I was ten and had been pestering my parents for a dog for years.

当时我十岁, 多年来一直缠着我父母想要养条狗。

So I started pestering them for financial documents, which did not help things, but after a while they gave me a PDF of an IRS filing.

所以我开始缠着他们要财务文件，这并没有什么帮助，但过了一会儿他们给了我一份国税局备案的 PDF 文件。