13 A Trogglehumper for the Fleshlumpeater

A Trogglehumper for the Fleshlumpeater 'They is always having fifty winks before they goes scumpering off to hunt human beans in the evening,' the BFG said. He stopped for a few moments to let Sophie have a better look. 'Giants is only sleeping every then and now,' he said. 'Not nearly as much as human beans. Human beans is crazy for sleeping. Is it ever occurring to you that a human bean who is fifty is spending about twenty years sleeping fast?' 'I must admit that never occurred to me,' Sophie said. 'You should allow it to occur to you,' the BFG said. 'Imagine it please. This human bean who says he is fifty has been fast asleep for twenty years and is not even knowing where he is! Not even doing anything! Not even thinking!' 'It's a funny thought,' Sophie said.

“它们在晚上跑去找人类的豆子之前，总是要打五十次盹儿。” 他停了一会儿，让索菲仔细看了看。 他说，巨人只是偶尔在睡觉。 “远没有人类的豆子那么多。 人类的豆子非常喜欢睡觉。 你有没有想过，一个50岁的人花了大约20年的时间睡不着觉?"我得承认我从来没有想到过这一点，"索菲娅说。 “你应该允许它出现在你的脑海里，”好心眼巨人说。 “请想象一下。这个自称五十岁的人已经沉睡了二十年，甚至不知道自己在哪里!什么都没做!想都不用想!"这想法真有趣，"索菲说。

'Exunckly,' the BFG said. 'So what I is trying to explain to you is that a human bean who says he is fifty is not fifty, he is only thirty.' 'What about me?' Sophie said. 'I am eight.' 'You is not eight at all,' the BFG said. 'Human bean babies and little chiddlers is spending half their time sleeping, so you is only four.' 'I'm eight,' Sophie said. 'You may think you is eight,' the BFG said, 'but you has only spent four years of your life with your little eyes open. You is only four and please stop higgling me. Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.' 'How much do giants sleep?' Sophie asked. 'They is never wasting much time snozzling,' the BFG said. 'Two or three hours is enough.' 'When do you sleep?' Sophie asked. 'Even less,' the BFG answered. 'I is sleeping only once in a blue baboon.' Sophie, peeping out from her pocket, examined the nine sleeping giants. They looked even more grotesque now than when they were awake. Sprawled out across the yellow plain, they

“很不幸，”好心眼巨人说。“所以我想向你解释的是，一个说自己50岁的人并不是50岁，他只有30岁。“那我呢?”苏菲说。 “我八岁。“你根本不是八岁，”好心眼巨人说。 “人类的豆荚婴儿和小孩子一半的时间都在睡觉，所以你只有四岁。"我八岁了。"索菲说。 “你可能以为自己八岁了，”好心眼巨人说，“但你睁开小眼睛才过了四年。 你才四岁，别跟我较劲了。 像你这样的小气鬼不应该和一个比你年长几百岁的老鼠尾草和洋葱讨价还价。“巨人睡多久?”苏菲问。 “他们从不浪费太多时间打呼噜，”BFG说。 “两三个小时就够了。“你什么时候睡觉?”苏菲问。 “更少。”好心眼巨人回答。 “我在一只蓝色狒狒里只睡一次。”索菲从口袋里探出身子，仔细打量着那九个熟睡的巨人。 他们现在看起来比醒着的时候更怪了。 它们在黄色平原上伸展开来

covered an area about the size of a football field. Most of them were lying on their backs with their enormous mouths wide open, and they were snoring like foghorns. The noise was awful. Suddenly the BFG gave a jump in the air. 'By gumfrog!' he cried. 'I is just having the most whoppsy-whiffling idea!' 'What?' Sophie said. 'Wait!' he cried. 'Hold your horsefeathers! Keep your skirt on! Just you wait to see what I is going to bring about!' He galloped off fast to his cave with Sophie hanging on tight to the rim of the pocket. He rolled back the stone. He entered the cave. He was very excited. He was moving quickly. 'You stay where you is in my pocket, huggybee,' he said. 'We is doing this lovely bit of buckswashling both together.' He laid aside the dream-catching net but hung on to the suitcase. He ran across to the other side of the cave and grabbed the long trumpet thing, the one he had been carrying when Sophie had first seen him in the village. With the suitcase in one hand and the trumpet in the other, he dashed out of the cave. What is he up to now? Sophie wondered.

占地面积约为一个足球场大小。 他们大多仰面躺着，张着大嘴，鼾声如雾角。 噪音太可怕了。突然，好心眼巨人在空中跳了一下。 “通过gumfrog !他叫道。“我只是有了一个最奇怪的主意!”“什么?”苏菲说。 “等等!他叫道。“拿住你的马毛!”别穿裙子!你等着瞧我要带来什么吧!”他飞快地跑回了他的洞穴，苏菲紧紧地抓着口袋的边缘。 他把石头往后滚。他进了山洞。 他非常兴奋。他移动得很快。 “你待在我的口袋里别动，哈吉比，”他说。 “我们正在一起玩这个可爱的游戏。”他把捕梦网放在一边，但仍紧握着手提箱。 他跑到山洞的另一边，抓起那只长长的小号，就是苏菲第一次在村子里见到他时他随身带着的那只。 他一手提着箱子，一手拿着小号，冲出了山洞。 他现在在干什么?苏菲很好奇。

'Peep your head up good,' the BFG said, 'then you will get a fine winkle of what is going on.' When the BFG came near to the sleeping giants, he slowed his pace. He began moving softly. He crept on his toes towards the ugly brutes. They were still snoring loudly. They looked repulsive, filthy, diabolical. The BFG tiptoed around them. He went past the Gizzardgulper, the Bloodbottler, the Meatdripper, the Childchewer. Then he stopped. He had reached the Fleshlumpeater. He pointed at him, then he looked down at Sophie and gave her a big wink. He knelt on the ground and very quietly he opened the suitcase. He took out of it the glass jar containing the terrible nightmarish trogglehumper. At that point, Sophie guessed what was going to happen next. Owch, she thought. This could be rather dangerous. She crouched lower in the pocket so that only the top of her head and her eyes were showing. She wanted to be ready to duck out of sight very fast should anything go wrong. They were about ten feet away from the Fleshlumpeater's face. The snoring-snorting noise he was making was disgusting. Every now and

“好好抬头看看，”好心眼巨人说，“你就能清楚地看到发生了什么事。”当好心眼巨人走近熟睡的巨人时，他放慢了脚步。 他开始轻轻地移动。他踮着脚尖向那些丑陋的野兽爬去。 他们还在大声地打鼾。 他们看起来令人厌恶、肮脏、邪恶。 好心眼巨人蹑手蹑脚地绕过他们。 他走过饮饮者、灌血者、滴肉者、啃孩子者。 然后他停了下来。他来到了食肉动物那里。 他指着他，然后低头看着苏菲，对她眨了一个大大的眼睛。 他跪在地上，轻轻地打开手提箱。 他从里面拿出了装着可怕的噩梦般的斗怪兽的玻璃罐子。 这时，索菲猜到了接下来会发生什么。 哎哟，她想。这可能相当危险。 她在衣袋里蹲得更低，只露出头顶和眼睛。 她想做好准备，一旦出了什么差错，就迅速躲起来。 他们离食肉动物的脸大约有十英尺远。 他发出的呼噜声让人恶心。 不时地

again a big bubble of spit formed between his two open lips and men it would burst with a splash and cover his face with saliva. Taking infinite care, the BFG unscrewed the top of the glass jar and tipped the squiggling squirming faintly scarlet trogglehumper into the wide end of his long trumpet. He put the other end of the trumpet to his lips. He aimed the instrument directly at the Fleshlumpeater's face. He took a deep breath, puffed out his cheeks and then whoof! He blew! Sophie saw a flash of pale red go darting towards the giant's face. For a split second it hovered above the face. Then it was gone. It seemed to have been sucked up the giant's nose, but it had all happened so quickly, Sophie couldn't be sure. 'We had better be skiddling away quick to where it is safe,' the BFG whispered. He trotted off for about a hundred yards, then he stopped. He crouched low to the earth. 'Now,' he said, 'we is waiting for the gun and flames to begin.'

他张开的两片嘴唇之间又形成了一个大的唾沫，唾沫飞溅，溅满了他的脸。 好心眼巨人小心翼翼地拧开玻璃罐的盖子，把那只蠕动着、微微发红的斗怪塞进他长长的小号的宽端。 他把小号的另一端放到唇边。 他把仪器对准食肉动物的脸。 他深吸了一口气，鼓起脸颊，然后呼!他吹!索菲看见一道淡红色的光向巨人的脸上射去。 有那么一瞬间，它在那张脸的上方盘旋。 然后它就消失了。它似乎被巨人的鼻子吸了进去，但这一切发生得太快了，苏菲不敢肯定。 “我们最好赶快溜到安全的地方去。”好心眼巨人低声说。 他小跑了大约一百码，然后停了下来。 他低低地蹲在地上。 “现在，”他说，“我们正等着枪响和火焰开始。”

They didn't have long to wait. The air was suddenly pierced by the most fearful roar Sophie had ever heard, and she saw the Fleshlumpeater's body, all fifty-four feet of it, rise up off the ground and fall back again with a thump. Then it began to wriggle and twist and bounce about in the most violent fashion. It was quite frightening to watch. 'Eeeow!' roared the Fleshlumpeater. 'Ayeee! Oooow!' 'He's still asleep,' the BFG whispered. 'The terrible trogglehumping nightmare is beginning to hit him.' 'Serves him right,' Sophie said. She could feel no sympathy for this great brute who ate children as though they were sugar-lumps.

他们没有等太久。 空中突然响起了一声索菲从未听过的可怕的吼声，她看见食肉动物的身体，整整54英尺高，从地面上飞了起来，然后砰的一声又落了下来。 然后，它开始以最猛烈的方式扭动、扭曲、弹跳。 看起来很吓人。 “Eeeow !食肉动物吼道。 “Ayeee !Oooow !“他还在睡觉。”好心眼巨人小声说。 可怕的斗怪噩梦开始袭击他了。"他活该，"索菲说。 她一点也不同情这个把孩子当糖块吃的大畜生。