5. Agree to Disagree

5 Agree to Disagree When we woke up the next morning, I could smell the yummy smell of waffles cooking. I love waffles! Arlo and I ran downstairs. We got to pour the batter. When you help make the waffles, it makes them taste even yummier. "You kids go play," my mom told us after we finished. "A.J.'s mom and I will have coffee."

第二天早上我们醒来时，我能闻到烤华夫饼的香味。 我喜欢华夫饼！阿乐和我跑下楼。 我们要倒面糊。 当你帮忙做华夫饼时，它会让它们尝起来更美味。 “你们这些孩子去玩吧，”玩完后妈妈对我们说。 “A.J.我和妈妈一起去喝咖啡。”

Grown-ups sure love coffee. They drink it all the time. At school one day the coffee machine broke down, and the teachers were walking around like zombies because they didn't have their morning coffee. I tasted coffee once. It was yucky. But when I'm a grown-up, I'll force myself to drink it, because that's the rule. I always follow the rules. "What do you want to play?" I asked Arlo. "I don't know," he said. "What do you want to play?" "Too bad we can't start working on our homework to get a jump on it," I told Arlo. "I know! We can finish our summer reading!"

成年人当然喜欢咖啡。 他们一直都在喝。 一天，在学校里，咖啡机坏了，老师们像僵尸一样走来走去，因为他们早上没有喝咖啡。 我喝过一次咖啡。太恶心了。 但等我长大了，我会强迫自己喝，因为这是规矩。 我总是遵守规则。 “你想玩什么？”我问阿乐。 “我不知道，”他说。“你想玩什么？”“真可惜，我们不能马上开始做作业。”我对阿乐说。 “我知道!我们可以完成我们的夏季阅读！”

"WHAT?!" Arlo exclaimed. "It's summer! I

“什么? !”奥尔罗喊道。“现在是夏天!我

hate reading! We have to read all year long. I don't even like reading street signs during the summer. They should have summer not reading." "Do you want to play dress-up?" I asked Arlo. (I love playing dress-up!) "No!" I realized that Arlo was just going to say no to anything I suggested. Because that's what boys do. So I came up with a plan to make him say yes. "Do you want to play with my Barbies?" I asked. "No!" Arlo replied. "Boys don't play with Barbies." "That's just what grown-ups tell you," I said to Arlo. "Are you going to let a bunch of grown-ups tell you what you can or can't do? That doesn't sound like you, Arlo. A man like you makes up your own mind,

讨厌阅读!我们一整年都要读书。 我甚至不喜欢在夏天看路牌。 他们应该过暑假而不是读书。” “你想玩化装游戏吗？”我问阿乐。 （我喜欢装扮！）“不!”我意识到阿乐会拒绝我的任何建议。 因为那是男孩的天性。 所以我想了个办法让他答应。 “你想和我的芭比娃娃玩吗？”我问。 “不!”奥尔罗回答道。“男孩不玩芭比娃娃。” “大人们就是这么跟你说的。”我对阿乐说。 “你要让一群大人告诉你什么能做，什么不能做吗？” 这听起来不像你，阿罗。 像你这样的人自己拿主意，

right?" I was using psychology to get Arlo to play with my Barbies. My mom taught me how to do that. She's really smart because she went to Harvard. "Okay, okay," Arlo agreed. "Get out your dumb Barbies." "Yay!" I got my Barbie collection out of my closet. I have Ice Capades Barbie, Angel Princess Barbie, and Halloween Glow Barbie (with a glow-in-the-dark hair extension). "Can we cut their heads off?" Arlo asked. "Of course not!" I said. "Can we go outside and melt their faces with a magnifying glass?" Arlo asked. "Absolutely not!" "Can we throw them out the window and see what happens when they hit the ground?" Arlo asked.

对吗?”我在用心理学让阿乐玩我的芭比娃娃。 我妈妈教过我怎么做。 她很聪明，因为她上过哈佛。 “好吧，好吧。”阿乐同意了。 “把你的哑巴娃娃拿出来。” “耶!”我把我的芭比娃娃收藏品从衣橱里拿出来了。 我有冰帽芭比娃娃，天使公主芭比娃娃，和万圣节发光芭比娃娃（在黑暗中发光的头发延伸）。 “我们能把他们的头砍下来吗？”奥尔罗问道。 “当然不会！”我说。“我们能出去用放大镜融化他们的脸吗？”奥尔罗问道。 “绝对不是!”“我们能不能把它们扔出窗外，看看它们落地后会发生什么？”奥尔罗问道。

"No!" "Then I don't want to play with your Barbies." "That's not fair!" I told Arlo. "You said you'd play with them." "Cutting their heads off, melting their faces, and throwing them out the window is playing with them," Arlo said. "It is not!" "It is too." "I'll tell you what," I told Arlo. "Let's agree to disagree."

“不!”“那我就不想玩你的芭比娃娃了。” “这不公平！”我告诉阿乐。 “你说过你会和他们一起玩的。” “砍下他们的头，融化他们的脸，然后把他们扔出窗外，这是在和他们玩。”阿乐说。 “不是的！”“也是。”“我告诉你，”我对阿乐说。 “让我们求同存异吧。”