16 The Oompa-Loompas

16 The Oompa-Loompas 'Oompa-Loompas!' everyone said at once. 'Oompa-Loompas!' 'Imported direct from Loompaland,' said Mr Wonka proudly. 'There's no such place,' said Mrs Salt. 'Excuse me, dear lady, but…' 'Mr Wonka,' cried Mrs Salt. 'I'm a teacher of geography…' 'Then you'll know all about it,' said Mr Wonka. 'And oh, what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world – hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whang-doodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping. When I went out there, I found the little Oompa-Loompas living in tree houses. They had to live in tree houses to escape from the whangdoodles and the hornswogglers and the snozzwangers. And they were living on green caterpillars, and the caterpillars tasted revolting,

16奥柏伦柏人的奥柏伦柏人!大家异口同声地说。 “Oompa-Loompas !“直接从伦巴兰进口的。”旺卡先生自豪地说。 “没有这样的地方，”索特夫人说。 “对不起，亲爱的女士，但是……”“旺卡先生，”索特夫人叫道。 “那你就全知道了。”旺卡先生说。 “噢，那是一个多么可怕的国家啊!”这里只有茂密的丛林，到处都是世界上最危险的野兽——犀鸟、鼻涕虫和那些可怕的、邪恶的黄毛怪。 一只黄嘟嘟会把十个奥柏伦柏人当早餐吃掉，然后再跑回来吃第二份。 当我去那里的时候，我发现小奥柏伦柏人住在树屋里。 他们不得不住在树上的房子里，以躲避飞毛腿、牛角怪和鼻涕怪。 它们以绿色的毛毛虫为食，毛毛虫的味道令人作呕，

and the Oompa-Loompas spent every moment of their days climbing through the treetops looking for other things to mash up with the caterpillars to make them taste better – red beetles, for instance, and eucalyptus leaves, and the bark of the bong-bong tree, all of them beastly, but not quite so beastly as the caterpillars. Poor little Oompa-Loompas! The one food that they longed for more than any other was the cacao bean. But they couldn't get it. An Oompa-Loompa was lucky if he found three or four cacao beans a year. But oh, how they craved them. They used to dream about cacao beans all night and talk about them all day. You had only to mention the word "cacao" to an Oompa-Loompa and he would start dribbling at the mouth. The cacao bean,' Mr Wonka continued, 'which grows on the cacao tree, happens to be the thing from which all chocolate is made. You cannot make chocolate without the cacao bean. The cacao bean is chocolate. I myself use billions of cacao beans every week in this factory. And so,

奥柏伦柏人每天的每分每刻都在树梢上爬来爬去，寻找其他的东西来和毛毛虫混在一起，让它们吃起来更美味——比如红甲虫、桉树叶子和bong-bong树的树皮，所有这些东西都很可怕，但都没有毛毛虫那么可怕。 可怜的小奥柏伦柏人!他们最渴望的食物就是可可豆。 但是他们没有得到它。一个奥柏伦柏人一年能找到三到四颗可可豆就很幸运了。 但是，哦，他们是多么渴望他们。 他们过去常常整夜梦见可可豆，整天谈论可可豆。 你只要对奥柏伦柏人提起“可可”这个词，他就会开始口水直流。 “可可豆，”旺卡先生继续说，“长在可可树上的可可豆，恰好是所有巧克力的原料。 做巧克力离不开可可豆。 可可豆就是巧克力。 在这个工厂里，我自己每周都会使用数十亿颗可可豆。 所以,

my dear children, as soon as I discovered that the Oompa-Loompas were crazy about this particular food, I climbed up to their tree-house village and poked my head in through the door of the tree house belonging to the leader of the tribe. The poor little fellow, looking thin and starved, was sitting there trying to eat a bowl full of mashed-up green caterpillars without being sick. "Look here," I said (speaking not in English, of course, but in Oompa-Loompish), "look here, if you and all your people will come back to my country and live in my factory, you can have all the cacao beans you want! I've got mountains of them in my storehouses! You can have cacao beans for every meal! You can gorge yourselves silly on them! I'll even pay your wages in cacao beans if you wish!" ' "You really mean it?" asked the Oompa-Loompa leader, leaping up from his chair. ' "Of course I mean it," I said. "And you can have chocolate as well. Chocolate tastes even better than cacao beans because it's got milk and sugar added." 'The little man gave a great whoop of joy and threw his bowl of mashed caterpillars right out of the tree-house window. "It's a deal!" he cried. "Come on! Let's go!" 'So I shipped them all over here, every man, woman, and child in the Oompa-Loompa tribe. It was easy. I smuggled them over in large packing cases with holes in them, and they all got here safely. They are wonderful workers. They all speak English now. They love dancing and music. They are always making up songs. I expect you will hear a good

我亲爱的孩子们，当我发现奥柏伦柏人对这种特别的食物很着迷时，我就爬上了他们的树屋村，把头伸进了部落首领的树屋门。 这个可怜的小家伙，看起来又瘦又饿，正坐在那里，试图吃下一碗绿色的毛毛虫泥而不生病。 “听着，”我说(当然不是用英语，而是用奥柏伦坡语)，“听着，如果你和你所有的人都回到我的国家，住在我的工厂里，你想要多少可可豆就有多少!我的仓库里有一大堆!你可以每餐都吃可可豆!你们可以大吃特吃!如果你愿意，我甚至可以用可可豆支付你的工资!”“‘你是认真的吗?’奥柏伦柏族首领从椅子上跳起来问道。 “‘我当然是认真的，’我说。 “你也可以吃巧克力。 巧克力比可可豆更美味，因为它添加了牛奶和糖。” 小个子男人高兴地叫了一声，把他那碗毛毛虫泥扔出了树屋的窗户。 “一言为定!”他叫道。“来吧!我们走吧!”“所以我把他们都运到了这里，奥柏伦柏部落的每个男人、女人和孩子。 这很容易。我把它们装在有洞的大包装箱里偷运过来，它们都安全到达了这里。 他们是了不起的工人。 他们现在都说英语。 他们喜欢跳舞和音乐。 他们总是编歌。 我希望你能听到一个好的

deal of singing today from time to time. I must warn you, though, that they are rather mischievous. They like jokes. They still wear the same kind of clothes they wore in the jungle. They insist upon that. The men, as you can see for yourselves across the river, wear only deerskins. The women wear leaves, and the children wear nothing at all. The women use fresh leaves every day…' 'Daddy!' shouted Veruca Salt (the girl who got everything she wanted). 'Daddy! I want an Oompa-Loompa! I want you to get me an Oompa-Loompa! I want an Oompa-Loompa right away! I want to take it home with me! Go on, Daddy! Get me an Oompa-Loompa!' 'Now, now, my pet!' her father said to her, 'we mustn't interrupt Mr Wonka.' 'But I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. 'All right, Veruca, all right. But I can't get it for you this second. Please be patient. I'll see you have one before the day is out.' 'Augustus!' shouted Mrs Gloop. 'Augustus, sweetheart, I don't think you had better do that.' Augustus Gloop, as you might have guessed, had quietly sneaked down to the edge of the river, and he was now kneeling on the riverbank, scooping hot melted chocolate into his mouth as fast as he could.

今天时不时唱几首歌。 不过，我必须警告你，它们是相当调皮的。 他们喜欢笑话。他们仍然穿着在丛林里穿的衣服。 他们坚持要那样做。你们可以亲眼看到，河对岸的人只穿鹿皮。 妇女们戴着树叶，孩子们什么也不穿。 女人们每天都用新鲜的叶子……”维露卡·索特(那个得到了她想要的一切的女孩)喊道。 “爸爸!”我要一个奥柏伦柏!我要你给我买个奥柏伦柏!我要一个奥柏伦柏，马上!我想把它带回家!继续，爸爸!给我来个奥柏伦柏!“好了，好了，我的宝贝!”父亲对她说，“我们不能打扰旺卡先生。”“可我想要一个奥柏伦柏!”维露卡尖叫道。 “好吧，维露卡，好吧。 但我现在拿不出来。 请耐心点。我会在今天结束前给你买一个。“奥古斯都!格鲁普太太喊道。 “奥古斯都，亲爱的，我认为你最好不要这样做。”你可能已经猜到了，奥古斯都·格卢普悄悄溜到了河边，他正跪在河岸上，用最快的速度把融化了的热巧克力舀进嘴里。