他仍然不给我们钱。 我对这孩子感到非常沮丧，就在那时罗利的父母出现了。 我很高兴见到他们，因为我想如果有人能说服这个孩子，那就是杰斐逊先生了。 但是杰斐逊先生疯了，我是说真的疯了。 他说他和杰佛逊太太过去一个小时一直在到处找我们，他们准备打电话报警说我们失踪了。

Then he told us we had to get in the car. But on the way to the parking lot, we walked past the arcade. I asked Mr. Jefferson if we could please have another dollar since we never did get to spend that one he gave us. But I guess that wasn't the right thing to ask, because he took us back to the car without saying a word. When we got back to the cabin, Mr. Jefferson said me and Rowley had to go straight to our room. That really stunk, because it wasn't even 8:00 and it was still light outside. But Mr. Jefferson said we had to go to bed and that he didn't want to hear a peep out of us until morning. Rowley was taking it really hard. From the way he

然后他让我们上车。 但在去停车场的路上，我们经过了拱廊。 我问杰斐逊先生能否再给我们一美元，因为我们从来没有花过他给我们的那一美元。 但我想我不该这么问，因为他一句话也没说就把我们送回了车上。 当我们回到小木屋时，杰斐逊先生说我和罗利必须直接回我们的房间。 真臭，因为还没到八点，外面还亮着呢。 可是杰佛逊先生说，我们得上床睡觉了，而且在天亮以前，他不想听到我们有任何动静。 罗利真的很难接受。 从他的方式来看

was acting, I don't think he's ever been in trouble with his dad before. I decided to lighten the mood a little bit. I walked around on the shag carpet and then gave Rowley a static electricity shock as a joke. That seemed to get Rowley to snap out of it. He walked around in a circle for about five minutes rubbing his feet on the carpet, and then got me back

我不认为他以前和他爸爸有过矛盾。 我决定让气氛轻松一点。 我在粗毛地毯上走来走去，然后开玩笑地对罗利进行了一次静电电击。 这似乎让罗利振作了起来。 他绕着圈子走了大约五分钟，用脚在地毯上蹭来蹭去，然后把我拉回来

while I was brushing my teeth. ZAP I couldn't let Rowley one-up me like that, so when he got into bed I got his boppy balloon, pulled back the giant rubber band, and let it rip. If I had to do it again, maybe I wouldn't have pulled back so hard. When Rowley saw the red mark on his arm he screamed, and I knew that was gonna attract attention. nkledc. Sure enough, his parents were up in our

当我在刷牙的时候。 扎普：我不能让罗利这样胜过我，所以当他上床时，我拿起他的气球，拉开巨大的橡皮筋，让它裂开。 如果让我再来一次，也许我不会这么拼命地退缩。 当罗利看到他手臂上的红色印记时他尖叫起来，我知道这会引起注意。 果然，他的父母在我们的

room in five seconds. HE... HE BURNED ME! I tried to explain that the mark on Rowley's arm was from a rubber band, but that didn't seem to matter to the Jefferson's. They called my parents, and two hours later Dad was at the cabin to pick me up and take me home. Monday Dad's really mad that he had to drive four hours round-trip to come get me. But Mom wasn't mad at all. She said the incident between me and Rowley was

五秒钟后到房间。他…… 他烧了我！我试着向他们解释罗利手臂上的痕迹是橡皮筋造成的，但这对杰斐逊一家来说似乎并不重要。 他们给我父母打了电话，两个小时后，爸爸就在小木屋接我回家了。 星期一，爸爸开了四个小时的车来接我，他真的很生气。 但是妈妈一点也不生气。 她说我和罗利之间的事

just "horseplay" and she was glad we were "pals" again. But Dad is still mad, and it's been really chilly between us ever since we got back. Mom's been trying to get the two of us to do something like go to the movies together so we can "make peace," but I think right now it's best for me and Dad to just stay out of each other's way. I think Dad's bad mood is here to stay, though, and part of it has nothing to do with me. When I opened up today's paper, here's what I saw in the Arts section—

只是“胡闹”，她很高兴我们又成了“好朋友”。 但爸爸还是很生气，自从我们回来后，我们之间的关系一直很冷淡。 妈妈一直想让我们俩做点什么，比如一起去看电影这样我们就能“和好”了，但我觉得现在我和爸爸最好还是别碍事。 不过，我觉得爸爸的坏心情会一直持续下去，而且有一部分和我无关。 当我打开今天的报纸，这是我在艺术部分看到的