14 The House, the Tree and the Monkey Cage

The House, the Tree and the Monkey Cage But that's enough of that. We can't go on forever watching these two disgusting people doing disgusting things to each other. We must get ahead with the story. Here is a picture of Mr and Mrs Twit's house and garden. Some house! It looks like a prison. And not a window anywhere.

《房子、树和猴笼》这就够了。 我们不能永远看着这两个恶心的人对彼此做恶心的事。 我们必须把故事讲下去。 这是特威特夫妇的房子和花园的照片。 一些房子!它看起来像个监狱。 哪儿都没有窗户。

'Who wants windows?' Mr Twit had said when they were building it. 'Who wants every Tom, Dick and Harry peeping in to see what you're doing?' It didn't occur to Mr Twit that windows were meant mainly for looking out of, not for looking into.

“谁想要窗户?”推特先生在建造的时候说过。 “谁想让每个汤姆、迪克和哈利都偷窥你在做什么?”特朗普没有想到，窗户主要是用来向外看的，而不是用来向内看的。

And what do you think of that ghastly garden? Mrs Twit was the gardener. She was very good at growing thistles and stinging-nettles. 'I always grow plenty of spiky thistles and plenty of stinging-nettles,' she used to say. 'They keep out nasty nosey little children.' Near the house you can see Mr Twit's workshed. To one side there is The Big Dead Tree. It never has any leaves on it because it's dead. And not far from the tree, you can see the monkey cage. There are four monkeys in it. They belong to Mr Twit. You will hear about them later.

你觉得那个可怕的花园怎么样? 特威特太太是园丁。 她很擅长种植蓟和荨麻。 “我总是种很多带刺的蓟和荨麻，”她常说。 “他们把讨厌的、爱管闲事的小孩子拒之门外。”在房子附近，你可以看到特维特先生的工作间。 一边是大死树。 它没有叶子，因为它已经死了。 离树不远，你可以看到猴笼。 里面有四只猴子。 它们属于推特先生。你以后会听到的。