小屁孩日記

Horrible Midnight恐怖午夜

前情提要：羅利和我找到了一盤恐怖電影的光碟，我們打算晚上看。這也讓我想起了去年我倆一起睡地下室的經歷，我倆被奇怪的聲音嚇得去樓上找我爸爸，我還想到了搬家……

Friday星期五

Dad didn’t seem convinced, and he went down to the basement and walked right into the furnace room. Me and Rowley stayed about ten feet back.

看起來老爸并不相信我的話，他下樓到地下室，徑直走進鍋爐房。我和羅利躲在10英尺開外的地方。

I was pretty sure Dad wasn’t going to get out of there alive. I heard some rustling and a few bumps, and I was ready to make a run for it.

我敢說老爸十有八九沒命活著走出那房間。里面傳出一陣沙沙聲，又發出幾聲砰砰聲，我已經準備好拔腿就跑。

But a few seconds later he came back out with one of Manny’s toys, a doll named Hide-and-Seek Harry.

但不一會兒，老爸拿著一個叫“躲貓貓的哈利”的玩偶走了出來，那是曼尼的玩具。

Key points convince 使相信，說服 alive 活著的；活潑的 rustling 沙沙聲 bump 碰撞（聲）

Last night me and Rowley waited for Mom and Dad to go to bed,and then we watched our movie.Technically, I was the only one who watched it, because Rowley had his eyes and ears covered the whole entire time.

昨晚我和羅利等老爸老媽睡著之后，就開始看我們從羅德里克那里翻出的電影。實際上，只有我一個人在看，因為羅利幾乎整部電影都捂著自己的眼睛和耳朵。

The movie was about this muddy hand that goes around the country killing people. And the last person who sees the hand is always the next victim.

電影說的是一只泥手的故事，它到處游走殺人。看到這只手的人就是下一個受害者。

The special effects were really cheesy, and I wasn’t even scared until the very end. That’s when the twist came.

電影的特效很假，我從頭看到尾，一點都不覺得害怕。然而意想不到的事情發生了。

After the muddy hand strangled its last victim, it came crawling straight at the screen, and then the screen went black. At first I was a little confused, but then I realized it meant the next victim was gonna be ME.

在關系數據庫中，關系模式是有概念模式生成的。概念模式的表示方法一般為E-R圖。在E-R圖中，包括實體和聯系兩個元素，實體與實體之間的聯系類型有“1對1”、“1對多”和“多對多”三種，根據一定的規則和規范化要求，可以導出由實體和聯系生成的關系模式。因此，關系模式可以分為實體關系模式(實體表)和聯系關系(聯系表)模式兩類。根據關系數據模型的參照完整性要求，關系表之間存在主外鍵的約束關系，形成了關系圖。

泥手掐死了最后一個人，就朝著屏幕方向爬，然后屏幕就黑了。起初我還有點摸不著頭腦，沒多久我反應過來了：下一個受害者，就是我。

Key points technically 嚴格來說；技術上 entire 全部的 muddy 泥濘的 victim 受害者cheesy（質量）低劣的 scared 恐懼的 twist （故事或情況的）轉折，轉變strangle 勒死 confuse 使困惑 gonna將要

I turned the TV off, and then I described the whole movie to Rowley from beginning to end.

我關上電視機，把整個故事從頭到尾跟羅利講了一遍。

Well, I must've done a pretty good job telling the story,because Rowley got even more freaked-out than I was.

哈，我肯定講得不錯，因為羅利聽完故事顯然比我還害怕。

I knew we couldn’t go to Mom and Dad this time because they’d ground me if they found out we watched a horror movie. But we didn’t feel safe in the basement, so we spent the rest of the night in the upstairs bathroom with the lights on.

I just wish we had managed to stay awake the whole night, because when Dad found us in the morning, it wasn’t a pretty scene.

要是我們能夠整夜不睡就好了。第二天早上，老爸在浴室發現了我們，那個場面可真夠難看的。

Key points describe 敘述 freaked-out 嚇壞了 awake 醒著的 scene 場面

Dad wanted to know what was going on, and I had to fess up. Dad told Mom, so now I’m just waiting to hear how long I’m gonna be grounded for. But to be honest with you, I’m a lot more worried about this muddy hand than any punishment Mom can dream up.

老爸問我們是怎么回事，我只好從實招來。老爸把事情告訴老媽，所以現在我能做的就是等著老媽說要關我多長時間禁閉。不過說句實話，比起老媽炮制的懲罰措施，我更擔心泥手的事情。

I thought about it, though, and I realized there’s only so much ground a muddy hand can cover in a day.

還好，有一點對我稍有安慰—我發現泥手每天只能爬行一小段路。

So hopefully that means I have a little while longer to live.

但愿泥手真如我想的一樣，那我就能多一點活命的時間。

Key points fess up 承認 to be honest 說實話 punishment 懲罰 dream up 想象出

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