Monday
You know how I said I play all sorts of pranks on Rowley? Well, I have a little brother named Manny, and I could never get away with pulling any of that stuff on him.
Mom and Dad protect Manny like he’s a prince or something. And he never gets in trouble, even if he really deserves it.
Yesterday, Manny drew a self-portrait on my bedroom door in permanent marker. I thought Mom and Dad were really going to let him have it, but as usual, I was wrong.
prank 恶作剧
英文解释：childish trick
get away with 侥幸做成
英文解释：If you get away with doing something wrong or risky, you do not suffer any punishment or other bad consequences because of it.
e.g. The criminals know how to play the system and get away with it.
comment：如果是get away sth.，英文解释是you succeed in leaving a place or a person's company.
let sb. have it 让某人好看，给某人颜色看看
英文解释：to launch or deliver an attack on, esp to discharge a firearm at someone
But the thing that bugs me the most about Manny is the nickname he has for me. When he was a baby, he couldn’t pronounce “brother,” so he started calling me “Bubby.” And he still calls me that now, even though I keep trying to get Mom and Dad to make him stop.
Luckily none of my friends have found out yet, but believe me, I have had some really close calls.
bug 使烦恼
英文解释：If someone or something bugs you, they worry or annoy you.
e.g. I only did it to bug my parents.
get sb. to do sth. 让某人做某事
close call千钧一发；十分危险的情况
英文解释：a narrow escape from danger
comment：这个词组也可以替换成close shave，意思一样。
Mom makes me help Manny get ready for school in the morning. After I make Manny his breakfast, he carries his cereal bowl into the family room and sits on his plastic potty.
And when it’s time for him to go to day care, he gets up and dumps whatever he didn’t eat right in the toilet.
Mom is always getting on me about not finishing my breakfast. But if she had to scrape corn flakes out of the bottom of a plastic potty every morning, she wouldn’t have much of an appetite either.
dump倾倒
英文解释：If something is dumped somewhere, it is put or left there because it is no longer wanted or needed.
comment：同义词有discard，discharge。
be getting on sb. 发火
scrape 刮
英文解释：If you scrape something from a surface, you remove it, especially by pulling a sharp object over the surface.
e.g. Young children were trying to scrape up some of the rice that spilled from the sacks.
