小屁孩日記

星期三Wednesday

昨晚我加倍用心地禱告，祈求我的舞伴不是露比。Last night I prayed extra hard that I wouldnt end up with Ruby as my dance partner.

然后我就開始擔心，人的一輩子能實現的愿望總數會不會是固定的，而我卻把愿望揮霍得太快了。我可不想后來才發現自己早早把愿望用完了，因為我一直許愿許個不停。Then I started worrying that maybe you only get a certain number of prayers answered in your liftime and Im burning through mine too fast. Id hate to find out later on that I used up all my chits， because Ive been acting like Ive got an unlimited supply.

我想我還是謹慎點好。就在這個周末，樓上洗手間的馬桶堵了，我就曾經禱告水管工修馬桶之后不要用我們的馬桶。I probably need to be more careful about that. This weekend the toilet in the upstairs bathroom got clogged， and I prayed that the plumber wouldnt use our bathroom after he fixed it.

老實說，我的祈愿成功率是75%。我不知道這個成功率算高還是低，不過我知道無論我禱告得多虔誠，我也別指望生日禮物能拿到一把激光劍。For the record， I have about a 75% success rate with my prayers. I dont know if thats good or bad， but one thing Im pretty sure of is that Im never gonna get a lightsaber for my birthday， no matter how badly I want it.

不管怎樣，我下次許愿的時候一定要越具體越好，因為今天我的愿望在體育課上實現了，但結果卻不盡人意。Anyway， I think Ive got to be a lot more specific when I pray for something， because today in Phys Ed my wish was granted， but Im not happy about the way things turned out.

剛開始上課的時候，莫雷塔夫人報了各人舞伴的名字，她點到露比·伯德的時候我連呼吸都屏住了。At the beginning of class， Mrs. Moretta called out names for dance partners， and I held my breath when she got to Ruby bird.