2 PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER

CHAPTER TWO PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER Maybe because Igor was a mix of so many different animals, he had a lot of different interests. He liked cake decorating and karate and banana wrestling, which might sound easy, but Franny had accidentally created a pretty fierce banana, and it was Igor's job to play with it so it didn't become bored and start getting into trouble. Igor's newest hobby was jigsaw puzzles, which took a long time for him to complete, since his little fingers

也许因为伊戈尔是许多不同动物的混合体，他有许多不同的兴趣。 他喜欢装饰蛋糕，喜欢空手道和香蕉摔跤，这听起来可能很简单，但弗兰尼无意中创造了一个非常凶猛的香蕉，伊戈尔的工作就是和它一起玩，这样它就不会感到无聊，开始惹麻烦。 Igor最近的爱好是拼图游戏，他花了很长时间才完成，因为他的手指很小

were kind of stubby and plump. Franny had no interest in solving a puzzle that others had solved before, so Igor put them together by himself.

又粗又胖。 弗兰尼对解决别人已经解决过的谜题没有兴趣，所以伊戈尔自己把它们拼在一起。

This was fine with Franny because it allowed her to work on her experiments without Igor's help, and sometimes no help was exactly what she was in the mood for.

这对弗兰尼来说很好，因为这样她就可以在没有伊戈尔帮助的情况下进行实验，而有时没有帮助恰恰是她想要的。

Franny was especially excited about her newest invention, the Mixer-Upper Machine. She'd gotten the idea from Granny Franny's soup. "I made it with parts from a broken blender and an old nuclear reactor I had lying around. With it, I can combine good stuff to make something even better."

弗兰妮对她的最新发明——混料机感到特别兴奋。 她是从弗兰尼奶奶的汤里得到灵感的。 “我用一台坏掉的搅拌机和一个旧核反应堆的零件做了这个。 有了它，我可以把好的东西结合起来，做出更好的东西。”

For one of her first Mixer-Upper experiments, she put a substitute teacher in it with a ruler. The machine made a whirring sound like a blender, and then it dinged like a microwave. When Franny opened the door, the substitute teacher and the ruler had combined to make a foot-long sub. It flopped around on the plate and threatened to make Franny stay after school unless she separated them again.

在她的第一次Mixer-Upper实验中，她让一位代课老师拿着一把尺子进去。 这台机器发出像搅拌机一样的嗡嗡声，然后又像微波炉一样叮当作响。 当弗兰妮打开门时，代课老师和尺子已经合在一起做成了一英尺长的潜水艇。 它在盘子里晃来晃去，威胁要让弗兰妮放学后留下来，除非她再把他们分开。

"Fine," Franny said. "I'll unmix you. But you might be making a mistake. Not everybody likes substitute teachers, but everybody can appreciate a delicious foot- long sub." "Change me back!" the sub yelled.

“好吧，”弗兰尼说。“我来拆散你。 但你可能犯了一个错误。 不是每个人都喜欢代课老师，但每个人都能欣赏一英尺长的美味代课。” “把我变回去！”潜水艇喊道。