Words and Expressions

1.So tonight, I tried to make it up to him.

make it up:（friends）to become friendly with someone again after you have had an argument.

例句:Have you made up with Patty yet?

仿寫:Ping tride to make up with Yun by giving her a box of candy.

get the full effect:

2.In the past few years, the grow-ups in my neighborhood bave been getting cranky about my lame costumes.

①cranky:strange/weird

例句:She's a member?of a group that promotes cranky idea about food and exercise.

造句:They are cranky about my thought of going swimming now.

②lame costumes蹩腳式的服裝

前文Rowley的是store-bought店里買的,我猜他的是他媽媽home-made

3.This year I've come up with a plan that'll get us at laeat twice the candy we scored last year.

score:(熟詞生義)[informal] to be very successful in something you do 獲得,取得

例句:Her new book has scored a spectacular success.

造句:Hui's experiments has scored huge success.

4.Man, I should have known there was a catch when Mom gave me that costume.（無事獻殷勤党远，非奸即詐）

catch:(熟詞生義)[informal]一般用單數(shù)酝碳。a hidden problem or difficulty.

例句:The catch is that you can’t enter the competition unless you’ve spent $100 in the store.

造句:Every time my brother calls me, I know that there is a catch waiting for me.

5.When we were halfway home, this pickup truck come roaring down the street with a bunch of high school kids in it.

roar:[I always + adv/prep] if a vehicle roars somewhere, it moves very quickly and noisily〔車輛〕轟鳴著疾駛

例句:The car roared off down the road.

仿寫:The motocycle roared down the road with three teenagers last night.

Sentences

1.I should never have mentioned that last part, because the next thing I knew, Mom was telling Dad he had to go with us to make sure we didn't step foot outside our neighborhood.

結構:should never have done本不該做而做了

仿寫: I should never have mentioned it to my mom, because my dad wouldn't let me do that.

2.I have to give Rowley credit, because he blocked about 95% of ?the water with his shield. And if he didn't done that, all our candy would have gotten socked.

give somebody credit:to praise somebody

仿寫: I have to give him credit for his hard work.

Writing

I remembered that I had the same experience with Rowley. When I was in ?prime school, I played with my friends the whole noon. Therefore, someone told my grandma that I did't attend the school. Because of that, I ended up getting grounded for a week. What a sad story! What Greg done really moved me. He called Rowley and did a play-by-play of the TV show over the phone. Even though he was not sured that if Rowley was getting the whole effect. I wish I have a friend like Greg.