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Riding in the back of an open pick-up truck with a bunch of other kids
和一群孩子坐在敞篷卡车后斗兜风
Leaving the house after breakfast and not returning until the streetlights came on, at which point you raced home ASAP so you didn’t get in trouble
吃了早饭就出门玩儿到街灯时刻才跑回家
Eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the school cafeteria
在学校餐厅吃花生酱三明治
Riding your bike without a helmet
不戴头盔骑自行车
Riding your bike with a buddy on the handlebars, and neither of you wearing helmets
骑车带人,俩人都不戴头盔
Drinking water from the hose in the yard
喝院子里水龙头的水
Swimming in creeks, rivers, ponds, and lakes (or what they now call *cough* “wild swimming“)
在小溪,河,水池,湖里游泳(如今称为“野外游泳”)
Climbing trees (One park cut the lower branches from a tree on the playground in case some stalwart child dared to climb them)
爬树(一个公园怕大胆的孩子爬树,把游乐场的下端树枝全剪了)
Having snowball fights (and accidentally hitting someone you shouldn’t)
打雪仗(还不小心打到了谁)
Sledding without enough protective equipment to play a game in the NFL
滑雪板时不穿戴冰球队员的全套装备
Carrying a pocket knife to school (or having a fishing tackle box with sharp things on school property)
带小刀去学校(或者带有尖刺的鱼钩去学校)
Throwing rocks at snakes in the river
朝河里的蛇扔石头
Playing politically incorrect games like Cowboys and Indians
玩儿牛仔和印第安人这类政治不正确的游戏
Playing Cops and Robbers with *gasp* toy guns
拿着玩具枪玩儿警察抓小偷
Pretending to shoot each other with sticks we imagined were guns
拿树棍儿假装是枪互相对射
Shooting an actual gun or a bow (with *gasp* sharp arrows) at a can on a log, accompanied by our parents who gave us pointers to improve our aim. Heck, there was even a marksmanship club at my high school
用真的枪或者有锋利箭头的弓箭射木桩上的空金属罐,父母指点我们。算了,我的高中连射击俱乐部都有
Saying the words “gun” or “bang” or “pow pow” (there’s actually a freakin’ CODE about “playing with invisible guns”)
Working for your pocket money well before your teen years
13岁之前就自己挣零花钱
Taking that money to the store and buying as much penny candy as you could afford, then eating it in one sitting
拿着自己挣得零花钱能买多少就买多少糖,然后吃个够
Eating pop rocks candy and drinking soda, just to prove we were exempt from that urban legend that said our stomachs would explode
大吃糖块儿喝汽水儿,倒是瞧瞧会不会撑破了胃
Getting so dirty that your mom washed you off with the hose in the yard before letting you come into the house to have a shower
玩儿成了泥猴,你妈妈得先用院子里的水龙头把你冲个遍,才让你进屋洗澡
Writing lines for being a jerk at school, either on the board or on paper
在学校里讨人嫌,满处涂鸦
Playing “dangerous” games like dodgeball, kickball, tag, whiffle ball, and red rover (The Health Department of New York issued a warning about the “significant risk of injury” from these games)
玩儿闪避球,足球,威浮球等“危险的”球类游戏
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