03 George Begins to Make the Medicine

George Begins to Make the Medicine George took an enormous saucepan out of the cupboard and placed it on the kitchen table. 'George!' came the shrill voice from the next room. 'What are you doing?' 'Nothing, Grandma,' he called out. 'You needn't think I can't hear you just because you closed the door! You're rattling the saucepans!' 'I'm just tidying the kitchen, Grandma.' Then there was silence. George had absolutely no doubts whatsoever about how he was going to make his famous medicine. He wasn't going to fool about wondering whether to put in a little bit of this or a little bit of that. Quite simply, he was going to put in EVERYTHING he could find. There would be no messing about, no hesitating, no

乔治开始做药乔治从橱柜里拿出一个大平底锅，放在厨房的桌子上。 “乔治!隔壁房间传来刺耳的声音。 “你在干什么?”“没什么，奶奶，”他喊道。 “你别以为你关了门我就听不见了!”你把炖锅弄得嘎嘎响了!“奶奶，我正在打扫厨房。”然后是沉默。 乔治对如何制作他那著名的药毫无疑问。 他不会傻傻地想着该放一点这个还是放一点那个。 很简单，他要把他能找到的一切都投进去。 不会有麻烦，不会有犹豫，不会

wondering whether a particular thing would knock the old girl sideways or not. The rule would be this: whatever he saw, if it was runny or powdery or gooey, in it went. Nobody had ever made a medicine like that before. If it didn't actually cure Grandma, then it would anyway cause some exciting results. It would be worth watching. George decided to work his way round the various rooms one at a time and see what they had to offer. He would go first to the bathroom. There are always lots of funny things in a bathroom. So upstairs he went, carrying the enormous twohandled saucepan before him.

想知道一个特殊的东西是否会把老女孩撞倒。 规则是这样的:无论他看到什么，如果它是流动的、粉状的或粘稠的，他都会投进去。 以前从来没有人制造过这样的药。 即使不能治好奶奶的病，它也会带来一些令人兴奋的结果。 这值得一看。 乔治决定一间一间地到各个房间转转，看看有什么可以提供的。 他会先去洗手间。 浴室里总是有很多有趣的东西。 于是他上楼去了，手里拿着那只巨大的双柄平底锅。

In the bathroom, he gazed longingly at the famous and dreaded medicine cupboard. But he didn't go near it. It was the only thing in the entire house he was forbidden to touch. He had made solemn promises to his parents about this and he wasn't going to break them. There were things in there, they had told him, that could actually kill a person, and although he was out to give Grandma a pretty fiery mouthful, he didn't really want a dead body on his hands. George put the saucepan on the floor and went to work. Number one was a bottle labelled GOLDEN GLOSS HAIR SHAMPOO. He emptied it into

在浴室里，他渴望地凝视着那个著名而又可怕的药柜。 但他没有靠近它。这是整座房子里唯一一件不准他碰的东西。 他曾向父母郑重承诺过这件事，他不会食言的。 他们告诉他，那里面有些东西，确实能致人于死地，虽然他是要出去给奶奶一口火辣辣的东西，但他真的不希望自己手上有一具尸体。 乔治把平底锅放在地板上，开始工作。 第一件是一瓶标有GOLDEN GLOSS HAIR SHAMPOO的瓶子。 他把它倒进

the pan. 'That ought to wash her tummy nice and clean,' he said. He took a full tube of TOOTHPASTE and squeezed out the whole lot of it in one long worm. 'Maybe that will brighten up those horrid brown teeth of hers,' he said. There was an aerosol can of SUPERFOAM SHAVING SOAP belonging to his father. George loved playing with aerosols. He pressed the button and kept his finger on it until there was nothing left. A wonderful mountain of white foam built up in the giant saucepan.

锅。“那应该能把她的肚子洗得又干净又好看，”他说。 他拿了一整管牙膏，把全部牙膏挤成一条长长的虫子。 “也许那会使她那可怕的棕色牙齿明亮起来，”他说。 有一罐超级泡沫剃须皂是他父亲的。 乔治喜欢玩气溶胶。 他按下按钮，手指一直按着，直到什么也没剩下。 巨大的平底锅里形成了一座奇妙的白色泡沫山。

With his fingers, he scooped out the contents of ajar of VITAMIN ENRICHED FACE CREAM. In went a small bottle of scarlet NAIL VARNISH. 'If the toothpaste doesn't clean her teeth,' George said, 'then this will paint them as red as roses.' He found another jar of creamy stuff labelled HAIR REMOVER. SMEAR IT ON YOUR LEGS, it said, AND ALLOW TO REMAIN FOR FIVE MINUTES. George tipped it all into the saucepan. There was a bottle with yellow stuff inside it called DISHWORTH'S FAMOUS DANDRUFF CURE. In it went.

他用手指舀出了半瓶维生素浓缩面霜。 进来一小瓶鲜红色的指甲油。 “如果牙膏不能清洁她的牙齿，”乔治说，“那么这个会把她的牙齿刷得像玫瑰一样红。”他发现了另一瓶奶油状的东西，上面写着“脱毛剂”。 把它涂在你的腿上，它说，让它停留五分钟。 乔治把这些都倒进了平底锅里。 里面有一个瓶子，里面有一种黄色的东西，叫做迪什沃斯著名的去头屑药。 进去了。

There was something called BRILLIDENT FOR CLEANING FALSE TEETH. It was a white powder. In that went, too. He found another aerosol can, NEVERMORE PONKING DEODORANT SPRAY, GUARANTEED, it said, TO KEEP AWAY UNPLEASANT BODY SMELLS FOR A WHOLE DAY. 'She could use plenty of that,' George said as he sprayed the entire canful into the saucepan. LIQUID PARAFFIN, the next one was called. It was a big bottle. He hadn't the faintest idea what it did to you, but he poured it in anyway. That, he thought, looking around him, was about all from the bathroom. On his mother's dressing-table in the bedroom, George found yet another lovely aerosol can. It was called HELGA'S HAIRSET. HOLD TWELVE INCHES AWAY FROM THE HAIR AND SPRAY LIGHTLY. He squirted the whole lot into the saucepan. He did enjoy squirting these aerosols.

有一种叫BRILLIDENT的东西用来清洁假牙。 那是一种白色粉末。那也进去了。 他又找到了一个喷雾罐，上面写着“永不再臭”的除臭剂，保证一整天都不闻难闻的体味。 “她可以用很多。”乔治边说边把一整罐都喷进锅里。 液态石蜡，下一种叫做。 那是一个大瓶子。他一点也不知道这对你有什么影响，但他还是把它倒了进去。 他环顾四周，想这大概就是浴室里的一切了。 在妈妈卧室的梳妆台上，乔治又发现了一个可爱的喷雾罐。 它被称为HELGA的发型。 离头发12英寸远的地方轻轻地喷。 他把所有的东西都喷进平底锅里。 他确实喜欢喷射这些气溶胶。