16 Here, Let Me Give You a Hand

CHAPTER SIXTEEN HERE, LET ME GIVE YOU A HAND Crash! The robot smashed Franny with its giant hand. Erin, Lawrence, and Phil heard it and rushed into the library. "We'll save you, Franny!" they shouted. They folded their arms just like they had seen Franny do. "It's mad science time," they said.

来，让我来帮你一把！机器人用它的大手砸了弗兰妮。 艾琳、劳伦斯和菲尔听到了，冲进了图书馆。 “我们会救你的，弗兰妮！” 他们交叉着双臂，就像他们看到弗兰妮那样。 “这是疯狂科学的时间，”他们说。

The robot swung at Franny again. She tried to dodge, but it caught her hard. SMASH! "Uh, got some mad science coming right up," the kids said, looking at each other helplessly. The robot's hand came down with another mighty crash. BASH! Franny didn't think she could last much longer.

机器人又朝弗兰妮挥去。 她想躲开，但被狠狠地抓住了。 粉碎!“嗯，马上就会出现一些疯狂的科学，”孩子们说，无助地面面相觑。 机器人的手啪的一声落了下来。 BASH !弗兰尼觉得自己撑不了多久了。

Then Franny did what she did best. She thought, and she thought fast. "Maybe, maybe a mad scientist is exactly what we don't need," she said. SMASH! She took another powerful slam from the robot's hand.

然后弗兰妮做了她最擅长的事。 她想，而且想得很快。 “也许，也许一个疯狂的科学家正是我们不需要的，”她说。 粉碎!她又被机器人狠狠地打了一下。

She looked over at her friends, and then it suddenly came to her. Franny knew exactly what they needed. "What we need is a philatelist!" she yelled. "A what?" Erin shouted back.

她看了看她的朋友们，突然想起来了。 弗兰妮很清楚他们需要什么。 “我们需要的是一个集邮家！” “什么?”艾琳喊道。

"A philatelist is a stamp collector," Phil said. "Like me." "Phil!" Franny yelled. "The eyes!" Phil knew exactly what Franny meant. A pair of stamps would cover the robot's little square eyes perfectly. Phil pulled out a pair of stamps from his pocket and with a lick and a slap, had them across the robot's eyes.

“集邮家就是集邮者，”菲尔说。 “喜欢我。”“菲尔!”弗兰妮喊道。 “眼睛!”菲尔完全明白弗兰妮的意思。 一对邮票可以完美地盖住机器人的小方形眼睛。 菲尔从口袋里掏出一对邮票，舔了一下，又拍了一下，在机器人的眼睛上蒙了一下。

Now blinded, the robot missed Franny entirely. And its metal hands were too big and clumsy to remove the stamps.

现在，机器人的眼睛瞎了，完全看不到弗兰妮。 它的金属手又大又笨，拿不动邮票。