13 Will You Just Listen to Yourself

CHAPTER THIRTEEN WILL YOU JUST LISTEN TO YOURSELF? Teen Franny twisted the final screw on the machine she was constructing. "The Monster Multiplier is finally complete. They were foolish to laugh at me," she grumbled as she began throwing switches. The Monster Multiplier started to whine and sizzle.

第十三章你能听听你自己说的话吗？ 十几岁的弗兰妮拧下了她正在制造的机器的最后一个螺丝。 “怪物倍增器终于完成了。 他们嘲笑我是愚蠢的，”她一边抱怨一边开始扔开关。 怪物乘数器开始呜呜作响。

"But no more. Let's see how they like it when these monsters begin overrunning the planet. Soon they'll take over the entire world. There'll be no laughing then." The Monster Multiplier crackled. The door opened and out walked a monster. It looked a lot like the elephant toy she had decorated for Baby Franny, but a lot bigger. It crackled again, and again the door opened. An identical elephant-monster walked out. Soon the machine was making monster after monster. They jumped out the window and began waging terror on the streets. "It won't be long now," Teen Franny said, and she

“但是没有了。让我们看看当这些怪物开始占领地球时，他们会有什么反应。 很快他们就会占领整个世界。 到那时就笑不出来了。” 怪物乘数器噼啪作响。 门开了，走了出来一个怪物。 它看起来很像她为弗兰妮宝宝装饰的大象玩具，但要大得多。 门又噼啪作响，门又开了。 一个一模一样的大象怪物走了出来。 很快，机器就造出了一个又一个怪物。 他们跳出窗户，开始在街上制造恐怖。 “不会太久了，”十几岁的弗兰妮说

grinned a mad scientist smile—an evil mad scientist smile. "It won't be long before all the laughing stops."

一个疯狂科学家的微笑——一个邪恶的疯狂科学家的微笑。 “用不了多久，所有的笑声就会停止。”

Franny gasped. Teen Franny was pretty handy in the monster-making machine department, and you had to give her credit for that. But she was evil. She was way beyond an acceptable amount of evil. She was really and truly evil—the kind of evil that had to be stopped.

弗兰妮气喘吁吁地说。十几岁的弗兰妮在制造怪物的机器方面很在行，你必须承认她的功劳。 但她是邪恶的。她的邪恶远远超出了人们的接受范围。 她是一个不折不扣的恶魔——一个必须被阻止的恶魔。

"I did this to myself," Franny said. "I never should have gone back in time, and I never should have changed my middle name." And she never should have walked backward into the arms of a five-eyed elephant-monster, but she did that, too.

“这是我自己做的，”弗兰尼说。 “我不应该回到过去，我也不应该改变我的中间名。” 她不应该倒退着走进五眼象怪的怀抱，但她还是这么做了。