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Well, that might be true, but ever since Fregley ditched my textbooks, it's been a little hard for me to do my assignments. Then Vice Principle Roy totally dropped a bomb on me. He said that if I didn't improve my grades in the next few weeks, I was gonna have to go to SUMMER school. THAT got my attention. I've heard rumors about summer school, and it's not something I really want to be a part of. For one thing, I know they shut off the air- conditioning during the summer to save money.

也许是这样，但自从弗雷格利抛弃了我的课本，我做作业就有点困难了。 然后罗伊副校长给了我一个大惊喜。 他说如果我在接下来的几周内不能提高成绩，我就得去暑期学校了。 这引起了我的注意。我听说过暑期学校的传闻，我真的不想参加。 首先，我知道他们在夏天关掉空调是为了省钱。

The classes are more like detention than school, and none of the regular teachers are there. In fact, I heard the English teacher for summer school is the JANITOR. I don't know if Vice Principle Roy was just trying to scare me, but if he was, it WORKED. Because the thought of spending my summer vacation with Mr. Meeks is enough to turn me into a straight-A student. Thursday I'm not really sure how my grades got so bad, because my year actually started off pretty GOOD. In the first quarter I got A's and B's on my report card, and Mom even took me out to get a hot-fudge sundae to celebrate my accomplishment. RODERICK got in on the action, too, even though his

这些课与其说是学校，不如说是拘留所，而且没有正规的老师。 事实上，我听说暑期学校的英语老师是看门人。 我不知道罗伊副校长是不是想吓唬我，但如果是的话，就管用了。 因为一想到和米克斯先生一起过暑假就足以让我成为一个优等生。 我不太确定我的成绩怎么会这么差，因为我这一年的开始其实还不错。 在第一季度，我的成绩单上得了A和B，妈妈甚至带我出去买了一个热软糖圣代来庆祝我的成就。 罗德里克也参与了进来，尽管他

report card that quarter was lousy. That taught me that even if you try your best, someone's just gonna mooch off your hard work. I know I'm not the best student or anything, but I've never had to worry about going to SUMMER school. So this week I've been doing everything I can to get my situation under control. Mom got me a set of used textbooks, and I've been catching up on my assignments every night. But some of the classes I'm flunking don't even HAVE homework. One is music, and my problem THERE is that I don't participate. None of the boys really do, which is why Mrs. Norton comes right up in our faces and tries to get us to sing.

那个季度的成绩单糟透了。 这件事教会了我，即使你尽了最大的努力，还是会有人盗用你的心血。 我知道我不是最好的学生，但我从来不用担心去上暑期学校。 所以这周我一直在尽我所能控制我的情况。 妈妈给我买了一套旧课本，我每天晚上都在补作业。 但是有些我不及格的课甚至没有家庭作业。 一个是音乐，我的问题是我不参与。 男孩子们都不喜欢，所以诺顿太太就冲到我们面前，想让我们唱歌。

If Mr. Meeks is the ENGLISH teacher in summer school, then I don't even wanna imagine what music class looks like. I decided that, starting TODAY, I was gonna be Mrs. Norton's best student. So when she called my name at the start of class, I stood right up and belted out the song we've been

如果米克斯先生是暑期学校的英语老师，那我都不敢想象音乐课是什么样子。 我决定，从今天开始，我要成为诺顿夫人最好的学生。 所以当她在上课开始时叫到我的名字时，我立刻站起来，大声唱出了我们一直在唱的那首歌

working on. Mrs. Norton waited until I was finished, then she said she wasn't asking me to SING, she was just calling attendance. All week, Mom's been helping me catch up on my missing homework assignments, but the one thing she says I'm gonna have to do on my OWN is the Science Fair project. And that kind of stinks, because Science isn't exactly my strong suit. For LAST year's Science Fair, my experiment was on metamorphosis. I collected a dozen or so caterpillars

工作上。诺顿夫人等我讲完，然后说她不是叫我唱，她只是点名。 整个星期，妈妈都在帮我补上落下的家庭作业，但她说有一件事我必须自己做，那就是科学博览会的项目。 这有点臭，因为科学不是我的强项。 在去年的科学博览会上，我的实验是关于变态的。 我收集了一打左右的毛毛虫

and put them in a box with leaves to eat, and they all made cocoons. My plan was to open the box at the EXACT moment they turned into butterflies and blow the judges away. I worked hard on it, and even turned in my project a day EARLY. But I left the box with the caterpillars on the heater in the Science classroom, and unfortunately that was the end of that.

把它们和叶子放在一个盒子里吃，它们都结了茧。 我的计划是在他们变成蝴蝶的那一刻打开盒子，让评委们大吃一惊。 我努力工作，甚至提前一天交了作业。 但我把装毛毛虫的盒子留在了科学教室的加热器上，不幸的是，那件事就到此为止了。