WORDS

1、Then she said me and Rodrick were going to have to settle our differences in a "civil manner".

in a civil manner 用文明的方式

be going to have to 不得不

settle our differences 解决我们的分歧

例句：Let's settle our differences before it's too late.

造句：Let us try to settle our differences in a civil manner.

2、Mom told me and Rodrick we each had to write down what we did wrong, and then we had to draw a picture to go along with it.

along with (it) 我不确定文中是指除了要写下我们错在哪以外，还要画张图？还是说随后我们再画一张画？ 

along with 还有以及、和...一起的意思，例如：It is as if the world has vanished and the body along with it.（这就好像这个世界已经消失了，并且自己的肉体还与其留在一起。）

另外，还有一个意思是随他去吧，我很喜欢一部电影就叫Just Go with It（随波逐流），安妮斯顿主演，挺搞笑。例句：Yes, best to go along with it.

造句：Just because the other boys do something bad, you don't have to go along with it.

下文还出现了一个to get along, 意为相处，例如：It's impossible to get along with him.

3、But Rowley's dad must have cracked our code,...

crack our code 破解我们的代码

crack也有开裂、重击的意思，名词可做裂纹。

例句：Crack the eggs into a bowl.

造句：The wall had a crack in it.

SENTENCES

get the hang of 掌握窍门

But we couldn't really get the hang of it, ...

例句：It took me a few years to get the hang of it all, but it finally clicked.

造句：I'm trying to get the hang of the ipad.

JOURNAL

How about talking my English name? I started to learn English in junior middle school, at my frist English lesson, English teacher give us English names for everyone in class. He called me stood up, and told me "Your name is Amy", then I sat down. Maybe I didn't like this name because it doesn't sounds like "Selina" or "Maria" as a beauty girl, and more importantly, teacher didn't give me more choices or tell me what this name means. That's all right, who can remenber everyone's English name is.

The turth is, I found another name that I actually like it. I pretty love a cartoon named The wizard of Oz, so I like the heroine's name "Dorothy", wonderful! That's my English name, until now, it still is.

Another day, when I saw American TV series The Big Bang, seeing Sheldon's girlfriend named "Amy" who is brawny and brainy. Well, it's not so bad.

TIPS

klutzy ['klʌtsɪ] 愚蠢的，笨拙的

off limits 禁区

The basement is off limits.