4 It Was a Piece of Cake

CHAPTER FOUR IT WAS A PIECE OF CAKE Franny began assembling the mechanism she had designed. "Can't have your cake and eat it too," she scoffed. "Where do they come up with these things?" As she worked, Franny recalled when she conducted experiments based on other sayings she had heard her mom use.

弗兰尼开始组装她设计的机械装置。 “鱼与熊掌不可兼得，”她嘲笑道。 “他们是怎么想到这些东西的？”当她工作时，弗兰尼回忆起她根据妈妈说过的其他说法做实验的时候。

AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY. But it has to be a REALLY BIG APPLE. A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH. BUT ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT A BIRD IN YOUR HAND? WHOEVER SAID "AS EASY AS TAKING CANDY FROM A BABY" NEVER ACTUALLY TRIED TO DO IT.

一天一个苹果，医生远离我。 但它必须是一个真正的大苹果。 一鸟在手，胜过两鸟在林。 但是你确定你想要一只鸟在你手里吗？ 那些说“像从婴儿手里拿走糖果一样容易”的人从来没有真正去做过。

At last her device was complete, and she demonstrated it to her faithful assistant, Igor. "Observe. Here, on my Time Warp Dessert Plate, I have a delicious piece of cake." Igor nodded. He was always ready to observe a delicious piece of cake. Franny gobbled it up quickly. "Now I've eaten it. So, of course, I no longer have it."

最后，她的设计完成了，她把它展示给她忠实的助手伊戈尔看。 “观察。在我的时空扭曲甜点盘里，我有一块美味的蛋糕。” Igor点点头。他总是准备观察一块美味的蛋糕。 弗兰妮迅速地把它吞了下去。 “现在我把它吃了。所以，当然，我不再拥有它了。”

Igor shook his head. No cake. That IS sad. "But through a slight time warp, I can actually make a small zone on the plate go back to a point in the recent past when I had not yet eaten the cake." Igor's eyes widened as the cake reappeared on Franny's special plate. "And now I have it again," she said.

伊戈尔摇了摇头。没有蛋糕。 这是悲哀的。“但通过轻微的时间扭曲，我可以让盘子上的一小块区域回到最近我还没有吃蛋糕的时候。” 当蛋糕重新出现在弗兰尼的特制盘子里时，伊戈尔睁大了眼睛。 “现在我又有了，”她说。

There was a way to have your cake and eat it too, and Franny had figured it out. "Easy as pie," she said.

鱼与熊掌兼得是有办法的，而弗兰妮已经想出了办法。 “很容易，”她说。