23 Feeding Time

Feeding Time While the giants were being captured, a tremendous bustle and hustle was going on back home in England. Every earth-digger and mechanical contrivance in the country had been mobilized to dig the colossal hole in which the nine giants were to be permanently imprisoned. Ten thousand men and ten thousand machines worked ceaselessly through the night under powerful arc-lights, and the massive task was completed only just in time. The hole itself was about twice the size of a football field and five hundred feet deep. The walls were perpendicular and engineers had calculated that there was no way a giant could escape once he was put in. Even if all nine giants were to stand on each other's shoulders, the topmost giant would still be some fifty feet from the top of the hole. The nine giant-carrying helicopters hovered over the massive pit. The giants, one by one, were

捕食时间当巨人们被捕获的时候，英国国内正在进行着巨大的忙碌和喧嚣。 全国所有的挖土工和机械设备都被动员起来挖一个巨大的洞，九个巨人将被永久监禁在这个洞里。 一万个工人和一万台机器在强大的弧光灯下，连夜不停地工作着，这项艰巨的任务才刚刚及时完成。 这个洞本身大约是足球场的两倍大，500英尺深。 墙是垂直的，工程师们计算过，一旦巨人被放进去，他是不可能逃脱的。 即使所有九个巨人都站在彼此的肩膀上，最高的巨人离洞的顶部仍然有大约五十英尺。 九架载重巨大的直升机在巨大的矿井上空盘旋。 巨人们，一个接一个

lowered to the floor. But they were still trussed up and now came the tricky business of releasing them from their bonds. Nobody wanted to go down and do this because the moment a giant was freed, he would be sure to turn on the wretched person who had freed him and gobble him up. As usual, the BFG had the answer. 'I has told you before,' he said, 'giants is never eating giants, so I is going down and I shall untie them myself before you can say rack jobinson.'

降到地板上。但他们仍然被捆着，现在是把他们从束缚中释放出来的棘手问题了。 没有人愿意下去这样做，因为一旦巨人被释放出来，他肯定会转向释放他的那个可怜的人，把他吃掉。 像往常一样，好心眼巨人有了答案。 “我以前告诉过你，”他说，“巨人是不会吃巨人的，所以我要下去，在你说出‘该死的约翰逊’之前，我要亲自解开它们。”

With thousands of fascinated spectators, including the Queen, peering down into the pit, the BFG was lowered on a rope. One by one, he released the giants. They stood up, stretched their stiffened limbs and started leaping about in fury. 'Why is they putting us down here in this grobsludging hole?' they shouted at the BFG. 'Because you is guzzling human beans,' the BFG answered. 'I is always warning you not to do it and you is never taking the titchiest bit of notice.' 'In that case,' the Fleshlumpeater bellowed, 'I think we is guzzling you instead!' The BFG grabbed the dangling rope and was hoisted out of the pit just in time. The great bulging sack he had brought back with him from Giant Country lay at the top of the pit. 'What's in there?' the Queen asked him. The BFG put an arm into the sack and pulled out a gigantic black and white striped object the size of a man. 'Snozzcumbers!' he cried. 'This is the repulsant snozzcumber, Majester, and that is all

在包括女王在内的数千名着迷的观众的注视下，BFG被一根绳子吊下来。 一个接一个地，他释放了巨人。 他们站起来，伸伸僵硬的四肢，愤怒地跳来跳去。 “他们为什么把我们放在这个脏兮兮的洞里?”他们对好心眼巨人喊道。 “因为你在狂吃人类的豆子。” “我总是警告你不要这么做，而你却一点也不理会。”“那样的话，”食肉动物吼道，“我想我们要把你喝得酩酊大醉了!”好心眼巨人抓住了晃来晃去的绳子，及时被吊出了坑。 他从巨人国带回来的那个鼓鼓囊囊的大袋子躺在坑顶上。 “里面有什么?”王后问他。 好心眼巨人把一只胳膊伸进袋子，拿出一个巨大的黑白条纹物体，有一个人那么大。 “Snozzcumbers !他叫道。“这就是讨厌的鼻涕，陛下，仅此而已

we is going to give these disgustive giants from now on!' 'May I taste it?' the Queen asked. 'Don't, Majester, don't!' cried the BFG. 'It is tasting of trogfilth and pigsquibble!' With that he tossed the snozzcumber down to the giants below. 'There's your supper!' he shouted. 'Have a munch on that!' He fished out more snozzcumbers from the sack and threw them down. The giants below howled and cursed. The BFG laughed. 'It serves them right left and centre!' he said.

从现在开始，我们要给这些恶心的巨人!“我可以尝尝吗?”王后问。 “不要，陛下，不要!”好心眼巨人叫道。 “有股猪粪和猪粪的味道!”说着，他把雪球扔给下面的巨人。 “这是你的晚餐!”他喊道。 “吃一口吧!”他又从麻袋里掏出几根烟扔了下去。 下面的巨人们嚎叫着咒骂着。 好心眼巨人笑了。“它给了他们左右两边的发球!”他说。