Chapter 4

CHAPTER 4 A narrow and shifty pair of cat eyes peered out of Jane's bedroom window as Mrs. Gomez pulled out of the driveway to take the kids and squirrels to school. You can tell how happy a dog is by how fast it wags its tail— the faster the wag, the happier the dog. It's the opposite for cats, and the speed of Mr. Nemesis's tail movements made it clear that this was one annoyed feline.

当戈麦斯太太驶出车道送孩子们和松鼠们去上学时，一双窄窄的猫眼从简卧室的窗户向外窥视。 你可以通过狗摇尾巴的速度来判断它有多快乐——摇得越快，狗就越快乐。 猫的情况正好相反，“克星先生”尾巴移动的速度清楚地表明，这是一只生气的猫。

"Meeooooowwwww!" Mr. Nemesis said, followed by a long string of other grouchy-sounding meows and growls. If you were to translate those sounds into English, they might have sounded something like a villain's monologue. "I've had quite enough of those two overprivileged rodents," Mr. Nemesis groused. "'Oh, look at us. We're so old!'" he sneered. "'We're so cute! We speak human!' Big deal. I'm the widdle cutesy-puddie around here!" Mr. Nemesis leaped from the windowsill over to Jane's bed, sinking deep into the coral-colored comforter. "And I'm not going to be cast aside, locked in this pink prison of fluff day and night while those squirrels roam freely around my house, stealing the affections of my family! It's a good thing I'm just as brilliant as I am adorable," he remarked to Jane's stuffed unicorn. "This nonsense is going to stop— NOW."

“Meeooooowwwww !”涅梅西斯说，接着是一长串听起来很不高兴的喵喵叫和咆哮。 如果你把这些声音翻译成英语，它们听起来可能有点像恶棍的独白。 “我受够了这两只特权过高的啮齿动物，”涅梅西斯抱怨道。 “哦，看看我们。我们太老了！’”他冷笑道。 “‘我们太可爱了！我们会说人话！”大不了的。 我是这里最可爱的小可爱！”克星先生从窗台跳到简的床上，深深地钻进了珊瑚色的被子里。 “我不想被抛弃，日夜关在这个毛茸茸的粉红色监狱里，而那些松鼠在我的房子周围自由地游荡，偷走了我家人的感情！他对简的独角兽毛绒玩具说：“我很聪明，也很可爱，这是件好事。” “这种胡闹要停止了——现在就停止。”

With great effort, Mr. Nemesis escaped the billowy down that encapsulated him, then hopped up onto Jane's dresser. With a quick flick of his tail, he set in motion a contraption that only an evil genius could conceive of! "Meooooowwwww," Mr. Nemesis purred (which, translated to English, means "HA HA HA HA! HAHAHAHAHA!") and jumped out the window.

费了好大的劲，克星先生摆脱了包裹着他的滚滚羽衣，跳上了简的梳妆台。 他迅速甩了甩尾巴，启动了一个只有邪恶天才才能想出的装置！“meooooowwww，”Nemesis咕噜着（翻译成英语，意思是“哈哈哈哈哈！”）哈哈哈哈哈哈哈！”)，然后从窗户跳了出去。