10 I Will Never Forget You!

I Will Never Forget You! Swan landed on the lawn of Little Billy's house, and Little Billy jumped off his back and ran to the living-room window. Very quietly he climbed in. The room was empty. 'Little Billy,' came his mother's voice from the kitchen. 'What are you up to in there? You've been very quiet for a long time.' 'I'm being good, Mummy,' Little Billy called back. 'I'm being very very good.' His mother came into the room with a pile of ironing in her arms. She looked at Little Billy.

我永远不会忘记你!天鹅降落在小比利家的草坪上，小比利从背上跳下来，跑到客厅的窗户边。 他悄悄地爬了进去。 房间是空的。“小比利，”厨房里传来他妈妈的声音。 “你在里面干什么?” 你已经沉默了很长时间了。“我很乖，妈妈，”小比利喊道。 “我表现得非常非常好。”他母亲走进房间，怀里抱着一堆要熨的衣服。 她看着小比利。

'What have you been doing?' she cried. 'Your clothes are absolutely filthy!' 'I've been climbing trees,' Little Billy said. 'I can't let you out of my sight for ten minutes,' his mother said. 'Which tree was it?' 'Just one of those old trees outside,' Little Billy said. 'If you're not careful you'll fall down and break an arm,' his mother said. 'Don't do it again.'

“你在干什么?”她叫道。 “你的衣服太脏了!”“我一直在爬树，”小比利说。 “我不能让你离开我的视线十分钟，”他的母亲说。 “是哪棵树?”“就是外面那些老树中的一棵，”小比利说。 “如果你不小心，你会摔下来摔断胳膊的，”他妈妈说。 “别再这么做了。”

'I won't,' Little Billy said, smiling a little. 'I'll just fly up into the branches on silver wings.' 'What rubbish you talk,' his mother said and she walked out of the room with her ironing. From then on, Swan came every night to Little Billy's bedroom window. He came after Billy's mother and father had gone to sleep and the whole house was quiet. But Little Billy was never asleep. He was always wide awake and eagerly waiting. And every night, before Swan arrived, he saw to it that the curtains were drawn back and the window was open wide so that the great white bird could come gliding right into the room and land on the floor beside his bed.

“我不会的，”小比利说，微微一笑。 “我要用银色的翅膀飞到树枝上。“你说什么废话，”他母亲说着，拿着衣服走出了房间。 从那以后，天鹅每天晚上都来到小比利卧室的窗前。 他来的时候，比利的父母已经睡着了，整个房子都很安静。 但是小比利从来没有睡着。 他总是很清醒，急切地等待着。 每天晚上，在天鹅到来之前，他一定要把窗帘拉上，把窗户开得大大的，这样这只大白鸟就能直接飞进房间，落在他床边的地板上。

Then Little Billy would slip into his dressing gown and climb on to Swan's back and off they would go. Oh, it was a wondrous secret life that Little Billy lived up there in the sky at night on Swan's back! They flew in a magical world of silence, swooping and gliding over the dark world below where all the earthly people were fast asleep in their beds.

然后小比利会穿上晨衣，爬到天鹅的背上，然后他们就走了。 哦，小比利晚上骑在天鹅背上在天上过着奇妙的秘密生活!他们在一个寂静的魔法世界里飞行，在黑暗的世界上空俯冲滑翔，所有的人间的人都在床上熟睡。

Once, Swan flew higher than ever before and they came to an enormous billowing cloud that was shining in a pale golden light, and in the folds

有一次，天鹅飞得比以往任何时候都高，他们来到了一片巨大的翻腾的云上，在一片淡金色的光线中，在褶皱中闪耀着光芒

of this cloud Little Billy could make out creatures of some sort moving around. Who were they? He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question, but he couldn't speak a word of bird-language. Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world, and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly. Another time, Swan flew through the night for what seemed like hours and hours until they came at last to a gigantic opening in the earth's surface, a sort of huge gaping hole in the ground, and Swan glided slowly round and round above this massive crater and then right down into it. Deeper and deeper they went into the dark hole.

从这片云里，小比利能辨认出有某种生物在周围活动。 他们是谁?他非常想问天鹅这个问题，但他不会说一个鸟语。 天鹅似乎不愿意飞得离这些来自另一个世界的生物太近，这使得小比利不可能清楚地看到它们。 还有一次，天鹅在夜空中飞了好几个小时，最后他们来到了地球表面的一个巨大的洞口，地面上有一个巨大的洞，天鹅慢慢地在这个巨大的火山口上空盘旋，然后直接飞了进去。 他们在黑洞里越陷越深。