11 Journey to Dream Country

Journey to Dream Country After the mad frobscottle party was over, Sophie settled herself again on top of the enormous table. 'You is feeling better now?' asked the Big Friendly Giant. 'Much better, thank you,' Sophie said. 'Whenever I is feeling a bit scrotty,' the BFG said, 'a few gollops of frobscottle is always making me hopscotchy again.' 'I must say it's quite an experience,' Sophie said. 'It's a razztwizzler,' the BFG said. 'It's gloriumptious.' He turned away and strode across the cave and picked up his dream-catching net. 'I is galloping off now,' he said, 'to catch some more whoppsy-whiffling dreams for my collection. I is doing this every day without missing. Is you wishing to come with me?' 'Not me, thank you very much!' Sophie said. 'Not with those other giants lurking outside!'

疯狂的泡泡游戏派对结束后，索菲又坐在那张大桌子上。 “你现在感觉好些了吗?”友善的大巨人问。 "好多了，谢谢你。"索菲说。 “每当我感到有点不舒服的时候，”好心眼巨人说，“喝几杯雪花糖就又让我不舒服了。”"我得说这是一次很好的经历，"索菲说。 他说:“这是一部惊心动魄的电影。” “gloriumptious。”他转过身，大步穿过洞穴，拿起他的捕梦网。 “我现在要疾驰而去了，”他说，“再去抓一些吹口哨的梦来收藏。 我每天都这样做，没有错过。 你愿意和我一起去吗?“我不要，非常感谢!”苏菲说。 “还有那些巨人潜伏在外面!”

'I is snuggling you very cosy into the pocket of my waistcoat,' the BFG said. 'Then no one is seeing you.' Before Sophie could protest, he had picked her up off the table and popped her into the waistcoat pocket. There was plenty of room in there. 'Is you wishing for a little hole to peep out from?' he asked her. 'There's one here already' she said. She had found a small hole in the pocket, and when she put one eye close to it, she could see out very well indeed. She watched the BFG as he bent down and filled his suitcase with empty glass jars. He closed the lid, picked up the suitcase in one hand, took the pole with the net on the end in the other hand, and marched towards the entrance of the cave. As soon as he was outside, the BFG set off across the great hot yellow wasteland where the blue rocks lay and the dead trees stood and where all the other giants were skulking about. Sophie, squatting low on her heels in the pocket of the leather waistcoat, had one eye glued to the little hole. She saw the group of enormous giants about three hundred yards ahead.

“我正把你舒服地搂在我背心的口袋里呢。” “那就没人看见你了。”索菲还没来得及抗议，他就把她从桌上抱起来，塞进马甲口袋里。 里面有很多地方。 “你是不是希望有个小洞可以从里面探出来?”他问她。 “这里已经有一个了，”她说。 她在口袋里发现了一个小洞，当她把一只眼睛凑近它时，她确实能看得很清楚。 她看着好心眼巨人弯下腰，把他的箱子装满了空玻璃瓶。 他盖上盖子，一手拿起手提箱，另一手拿着末端挂着网的杆子，向洞口走去。 一到外面，好心眼巨人就出发了，穿过那片炙热的黄色荒原，那里有蓝色的岩石和枯树，所有的巨人都在那里躲躲藏藏。 索菲蹲在皮马甲的口袋里，一只眼睛紧盯着那个小洞。 她看见前面大约三百码的地方有一群巨大的巨人。

'Hold your breaths!' the BFG whispered down to her. 'Cross your figglers! Here we go! We is going right past all these other giants! Is you seeing that whopping great one, the one nearest to us?' 'I see him,' Sophie whispered back, quivering. 'That is the horriblest of them all. And the biggest of them all. He is called the Fleshlumpeating Giant.' 'I don't want to hear about him,' Sophie said. 'He is fifty-four feet high,' the BFG said softly as he jogged along. 'And he is swolloping human beans like they is sugar-lumps, two or three at a time.' 'You're making me nervous,' Sophie said. 'I is nervous myself,' the BFG whispered. 'I always gets as jumpsy as a joghopper when the Fleshlumpeating Giant is around.' 'Keep away from him,' Sophie pleaded. 'Not possible,' the BFG answered. 'He is galloping easily two times as quicksy as me.' 'Shall we turn back?' Sophie said. 'Turning back is worse,' the BFG said. 'If they is seeing me running away, they is all giving chase and throwing rocks.'

“屏住呼吸!”好心眼巨人低声对她说。 “发誓!”我们开始吧!我们正经过这些巨人!你看到的是离我们最近的那个巨大的黑洞吗?"我看见他了。"索菲颤抖着小声回答。 “这是最可怕的。 也是其中最大的一个。 他被称为食肉巨人。"我不想听他的事，"索菲说。 “他有54英尺高，”好心眼巨人一边小跑一边轻声说。 他像吞糖块一样吞下人类的豆子，一次吞下两三个。"你让我很紧张。"索菲说。 “我自己也很紧张。” “当食肉巨人在我身边的时候，我总是跳得像只小羚羊。“离他远点，”索菲恳求道。 “不可能。”好心眼巨人回答。 他的速度是我的两倍。“我们回去好吗?”苏菲说。 “回头更糟糕，”好心眼巨人说。 “如果他们看到我跑开了，他们都会追我，还会扔石头。”

'They would never eat you though, would they?' Sophie asked. 'Giants is never guzzling other giants,' the BFG said. 'They is fighting and squarreling a lot with each other, but never guzzling. Human beans is more tasty to them.' The giants had already spotted the BFG and all heads were turned, watching him as he jogged forward. He was aiming to pass well to the right of the group. Through her little peep-hole, Sophie saw the Fleshlumpeating Giant moving over to intercept them. He didn't hurry. He just loped over casually to a point where the BFG would have to pass. The others loped after him. Sophie counted nine of them altogether and she recognized the Bloodbottler in the middle of them. They were bored. They had nothing to do until nightfall. There was an air of menace about them as they loped slowly across the plain with long lolloping strides, heading for the BFG. 'Here comes the runty one!' boomed the Fleshlumpeater. 'Ho-ho there, runty one! Where is you splatch-winkling away to in such a hefty hurry?' He shot out an enormous arm and grabbed

“不过它们永远不会吃掉你的，对吧?”苏菲问。 “巨人永远不会吞噬其他巨人，”BFG说。 “他们经常打架和争吵，但从不狂饮。 人类的豆子对它们来说更美味。”巨人们已经发现了好心眼巨人，所有的人都转过头来，看着他向前小跑。 他的目标是把球传到队伍的右边。 从她的小偷窥孔里，索菲看到了肉化巨人正走过来拦截他们。 他不着急。他只是漫不经心地走到一个BFG必须经过的地方。 其他人跟着他跑。 索菲数了数一共是九个，她认出了其中一个就是装血人。 他们很无聊。天黑前他们无事可做。 他们迈着长长的大步，慢慢地穿过平原，朝好心眼巨人走去，周围弥漫着一种威胁的气氛。 “小矮子来了!”食肉动物大声说。 “嗬嗬，小矮子!”你这么急着要去哪儿?”他伸出一只粗大的手臂，一把抓住

the BFG by the hair. The BFG didn't struggle. He simply stopped and stood quite still and said, 'Be so kind as to be letting go of my hair, Fleshlumpeater.' The Fleshlumpeater released him and stepped back a pace. The other giants stood around, waiting for the fun to start. 'Now then, you little grobsquiffler!' boomed the Fleshlumpeater. 'We is all of us wanting to know where you is galloping off to every day in the daytime. Nobody ought to be galloping off to anywhere until it is getting dark. The human beans could easily be spotting you and starting a giant hunt and we is not wanting that to happen, is we not?' 'We is not!' shouted the other giants. 'Go back to your cave, runty one!' 'I is not galloping to any human bean country,' the BFG said. 'I is going to other places.' 'I is thinking,' said the Fleshlumpeater, 'that you is catching human beans and keeping them as pets!' 'Right you is!' cried the Bloodbottler. 'Just now I is hearing him chittering away to one of them in his cave!'

抓住好心眼巨人的头发。BFG没有挣扎。 他只是停了下来，一动不动地站着，说:“食肉者，劳驾放开我的头发吧。”食肉动物放开了他，后退了一步。 其他巨人站在周围，等着好戏开始。 “好了，你这个小grogrosquifller !”食肉动物大声说。 “我们大家都想知道你每天白天跑到哪儿去了。 在天黑之前，谁也不应该飞奔到任何地方去。 人类豆子很容易就会发现你，然后开始一场大规模的狩猎我们不希望发生这种事，不是吗?“我们不是!”其他巨人喊道。 “回你的洞里去吧，小矮子!”“我不是要跑到任何有人类的豆荚国家去。”BFG说。 “我要去别的地方。“我在想，”食肉动物说，“你在抓人类的豆子，把它们当宠物养!”“你说得对!”装血人喊道。 “刚才我听见他在他的山洞里跟他们中的一个叽叽喳喳地说个不停!”

'You is welcome to go and search my cave from frack to bunt,' the BFG answered. 'You can go looking into every crook and nanny. There is no human beans or stringy beans or runner beans or jelly beans or any other beans in here.' Sophie crouched still as a mouse inside the BFG's pocket. She hardly dared breathe. She was terrified she might sneeze. The slightest sound or movement would give her away. Through the tiny peep-hole she watched the giants clustering around the poor BFG. How revolting they were! All of them had piggy little eyes and enormous mouths with thick sausage lips. When the Fleshlumpeater was speaking, she got a glimpse of his tongue. It was jet black, like a slab of black steak. Every one of them was more than twice as tall as the BFG. Suddenly, the Fleshlumpeater shot out two enormous hands and grabbed the BFG around the waist. He tossed him high in the air and shouted, 'Catch him, Manhugger!' The Manhugger caught him. The other giants spread out quickly in a large circle, each giant about twenty yards from his neighbour, preparing for the game they were going to play. Now the

“欢迎你到我的山洞里来搜一搜，从脚印搜到猎物，”好心眼巨人回答。 “你可以去调查每一个骗子和保姆。 这里没有人豆、豆筋豆、芸豆、软糖豆或任何其他豆。”索菲像只老鼠一样蹲在好心眼巨人的口袋里。 她几乎不敢呼吸。她害怕自己会打喷嚏。 最轻微的声音或动作都会暴露她的身份。 透过小偷窥孔，她看到巨人们聚集在可怜的好心眼巨人周围。 他们是多么令人讨厌啊!他们都长着猪一样的小眼睛，大嘴巴上长着厚厚的香肠嘴唇。 食肉动物说话的时候，她瞥见了它的舌头。 它是乌黑的，像一块黑牛排。 他们每个人的身高都是BFG的两倍多。 突然，食肉动物伸出两只巨大的手，一把抓住好心眼巨人的腰。 他把他高高抛向空中，喊道:“抓住他，抓人鬼!”那个人抓住了他。 其他巨人迅速散开成一个大圆圈，每个巨人离他的邻居大约二十码，准备玩他们要玩的游戏。 现在,