1 Franny’s House

CHAPTER ONE FRANNY'S HOUSE The Stein family lived in a pretty pink house with lovely purple shutters down at the end of Daffodil Street. Everything about the house was bright and cheery. Everything, that is, except the bedroom behind the tiny, round upstairs window.

第一章弗兰妮的房子斯坦一家住在水仙花街尽头的一幢漂亮的粉红色房子里，房子里有可爱的紫色百叶窗。 房子里的一切都是明亮而愉快的。 除了楼上那扇又小又圆的窗户后面的卧室以外，什么都有。

This was Franny's bedroom, and she loved it more than anyplace else in the whole world, because this was where she came up with some of the most exciting new ideas in mad science.

这是弗兰妮的卧室，她爱这里胜过爱世界上的任何地方，因为她在这里想出了一些疯狂科学中最令人兴奋的新想法。

But, as is often the case for mad scientists, it was impossible to get her friends and family to take her work seriously. Like when Franny presented her recently perfected Personal Cow to her father. "Hey, Dad. Have a look at this. I genetically engineered a real cow for the portability that today's baby-on-the-go demands. See? Fresh milk anywhere." "That's nice, Franny," he said without even looking up from his newspaper.

但是，就像疯狂的科学家经常遇到的情况一样，她不可能让她的朋友和家人认真对待她的工作。 就像弗兰妮把她刚完成的私人奶牛送给她父亲一样。 “嘿,爸爸。看看这个。 我用基因工程改造了一头真正的奶牛，以满足当今婴儿的便携性需求。 看到了吗?新鲜牛奶随处可见。” “太好了，弗兰尼。”他说，头也不抬。

Or when Franny tried to show off her just-debugged Biggerizer to her little brother, Freddy. "One blast from this device can make things hundreds of times bigger," Franny declared proudly. "Can you use it in reverse and make your mouth smaller?" Freddy asked. Franny answered, "It doesn't have a reverse setting. It only makes things bigger, but that's not a bad idea...." Before she could finish, he leapt on his skateboard and, with one swift push, rocketed out of sight.

或者当弗兰妮试图向她的弟弟弗雷迪炫耀她刚调试好的大家伙时。 “这个装置的一次爆炸可以把物体放大几百倍，”弗兰尼自豪地宣称。 “你能反过来用，让你的嘴变小吗？”弗雷迪问道。 弗兰尼回答说：“它没有反向设置。 它只会让事情变得更大，但这不是一个坏主意....” 她还没来得及说完，他就跳上滑板，迅速地推了一下，就不见了。

Or when Franny called Percy, one of her new friends from school, to announce her new Manifester. "You put a picture of something in front of it, flip the switch, and—ZAP!—it creates a real three-dimensional reproduction of it." "Did you ever put ketchup on corn chips?" Percy asked witlessly.

或者当弗兰妮打电话给珀西，她在学校的一个新朋友，宣布她的新宣言。 “你在它前面放一张什么东西的照片，按下开关，砰！”它创造了一个真实的三维复制品。” “你在玉米片上涂过番茄酱吗？”珀西茫然地问。