10 Supermum!

SUPERMUM! PAT PATTERSON NOT ONLY had a boring name, she also had the most boring job in the world. She was a toilet cleaner. Pat lived with her two children on the top floor of a crumbling tower block. Her youngest was Spike, a boy of ten, and her oldest, Punk, a girl of

超级妈妈!帕特·帕特森不仅有一个无聊的名字，她的工作也是世界上最无聊的。 她是一个厕所清洁工。帕特和她的两个孩子住在一栋摇摇欲坠的塔楼的顶层。 她最小的儿子是斯派克，一个十岁的男孩，她最大的儿子是庞克，一个十岁的女孩

thirteen. Both found their mother boring. All she talked about was the toilets she'd cleaned that day. "With a tough stain like that, there was nothing else for it- I had to get out the scourer!" So, when she got home from work, Spike would bury his face in a superhero comic as his sister put her headphones over her ears and turned the volume on her music to BLASTING. Being ignored made Mum sad. Looking over her son's shoulder at one of his comic books, she had an idea. DING! What if she weren't just boring old Mum? What if she were... SUPERMUM? A mum with superpowers. Superheroes can be created in all kinds of ways. They might be an ALIEN from another planet. They might be a billionaire inventor. They might even have been bitten by a radioactive insect.

十三。两人都觉得母亲乏味。 她一直在说她那天打扫的厕所。 “像这样顽固的污渍，没有别的办法了——我不得不拿出洗涤剂！”所以，当她下班回家时，斯派克会把脸埋在超级英雄漫画里，而他的妹妹则把耳机戴在耳朵上，把音乐的音量调到爆破。 被忽视让妈妈很伤心。 看着儿子身后的一本漫画书，她有了一个主意。 丁!如果她不只是无聊的老妈妈呢？ 如果她是……超级妈妈吗? 一个有超能力的妈妈。超级英雄的塑造方式多种多样。 他们可能是来自另一个星球的外星人。 他们可能是亿万富翁发明家。 他们甚至可能被放射性昆虫咬了。

Pat Patterson wasn't blessed with any of these options. Her superhero alter ego would have to be homemade. As she cleaned bog after bog all day, Pat daydreamed about how she could transform into SUPERMUM. Superheroes need weapons. The famous ones have shields, hammers, web shooters, lassos, suits of armour, invisible planes, even shark-repellent spray. Not having any of these, Pat found inspiration in her toilet-cleaning implements. Pat's brush, mop and bucket could now be SUPERMUM'S magie weapons. The bucket could be THE AVENGING BUCKET of DOOM! The mop would be renamed THE MOP OF MAYHEM! And the bog brush was now not just an ordinary bog brush. No. It was THE BOG BRUSH OF COSMIC CALAMITY!

帕特·帕特森（Pat Patterson）没有幸运地拥有这些选择。 她的超级英雄另一面必须是自制的。 当她一整天都在清理一个又一个沼泽时，帕特幻想着自己如何能变成超级妈妈。 超级英雄需要武器。著名的鲨鱼有盾牌、锤子、射网器、套索、盔甲、隐形飞机，甚至还有驱鲨喷雾。 这些都没有，帕特在她的厕所清洁工具中找到了灵感。 帕特的刷子、拖把和水桶现在可以成为超级妈妈的魔法武器了。 这个桶可能是毁灭的复仇桶！这把拖把将被重新命名为“混乱拖把”！沼泽刷不再是普通的沼泽刷了。 否。这是宇宙灾难的沼泽刷！

Pat didn't know what any of these things really meant, but they sounded COOL. One day at work, when no one was about, Pat practised her quick change. Superheroes had to be good at quick changes. There would be no warning of when a school bus might be dangling over the side of a bridge, or of an aeroplane losing a wing, or a cat getting stuck up a tree. So Pat darted into a bog cubicle, whipped off her cleaning apron and whisked it over her shoulders as a cape. Then she poked two eye holes in her hairband with a pencil, and put it on her face as a mask. She flung open the door fast! She was SUPERMUM! With her three mighty magie weapons, she attacked the hundreds of bogs she had to clean, like never before. BISH! BASH! BOSH!

帕特不知道这些话到底是什么意思，但听起来很酷。 一天上班时，没有人在旁边，帕特练习她的快速变化。 超级英雄必须善于快速改变。 当一辆校车悬在桥的一侧，或者一架飞机失去了机翼，或者一只猫被卡在树上时，没有任何警告。 于是帕特冲进一间小隔间，扯下她的清洁围裙，披在肩上当披肩。 然后她用铅笔在发带上戳了两个眼洞，戴在脸上当面具。 她猛地把门打开！她是超级妈妈！用她的三件强大的魔法武器，她攻击了她必须清理的数百个沼泽，这是前所未有的。 第一!BASH !波什!

As SUPERMUM, it was as if Pat really did have special powers. The bogs were cleaned in record time. "TAKE THAT, TOILET!" she cried as she finished the last one. Little did she know that her dreaded boss, Miss Scowl, was waiting outside the cubicle. "PAT!" barked Scowl. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" "Sorry, Miss Scowl!" replied Pat meekly. "PUT THAT APRON BACK ON THE RIGHT WAY ROUND. ANYONE WOULD THINK YOU WERE CRACKERS!" "Sorry." "YOU LOOK LIKE SOME KIND OF POUND-SHOP SUPERHERO!" "Well, you see, I was just..." "PAT, YOU ARE NOT FIGHTING SUPERVILLAINS! YOU ARE CLEANING BOGS!" "I know..." "NO MORE OF THIS NONSENSE EVER AGAIN!" Miss Scowl spun round and marched off.

作为超级妈妈，帕特似乎真的有特殊的能力。 沼泽在创纪录的时间内被清理干净了。 “拿去吧，马桶！”她喝完最后一杯后喊道。 她一点也不知道，她那可怕的老板斯考尔小姐正等在隔间外面。 “帕特！”怒吼道。“你在干什么？”“对不起，斯考尔小姐！”帕特温顺地回答。 “把围裙重新系好。 别人会认为你们是疯子的！”“对不起。” “你看起来像个旧货店里的超级英雄！”“嗯，你看，我只是……” “帕特，你不是在和超级恶棍战斗！”你在打扫沼泽！”“我知道……” “别再胡闹了！”斯考尔小姐转过身，大步走开了。