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The Daily Herald Vandals deface middle school Vandals struck last night under cover of darkness and rain, leaving large bright green stains on the front wall of the town middle school. The meaning of the green blobs is still unknown, but police suspect it could be gang- related. "Graffiti artists have caused a lot of property damage in the past six months, said Sgt. Peters of the town police force. SEE VANDALS, A2 So now I'm basically a criminal. Believe it or not, this isn't the FIRST time I've been falsely accused of a crime. When I was in the Boy Scouts, I was trying to earn my Service Project merit badge, and I had to do some kind of good deed. Mom said I should go over to Leisure Towers and see if there were any elderly people who needed help carrying groceries or something like that, and she told Rodrick he had to give me a ride. When we got to the parking lot of Leisure Towers,

破坏者破坏了一所中学昨晚，一群破坏者在夜幕和雨水的掩护下袭击了一所镇中学，在学校的前墙上留下了大片亮绿色的污迹。 这些绿色斑点的含义尚不清楚，但警方怀疑它可能与帮派有关。 在过去的六个月里，涂鸦艺术家造成了很多财产损失。 我是镇警察局的彼得斯。 所以现在我基本上是个罪犯了。 信不信由你，这已经不是我第一次被诬告犯罪了。 当我还是童子军的时候，我想获得我的服务项目荣誉徽章，我必须做一些好事。 妈妈说我应该去Leisure Towers看看有没有老人需要帮忙搬东西之类的，她告诉罗德里克让他载我一程。 当我们到达休闲塔的停车场时，

there was a lady walking around who looked like she was lost. We asked the lady if she needed any help, and she said she was just walking to the supermarket on the other side of the apartment building. But I knew the nearest supermarket was almost five miles away in the opposite direction, so we said we'd give her a ride. The only condition was that she had to ride in the back because I had already called shotgun.

有一位女士走来走去，看起来好像迷路了。 我们问那位女士是否需要帮助，她说她正要去公寓大楼另一边的超市。 但我知道最近的超市在相反的方向大约五英里之外，所以我们说我们可以载她一程。 唯一的条件是她必须坐在后面，因为我已经叫了副驾驶。

We dropped the woman off at the supermarket, and then we went home. When we walked in the door, I was pretty excited to tell Mom about my good deed. I told her about the lady and how we gave her a ride to the supermarket a few miles from Leisure Towers and saved her a lot of walking. But Mom said there was a brand-new supermarket a block away from Leisure Towers and the woman had probably been heading THERE. So that meant we dropped her off five miles from where she was

我们把那位女士送到超市，然后就回家了。 当我们走进门的时候，我很兴奋地告诉妈妈我的好事。 我告诉她关于那位女士的事，以及我们如何载她去离休闲塔几英里远的超市，这样她就不用走很多路了。 但是妈妈说，离休闲大厦一个街区有一家新开的超市，那个女人可能就是去那里的。 也就是说我们在离她五英里的地方把她放下了

trying to go, and now she didn't have a way to get home. Mom said we had to get back in the van and see if we could find the lady, so we went to the supermarket where we dropped her off. But a cashier told us she'd already finished her shopping and left. We eventually found the lady walking along the highway with her groceries. We tried to offer her a ride back to Leisure Towers, but this time she wouldn't get in the van.

她想走，现在却没办法回家。 妈妈说我们必须回到车里，看看能不能找到那位女士，所以我们去了超市，把她放在那里。 但一位收银员告诉我们，她已经买完东西离开了。 最后我们发现那位女士正拿着杂货沿着公路走着。 我们想送她回休闲塔，但这次她不愿上车。

I guess she must've called the local TV station to report us once she got home, because that night we were on the news. TEENS ARE KIDNAPPING RESIDENTS OF LEISURE TOWERS. COULD YOUR GRANDMOTHER BE NEXT? This school vandalism thing seems a LOT more serious, though. Luckily the eyewitness sketches in the paper didn't really look like me and Rowley, so I thought maybe we'd be OK. But when I got to school, all anyone wanted to talk about was who was behind

我猜她一到家就打电话给当地电视台举报我们，因为那天晚上我们上了新闻。 青少年正在绑架休闲塔的居民。 你奶奶会是下一个吗？ 不过，破坏学校的事情似乎要严重得多。 幸运的是，报纸上的目击者画像并不像我和罗利，所以我想也许我们会没事的。 但当我到了学校，所有人都在谈论谁在后面

the green blobs. The school had a general assembly in third period, and the topic was the so-called graffiti on the front of the school. Vice Principal Roy said someone had spray-painted the front wall and he was sure the perpetrators were students at our school. He said someone in the auditorium knew who was responsible and that it was terrible to live with a "guilty conscience." Then he said he was gonna put a locked box in the cafeteria to make it easy for someone to leave an anonymous tip. At lunch I could tell Rowley was really freaking out,

绿色的斑点。第三节课学校有一个大会，主题是所谓的学校前面的涂鸦。 副校长罗伊说，有人在前面的墙上喷漆，他确信肇事者是我们学校的学生。 他说，礼堂里有人知道谁应该为此负责，带着“内疚的良心”生活是很可怕的。 然后他说他要在餐厅里放个上锁的盒子方便别人留下匿名线索。 吃午饭的时候，我看得出罗利真的吓坏了，