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I knew my chances of getting the part weren't good when the casting people sent me out the door without even asking my name. NEXT! My opportunity was slipping away, so I did what I could to improve my odds. THE NEXT KID I'M PRETTY SURE THE NEXT KID IN LINE IS ALLERGIC TO PEACHES. But it looks like the job is gonna go to a younger kid

当选角人员连问我的名字都没问就把我打发出门时，我就知道我得到这个角色的机会不大。 下一个!我的机会正在溜走，所以我尽我所能来提高胜算。 下一个孩子我很确定下一个孩子对桃子过敏。 但看起来这份工作要交给一个更年轻的孩子了

after all, which really stinks. You know, this isn't the first time I've been discriminated against because of my age, either. Last October me and Rowley heard that our local news station was going to be at the Red Apple Farm to shoot footage of kids carving pumpkins and making scarecrows and stuff like that. We knew this was our big chance to be on TV, so we plopped ourselves in front of the news camera and really hammed it up. But it took about five seconds for the news people to kick us out.

毕竟，这真的很臭。 你知道，这也不是我第一次因为年龄而受到歧视了。 去年十月，我和罗利听说我们当地的新闻台要去红苹果农场拍摄孩子们刻南瓜、做稻草人之类的镜头。 我们知道这是我们上电视的大好机会，所以我们扑通一声站在新闻镜头前，把镜头拍得很好。 但新闻记者只花了五秒钟就把我们赶出去了。

HEY, GET THOSE CREEPY KIDS OUT OF THERE! Then they brought in some little kids to take our place, and they did the same EXACT thing me and Rowley were doing. I LOVE IT! HA HA! And sure enough, those kids were on the news that night. The truth is, this kind of thing has been going on for a long time. And where it's worst is in my own family.

嘿，把那些讨厌的孩子赶出去！然后他们带了一些小孩来代替我们，他们做了和我和罗利一模一样的事情。 我喜欢！哈哈!果不其然，那晚这些孩子上了新闻。 事实是，这种事情已经持续了很长时间。 最糟糕的是我自己的家庭。

Up until I was eight or nine, I was the star of every family gathering. It seemed like nobody could get enough of me. I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT SHORT AND STOUT... But after Manny was born, things really changed for me. HERE IS MY HANDLE AND HERE IS MY SPOUT! OH, GROW UP! See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

在我八九岁之前，我一直是每个家庭聚会的主角。 好像没人能看够我。 我是一个矮胖的小茶壶…… 但曼尼出生后，我的情况真的变了。 这是我的把手，这是我的壶嘴！哦，成熟点吧！当你还是个小孩的时候，从来没有人警告过你生命的最后期限。 今天你很性感，明天你就成了垃圾三明治。

I guess I can understand why Rodrick's always so grumpy. It's been a long time since he was the center of attention, and believe me, he's not getting any cuter. The person who's lucky is ROWLEY. He's an only child, so at least he doesn't have to worry about being replaced by the next kid to come along. JUST TIP ME OVER AND POUR ME OUT! HURRAY, ROWLEY!

我想我能理解罗德里克为什么总是那么暴躁了。 他已经很久没有成为人们关注的焦点了，相信我，他并没有变得更可爱。 幸运的人是罗利。 他是独生子女，所以至少他不用担心被下一个孩子取代。 把我翻过来，把我倒出来！华友世纪,罗利!

Monday Tonight at dinner Dad told us that his younger brother, Uncle Gary, got engaged to his girlfriend, Sonja. I guess that's great news and all, but Uncle Gary has been married three times before, so this has kind of become a regular thing in our family. In fact, we don't even use growth charts at home, because we can just look at pictures from Uncle Gary's weddings to keep track of our progress.

星期一今晚吃饭时，爸爸告诉我们，他的弟弟加里叔叔和他的女朋友索尼娅订婚了。 我想这是个好消息，但加里叔叔之前已经结过三次婚了，所以这在我们家已经成为常态。 事实上，我们在家里甚至不用增长图表，因为我们可以看看加里叔叔婚礼的照片来跟踪我们的进展。