21 The Plan

The Plan The Head of the Army and the Head of the Air Force stood at attention beside the Queen's breakfast table. Sophie was still in her seat and the BFG was still high up on his crazy perch. It took the Queen only five minutes to explain the situation to the military men. 'I knew there was something like this going on, Your Majesty' the Head of the Army said. 'For the last ten years we have been getting reports from nearly every country in the world about people disappearing mysteriously in the night. We had one only the other day from Panama…' 'For the hatty taste!' cried the BFG. 'And one from Wellington, in New Zealand,' said the Head of the Army. 'For the booty flavour!' cried the BFG. 'What is he talking about?' said the Head of the Air Force. 'Work it out for yourself,' the Queen said. 'What time is it? Ten a.m. In eight hours those

计划陆军司令和空军司令立正站在女王的早餐桌旁。 索菲仍然坐在她的座位上，好心眼巨人仍然高高站在他那疯狂的高处。 女王只用了五分钟就向军人们解释了情况。 “我就知道会有这样的事情发生，陛下。”陆军司令说。 “在过去的十年里，我们几乎从世界上每个国家都收到了关于有人在夜间神秘失踪的报告。 我们前几天才从巴拿马来过一个……”好心眼巨人叫道。 “还有一封来自新西兰惠灵顿，”陆军司令说。 “为了战利品的味道!”好心眼巨人叫道。 “他在说什么?”空军司令说。 “你自己算吧，”女王说。 “几点了?”10点。 在8小时内

nine bloodthirsty brutes will be galloping off to gobble up another couple of dozen unfortunate wretches. They have to be stopped. We must act fast.' 'We'll bomb the blighters!' shouted the Head of the Air Force. 'We'll mow them down with machine-guns!' cried the Head of the Army. 'I do not approve of murder,' the Queen said. 'But they are murderers themselves!' cried the Head of the Army. 'That is no reason why we should follow their example,' the Queen said. 'Two wrongs don't make a right.' 'And two rights don't make a left!' cried the BFG. 'We must bring them back alive,' the Queen said. 'How?' the two military men said together. 'They are all fifty feet high. They'd knock us down like ninepins!' 'Wait!' cried the BFG. 'Hold your horseflies! Keep your skirts on! I think I has the answer to the maiden's hair!' 'Let him speak,' the Queen said.

九头嗜血的野兽会飞奔而去，吃掉另外几十个不幸的家伙。 他们必须被阻止。我们必须迅速采取行动。“我们要炸了这些破房子!”空军司令喊道。 “我们要用机枪把他们打倒!”陆军司令喊道。 “我不赞成谋杀，”王后说。 “可他们自己就是杀人犯!”陆军司令喊道。 女王说:“这不是我们应该效仿他们的理由。” 两个错误不等于一个正确。“两个右转不等于一个左!”好心眼巨人叫道。 “我们必须把他们活着带回来。”王后说。 “如何?两个军人同时说。 “它们都有五十英尺高。 他们会把我们像九柱柱一样击倒!“等等!好心眼巨人叫道。 “抓住你的马蝇!”别穿裙子!我想我有办法解开少女的头发了!“让他说，”王后说。

'Every afternoon,' the BFG said, 'all these giants is in the Land of Noddy.' 'I can't understand a word this feller says,' the Head of the Army snapped. 'Why doesn't he speak clearly?' 'He means the Land of Nod,' Sophie said. 'It's pretty obvious.' 'Exunckly!' cried the BFG. 'Every afternoon all these nine giants is lying on the ground snoozling away in a very deep sleep. They is always resting like that before they is galloping off to guzzle another helping of human beans.' 'Go on,' they said. 'So what?' 'So what you soldiers has to do is to creep up to the giants while they is still in the Land of Noddy and tie their arms and legs with mighty ropes and whunking chains.' 'Brilliant,' the Queen said. 'That's all very well,' said the Head of the Army. 'But how do we get the brutes back here? We can't load fifty-foot giants on to trucks! Shoot 'em on the spot, that's what I say!' The BFG looked down from his lofty perch and said, this time to the Head of the Air Force, 'You is having bellypoppers, is you not?'

“每天下午，”好心眼巨人说，“所有这些巨人都来到诺迪国。“这个家伙说的话我一个字也听不懂，”陆军参谋长厉声说。 “他为什么说话不清楚?”“他指的是‘打盹之地’。”索菲说。 “这很明显。“Exunckly !好心眼巨人叫道。 “每天下午，这九个巨人都躺在地上呼呼大睡。 他们总是这样休息，然后再飞奔去吃一份人类的豆子。他们说，你们去吧。 “那又怎样?“所以，你们这些士兵要做的，就是趁巨人还在诺迪国的时候，爬到他们跟前，用粗绳和铁链把他们的胳膊和腿绑起来。“太棒了，”王后说。 “那很好，”陆军司令说。 “可是我们怎么把这些畜生弄回来呢?” 我们不能把50英尺高的巨人装上卡车!我就是这么说的，当场打死他们!”好心眼巨人从高处向下看了看，这次是对空军司令说:“你有大腹虫，是吗?”

'Is he being rude?' the Head of the Air Force said. 'He means helicopters,' Sophie told him. 'Then why doesn't he say so? Of course we have helicopters.' 'Whoppsy big bellypoppers?' asked the BFG. 'Very big ones,' the Head of the Air Force said proudly. 'But no helicopter is big enough to get a giant like that inside it.' 'You do not put him inside,' the BFG said. 'You sling him underneath the belly of your bellypopper and carry him like a porteedo.' 'Like a what?' said the Head of the Air Force. 'Like a torpedo,' Sophie said. 'Gould you do that, Air Marshal?' the Queen asked.

“他无礼吗?”空军司令说。 “他是说直升机，”索菲告诉他。 “那他为什么不说呢?” 我们当然有直升机。“呼呼大肚皮?”好心眼巨人问。 “非常大。”空军司令自豪地说。 “但没有哪架直升机大到能装下这样一个巨人。“你不能把他关进去，”好心眼巨人说。 “你把他吊在你的大腹便便的肚子下面，像个搬运工一样抬着他。“像什么?”空军司令说。 “像鱼雷一样。”索菲说。 “你会这么做吗，空军元帅?”王后问。

'Well, I suppose we could,' the Head of the Air Force admitted grudgingly. 'Then get cracking!' the Queen said. 'You'll need nine helicopters, one for each giant.' 'Where is this place?' the Air Force man said to the BFG. 'I presume you can pinpoint it on the map?' 'Pinpoint?' said the BFG. 'Map? I is never hearing these words before. Is this Air Force bean talking slush-bungle?' The Air Marshal's face turned the colour of a ripe plum. He was not used to being told he was

“嗯，我想我们可以。”空军司令勉强地承认。 “那就动手吧!”王后说。 “你需要九架直升机，每个巨人一架。“这是什么地方?”空军对好心眼巨人说。 “我想你能在地图上指出来吧?”“确定吗?好心眼巨人说。 的地图吗?我从来没听过这些话。 这是空军豆豆在说傻话吗?”空军元帅的脸变成了熟透的李子的颜色。 他不习惯别人告诉他他是

talking slushbungle. The Queen, with her usual admirable tact and good sense, came to the rescue. 'BFG,' she said, 'can you tell us more or less where this Giant Country is?' 'No, Majester,' the BFG said. 'Not on my nelly.' 'Then we're jiggered!' cried the Army General. 'This is ridiculous!' cried the Air Marshal. 'You must not be giving up so easy' the BFG said calmly. 'The first titchy bobsticle you meet and you begin shouting you is biffsquiggled.' The Army General was no more used to being insulted than the Air Marshal. His face began to swell with fury and his cheeks blew out until they looked like two huge ripe tomatoes. 'Your Majesty!' he cried. 'We are dealing with a lunatic! I want nothing more to do with this ridiculous operation!' The Queen, who was used to the tantrums of her senior officials, ignored him completely. 'BFG,' she said, 'would you please tell these rather dim-witted characters exactly what to do.' 'A pleasure, Majester,' said the BFG. 'Now listen to me carefully, you two bootbogglers.'

slushbungle说话。女王以她一贯令人钦佩的机智和判断力前来救援。 “好心眼巨人，”她说，“你能大致告诉我们这个巨人国在哪里吗?“不，陛下，”好心眼巨人说。 “绝对不行。“那我们就倒霉了!”陆军将军喊道。 “这太荒唐了!”空军元帅喊道。 “你可别这么轻易就放弃了。”BFG平静地说。 “你遇到的第一个小怪圈，你就开始大喊你是怪圈。”陆军将军和空军元帅一样不习惯被侮辱。 他的脸开始因愤怒而膨胀起来，他的脸颊膨胀得像两个巨大的熟透的西红柿。 “陛下!”他叫道。“我们面对的是一个疯子!”我不想再参与这个荒谬的行动了!”女王已经习惯了她的高级官员的发脾气，完全没有理会他。 “好心眼巨人，”她说，“你能告诉这些相当愚蠢的人物该怎么做吗?“很高兴见到您，陛下。” “现在仔细听我说，你们两个大骗子。”