07 Grandma Gets the Medicine

Grandma Gets the Medicine Grandma sat hunched in her chair by the window. The wicked little eyes followed George closely as he crossed the room towards her. 'You're late,' she snapped. 'I don't think I am, Grandma.' 'Don't interrupt me in the middle of a sentence!' she shouted. 'But you'd finished your sentence, Grandma.' 'There you go again!' she cried. 'Always interrupting and arguing. You really are a tiresome little boy. What's the time?' 'It's exactly eleven o'clock, Grandma.' 'You're lying as usual. Stop talking so much and give me my medicine. Shake the bottle first. Then pour it into the spoon and make sure it's a whole spoonful.'

奶奶拿药奶奶弓着背坐在窗边的椅子上。 乔治穿过房间朝她走来，那双邪恶的小眼睛紧紧地盯着他。 “你迟到了。”她厉声说。 “我想我没有，奶奶。“不要打断我说话!”她喊道。 “但是你已经说完了，奶奶。“你又来了!”她叫道。 总是插嘴和争吵。 你真是个讨厌的小男孩。 现在几点了?“现在正好是十一点，奶奶。””“你又像往常一样撒谎。 别再说了，把药给我。 先摇晃瓶子。然后把它倒进勺子里，确保是一整勺。”

'Are you going to gulp it all down in one go?' George asked her. 'Or will you sip it?' 'What I do is none of your business,' the old woman said. 'Fill the spoon.' As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon, he couldn't help thinking back upon all the mad and marvellous things that had gone into the making of this crazy stuff – the shaving soap, the hair remover, the dandruff cure, the automatic washing-machine powder, the flea powder for dogs, the shoe-polish, the black pepper, the horseradish sauce and all the rest of them, not to mention the powerful animal pills and powders and liquids… and the brown paint. 'Open your mouth wide, Grandma,' he said, 'and I'll pop it in.' The old hag opened her small wrinkled mouth, showing disgusting pale brown teeth. 'Here we go!' George cried out. 'Swallow it down!' He pushed the spoon well into her mouth and tipped the mixture down her throat. Then he stepped back to watch the result.

“你打算一口气把它吞下去吗?”乔治问她。 “还是要喝一口?”“我做什么不关你的事，”老妇人说。 “把勺子装满。”乔治打开软木塞，开始慢慢地把粘稠的棕色东西倒进勺子里，他不禁回想起制作这个疯狂的东西所用到的所有疯狂而神奇的东西——剃须皂、脱毛剂、去头皮屑剂、自动洗衣机粉、狗跳蚤粉、鞋油、黑胡椒、辣根酱和所有其他的东西，更不用说那些强效的动物药丸、粉末和液体，还有棕色的油漆。 “奶奶，把嘴张大，”他说，“我把它塞进去。”老巫婆张开她那张皱巴巴的小嘴巴，露出令人作呕的淡棕色牙齿。 “我们走吧!”乔治叫道。 “吞下去!”他把勺子塞进她嘴里，把混合物倒进她的喉咙。 然后他退后一步看结果。

It was worth watching. Grandma yelled 'Oweeeee!' and her whole body shot up whoosh into the air. It was exactly as though someone had pushed an electric wire through the underneath of her chair and switched on the current. Up she went like a jack-in-the-box… and she didn't come down… she stayed there… suspended in mid-air… about two feet up… still in a sitting position… but rigid now… frozen… quivering… the eyes bulging… the hair standing straight up on end. 'Is something wrong, Grandma?' George asked her politely. 'Are you all right?' Suspended up there in space, the old girl was beyond speaking. The shock that George's marvellous mixture had given her must have been tremendous. You'd have thought she'd swallowed a red-hot poker the way she took off from that chair.

值得一看。奶奶喊道:“哦!她的整个身体嗖地蹿到空中。 就好像有人把一根电线从她的椅子下面插进去，接通了电流。 她像个玩偶盒一样飞了起来……没有掉下来……她停在那里……悬在半空中……大约两英尺高……仍然是坐着的姿势……但现在僵硬了……僵住了……颤抖着……眼睛鼓起来了……头发竖起来了。 “出什么事了吗，奶奶?”乔治礼貌地问她。 “你没事吧?”这个老女孩悬在空中，说不出话来。 乔治那奇妙的混合物给她的震撼一定是巨大的。 她从椅子上跳起来的样子，简直让人以为她吞下了一根烧红的拨火棍。

Then down she came again with a plop, back into her seat. 'Call the fire brigade!' she shouted suddenly. 'My stomach's on fire!' 'It's just the medicine, Grandma,' George said. 'It's good strong stuff.' 'Fire!' the old woman yelled. 'Fire in the basement! Get a bucket! Man the hoses! Do something quick!' 'Cool it, Grandma,' George said. But he got a bit of a shock when he saw the smoke coming out of her mouth and out of her nostrils. Clouds of

然后她又扑通一声坐到座位上。 “叫消防队!”她突然喊道。 “我肚子着火了!”“这只是药的缘故，奶奶，”乔治说。 “这是一种好酒。“火!老妇人喊道。 “地下室着火了!”拿个桶来!管水管!快做点什么!“冷静点，奶奶，”乔治说。 但当他看到烟从她的嘴里和鼻孔里冒出来时，他有点震惊。 云的

black smoke were coming out of her nose and blowing around the room. 'By golly, you really are on fire,' George said. 'Of course I'm on fire!' she yelled. 'I'll be burned to a crisp! I'll be fried to a frizzle! I'll be boiled like a beetroot!' George ran into the kitchen and came back with a jug of water. 'Open your mouth, Grandma!' he cried. He could hardly see her for the smoke, but he managed to pour half a jugful down her throat. A sizzling sound, the kind you get if you hold a hot frying-pan under a cold tap, came up from deep down in Grandma's stomach. The old hag bucked and shied and snorted. She gasped and gurgled. Spouts of water came shooting out of her. And the smoke cleared away. 'The fire's out,' George announced proudly. 'You'll be all right now, Grandma.' 'All right?' she yelled. 'Who's all right? There's jacky-jumpers in my tummy! There's squigglers in my belly! There's bangers in my bottom!' She began bouncing up and down in the

黑烟从她的鼻子里冒出来，弥漫在房间里。 “天哪，你真是着火了。”乔治说。 “我当然着火了!”她喊道。 “我会被烤焦的!”我会被烤焦的!我会像甜菜根一样被煮熟的!”乔治跑进厨房，拿了一壶水回来。 “张开嘴，奶奶!”他叫道。 因为有烟，他几乎看不见她，但他还是把半罐酒灌进了她的喉咙。 一阵咝咝的声音，就像你把热煎锅放在冷水龙头下的那种声音，从奶奶的肚子深处传来。 那老巫婆畏缩着，哼着鼻子。 她喘着气，咯咯地笑着。水柱从她身上喷涌而出。 烟散去了。 “火灭了。”乔治骄傲地宣布。 “你现在会好的，奶奶。“好吗?”她喊道。 “谁没事?”我肚子里有跳jackyjumping !我肚子里都是歪歪扭扭的!我屁股里有香肠!”她开始在床上跳上跳下

chair. Quite obviously she was not very comfortable. 'You'll find it's doing you a lot of good, that medicine, Grandma,' George said. 'Good?' she screamed. 'Doing me good? It's killing me!' Then she began to bulge. She was swelling! She was puffing up all over! Someone was pumping her up, that's how it looked! Was she going to explode? Her face was turning from purple to green! But wait! She had a puncture somewhere! George could hear the hiss of escaping air. She stopped swelling. She was going down. She was slowly getting thinner again, shrinking back and back slowly to her shrivelly old self. 'How's things, Grandma?' George said. No answer. Then a funny thing happened. Grandma's body gave a sudden sharp twist and a sudden sharp

椅子上。很明显，她不太舒服。 “奶奶，你会发现那药对你大有好处的。”乔治说。 ”好吗?她尖叫道。“对我好吗?” 它要了我的命!”然后她开始发胀。 她在肿胀!她全身都肿起来了!有人在给她充气，看起来就是这样!她要爆炸了吗? 她的脸从紫色变成了绿色!但是等等!她哪里扎了个洞!乔治能听到空气逃逸的嘶嘶声。 她不再肿胀了。她在下沉。 她又慢慢变瘦了，慢慢地缩回来，又缩回去，回到她那干瘪的老样子。 “你还好吗，奶奶?”乔治说。 不回答。然后一件有趣的事情发生了。 奶奶的身体突然剧烈地扭动了一下