16 Mixing the Dream

Mixing the Dream It was dark now. The night had already begun. The BFG, with Sophie sitting on his hand, hurried into the cave and put on those brilliant blinding lights that seemed to come from nowhere. He placed Sophie on the table. 'Stay there please,' he said, 'and no chittering. I is needing to listen only to silence when I is mixing up such a knotty plexicated dream as this.' He hurried away from her. He got out an enormous empty glass jar that was the size of a washing machine. He clutched it to his chest and hurried towards the shelves on which stood the thousands and thousands of smaller jars containing the captured dreams. 'Dreams about giants,' he muttered to himself as he searched the labels. 'The giants is guzzling human beans… no, not that one… nor that one… here's one!… And here's another!…' He grabbed the jars and unscrewed the tops. He tipped the dreams into the enormous jar he was clutching and

现在天已经黑了。 夜已经开始了。 好心眼巨人让索菲坐在他的手上，匆匆走进山洞，点亮了那些似乎从哪里来的耀眼的灯光。 他把索菲放在桌子上。 “请呆在那儿，”他说，“别叽叽喳喳地说。 当我在做这样一个纠结复杂的梦的时候，我只需要倾听寂静。他匆匆离开了她。 他拿出一个洗衣机大小的巨大空玻璃瓶。 他把它抱在胸前，匆匆走向架子，架子上放着成千上万个小罐子，里面装着捕捉到的梦。 “梦见巨人。”他一边搜索标签，一边自言自语。 “巨人在狂吃人类的豆子……不，不是那个……也不是那个……这里有一个!”……这里还有一个!他抓起瓶子，拧开瓶盖。 他把梦倒进手里抓着的大罐子里

as each one went in, Sophie caught a glimpse of a small sea-green blob tumbling from one jar into the other. The BFG hurried towards another shelf. 'Now,' he muttered, 'I is wanting dreams about gigglehouses for girls… and about boggleboxes for boys.' He was becoming very tense now. Sophie could almost see the excitement bubbling inside him as he scurried back and forth among his beloved jars. There must have been fifty thousand dreams altogether up there on the shelves, but he seemed to know almost exactly where every one of them was. 'Dreams about a little girl,' he muttered. 'And dreams about me… about the BFG… come on, come on, hurry up, get on with it… now where in the wonky world is I keeping those?…'

每个人都进去的时候，索菲瞥见一个海绿色的小团从一个罐子里滚到另一个罐子里。 好心眼巨人急忙走向另一个架子。 “现在，”他喃喃地说，“我想要关于女孩的咯咯笑屋……关于男孩的拼图盒的梦。”他现在变得非常紧张。 当他在心爱的坛子间跑来跑去时，索菲几乎可以看到他内心的兴奋。 书架上大概有五万个梦，但他似乎几乎知道每一个梦的确切位置。 “梦见一个小女孩，”他喃喃地说。 “还有关于我的梦……关于好心眼巨人的梦……来吧，来吧，快点，开始吧……我到底把那些梦放在哪里了?”……”

And so it went on. In about half an hour the BFG had found all the dreams he wanted and had tipped them into the one huge jar. He put the jar on the table. Sophie sat watching him but said nothing. Inside the big jar, lying on the bottom of it, she could clearly see about fifty of those oval sea-green jellyish shapes, all pulsing gently in and

事情就这样继续下去。半小时后，好心眼巨人找到了所有他想要的梦，并把它们都放进了一个大罐子里。 他把罐子放在桌子上。 索菲坐在那儿看着他，什么也没说。 她躺在大罐子的底部，可以清楚地看到大约五十个海绿色的椭圆形水母，都在轻轻地跳动着

out, some lying on top of others, but each one still a quite separate individual dream. 'Now we is mixing them,' the BFG announced. He went to the cupboard where he kept his bottles of frobscottle, and from it he took out a gigantic egg-beater. It was one of those that has a handle which you turn, and down below there are a lot of overlapping blades that go whizzing round. He inserted the bottom end of this contraption into the big jar where the dreams were lying. 'Watch,' he said. He started turning the handle very fast. Flashes of green and blue exploded inside the jar. The dreams were being whisked into a seagreen froth. 'The poor things!' Sophie cried. 'They is not feeling it,' the BFG said as he turned the handle. 'Dreams is not like human beans or animals. They has no brains. They is made of zozimus.'

出来了，有些人躺在其他人的上面，但每个人仍然是一个相当独立的个人梦想。 “现在我们正在把它们混合起来。”BFG宣布。 他走到放奶瓶的柜子前，从里面拿出一个巨大的打蛋器。 它是那种有手柄的，你可以转动，下面有很多重叠的叶片，旋转着。 他把这个精巧装置的底端插进那个存放梦的大罐子里。 “看，”他说。他开始飞快地转动手柄。 罐子里闪着绿光和蓝光。 梦被吹成一片碧绿的泡沫。 “可怜的东西!”索菲娅哭了。 “他们感觉不到。”BFG一边说一边转动手柄。 “梦不像人类的豆子或动物。 他们没有脑子。它们是由佐zimus构成的。”

After about a minute, the BFG stopped whisking. The whole bottle was now full to the brim with large bubbles. They were almost exactly like the bubbles we ourselves blow from soapy water, except that these had even brighter and more beautiful colours swimming on their surfaces. 'Keep watching,' the BFG said. Quite slowly, the topmost bubble rose up through the neck of the jar and floated away. A second one followed. Then a third and a fourth. Soon the cave was filled with hundreds of beautifully coloured bubbles, all drifting gently through the air. It was truly a wonderful sight. As

大约一分钟后，BFG停止了搅拌。 现在整个瓶子都满了，满是大气泡。 它们几乎和我们自己从肥皂水中吹出的泡泡一模一样，只不过这些泡泡的表面有更明亮、更美丽的颜色。 “继续看着，”好心眼巨人说。 最上面的气泡慢慢地从瓶口升起，飘走了。 第二辆车紧随其后。然后是第三个，第四个。 很快，洞里就充满了成百上千个色彩艳丽的气泡，它们都在空中轻轻地漂浮着。 那真是一幅美妙的景象。 作为

Sophie watched them, they all started floating towards the cave entrance, which was still open. 'They're going out,' Sophie whispered. 'Of course,' the BFG said. 'Where to?' 'Those is all little tiny dream-bits that I isn't using,' the BFG said. 'They is going back to the misty country to join up with proper dreams.' 'It's all a bit beyond me,' Sophie said. 'Dreams is full of mystery and magic,' the BFG said. 'Do not try to understand them. Look in the big bottle and you will now see the dream you is wanting for the Queen.' Sophie turned and stared into the great jar. On the bottom of it, something was thrashing around wildly, bouncing up and down and flinging itself against the walls of the jar. 'Good heavens!' she cried. 'Is that it?' 'That's it,' the BFG said proudly. 'But it's… it's horrible!' Sophie cried. 'It's jumping about! It wants to get out!' 'That's because it's a trogglehumper,' the BFG said. 'It's a nightmare.' 'Oh, but I don't want you to give the Queen a nightmare!' Sophie cried.

索菲看着他们，他们开始向洞口漂去，洞口还开着。 "他们要出去了。"索菲小声说。 “当然，”好心眼巨人说。 “去哪儿?好心眼巨人说:“这些都是我没有用到的小梦境。” “他们要回到雾蒙蒙的国度去，和真正的梦想会合。"这一切我都搞不懂，"索菲说。 “梦充满了神秘和魔力，”BFG说。 “不要试图去理解他们。 看看这个大瓶子，你就会看到你想为王后做的梦了。”索菲转过身，盯着那个大罐子。 瓶底有什么东西在疯狂地乱蹦乱跳，上下弹跳，撞在瓶壁上。 “天啊!她叫道。 “是这样吗?”“就是这样，”好心眼巨人自豪地说。 “可这……这太可怕了!”索菲娅哭了。 “它在跳来跳去!”它想出去!“那是因为它是一只斗怪。” “这是一场噩梦。“哦，可我不想让你给王后做噩梦!”索菲娅哭了。