11 Mr Kranky’s Great Idea

Mr Kranky's Great Idea The next day, George's father came down to breakfast in a state of greater excitement than ever. 'I've been awake all night thinking about it!' he cried. 'About what, Dad?' George asked him. 'About your marvellous medicine, of course! We can't stop now, my boy! We must start making more of it at once! More and more and more!' The giant saucepan had been completely emptied the day before because there had been so many sheep and pigs and cows and bullocks to be dosed. 'But why do we need more, Dad?' George asked. 'We've done all our own animals and we've made Grandma feel as frisky as a ferret even though she does have to sleep in the barn.' 'My dear boy' cried Mr Killy Kranky, 'we need barrels and barrels of it! Tons and tons! Then we

第二天，乔治的父亲下楼来吃早饭，心情比以往任何时候都激动。 “我整晚都在想这件事!”他叫道。 “关于什么，爸爸?”乔治问他。 “当然是关于你那神奇的药了!”我们现在不能停下来，孩子!我们必须马上开始做更多的事情!越来越多，越来越多!”前一天，那个大炖锅已经完全清空了，因为有那么多的羊、猪、牛和牛要喂药。 “但是为什么我们需要更多呢，爸爸?”乔治问。 “我们自己做了所有的动物，我们让奶奶觉得自己像雪貂一样活泼，即使她不得不睡在谷仓里。”“我亲爱的孩子，”基利·克朗奇先生叫道，“我们需要一桶又一桶的水!”成堆成堆!然后,我们

will sell it to every farmer in the world so that all of them can have giant animals! We will build a Marvellous Medicine Factory and sell the stuff in bottles at five pounds a time. We will become rich and you will become famous!' 'But wait a minute, Dad,' George said. 'There's no waiting!' cried Mr Kranky, working himself up so much that he put butter in his coffee and milk on his toast. 'Don't you understand what this tremendous invention of yours is going to do to the world! Nobody will ever go hungry again!' 'Why won't they?' asked George. 'Because one giant cow will give fifty buckets of milk a day!' cried Mr Kranky, waving his arms. 'One giant chicken will make a hundred fried chicken dinners, and one giant pig will give you a thousand pork chops! It's tremendous, my dear boy! It's fantastic! It'll change the world.' 'But wait a minute, Dad,' George said again.

我会把它卖给世界上所有的农民，这样他们就都能拥有巨型动物了!我们要建一个神奇的药厂，把这些东西装在瓶子里卖，一次卖五英镑。 我们会变得富有，你会出名!“但是等一下，爸爸，”乔治说。 “不用等了!”克朗奇先生叫道，他把自己折腾得很厉害，把黄油放进咖啡里，把牛奶涂在烤面包上。 “难道你不明白你这个伟大的发明将给世界带来什么吗?”没有人会再挨饿了!“为什么不呢?”乔治问。 “因为一头大牛一天能产五十桶牛奶!”克朗奇先生喊道，挥舞着双臂。 “一只大鸡可以做一百顿炸鸡晚餐，一只大猪可以给你一千块猪排!”太了不起了，我亲爱的孩子!这太棒了!它将改变世界。“但是等一下，爸爸，”乔治又说。

'Don't keep saying wait a minute!' shouted Mr Kranky. 'There isn't a minute to wait! We must get cracking at once!' 'Do calm down, my dear,' Mrs Kranky said from the other end of the table. 'And stop putting marmalade on your cornflakes.' 'The heck with my cornflakes!' cried Mr Kranky, leaping up from his chair. 'Come on, George! Let's get going! And the first thing we'll do is to make one more saucepanful as a tester.' 'But Dad,' said little George. 'The trouble is…' 'There won't be any trouble, my boy!' cried Mr Kranky. 'How can there possibly be any trouble? All you've got to do is put the same stuff into the saucepan as you did yesterday. And while you're doing it, I'll write down each and every item. That's how we'll get the magic recipe!'

“别老说等一下!”克朗奇先生喊道。 “一分钟也不能等了!”我们必须马上行动!“别激动，亲爱的。”克朗基太太在桌子的另一头说。 别再往玉米片上抹橘子酱了。“我的玉米片去他妈的!”克朗奇先生叫道，从椅子上跳了起来。 “加油，乔治!”我们走吧!我们要做的第一件事是再做一锅作为测试。“可是爸爸，”小乔治说。 “不会有什么麻烦的，我的孩子!”克朗奇先生叫道。 “怎么可能有什么麻烦呢?” 你所要做的就是把和昨天一样的东西放进锅里。 当你这样做的时候，我会把每一项都写下来。 这样我们就能拿到魔法配方了!”

'But Dad,' George said. 'Please listen to me.' 'Why don't you listen to him?' Mrs Kranky said. 'The boy's trying to tell you something.' But Mr Kranky was too excited to listen to anyone except himself. 'And then,' he cried, 'when the new mixture is ready, we'll test it out on an old hen just to make absolutely sure we've got it right, and after that we'll all shout hooray and build the giant factory!' 'But Dad…' 'Come on then, what is it you want to say?' 'I can't possibly remember all the hundreds of things I put into the saucepan to make the medicine,' George said. 'Of course you can, my dear boy,' cried Mr Kranky. 'I'll help you! I'll jog your memory! You'll get it in the end, you see if you don't! Now then, what was the very first thing you put in?' 'I went up to the bathroom first,' George said. 'I used a lot of things in the bathroom and on Mummy's dressing-table.'

“可是爸爸，”乔治说。“请听我说。“你为什么不听他的?”克朗奇夫人说。 “那男孩想告诉你一些事情。”但克朗奇先生太兴奋了，除了他自己，谁的话也听不进去。 “然后，”他叫道，“当新的混合物准备好了，我们就在一只老母鸡身上测试一下，以确保我们完全正确，然后我们一起欢呼，建造这个巨大的工厂!”“那就说吧，你想说什么?”乔治说:“我不可能记得我在炖锅里放了几百种东西来做药。” “你当然可以，我亲爱的孩子。” “我来帮你!”我会唤醒你的记忆!你最终会得到的，你看你会不会得到!那么，你放进去的第一件东西是什么?“我先上了洗手间，”乔治说。 “我用了浴室里和妈妈梳妆台上的很多东西。”

'Come on, then!' cried Mr Killy Kranky. 'Up we go to the bathroom!' When they got there, they found, of course, a whole lot of empty tubes and empty aerosols and empty bottles. 'That's great,' said Mr Kranky. 'That tells us exactly what you used. If anything is empty, it means you used it.' So Mr Kranky started making a list of everything that was empty in the bathroom. Then they went to Mrs Kranky's dressing-table. 'A box of powder,' said Mr Kranky, writing it down. 'Helga's hairset. Flowers of Turnips perfume. Terrific. This is going to be easy. Where did you go next?' 'To the laundry-room,' George said. 'But are you sure you haven't missed anything out up here, Dad?'

“那么，来吧!”基利·克朗奇先生叫道。 “我们上去上厕所!”当他们到达那里时，他们当然发现了一大堆空管子、空气雾剂和空瓶子。 “太好了。”克朗奇先生说。 “这就确切地告诉了我们你用了什么。 如果什么东西是空的，那就说明你用过它。”于是，克朗奇先生开始列一张清单，列出浴室里所有空着的东西。 然后他们走到克朗奇太太的梳妆台前。 “一盒火药。”克朗奇先生说着，把它记了下来。 海尔格hairset。芜菁花散发香味。 棒极了。这很简单。 你接下来去了哪里?“去洗衣房，”乔治说。 “但是你确定你没有错过任何东西吗，爸爸?”

'That's up to you, my boy,' Mr Kranky said. 'Have I?' 'I don't think so,' George said. So down they went to the laundry-room and once again Mr Kranky wrote down the names of all the empty bottles and cans. 'My goodness me, what a mass of stuff you used!' he cried. 'No wonder it did magic things! Is that the lot?' 'No, Dad, it's not,' George said, and he led his father out to the shed where the animal medicines were kept and showed him the five big empty bottles up on the shelf. Mr Kranky wrote down all their names. 'Anything else?' Mr Kranky asked.

“这取决于你，我的孩子。” “我吗?”“我不这么认为，”乔治说。 于是他们去了洗衣房，克朗奇先生又一次记下了所有空瓶子和空罐子的名字。 “我的天哪，你用了一大堆东西!”他叫道。 “难怪它会施魔法!”就这些吗?“不，爸爸，不是的，”乔治说，他把父亲领到放动物药的小棚里，给他看了架子上的五个大空瓶子。 克朗奇先生记下了他们所有人的名字。 “还有别的事吗?”克朗奇先生问。