19 The Beastly Duo

The Beastly Duo Bethany woke up early the following morning, determined to get her revenge ready as quickly as possible. There was no sign of Claudette in her room, so she went downstairs. Claudette wasn't in the kitchen, either, so Bethany was forced to make her own breakfast for the first time in weeks. She switched on the radio and started beating up some muffins.

第二天早上，宝芬妮早早醒来，决心尽快准备好复仇。 她的房间里没有克劳德特的迹象，所以她下楼了。 克劳德特也不在厨房，所以宝芬妮不得不自己做早餐，这是几周来的第一次。 她打开收音机，开始敲打松饼。

She usually loved making squashed-muffin sandwiches, but today she found that they reminded her too much of Ebenezer. As she beat up the muffins, she imagined she was beating him up—she even told the muffins that they were morons for sending her away from the fifteen-story house. Ebenezer's rejection hurt the most because he had been her very first friend. Bethany still wasn't sure how friendship was supposed to work, but she thought they'd been doing a pretty okay job of it, until he had disappeared without so much as a See ya! Clearly, she had gotten it wrong—like she'd gotten so many things wrong recently. After breakfast, she turned her attention to the rats and spent a couple of hours getting her head around the overly wordy manual—

她通常喜欢做压扁的松饼三明治，但今天她发现它们让她太想起埃比尼泽了。 她一边打松饼，一边想象自己在打他——她甚至对松饼说，他们是白痴，把她从十五层楼的房子里撵走了。 埃比尼泽的拒绝让她最伤心，因为他是她的第一个朋友。 宝芬妮仍然不确定友谊应该如何发展，但她认为他们一直做得很好，直到他连一句再见都没说就消失了！显然，她搞错了——就像她最近搞错了很多事情一样。 早餐后，她把注意力转移到老鼠身上，花了几个小时仔细阅读那本冗长的手册

figuring out how to load the pods without causing any of the odious odors to leak out. In addition to her own hoatzin feather and elephant poop concoctions, she inspected the scents that had been provided by Jared Kettlefletch. These ranged from the sort of smelly Antique Banana to the thoroughly offensive Dead Badger's Fart. She spent another hour or so picking out various horrible scents for people. "Geoffrey's getting a rat for each eye. Serves him right for pretending to be my friend," she said to herself. "Lizard lady's definitely gonna get elephant pooped.… Ooh, and this dead badger one will be perfect for the bird-keeper.…" She had also decided that she was going to put a few of the hoatzin ones on a general

想办法在不泄漏任何难闻气味的情况下装上吊舱。 除了她自己的hoatzin羽毛和大象粪便混合物，她还检查了Jared kettleflech提供的气味。 从那种气味难闻的“古董香蕉”，到令人反感的“死獾的屁”，不一而足。 她又花了一个小时左右的时间为人们挑选各种可怕的气味。 “杰弗里每只眼睛得到一只老鼠。 他假装是我的朋友，活该。”她自言自语道。 蜥蜴女士肯定会被大象拉屎。哦，这只死獾对养鸟人来说再合适不过了。……”她还决定给一位将军戴上几枚这样的帽子

setting, so that no one in the theater would be able to avoid her stinky wrath. The only person left unaccounted for was Miss Muddle. Miss Muddle was already going to get superstinkratted at the theater, but Bethany felt that the sweet-maker deserved something even better… well… much, much worse, because she had given Bethany hope and then taken it away. "Health inspector!" she said to herself. She ran over to the phone book. She tore out the page that had the numbers of the health inspectors in the area and shoved it into the front pocket of her backpack. Bethany had expected to feel guilt, or some unpleasantness, as she prepared the pranks, but no such emotions had presented

这样剧院里就没人能避开她那臭脾气。 唯一下落不明的人是马德尔小姐。 马德尔小姐已经在剧院里被臭气熏天了，但宝芬妮觉得糖果师应该得到更好的待遇……嗯……更糟糕，因为她给了宝芬妮希望，然后又夺走了希望。 “卫生检查员！”她自言自语道。 她跑向电话簿。 她撕下写有当地卫生检查员电话的那一页，把它塞进背包的前口袋。 在准备恶作剧的时候，贝瑟尼本以为会感到内疚或不愉快，但并没有出现这种情绪

themselves. She didn't just feel marvelous; she felt moreish. She had learned that revenge is the drink that leaves you thirsty, and she was just thinking of what she would do after the show was over when she heard the front door being opened. "Claudette!" shouted Bethany as she ran into the hallway. "Where have you—" Bethany was silenced by the sight of Claudette. The beast had bent her beak so that it was askew, and it had left dark rings of purple around her eyes. "What happened?" asked Bethany, horrified. The beast was holding a freshly vomited- out silver rope in Claudette's talons. It pretended to limp as it approached Bethany.

他们自己。她不仅感觉棒极了；她感到很馋。 她知道复仇是让你感到口渴的饮料，她正在考虑演出结束后她要做什么，这时她听到前门被打开了。 “克劳德特！”宝芬妮跑进走廊时喊道。 “你到哪儿去了——”宝芬妮一看到克劳德特，就不吭声了。 那只野兽把她的嘴弯成歪斜的样子，在她的眼睛周围留下了紫色的黑圈。 “发生了什么事？”宝芬妮惊恐地问。 那畜生的爪子里抓着一根刚吐出来的银绳子。 它在接近宝芬妮时假装跛行。

"Gloria Cussock happened," said the beast. It spoke the lie it had been practicing all day. "I was just flying around—doing a few final bits and bobs for the show—when she got me. She said she wanted to be the star of the show, and then she did this to me—so I wouldn't be able to perform. She even tried strangling me with this silver rope!" Bethany's face fired up with fury. She didn't like Gloria, but she couldn't believe that she was capable of such brutality. "I'm gonna get her. Three rats in the eye for her—three rats for each eye!" she said, pacing up and down the hallway. "Actually, nah. She deserves much worse than that." "Oh, bother, I don't know about that," said the beast. It treaded carefully because it knew

“是格洛丽亚·库索克。”野兽说。 它说出了它练习了一整天的谎言。 “当她抓住我的时候，我只是在飞来飞去，为这部剧做最后的一些琐事。 她说她想成为这个节目的明星，然后她对我做了这个，这样我就不能表演了。 她甚至想用这条银绳勒死我！”宝芬妮的脸因愤怒而变得通红。 她不喜欢格洛丽亚，但她无法相信她会做出如此残忍的事。 “我要去找她。三只老鼠在她的眼睛里——三只老鼠在她的眼睛里！”她边说边在走廊里踱来踱去。 “事实上,不。她应该受到更严重的惩罚。” “哦，讨厌，我不知道。”野兽说。 它小心翼翼地走着，因为它知道