小屁孩日记Volume One P156-178翻译参考中学生适用

February Wednesday
Today it snowed for the first time this winter,and school was canceled.We were supposed to have
a test in Pre-Algebra and I've kind of slacked off ever since I became a Safety Patrol.So I was psyched.
I called the Rowley and told him to come over.Me and him have been talking about building the world's biggest snowman for the past couple of years now.
And when I say the world's biggest snowman,I'm not kidding. Our goal is to get into the“Guinness Book of World Records.”
But every time we've gotten serious about going for the record,all the snow has melted.And we've missed our window of opportunity. So this year,I wanted to get started right away.
When Rowley came over,we started rolling the first snowball to make the base.I figured the base was going to have to be at least eight feet tall on its own if we wanted to have a shot at breaking the record.But the snowball got real heavy,and we had to take a bunch of breaks in between rolls so we could catch our breath.slacken off放松；松懈；松劲
psyched/saɪkt/兴奋的
breaking the record打破纪录
二月
星期三
今天下了今年冬天的第一场雪，学
校停课了。

我们本来要参加预备代数考
试的，但自从我成为一名安全巡警后，
我就有点懈怠了。

所以我很兴奋。

我打电话给罗利，叫他过来。

在过
去的几年里，我和他一直在讨论要堆一
个世界上最大的雪人。

当我说世界上最大的雪人时，我可
不是在开玩笑。

我们的目标是进入“吉
尼斯世界纪录”。

但每次我们想要打破记录时，雪都
融化了，我们已经错过了机会。

所以今
年，我想马上开始。

当罗利过来的后，我们开始滚第一
个雪球来做地基。

我想，如果我们想尝
试打破纪录，这个基座本身至少要有8
英尺高。

但是雪球越来越重了，我们不
得不滚一会休息一会，这样我们才能喘
上气。

During one of our breaks,Mom came outside to go to the grocery store,but our snowball was blocking her car in.So we go to got a little free label out of her.
After our break,me and Rowley pushed that snowball until we couldn't push it any farther.But when we looked behind us,we saw
the mess we had made.
The snowball had gotten so heavy that it tore up all the sod Dad had just laid down this fall.
I was hoping it would snow a few more inches and cover up our tracks,but just like that,it stops snowing.
Our plan to build the world's biggest snowman was starting to fall apart.So I came up with a better idea for our snowball.
Every time it snows,the kids from Whirley Street use our hill for sledding,even though this isn't their neighborhood.
So tomorrow morning when the Whirley Street kids come marching up our hill,me and Rowley are going to teach those guys a lesson.
mess混乱；困境
tear up拔起；撕碎
sod草地；草皮
laid down放下；铺设
cover up掩盖，盖住
track轨道
fall apart崩溃；土崩瓦解；破
碎
在我们休息的时候，妈妈要出门去
杂货店，但我们的雪球把她的车堵在里
面了。

所以我们从她身上得到了一点免
费的劳动力。

（译者注：意思是妈妈帮他们推一下）
休息后，我和罗利把雪球推得再也
推不动了。

但当我们回头看时，我们看
到了我们制造的麻烦。

那个雪球太重了，把爸爸今年秋天
刚刚铺下的草皮都撕碎了。

我希望雪能再下几英寸，盖住我们
的轨迹，但雪偏偏就停了。

我们建造世界上最大雪人的计划开
始崩溃了。

所以我想出了一个更好的办
法来制作我们的雪球。

每次下雪的时候，来自Whirley街的
孩子们就会到我们的山上滑雪，尽管这
不是他们的社区。

所以明天早上当Whirley街的孩子
们来到我们的山上时，我和罗利要给他
们一个教训。

Thursday
When I woke up this morning, the snow was already starting to melt. So I told Rowley to hurry up and get down to my house.
When I was waiting for Rowley to show up,I watched Manny trying
to build a snowman out of the piddly crumbs of snow that were left over from our snowball.
It was actually kind of pathetic.
I really couldn't help doing what I did next.Unfortunately for me,right at that moment,Dad was at the front window.
Dad was already mad at me for tearing up the sod,so I knew I was in for it.I heard the garage door open and I saw Dad coming outside.He marched right out carrying a snow shovel,and I thought I was going to have to make a run for it.
But Dad was heading for my snowball,not me.And in less than a minute,he reduced all our hard work to nothing.
Rowley came by a few minutes later.I thought he might actually get a kick out of what happened.
But I guess he had his heart set on rolling that snowball down the hill, and he was really mad.But get this:Rowley was mad at me for what Dad did.piddly无关紧要的；微不足道
的；琐碎的
crumb面包屑，碎屑；少许
pathetic可怜的，悲哀的；感伤
的
Can’t help doing...忍不住
做……
be in for it难免倒霉；势必受罚
garage车库；
march前进；行军，进军
shovel/ˈʃʌvl/铁铲；
in less更少的
reduce减少；降低；使处于；
把…分解
星期四
今天早上我醒来的时候，雪已经开
始融化了。

所以我叫罗利赶快到我家来。

当我在等罗利出现的时候，我看到
曼尼正试图用我们的雪球剩下的一点点
雪屑堆雪人。

这实际上有点可悲。

我真的忍不住要做我接下来做的事
情。

不幸的是，就在那一刻，爸爸站在
前面的窗前。

我把草皮撕掉了，爸爸已经在生我
的气了，所以我知道我要倒霉了。

我听
到车库门打开的声音，看见爸爸从里面
走出来。

他拿着一把雪铲大步走了出来，我
想我得赶紧跑了。

但爸爸是冲着我的雪球来的，不是
我。

不到一分钟，他就把我们所有的努
力化为乌有。

几分钟后，罗利来了。

我以为他会
从发生的事情中得到教训。

但我猜他的心开始像往山下滚的
雪球，他真的很生气。

但我明白：罗利
因为爸爸的所作所为而生我的气。

I told Rowley he was being a big
baby,and we got in a shoving match. Right when it looked like we were going to get in an all-out fight,we got ambushed from the street.
It was a hit-and-run by the Whirley Street kids.
And if Mrs.Levine,my English teacher,was there,I'm sure she would have said the whole situation was“ironic.”
Wednesday
Today at school they announced there’s an opening for the cartoonist job in the school paper.There's only one comic slot,and up until now this kid named Bryan Little has been hogging it all to himself.
Bryan has this comic called “Wacky Dawg,”and when it started off,it was actually pretty funny.
But lately,Bryan's been using his strip to handle his personal business.
I guess that's why they gave him the axe.
As soon as I heard this news,I knew I had to try out.“Wacky Dawg”made Bryan Little a celebrity at our school,and I wanted to get in on some of that kind of fame.shove挤；强使；撞；猛推
ambush/ˈæmbʊʃ/埋伏，伏击
ironic讽刺的；反话的
cartoonist漫画家
hogging/hɒɡ/贪婪攫取
wacky/ˈwæki/乖僻的，古怪的
dawg狗
strip/strɪp/连环画
axe/æks/斧
celebrity/səˈlebrəti/名人；名声
fame名声，名望
我说罗利是个大婴儿，然后我们进
行了一场撞击比赛。

就在我们看起来要
全面开战的时候，我们遭到了来自街上
的伏击。

是Whirley街的孩子肇事逃逸。

如果我的英语老师莱文夫人在场，
我相信她会说整个情况“很讽刺”。

星期三
今天学校的报纸上宣布有一个漫画
家的职位空缺。

只有一个喜剧插播时段
的空缺，这个空缺被这个叫布莱恩·利
特尔的孩子一直独占到现在。

布莱恩有一部叫《怪狗》的漫画，
刚开始的时候，它真的很有趣。

但最近布莱恩一直在利用他的漫画
来处理他的私人事务。

我想这就是他们
开除他的原因。

一听到这个消息，我就知道我必须
试一试。

《怪狗》让布莱恩·利特尔成
了我们学校的名人，我也想获得这样的
名声。

I had a taste of what it's like to be famous at my school when I won
honorable mention in this antismoking contest they had.
All I did was trace a picture from one of Rodrick’s heavy metal magazines,but luckily,no one ever found out.
The kid who won first place is named Chris Carney.And what kind of ticks me off is that Chris smokes at least a pack of cigarettes a day.
Thursday
Me and Rowley decided to team up and do a cartoon together.So after school today he came over to my house,and we got to work.
We banged out a bunch of characters real quick,but that turned out to be the easy part.When we tried to think up some jokes,we kind of hit a wall.
I finally came up with a good solution.
I made up a cartoon where the punch line of every strip is“Zoo-Wee Mama!”
That way we wouldn't get bogged down with having to write actual jokes,and we could concentrate on the pictures.honorable光荣的；可敬的；
antismoking反对吸烟的
bang out：匆匆做出
hit a wall撞到墙；碰壁
solution解决方案；
Wee极小的；微量的
bogged down陷入困境；停滞
concentrate集中；浓缩
当我在他们举办的反吸烟（漫画）比
赛中获得荣誉奖时，我尝到了在学校成
名的滋味。

我所做的只是从罗德里克的重金属
杂志上找到一张照片，幸运的是，没有
人发现。

赢得第一名的孩子叫克里斯·卡尼。

让我生气的是克里斯每天至少抽一包
烟。

星期四
我和罗利决定合作，一起做一部卡
通画。

所以今天放学后他来到我家，然
后我们开始工作。

我们很快就完成了一堆角色，但这
是最简单的部分。

当我们试图想出一些
笑话时，我们有点碰壁。

我终于想出了一个好办法。

我编了一个漫画，每一集的笑料都
是“Zoo-Wee Mama!”
这样我们就不会陷入写真正的笑话
的困境，我们可以集中精力在图片上。

For the first couple of strips,I did the writing and drew the characters,and Rowley draw the boxes around the pictures.
Rowley started complaining that he didn't have enough to do,so I let him write a few of the strips.
But to be honest with you,there was a pretty obvious drop in quality once Rowley started doing the writing.
Eventually I got kind of sick of the“Zoo-Wee Mama”idea and I pretty much let Rowley take over the whole operation.
And believe it or not,Rowley’s drawing skills are worse than his writing skills.
I told Rowley maybe we should come up with some new ideas,but he just wanted to keep writing “Zoo-Wee Mamas.”Then he packed up his comics and went home,which was fine by me.I don't really want to be partnered up with a kid who doesn't draw noses,anyway. Friday
After Rowley left yesterday,I really got to work on some comics.I came up with this character called Creighton the Cretin,and I got on a roll.
I must've banged out20strips, and I didn't even break a plain抱怨
quality质量
take over接管；接收
partner up结伴
got on a roll进展顺利
在最初的几个片段中，我写了字，
画了角色人物，罗利在画的周围画了方
框。

罗利开始抱怨他没有足够的工作要
做，所以我让他写了一些漫画的内容。

但说实话，一旦罗利开始写剧本，
剧本的质量就明显下降了。

最后，我有点厌倦了“Zoo-Wee
Mama”的想法，我几乎让罗利接管了整
个运作。

信不信由你，罗利的绘画技巧不如
他的写作技巧。

我告诉罗利也许我们应该有一些新
的想法，但他只是想继续写“Zoo-Wee
Mamas”。

然后他收拾好他的连环画回
家了，这对我来说没什么问题。

我真的
不想和一个不会画鼻子的孩子搭档。

星期五
罗利昨天走后，我真的开始写漫画
了。

我想出了一个叫“白痴克莱顿”的
角色，我很走运。

我轻轻松松就完成了20幅了。

The great thing about these
“Creighton the Cretin”comics is that with all the idiots running around my school,I will never run out of new material.
When I got to school today,I took my comics to Mr.Ira's office.He is the teacher who runs the school newspaper.
But when I went to turn my Strips in,I saw that there was a pile of comics from other kids who are trying out for the job.
Most of them were pretty bad, so I wasn't too worried about the competition.
One of the comics was called “Dumb Teachers,”and it was written by this kid named Bill Tritt.
Bill is always in detention,so I guess he has a bone to pick with just about every teacher in the school, including Mr.Ira.
So I'm not too worried about the chances of Bill’s comic getting in, either.
There were actually one or two decent comics in the bin.But I slipped them under a pile of paperwork on Mr.Ira’s desk.
Hopefully,those ones won't turn up until I'm in high school.cretin白痴病患者
idiot/ˈɪdiət/（非正式）笨蛋；
白痴；智障人
run经营；奔跑；运转
a pile of一堆；很多
worried about担心
competition竞争；比赛，竞赛
detention拘留；延迟；挽留
have a bone to有义务
have a bone to pick with对…算
账；对…不满
decent得体的；相当好的
bin垃圾箱；箱子，容器
hopefully有希望地，有前途地
这些“白痴克莱顿”漫画的伟大之
处在于，有那么多白痴在我的学校里跑
来跑去，我的新材料永远用不完。

当我今天到学校的时候，我把我的
漫画带到艾拉先生的办公室。

他是管理校报的老师。

可是，当我准备交出我的连环画时，
我看到那里有一堆其他孩子的连环画，
他们想试着做这个工作。

大部分都很差，所以我不太担心比
赛。

其中有一幅漫画叫做《愚蠢的老
师》，它是由一个叫比尔·特里特的孩
子写的。

比尔总是被留校，所以我想他对学
校里的每个老师都有意见，包括艾拉先
生。

所以，我也不太担心比尔的漫画会
有机会进入。

其实放着交来的漫画的容器里有一
两本不错的漫画。

但我把它们塞到了艾
拉先生办公桌上的一堆文件下面。

希望这些在我上高中之前都不会出
现。

Thursday
Today,during morning announcements,I got the news I was hoping for.
The paper came out today at lunch time,and everyone was reading it.
I really wanted to pick up a copy to see my name in print,but I decided to just play it cool for a while
instead.
I sat at the end of the lunch table so there would be plenty of room for me to start signing autographs for my new fans.But nobody was coming over to tell me how great my comic was,and I started to get the feeling something was wrong.
I grabbed a paper and went into the bathroom to check it out.And when I saw my comic,I practically had a heart attack.
Mr.Ira told me he had made some“minor edits”to my comic.I thought he just meant he fixed spelling mistakes and stuff like that, but he totally butchered it.
The comic he ruined was one of my favorite ones,too.In the original,Creighton the Cretin is taking a math test,and he accidentally eats it.And then the teacher yells at him for being such a moron.instead代替；反而；相反
autograph（名人的）亲笔签名；
（作家或音乐家的）亲笔，手
稿；笔迹，字迹
grab攫取；夺取
accidentally意外地；偶然地
moron傻瓜；痴愚者；笨人
星期四
今天，在早上的广播中，我得到了
我希望的消息。

午饭时间报纸出来了，每个人都在
看。

我真的很想买一本，看看我的名字
印出来的样子，但我决定暂时放一放。

我坐在午餐餐桌的最后，这样我就
有足够的空间给我的新粉丝签名。

但是
没有人来告诉我我的漫画有多棒，我开
始觉得有点不对劲。

我抓起一张报纸，走进厕所去查看。

当我看到我的漫画时，我心脏病都
要发作了。

艾拉先生告诉我，他对我的漫画做
了一些“小修改”。

我以为他的意思是
纠正拼写错误之类的，但他完全把它糟
蹋了。

他毁掉的漫画也是我最喜欢的漫画
之一。

在原著中，白痴克莱顿正在参加
数学考试，他竟然把试卷吃了。

然后老
师对他大喊大叫，说他是一个白痴。

By the time Mr.Ira was done with it,you practically couldn't recognize it as the same strip.
So I'm pretty sure I won't be signing autographs anytime soon.By the time等到；到…的时候；
在……以前
当艾拉先生修改完时，几乎都认不
出这是同一幅画了。

所以我马上很确定我不会有签名
了。