28 Only Charlie Left

28 Only Charlie Left 'Which room shall it be next?' said Mr Wonka as he turned away and darted into the lift. 'Come on! Hurry up! We must get going! And how many children are there left now?' Little Charlie looked at Grandpa Joe, and Grandpa Joe looked back at little Charlie. 'But Mr Wonka,' Grandpa Joe called after him, 'there's… there's only Charlie left now.' Mr Wonka swung round and stared at Charlie. There was a silence. Charlie stood there holding tightly on to Grandpa Joe's hand. 'You mean you're the only one left?' Mr Wonka said, pretending to be surprised. 'Why, yes,' whispered Charlie. 'Yes.' Mr Wonka suddenly exploded with excitement. 'But my dear boy,' he cried out, 'that means you've won!' He rushed out of the lift and started shaking Charlie's hand so furiously it nearly came off. 'Oh, I do congratulate you!' he cried. 'I really do! I'm absolutely delighted! It couldn't be better! How wonderful this is! I had a hunch, you knew, right from

下一个房间是哪个?旺卡先生说着转身冲进了电梯。 “来吧!快点!我们得走了!现在还剩下几个孩子?”小查理看着乔爷爷，乔爷爷也看着小查理。 “可是旺卡先生，”乔爷爷在他身后喊道，“现在只剩下查理了。”旺卡先生转过身来，盯着查理。 一阵沉默。查理站在那里，紧紧抓住乔爷爷的手。 “你是说只剩你一个人了?”旺卡先生假装惊讶地说。 “啊，是的，”查理小声说。 “是的。”旺卡先生突然激动起来。 “可是，我亲爱的孩子，”他喊道，“那就意味着你赢了!”他冲出电梯，开始猛烈地握着查理的手，几乎要把他的手松开。 “啊，我真祝贺你!”他叫道。 “真的!”我太高兴了!再好不过了!这是多么美妙啊!我有预感，你知道的，就在

the beginning, that it was going to be you! Well done, Charlie, well done! This is terrific! Now the fun is really going to start! But we mustn't dilly! We mustn't dally! There's even less time to lose now than there was before! We have an enormous number of things to do before the day is out! Just think of the arrangements that have to be made! And the people we have to fetch! But luckily for us, we have the great glass lift to speed things up! Jump in, my dear Charlie, jump in! You too, Grandpa Joe, sir! No, no, after you! That's the way! Now then! This time I shall choose the button we are going to press!' Mr Wonka's bright twinkling blue eyes rested for a moment on Charlie's face. Something crazy is going to happen now, Charlie thought. But he wasn't frightened. He wasn't even nervous. He was

一开始，那个人就是你!干得好，查理，干得好!这太棒了!现在有趣的事情真正开始了!但是我们不能偷懒!我们不能磨磨蹭蹭!现在比以前浪费的时间更少了!在一天结束之前，我们有大量的事情要做!想想要做的安排吧!还有我们要去接的人!但幸运的是，我们有很棒的玻璃电梯，可以加快速度!跳进去，我亲爱的查理，跳进去!你也是，乔爷爷，先生!不，不，你先请!就是这样!现在!这次我来选择我们要按的按钮!”旺卡先生明亮闪烁的蓝眼睛在查理的脸上停留了一会儿。 查理想，一定会有疯狂的事情发生。 但他并不害怕。他甚至一点也不紧张。 他是

just terrifically excited. And so was Grandpa Joe. The old man's face was shining with excitement as he watched every move that Mr Wonka made. Mr Wonka was reaching for a button high up on the glass ceiling of the lift. Charlie and Grandpa Joe both craned their necks to read what it said on the little label beside the button. It said… UP AND OUT. 'Up and out,' thought Charlie. 'What sort of a room is that?' Mr Wonka pressed the button. The glass doors closed. 'Hold on!' cried Mr Wonka. Then WHAM! The lift shot straight up like a rocket! 'Yippee!' shouted Grandpa Joe. Charlie was clinging to Grandpa Joe's legs and Mr Wonka was holding on to a strap from the ceiling, and up they went, up, up, up, straight up this time, with no twistings or turnings, and Charlie could hear the whistling of the air outside as the lift went faster and faster. 'Yippee!' shouted Grandpa Joe again. 'Yippee! Here we go!' 'Faster!' cried Mr Wonka, banging the wall of the lift with his hand. 'Faster! Faster! If we don't go any faster than this, we shall never get through!' 'Through what?' shouted Grandpa Joe. 'What have we got to get through?' 'Ah-ha!' cried Mr Wonka, 'you wait and see! I've been longing to press this button for years! But I've never done it

只是非常兴奋。 乔爷爷也是。老人看着旺卡先生的一举一动，脸上洋溢着兴奋的光芒。 旺卡先生正伸手去抓电梯玻璃天花板上的一个按钮。 查理和乔爷爷都伸长了脖子，看钮扣旁边的小标签上写着什么。 上面写着…向上和向外。“起身出去，”查理想。 “这是什么房间?”旺卡先生按下了按钮。 玻璃门关上了。“坚持住!旺卡先生叫道。 然后重打!电梯像火箭一样直冲云霄!“好啊! !乔爷爷喊道。 查理抓着乔爷爷的腿，旺卡先生抓着天花板上的带子，他们一起上升，上升，上升，笔直地上升，没有扭曲或转弯，随着电梯越来越快，查理能听到外面空气的呼啸声。 “好啊! !乔爷爷又喊了一声。 “好啊! !我们开始吧!“快!旺卡先生喊道，用手敲着电梯的墙壁。 “快!快!如果我们不能再快一点，我们永远也过不去!“通过什么?”乔爷爷喊道。 “我们要通过什么?”“啊哈!旺卡先生叫道，“你等着瞧吧!多年来我一直想按下这个按钮!但我从来没做过

until now! I was tempted many times! Oh, yes, I was tempted! But I couldn't bear the thought of making a great big hole in the roof of the factory! Here we go, boys! Up and out!' 'But you don't mean…' shouted Grandpa Joe, '… you don't really mean that this lift…' 'Oh yes, I do!' answered Mr Wonka. 'You wait and see! Up and out!' 'But… but… but… it's made of glass!' shouted Grandpa Joe. 'It'll break into a million pieces!' 'I suppose it might,' said Mr Wonka, cheerful as ever, 'but it's pretty thick glass, all the same.' The lift rushed on, going up and up and up, faster and faster and faster… Then suddenly, CRASH! – and the most tremendous noise of splintering wood and broken tiles came from directly above their heads, and Grandpa Joe shouted, 'Help! It's the end! We're done for!' and Mr Wonka said, 'No, we're not! We're through! We're out!' Sure enough, the lift had shot right up through the roof of the factory and was now rising into the sky like a rocket, and the sunshine was pouring in through the glass roof. In five seconds they were a thousand feet up in the sky. 'The lift's gone mad!' shouted Grandpa Joe.

直到现在!我被诱惑了很多次!哦，是的，我被诱惑了!但是一想到要在工厂的屋顶上挖一个大洞，我就受不了!来吧，孩子们!起来，出去!“但你的意思不是……”乔爷爷喊道，“……你的意思不是说这台电梯……”旺卡先生回答。 “你等着瞧吧!”起来，出去!“但是……但是……但是……它是玻璃做的!”乔爷爷喊道。 “它会碎成无数块的!”“我想可能吧，”旺卡先生说，一如既往地兴高采烈，“不过这玻璃还是挺厚的。”电梯继续向前冲，上升，上升，上升，越来越快，越来越快……突然，砰的一声!——他们的头顶正上方传来了木头碎裂和瓦片破碎的巨大声音，乔爷爷喊道:“救命!结束了!我们完了!旺卡先生说:“不，我们没有!”我们通过!我们出去!”果然，电梯已经穿过了工厂的屋顶，像火箭一样直冲云霄，阳光透过玻璃屋顶照了进来。 五秒钟后，他们就飞到了一千英尺高的空中。 “电梯坏了!”乔爷爷喊道。

'Have no fear, my dear sir,' said Mr Wonka calmly, and he pressed another button. The lift stopped. It stopped and hung in mid-air, hovering like a helicopter, hovering over the factory and over the very town itself which lay spread out below them like a picture postcard! Looking down through the glass floor on which he was standing, Charlie could see the small far-away houses and the streets and the snow that lay thickly over everything. It was an eerie and frightening feeling to be standing on clear glass high up in the sky. It made you feel that you weren't standing on anything at all. 'Are we all right?' cried Grandpa Joe. 'How does this thing stay up?' 'Sugar power!' said Mr Wonka. 'One million sugar power! Oh, look,' he cried, pointing down, 'there go the other children! They're returning home!'

“别害怕，亲爱的先生，”旺卡先生平静地说，然后又按了一个按钮。 电梯停了下来。它停了下来，悬在半空中，像一架直升机一样盘旋在工厂上空，盘旋在像明信片一样在他们下面展开的城镇上空!透过他站着的玻璃地板往下看，查理可以看到远处的小房子、街道和厚厚的积雪。 站在高空中的透明玻璃上是一种诡异而可怕的感觉。 它让你觉得你根本没有站在任何东西上。 “我们没事吧?”乔爷爷叫道。 “这东西是怎么保持不动的?”“糖的力量!”旺卡先生说。 “一百万糖的能量!”“哦，看，”他指着下面叫道，“别的孩子去了!他们要回家了!”