12 You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself

CHAPTER TWELVE YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF At least, Franny thought this was her house. Thick smoke poured out of a huge chimney that punched out through the roof. Rusty drums of chemicals lay all over the yard. Terrible howls and screeches came from unseen creatures hiding within.

第十二章你应该为自己感到羞耻，至少弗兰妮认为这是她的房子。 一个巨大的烟囱从屋顶突入，浓烟滚滚而出。 院子里到处都是生锈的化学品桶。 里面藏着一些看不见的生物，发出可怕的嚎叫和尖叫声。

"I like what they've done with the place," Franny said approvingly. "I'm just surprised that Mom decided to go with this look. She's usually so fussy."

“我喜欢他们对这个地方的改造，”弗兰尼赞许地说。 “我只是很惊讶妈妈会选择这个造型。 她总是那么挑剔。”

Franny eased her way past the front door, which was hanging by a single hinge. Inside, the living room was crawling with snakes and spiders and things that looked like maybe they were half snake and half spider. "Perhaps a bit much," Franny said. "Still, it's quite cozy."

弗兰尼小心翼翼地走过前门，那扇门只靠一个铰链吊着。 在里面，客厅里爬满了蛇和蜘蛛，还有一些看起来像是半蛇半蜘蛛的东西。 “也许有点多，”弗兰尼说。 “不过，还是挺舒服的。”

There was no sign of her family anywhere. Even Igor, who would have run to the door to meet her, was gone.

到处都找不到她家人的踪迹。 就连本来要跑到门口迎接她的伊戈尔也不见了。

She tiptoed up the stairs toward her bedroom laboratory and quietly pushed the door open.

她踮着脚尖走上楼梯，走向卧室的实验室，轻轻地推开门。

There, feverishly banging on a fiendish-looking device, was a tall mad scientist that Franny knew could only be herself as a teenager.

在那里，一个高大的疯狂科学家正狂热地敲打着一个看起来像恶魔的装置，弗兰尼知道那只可能是她十几岁时的样子。