7 BEAN, QUEEN OF BAD

BEAN, QUEEN OF BAD In Mrs. Trantz's yard, there were two rows of rosebushes, one on either side of the front path. Each rosebush had a little circle of dirt to live in. Each circle of dirt had a tiny white fence around it and then a sea of sparkly white rocks stretching out around that. Sometimes Mrs. Trantz came outside and washed her front path. Sometimes she even washed her rocks. Mrs. Trantz liked things to be very clean. When she saw dirt, her face shriveled into a frown. When she saw children, her eyes narrowed into tiny slivers. When she saw dirty children, her frown sucked her lips all the way inside her mouth and her eyes slivered into nothing. She frowned so hard her face went away. Bean drove Mrs. Trantz crazy. She didn't try to; she just did. Every time Bean walked

在特兰茨太太的院子里，有两排玫瑰花丛，一排在前面小路的两旁。 每棵玫瑰花丛都有一小圈泥土可以居住。 每一圈泥土周围都有一个白色的小栅栏，周围是一片闪闪发光的白色岩石的海洋。 有时特兰茨太太会到外面来洗她前面的小路。 有时她甚至会洗石头。 特兰兹太太喜欢一切都很干净。 当她看到泥土时，她皱起了眉头。 当她看到孩子们的时候，她的眼睛眯成细小的条。 当她看到脏兮兮的孩子时，她皱着眉头，把嘴唇都吸进嘴里，眼睛也睁不开了。 她使劲皱着眉头，脸都没了。 豆子快把特兰茨太太逼疯了。 她没有尝试；她就是这么做的。 每次憨豆走路

by Mrs. Trantz's house, one of the tiny white fences circling around the rosebushes fell over. Bean didn't know how it happened. Then Mrs. Trantz would call Bean's mother and say that Bean was destructive. That meant she wrecked things. Bean didn't know quite what she was going to do to Mrs. Trantz's yard, but it wouldn't be boring, that was for sure. She stood in front of the stiff rosebushes and looked carefully to see if Mrs. Trantz was peeking from behind her curtains. The coast was clear. "Do something!" yelled Dino. "This is boring!" Boring! Bean would show him! She leaned over the tiny white fence and brought her face close to a rose. And then she spit on it as hard as she could.

在特兰茨夫人家附近，围着玫瑰丛的一圈白色小栅栏倒了下来。 比恩不知道这是怎么发生的。 然后特兰茨太太会打电话给比恩的母亲，说比恩有破坏性。 这意味着她会破坏东西。 比恩不知道她要对特兰茨太太的院子做些什么，但肯定不会无聊。 她站在僵硬的玫瑰花丛前，仔细地看了看特朗茨太太有没有从窗帘后面偷看。 海岸是安全的。“做点什么！”迪诺喊道。 “这太无聊了！”无聊!比恩会给他看的！她靠在白色的小篱笆上，把脸凑近一朵玫瑰。 然后她拼命地往上面吐口水。

She turned around to face Dino. "How was that, huh? You'd never do that!" Ivy grabbed her by the shoulders. "Bean!" she cried. "Promise you'll never do that again! You're hurting the flowers, and they have feelings, too!" Oh. Right. Just for a second, Bean had forgotten about turning good. "Yeah, sure. I'll never do it again," she told Ivy. "She's reformed!" yelled Ivy. But Bean whirled around to make sure Dino was watching. "Oh no!" she hollered. "It didn't stick! I'm turning bad again!" This time the Sophies clapped along with Katy. Ha! Bean was the Queen of Bad! "Keep your eyes peeled!" she screeched and started to run toward her house. Bean knew a lot of things that Nancy didn't know she knew. One of the things

她转过身来面对迪诺。 “怎么样，嗯？”你绝不会那样做的！”艾薇抓住她的肩膀。 “豆子！”她叫道。“答应我你再也不这样做了！”你伤害了这些花，它们也有感情！”哦。 正确的。就在那一瞬间，比恩忘记了要变好。 “是的,当然。我再也不会这么做了，”她告诉艾薇。 “她改过自新了！”艾薇喊道。 但比恩转过身来，确保迪诺在看着他。 “哦，不！”她喊道。“它没粘住！”我又变坏了！”这一次，苏菲和凯蒂一起鼓掌。 哈!比恩是坏女王！“睁大你的眼睛！”她尖叫着开始向她的房子跑去。 比恩知道很多南希不知道自己知道的事情。 其中一件事

she knew was where Nancy hid candy. Nancy thought she was pretty smart. She didn't hide candy in her own room. She hid it in the bathroom, behind the stacks of toilet paper, in a brown paper bag. What Nancy didn't know was that Bean spent a lot of time prowling around the house, looking for treasure. One day when she was prowling in the bathroom, Bean found Nancy's paper bag full of candy. Bean was always careful not to eat so much candy that Nancy would notice. Just a Tootsie Roll or a mini–candy bar—that's all she ever took. Until today.

她知道南希藏糖果的地方。 南希认为她很聪明。 她没有把糖果藏在自己的房间里。 她把它藏在浴室里，藏在一堆卫生纸后面的一个棕色纸袋里。 南希不知道的是，比恩花了很多时间在房子周围徘徊，寻找宝藏。 一天，当比恩在浴室里闲逛时，她发现南希的纸袋里装满了糖果。 比恩总是小心翼翼地不吃太多糖果，以免南希注意到。 她只吃了一根巧克力棒或一根迷你糖果棒。 直到今天。

Bean whisked into her house and rushed to the bathroom. Bean often rushed to the bathroom, so her mom and dad and Nancy didn't even notice. When she came out, there was a bulge inside her shirt, but nobody was watching. Bean marched back up the street toward Ivy's house, but she didn't stop there. She walked around Pancake Court until she was standing next to Dino, Liana, the Sophies, and Katy. Ivy came running. "What are you doing, Bean?" Her eyes were shining. "Look," said Bean. She pulled the brown paper bag from her shirt. "I've got candy. Except it isn't mine. I stole it." "Great!" said Ivy. "Who'd you steal it from?" "Nancy," said Bean. Ivy giggled.

比恩快步走进她的房子，冲到浴室。 比恩经常冲进浴室，所以她的爸爸妈妈和南希都没有注意到。 当她出来的时候，她的衬衫里面鼓鼓的，但是没有人注意。 比恩沿着街道向艾薇家走去，但她并没有在那里停下来。 她绕着煎饼广场走了一圈，一直走到迪诺、利安娜、苏菲姐妹和凯蒂旁边。 艾薇跑了过来。“你在干什么，憨豆？”她的眼睛闪闪发光。 “看，”比恩说。她从衬衫里掏出棕色纸袋。 “我有糖果。但它不是我的。 我偷的。”“好极了！”艾薇说。 “你从谁那里偷来的？”“南希，”比恩说。 艾薇咯咯笑了。