30 Charlie’s Chocolate Factory

30 Charlie's Chocolate Factory The great glass lift was now hovering high over the town. Inside the lift stood Mr Wonka, Grandpa Joe, and little Charlie. 'How I love my chocolate factory,' said Mr Wonka, gazing down. Then he paused, and he turned around and looked at Charlie with a most serious expression on his face. 'Do you love it too, Charlie?' he asked. 'Oh, yes,' cried Charlie, I think it's the most wonderful place in the whole world!' 'I am very pleased to hear you say that,' said Mr Wonka, looking more serious than ever. He went on staring at Charlie. 'Yes,' he said, 'I am very pleased indeed to hear you say that. And now I shall tell you why.' Mr Wonka cocked his head to one side and all at once the tiny twinkling wrinkles of a smile appeared around the corners of his eyes, and he said, 'You see, my dear boy, I have decided to make you a present of the whole place. As soon as you are old enough to run it, the entire factory will become yours.'

查理的巧克力工厂那架巨大的玻璃电梯此刻高高盘旋在城镇上空。 电梯里站着旺卡先生、乔爷爷和小查理。 “我真爱我的巧克力工厂，”旺卡先生低头说。 然后他停顿了一下，转过身来，带着一种非常严肃的表情看着查理。 “你也喜欢它吗，查理?”他问。 “哦，是的，”查理叫道，“我认为那是世界上最美妙的地方!“听你这么说我很高兴，”旺卡先生说，看起来比以前更严肃了。 他继续盯着查理。 “是的，”他说，“听你这么说我确实很高兴。 现在我来告诉你为什么。”旺卡先生把头歪向一边，眼角突然闪现出一丝微笑，他说:“你看，我亲爱的孩子，我决定把整个地方都送给你。 等你到了可以经营的年龄，整个工厂就归你了。”

Charlie stared at Mr Wonka. Grandpa Joe opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out. 'It's quite true,' Mr Wonka said, smiling broadly now. 'I really am giving it to you. That's all right, isn't it?' 'Giving it to him?' gasped Grandpa Joe. 'You must be joking.' 'I'm not joking, sir. I'm deadly serious.' 'But… but… why should you want to give your factory to little Charlie?' 'Listen,' Mr Wonka said, 'I'm an old man. I'm much older than you think. I can't go on for ever. I've got no children of my own, no family at all. So who is going to run the factory when I get too old to do it myself? Someone's got to keep it going – if only for the sake of the Oompa- Loompas. Mind you, there are thousands of clever men who would give anything for the chance to come in and take over from me, but I don't want that sort of person. I don't want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won't listen to me; he won't learn. He will try to do things his own way and not mine. So I have to have a child. I want a good sensible loving child, one to whom I can tell all my most precious sweet-making secrets – while I am still alive.' 'So that is why you sent out the Golden Tickets!' cried Charlie. 'Exactly!' said Mr Wonka. 'I decided to invite five children to the factory, and the one I liked best at the end of the day would be the winner!'

查理盯着旺卡先生。 乔爷爷张开嘴想说话，但一句话也说不出来。 “这倒是真的，”旺卡先生说，脸上露出了灿烂的笑容。 “我真的把它给你了。 没关系，不是吗?“给他?”乔爷爷喘着气说。 “你一定是在开玩笑吧。”“我不是在开玩笑，先生。 我是非常认真的。“可是……可是……你为什么要把工厂给小查理呢?”“听着，”旺卡先生说，“我是个老人了。 我比你想象的要老得多。 我不能永远这样下去。我没有自己的孩子，没有家人。 那么，当我老得不能自己管理工厂时，谁来管理工厂呢? 总得有人让它继续下去——哪怕只是为了奥柏伦柏人。 请注意，有成千上万的聪明人愿意付出一切来换取接替我的机会，但我不想要那种人。 我根本不想要一个成年人。 大人不会听我的;他不会学的。 他会按自己的方式做事，而不是按我的方式。 所以我必须要有个孩子。 我想要一个懂事可爱的好孩子，在我还活着的时候，我可以告诉他我所有最珍贵的制作糖果的秘密。“这就是你为什么要发金奖券的原因!”查理叫道。 “完全正确!旺卡先生说。“我决定邀请五个孩子来工厂，一天下来，我最喜欢的那个就是赢家!”

'But Mr Wonka,' stammered Grandpa Joe, 'do you really and truly mean that you are giving the whole of this enormous factory to little Charlie? After all…' 'There's no time for arguments!' cried Mr Wonka. 'We must go at once and fetch the rest of the family – Charlie's father and his mother and anyone else that's around! They can all live in the factory from now on! They can all help to run it until Charlie is old enough to do it by himself! Where do you live, Charlie?' Charlie peered down through the glass floor at the snowcovered houses that lay below. 'It's over there,' he said, pointing. 'It's that little cottage right on the edge of the town, the tiny little one…' 'I see it!' cried Mr Wonka, and he pressed some more buttons and the lift shot down towards Charlie's house. 'I'm afraid my mother won't come with us,' Charlie said sadly. 'Why ever not?' 'Because she won't leave Grandma Josephine and Grandma Georgina and Grandpa George.' 'But they must come too.' 'They can't,' Charlie said. 'They're very old and they haven't been out of bed for twenty years.' 'Then we'll take the bed along as well, with them in it,' said Mr Wonka. 'There's plenty of room in this lift for a bed.'

“但是旺卡先生，”乔爷爷结结巴巴地说，“你真的想把这个巨大的工厂全部给小查理吗?” “没有时间争论了!”旺卡先生叫道。 “我们必须马上去把家里的其他人都叫来——查理的爸爸、妈妈和所有在附近的人!”从现在起，他们都可以住在工厂里了!他们都可以帮忙经营，直到查理长大到可以自己经营为止!你住在哪里，查理?”查理透过玻璃地板向下凝视着下面被雪覆盖的房屋。 “在那边，”他指着说。 “就是小镇边上的那间小屋，很小很小的那间……”旺卡先生叫道，他又按了几个按钮，电梯就朝查理的家冲下来了。 “恐怕我妈妈不会和我们一起去，”查理伤心地说。 “为什么不呢?”“因为她不愿离开约瑟芬奶奶、乔治娜奶奶和乔治爷爷。””“但是他们也必须来。“他们不能，”查理说。 “他们年纪很大了，已经有二十年没下过床了。旺卡先生说:“那我们就把床也带走，让他们睡在床上。” "电梯里有足够的地方放张床。"

'You couldn't get the bed out of the house,' said Grandpa Joe. 'It won't go through the door.' 'You mustn't despair!' cried Mr Wonka. 'Nothing is impossible! You watch!' The lift was now hovering over the roof of the Buckets' little house. 'What are you going to do?' cried Charlie. 'I'm going right on in to fetch them,' said Mr Wonka. 'How?' asked Grandpa Joe. 'Through the roof,' said Mr Wonka, pressing another button. 'No!' shouted Charlie. 'Stop!' shouted Grandpa Joe. CRASH went the lift, right down through the roof of the house into the old people's bedroom. Showers of dust and broken tiles and bits of wood and cockroaches and spiders and bricks and cement went raining down on the three old ones who were lying in bed, and each of them thought that the end of the world was come. Grandma Georgina fainted, Grandma Josephine dropped her false teeth, Grandpa George put his head under the blanket, and Mr and Mrs Bucket came rushing in from the next room. 'Save us!' cried Grandma Josephine. 'Calm yourself, my darling wife,' said Grandpa Joe, stepping out of the lift. 'It's only us.'

“你连床都搬不出房子，”乔爷爷说。 “它进不了门。“你不要绝望!”旺卡先生叫道。 “没有什么是不可能的!”你看!”电梯现在正盘旋在桶家小屋的屋顶上。 “你打算怎么办?”查理叫道。 “我马上进去把它们拿回来。”旺卡先生说。 “如何?乔爷爷问。“穿过屋顶，”旺卡先生说着，按下了另一个按钮。 “不!查理喊道。“停!乔爷爷喊道。 电梯砰的一声响了起来，直接穿过屋顶进入了老人的卧室。 灰尘、碎瓦、木屑、蟑螂、蜘蛛、砖头和水泥像雨点一样落在躺在床上的三个老人身上，他们每个人都认为世界末日到了。 乔治娜奶奶晕倒了，约瑟芬奶奶掉了假牙，乔治爷爷把头埋在毯子下面，巴克特夫妇从隔壁房间冲了进来。 “拯救我们!约瑟芬奶奶叫道。 “冷静点，我亲爱的妻子，”乔爷爷说着走出电梯。 “只有我们。”

'Mother!' cried Charlie, rushing into Mrs Bucket's arms. 'Mother! Mother! Listen to what's happened! We're all going back to live in Mr Wonka's factory and we're going to help him to run it and he's given it all to me and… and… and… and…' 'What are you talking about?' said Mrs Bucket. 'Just look at our house!' cried poor Mr Bucket. 'It's in ruins!'

“母亲!”查理喊道，冲进巴克特太太的怀里。 “母亲!”妈妈!听听发生了什么事!我们都要回去住在旺卡先生的工厂里，我们要帮他管理工厂，他把工厂都给了我，还有……还有……还有……”巴克特太太说。 “看看我们的房子!”可怜的巴克特先生喊道。 “它成了一片废墟!”