8 Two More Golden Tickets Found

8 Two More Golden Tickets Found That evening, Mr Bucket's newspaper announced the finding of not only the third Golden Ticket, but the fourth as well. TWO GOLDEN TICKETS FOUND TODAY, screamed the headlines. ONLY ONE MORE LEFT. 'All right,' said Grandpa Joe, when the whole family was gathered in the old people's room after supper, 'let's hear who found them.' 'The third ticket,' read Mr Bucket, holding the newspaper up close to his face because his eyes were bad and he couldn't afford glasses, 'the third ticket was found by a Miss Violet Beauregarde. There was great excitement in the Beauregarde household when our reporter arrived to interview the lucky young lady – cameras were clicking and flashbulbs were flashing and people were pushing and jostling and trying to get a bit closer to the famous girl. And the famous girl was standing on a chair in the living room waving the Golden Ticket madly at arm's length as though she were flagging a taxi. She was talking very fast and very loudly to everyone, but it was not easy to hear all that she

那天晚上，巴克特先生的报纸宣布不仅发现了第三张金奖券，而且还发现了第四张。 今天发现了两张金票，这是头条新闻。 只剩下一个了。“好吧，”乔爷爷说，当全家人晚饭后聚集在老人的房间里时，“让我们听听是谁发现了他们。“第三张票，”巴克特先生念道，一面把报纸凑近脸，因为他的眼睛不好，又买不起眼镜，“第三张票是维奥莱特·博雷加德小姐捡到的。 当我们的记者到达博雷加德家采访这位幸运的年轻女士时，全家人都非常兴奋——照相机咔嗒作响，闪光灯闪烁，人们推推搡搡，想要离这位著名的女孩近一点。 那个著名的女孩站在客厅的椅子上，在一臂远的地方疯狂地挥舞着金奖券，好像在招呼出租车。 她对每个人说得又快又大声，但要听清她说的话并不容易

said because she was chewing so ferociously upon a piece of gum at the same time. ' "I'm a gum chewer, normally," she shouted, "but when I heard about these ticket things of Mr Wonka's, I gave up gum and started on chocolate bars in the hope of striking lucky. Now, of course, I'm back on gum. I just adore gum. I can't do without it. I munch it all day long except for a few minutes at mealtimes when I take it out and stick it behind my ear for safekeeping. To tell you the truth, I simply wouldn't feel comfortable if I didn't have that little wedge of gum to chew on every moment of the day, I really wouldn't. My mother says it's not ladylike and it looks ugly to see a girl's jaws going up and down like mine do all the time, but I don't agree. And who's she to criticize, anyway, because if you ask me, I'd say that her jaws are going up and down almost as much as mine are just from yelling at me every minute of the day."

说这是因为她当时正使劲地嚼着一块口香糖。 “‘我平时是嚼口香糖的，’她喊道，‘但当我听说旺卡先生的彩票时，我放弃了口香糖，开始吃巧克力棒，希望能有好运。 当然，现在我又开始吃口香糖了。 我就是喜欢口香糖。我不能没有它。 我整天都在咀嚼它，除了吃饭的时候拿出几分钟，把它塞在耳朵后面，以防安全。 说实话，如果我一天中没有那一小块口香糖可以随时嚼，我真的不会觉得舒服。 我妈妈说这不是淑女的样子，看到一个女孩的下巴像我这样一直上下起伏，看起来很难看，但我不同意。 她有什么好批评的，因为如果你问我，我会说她的下巴上下起伏几乎和我的一样多，因为她每天都在对我大喊大叫。”

' "Now, Violet," Mrs Beauregarde said from a far corner of the room where she was standing on the piano to avoid being trampled by the mob. ' "All right, Mother, keep your hair on!" Miss Beauregarde shouted. "And now," she went on, turning to the reporters again, "it may interest you to know that this piece of gum I'm chewing right at this moment is one I've been working on for over three months solid. That's a record, that is. It's beaten the record held by my best friend, Miss Cornelia Prinzmetel. And was she furious! It's my most treasured possession now, this piece of gum is. At night-time, I just stick it on the end of the bedpost, and it's as good as ever in the mornings -a bit hard at first, maybe, but it soon softens up again after I've given it a few good chews. Before I started chewing for the world record, I used to change my piece of gum once a day. I used to do it in our lift on the way home from school. Why the lift? Because I liked sticking the gooey piece that I'd just finished with on to one of the control buttons. Then the next person who came along and pressed the button got my old gum on the end of his or her finger. Ha-ha! And what a racket they kicked up, some of them. You get the best results with women who have expensive gloves on. Oh yes, I'm thrilled to be going to Mr Wonka's factory. And I understand that afterwards he's going to give me enough gum to last me for the rest of my whole life. Whoopee! Hooray!" ' 'Beastly girl,' said Grandma Josephine.

“‘好了，维奥莱特，’博雷加德太太站在房间的一个遥远的角落里说，她站在钢琴上，以免被人群踩踏。 “‘好吧，妈妈，别着急!’博雷加德小姐喊道。 “现在，”她又转向记者，继续说道，“你们可能有兴趣知道，我现在嚼的这块口香糖是我整整研究了三个多月的口香糖。 这是一项记录。打破了我最好的朋友科妮莉亚·普林兹梅特小姐保持的记录。 她暴跳如雷!这片口香糖现在是我最珍贵的东西了。 晚上，我就把它粘在床柱的末端，早上起来和以前一样好吃——一开始可能有点硬，但在我好好咀嚼了几口之后，它很快又变软了。 在我开始为打破世界纪录而咀嚼口香糖之前，我习惯每天换一块口香糖。 我以前经常在放学回家的电梯里这样做。 为什么要提电梯?因为我喜欢把刚完成的黏糊糊的东西粘在控制按钮上。 然后下一个过来按下按钮的人就会在他或她的手指末端得到我的旧口香糖。 哈哈!他们中的一些人闹得很凶。 女人戴上昂贵的手套，效果最好。 是的，我很高兴能去旺卡先生的工厂。 我知道之后他会给我足够我吃一辈子的口香糖。 哇! !万岁!”“坏女孩，”约瑟芬奶奶说。

'Despicable!' said Grandma Georgina. 'She'll come to a sticky end one day, chewing all that gum, you see if she doesn't.' 'And who got the fourth Golden Ticket?' Charlie asked. 'Now, let me see,' said Mr Bucket, peering at the newspaper again. 'Ah yes, here we are. The fourth Golden Ticket,' he read, 'was found by a boy called Mike Teavee.' 'Another bad lot, I'll be bound,' muttered Grandma Josephine. 'Don't interrupt, Grandma,' said Mrs Bucket. 'The Teavee household,' said Mr Bucket, going on with his reading, 'was crammed, like all the others, with excited visitors when our reporter arrived, but young Mike Teavee, the lucky winner, seemed extremely annoyed by the whole business. "Can't you fools see I'm watching television?" he said angrily. "I wish you wouldn't interrupt!" 'The nine-year-old boy was seated before an enormous television set, with his eyes glued to the screen, and he was watching a film in which one bunch of gangsters was shooting up another bunch of gangsters with machine guns. Mike Teavee himself had no less than eighteen toy pistols of various sizes hanging from belts around his body, and every now and again he would leap up into the air and fire off half a dozen rounds from one or another of these weapons.

“卑鄙!”乔治娜奶奶说。 “总有一天，她会因为嚼了那么多口香糖而落得倒霉的下场，你看她会不会这样。”“那么谁得了第四张金奖券呢?”查理问道。 “现在，让我看看，”巴克特先生又盯着报纸说。 “啊，是的，我们到了。“第四张金奖券，”他念道，“是一个叫迈克·提维的男孩发现的。“我敢说，又是一个倒霉蛋，”约瑟芬奶奶嘟囔着。 “别插嘴，奶奶，”巴克特太太说。 “蒂维家，”巴克特先生继续读着书，“当我们的记者到达时，和其他人一样，挤满了兴奋的客人，但年轻的迈克·蒂维，那个幸运的赢家，似乎对整件事非常恼火。 “你们这些傻瓜没看见我在看电视吗?”他生气地说。 “我希望你不要插嘴!”这个九岁的男孩坐在一个巨大的电视机前，眼睛紧盯着屏幕，他正在看一部电影，其中一群歹徒用机关枪射击另一群歹徒。 迈克·蒂维自己身上的皮带上挂着不下18支大小不一的玩具手枪，他不时地跳上空中，用这支或那支枪发射6发子弹。

' "Quiet!" he shouted, when someone tried to ask him a question. "Didn't I tell you not to interrupt! This show's an absolute whiz-banger! It's terrific! I watch it every day. I watch all of them every day, even the rotten ones, where there's no shooting. I like the gangsters best. They're terrific, those gangsters! Especially when they start pumping each other full of lead, or flashing the old stilettos, or giving each other the one-two-three with their knuckledusters! Gosh, what wouldn't I give to be doing that myself! It's the life, I tell you! It's terrific!" ' 'That's quite enough!' snapped Grandma Josephine. 'I can't bear to listen to it!' 'Nor me,' said Grandma Georgina. 'Do all children behave like this nowadays – like these brats we've been hearing about?' 'Of course not,' said Mr Bucket, smiling at the old lady in the bed. 'Some do, of course. In fact, quite a lot of them do. But not all.'

“‘安静!’当有人想问他问题时，他喊道。 “我不是告诉过你不要插嘴吗?”这个节目绝对精彩!这是太棒了!我每天都看。 我每天都看，包括那些烂片，那些没有枪战的。 我最喜欢黑帮。 那些匪徒太厉害了!尤其是当他们开始给对方灌满铅，或者亮出旧高跟鞋，或者用指关节套给对方一拳二拳三拳的时候!天哪，我愿意付出一切去做这件事!我告诉你，这就是生活!这是太棒了!”“够了!”约瑟芬奶奶厉声说。 “我听不下去!”“我也不会，”乔治娜奶奶说。 “现在所有的孩子都这样吗——就像我们听说的那些顽童一样?”“当然不是，”巴克特先生对躺在床上的老太太微笑着说。 “当然，有些人喜欢。事实上，很多人都是这样。 但不是全部。”

'And now there's only one ticket left!' said Grandpa George. 'Quite so,' sniffed Grandma Georgina. 'And just as sure as I'll be having cabbage soup for supper tomorrow, that ticket'll go to some nasty little beast who doesn't deserve it!'

“现在只剩下一张票了!”乔治爷爷说。 “没错，”乔治娜奶奶嗤之以鼻地说。 “就像我明天晚饭要喝卷心菜汤一样，那张票肯定会落到某个讨厌的小畜生手里，他不配得到它!”