14 Marvellous Medicine Number Four

Marvellous Medicine Number Four Back in the kitchen once again, George, with Mr Kranky watching him anxiously, tipped half a pint of engine oil and some anti-freeze into the giant saucepan. 'Boil it up again!' cried Mr Kranky. 'Boil it and stir it!' George boiled it and stirred it. 'You'll never get it right,' said Mrs Kranky. 'Don't forget you don't just have to have the same things but you've got to have exactly the same amounts of those things. And how can you possibly do that?' 'You keep out of this!' cried Mr Kranky. 'We're doing fine! We've got it this time, you see if we haven't!' This was George's Marvellous Medicine Number Four, and when it had boiled for a

乔治再次回到厨房，在克朗奇先生焦急地注视着他的情况下，把半品脱机油和一些防冻液倒进了那只大炖锅里。 “再煮一煮!”克朗奇先生叫道。 “把它煮开，搅拌一下!”乔治把它煮了再搅拌。 “你永远做不对的。” 别忘了，你不仅要拥有相同的东西，而且要拥有完全相同数量的东西。 你怎么可能做到呢?“你别管这事!”克朗奇先生叫道。 “我们做得很好!”这次我们赢了，你看我们是不是赢了!”这是乔治的四号灵药，煮了一小时

couple of minutes, George once again carried a cupful of it out into the yard. Mr Kranky ran after him. Mrs Kranky followed more slowly. 'You're going to have some mighty queer chickens around here if you go on like this,' she said. 'Dish it out, George!' cried Mr Kranky. 'Give a spoonful to that one over there!' He pointed to a brown hen. George knelt down and held out the spoon with the new medicine in it. 'Chick-chick,' he said. 'Try some of this.' The brown hen walked over and looked at the spoon. Then it went peck. 'Owch!' it said. Then a funny whistling noise came out of its beak. 'Watch it grow!' shouted Mr Kranky. 'Don't be too sure,' said Mrs Kranky. 'Why is it whistling like that?'

几分钟后，乔治又端了一杯到院子里。 克朗奇先生跟在他后面。克朗奇太太跟得更慢了。 "你再这样下去，这儿的鸡可要出毛病了，"她说。 “说吧，乔治!”克朗奇先生叫道。 “给那边那个人一勺!”他指着一只棕色的母鸡。 乔治跪下来，拿出盛着新药的勺子。 “小鸡——小鸡，”他说。“尝尝这个。”棕色的母鸡走过去看了看勺子。 然后它开始啄。“Owch !它说。 然后从它的嘴里发出一种有趣的呼啸声。 “看着它长大!”克朗奇先生喊道。 “别太肯定。”克朗基夫人说。 “它为什么那样吹口哨?”

'Keep quiet, woman!' cried Mr Kranky. 'Give it a chance!' They stood there staring at the brown hen. 'It's getting smaller,' George said. 'Look at it, Dad. It's shrinking.' And indeed it was. In less than a minute, the hen had shrunk so much it was no bigger than a new-hatched chick. It looked ridiculous.

“闭嘴，女人!”克朗奇先生叫道。 “给它一个机会吧!”他们站在那里盯着那只棕色的母鸡。 “它越来越小了，”乔治说。 “你看，爸爸。它的萎缩。确实如此。 在不到一分钟的时间里，这只母鸡缩得比刚孵出的小鸡还小。 这看起来很可笑。