2 Franny’s School

CHAPTER TWO FRANNY'S SCHOOL Franny also liked school. Her teacher, Miss Shelly, was great, and she always kept the kids busy with lots of challenging projects. Already that year, they had spent time studying dinosaurs, poetry, and even ancient Egypt, which Franny really enjoyed... even though her extra-credit project ate a custodian.

第二章弗兰尼的学校弗兰尼也喜欢学校。 她的老师雪莉小姐很棒，她总是让孩子们忙着做很多有挑战性的项目。 那一年，他们已经花时间研究恐龙、诗歌，甚至是古埃及，这是弗兰妮非常喜欢的…… 尽管她的课外项目吃了一个保管人。

Miss Shelly later made Franny unzip the mummy and release the custodian unharmed, although Franny protested and said that everybody knows mummies eat people every once in a while and that custodians should know better than to get too close. Great teachers like Miss Shelly always keep a little pressure on, and every day after school, Franny had to make time for her homework.

雪莉小姐后来让弗兰妮解开木乃伊的拉链，毫发无伤地释放了看守人，尽管弗兰妮抗议说，每个人都知道木乃伊偶尔会吃人，看守人应该知道不能靠得太近。 像雪莉老师这样的好老师总是给人一点压力，每天放学后，弗兰尼都得挤出时间做作业。

Some days it was easy, like when it was about electricity, organs, or strange chemical reactions. Some days it was hard, like when it was not about monsters, or atomic radiation, or electronic brains. But no matter how long it took, Franny also had to make time to play with her lab assistant, Igor. (He wasn't a pure Lab. He was also part poodle, part Chihuahua, part beagle, part spaniel, part shepherd, and part some kind of weasely thing that wasn't even exactly a dog.)

有些日子很容易，比如关于电、器官或奇怪的化学反应的时候。 有时候很难，比如跟怪物、原子辐射或电子大脑无关的时候。 但不管花多长时间，弗兰妮也必须抽出时间和她的实验室助理伊戈尔一起玩。 (他不是纯种的拉布拉多犬。他也有狮子狗、吉娃娃、小猎犬、西班牙猎犬、牧羊犬的血统，还有某种狡猾的东西的血统，甚至算不上狗。)

Franny had learned that not paying enough attention to Igor was dangerous. When he got too lonely, he tended to misbehave.

弗兰尼已经认识到，对伊戈尔不够重视是危险的。 当他感到太孤独时，他倾向于行为不端。

And Igor knew when Franny needed attention. He was really good at sensing when her schedule was getting too tight, and he was always trying to figure out ways to make her laugh. Sometimes it was juggling chain saws, sometimes it was alligator wrestling, sometimes it was wrestling alligators with chain saws.

伊戈尔知道弗兰尼什么时候需要关注。 当她的日程安排太紧时，他真的很善于察觉，他总是想办法逗她笑。 有时是耍链锯，有时是短吻鳄摔跤，有时是用链锯和短吻鳄摔跤。

Recently, he started dressing up like Franny and imitating her and that would always make Franny laugh so hard she could hardly breathe.

最近，他开始打扮成弗兰妮，模仿她，这总是让弗兰妮笑得喘不过气来。