02 Who

Who? It wasn't a human. It couldn't be. It was four times as tall as the tallest human. It was so tall its head was higher than the upstairs windows of the houses. Sophie opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came out. Her throat, like her whole body, was frozen with fright. This was the witching hour all right. The tall black figure was coming her way. It was keeping very close to the houses across the street, hiding in the shadowy places where there was no moonlight. On and on it came, nearer and nearer. But it was moving in spurts. It would stop, then it would move on, then it would stop again. But what on earth was it doing? Ah-ha! Sophie could see now what it was up to. It was stopping in front of each house. It would stop and peer into the upstairs window of each house in the street. It actually had to bend down to

谁?那不是人类。不可能。 它是最高的人类的四倍高。 它是那么高，它的头比楼上房子的窗户还高。 索菲张开嘴想尖叫，但什么声音也发不出来。 她的喉咙和全身一样，吓得僵住了。 这的确是一个令人神魂颠倒的时刻。 那个高大的黑影朝她走来。 它离街对面的房子很近，躲在没有月光的阴暗的地方。 它来了又来，越来越近。 但它在快速移动。 它会停止，然后继续运动，然后再次停止。 但它到底在做什么? 啊哈!索菲现在明白它在干什么了。 它停在每个房子的前面。 它会停下来，向街上每户人家楼上的窗户里窥视。 它实际上必须弯曲到

peer into the upstairs windows. That's how tall it was. It would stop and peer in. Then it would slide on to the next house and stop again, and peer in, and so on all along the street. It was much closer now and Sophie could see it more clearly. Looking at it carefully, she decided it had to be some kind of PERSON. Obviously it was not a human. But it was definitely a PERSON. A GIANT PERSON, perhaps. Sophie stared hard across the misty moonlit street. The Giant (if that was what he was) was wearing a long BLACK CLOAK. In one hand he was holding what looked like a VERY LONG, THIN TRUMPET. In the other hand, he held a LARGE SUITCASE. The Giant had stopped now right in front of Mr and Mrs Goochey's house. The Goocheys had a greengrocer's shop in the middle of the High Street, and the family lived above the shop. The two Goochey children slept in the upstairs front room, Sophie knew that. The Giant was peering through the window into the room where Michael and Jane Goochey

往楼上的窗户里看。 这就是它的高度。它会停下来窥视。 然后它会滑到下一个房子，又停了下来，往里看，就这样沿着街道走下去。 现在它更近了，索菲看得更清楚了。 她仔细看了看，断定这一定是个人。 很明显那不是人。 但这绝对是一个人。 也许是个巨人。苏菲目不转睛地盯着月光下雾蒙蒙的街道。 巨人(如果他就是巨人的话)穿着一件长长的黑斗篷。 他一手拿着一个很长很细的小号。 另一只手提着一只大手提箱。 巨人现在已经停在古奇夫妇的房子前面了。 古奇一家在大街中央开了一家蔬菜水果店，他们一家就住在店的楼上。 古奇家的两个孩子睡在楼上的前厅，索菲知道这一点。 巨人正透过窗户往迈克尔和简·古奇住的房间里张望

were sleeping. From across the street, Sophie watched and held her breath. She saw the Giant step back a pace and put the suitcase down on the pavement. He bent over and opened the suitcase. He took something out of it. It looked like a glass jar, one of those square ones with a screw top. He unscrewed the top of the jar and poured what was in it into the end of the long trumpet thing. Sophie watched, trembling. She saw the Giant straighten up again and she saw him poke the trumpet in through the open upstairs window of the room where the Goochey children were sleeping. She saw the Giant take a deep breath and whoof, he blew through the trumpet.

是睡觉。苏菲在街对面屏息凝神地看着。 她看见巨人往后退了一步，把手提箱放在人行道上。 他弯下腰打开手提箱。 他拿走了一些东西。 它看起来像一个玻璃罐子，是那种方形的有螺旋盖的。 他拧开罐子的盖子，把里面的东西倒进长长的喇叭的末端。 索菲看着，浑身发抖。 她看见巨人又站了起来，把那只小号从楼上古奇家孩子睡觉的那间开着的窗户插了进去。 她看见巨人深深地吸了一口气，他吹起了小号。

No noise came out, but it was obvious to Sophie that whatever had been in the jar had now been blown through the trumpet into the Goochey children's bedroom. What could it be? As the Giant withdrew the trumpet from the window and bent down to pick up the suitcase he happened to turn his head and glance across the street. In the moonlight, Sophie caught a glimpse of an enormous long pale wrinkly face with the most enormous ears. The nose was as sharp as a knife, and above the nose there were two bright flashing eyes, and the eyes were staring straight at Sophie. There was a fierce and devilish look about them. Sophie gave a yelp and pulled back from the window. She flew across the dormitory and jumped into her bed and hid under the blanket. And there she crouched, still as a mouse, and tingling all over.

没有声音发出来，但苏菲很清楚，罐子里的东西现在已经通过喇叭吹进了古奇家孩子们的卧室。 会是什么呢?当巨人把小号从窗户里拿出来，弯腰去拿手提箱的时候，他碰巧转过头来，朝街对面看了一眼。 在月光下，索菲瞥见了一张长长的、苍白的、满是皱纹的脸，还有一对无比巨大的耳朵。 鼻子像刀子一样锋利，鼻子上面有两只闪闪发光的眼睛，眼睛直直地盯着苏菲。 他们周围有一种凶狠而恶魔般的神情。 索菲大叫一声，从窗口退了回来。 她飞快地穿过宿舍，跳到床上，躲在毯子下面。 她蹲在那儿，一动不动，像只老鼠，浑身发麻。