1 Franny’s House

CHAPTER ONE FRANNY'S HOUSE The Stein family lived in the pretty pink house with lovely purple shutters down at the end of Daffodil Street. Everything about the house was bright and cheery. Everything, that is, except the upstairs bedroom with the tiny round window.

第一章弗兰妮的房子斯坦一家住在水仙花街尽头那幢漂亮的粉红色房子里，房子里有可爱的紫色百叶窗。 房子里的一切都是明亮而愉快的。 除了楼上那间带着小圆窗的卧室以外，什么都有。

Behind this window was Franny's room, which was also her laboratory—her Mad Scientist Laboratory. Franny wasn't your average mad scientist. Franny wasn't planning to take over the universe, or galaxy, or even the world. Franny thought that maybe she should want to take over the world, being a mad scientist and everything, but it seemed wrong to her somehow.

这扇窗户后面是弗兰妮的房间，也是她的实验室——她的疯狂科学家实验室。 弗兰妮不是一般的疯狂科学家。 弗兰尼并没有打算统治宇宙、银河系，甚至整个世界。 弗兰妮觉得也许她应该想要统治世界，成为一个疯狂的科学家什么的，但不知怎么的，她觉得这是不对的。

It was tempting, of course. If she were in charge, she knew she could use her genius to do all sorts of great things that people wouldn't let her do now. Like, if she added a pinch of kangaroo DNA to human cells, we wouldn't need cars anymore.

当然，这很诱人。 如果她是负责人，她知道她可以用她的天才做各种伟大的事情，人们现在不让她做。 比如，如果她在人类细胞中加入一点袋鼠DNA，我们就不再需要汽车了。

And if she made everybody's whole kitchen a microwave oven, they could just set the table, press a button, and everything would cook all at once.

如果她把每个人的厨房都变成微波炉，他们只要摆好桌子，按下按钮，所有的东西就会立刻煮好。

Or she could go ahead with her plan to just squirt the sunscreen directly on the sun itself, so we wouldn't have to wipe it on ourselves all the time. And if she ever decided to take over the world, she knew nobody would be able to keep her from doing it. She could have used her Chimpofier to turn everybody into monkeys that she could easily control with a few bananas.

或者她可以继续她的计划，直接把防晒霜喷在太阳上，这样我们就不用一直擦自己的防晒霜了。 如果她决定统治世界，她知道没有人能阻止她这么做。 她可以用她的Chimpofier把每个人都变成猴子，她可以用几根香蕉轻松控制。