15 The Great Plan

The Great Plan 'We've absolutely got to stop them!' Sophie cried. 'Put me back in your pocket quick and we'll chase after them and warn everyone in England they're coming.' 'Redunculus and um-possiple,' the BFG said. 'They is going two times as fast as me and they is finishing their guzzle before we is halfway.' 'But we can't just sit here doing nothing!' Sophie cried. 'How many girls and boys are they going to eat tonight?' 'Many' the BFG said. 'The Fleshlumpeating Giant alone has a most squadding whoppsy appetite.' 'Will he snatch them out of their beds while they're sleeping?' 'Like peas out of a poddle,' the BFG said. 'I can't bear to think of it!' Sophie cried. 'Then don't,' the BFG said. 'For years and years I is sitting here on this very rock every night after night when they is galloping away, and I is

“我们一定要阻止他们!”索菲娅哭了。 “快把我放回你的口袋里，我们去追他们，通知英国的每一个人他们来了。“红花和——可能的。”好心眼巨人说。 “它们的速度是我的两倍，我们还没走到一半，它们就已经狼吞虎咽了。”“可我们不能光坐在这里什么也不做!”索菲娅哭了。 “他们今晚要吃多少男孩和女孩?”“很多，”好心眼巨人说。 “只有食肉巨人有一种最惊人的胃口。“他会在他们睡觉的时候把他们从床上抓起来吗?”“就像豌豆从豆荚里冒出来一样，”好心眼巨人说。 “我想都不敢想!”索菲娅哭了。 “那就别去，”好心眼巨人说。 “年复一年，我每天晚上都坐在这片岩石上，看着它们疾驰而去

feeling so sad for all the human beans they is going to gobble up. But I has had to get used to it. There is nothing I can do. If I wasn't a titchy little runty giant only twenty-four feet high then I would be stopping them. But that is absolutely out of the window.' 'Do you always know where they're going?' Sophie asked. 'Always,' the BFG said. 'Every night they is yelling at me as they go booding past. The other day they was yelling "We is off to Mrs Sippi and Miss Souri to guzzle them both!"' 'Disgusting,' Sophie said. 'I hate them.' She and the Big Friendly Giant sat quietly side by side on the blue rock in the gathering dusk. Sophie had never felt so helpless in her life. After a while, she stood up and cried out, 'I can't stand it! Just think of those poor girls and boys who are going to be eaten alive in a few hours' time! We can't just sit here and do nothing! We've got to go after those brutes!' 'No,' the BFG said. 'We must!' Sophie cried. 'Why won't you go?' The BFG sighed and shook his head firmly. 'I has told you five or six times,' he said, 'and the

为他们将要吞下的人类豆子感到难过。 但我不得不习惯它。 我什么也做不了。 如果我不是一个只有24英尺高的瘦小巨人，我就会阻止他们。 但这绝对是不可能的。“你总是知道他们要去哪儿吗?”苏菲问。 “总是这样，”好心眼巨人说。“每天晚上他们从我身边经过时都对我大喊大叫。 有一天，他们大喊:“我们要去找西皮太太和苏里小姐，把他们两个都吃掉!”"真恶心。"索菲说。 “我讨厌他们。”暮色渐浓，她和友善的巨人静静地并肩坐在蓝色的岩石上。 索菲一生中从未感到如此无助过。 过了一会儿，她站起来喊道:“我受不了了!想想那些可怜的男孩和女孩吧，再过几个小时他们就要被生吞活剥了!我们不能坐在这里什么都不做!我们得去追那些畜生!“不，”好心眼巨人说。 “我们必须!”索菲娅哭了。“你为什么不去?”好心眼巨人叹了口气，坚定地摇了摇头。 “我已经告诉过你五六次了，”他说，“而且

third will be the last. I is never showing myself to human beans.' 'Why ever not?' 'If I do, they will be putting me in the zoo with all the jiggyraffes and cattypiddlers.' 'Nonsense,' Sophie said. 'And they will be sending you straight back to a norphanage,' the BFG went on. 'Grown-up human beans is not famous for their kindnesses. They is all squifflerotters and grinksludgers.' 'That simply isn't true!' Sophie cried angrily. 'Some of them are very kind indeed.' 'Who?' the BFG said. 'Name one.' 'The Queen of England,' Sophie said. 'You can't call her a squifflerotter or a grinksludger.' 'Well…' the BFG said. 'You can't call her a squeakpip or a notmucher either,' Sophie said, getting angrier and angrier. 'The Fleshlumpeater is longing dearly to guzzle her up,' the BFG said, smiling a little now.

第三个将是最后一个。我永远不会把自己暴露在芸豆面前。“为什么不呢?”“如果我这样做了，他们会把我关在动物园里，和那些摇尾鼠和猫宝宝们在一起。”“胡说，”索菲说。 “他们会把你直接送回孤儿院的。”BFG接着说。 “成年人类的豆子并不以善良闻名。 他们都是些胡言乱语的人。“这根本不是真的!”索菲生气地叫道。 “他们中有些人确实很善良。“谁?好心眼巨人说。 的名字。"是英国女王，"索菲说。 “你不能说她是会乱喷的人，也不能说她是会吐槽的人。“嗯……”好心眼巨人说。 “你也不能叫她吱吱叫或不怎么叫。”索菲说，她越来越生气了。 “食肉动物非常想把她吃掉。”好心眼巨人说，现在露出了一丝微笑。

'Who, the Queen?' Sophie cried, aghast. 'Yes,' the BFG answered. 'Fleshlumpeater says he is never eating a queen and he thinks perhaps she has an especially scrumdiddlyumptious flavour.' 'How dare he!' Sophie cried. 'But Fleshlumpeater says there is too many soldiers around her Palace and he dursent try it.' 'He'd better not!' Sophie said.

“谁，女王吗?”索菲叫道，吓呆了。 “是的，”好心眼巨人回答。“食肉者说他从来没有吃过女王，他认为女王可能有一种特别美味的味道。“他怎么敢!”索菲娅哭了。 “但是肉怪说她的宫殿周围有太多的士兵，他不愿意试试。“他最好不要!”苏菲说。

'He is also saying he would like very much to guzzle one of the soldiers in his pretty red suit but he is worried about those big black furry hats they is wearing. He thinks they might be sticking in his diroat.' 'I hope he chokes,' Sophie said. 'Fleshlumpeater is a very careful giant,' the BFG said. Sophie was silent for a few moments. Then suddenly, in a voice filled with excitement, she cried out, 'I've got it! By golly, I think I've got it!' 'Got what?' asked the BFG. 'The answer!' cried Sophie. 'We'll go to the Queen! It's a terrific idea! If I went and told the Queen about those disgusting man-eating giants, I'm sure she'd do something about it!' The BFG looked down at her sadly and shook his head. 'She is never believing you,' he said. 'Never in a month of Mondays.' 'I think she would.' 'Never,' the BFG said. 'It is sounding such a wonky tall story, the Queen will be laughing and saying "What awful rubbsquash!" ' 'She would not!'

“他还说，他非常想吃一个穿着漂亮红色军装的士兵，但他担心他们戴的那些黑色的毛茸茸的大帽子。” 他觉得它们可能会卡在他的裤子里。"我希望他窒息，"索菲说。 “食肉动物是一个非常细心的巨人，”好心眼巨人说。 索菲沉默了一会儿。 突然，她激动地喊道:“我找到了!天哪，我想我找到了!“得到什么?”好心眼巨人问。 “答案!索菲叫道。 “我们要去见女王!”这是个好主意!如果我去告诉女王那些恶心的吃人巨人的事，我相信她会想办法的!”好心眼巨人悲伤地低头看着她，摇了摇头。 “她永远不会相信你的，”他说。 “从来没有在一个星期一的月份里。”“我想她会的。“永远不会，”好心眼巨人说。 “这听起来太不靠谱了，女王会笑着说:‘多么可怕的胡说八道!’”“她不会的!”

'Of course she would,' the BFG said. 'I has told you before that human beans is simply not believing in giants.' 'Then it's up to us to find a way of making her believe in them,' Sophie said. 'And how is you getting in to see the Queen anyway?' the BFG asked. 'Now hold on a sec,' Sophie said. 'Just you hold on a sec because I've got another idea.' 'Your ideas is full of crodswoggle,' the BFG said. 'Not this one,' Sophie said. 'You say that if we tell the Queen, she would never believe us?' 'I is certain she wouldn't,' the BFG said. 'But we aren't going to tell her!' Sophie said excitedly. 'We don't have to tell her! We'll make her dream it!' 'That is an even more frothbungling suggestion,' the BFG said. 'Dreams is lots of fun but nobody is believing in dreams either. You is only believing in a dream while you is actually dreaming it. But as soon as you is waking up you is saying "Oh thank goodness it was only a dream".'

“她当然会，”好心眼巨人说。 “我以前告诉过你，人类根本不相信有巨人。"那就看我们怎么想办法让她相信他们了。"索菲说。 “那你怎么进去见女王呢?”好心眼巨人问。 "等一下，"索菲说。 “你稍等一下，我有另一个主意。“你的想法充满了众筹，”BFG说。 "这张不行，"索菲说。 “你是说如果我们告诉女王，她永远不会相信我们?”“我肯定她不会的，”好心眼巨人说。 “但我们不会告诉她的!”索菲兴奋地说。 “我们不必告诉她!”我们会让她做梦的!“这是一个更加愚蠢的建议，”BFG说。 “做梦很有趣，但也没有人相信梦想。 只有当你真的在做梦的时候，你才会相信一个梦。 但是当你醒来的时候，你会说‘哦，谢天谢地，这只是一个梦’。”