10 IT’S BAKING THEM CRAZY

CHAPTER TEN IT'S BAKING THEM CRAZY The next morning, the bake sale table was mobbed. Almost every kid in the school was there, and they were not happy. They were yelling and shouting and demanding their muffins. Mona and Vincent collected big handfuls of money as kids bought all the muffins they could hold. Franny was delighted.

第二天早上，糕饼义卖桌上挤满了人。 学校里几乎每个孩子都来了，他们很不高兴。 他们大喊大叫，要求他们的松饼。 莫娜和文森特收集了大把的钱，因为孩子们买了他们能拿的所有的松饼。 弗兰妮很高兴。

"Wow! So many muffins! And look at all that money!" "They are really craving these things," Mona said as she took a bite from her own muffin. Franny looked around at the kids. "I don't think I recognize everybody here. Are some of these kids from other schools?" "Maybe," Vincent shouted above the crowd.

“哇!这么多松饼！看看那么多钱！”“他们真的很想吃这些东西，”莫娜边说边咬了一口自己的松饼。 弗兰妮看了看孩子们。 “我不认为我认识这里的每个人。 这些孩子中有其他学校的吗？”“也许吧。”文森特在人群中喊道。

At recess, most of the kids sat on the ground, or leaned against the wall eating crumbs off their shirts. They were too full to do anything. Only a couple of them even talked, and all they talked about was eating muffins.

课间休息时，大多数孩子都坐在地上，或者靠在墙上吃衬衣上的面包屑。 他们吃得太饱了，什么也做不了。 只有几个人说话，他们谈论的都是吃松饼。

Over the next few days, Franny noticed that most of the kids were eating muffins instead of their lunches, and some were complaining that their clothes didn't fit them very well anymore. The muffin sales just kept growing, and more and more kids from other schools were showing up to buy them. Franny caught up with Mona and Vincent after another after-school muffin sellout. "You should have plenty of money for the art and music departments by now," Franny said. "Probably," Mona replied. "I'm just not that interested in the money anymore."

在接下来的几天里，弗兰妮注意到大多数孩子都在吃松饼而不是午餐，有些孩子还抱怨他们的衣服不再合身了。 松饼的销量一直在增长，越来越多来自其他学校的孩子来买松饼。 又一次放学后卖松饼，弗兰妮找到了梦娜和文森特。 “你现在应该有足够的钱给艺术系和音乐系了，”弗兰尼说。 “可能吧，”莫娜回答。“我只是对钱没那么感兴趣了。”

"Yeah," Vincent added. "When I'm practicing the flute, I'm just thinking about how I could be using my mouth to eat muffins instead." How could muffins be that important to anybody? Franny thought to herself. On the way out of the building, Franny stopped by the art room. There were piles of unused supplies. And the music room had unopened boxes and boxes of brand-new instruments. "This is weird," Franny said. "But I guess if they're not interested in that stuff anymore, that's up to them. And I have projects of my own waiting for me back at the lab."

“是的，”文森特补充道。“当我练习吹笛子的时候，我只是在想如何用我的嘴来吃松饼。” 松饼怎么会对任何人那么重要？ 弗兰妮心想。 在走出大楼的路上，弗兰尼在美术教室前停了下来。 有成堆的未使用的给养。 音乐室里有一箱箱未打开的崭新乐器。 “这太奇怪了，”弗兰妮说。 “但我想，如果他们对这些东西不再感兴趣，那就取决于他们自己了。 我在实验室还有自己的项目等着我呢。”

After dinner and homework, Franny went to her lab and got back to work on her new inventions. "Igor!" she shouted. "Please come here and hold these wires while I tighten this screw." But Igor didn't come. "IGOR!" she shouted again. Igor didn't answer.

吃完晚饭，做完作业后，弗兰尼就去了她的实验室，继续研究她的新发明。 “伊戈尔！”她喊道。“请过来握住这些电线，我要拧紧螺丝。” 但是伊戈尔没有来。“伊戈尔！”她又喊了一声。 伊戈尔没有回答。