14 Dreams

Dreams The Big Friendly Giant was seated at the great table in his cave and he was doing his homework. Sophie sat cross-legged on the table-top near by, watching him at work. The glass jar containing the one and only good dream they had caught that day stood between them. The BFG, with great care and patience, was printing something on a piece of paper with an enormous pencil. 'What are you writing?' Sophie asked him. 'Every dream is having its special label on the bottle,' the BFG said. 'How else could I be finding the one I am wanting in a hurry?' 'But can you really and truly tell what sort of a dream it's going to be simply by listening to it?' Sophie asked. 'I can,' the BFG said, not looking up. 'But how? Is it by the way it hums and buzzes?'

友好的巨人坐在山洞里的大桌子旁，正在做作业。 索菲盘腿坐在旁边的桌上，看着他工作。 那只装着他们那天做的唯一一个好梦的玻璃罐子挡在他们中间。 好心眼巨人正小心翼翼地用一支巨大的铅笔在一张纸上写着什么东西。 “你在写什么?”索菲问他。 “每个梦的瓶子上都有一个特殊的标签，”BFG说。 “不然我怎么能这么匆忙地找到我想要的呢?””“但是，你能仅仅听一听就真的知道这是一个什么样的梦吗?苏菲问。 “我可以。”好心眼巨人头也不抬地说。 但如何?是不是顺便说一下，它嗡嗡作响?”

'You is less or more right,' the BFG said. 'Every dream in the world is making a different sort of buzzy-hum music. And these grand swashboggling ears of mine is able to read that music.' 'By music, do you mean tunes?' 'I is not meaning tunes.' 'Then what do you mean?' 'Human beans is having their own music, right or left?' 'Right,' Sophie said. 'Lots of music.'

“你多少是对的，”好心眼巨人说。 世界上的每一个梦都在发出不同的嗡嗡声。 我这双大耳朵能读懂这些音乐。”“你说的音乐是指曲调吗?”“我不是指曲子。”“那你是什么意思?“人类的豆子有自己的音乐，是左是右?”“好的，”索菲说。 “有很多音乐。”

'And sometimes human beans is very overcome when they is hearing wonderous music. They is getting shivers down their spindels. Right or left?' 'Right,' Sophie said. 'So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same.' 'That's about right,' Sophie said. 'But because of these jumpsquiffling ears of mine,' the BFG said, 'I is not only able to hear the music that dreams is making but I is understanding it also.' 'What do you mean understanding it?' Sophie said. 'I can read it,' the BFG said. 'It talks to me. It is like a langwitch.' 'I find that just a little hard to believe,' Sophie said. 'I'll bet you is also finding it hard to believe in quogwinkles,' the BFG said, 'and how they is visiting us from the stars.' 'Of course I don't believe that,' Sophie said.

“有时候，当人类听到美妙的音乐时，他们会非常兴奋。 他们感到浑身发冷。 向右还是向左?“好的，”索菲说。 “所以音乐对他们说了些什么。 它在传递一个信息。我不认为人类豆子知道这个信息是什么，但他们同样喜欢它。"对极了，"索菲说。 “但是因为我这双跳来跳去的耳朵，”好心眼巨人说，“我不仅能听到梦发出的音乐，而且还能理解它。“你说理解是什么意思?”苏菲说。 “我能读，”好心眼巨人说。 “它在跟我说话。就像langwitch。"我觉得有点难以置信，"索菲说。 “我敢打赌，你也很难相信有侏儒，”好心眼巨人说，“以及它们是如何从其他星球来拜访我们的。"我当然不相信，"索菲说。

The BFG regarded her gravely with those huge eyes of his. 'I hope you will forgive me,' he said, 'if I tell you that human beans is thinking they is very clever, but they is not. They is nearly all of them notmuchers and squeakpips.' 'I beg your pardon,' Sophie said. 'The matter with human beans,' the BFG went on, 'is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles. Of course quogwinkles is existing. I is meeting them oftenly. I is even chittering to them.' He turned away contemptuously from Sophie and resumed his writing. Sophie moved over to read what he had written so far. The letters were printed big and bold, but were not very well formed. Here is what it said: THIS DREAM IS ABOUT HOW I IS SAVING MY TEECHER FROM DROWNING. I IS DIVING INTO THE RIVER FROM A HIGH BRIDGE AND I IS DRAGGING MY TEECHER TO THE BANK AND THEN I IS GIVING HIM THE KISS OF DEATH…

好心眼巨人用那双大眼睛严肃地打量着她。 “我希望你能原谅我，”他说，“如果我告诉你人类的豆子自以为很聪明，但它们并不聪明。 他们几乎都是些无足轻重的小人物。"请原谅，"索菲说。 “人类豆子的问题是，”好心眼巨人继续说，“他们绝对拒绝相信任何东西，除非他们真的在自己的鼻子前面看到。 当然，quogwinkles是存在的。 我经常和他们见面。 我甚至对他们叽叽喳喳。”他轻蔑地转过身去，继续写他的书。 索菲走过去读他写的东西。 这些字母印得又大又粗，但排版不太好。 它是这样说的:这个梦是关于我如何救我溺水的老师。 我从一座高桥上跳入河中，把我的老师拖到岸边，然后给了他一个死亡之吻……

'The kiss of what?' Sophie asked. The BFG stopped writing and raised his head slowly. His eyes rested on Sophie's face. 'I is telling you once before,' he said quietly, 'that I is never having a chance to go to school. I is full of mistakes. They is not my fault. I do my best. You is a lovely little girl, but please remember that you is not exactly Miss Knoweverything yourself.' 'I'm sorry' Sophie said. 'I really am. It is very rude of me to keep correcting you.' The BFG gazed at her for a while longer, then he bent his head again to his slow laborious writing. 'Tell me honestly,' Sophie said. 'If you blew this dream into my bedroom when I was asleep, would I really and truly start dreaming about how I saved my teacher from drowning by diving off the bridge?'

“什么吻?”苏菲问。 好心眼巨人停止了写作，慢慢抬起头来。 他的目光落在索菲的脸上。 “我以前告诉过你一次，”他平静地说，“我永远没有机会上学了。 它充满了错误。这不是我的错。 我尽我所能。你是个可爱的小女孩，但请记住，你自己也不是什么都懂的小姐。"对不起，"索菲说。 “真的。我老是纠正你，真是太失礼了。”好心眼巨人又盯着她看了一会儿，然后又低下头开始缓慢而吃力地写作。 "老实告诉我吧。"索菲说。 “如果你在我睡觉的时候把这个梦吹到我的卧室里，我真的会开始梦到我是如何从桥上跳下救了我溺水的老师吗?”

'More,' the BFG said. 'A lot more. But I cannot be squibbling the whole gropefluncking dream on a titchy bit of paper. Of course there is more.' The BFG laid down his pencil and placed one massive ear close to the jar. For about thirty seconds he listened intently. 'Yes,' he said, nodding his great head solemnly up and down. 'This dream is continuing very nice. It has a very dory-hunky ending.' 'How does it end?' Sophie said. 'Please tell me.' 'You would be dreaming,' the BFG said, 'that the morning after you is saving the teacher from the river, you is arriving at school and you is seeing all the five hundred pupils sitting in the assembly hall, and all the teachers as well, and the head teacher is then standing up and saying, "I is wanting the whole school to give three cheers for Sophie because she is so brave and is saving the life of our fine arithmatic teacher, Mr Figgins, who was unfortunately pushed off the bridge into the river by our gym-teacher, Miss Amelia Upscotch. So three cheers for Sophie!" And the whole school is then cheering like mad and

“再来。”好心眼巨人说。“更多。 但我不能把整个“不及格”的梦想写在一张小小的纸上。 当然还有更多。”好心眼巨人放下铅笔，把一只粗大的耳朵放在罐子旁边。 他聚精会神地听了大约三十秒钟。 “是的，”他说，一本正经地上下点了点头。 “这个梦继续得很好。 它有一个非常性感的结局。“它是怎么结束的?”苏菲说。 “请告诉我。' '你会做梦,“仙桃》说:“早上你节省老师从河里后,你到达学校,你看到的所有五百名学生坐在礼堂,和所有的老师和班主任就站了起来,说:“我想整个学校给欢呼三声索菲娅,因为她是如此的勇敢,救了我们的生命好数学老师,Figgins先生,不幸的是，她被我们的体育老师阿米莉亚·厄普斯科特小姐从桥上推到了河里。 为苏菲欢呼三声!”然后整个学校都在疯狂地欢呼