6 The First Two Finders

6 The First Two Finders The very next day, the first Golden Ticket was found. The finder was a boy called Augustus Gloop, and Mr Bucket's evening newspaper carried a large picture of him on the front page. The picture showed a nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump. Great flabby folds of fat bulged out from every part of his body, and his face was like a monstrous ball of dough with two small greedy curranty eyes peering out upon the world. The town in which Augustus Gloop lived, the newspaper said, had gone wild with excitement over their hero. Flags were flying from all the windows, children had been given a holiday from school, and a parade was being organized in honour of the famous youth. 'I just knew Augustus would find a Golden Ticket,' his mother had told the newspapermen. 'He eats so many bars of chocolate a day that it was almost impossible for him not to find one. Eating is his hobby, you know. That's all he's interested in. But still, that's better than being a hooligan and shooting off zip guns and things like that in his spare

第一个发现者第二天，第一张金奖券被发现了。 发现者是一个名叫奥古斯都·格卢普的男孩，巴克特先生的晚报在头版刊登了他的大幅照片。 照片上是一个九岁的男孩，他非常胖，看起来就像被一个强大的气泵吹胀了一样。 他身体的每一个部位都凸出了松弛的肥褶，他的脸就像一个巨大的生面团，两只贪婪的小眼睛盯着外面的世界。 报纸说，奥古斯都·格卢普居住的小镇为他们的英雄欣喜若狂。 所有的窗户上都飘扬着旗帜，孩子们放了假，为了纪念这位著名的青年，人们组织了游行。 “我就知道奥古斯都会找到一张金奖券，”他的母亲告诉记者。 “他每天吃很多块巧克力，几乎不可能不找到一块。” 你知道，吃是他的爱好。 这是他唯一感兴趣的。 不过，这总比当个小流氓，在业余时间用拉链枪之类的东西射击要好

time, isn't it? And what I always say is, he wouldn't go on eating like he does unless he needed nourishment, would he? It's all vitamins, anyway. What a thrill it will be for him to visit Mr Wonka's marvellous factory! We're just as proud as anything!' 'What a revolting woman,' said Grandma Josephine. 'And what a repulsive boy,' said Grandma Georgina. 'Only four Golden Tickets left,' said Grandpa George. 'I wonder who'll get those.' And now the whole country, indeed, the whole world, seemed suddenly to be caught up in a mad chocolate-buying spree, everybody searching frantically for those precious remaining tickets. Fully grown women were seen going into

时间，不是吗?我总是说，他不会像现在这样吃下去除非他需要营养，不是吗? 反正都是维生素。 对他来说参观旺卡先生神奇的工厂将是多么令人兴奋啊!我们非常自豪!“真是个讨厌的女人，”约瑟芬奶奶说。 “真是个讨厌的男孩，”乔治娜奶奶说。 “只剩下四张金票了。”乔治爷爷说。 “我想知道谁会得到这些东西。”现在，整个国家，实际上，整个世界，似乎突然陷入了疯狂的巧克力购买狂潮，每个人都疯狂地寻找那些珍贵的剩余门票。 看到成年妇女进入

sweet shops and buying ten Wonka bars at a time, then tearing off the wrappers on the spot and peering eagerly underneath for a glint of golden paper. Children were taking hammers and smashing their piggy banks and running out to the shops with handfuls of money. In one city, a famous gangster robbed a bank of a thousand pounds and spent the whole lot on Wonka bars that same afternoon. And when the police entered his house to arrest him, they found him sitting on the floor amidst mountains of chocolate, ripping off the wrappers with the blade of a long dagger. In far-off Russia, a woman called Charlotte Russe claimed to have found the second ticket, but it turned out to be a clever fake. The famous English scientist, Professor Foulbody, invented a machine which would tell you at once, without opening the wrapper of a bar of chocolate, whether or not there was a Golden Ticket hidden underneath it. The machine had a mechanical arm that shot out with tremendous force and grabbed hold of anything that had the slightest bit of gold inside it, and for a moment, it looked like the answer to everything. But unfortunately, while the Professor was showing off the machine to the public at the sweet counter of a large department store, the mechanical arm shot out and made a grab for the gold filling in the back tooth of a duchess who was standing near by. There was an ugly scene, and the machine was smashed by the crowd.

糖果店，一次买十块旺卡巧克力棒，然后当场撕掉包装纸，急切地往下面看，看有没有金色的纸在闪烁。 孩子们拿着锤子砸碎他们的储蓄罐，拿着大把的钱跑到商店去。 在一个城市，一个著名的歹徒抢了一家银行一千英镑，并在当天下午把所有钱都花在旺卡巧克力上。 当警察进入他家逮捕他时，他们发现他坐在巧克力堆成山的地板上，用一把长匕首的刀刃撕开巧克力的包装纸。 在遥远的俄罗斯，一位名叫夏洛特·罗斯(Charlotte Russe)的女子声称找到了第二张彩票，但事实证明这是一张聪明的假彩票。 著名的英国科学家富尔博迪教授发明了一种机器，不用打开巧克力的包装，它就能立刻告诉你巧克力下面是否藏着一张金奖券。 这台机器有一个机械臂，它射出巨大的力量，抓住任何里面有一点点金子的东西，在那一刻，它似乎是一切的答案。 但不幸的是，当教授在一家大百货公司的糖果柜台向公众展示这台机器时，机械臂突然伸出来，咬住了站在旁边的一位公爵夫人后牙里的黄金填充物。 场面很难看，机器被人群砸碎了。

Suddenly, on the day before Charlie Bucket's birthday, the newspapers announced that the second Golden Ticket had been found. The lucky person was a small girl called Veruca Salt who lived with her rich parents in a great city far away. Once again Mr Bucket's evening newspaper carried a big picture of the finder. She was sitting between her beaming father and mother in the living room of their house, waving the Golden Ticket above her head, and grinning from ear to ear. Veruca's father, Mr Salt, had eagerly explained to the newspapermen exactly how the ticket was found. 'You see, boys,' he had said, 'as soon as my little girl told me that she simply had to have one of those Golden Tickets, I went out into the town and started buying up all the Wonka bars I could lay my hands on. Thousands of them, I must have bought. Hundreds of thousands! Then I had them loaded on to trucks and sent directly to my own factory. I'm in the peanut business, you see, and I've got about a hundred

突然，在查理·巴克特生日的前一天，报纸宣布找到了第二张金奖券。 这个幸运的人是一个名叫Veruca Salt的小女孩，她和她富有的父母住在一个遥远的大城市里。 巴克特先生的晚报又一次刊登了发现者的大图。 在他们家的客厅里，她坐在笑容满面的爸爸妈妈中间，在头上挥舞着金奖券，笑得合不拢嘴。 维露卡的父亲索特先生急切地向记者解释了彩票是如何被发现的。 “你们知道，孩子们，”他说，“当我的小女儿告诉我她只是想要一张金奖券的时候，我就跑到城里去，开始把我能买到的旺卡巧克力都买下来。 我肯定买了几千个。 成千上万!然后我把它们装上卡车，直接送到我自己的工厂。 我是做花生生意的，你知道，我有大约一百颗花生

women working for me over at my place, shelling peanuts for roasting and salting. That's what they do all day long, those women, they sit there shelling peanuts. So I says to them, "Okay, girls," I says, "from now on, you can stop shelling peanuts and start shelling the wrappers off these chocolate bars instead!" And they did. I had every worker in the place yanking the paper off those bars of chocolate full speed ahead from morning till night. 'But three days went by, and we had no luck. Oh, it was terrible! My little Veruca got more and more upset each day, and every time I went home she would scream at me, "Where's my Golden Ticket! I want my Golden Ticket!" And she would lie for hours on the floor, kicking and yelling in the most disturbing way. Well, I just hated to see my little girl feeling unhappy like that, so I vowed I would keep up the search until I'd got her what she wanted. Then suddenly… on the evening of the fourth day, one of my women workers yelled, "I've got it! A Golden Ticket!" And I said, "Give it to me, quick!" and she did, and I rushed it home and gave it to my darling Veruca, and now she's all smiles, and we have a happy home once again.' 'That's even worse than the fat boy,' said Grandma Josephine. 'She needs a really good spanking,' said Grandma Georgina. 'I don't think the girl's father played it quite fair, Grandpa, do you?' Charlie murmured.

在我家里为我工作的女人，剥花生的壳，烤花生，腌花生。 那就是她们整天做的事，那些女人，她们坐在那里剥花生壳。 于是我对她们说:“好了，姑娘们，”我说，“从现在开始，你们可以不再剥花生的壳，而是开始剥这些巧克力棒的包装纸!”他们做到了。 我让这里的每一个工人从早到晚全速把巧克力棒上的纸扯下来。 但是三天过去了，我们还是没有运气。 哦，太可怕了!我的小维露卡一天比一天不安，每次我回家，她都会对我大喊:“我的金奖券呢?”我要我的金奖券!”她会在地板上躺上几个小时，以最令人不安的方式踢打和大喊大叫。 我只是不想看到我的小女儿那样不开心，所以我发誓我会继续寻找，直到我得到她想要的东西。 然后，在第四天的晚上，我的一个女工突然喊道:“我找到了!一张金奖券!”我说:“快给我!”她照做了，我赶紧回家把它给了我亲爱的维露卡，现在她满脸笑容，我们又有了一个幸福的家。“那比那个胖男孩更糟，”约瑟芬奶奶说。 “她需要好好打一顿屁股，”乔治娜奶奶说。 “我认为那女孩的父亲玩得不公平，爷爷，你说呢?”查理低声说道。

'He spoils her,' Grandpa Joe said. 'And no good can ever come from spoiling a child like that, Charlie, you mark my words.' 'Come to bed, my darling,' said Charlie's mother. 'Tomorrow's your birthday, don't forget that, so I expect you'll be up early to open your present.' 'A Wonka chocolate bar!' cried Charlie. 'It is a Wonka bar, isn't it?' 'Yes, my love,' his mother said. 'Of course it is.' 'Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if I found the third Golden Ticket inside it?' Charlie said. 'Bring it in here when you get it,' Grandpa Joe said. 'Then we can all watch you taking off the wrapper.'

“他宠坏了她，”乔爷爷说。 “这样溺爱一个孩子是没有好处的，查理，你记住我的话。“上床睡觉吧，亲爱的，”查理的妈妈说。 “明天是你的生日，别忘了这一点，所以我希望你能早起拆礼物。“一块旺卡巧克力棒!”查理叫道。 “这是旺卡巧克力吧?”“是的，我的宝贝，”他母亲说。 “当然是。“哦，如果我能在里面找到第三张金奖券，那该多好啊!”查理说。 乔爷爷说:“你买了就拿过来。” “然后我们都可以看着你把包装纸取下来。”