12 Marvellous Medicine Number Two

Marvellous Medicine Number Two They were in the kitchen now and the big saucepan was on the stove. All the things Mr Kranky had bought were lined up near the sink. 'Come along, my boy!' cried Mr Killy Kranky. 'Which one did you put in first?' 'This one,' George said. 'Golden Gloss Hair Shampoo.' He emptied the bottle into the pan. 'Now the toothpaste,' George went on…' 'And the shaving soap… and the face cream… and the nail varnish…' 'Keep at it, my boy!' cried Mr Kranky, dancing round the kitchen. 'Keep putting them in! Don't stop! Don't pause! Don't hesitate! It's a pleasure, my dear fellow, to watch you work!' One by one, George poured and squeezed the things into the saucepan. With everything so close at hand, the whole job didn't take him more

他们现在进了厨房，炉子上放着一只大炖锅。 克朗奇先生买的所有东西都排在水池旁边。 “过来，我的孩子!”基利·克朗奇先生叫道。 “你先放哪一个进去的?”“这个，”乔治说。 “金色光泽洗发水。”他把瓶子倒进锅里。 “还有牙膏，”乔治继续说，“还有剃须皂……还有面霜……还有指甲油……”克朗奇先生叫道，在厨房里跳着舞。 “继续放进去!”不要停止!不要停!别再犹豫了!我亲爱的朋友，看你干活真是一种乐趣!”乔治一个接一个地把这些东西倒进平底锅里。 一切都近在咫尺，整个工作并没有耗费他更多的精力

than ten minutes. But when it was all done, the saucepan didn't somehow seem to be quite as full as it had been the first time. 'Now what did you do?' cried Mr Kranky. 'Did you stir it?' 'I boiled it,' George said. 'But not for long. And I stirred it as well.' So Mr Kranky lit the gas under the saucepan and George stirred the mixture with the same long wooden spoon he had used before. 'It's not brown enough,' George said. 'Wait a minute! I know what I've forgotten!' 'What?' cried Mr Kranky. 'Tell me, quick! Because if we've forgotten even one tiny thing, then it won't work! At least not in the same way' 'A quart of brown gloss paint,' George said. 'That's what I've forgotten.' Mr Killy Kranky shot out of the house and into his car like a rocket. He sped down to the village and bought the paint and rushed back again. He opened the can in the kitchen and handed it to George. George poured the paint into the saucepan.

不到十分钟。但当这一切都完成后，锅似乎不像第一次那么满了。 “你做了什么?”克朗奇先生叫道。 “你搅了它吗?”“我煮的，”乔治说。 “但好景不长。我也搅拌了一下。”于是，克朗奇先生点燃了炖锅下面的煤气，乔治用他以前用过的那把长木勺搅拌着混合物。 “棕色不够，”乔治说。 “等一下!”我知道我忘了什么!“什么?克朗奇先生叫道。 “快告诉我!”因为如果我们忘记了哪怕是一件小事，那就行不通了!“一夸脱棕色光泽漆，”乔治说。 “这就是我忘记的。”Killy Kranky先生像火箭一样冲出房子，钻进了他的车里。 他飞快地跑到村子里，买了油漆，又冲了回来。 他在厨房里打开罐头递给乔治。 乔治把颜料倒进平底锅里。

'Ah-ha, that's better,' George said. 'That's more like the right colour.' 'It's boiling!' cried Mr Kranky. 'It's boiling and bubbling, George! Is it ready yet?' 'It's ready' George said. At least I hope it is.' 'Right!' shouted Mr Kranky, hopping about. 'Let's test it! Let's give some to a chicken!' 'My heavens alive, why don't you calm down a bit?' Mrs Kranky said, coming into the kitchen. 'Calm down?' cried Mr Kranky. 'You expect me to calm down and here we are mixing up the greatest medicine ever discovered in the history of the world! Come along, George! Dip a cupful out of the saucepan and get a spoon and we'll give some to a chicken just to make absolutely certain we've got the correct mixture.' Outside in the yard, there were several chickens that hadn't had any of George's Marvellous Medicine Number One. They were pecking about in the dirt in that silly way chickens do. George crouched down, holding out a spoonful of Marvellous Medicine Number Two. 'Come on,

“啊哈，这样好多了。”乔治说。 “这种颜色更合适。“沸腾了!”克朗奇先生叫道。 “它在沸腾冒泡，乔治!”准备好了吗?“好了，”乔治说。 至少我希望如此。“对!克朗奇大叫着，跳来跳去。 “让我们测试一下!”让我们给小鸡一些!“我的天哪，你为什么不能冷静一点呢?”克朗基太太走进厨房说。 “冷静下来?克朗奇先生叫道。 “你指望我冷静下来，而我们现在正在把世界历史上发现的最伟大的药物混在一起!”走吧，乔治!从平底锅里舀出一杯，拿一个勺子，我们要给鸡一些，以确保我们得到了正确的混合物。”在外面的院子里，有几只鸡没有吃过乔治一号灵药。 它们在泥土里啄来啄去，就像鸡那样傻。 乔治蹲下来，手里拿着一匙神奇的二号药。 “来吧,

chicken,' he said. 'Good chicken. Chick-chickchick.' A white chicken with black specks on its feathers looked up at George. It walked over to the spoon and went peck. The effect that Medicine Number Two had on this chicken was not quite the same as the effect produced by Medicine Number One, but it was very interesting. 'Whooosh!' shrieked the chicken and it shot six feet up in the air and came down again. Then sparks came flying out of its beak, bright yellow sparks of fire, as though someone was sharpening a knife on a grindstone inside its tummy. Then its legs began to grow longer. Its body stayed the same size but the two thin yellow legs got longer and longer and longer… and longer still…

“鸡肉，”他说。“好鸡。 Chick-chickchick。”一只羽毛上有黑点的白鸡抬头看着乔治。 它走到勺子旁边去啄。 第二种药对鸡的作用和第一种药的作用不太一样，但很有趣。 “哈! !鸡尖声叫道，它猛地飞到六英尺高的空中，然后又落了下来。 然后，火星从它的嘴里飞出来，明亮的黄色火花，好像有人在它肚子里的磨刀石上磨刀。 然后它的腿开始变长。 它的身体还是那么大，但两条黄色的细腿变得越来越长，越来越长……

'What's happening to it?' cried Mr Killy Kranky. 'Something's wrong,' George said. The legs went on growing and the more they grew, the higher up into the air went the chicken's body. When the legs were about fifteen feet long, they stopped growing. The chicken looked perfectly absurd with its long long legs and its ordinary little body perched high up on top. It was like a chicken on stilts. 'Oh my sainted aunts!' cried Mr Killy Kranky. 'We've got it wrong! This chicken's no good to anybody! It's all legs! No one wants chickens' legs!' 'I must have left something out,' George said.

“它怎么了?”基利·克朗奇先生叫道。 “有点不对劲。”乔治说。 鸡腿不断地长，长得越长，鸡的身体就飞得越高。 当腿长到大约15英尺长时，它们就停止生长了。 那只鸡长着长长的腿，普通的小身体高高翘在上面，看起来非常可笑。 就像一只踩着高跷的鸡。 “哦，我的神圣的姨妈们!”基利·克朗奇先生叫道。 “我们弄错了!”这只鸡对谁都不好!全是腿!没人想要鸡腿!“我一定是漏掉了什么东西，”乔治说。

'I know you left something out!' cried Mr Kranky. 'Think, boy, think! What was it you left out?' 'I've got it!' said George. 'What was it, quick?' 'Flea powder for dogs,' George said. 'You mean you put flea powder in the first one?'

“我知道你漏掉了什么!”克朗奇先生叫道。 “想一想，孩子，想一想!”你漏掉了什么?“我找到了!”乔治说。 “那是什么，快?”“狗用的跳蚤粉，”乔治说。 “你是说你在第一个盒子里放了跳蚤粉?”