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Me and Greg Heffley vandalized the school. All of a sudden, everything made sense. Rowley confessed, but he kept himself anonymous. I don't know if Rowley did it that way on purpose or if he's just a total doofus, but I'm guessing it's door number two. I didn't see any reason to play dumb at that point, so I told Vice Principal Roy the whole story. I told him about the signs and how the rain made the poster board bleed and how we panicked and ran. Vice Principal Roy thought about it for a while, and then he told me I should've come clean earlier. He said he was gonna have to give me a punishment to make sure I learned my lesson and said that after

我和格雷格·赫夫利破坏了学校。 突然之间，一切都说得通了。 罗利认罪了，但他没有公开身份。 我不知道罗利是故意的还是他只是个大笨蛋，但我猜是二号门。 我觉得当时没必要装傻，所以我把事情原原本本都告诉了罗伊副校长。 我跟他说了那些标志，说雨把广告牌弄出血了，说我们惊慌失措地跑开了。 罗伊副校长想了一会儿，然后他告诉我，我应该早点坦白。 他说他要惩罚我以确保我吸取教训，之后他又说了这句话

school I had to scrub the green dye off the wall with bleach. Then he gave me a choice. He said I could name my "co-conspirator" or I could just take the punishment myself. Let me tell you, that was not an easy one. I really wanted to stick it to Rowley for writing my name on that piece of paper, but I also didn't see the point in both of us getting in trouble for something that I basically dragged him into. So I decided this time around I'd just take one for the team. And if Rowley gets into a good college or gets some

在学校，我不得不用漂白剂把墙上的绿色染料洗掉。 然后他给了我一个选择。他说我可以说出我的“同谋”或者我可以自己承担惩罚。 让我告诉你，那可不容易。 我真的很想因为罗利在那张纸上写了我的名字而责怪他，但我也不觉得我们俩都因为我把他拉进的事惹上麻烦有什么意义。 所以我决定这次我要为团队牺牲一次。 如果罗利进了一所好大学，或者别的

dream job later on, I hope he remembers to thank me. Thursday It took me two hours to scrub the green dye off the wall yesterday, and it was hard work. I tried to get Vice Principal Roy to get me a few steel wool pads so we could speed things along, but he told me I needed to stick with the bleach. I finally got home around 5:00 p.m., and there was a note on the front door. When I read it, I almost passed out. Town Police Department We came by, but no one was home. We will come back later. Sgt. Peters I couldn't BELIEVE Vice Principal Roy gave me up to

梦想的工作以后，我希望他记得感谢我。 昨天我花了两个小时才把墙上的绿色染料洗掉，这是一项艰苦的工作。 我试着让罗伊副校长给我弄些钢棉垫来加快进度，但他告诉我，我得继续用漂白剂。 我终于在下午5点左右回到家，发现前门上贴着一张纸条。 我读的时候差点晕过去。 镇警察局我们来过，但没人在家。 我们稍后再回来。Sgt。 彼得斯我真不敢相信罗伊副校长把我给了

the police. I thought we were gonna keep this between us and that once I served my punishment, it was over and done with. All I know is, I can't go to jail. This year they took our class on a "Scared Straight" field trip to the local prison. They had these prisoners talk to us about what their lives were like in jail, and it really freaked everybody out. But it wasn't the idea of being locked up that scared me. It was the fact that the toilets in the cells are right out in the open.

警察。我以为这事只有你知我知一旦我服完刑，一切就都结束了。 我只知道，我不能进监狱。 今年，他们带我们班去当地监狱进行了一次实地考察。 他们让这些囚犯跟我们谈论他们在监狱里的生活，这把所有人都吓坏了。 但我害怕的不是被关起来的想法。 问题在于牢房里的厕所是露天的。

I have a HUGE issue when it comes to privacy. It's bad enough at school when you come back from the bathroom and everyone wants to know all the details. DID YOU POOP? I've never actually broken the law before, but when I was little I THOUGHT I did. They used to have this thing at my supermarket called the "Cupcake Club," where they gave a free cupcake to everyone under eight years old. I had a membership card and everything.

当谈到隐私时，我有一个巨大的问题。 在学校，当你从洗手间回来时，每个人都想知道所有的细节，这已经够糟糕的了。 你大便了吗？我以前从来没犯过法，但小时候我以为我犯过。 我的超市以前有个叫“纸杯蛋糕俱乐部”的活动，八岁以下的孩子都能得到一个免费的纸杯蛋糕。 我有会员卡什么的。

Well, I kept taking a cupcake even AFTER I turned eight, and every time I did I thought I was gonna get busted. Then this one time an alarm went off at the EXACT moment I bit into a strawberry frosted cupcake with sprinkles. Looking back, I'm pretty sure what happened was that someone accidentally tripped the fire alarm or something, but I was convinced it was for me and that the cops were gonna swoop in and place me under arrest.

好吧，我一直在吃纸杯蛋糕，甚至在我八岁以后，每次我这么做，我都以为我会被抓。 有一次，闹钟响了，就在我咬了一口草莓糖霜纸杯蛋糕的时候。 回想起来，我很确定是有人不小心触发了火警之类的，但我确信那是为了我，警察会冲进来逮捕我。