15 The Chocolate Room

15 The Chocolate Room 'An important room, this!' cried Mr Wonka, taking a bunch of keys from his pocket and slipping one into the keyhole of the door. 'This is the nerve centre of the whole factory, the heart of the whole business! And so beautiful! I insist upon my rooms being beautiful! I can't abide ugliness in factories! In we go, then! But do be careful, my dear children! Don't lose your heads! Don't get over-excited! Keep very calm!' Mr Wonka opened the door. Five children and nine grown-ups pushed their ways in – and oh, what an amazing sight it was that now met their eyes! They were looking down upon a lovely valley. There were green meadows on either side of the valley, and along the bottom of it there flowed a great brown river. What is more, there was a tremendous waterfall halfway along the river – a steep cliff over which the water curled and rolled in a solid sheet, and then went crashing down into a boiling churning whirlpool of froth and spray. Below the waterfall (and this was the most

“这是一个重要的房间!”旺卡先生叫道，从口袋里掏出一串钥匙，把一把塞进锁眼里。 “这是整个工厂的神经中枢，整个企业的心脏!”如此美丽!我坚持要我的房间漂亮!我不能忍受工厂里的丑陋!进去吧!但是一定要小心，我亲爱的孩子们!不要惊慌失措!不要过度兴奋!保持镇静!”旺卡先生打开了门。 五个孩子和九个大人挤了进来——哦，现在他们看到的是多么神奇的景象啊!他们俯视着一个美丽的山谷。 山谷的两边都是绿色的草地，谷底有一条棕色的大河流过。 更重要的是，在河的中间有一个巨大的瀑布——一个陡峭的悬崖，水在上面卷曲翻滚，形成一个坚实的薄片，然后轰然坠落，变成一个沸腾的泡沫和喷雾的漩涡。 瀑布下面(这是最

astonishing sight of all), a whole mass of enormous glass pipes were dangling down into the river from somewhere high up in the ceiling! They really were enormous, those pipes. There must have been a dozen of them at least, and they were sucking up the brownish muddy water from the river and carrying it away to goodness knows where. And because they were made of glass, you could see the liquid flowing and bubbling along inside them, and above the noise of the waterfall, you could hear the never-ending suck-sucksucking sound of the pipes as they did their work. Graceful trees and bushes were growing along the riverbanks – weeping willows and alders and tall clumps of rhododendrons with their pink and red and mauve blossoms. In the meadows there were thousands of buttercups. ' There!' cried Mr Wonka, dancing up and down and pointing his gold-topped cane at the great brown river. 'It's all chocolate! Every drop of that river is hot melted chocolate of the finest quality. The very finest quality. There's enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well! Isn't it terrific? And just look at my pipes! They suck up the chocolate and carry it away to all the other rooms in the factory where it is needed! Thousands of gallons an hour, my dear children! Thousands and thousands of gallons!' The children and their parents were too flabbergasted to speak. They were staggered. They were dumbfounded. They were bewildered and dazzled. They were completely bowled

令人惊讶的景象)，一大堆巨大的玻璃管从天花板高处的某个地方垂到河里!那些管道真的很大。 至少有十几只，它们正在从河里吸取褐色的泥水，把它带到天知道的地方去。 因为它们是玻璃做的，所以你可以看到液体在它们里面流动和冒泡，在瀑布的声音之外，你还可以听到水管工作时没完没了的吸吮声。 河岸上生长着优美的树木和灌木——垂柳、桤木和一丛丛高大的杜鹃花，它们开着粉红色、红色和淡紫色的花。 草地上有成千上万的毛茛。 “有!旺卡先生叫道，一边上下跳着舞，一边用他那根金色的手杖指着那条棕色的大河。 “全是巧克力!”河里的每一滴都是最优质的热融化巧克力。 最好的品质。里面的巧克力足够装满整个国家的每个浴缸!还有所有的游泳池!这不是很棒吗? 看看我的烟斗!他们把巧克力吸起来，送到工厂里其他需要巧克力的房间去!每小时几千加仑，我亲爱的孩子们!成千上万加仑!”孩子们和他们的父母都惊呆了，说不出话来。 他们都惊呆了。他们目瞪口呆。 他们不知所措，眼花缭乱。 他们完全被打晕了

over by the hugeness of the whole thing. They simply stood and stared. 'The waterfall is most important!' Mr Wonka went on. 'It mixes the chocolate! It churns it up! It pounds it and beats it! It makes it light and frothy! No other factory in the world mixes its chocolate by waterfall! But it's the only way to do it properly! The only way! And do you like my trees?' he cried, pointing with his stick. 'And my lovely bushes? Don't you think they look pretty? I told you I hated ugliness! And of course they are all eatable! All made of something different and delicious! And do you like my meadows? Do you like my grass and my buttercups? The grass you are standing on, my dear little ones, is made of a new kind of soft, minty sugar that I've just invented! I call it swudge! Try a blade! Please do! It's delectable!' Automatically, everybody bent down and picked one blade of grass – everybody, that is, except Augustus Gloop, who took a big handful. And Violet Beauregarde, before tasting her blade of grass, took the piece of world-record-breaking chewing-gum out of her mouth and stuck it carefully behind her ear. 'Isn't it wonderful!' whispered Charlie. 'Hasn't it got a wonderful taste, Grandpa?' 'I could eat the whole field!' said Grandpa Joe, grinning with delight. T could go around on all fours like a cow and eat every blade of grass in the field!' 'Try a buttercup!' cried Mr Wonka. 'They're even nicer!'

被整件事的巨大所取代。 他们只是站着盯着看。 “瀑布是最重要的!”旺卡先生接着说。 “它混合了巧克力!”它搅动了它!它捶打它!它使它轻而多泡沫!世界上没有其他工厂用瀑布来混合巧克力!但这是唯一正确的方法!这是唯一的办法!你喜欢我的树吗?他喊道，用手杖指了指。 “我可爱的灌木丛呢?”你不觉得它们很漂亮吗? 我告诉过你我讨厌丑陋!当然它们都是可以吃的!都是由不同的美味的东西做的!你喜欢我的草地吗? 你喜欢我的草和毛茛吗? 亲爱的孩子们，你们脚下的草地是用我刚刚发明的一种柔软的薄荷糖做的!我管它叫混纺!试试刀刃!请做!它是美味的!”每个人都自然而然地弯下腰，摘下了一片草叶——除了奥古斯都·格卢普，每个人都摘下了一大把草。 Violet Beauregarde在品尝她的草叶之前，从嘴里拿出了一块打破世界纪录的口香糖，小心翼翼地贴在耳后。 “太妙了!”查理小声说。 “味道是不是很好，爷爷?”“我可以吃掉整块地!”乔爷爷高兴地笑着说。 我可以像牛一样四肢着地走来走去，吃遍田野里的每一片草!“试试毛茛!”旺卡先生叫道。 “他们甚至更好!”

Suddenly, the air was filled with screams of excitement. The screams came from Veruca Salt. She was pointing frantically to the other side of the river. 'Look! Look over there!' she screamed. 'What is it? He's moving! He's walking! It's a little person! It's a little man!. Down there below the waterfall!' Everybody stopped picking buttercups and stared across the river. 'She's right, Grandpa!' cried Charlie. 'It is a little man! Can you see him?' 'I see him, Charlie!' said Grandpa Joe excitedly. And now everybody started shouting at once. 'There's two of them!' 'My gosh, so there is!' 'There's more than two! There's one, two, three, four, five!' 'What are they doing?'

突然，空气中充满了兴奋的尖叫声。 尖叫声来自Veruca Salt。 她疯狂地指着河的另一边。 “看!看那边!她尖叫道。 “什么事?”他在动!他走了!这是一个小人儿!这是一个小男人! 在瀑布下面!”每个人都停止采摘毛茛，盯着河对岸看。 “她说得对，爷爷!”查理叫道。 “是个小个子!”你能看见他吗?“我看见他了，查理!”乔爷爷兴奋地说。 现在大家都开始大叫起来。 “有两个人!”“天哪，确实有!”“不止两个!”一，二，三，四，五!“他们在干什么?”

'Where do they come from?' 'Who are they?' Children and parents alike rushed down to the edge of the river to get a closer look. 'Aren't they fantastic!' 'No higher than my knee!' 'Look at their funny long hair!' The tiny men – they were no larger than medium-sized dolls – had stopped what they were doing, and now they were staring back across the river at the visitors. One of them pointed towards the children, and then he whispered something to the other four, and all five of them burst into peals of laughter. 'But they can't be real people,' Charlie said. 'Of course they're real people,' Mr Wonka answered. 'They're Oompa-Loompas.'

“它们是从哪儿来的?”“他们是谁?”孩子们和家长们都冲到河边，想近距离看一看。 “太棒了!”“不要比我的膝盖高!”“看他们滑稽的长发!”这些小人——他们比中等大小的娃娃大不了多少——已经停止了他们正在做的事情，现在他们正盯着河对岸的游客。 其中一个指了指孩子们，然后对其他四个耳语了几句，五个人都爆发出一阵笑声。 “但他们不可能是真人，”查理说。 “他们当然是真人。”旺卡先生回答。 “他们Oompa-Loompas。”