【好書推薦】The Diary of a Wimpy Kid - The Last Straw --lilac
上周末坐等俺娃上遊泳課時，俺又心癢難奈的把小人書掏出來，外套一本帥鍋雜誌裝孫，神經質般的花癡竊笑，引無數溫良恭檢讓媽媽們的不齒側目。 俺有毛病，很多, 最有名的就是強迫症: 自己喜歡的也喜歡同道的人喜歡，您不喜歡阿，俺就要想法兒逼您就範，這就是這文的由來。俺東一榔頭西一板斧的，把書裏好玩的地方show給您，看您識貨不。 這本書是字書，還好還沒墮落到卡通連環畫的地步，但書中有大量應景的搞笑插畫。俺又賣了回苦力，一張張從書中拍下了，剪輯了，貼過來配俺的文。文字俺還加了注釋，太善了. 警告哈： 這本書是純口語話的，您要是致力給中央社論擬稿，或新聞發布，或詩詞歌賦等陽春白雪的高尚人士，遠離俺這個禍害的說~~ Everyone knows growing up can be hard. Adolescence is awkward and school sucks when you're that age. For many of us, you may never forget the bullies you had to put up with on the school playground. You may never forget the tricks you played on your classmates, which inevitably always ended up backfiring on (逆火上身) yourself. You may never forget that pretty girl, sitting in front of you, who never returned a glance at you during the whole school year, or that popular kid who once invited over everyone but you to his party, or your parents who always pushed you to attend all kinds of after-school programs but forgot that they were just the same average kids when they were your age. You may have never shined at school. You may have never won any girl’s heart. The closest field position you had ever got playing in the soccer game is called “shag” – chasing the ball when it goes out of bounds. If you are geeky, average-looking (positively speaking :)) and basically have no talents, adolescence can be cruel or at least pathetic. Is it possible for such a wimpy kid to survive or even thrive through his harsh middle school years? Diary of a Wimpy Kid takes a benign (善良的, 溫和的) and relaxing approach on the adolescence, trying to find wit, fun and truth rather than the genuine pain or confusion in that time of life. The main character Greg is such a wimpy kid. He is about 13-14 years old, in his junior high school. I find him very attractive and I relish reading every bit of his pathetic but funny stories. One of Greg’s street smarts – “Chore Coupon” book  Making them a Chore Coupon book. Greg makes his dad a Chore Coupon book just about every Father’s day, which has something like “One free lawn mowing” or “One free window washing”. It always works out great because Dad never actually uses any of his coupons in the books and he treasures them up (珍藏). One year, on Mother’s day, Greg played the same trick on his mom, but Mom cashed every single one of it in the following year. Bummer! Greg’s mom – a workout fanatic verbally Rodrick - Greg’s mean older brother Greg told on (告發) Rodrick. Dad didn’t feel like getting in the middle of a fight and ordered Rodrick to pay Greg 2 quarters for winning the bet. Rodrick threw the quarters onto the ground. Greg bent down again… Guess what happened?
Manny - Greg’s youngest brother, looks like buck-toothed (大板牙) alligator, a spoiled brat (小混蛋). Rowley - Greg’s buddy, a chubby and happy-go-lucky fellow. Dad - a junk food addict. He likes to steal kids’ snack food from the laundry room during the midnight. He once signed Greg up for a local soccer league. Greg ended up as a benchwarmer (板凳隊員)due to his pre alpha minus skills. As a benchwarmer, when other players were playing hard and joyously with cheers around, will one feel left out(被遺忘), upset, uneasy, jealous or ashamed? Let Greg tell you his firsthand experience what the benchwarmers are thinking when they stand in the huddle (站個圈) while the coach goes over the game plan. --- "You guys smell." Greg got happy with his benchwarmer situation since he could play his video games all the time. But some parents complained their kids didn’t get any playtime. So once Greg and other two benchwarmers were called on by the coach to block the free kick (任意球) from the other team. They were supposed to stand shoulder to shoulder to make a shield to block the ball. This was actually what happened. The coach was so mad, letting loose with everything he had (口不擇言地亂罵). Holly - the girl Greg has a huge crush on Greg's was daydreaming about Holly. Greg has been making tons of moves on (獻了很多殷勤) Holly. But Holly never pays attention to Greg. She can't even tell Greg from Fregley, an annoying kid Greg despised most. This really gets Greg pissed off.
This was what Holly wrote on Greg’s yearbook at the end of the school year. K.I.T – Keep in Touch. Greg really read into it and got warmed up by this K.I.T thing. Greg didn’t feel the note Holly left for him lame until he saw what Holly wrote on Rowley’s yearbook. A huge blow to the ego or what? The fun list can go on and on. Even a super gabber (88的人) as me, should know where to stop. Hope you already had an itch for this “kid” book. 俺準備把書中的slang，idioms都整出來，剛完了四分之一，在俺blog裏。您要是也買了或借了這本書想要參考的，這些個list可能會對您有用 Lilac 06, 2010 |
[前言]: 那個啥，越老越墮落。最近竟然迷上了小孩的書，The Diary of a Wimpy Kid，這套書有四本，還有一本講的是上畫的同名電影。俺手頭有的是第四本，The Last Straw。據說是最好玩的一本。俺來來回回看了兩遍，被迷的顛三倒四，不能自拔的，還準備再看兩遍。
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