Zeynep's house had a smart thermostat. It knew three names: Mom, Bram, and Zeynep. Each person had a favorite temperature.
泽内普家里有一个智能恒温器。它认识三个名字：妈妈、布拉姆和泽内普。每个人都有自己喜欢的温度。
Every evening, someone changed it. Zeynep liked the house warm. Bram liked it cool. Their mom Edda just wanted it to stay the same all day.
每天傍晚，总有人去调温度。泽内普喜欢家里暖和一点，布拉姆喜欢凉快一点。他们的妈妈埃达只希望温度一整天都别变。
One week, the house felt strange. The temperature changed every hour, warm, then cool, then warm again. Nobody understood why.
有一个星期，家里的感觉很奇怪。温度每个小时都在变，一会儿暖，一会儿凉，一会儿又暖。没有人明白这是为什么。
"Did you touch the thermostat?" Zeynep asked Bram at dinner.
“你碰过恒温器吗？”吃晚饭时，泽内普问布拉姆。
"No, I didn't touch it today," Bram said. "Maybe it's broken."
“没有，我今天没碰过，”布拉姆说，“也许是坏了。”
"I changed it once this morning," Edda said. "Just a little, for a few minutes."
“今天早上我调过一次，”埃达说，“只调了一点点，就几分钟。”
They all looked at each other. Nobody planned to change it again.
他们面面相觑。谁也不打算再去调它了。
After dinner, Zeynep opened the thermostat app on her phone. She saw three separate schedules. Each one tried to control the temperature.
晚饭后，泽内普在手机上打开了恒温器的应用。她看到了三个不同的时间表，每一个都想控制温度。
"We each made our own schedule," Zeynep said. "That's the problem. They don't agree with each other."
“我们每个人都设了自己的时间表，”泽内普说，“问题就出在这儿。它们彼此不一致。”
Bram laughed. "So the thermostat feels confused too," he said.
布拉姆笑了。“这么说，恒温器也被搞糊涂了，”他说。
The next day, they sat down together and made one shared schedule. Warm in the morning, cool in the afternoon, warm again at night.
第二天，他们坐在一起，设定了一个共用的时间表：早上暖，下午凉，晚上又暖。
The house stayed calm after that. No more surprises, and no more arguing about the temperature.
从那以后，家里一直很平静。再也没有意外，也不用再为温度争吵了。
