12 Mrs Twit Comes Ballooning Down

Mrs Twit Comes Ballooning Down Mrs Twit may have been ugly and she may have been beastly, but she was not stupid. High up there in the sky, she had a bright idea. 'If I can get rid of some of these balloons,' she said to herself, 'I will stop going up and start to come down.'

推特夫人可能很丑，也可能很凶恶，但她并不笨。 在高高的天空中，她有了一个好主意。 “如果我能摆脱这些气球，”她自言自语道，“我就会停止上升，开始下降。”

She began biting through the strings that held the balloons to her wrists and arms and neck and hair. Each time she bit through a string and let the balloon float away, the upward pull got less and her rate of climb slowed down. When she had bitten through twenty strings, she stopped going up altogether. She stayed still in the air. She bit through one more string. Very, very slowly, she began to float downwards. It was a calm day. There was no wind at all. And because of this, Mrs Twit had gone absolutely straight up. She now began to come absolutely straight down. As she floated gently down, Mrs Twit's petticoat billowed out like a parachute, showing her long knickers. It was a grand sight on a glorious day, and thousands of birds came flying in from miles around to stare at this extraordinary old woman in the sky.

她开始撕咬系在她手腕、胳膊、脖子和头发上的绳子。 每次她咬断一根绳子，让气球飘走，向上的拉力就会变小，她的上升速度就会减慢。 当她穿过二十根琴弦时，她完全停止了上升。 她在空中一动不动。 她又咬断了一根绳子。 慢慢地，她开始往下浮。 这是一个平静的日子。一点风也没有。 正因为如此，特威特夫人完全是直挺挺的。 她现在开始完全径直下来了。 特维特夫人的衬裙像降落伞一样鼓了起来，露出了她的长内裤。 这是一个阳光灿烂的日子里的壮观景象，成千上万的鸟从几英里外飞来，凝视着天空中这位非凡的老妇人。