4 Cruel Clarissa

Cruel CLARISSA ONCE THERE LIVED a girl called Clarissa. On the outside she appeared to be the sweetest, kindest, gentlest little girl you could ever meet. Clarissa would wear little old-fashioned pink dresses, always with matching pink ribbons in her hair. Everything in her bedroom was a shade of pink.

从前有个女孩叫克拉丽莎。 从外表上看，她似乎是你见过的最可爱、最善良、最温柔的小女孩。 克拉丽莎总是穿着老式的粉色小礼服，头发上总是系着粉红色的丝带。 她卧室里的一切都是粉红色的。

Clarissa had pink teddy bears, pink ponies and a pink vanity set. The only colouring crayons she had were shades of pink. The girl had a collection of antique porcelain dolls all dressed in pink nightdresses that she tucked up in bed with her when she went to sleep. Clarissa's favourite toy was a miniature pink tea set.

克拉丽莎有粉红色的泰迪熊、粉红色的小马和一套粉红色的梳妆台。 她仅有的彩色蜡笔是粉色的。 这个女孩收集了一些穿着粉红色睡衣的古董瓷娃娃，睡觉时她会把它们塞在床上。 克拉丽莎最喜欢的玩具是一套粉红色的迷你茶具。

She would delight her grandmas and grandads by letting them watch her drink tea from a tiny cup and stuff her face with dozens of fairy cakes with pink icing. Everyone thought the little girl was absolutely adorable. However, this delightful behaviour masked what Clarissa was really like. The girl had a streak of dire cruelty within her. A cruelty towards cats. When she was a baby, Clarissa had grabbed a cat's tail and yanked it as hard as she could. "MIAOW!" The creature had hissed at the baby and made her cry. Ever since then she'd hated the animals, and whenever no one was looking she would do something beastly to a cat. Clarissa would pour pepper into a cat's food so it had a sneezing fit.

她会让爷爷奶奶看她用一个小杯子喝茶，然后在脸上塞上几十个粉红色糖霜的仙女蛋糕，让他们开心。 每个人都认为这个小女孩非常可爱。 然而，这种讨人喜欢的行为掩盖了克拉丽莎的真实面目。 这女孩内心有一种可怕的残忍。 虐待猫。当克拉丽莎还是个婴儿的时候，她曾抓住一只猫的尾巴，使劲地拽它。 “猫叫!”那个动物对着婴儿嘶嘶地叫，把她弄哭了。 从那以后，她就讨厌动物，只要没人注意，她就会对猫做些残忍的事。 克拉丽莎会把胡椒粉倒进猫的食物里，让它打喷嚏。

Squeeze glue on to the branches of a tree so cats would get stuck up there. Tie two cats' tails together so neither could go anywhere. Paint one bright pink so it looked like a stick of candyfloss. Attach one to a kite and then launch the terrified creature into the air. She would stick a stamp on one, and post it to Australia. Use a hundred remote-controlled toy mice to drive a cat crazy. Swap one with her grandma's wig so the cat would be plonked on top of the old lady's head all day.

把胶水挤到树枝上，这样猫就会被粘在上面。 把两只猫的尾巴绑在一起，这样它们哪也去不了。 把一个涂成亮粉色，看起来像一根棉花糖。 把一个绑在风筝上，然后把这个受惊的生物放飞到空中。 她会在上面贴上邮票，然后寄到澳大利亚。 用一百只遥控玩具老鼠把猫逼疯。 把一顶假发和她奶奶的假发互换，这样猫就可以整天趴在老太太的头上了。

Clarissa had been tormenting the local cats like this for years. But she'd never had one of her own. As it was her birthday coming up, Clarissa asked her parents for a very special present. "Mama! Papa?" The little girl spoke in a singsong voice to make herself seem sweet. "Yes, my angel sent from heaven?" replied Papa. "I am an ikkle bit lonely." "Oh, my sweet babycakes!" said Mama. "Whatever can we do, my snowflake?" "Mama, Papa. It would be awfully nice if I had an ikkle kitten to..." What was she going to say? "...love. The girl's parents had tears in their eyes. She had fooled them good and proper. "How did we create a child so perfect?" asked Mama. "Clarissa is better than perfect," replied Papa. The little girl smirked to herself. Mama and Papa couldn't wait until Clarissa's birthday, which was a whole week away, so the very next morning

克拉丽莎多年来一直这样折磨当地的猫。 但她从来没有过自己的孩子。 克拉丽莎的生日快到了，她向父母要了一份特别的礼物。 “妈妈!爸爸?”这个小女孩用轻快的声音说话，使自己显得甜美。 “是的，我从天堂派来的天使？”爸爸回答。 “我有点孤单。” “哦，我可爱的宝贝蛋糕！”妈妈说。 “我们能做什么呢，我的雪花？”“妈妈,爸爸。 如果我有一只可爱的小猫……” 她要说什么呢？ “……爱。女孩的父母眼里含着泪水。 她把他们完全愚弄了。 妈妈问：“我们是如何创造出一个如此完美的孩子的？” “克拉丽莎比完美还要好，”爸爸回答说。 小女孩暗自傻笑。 妈妈和爸爸等不及克拉丽莎的生日了，那是整整一周之后的事，所以就在第二天早上