19 The Inventing Room – Everlasting Gobstoppers and Hair Toffee

19 The Inventing Room – Everlasting Gobstoppers and Hair Toffee When Mr Wonka shouted 'Stop the boat!' the Oompa- Loompas jammed their oars into the river and backed water furiously. The boat stopped. The Oompa-Loompas guided the boat alongside the red door. On the door it said, INVENTING ROOM – PRIVATE – KEEP OUT. Mr Wonka took a key from his pocket, leaned over the side of the boat, and put the key in the keyhole. 'This is the most important room in the entire factory!' he said. 'All my most secret new inventions are cooking and simmering in here! Old Fickel-gruber would give his front teeth to be allowed inside just for three minutes! So would Prodnose and Slugworth and all the other rotten chocolate makers! But now, listen to me! I want no messing about when you go in! No touching, no meddling, and no tasting! Is that agreed?' 'Yes, yes!' the children cried. 'We won't touch a thing!' 'Up to now,' Mr Wonka said, 'nobody else, not even an Oompa-Loompa, has ever been allowed in here!' He opened

当旺卡先生喊道“停船!”奥柏伦柏人把桨插进河里，拼命地往后退。 船停了下来。奥柏伦柏人沿着红门指引着船。 门上写着:发明室——私人——禁止入内。 旺卡先生从口袋里掏出一把钥匙，探过船舷，把钥匙插进锁眼里。 “这是整个工厂最重要的房间!”他说。 “我所有最秘密的新发明都在这里炖着煮着!”老菲克-格鲁伯愿意用他的门牙换取哪怕三分钟的时间!普罗德诺兹、斯拉格沃斯和其他所有的烂巧克力制造商也会这样!但是现在，听我说!你进去的时候，我可不想胡闹!不准触摸，不准干涉，不准品尝!大家同意吗?“是的，是的!”孩子们叫道。 “我们什么也不碰!”“到目前为止，”旺卡先生说，“任何人，包括奥柏伦柏人，都不准进来!”他打开

the door and stepped out of the boat into the room. The four children and their parents all scrambled after him. 'Don't touch!' shouted Mr Wonka. 'And don't knock anything over!' Charlie Bucket stared around the gigantic room in which he now found himself. The place was like a witch's kitchen! All about him black metal pots were boiling and bubbling on huge stoves, and kettles were hissing and pans were sizzling, and strange iron machines were clanking and spluttering, and there were pipes running all over the ceiling and walls, and the whole place was filled with smoke and steam and delicious rich smells. Mr Wonka himself had suddenly become even more excited than usual, and anyone could see that this was the room he loved best of all. He was hopping about among the saucepans and the machines like a child among his Christmas presents, not knowing which thing to look at first. He lifted the lid from a huge pot and took a sniff; then he rushed over and dipped a finger into a barrel of sticky yellow stuff and had a taste; then he skipped across to one of the machines and turned half a dozen knobs this way and that; then he peered anxiously through the glass door of a gigantic oven, rubbing his hands and cackling with delight at what he saw inside. Then he ran over to another machine, a small shiny affair that kept going phut-phut-phut-phut-phut, and every time it went phut, a large green marble dropped out of it into a basket on the floor. At least it looked like a marble.

他把门打开，下了船，进了房间。 四个孩子和他们的父母都跟着他。 “别碰!”旺卡先生喊道。 “别打翻任何东西!”查理·巴克特环顾着这个巨大的房间。 这地方就像女巫的厨房!在他周围，黑色的金属锅在巨大的炉子上沸腾冒泡，水壶嘶嘶作响，平底锅嘶嘶作响，奇怪的铁机器叮当作响，噼啪作响，天花板和墙壁上到处都是管道，整个地方充满了烟雾和蒸汽，以及美味浓郁的气味。 旺卡先生突然变得比平时更兴奋了，谁都看得出来，这是他最喜欢的房间。 他在锅和机器之间跳来跳去，就像一个孩子在他的圣诞礼物之间跳来跳去，不知道该先看哪个。 他掀开一个大锅的盖子，闻一闻;然后他冲过去，把一根手指伸进一桶黏糊糊的黄色东西里，尝了尝;然后他蹦蹦跳跳地走到一台机器前，把六个旋钮扭来扭去;然后，他焦急地透过一个巨大烤箱的玻璃门往外看，一边搓着手，一边为里面看到的东西高兴地咯咯笑着。 然后他跑到另一台机器前，那是一个闪闪发光的小东西，不停地“噗”、“噗”、“噗”地响，每次“噗”地响，一个绿色的大大理石就会从机器里掉出来，掉进地上的一个篮子里。 至少它看起来像个弹珠。

'Everlasting Gobstoppers!' cried Mr Wonka proudly. 'They're completely new! I am inventing them for children who are given very little pocket money. You can put an Everlasting Gobstopper in your mouth and you can suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and it will never get any smaller!' 'It's like gum!' cried Violet Beauregarde. 'It is not like gum,' Mr Wonka said. 'Gum is for chewing, and if you tried chewing one of these Gobstoppers here you'd break your teeth off! And they never get any smaller! They never disappear! NEVER! At least I don't think they do. There's one of them being tested this very moment in the Testing Room next door. An Oompa-Loompa is sucking it. He's been sucking it for very nearly a year now without stopping, and it's still just as good as ever! 'Now, over here,' Mr Wonka went on, skipping excitedly across the room to the opposite wall, 'over here I am inventing a completely new line in toffees!' He stopped beside a large saucepan. The saucepan was full of a thick gooey purplish treacle, boiling and bubbling. By standing on his toes, little Charlie could just see inside it. 'That's Hair Toffee!' cried Mr Wonka. 'You eat just one tiny bit of that, and in exactly half an hour a brand-new luscious thick silky beautiful crop of hair will start growing out all over the top of your head! And a moustache! And a beard!'

“永恒的大块硬糖!旺卡先生骄傲地叫道。 “它们是全新的!”我是为那些零用钱很少的孩子们发明的。 你可以把一个永恒的Gobstopper放进嘴里，你可以吮吸它，吮吸它，吮吸它，吮吸它，它永远不会变小!“像口香糖一样!”维奥莱特·博雷加德喊道。 旺卡先生说:“它不像口香糖。” “口香糖是用来嚼的，如果你试着嚼这种‘Gobstoppers’，你会把牙齿咬掉的!”而且它们永远不会变小!它们永远不会消失!从来没有!至少我不这么认为。 其中一个正在隔壁的测试室接受测试。 一个奥柏伦柏人正在吮吸它。 他已经吸了快一年了，从来没有停止过，它仍然和以前一样好!“现在，在这里，”旺卡先生继续说，兴奋地跳到对面的墙上，“在这里，我正在发明一个全新的太妃糖系列!”他在一个大平底锅旁停了下来。 锅里盛满了粘稠的紫色糖浆，沸腾着，冒泡着。 小查理踮着脚尖，刚好能看到里面。 “那是头发太妃糖!”旺卡先生叫道。 “你只吃一点点，半小时后，你的头顶就会长出一绺全新的、甜美、浓密、柔滑的秀发!”还有胡子!还有胡子!”

'A beard!' cried Veruca Salt. 'Who wants a beard, for heaven's sake?' 'It would suit you very well,' said Mr Wonka, 'but unfortunately the mixture is not quite right yet. I've got it too strong. It works too well. I tried it on an Oompa-Loompa yesterday in the Testing Room and immediately a huge black beard started shooting out of his chin, and the beard grew so fast that soon it was trailing all over the floor in a thick hairy carpet. It was growing faster than we could cut it! In the end we had to use a lawn mower to keep it in check! But I'll get the mixture right soon! And when I do, then there'll be no excuse any more for little boys and girls going about with bald heads!' 'But Mr Wonka,' said Mike Teavee, 'little boys and girls never do go about with…' 'Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue!' cried Mr Wonka. 'It's such a waste of precious time! Now, over here, if you will all step this way, I will show you something that I am terrifically proud of. Oh, do be careful! Don't knock anything over! Stand back!'

“胡子!维露卡·索特喊道。 “看在上帝的份上，谁要留胡子啊?”“很适合你，”旺卡先生说，“但不幸的是，混合物还不完全合适。” 我喝得太浓了。它太好用了。 昨天我在试验室里，在一个奥柏伦柏人身上试了试，他的下巴上立刻冒出了一大片黑胡子，胡子长得很快，很快就拖满了地板，铺上了厚厚的毛地毯。 它长得比我们割得快!最后我们不得不用割草机来控制它!但我很快就会把混合物调好!等我做到了，小男孩小女孩就再也没有借口光头出门了!“可是旺卡先生，”迈克·蒂维说，“小男孩和小女孩是不会和……”“别吵了，我亲爱的孩子，请别吵了!”旺卡先生叫道。 “这是在浪费宝贵的时间!”现在，这边，请大家往这边走，我要给你们看一件我非常自豪的东西。 哦，一定要小心!不要打翻任何东西!向后站!”