8 A Transformed Franny

CHAPTER EIGHT A TRANSFORMED FRANNY Before school Franny met some of the girls from her class. Franny had a modified Chompolina with her. Now Chompolina played happy music and squirted perfume and glitter and came with her own nail polish and a rainbow-colored unicorn with a long tail you could braid. The other girls loved Chompolina and crowded around her. Franny thought it was fun playing with the girls, but deep down she missed the old Chompolina.

第八章改变了的弗兰妮上学前，弗兰妮遇到了班上的一些女生。 弗兰妮带了一个改装过的乔波利娜。 现在，Chompolina演奏着欢快的音乐，喷着香水和闪光剂，带着她自己的指甲油和一只彩虹色的独角兽，它的尾巴很长，你可以把它编成辫子。 其他女孩都喜欢Chompolina，围在她周围。 弗兰妮觉得和女孩们一起玩很有趣，但在内心深处，她想念那个老Chompolina。

At lunchtime Franny pulled out her PBJ sandwich. The peanut butter had been artfully smoothed, and the jelly had been applied equally from one corner to the other. The bread was so blazingly white that Franny needed sunglasses to look at it. Her mom had even trimmed the crusts, and the other kids, noticing this, smiled with approval. Franny took a bite and found it to be totally, completely, and incredibly... average, uninteresting, and no big deal. She had expected so much more. But her experiment seemed to be working, so she finished the mushy sandwich. At recess Franny suggested they play softball. She consulted her notes quickly and added, "I think it best we use a ball instead of a skull, or giant squid eyeball, or something gruesome like that."

午饭时，弗兰尼拿出她的PBJ三明治。 花生酱被巧妙地抹平了，果冻从一个角均匀地涂在另一个角上。 面包白得耀眼，弗兰妮需要戴上墨镜才能看清。 她的妈妈甚至把面包皮都修剪好了，其他孩子注意到这一点，都赞许地笑了。 弗兰妮咬了一口，发现它完全、完全、难以置信地…… 一般，无趣，没什么大不了的。 她期望的远不止这些。 但她的实验似乎奏效了，所以她完成了这个软软的三明治。 课间休息时，弗兰尼建议他们打垒球。 她赶紧看了看笔记，补充说：“我认为我们最好用一个球来代替头骨，或者巨型乌贼的眼球，或者类似的可怕的东西。”

Franny had fun playing with them, but deep down she knew the game would have been much more fun with a skull or giant squid eyeball.

弗兰尼玩得很开心，但在内心深处，她知道用头骨或巨大的鱿鱼眼球玩这个游戏会更有趣。

The other kids were a bit puzzled, but they agreed. After school the kids all said good-bye and a few even asked her to come over to their houses and play. It was great to be asked, but Franny had to hurry straight home and analyze her day. She was happy. The other kids liked her, even if it was only a transformed her.

其他孩子有点困惑，但他们同意了。 放学后，孩子们都说再见，有几个甚至邀请她到他们家玩。 被邀请是件好事，但弗兰尼必须马上赶回家分析她的一天。 她很高兴。其他孩子喜欢她，即使那只是一个变形的她。