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PICK THIS ONE! YOU'LL LOOK SO RUGGED! I don't really understand why Mom was so upset. Most of the stuff that got ruined was in the basement for a reason, and that's because we never USE it. One of the things Mom was really sad about was a "spoon carousel" Gammie gave us five or six years ago. I think we were supposed to collect a spoon from every country in the world, but we only got up to Canada.

选这个吧！你会看起来很粗犷！我真不明白妈妈为什么那么难过。 大多数被毁的东西都是有原因的，那就是我们从不使用它。 妈妈很伤心的一件事是五六年前Gammie送给我们的“勺子旋转木马”。 我想我们应该从世界上每个国家收集一个勺子，但我们只到了加拿大。

I did feel pretty bad for Mom when she found out one of the family photo albums got ruined. A few years ago Mom got into scrapbooking, and she spent a lot of time cutting out pictures and doing these really fancy photo pages. But there's one page in that album I didn't like, because Rodrick always teases me about it. It's the one where I had a breakdown before a pony ride at the state fair.

当妈妈发现其中一本家庭相册被毁时，我确实为她感到难过。 几年前，妈妈迷上了剪贴簿，她花了很多时间剪下照片，做这些非常漂亮的照片页。 但那张专辑里有一页我不喜欢，因为罗德里克总是拿它取笑我。 就是我在州博览会骑马前精神崩溃的那次。

Rodrick always says I was scared of the pony, but that's not true at all. I was scared of the guy HANDLING the pony, but Mom cropped HIM out of the picture. Speaking of Rodrick, the flooding didn't seem to bother him at all. In fact, I'll bet if I hadn't woken him up he would've kept sleeping even if his bed floated up the stairs and out of the house.

罗德里克总是说我害怕那匹小马，但那根本不是真的。 我很害怕那个牵着小马的人，但妈妈把他从照片里剪掉了。 说到罗德里克，洪水似乎一点也没有影响到他。 事实上，我敢打赌，如果我没有叫醒他，他会一直睡下去，即使他的床飘上楼梯，飘出了房子。

The rest of the day was pretty awful. The water in the basement kept getting higher, so we had to make a bucket relay line with some of Manny's sand pails. Dad called from his hotel room to check in on us, and Mom told him what happened. Dad said he was really sorry he wasn't home to help, but something tells me he's OK with the way things worked out for him.

这一天剩下的时间都很糟糕。 地下室的水越来越高，所以我们不得不用曼尼的一些沙桶做了一条桶接力线。 爸爸从酒店房间打电话给我们，妈妈告诉他发生了什么事。 爸爸说他很抱歉没能回家帮忙，但我觉得他对自己的生活方式很满意。

I would LOVE to trade places with Dad right now, because he's got a clean room and a king-size bed all to himself. Mom told me and Rodrick that since the basement was flooded, we're gonna have to share MY room. She said it would be good for both of us to get used to having a "roommate," because it was practice for college. Me and Rodrick shared a room this summer for a weekend. We had to spend a few days at Gramma's while Mom and Dad took Manny to a kiddie amusement park. Gramma has a guest room, so I figured one of us would sleep on her couch and the other would get the guest bed. But Gramma said the guest room was "occupied," so

我现在很想和爸爸交换位置，因为他有一个干净的房间和一张特大号床。 妈妈告诉我和罗德里克，因为地下室被水淹了，我们得和我住一个房间。 她说这对我们俩都有好处，因为这是大学前的练习。 今年夏天我和罗德里克共用一个房间过周末。 我们不得不在奶奶家待几天，爸爸妈妈带曼尼去了儿童游乐园。 奶奶有个客房，所以我想我们一个睡她的沙发，另一个睡客床。 但奶奶说客房有人住，所以

we couldn't sleep there. She'd given the whole room to sweetie, the dog we gave her. But you'd hardly know he's the same dog, because Gramma feeds him so much he looks like a tick that's about to pop. Gramma said me and Rodrick could sleep together on the pullout couch she has in the living room. But that couch is covered in plastic because she doesn't trust us kids not to spill something on it. So me and Rodrick spent a whole weekend sleeping

我们不能睡在那里。她把整个房间都给了小甜心，我们送给她的那条狗。 但你几乎看不出他是同一只狗，因为奶奶喂了他太多，他看起来就像一只快要爆掉的虱子。 奶奶说我和罗德里克可以睡在她客厅的沙发上。 但沙发是用塑料盖着的，因为她不相信我们这些孩子不会把东西洒在上面。 所以我和罗德里克整个周末都在睡觉