15 Just Not Cut Out for Politics

CHAPTER FIFTEEN JUST NOT CUT OUT FOR POLITICS A few days later, Franny and her mom were sitting at the kitchen table. The front page of the newspaper was all about the new president. "Sure glad they didn't elect that Frandidate thing I made, huh, Mom?" she said. Franny knew she had almost destroyed the world again and was a little embarrassed about it.

第十五章天生不适合从政几天后，弗兰尼和妈妈坐在厨房的餐桌旁。 报纸的头版全是关于新总统的报道。 “很高兴他们没有选我做候选人，对吧，妈妈？”她说。 弗兰妮知道她又一次差点毁了这个世界，为此感到有点尴尬。

"I'll say," Franny's mom said. "That was a close one." "You know what's weird, Mom? The Support Meter never fell to zero. There was still one person that didn't totally abandon the Frandidate. "That one person was me, Franny. After the facts came out, I never would have voted for the awful thing. But in the end, I did admire the fact that at least it told the truth. Anybody who tells the truth can't be all bad."

“我会说的，”弗兰妮的妈妈说。 “好险啊。”“你知道奇怪的是什么吗，妈妈？” 支持仪表从未降至零。 还有一个人没有完全抛弃这位候选人。 “那个人就是我，弗兰妮。 事实真相大白后，我绝不会投票支持这可怕的事情。 但最后，我确实很佩服，至少它讲了实话。 说真话的人不都是坏人。”

"I'm glad to hear you say that, Mom," Franny said, smiling.

“听你这么说我很高兴，妈妈，”弗兰妮笑着说。

Franny followed her mom into the family room and asked her to sit down on the couch. "Hey!" she said. "My new couch! You replaced it!" It was a perfect pale green with light brown stripes, which was exactly the couch her mom had wanted at that very moment. The couch had sensed it. And down at the other end of the couch, Igor was surrounded in a pattern of dog bones and happy little Miss Wizzywozzle faces. He no longer felt like everybody needed to like what he liked. It was okay if it was just for him.

弗兰妮跟着妈妈走进家庭活动室，请她在沙发上坐下。 “嘿！”她说。“我的新沙发！”你把它换掉了！”这是一个完美的淡绿色带浅棕色条纹的沙发，这正是她妈妈在那一刻想要的沙发。 沙发已经觉察到了。在沙发的另一端，伊戈尔被狗骨头图案和快乐的小魔术小姐的脸包围着。 他不再觉得每个人都需要喜欢他喜欢的东西。 如果只是为了他，也没关系。

This truly was a couch that could go with anything.

这真的是一个可以搭配任何东西的沙发。

Franny's mom was happy, and Igor was happy, and the couch could sense it, and it made the couch happy too: much happier than it had been when it had been the Frandidate.

弗兰妮的妈妈很高兴，伊戈尔也很高兴，沙发能感觉到，这也使沙发高兴起来：比它当候选人的时候高兴多了。