2 Fleas and Thank You

CHAPTER TWO FLEAS AND THANK YOU One afternoon Franny's mom cautiously poked her head into Franny's room. When poking one's head into a mad scientist's lab, it's always best to do so cautiously. "Franny, honey, I have somebody I want you to meet." "I'm kind of busy here, Mom. I'm working on a machine that will make dirty socks smell worse." "Why would you want that?" Franny's mom asked. Franny paused, then said, "I guess you wouldn't Mom. But that's how mad science works."

第二章跳蚤和谢谢一天下午，弗兰尼的妈妈小心翼翼地把头伸进弗兰尼的房间。 当你想探进一个疯狂科学家的实验室时，最好还是小心为妙。 “弗兰妮，亲爱的，我想给你介绍个人” “我有点忙，妈妈。 我正在研究一种能让脏袜子闻起来更臭的机器。” “你为什么想要这个？”弗兰妮的妈妈问。 弗兰妮停顿了一下，然后说：“我想你不会的，妈妈。 但这就是疯狂科学的运作方式。”

"Okay, but I just thought you might like to meet your new lab assistant." "A lab assistant?" Franny said, totally forgetting about the sock experiment. More than anything, she had always wanted her very own lab assistant. "Well," her mom said, "he's not a pure Lab. He's also part poodle, part Chihuahua, part beagle, part spaniel, part shepherd, and part some kind of weasly thing that's not even exactly a dog."

“好吧，但我想你可能想见见你的新实验室助理。” “实验室助理？”弗兰妮说，完全忘记了袜子实验。 最重要的是，她一直想拥有自己的实验室助理。 “嗯，”她妈妈说，“它不是纯种的拉布拉多犬。 他还有狮子狗、吉娃娃、小猎犬、西班牙猎犬、牧羊犬的血统，还有某种狡猾的东西，甚至不完全是狗。”

Franny stared blankly at the thing Mom had at the end of a leash. "But he'll always be interested and excited about your projects, sweetheart, and you can teach him to be your assistant. His name's Igor."

弗兰妮茫然地盯着妈妈拴在皮带末端的东西。 “但是他总是对你的项目感兴趣和兴奋的，亲爱的，你可以教他做你的助手。 他叫伊戈尔。”

Igor coughed and cocked his head. A few fleas hopped around in his fur. He could tell right away that he liked Franny, and he hoped that she liked him in return.

伊戈尔咳嗽了一声，歪着头。 几只跳蚤在他的皮毛里跳来跳去。 他马上就能看出他喜欢弗兰妮，他希望她也喜欢他。

"Oh. It's a dog," Franny said flatly, looking at Igor like he was half a glass of warm water. "I thought you meant..."

“哦。它是一只狗，”弗兰妮平淡地说，看着伊戈尔，就像看着半杯温水。 “我以为你的意思是……”

Franny was all ready to tell her mom to take Igor away, but as she looked into her mother's smiling face she could tell that her mom had really and truly thought that Igor was going to be a big hit.

弗兰妮已经准备好告诉妈妈把伊戈尔带走，但当她看着妈妈微笑的脸时，她知道妈妈真的认为伊戈尔会大受欢迎。