12 Dream-Catching

Dream-Catching The Big Friendly Giant put the suitcase on the ground. He bent down low so that his enormous face was close to Sophie's. 'From now on, we is keeping as still as winky little micies,' he whispered. Sophie nodded. The misty vapour swirled around her. It made her cheeks damp and left dewdrops in her hair. The BFG opened the suitcase and took out several empty glass jars. He set them ready on the ground, with their screw tops removed. Then he stood up very straight. His head was now high up in the swirling mist and it kept disappearing, then appearing again. He was holding the long net in his right hand. Sophie, staring upwards, saw through the mist that his colossal ears were beginning to swivel out from his head. They began waving gently to and fro.

友好的巨人把箱子放在地上。 他弯下腰，把他那张巨大的脸凑近索菲的脸。 “从现在起，我们要像闪闪发光的小老鼠一样保持安静。”他低声说。 苏菲点点头。雾气在她周围旋转。 它弄湿了她的脸颊，在头发上留下了露珠。 好心眼巨人打开箱子，拿出几个空玻璃瓶。 他把它们放在地上，取下螺丝钉。 然后他站得很直。 他的头此刻高高地悬在旋转的雾中，时而消失，时而又出现。 他右手拿着那张长网。 索菲抬头看了看，透过迷雾看到他那巨大的耳朵开始从头上转了出来。 他们开始轻轻地来回挥动。

Suddenly the BFG pounced. He leaped high in the air and swung the net through the mist with a great swishing sweep of his arm. 'Got him!' he cried. 'Ajar! Ajar! Quick quick quick!' Sophie picked up a jar and held it up to him. He grabbed hold of it. He lowered the net. Very carefully he tipped something absolutely invisible from the net into the jar. He dropped the net and swiftly clapped one hand over the jar. 'The top!' he whispered. 'The jar top quick!' Sophie picked up the screw top and handed it to him. He screwed it on tight and the jar was closed. The BFG was very excited. He held the jar close to one ear and listened intently. 'It's a winksquiffler!' he whispered with a thrill in his voice. 'It's… it's… it's… it's even better. It's a phizzwizard! It's a golden phizzwizard!' Sophie stared at him. 'Oh my, oh my!' he said, holding the jar in front of him. 'This will be giving some little tottler a very happy night when I is blowing it in!' 'Is it really a good one?' Sophie asked. ' A good one?' he cried. 'It's a golden phizzwizard! It is not often I is getting one of

突然，好心眼巨人猛扑过来。他在空中高高跃起，挥舞着他的手臂在雾中挥动着网。 “让他!他叫道。“半开!半开!快，快，快!”苏菲拿起一个罐子，递给他。 他抓住了它。他放下渔网。 他小心翼翼地把一些从网里完全看不见的东西倒进罐子里。 他放下网，迅速地用一只手拍了拍罐子。 “上面!他低声说。“罐子快盖上!”索菲拿起螺旋盖递给他。 他拧得紧紧的，罐子就关上了。 好心眼巨人非常兴奋。他把罐子凑近耳朵，专心地听着。 “这是一只闪烁鸟!”他低声说，声音里带着颤抖。 “这……这……这……这甚至更好。” 这是一个菲兹巫师!这是一个金色的菲兹巫师!”索菲盯着他。 “天哪，天哪!”他说着，把罐子举到面前。 “当我把它吹进去的时候，这将给一些蹒跚学步的孩子一个非常快乐的夜晚!”“这真的是一本好书吗?”苏菲问。 “好的?”他叫道。“是一个金色的菲兹巫师!”我很少能得到其中的一个

these!' He handed the jar to Sophie and said, 'Please be still as a starfish now. I is thinking there may be a whole swarm of phizzwizards up here today. And do kindly stop breathing. You is terribly noisy down there.' 'I haven't moved a muscle,' Sophie said. 'Then don't,' the BFG answered sharply. Once again he stood up tall in the mist, holding his net at the ready. Then came the long silence, the waiting, the listening, and at last, with surprising suddenness came the leap and the swish of the net. 'Another jar!' he cried. 'Quick quick quick!' When the second dream was safely in the jar and the top was screwed down, the BFG held it to his ear. 'Oh no!' he cried. 'Oh mince my maggots! Oh swipe my swoggles!' 'What's the matter?' Sophie asked. 'It's a trogglehumper!' he shouted. His voice was filled with fury and anguish. 'Oh, save our solos!' he cried. 'Deliver us from weasels! The devil is dancing on my dibbler!'

这些!”他把罐子递给索菲，说:“现在请像海星一样安静。 我在想今天这里可能会有一大群巫师。 请停止呼吸。 你下面太吵了。"我一动也没动。"索菲说。 “那就不要。”好心眼巨人厉声回答。 他又一次在雾中高高站了起来，手里拿着他的网。 然后是长时间的沉默，等待，倾听，最后，出乎意料地突然出现了跳跃和网的嗖嗖声。 “另一个罐子!他叫道。“快，快，快!”当第二个梦被安放在瓶子里，瓶盖被拧下时，好心眼巨人把瓶子凑近耳朵。 “哦,不!他叫道。“噢，把我的蛆剁碎!”哦，刷我的手套!“出什么事了?”苏菲问。 “这是一只斗鹿!”他喊道。 他的声音里充满了愤怒和痛苦。 “噢，救救我们的独唱吧!”他叫道。 “把我们从黄鼠狼手里救出来!”魔鬼在我的盘子上跳舞!”

'What are you talking about?' Sophie said. The BFG was getting more distressed every moment. 'Oh, bash my eyebones!' he cried, waving the jar in the air. 'I come all this way to get lovely golden dreams and what is I catching?' 'What are you catching?' Sophie said. 'I is catching a frightsome trogglehumper!' he cried. 'This is a bad bad dream! It is worse than a bad dream! It is a nightmare!' 'Oh dear,' Sophie said. 'What will you do with that?' 'I is never never letting it go!' the BFG cried. 'If I do, then some poor little totder will be having the most curdbloodling time! This one is a real kicksy bog-thumper! I is exploding it as soon as I get home!' 'Nightmares are horrible,' Sophie said. 'I had one once and I woke up sweating all over.' 'With this one you would be waking up screaming all over!' the BFG said. 'This one would make your teeth stand on end! If this one got into you, your blood would be freezing to icicles and your skin would go creeping across the floor!'

“你在说什么?”苏菲说。 好心眼巨人越来越苦恼。 “噢，揍我的眼骨!”他喊道，在空中挥舞着罐子。 “我大老远跑过来就是为了得到美好的金色梦，可我钓到了什么?”“你在钓什么?”苏菲说。 “我在抓一只可怕的斗鹿!”他叫道。 “这是一个糟糕的噩梦!”这比噩梦还糟糕!这是一场噩梦!“哦，天哪，”索菲说。 “你拿它怎么办?”“我永远永远不会放手!”好心眼巨人叫道。 “如果我这样做了，那么某个可怜的小家伙就要倒霉了!”这是一个真正的踢沼泽thumper!我一到家就把它炸了!“噩梦太可怕了，”索菲说。 “有一次我喝了一杯，醒来时浑身是汗。“如果是这个，你会尖叫着醒来的!”好心眼巨人说。 “这个会让你的牙齿竖起来的!”如果它进入你体内，你的血液会冻成冰柱，你的皮肤会在地板上蠕动!”

'Is it as bad as that?' 'It's worse!' cried the BFG. 'This is a real whoppsy grobswitcher!' 'You said it was a trogglehumper,' Sophie told him. 'It is a trogglehumper!' cried the exasperated BFG. 'But it is also a bogthumper and a grobswitcher! It is all three riddled into one! Oh, I is so glad I is clutching it tight. Ah, you wicked beastie, you!' he cried, holding up the jar and staring into it. 'Never more is you going to be bunkdoodling the poor little human-beaney totders!' Sophie, who was also staring into the glass jar, cried out, 'I can see it! There's something in there!' 'Of course there is something in there,' the BFG said. 'You is looking at a frightsome trogglehumper.' 'But you told me dreams were invisible.' 'They is always invisible until they is captured,' the BFG told her. 'After that they is losing a little of their invisibility. We is seeing this one very clearly.'

“有那么糟吗?”“更糟!”好心眼巨人叫道。 “这是一个真正的惊人的转变!”"你说那是一只斗怪。"索菲告诉他。 “这是一只斗鹿!”气急了的好心眼巨人叫道。 “但它也是一个沼泽和一个grobswitch !”它是三者合二为一!哦，我很高兴我紧紧抓住了它。 啊，你这个邪恶的畜生!他喊道，举起罐子，盯着里面看。 “你再也不能给这些可怜的小人妖涂脂抹粉了!”苏菲也在盯着玻璃罐子，她叫道:“我看见了!里面有东西!“里面当然有东西，”好心眼巨人说。 “你现在看到的是一只可怕的斗鹿。”“可是你告诉我梦是看不见的。“他们在被抓住之前总是隐形的，”好心眼巨人告诉她。 “在那之后，他们就失去了一点隐形能力。 我们非常清楚地看到了这一点。