2014-08-31

【Aiden in English】

        Bowling is a fun game. It shows your skills in muscles and accuracy. But something unexpectedly happened today when Dad and I went to Facenda Whitaker Bowling Lanes, PA for Labor Day Weekend holiday joy.

        It turned out that there was a glitch in the sensors, because the last pin on the bowler's left had a few problems. For one, if it's still standing, the computer read it as if the pin was knocked over. That's how Dad got 4 strikes in a game. Unfortunately for me, the glitch didn't work, and I got the world's lowest bowling score. After we finished 7-8 games, Dad and I reported the error, but not before we had some fun with it.

        Cheaters never prosper, but who says you're cheating if both sides agree on it.

【紅霞譯文】

        保齡球好玩，既考驗手臂力量，又體現投球的準確性，但今天勞工節周末我和爸爸現身賓州惠特克農莊保齡球館盡歡時卻遇到了一點小意外。

        原來保齡球館傳感器系統發生故障，導致投球方左側最後一個探針失靈，即使球瓶未被打倒，計算機屏幕上仍顯示得分，在一盤比賽中爸爸就這樣前後四次全中。而我卻沒那麼走運，輪到自己上場的時候，探針個個運行正常，結果天底下再也找不出第二位積分比我差的，狂玩了七～八盤之後，我們才如實報告儀器問題。

        “弄虛作假難於成功”，那得論實際分場合看心情。如果當事雙方自娛其樂，並非在意這種“作弊”有何不妥，也就不存在誰欺騙誰一說。