6 Miss Seethe's

MISS SEETHE'S Detention Rampage SOME TEACHERS ARE permanently annoyed. Others are always cross. There are even some who spend their whole day fuming. However, Miss Seethe was never not FURIOUS. There was a very good reason for this, and for once it wasn't the fault of the children.

西特小姐的留校暴行有些老师永远都很生气。 其他人总是生气。甚至有些人一整天都在生气。 然而，塞丝小姐却总是怒不可遏。 这是有充分理由的，而且这一次不是孩子们的错。

At RILE HIGH SCHOOL Miss Seethe had been the deputy head for as long as anyone could remember. For years and years, she'd been living in the shadow of someone. Someone who had the top job. Someone who would never retire. Someone who'd been headmistress for very nearly fifty years. Five decades! Half a century! It was unheard of to be in the job for so long. At some schools, a head teacher might only last five minutes.* *HELL'S BELLS SCHOOL FOR HORRIBLE BOYS. More of that infamous school later in the book. As our tale begins, the ninety-nine-year-old Miss Stint was just days away from celebrating her golden anniversary as headmistress of RILE HIGH. This made Seethe SEETHE! As deputy head, she was just under Miss Stint. Any deputy head dreams of one day becoming the head teacher. Number one. Top dog. The big cheese. Numero uno. Our glorious leader.

在里尔高中，塞特小姐从人们记事起就一直是副校长。 年复一年，她一直生活在某人的阴影下。 一个拥有最高职位的人。 一个永远不会退休的人。 一个当了将近五十年女校长的人。 五十年!半个世纪！这份工作干了这么久，真是闻所未闻。 在一些学校，一个班主任可能只持续五分钟。地狱之铃学校是给坏男孩的。 关于那个臭名昭著的学校，本书后面会有更多的介绍。 当我们的故事开始时，99岁的斯提姆小姐离庆祝她担任里尔高中校长的金婚纪念日只有几天了。 这使沸腾沸腾！作为副校长，她只是斯特林小姐的下属。 任何副校长都梦想有一天能成为校长。 第一。最高的狗。大人物。 第一流的。我们光荣的领袖。

But not for nearly fifty years! That is how long Miss Seethe had been waiting to seize the crown. Waiting and waiting and waiting. Then waiting some more. Every day she cursed the ground Miss Stint rolled on. "One day..." she would incant to herself as she looked around the school, "one day, this will be mine! MINE! MINE! MINE!" The fury was written all over her face. Over time... her eyes had narrowed to become two inky black dots... her mouth had curled into a permanent grimace... her ears had begun to glow as red as the fires of hell... her forehead had become as lined as an exercise book... and her nostrils had flared so much you could stuff a sausage roll up each one...* *DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS. IT WOULD ONLY MAKE MISS SEETHE EVEN MORE FURIOUS AND SHE IS ALREADY REALLY, REALLY, REALLY FURIOUS.

但是近五十年都没有了！这就是塞丝小姐为夺取王冠所等待的时间。 等啊等啊等。 然后再等一会儿。每天她都诅咒斯特伦斯小姐在地上打滚。 “总有一天……”当她环顾学校时，她会对自己说，“总有一天，这将是我的！我的!我的!我的!”她的脸上写满了愤怒。 随着时间的推移……她的眼睛眯成了两个漆黑的圆点。 她的嘴一直扭曲成一个鬼脸。 她的耳朵开始红得像地狱之火…… 她的额头已经像练习本一样布满了皱纹。 她的鼻孔张得很大，每个鼻孔都可以塞进一个香肠卷……* *不要这样做。 这只会让小姐更加愤怒，而她已经非常、非常、非常愤怒了。

Miss Seethe's face was permanently frozen in fury. She woke up in the morning like that and she went to bed at night like that. Even when she was experiencing something pleasurable, like sucking one of her favourite boiled sweets (humbugs, of course), she looked as if she were sucking on a wasp. Miss Seethe had been waiting for so long that she'd grown very, very old. (Not as old as Miss Stint. No one was as old as Miss Stint.) The deputy head was eighty- eight and walked with a stick. The advantage of this was that it doubled up as a weapon. It was perfect for

塞丝小姐的脸永远被气僵住了。 她早上醒来都是这样，晚上睡觉也都是这样。 即使当她在经历一些愉快的事情时，比如吮吸她最喜欢的一颗煮糖（当然是骗人的），她看起来也像是在吮吸一只黄蜂。 塞丝小姐等得太久了，已经非常非常老了。 (没有斯特伦斯小姐那么老。 没有人比斯特伦斯小姐更老了。)副校长已经88岁了，走路还拄着拐杖。 这样做的好处是它可以兼作武器。 这是完美的

prodding and poking children. PROD! "OUCH!" POKE! "ARGH!" PRROKE! "EURGH!" When she was particularly enraged, she would swing the stick over her head like a propeller. Most days Miss Seethe stalked the corridors of RILE HIGH looking for anyone on whom she could vent her fury. Her favourite thing in the world was to give out detentions.* *A detention is a punishment where you have to stay behind after school. It might be an hour, or two hours, or even more. I was so badly behaved as a child that I am still in a detention and I left school in 1989! Absolutely anything you did could get you into trouble with her. Miss Seethe was known to dish out detentions for the most spurious of reasons:

戳戳孩子。 刺激!“哎哟!”戳!“啊!”PRROKE !“EURGH !”当她特别生气的时候，她会把棍子像螺旋桨一样甩过头顶。 大多数日子里，塞特小姐在瑞尔高中的走廊里走来走去，寻找任何一个她可以发泄怒气的人。 她在这个世界上最喜欢做的事就是把人关起来。* *留校是一种惩罚，放学后你必须留下来。 可能是一个小时，或者两个小时，甚至更长。 我小时候表现很差，现在还在留校，1989年就退学了！你做的任何事都可能给她带来麻烦。 大家都知道，塞丝小姐会以最莫须有的理由把学生关禁闭。