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But one of the things that makes my friendship with Rowley work is that he doesn't MIND watching me play video games. Plus, the reason our ancestors invented technology in the first place was so they didn't HAVE to interact with one another. Mom sent me and Rowley down to the basement, and the two of us tried to figure out what to do. I'd asked Rowley to bring some DVDs with him so we could stay up late watching movies. But he only brought HOME movies, and you couldn't PAY me to watch THOSE.

但我和罗利的友谊得以维系的原因之一是他不介意看我玩电子游戏。 另外，我们的祖先发明技术的首要原因是他们不需要相互交流。 妈妈让我和罗利去地下室，我们俩想办法解决问题。 我让罗利带一些dvd过来，这样我们就可以熬夜看电影了。 但他只带回家的电影，你不能付钱给我看那些。

I RIP Rowley's 5th Grade Play rowley's Birth Mom brought us down some "Wacky Sentences" books, where you fill in the blanks to create funny phrases. For the first round, Rowley came up with the words and I wrote them down in the blanks. The phrases we made were actually pretty funny, but what wasn't funny was Rowley's new habit of saying "lol" instead of laughing.

罗利的出生妈妈给我们带了一些“古怪的句子”的书，在那里你填空来创造有趣的短语。 在第一轮比赛中，罗利想出了单词，我把它们写在空白处。 我们做的短语实际上很有趣，但不好笑的是罗利的新习惯说“lol”而不是笑。

OUR CAFETERIA HAS REALLY SMELLY FOOD. LOL THE PIZZA IS PURPLE AND THE FRENCH PRIES ARE SLIMY. LOL. LOL It was really driving me crazy. So we switched roles, and I came up with the words instead. Rowley started by asking me for the name of a sport, so I said "volleyball." But he told me it's "bolleyball," with a "b." So then we got into this huge argument about what letter "volleyball" starts with. I found a dictionary and handed it to Rowley and told him to look it up himself. But instead of flipping to the letter "v," Rowley read every single word in the "b" section. And when he couldn't find "bolleyball," he started over from the beginning.

我们餐厅的食物很臭。 哈哈，披萨是紫色的，法国薯条是黏糊糊的。 哈哈。哈哈，这真的让我发疯了。 所以我们互换了角色，我想出了歌词。 罗利开始问我一项运动的名字，我说“排球”。 但他告诉我那是“bolleyball ”后面有个“b ” 所以我们就排球这个单词的开头字母展开了激烈的争论。 我找到一本字典，递给罗利，让他自己查一下。 但罗利没有翻到字母“v”，而是读了“b”部分的每一个单词。 当他找不到“bolleyball”时，他从头开始。

BACON... BACTERIA... BADGER... Rowley accused me of having an outdated dictionary and said that's why "bolleyball" wasn't in it, so then we got into an argument about what year volleyball was invented. By this point Rowley was really getting on my nerves, and I realized we'd better change gears or we were gonna end up in a fight, as usual. I told Rowley maybe we should do something different, and he said he wanted to play Hide-and- Seek. But the problem with playing Hide-and-Seek with Rowley is he thinks that when he can't see you, you can't see him. So that makes him really easy to find.

培根…细菌……獾。 罗利指责我有一本过时的字典，说这就是为什么字典里没有“bolleyball”，于是我们就排球是哪一年发明的展开了争论。 这时罗利真的让我很紧张，我意识到我们最好换个方向否则我们会像往常一样以一场争吵告终。 我告诉罗利也许我们应该做点不一样的事，他说他想玩捉迷藏。 但和罗利玩捉迷藏的问题是他以为他看不见你，你也看不见他。 所以很容易找到他。

I decided we just needed a break from each other, so I came up with an idea. I told Rowley we were gonna see who was braver, me or him, and we stepped out the sliding glass door. Each of us had to walk into the woods and write our name on the tree fort we built last summer. And whoever chickened out was wrong about volleyball and had to call the other guy "sir" for the rest of his life. Rowley seemed to think that was a fair deal.

我觉得我们需要分开一段时间，所以我想到了一个主意。 我告诉罗利我们要看看谁更勇敢，我还是他，然后我们走出了滑动玻璃门。 我们每个人都必须走进树林，把我们的名字写在我们去年夏天建的树堡上。 不管谁退缩了，他对排球的看法都是错误的，他必须一辈子称呼另一个人为“先生”。 罗利似乎认为这是一笔公平的交易。

I told Rowley I'd go first, and I walked into the woods. But as soon as I knew he couldn't see me, I ran around to the front of my house. There's no way I was gonna go into those woods by myself at night. I had written my name on the tree fort when me and Rowley built it over the summer, and that's the reason I came up with the dare.

我告诉罗利我先走，然后我走进了树林。 但当我知道他看不见我的时候，我跑到我的房子前面。 我不可能在晚上一个人去树林里。 当我和罗利在夏天建造树堡的时候，我把我的名字写在了上面，这就是我想出这个挑战的原因。