10 Making a Name for Yourself

CHAPTER TEN MAKING A NAME FOR YOURSELF There was a flash, and a pop, and a little puff of smoke, and Franny stood there, directly in front of Baby Franny. Baby Franny blinked in astonishment as Franny grabbed Baby Franny's chart. "I'm doing you a huge favor," she said to Baby Franny. "I'm changing this dumb middle name so that nobody can ever make fun of it again."

第十章扬名立万一瞬间，砰的一声，一股小烟冒了出来，弗兰妮站了起来，正对着小弗兰妮。 弗兰尼抓起弗兰尼宝宝的病历表，弗兰尼惊讶地眨了眨眼。 “我这是在帮你大忙，”她对弗兰妮宝宝说。 “我要改掉这个愚蠢的中间名，这样就没人能再取笑它了。”

Franny erased "Kissypie." "Let's see," she said. "I still want to keep the initial K. How about 'Kidney'? Do you like the sound of that?" Baby Franny scrunched up her nose. "No, huh?" Franny said. "Maybe 'Khufu,' or 'Kismet,' or 'Kilowatt'? Baby Franny pulled the pacifier from her mouth. "Kaboom," she said.

弗兰妮擦掉了“接吻派”。“让我看看，”她说。 “我还是想保留K的首字母。 “肾”怎么样？你喜欢这个声音吗？”婴儿弗兰尼捏起鼻子。 “不,嗯?”弗兰妮说。“也许是‘胡夫’、‘天命’、‘千瓦’？” 弗兰尼宝宝把奶嘴从嘴里拽了出来。 “砰，”她说。

Franny smiled. "It's a bit peculiar, but I like it. It's like an explosion," she said, and she wrote "Kaboom" down as her middle name. Then she leaned way down and said, very seriously, to Baby Franny, "The most important thing is that nobody will laugh at us again. There is nothing worse than being laughed at."

弗兰妮笑了。“这有点奇怪，但我喜欢它。 就像爆炸一样，”她说，并把“爆炸”（Kaboom）作为她的中间名。 然后她俯下身来，非常严肃地对弗兰尼宝宝说：“最重要的是没人再嘲笑我们了。 没有什么比被人嘲笑更糟糕的了。”

She picked up Baby Franny's toy elephant. "Here, let me fix that for you," she said, and drew a few extra eyes on it. With a flash, and a pop, and a little puff of smoke, Franny was gone. Baby Franny looked at the elephant with the extra eyes and smiled. At that moment she knew she wanted to create more things like that doll. At that moment, Baby Franny became a mad scientist.

她拿起小弗兰尼的玩具大象。 “来，让我给你修一下。”她说，又在上面多画了几眼。 随着一道闪光，噗的一声，一缕小烟，弗兰妮消失了。 弗兰尼宝宝用多余的眼睛看着大象，笑了。 在那一刻，她知道她想创造更多像那个娃娃一样的东西。 在那一刻，弗兰尼宝宝变成了一个疯狂的科学家。