17 The Great Upside Down Monkey Circus

The Great Upside Down Monkey Circus Now for the monkeys. The four monkeys in the cage in the garden were all one family. They were Muggle-Wump and his wife and their two small children. But what on earth were Mr and Mrs Twit doing with monkeys in their garden? Well, in the old days, they had both worked in a circus as monkey trainers. They used to teach monkeys to do tricks and to dress up in human clothes and to smoke pipes and all the rest of that nonsense.

大倒立猴子马戏团现在轮到猴子了。 花园里笼子里的四只猴子都是一家人。 他们是麻瓜瓦普和他的妻子，还有他们两个年幼的孩子。 但是推特先生和推特太太究竟在他们的花园里养猴子干什么呢? 嗯，在过去，他们俩都在马戏团当驯猴师。 他们以前教猴子表演把戏，教它们穿上人类的衣服，教它们抽烟斗，还有其他一些无聊的东西。

Today, although they were retired, Mr Twit still wanted to train monkeys. It was his dream that one day he would own the first GREAT UPSIDE DOWN MONKEY CIRCUS in the world. That meant that the monkeys had to do everything upside down. They had to dance upside down (on their hands with their feet in the air). They had to play football upside down. They had to balance one on top of the other upside down, with Muggle-Wump at the bottom and the smallest baby monkey at the very top. They even had to eat and drink upside down and that is not an easy thing to do because the food and water has to go up your throat instead of down it. In fact, it is almost impossible, but the monkeys simply had to do it otherwise they got nothing. All this sounds pretty silly to you and me. It sounded pretty silly to the monkeys, too. They absolutely hated having to do this upside down nonsense day after day. It made them giddy standing on their heads for hours on end. Sometimes the two small monkey children would faint with so much blood going to their heads. But

今天，虽然他们都退休了，特威特先生仍然想训练猴子。 他的梦想是，有一天他将拥有世界上第一个伟大的倒立猴子马戏团。 这意味着猴子们必须颠倒着做所有的事情。 他们必须倒立着(双手朝天，双脚朝天)跳舞。 他们不得不倒着踢足球。 他们必须把一个倒立在另一个上面，让麻瓜旺在下面，最小的小猴子在上面。 他们甚至不得不倒着吃东西和喝水，这不是一件容易的事，因为食物和水必须进入你的喉咙，而不是从喉咙里进去。 事实上，这几乎是不可能的，但猴子们只是不得不这样做，否则它们什么也得不到。 这一切在你我看来都很愚蠢。 猴子听起来也很傻。 他们非常讨厌日复一日地做这种乱七八糟的事情。 这使他们连续几个小时倒立，头晕目眩。 有时，这两个小猴子孩子会因为血流到头上而晕倒。 但

Mr Twit didn't care about that. He kept them practising for six hours every day and if they didn't do as they were told, Mrs Twit would soon come running with her beastly stick.

推特对此并不在意。 他让他们每天练习6个小时，如果他们不照他说的做，特威特太太很快就会拿着她那可恶的棍子跑过来。