6 Everybody Is Running for the Office

CHAPTER SIX EVERYBODY IS RUNNING FOR THE OFFICE Franny stood up in front of the class. "As you know, I'm running for the office of president, and now I'd like to present Part Two of my campaign," she announced. She pulled the tarp off the big hulking clown-thing that Igor was holding on a leash.

第六章每个人都在为办公室赛跑。弗兰尼站在全班同学面前。 “如你所知，我正在竞选总统，现在我想展示我竞选活动的第二部分，”她宣布。 她把伊戈尔用皮带牵着的那个笨重的小丑身上的防水布扯下来。

"Elect me and this can be yours!" It was mostly a clown, but parts of its face looked like a kitten. It had soccer balls for eyes, and cake was leaking out of its ears. "Behold your future!" Franny yelled triumphantly, although nobody could hear her over the sound of the children's shrieks and the wet choking hacks of the clown- thing coughing up a puppy. Franny's classmates ran for the office, to get the principal.

“选我吧，这就是你的！”它基本上是一个小丑，但它脸上的某些部分看起来像一只小猫。 它的眼睛是足球，耳朵里漏出了蛋糕。 “看你的未来！”弗兰妮得意洋洋地喊着，尽管孩子们的尖叫声和小丑咳出一只小狗的湿漉漉的呛人的声音让人听不见她的声音。 弗兰尼的同学跑到办公室去找校长。

Igor led the horrible creation out of the classroom, pausing only for a moment to eat some ear-cake. "Sorry, Miss Shelly," Franny said. "But I combined everything they like. I don't understand."

伊戈尔领着这个可怕的怪物走出教室，只停了一会儿吃了些耳朵蛋糕。 “对不起，雪莉小姐，”弗兰妮说。 “但我把他们喜欢的东西都结合起来了。 我不明白。”

"Maybe you should try to think of the class as they see themselves: as individual people, and not just as a group," said Miss Shelly. "You have to know where each voter stands on the issues." Franny wiped some goo off the coughed-up puppy.

“也许你应该试着从他们看待自己的角度来考虑这个班级：作为个体的人，而不仅仅是作为一个群体，”谢利小姐说。 “你必须知道每个选民在这些问题上的立场。” 弗兰妮给咳嗽的小狗擦了一些黏液。

"So you're saying I have to be the exact candidate that every single one of them wants me to be? I don't think that's possible."

“所以你是说，我必须成为他们每个人都希望我成为的那个候选人？” 我认为这是不可能的。”

"Maybe not, Franny, but if you're going to get elected, it will be because each person sees you as the best person for him or her."

“也许不是，弗兰妮，但如果你要当选，那将是因为每个人都认为你是最适合他或她的人。”