10 Mrs Twit Gets a Stretching

Mrs Twit Gets a Stretching Mr Twit led Mrs Twit outdoors where he had everything ready for the great stretching. He had one hundred balloons and lots of string. He had a gas cylinder for filling the balloons. He had fixed an iron ring into the ground. 'Stand here,' he said, pointing to the iron ring. He then tied Mrs Twit's ankles to the iron ring. When that was done, he began filling the balloons with gas. Each balloon was on a long string and when it was filled with gas it pulled on its string, trying to go up and up. Mr Twit tied the ends of the strings to the top half of Mrs Twit's body. Some he tied round her neck, some under her arms, some to her wrists and some even to her hair. Soon there were fifty coloured balloons floating in the air above Mrs Twit's head. 'Can you feel them stretching you?' asked Mr Twit.

推特先生带着推特太太到户外，在那里他已经准备好了一切，准备做一次伟大的伸展运动。 他有一百个气球和许多绳子。 他有一个充气的气瓶。 他把一个铁环固定在地上。 “站在这儿，”他指着那只铁戒指说。 然后他把特威特太太的脚踝绑在铁环上。 这些工作完成后，他开始给气球充气。 每个气球都系在一根长长的绳子上，当气球充满气体时，它就拉着绳子，试图不断上升。 特威特先生把绳子的两端系在特威特夫人身体的上半部分。 他把一些绑在她的脖子上，一些绑在她的胳膊下，一些绑在她的手腕上，有些甚至绑在她的头发上。 很快就有五十个彩色气球漂浮在特维特夫人头顶的空中。 “你能感觉到它们在拉伸你吗?”推特先生问。

'I can! I can!' cried Mrs Twit. 'They're stretching me like mad.' He put on another ten balloons. The upward pull became very strong. Mrs Twit was quite helpless now. With her feet

“我能!”我能!特威特太太叫道。 “他们把我逼疯了。”他又放了十个气球。 向上的拉力变得非常强。 特威特太太现在很无助。 用她的脚

tied to the ground and her arms pulled upwards by the balloons, she was unable to move. She was a prisoner, and Mr Twit had intended to go away and leave her like that for a couple of days and nights to teach her a lesson. In fact, he was just about to leave when Mrs Twit opened her big mouth and said something silly. 'Are you sure my feet are tied properly to the ground?' she gasped. 'If those strings around my ankles break, it'll be goodbye for me!' And that's what gave Mr Twit his second nasty idea.

她被绑在地上，手臂被气球往上拉，动弹不得。 她是一个囚犯，特维特先生本打算走开，让她就那样呆上几天几夜，给她一个教训。 事实上，他正要离开的时候，特威特太太张开了她的大嘴，说了些愚蠢的话。 “你确定我的脚绑好了吗?”她喘着气说。 “如果我脚踝上的绳子断了，我就完了!”这就是Twit先生第二个讨厌的想法的来源。