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remembering multiplication facts. But they seriously slow me down. EIGHT TIMES FOUR IS THIRTY-TWO, THIRTY-TWO, THIRTY-TWO! EIGHT TIMES FOUR IS THIRTY-TWO, AND NOW YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE! Earlier this year we had a math teacher named Mr. Sparks who used to stand on his chair every time he wanted us to remember something important. But once when Mr. Sparks was trying to get us to remember a math concept, one of the legs on his

记住乘法知识。 但它们确实拖慢了我的速度。 8乘以4等于32,32,32 ！8乘以4等于32，现在你知道这是真的了！今年早些时候，我们有一位叫斯帕克斯先生的数学老师，每当他想让我们记住重要的事情时，他总是站在椅子上。 但有一次斯帕克斯先生想让我们记住一个数学概念，他的一条腿

chair broke and he fell. Mr. Sparks broke his collarbone, and I heard he's suing the school over it. I don't remember the concept he was trying to teach us that day, but I do always remember never to stand on the furniture. During recess today everyone was just waiting to go back inside, but then Rowley got up and started skipping around the playground.

椅子坏了，他摔倒了。斯帕克斯先生锁骨骨折了，我听说他要起诉学校。 我不记得那天他试图教我们的概念，但我一直记得永远不要站在家具上。 今天课间休息的时候，每个人都在等着回去，但罗利站了起来，开始在操场上跳来跳去。

A few people started cheering and clapping. They must've thought Rowley was protesting all the new rules by skipping instead of running, but the truth is, skipping is just something Rowley likes to do. For some reason it really gets on my nerves when Rowley skips, so it bugged me to see him prancing around the playground like that. Skipping is actually a real sore subject between the two of us. Rowley says I'm jealous of him because I don't know how to skip, but I think it just looks stupid. I will admit that I never exactly got the hang of

一些人开始欢呼和鼓掌。 他们一定以为罗利用跳绳代替跑步是在抗议所有的新规则，但事实是，跳绳只是罗利喜欢做的事情。 由于某种原因，每当罗利跳绳的时候，我就会很紧张，所以看到他那样在操场上蹦蹦跳跳，我就很烦。 跳绳实际上是我们俩之间的一个很伤脑筋的话题。 罗利说我嫉妒他，因为我不会跳，但我觉得跳太蠢了。 我承认我从来没有真正掌握过窍门

skipping. In fact, I was the only kid in first grade who couldn't do it. I was afraid I'd be held back until I learned how to skip, but luckily they let me move on to second grade. Still, I'm worried it's gonna come back to haunt me later on. GREG HEFFLEY WILL NOT BE RECEIVING HIS DIPLOMA DUE TO AN INABILITY TO SKIP. Sometimes I wonder how me and Rowley ended up

跳过。事实上，我是一年级唯一不会做的孩子。 我担心在我学会跳绳之前我会被阻止，但幸运的是他们让我升到了二年级。 尽管如此，我还是担心这件事以后会回来困扰我。 格雷格·赫夫利将不会收到他的毕业证书，因为他不会跳课。 有时我想知道我和罗利是怎么结束的

being friends in the first place, since we're so different. But at this point I figure we're stuck with each other, so I just try to overlook the things he does that annoy me. Thursday The thing that stinks about having Santa's Scout watching my every move at home is that I can't get away with the things I used to do during the holidays. A few years ago Mom and Dad put some gifts under the tree a week before Christmas, and it was driving me crazy not knowing what they were. One of the gifts had my name on it, and I was pretty sure it was a video game. I made a tiny little tear in

首先要做朋友，因为我们太不一样了。 但在这一点上，我觉得我们已经在一起了，所以我就试着忽略他做的让我生气的事情。 让圣诞老人的侦察兵在家里监视我的一举一动最讨厌的是，我不能摆脱我过去在假期里做的事情。 几年前，爸爸妈妈在圣诞节前一周把一些礼物放在圣诞树下，不知道那是什么，我快疯了。 其中一件礼物上有我的名字，我很确定那是一个电子游戏。 我弄了个小洞

the wrapping paper to see, and sure enough, it was a game I'd asked for. But then it was bugging me that a game I wanted was sitting right there under the tree and I couldn't play it. So I went one step further and made a slit along the top of the packaging and slid the box out. I opened the plastic case and removed the game, then put the box back in the wrapping paper and taped it closed. But I started to get paranoid that Mom was gonna pick up the present and notice it felt lighter, so I opened it back up and put one of Rodrick's heavy metal CDs inside the box to make it the same weight it was before.

看包装纸，果然，这是我想要的游戏。 但让我烦恼的是，我想要的游戏就放在树下，我却不能玩。 于是我更进一步，在包装顶部开了一条缝，把盒子滑了出来。 我打开塑料盒子，取出游戏，然后把盒子放回包装纸里，用胶带封上。 但我开始担心妈妈拿起礼物会发现它变轻了，所以我把它重新打开，把罗德里克的一张重金属cd放进盒子里，让它和以前一样重。