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Dad said that the kids in the neighborhood told their parents about Billy and they all went to Billy's house to confront his mom and dad. Mr. Staples made Billy promise to never pick on anyone ever again, and Dad said Billy burst into tears and might have even wet his pants. Well, after hearing that story, I don't think Billy Staples would've been any match for Nasty Pants. But I told Dad I liked the idea of complaining to the bully's parents. I called up Rowley and told him to

爸爸说，邻居的孩子们把比利的事告诉了他们的父母，他们都去比利家找他的父母对质。 斯台普斯先生要比利保证再也不欺负任何人，爸爸说比利大哭起来，甚至可能尿裤子了。 听了这个故事之后，我觉得比利·斯台普斯根本配不上臭裤子。 但我告诉爸爸，我喜欢向恶霸的父母抱怨的想法。 我打电话给罗利，让他

come over and to bring his dad, because we needed as much backup as we could get. Dad knocked on Nasty Pants's door, and we waited for one of his parents to open it. But Nasty Pants HIMSELF came to the door, and me and Rowley took off.

过来把他爸爸带来，因为我们需要尽可能多的支援。 爸爸敲了敲脏裤子的门，我们等着他的父母去开门。 但“臭裤子”亲自来到门口，我和罗利就走了。

I guess I should've described Nasty Pants to Dad, because it took him a while to understand that the kid who came to the door was the one who was causing us all that trouble. Dad talked to Mrs. Pants, and she told Dad her son was only five and that he just gets a little wound up sometimes. On the way home, Dad was pretty mad at me for letting myself get bullied by a kid who was still in

我想我应该向爸爸描述一下“脏裤子”的情况，因为他过了一段时间才明白，那个找上门来的孩子就是给我们制造麻烦的人。 爸爸和裤子太太谈了谈，她告诉爸爸她的儿子只有五岁，他只是有时会有点紧张。 在回家的路上，爸爸对我很生气，因为我让一个还在学校的孩子欺负我

kindergarten. But let me just say in my defense that when some kid is chasing you with a stick, you don't stop to ask him how old he is. Tuesday They took the last piece of playground equipment away at school today. We started off the year with all sorts of things, like monkey bars and swings and stuff, but now the playground is an empty sawdust pit. So recess is basically like a prison yard. I heard the school was having trouble paying the insurance for the playground, so every time there was some kind of accident or injury on a piece of equipment, the easiest thing to do was just remove

幼儿园。但让我为自己辩护一下，当一个孩子拿着棍子追你时，你不会停下来问他多大了。 他们今天把学校最后一件操场设备拿走了。 年初我们有各种各样的东西，比如猴架、秋千等等，但现在操场成了一个空木屑坑。 所以课间休息基本上就像监狱的院子。 我听说学校在支付操场的保险方面遇到了困难，所以每次有设备发生事故或受伤时，最简单的办法就是把它移走

it. In October, Francis Knott went flying off the swing set and landed on the seesaw, so that took out two big items right there. We lost the monkey bars when a girl named Christine Higgins climbed to the top and then got too scared to come down. The teachers aren't allowed to touch kids, so they had to call Christine's parents to come and get her.

它。十月，弗朗西斯·诺特从秋千上飞下来落在了跷跷板上，这就把两件大的东西弄掉了。 当一个叫克里斯汀·希金斯的女孩爬到顶端时，我们失去了猴子架，然后因为害怕而不敢下来。 老师是不允许碰孩子的，所以他们不得不打电话给克里斯汀的父母来接她。

Eventually the only piece of equipment left was the balance beam, and I figured nobody could get hurt on THAT thing. But believe it or not, some idiot wasn't looking where he was going the other day, so now that's gone, too. Without any playground equipment, there's really nothing for us to do. But the teachers won't even let us sit down, because they say we have to stay

最后只剩下平衡木了，我想没人会因为那东西受伤。 但不管你信不信，那天有个白痴没看路，所以现在也没了。 没有任何操场设备，我们真的没什么可做的。 但是老师甚至不让我们坐下，因为他们说我们必须留下来