14 Stupider and Stupider

CHAPTER FOURTEEN STUPIDER AND STUPIDER Franny took another dose of her invisibility formula. "It can't smash what it can't see," she said, trying her best to sound optimistic. And she faded from their sight.

第十四章越来越笨弗兰尼又服了一剂隐形药。 “它不能摧毁它看不到的东西，”她说，尽量让自己听起来乐观。 她从他们的视线中消失了。

Most monstrous fiends, even though they are often horribly destructive, have a plan. Either they want something, they hate something, or they're just trying to escape capture. So it's easy for a scientific mind to figure them out and stop them. This thing is different, Franny thought. This robot is pure stupidness. It has two whole heads full of stupid. Pure stupidness does things for no good reason. What would a pure-stupid creature do in a school? Franny thought.

大多数可怕的恶魔，尽管他们通常具有可怕的破坏性，但都有一个计划。 要么他们想要什么，要么他们讨厌什么，要么他们只是想逃脱追捕。 所以科学的头脑很容易发现它们并阻止它们。 这件事不一样，弗兰妮想。 这个机器人真是个笨蛋。 它有两个脑袋都是蠢蛋。 纯粹的愚蠢会做没有充分理由的事情。 一个纯粹愚蠢的生物在学校里会做什么？ 弗兰尼的想法。

Franny ran past a door on which the robot had left some graffiti. It was badly spelled, badly drawn, and not at all clever. "In addition," Franny said, "it's probably inaccurate. If the principal really did have a rubber butt, surely by now they would have flown her to consult with a medical expert in Switzerland." Franny ran past gigantic spit wads that the robot had left dangling from the ceiling and dripping down the walls. "Spit wads," she said. "Can you imagine wasting perfectly good spit this way? Spit, like most secretions, is hours of fun for a child with a microscope. Only an idiot would squander it this way." Spitty robot footprints led right up to the library door, and Franny actually felt an unfamiliar wave of fear wash over her. "Not the books," she said.

弗兰妮跑过一扇门，机器人在门上留下了一些涂鸦。 它拼写得很糟糕，画得很糟糕，一点也不聪明。 “此外，”弗兰尼说，“它可能不准确。 如果校长真的有一个橡胶屁股，现在他们肯定已经让她飞到瑞士去咨询医学专家了。” 弗兰妮跑过巨大的吐痰团，这些吐痰团从天花板上晃来晃去，滴在墙上。 “吐痰吧，”她说。“你能想象这样浪费这么好的唾液吗？” 唾液，像大多数分泌物一样，对于一个用显微镜观察的孩子来说，是几个小时的乐趣。 只有傻瓜才会这样浪费时间。” 脏兮兮的机器人脚印一直延伸到图书馆门口，弗兰妮真的感到一股陌生的恐惧席卷了她。 “不是书，”她说。