4 Wound Too Tight

CHAPTER FOUR WOUND TOO TIGHT One day Franny walked up the stairs to her room after a long day at school followed by bagpipe lessons. She had a lot of homework ahead of her and knew she had forgotten to take care of some of the lab stuff earlier that morning.

第四章缠得太紧有一天，在学校上了一整天风笛课之后，弗兰妮走上楼梯回到自己的房间。 她有一大堆作业要做，而且她知道那天早上早些时候她忘了处理一些实验室的事情。

Her thoughts were scattered. She was thinking about everything all at once. She went over to the centipede's cage and milked it. Then she shaved the soy plant and put shoes on the slugs. She gave a monster a bowl of dog food and was just preparing to run a jillion volts of electricity through Igor before she realized that she had gotten everything all mixed up.

她心烦意乱。 她一下子想到了所有的事情。 她走到蜈蚣的笼子旁边，给它挤奶。 然后她给大豆剃了毛，给蛞蝓穿上了鞋子。 她给了一个怪物一碗狗粮，正准备给伊戈尔通电时，她才意识到自己把一切都搞混了。

"Oh, no!" she groaned. "It's too much," she said. "That kind of electricity would have fried you like a potato chip, Igor. I'm wound up too tight to think clearly. I have to talk to Mom."

“哦，不！”她呻吟道。“太过分了，”她说。 “那种电流会把你像炸薯片一样炸了，伊戈尔。 我紧张得无法思考。 我得和妈妈谈谈。”

The next day, Franny told her mom about the mix-ups in the laboratory. "Igor could have been vaporized. The soy plant is mad because it was really trying to grow a mustache, the slugs are after me to make them some feet to go with their new shoes. And who in their right mind is ever going to drink two gallons of centipede milk?

第二天，弗兰尼把实验室里的混乱情况告诉了妈妈。 “伊戈尔可能已经蒸发了。 大豆植物很生气，因为它真的想长胡子，鼻涕虫追着我给它们长出脚来搭配它们的新鞋。 有哪个正常人会喝两加仑的蜈蚣奶呢？

"Mom, I think this all happened because I'm so busy. Do you think it would be okay if I took a break from the bagpipe lessons for a while?" "But Franny," her mom said. "How else will you learn? The bagpipe is a beautiful instrument, and music teaches you self- control and how to perform with confidence."

“妈妈，我想这一切都是因为我太忙了。 你看我能不能暂时不去上风笛课？”“可是弗兰尼，”她妈妈说。 “你还能怎么学？”风笛是一种美丽的乐器，音乐教会你自我控制和如何自信地演奏。”

"Okay," Franny said with a sigh. "Then how about if we skip the gourmet-cooking class?"

“好吧，”弗兰妮叹了口气说。 “那我们不去上美食烹饪课怎么样？”