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The Author Every country in the world that had in the past been visited by the foul man-eating giants sent telegrams of congratulations and thanks to the BFG and to Sophie. Kings and Presidents and Prime Ministers and Rulers of every kind showered the enormous giant and the little girl with compliments and thank-yous, as well as all sorts of medals and presents. The Ruler of India sent the BFG a magnificent elephant, the very tiling he had been wishing for all his life. The King of Arabia sent them a camel each. The Lama of Tibet sent them a llama each. Wellington sent them one hundred pairs of wellies each. Panama sent them beautiful hats. The King of Sweden sent them a barrelful of sweet and sour pork.

世界上每一个曾经被吃人巨人造访过的国家都发来电报，向好心眼巨人和索菲表示祝贺和感谢。 国王、总统、首相和各种统治者纷纷向巨人和小女孩表示赞美和感谢，并赠送各种奖章和礼物。 印度的统治者送给好心眼巨人一头雄伟的大象，这正是他一生梦寐以求的东西。 阿拉伯国王送给他们每人一头骆驼。 西藏喇嘛送给他们每人一只羊驼。 惠灵顿送给他们每人一百双雨靴。 巴拿马给他们送来了漂亮的帽子。 瑞典国王送给他们一桶糖醋排骨。

Jersey sent them pullovers. There was no end to the gratitude of the world. The Queen herself gave orders that a special house with tremendous high ceilings and enormous doors should immediately be built in Windsor Great Park, next to her own castle, for the BFG to live in. And a pretty little cottage was put up next door for Sophie. The BFG's house was to have a special dream-storing room with hundreds of shelves in it where he could put his beloved bottles. What is more, he was given the title of The Royal Dream-Blower. He was allowed to go galloping off to any place in England on any night of the year to blow his splendid phizzwizards in through the windows to sleeping children. And letters poured into his house by the

泽西给他们寄了套头衫。 全世界都感激不尽。 女王亲自下令，在温莎大公园里，在她自己的城堡旁边，立即建造一座特别的房子，有很高的天花板和巨大的门，让BFG住在里面。 隔壁还为苏菲盖了一间漂亮的小屋。 好心眼巨人的房子里有一个专门的梦境储藏室，里面有几百个架子，他可以把他心爱的瓶子放在那里。 更重要的是，他被授予皇家吹梦人的称号。 他被允许在一年中的任何一个夜晚，骑马到英国的任何一个地方，从窗户向熟睡的孩子们吹他那辉煌的飞镖。 信件从

million from children begging him to pay them a visit. Meanwhile, tourists from all over the globe came flocking to gaze down in wonder at the nine horrendous man-eating giants in the great pit. They came especially at feeding-time, when the snozzcumbers were being thrown down to them by the keeper, and it was a pleasure to listen to the howls and growls of horror coming up from the pit as the giants began to chew upon the filthiesttasting vegetable on earth. There was only one disaster. Three silly men who had drunk too much beer for lunch decided to climb over the high fence surrounding the pit, and of course they fell in. There were yells of delight from the giants below, followed by the crunching of bones. The head keeper immediately put up a big notice on the fence saying, IT IS FORBIDDEN TO FEED THE GIANTS. And after that, there were no more disasters.

一百万是孩子们求他去看望他们的。 与此同时，来自世界各地的游客蜂拥而至，好奇地凝视着大坑里九个可怕的食人巨人。 尤其是在喂食的时候，饲养员把小黄瓜扔给它们。当巨人们开始咀嚼地球上最脏的蔬菜时，从坑里传来恐怖的嚎叫和咆哮，这是一种乐趣。 只有一场灾难。 三个午餐喝了太多啤酒的傻瓜决定爬过坑周围的高栅栏，当然他们掉了进去。 下面的巨人们欢呼雀跃，接着是骨头嘎吱嘎吱的声音。 园长立即在栅栏上贴了一张大告示，上面写着:禁止喂巨人。 从那以后，再也没有灾难了。

The BFG expressed a wish to learn how to speak properly, and Sophie herself, who loved him as she would a father, volunteered to give him lessons every day. She even taught him how to spell and to write sentences, and he turned out to be a splendid intelligent pupil. In his spare time, he read books. He became a tremendous reader. He read all of Charles Dickens (whom he no longer called Dahl's Chickens), and all of Shakespeare and literally thousands of other books. He also started to write essays about his own past life. When Sophie read some of them, she said, 'These are very good. I think perhaps one day you could become a real writer.'

好心眼巨人表达了学习正确说话的愿望，而苏菲自己，像爱父亲一样爱他，自告奋勇每天给他上课。 她甚至教他如何拼写和写句子，结果他是一个非常聪明的学生。 在业余时间，他读书。 他成了一个狂热的读者。 他读了查尔斯·狄更斯(他不再叫《达尔的小鸡》)的全部作品，读了莎士比亚的全部作品，还有成千上万本其他的书。 他也开始写关于自己过去生活的文章。 索菲读了一些后说:“这些书很好。 我想也许有一天你会成为一个真正的作家。”

'Oh, I would love that!' cried the BFG. 'Do you think I could?' 'I know you could,' Sophie said. 'Why don't you start by writing a book about you and me?' 'Very well,' the BFG said. 'I'll give it a try.' So he did. He worked hard on it and in the end he completed it. Rather shyly, he showed it to the Queen. The Queen read it aloud to her grandchildren. Then the Queen said, 'I think we ought to get this book printed properly and

“哦，我很乐意!”好心眼巨人叫道。 “你认为我能吗?”"我知道你会的，"索菲说。 “你为什么不先写一本关于你和我的书呢?”“好吧，”好心眼巨人说。 “我要试一试。”于是他照做了。 他努力工作，最后完成了它。 他很害羞地把它拿给王后看。 女王大声朗读给她的孙子们听。 王后说:“我想我们应该把这本书好好印出来。

published so that other children can read it.' This was arranged, but because the BFG was a very modest giant he wouldn't put his own name on it. He used somebody else's name instead. But where, you might ask, is this book that the BFG wrote? It's right here. You've just finished reading it.

出版是为了让其他孩子也能读到。”这是安排好的，但因为好心眼巨人是一个非常谦虚的巨人，他不愿把自己的名字写在上面。 他用了别人的名字。 但是，你可能会问，好心眼巨人写的这本书在哪里? 就在这里。你刚刚读完它。