小屁孩日记

星期三Wednesday

昨晚我加倍用心地祷告，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.

然后我就开始担心，人的一辈子能实现的愿望总数会不会是固定的，而我却把愿望挥霍得太快了。我可不想后来才发现自己早早把愿望用完了，因为我一直许愿许个不停。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.

我想我還是谨慎点好。就在这个周末，楼上洗手间的马桶堵了，我就曾经祷告水管工修马桶之后不要用我们的马桶。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.

老实说，我的祈愿成功率是75%。我不知道这个成功率算高还是低，不过我知道无论我祷告得多虔诚，我也别指望生日礼物能拿到一把激光剑。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.

不管怎样，我下次许愿的时候一定要越具体越好，因为今天我的愿望在体育课上实现了，但结果却不尽人意。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.

刚开始上课的时候，莫雷塔夫人报了各人舞伴的名字，她点到露比·伯德的时候我连呼吸都屏住了。At the beginning of class， Mrs. Moretta called out names for dance partners， and I held my breath when she got to Ruby bird.