2 Tandy's Tantrums

TANDY'S Tantrums Tantrums ARE SOMETHING toddlers have. When they don't get their own way, they scream and cry. It is a stage children grow out of. Not Tandy. The little girl had tantrums all day, every day.

小孩子会发脾气。 当他们不能随心所欲时，他们就会尖叫和哭泣。 这是孩子们长大后的一个阶段。 不是Tandy。这个小女孩整天都在发脾气，每天都是。

It had been like that ever since she was a baby. Back then, anything could set a tantrum off-having her dummy taken away, going over a bump in her pram, not having enough milk to guzzle. Sometimes, baby Tandy would have a tantrum just because it had been a while since she'd had a tantrum. As a toddler, Tandy could Scream and Cry louder than an entire stadium full of children. It was so loud, in fact, that when she screamed and cried grown-ups always gave in to her. And every time a grown-up gave in to her Tandy realised that her tantrums worked.

从她还是个婴儿的时候就这样了。 那时候，任何事情都可能引起她的发脾气——奶嘴被拿走，婴儿车的颠簸，没有足够的牛奶喝。 有时，小坦迪会发脾气，只是因为她有一段时间没有发脾气了。 作为一个蹒跚学步的孩子，坦迪尖叫和哭泣的声音比整个体育场的孩子们都要大。 事实上，声音太大了，当她尖叫和哭泣时，大人们总是屈服于她。 每次有大人对她让步坦迪就会意识到她的发脾气起作用了。

At the time our story begins, Tandy was eleven years old and having hundreds of tantrums every day. They were so unbearable that whatever Tandy wanted Tandy got. "What's for pudding?" the girl would demand every night after dinner. Mother and Father would look at each other, concerned. They knew what was coming: "Well, my angel sent from heaven, I thought as you had ice cream last night," began Mother, "and the night before that, and the night before that, and the night before that—" "In fact, every night in living memory, O beauteous daughter of mine," interrupted Father. "That tonight it might be a good idea to have some-" Mother winced as she said it- "fruit."

我们的故事开始的时候，坦迪十一岁，每天都要发脾气上百次。 他们让人难以忍受坦迪想要什么坦迪就得到什么。 “布丁吃什么？”女孩每天晚饭后都会问。 母亲和父亲会关心地看着对方。 他们知道接下来会发生什么：“嗯，我从天堂派来的天使，我以为你昨晚吃了冰淇淋，”母亲开始说，“还有前天晚上，再前天晚上，再前天晚上——”“事实上，在我记忆中的每一个晚上，我美丽的女儿，”父亲打断我说。 “今晚吃点——”母亲说着畏缩了一下，“水果也许是个好主意。”

The little girl stared at them. "FRUIT?" Her eyes fickered with fury. "FRUIT?!" First, her bottom lip began to quiver, then her top. "FRUIT?!!" Then her face began to turn the colour of an angry beetroot. "TRUIT?!!!" Next, her hair began to stand ON END. "FRUIT?!!!!"

小女孩盯着他们。 “水果吗?”她的眼睛因愤怒而闪烁。 “水果吗? !”首先，她的下嘴唇开始颤抖，然后是上嘴唇。 “水果吗? ! !”然后她的脸开始变得像发怒的甜菜根一样红。 “TRUIT ? ! !”接着，她的头发开始竖立起来。 “水果吗? ! !”

Then she took a deep breath and let out a scream... "WHHHAAA!" ...so terrible that: People's spectacles cracked... CRACK, CRUNCH! Melons exploded... KABOOM! Birds fell out of the trees, stone dead Plates flew off shelves and smashed on the ground... CRASH! Buses Skidded off the road... Garden sheds collapsed... THUD!

然后她深吸了一口气，发出一声尖叫…… “WHHHAAA !”…人们的眼镜裂开了…… 裂纹,危机!西瓜爆炸…… 大爆炸!鸟儿从树上掉下来，石制的死盘子从架子上飞下来摔在地上…… 崩溃!公共汽车滑出路面。 花园棚屋倒塌了……砰的一声!