Day 5, Page 49-59    结束部分文字：So at least we cleared two bucks today.

5个表达

1. Anyway, when we got to the entrance, I started having second thoughts about going in.

second thoughts

再三思考，重新思量，第二想法

造句：James may not have second thoughts to the job opportunity as he is truely satisfied with his current job.

2. Right when it looked like the chainsaw guy was going to catch us, Mom stepped in and bailed us out.

bail out

舀出，摆脱困境，纾困

造句：Thanks to Bob's phone call, we finally got bailed out from the extremely boring meeting.

3. The first kid to cough up his two bucks was Shane Snella.

cough up

是cough out的变体，同cough，表示勉强说出，吐出。文中指出钱的出。

造句：Mr. Yang is a mean man that he never coughs out any money when it comes to donation event.

4. I guess maybe we made the of Screams a little to scary, because halfway through, Shane curled up in a ball underneath the bed.

curl up

蜷缩，卷起，蜷伏

造句：Jimmy curled up like a ball when he heard the thunder.

5. I started thinking about all the money we were losing with this kid clogging up the Hall of Screams, and I knew we had to get him out of there, quick.

clog up

阻塞，堵住

造句：Fany clogged up the door from inside so that we earn more time to hide well for the game.

2个仿写

1. I knew Rowley's dad wouldn't be crazy about the idea, either, so we decided to build the haunted house in his basement and just not mention it to his parents.

I knew... so XX decided to...

仿写：I knew it would be rude to ask Sandy to come to our team, so I decided to ask him out for dinner first and talk about my intentions later.

2. I don't mean to brag or something, but what we came up with was WAY better than the Crossland High School haunted house.

I don't mean to ..., but ...

仿写：I don't mean to bother you, but we do need your immediate support now.

日记：

It's been the 9th year I work and leave in Beijing. I always think it might be wise to go back to hometown, to be a good girl, and a mother, to leave a life with less pressure and air pollution. But the balance was broken by the shock I just had recently.

Now that I may be living on my own from now on , why wouldn't I try to make Beijing my home? I can invite my parents here, to live with me and my new baby, though it's actually not what I wanted before. They should have their way of lives. I never meant to break their balances.

Well, I may still need some more time to think about it carefully. Life's just a puzzle to me but I'm never afraid of facing the music.