29 The Other Children Go Home

29 The Other Children Go Home 'We must go down and take a look at our little friends before we do anything else,' said Mr Wonka. He pressed a different button, and the lift dropped lower, and soon it was hovering just above the entrance gates to the factory. Looking down now, Charlie could see the children and their parents standing in a little group just inside the gates. 'I can only see three,' he said. 'Who's missing?' 'I expect it's Mike Teavee,' Mr Wonka said. 'But he'll be coming along soon. Do you see the trucks?' Mr Wonka pointed to a line of gigantic covered vans parked in a line near by. 'Yes,' Charlie said. 'What are they for?' 'Don't you remember what it said on the Golden Tickets? Every child goes home with a lifetime's supply of sweets. There's one truckload for each of them, loaded to the brim. Ah-ha,' Mr Wonka went on, 'there goes our friend Augustus Gloop! D'you see him? He's getting into the first truck with his mother and father!'

“在我们做其他事情之前，我们必须下去看看我们的小朋友们。”旺卡先生说。 他按下了另一个按钮，电梯下降了，很快就停在了工厂大门的上方。 查理往下一看，看到孩子们和他们的父母站成一小队，就在大门里面。 “我只能看到三个，”他说。 “失踪的是谁?“我想是迈克·提维吧，”旺卡先生说。 “不过他很快就会来的。 你看到那些卡车了吗?”旺卡先生指着附近一排巨大的有顶棚货车。 “是的，”查理说。“它们是干什么用的?”“你不记得金奖券上是怎么写的吗?” 每个孩子回家时都带着一辈子的糖果。 他们每个人都有一卡车，满满当当的。 “啊哈，”旺卡先生接着说，“我们的朋友奥古斯都·格卢普去了!你看见他了吗? 他和他的父母上了第一辆卡车!”

'You mean he's really all right?' asked Charlie, astonished. 'Even after going up that awful pipe?' 'He's very much all right,' said Mr Wonka. 'He's changed!' said Grandpa Joe, peering down through the glass wall of the elevator. 'He used to be fat! Now he's thin as a straw!' 'Of course he's changed,' said Mr Wonka, laughing. 'He got squeezed in the pipe. Don't you remember? And look! There goes Miss Violet Beauregarde, the great gum-chewer! It seems as though they managed to de-juice her after all. I'm so glad. And how healthy she looks! Much better than before!' 'But she's purple in the face!' cried Grandpa Joe. 'So she is,' said Mr Wonka. 'Ah, well, there's nothing we can do about that.'

“你是说他真的没事?”查理惊讶地问。 “甚至在爬上那可怕的管道之后?”“他很好，”旺卡先生说。 “他改变了!乔爷爷说，透过电梯的玻璃墙往下看。 “他以前很胖!”现在他瘦得像根稻草!“他当然变了，”旺卡先生笑着说。 “他被挤在管子里了。 你不记得了吗?和看!维奥莱特·博雷加德小姐走了，她是嚼口香糖的高手!看来他们还是设法让她失去活力了。 我很高兴。她看起来多么健康啊!比以前好多了!“可是她脸色发紫啊!”乔爷爷叫道。 “是的，”旺卡先生说。 "啊，好吧，我们对此也无能为力。"

'Good gracious!' cried Charlie. 'Look at poor Veruca Salt and Mr Salt and Mrs Salt! They're simply covered with rubbish!' 'And here comes Mike Teavee!' said Grandpa Joe. 'Good heavens! What have they done to him? He's about ten feet tall and thin as a wire!' 'They've overstretched him on the gum-stretching machine,' said Mr Wonka. 'How very careless.' 'But how dreadful for him!' cried Charlie. 'Nonsense,' said Mr Wonka, 'he's very lucky. Every basketball team in the country will be trying to get him. But now,' he added, 'it is time we left these four silly children. I have something very important to talk to you about, my dear Charlie.' Mr Wonka pressed another button, and the lift swung upwards into the sky.

“好亲切!查理叫道。 “看看可怜的维露卡·索特、索特先生和索特夫人吧!”它们只是被垃圾覆盖着!“迈克·提维来了!”乔爷爷说。 “天啊!他们对他做了什么? 他大约有十英尺高，瘦得像电线一样!旺卡先生说:“他们在口香糖拉伸机上把他拉得太紧了。” “太粗心了。“可是他太可怕了!”查理叫道。 “胡说，”旺卡先生说，“他很幸运。 全国的篮球队都想要得到他。 “可是现在，”他又说，“我们该离开这四个傻孩子了。 我有件非常重要的事要跟你谈，亲爱的查理。”旺卡先生又按了一个按钮，电梯就升上了天空。