06 The Giants

The Giants 'But if you are so nice and friendly,' Sophie said, 'then why did you snatch me from my bed and run away with me?' 'Because you SAW me,' the Big Friendly Giant answered. 'If anyone is ever SEEING a giant, he or she must be taken away hipswitch.' 'Why?' asked Sophie. 'Well, first of all,' said the BFG, 'human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.' 'I do,' Sophie said. 'Ah, but that is only because you has SEEN me!' cried the BFG. 'I cannot possibly allow anyone, even little girls, to be SEEING me and staying at home. The first thing you would be doing, you would be scuddling around yodelling the news that you were actually SEEING a giant, and then a great giant-hunt, a mighty giant looksee, would be starting up all over the world, with the human beans all rummaging for the great giant

“可是，如果你对我那么好，那么友好，”索菲说，“那你为什么把我从床上抓起来，带着我跑了呢?”“因为你看见我了，”友善的大巨人回答。 “如果有人看到了巨人，一定要把他或她带走。”“为什么?索菲问。 “好吧，首先，”好心眼巨人说，“芸豆不会真的相信有巨人，对吧? 人类豆不会认为我们存在。"是的，"索菲说。 “啊，那只是因为你看见了我!”好心眼巨人叫道。 “我不可能允许任何人，哪怕是小女孩，一边看我，一边呆在家里。 你要做的第一件事，你会在周围忙忙碌碌地唱着你真的看到了一个巨人的消息，然后一场巨大的巨人狩猎，一场巨大的巨人观察，会在世界各地开始，人类的豆子都在寻找这个巨人

you saw and getting wildly excited. People would be coming rushing and bushing after me with goodness knows what and they would be catching me and locking me into a cage to be stared at. They would be putting me into the zoo or the bunkumhouse with all those squiggling hippodumplings and crockadowndillies.' Sophie knew that what the Giant said was true. If any person reported actually having seen a giant haunting the streets of a town at night, there would most certainly be a terrific hullabaloo across the world. 'I will bet you,' the BFG went on, 'that you would have been splashing the news all over the wonky world, wouldn't you, if I hadn't wiggled you away?' 'I suppose I would,' Sophie said. 'And that would never do,' said the BFG.

你看到了，变得非常兴奋。 人们会冲过来，带着天知道的东西追着我，他们会抓住我，把我锁进笼子里盯着看。 他们会把我关进动物园或收容所，那里有弯弯曲曲的河马和鳄鱼。”索菲知道巨人说的是真的。 如果有人报告说确实看到过一个巨人在晚上出没在城镇的街道上，那肯定会在全世界掀起一场可怕的喧嚣。 “我敢跟你打赌，”好心眼巨人继续说，“如果我没有把你拐走，你一定会把这个消息传遍全世界，是不是?”"我想我会的，"索菲说。 “那可不行，”好心眼巨人说。

'So what will happen to me now?' Sophie asked. 'If you do go back, you will be telling the world,' said the BFG, 'most likely on the tellytelly bunkum box and the radio squeaker. So you will just have to be staying here with me for the rest of your life.' 'Oh no!' cried Sophie. 'Oh yes!' said the BFG. 'But I am warning you not ever to go whiffling about out of this cave without I is with you or you will be coming to an ucky-mucky end! I is showing you now who is going to eat you up if they is ever catching even one tiny little glimp of you.' The Big Friendly Giant picked Sophie off the table and carried her to the cave entrance. He rolled the huge stone to one side and said, 'Peep out over there, little girl, and tell me what you is seeing.' Sophie, sitting on the BFG's hand, peeped out of the cave. The sun was up now and shining fiery-hot over the great yellow wasteland with its blue rocks and dead trees.

“那么现在我该怎么办呢?”苏菲问。 “如果你真的回去了，你会告诉全世界的，”好心眼巨人说，“很可能是在电视上的bunkum盒子和收音机上。” 所以你的下半辈子都只能和我待在这里了。“哦，不!”索菲叫道。 “哦,是的!好心眼巨人说。“但我警告你，在没有我的陪同下，永远不要在这个洞里走来走去，否则你会有倒霉的下场!”我现在是在告诉你，谁会把你吃掉，只要他们瞥见你哪怕是一点点。”友善的大巨人把索菲从桌子上抱起来，带到洞口。 他把巨石推到一边，说:“小姑娘，往那边看，告诉我你看到了什么。”索菲坐在好心眼巨人的手上，向洞外张望。 太阳升起来了，炽热地照耀着这片黄色的荒原，上面有蓝色的岩石和枯树。

'Is you seeing them?' the BFG asked. Sophie, squinting through the glare of the sun, saw several tremendous tall figures moving among the rocks about five hundred yards away. Three or four others were sitting quite motionless on the rocks themselves. 'This is Giant Country,' the BFG said. 'Those is all giants, every one.' It was a brain-boggling sight. The giants were all naked except for a sort of short skirt around their waists, and their skins were burnt brown by the sun. But it was the sheer size of each one of them that boggled Sophie's brain most of all. They were simply colossal, far taller and wider than the Big Friendly Giant upon whose hand she was now sitting. And oh how ugly they were! Many of them had large bellies. All of them had long arms and big feet. They were too far away for their faces to be seen clearly, and perhaps that was a good thing. 'What on earth are they doing?' Sophie asked. 'Nothing,' said the BFG. 'They is just moocheling and footcheling around and waiting for the night to come. Then they will all be galloping off to places where people is living to find their suppers.'

“你看见他们了吗?”好心眼巨人问。 透过耀眼的阳光，索菲眯起眼睛，看见大约五百码外的岩石间有几个高大的身影在移动。 还有三四个人一动不动地坐在岩石上。 “这是巨人之国，”好心眼巨人说。 “那些都是巨人，个个都是。”这是一个令人难以置信的景象。 巨人们全身赤裸，只在腰间围了一条短裙，皮肤被太阳晒得焦黄。 但最令索菲不解的是它们的大小。 它们简直是巨大无比，比她现在坐着的那个友善的大巨人高得多，宽得多。 哦，他们是多么丑陋啊!他们中的许多人都有大肚子。 他们都有长长的胳膊和大大的脚。 他们离得太远，看不清他们的脸，这也许是件好事。 “他们到底在干什么?”苏菲问。 “没什么。”好心眼巨人说。“他们只是在四处游荡，等待夜晚的到来。” 然后它们就会飞奔到人们居住的地方去寻找晚餐。”

'You mean to Turkey,' Sophie said. 'Bonecrunching Giant will be galloping to Turkey, of course,' said the BFG. 'But the others will be whiffling off to all sorts of flungaway places like Wellington for the booty flavour and Panama for the hatty taste. Every giant is having his own favourite hunting ground.' 'Do they ever go to England?' Sophie asked. 'Often,' said the BFG. 'They say the English is tasting ever so wonderfully of crodscollop.' 'I'm not sure I quite know what that means,' Sophie said. 'Meanings is not important,' said the BFG. 'I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.' 'And are all those beastly giants over there really going off again tonight to eat people?' Sophie asked. 'All of them is guzzling human beans every night,' the BFG answered. 'All of them excepting me. That is why you will be coming to an uckymucky end if any of them should ever be getting his gogglers upon you. You would be swallowed up like a piece of frumpkin pie, all in one dollop!'

"你是说去土耳其吗? "索菲说。 “啃骨头巨人当然要去土耳其了。”好心眼巨人说。 “但其他人会去各种各样的地方，比如惠灵顿的战利品味和巴拿马的讨厌味。” 每个巨人都有自己最喜欢的猎场。“他们去过英国吗?”苏菲问。 “经常。”好心眼巨人说。“他们说英国人尝起来非常好吃。"我不太明白这是什么意思，"索菲说。 “意义并不重要，”好心眼巨人说。 “我不可能总是对的。 很多时候I是左边而不是右边。“难道那边那些可恶的巨人今晚又要去吃人了吗?”苏菲问。 “他们每天晚上都在狂吃人类的豆子。” “除了我以外，都去了。 这就是为什么如果他们中的任何一个把他的护目镜戴在你身上，你将会有一个倒霉的结局。 你会像一块弗朗普金派一样被吞下去，全都吞在一起!”

'But eating people is horrible!' Sophie cried. 'It's frightful! Why doesn't someone stop them?' 'And who please is going to be stopping them?' asked the BFG. 'Couldn't you?' said Sophie. 'Never in a pig's whistle!' cried the BFG. 'All of those man-eating giants is enormous and very fierce! They is all at least two times my wideness and double my royal highness!' 'Twice as high as you!' cried Sophie. 'Easily that,' said the BFG. 'You is seeing them in the distance but just wait till you get them close up. Those giants is all at least fifty feet tall

“但是吃人太可怕了!”索菲娅哭了。 “这是可怕的!为什么没有人阻止他们?“请问谁来阻止他们呢?”好心眼巨人问。 “你不能?索菲说。 “永远不要用猪的口哨!”好心眼巨人叫道。 “所有那些吃人的巨人都是巨大而凶猛的!”他们都至少是我的两倍宽，我的两倍殿下!“比你高两倍!”索菲叫道。 “很容易，”好心眼巨人说。 “你可以从远处看到它们，但要等到你靠近它们的时候。 这些巨人都至少有五十英尺高