07 The Marvellous Ears

The Marvellous Ears Back in the cave, the Big Friendly Giant sat Sophie down once again on the enormous table. 'Is you quite snuggly there in your nightie?' he asked. 'You isn't fridgy cold?' 'I'm fine,' Sophie said. 'I cannot help thinking,' said the BFG, 'about your poor mother and father. By now they must be jipping and skumping all over the house shouting "Hello hello where is Sophie gone?"' 'I don't have a mother and father,' Sophie said. 'They both died when I was a baby.' 'Oh, you poor little scrumpiet!' cried the BFG. 'Is you not missing them very badly?' 'Not really,' Sophie said, 'because I never knew them.' 'You is making me sad,' the BFG said, rubbing his eyes. 'Don't be sad,' Sophie said. 'No one is going to be worrying too much about me. That place you

神奇的耳朵回到洞里，友善的大巨人又一次让苏菲坐在那张巨大的桌子上。 “你穿着睡衣舒服吗?”他问。 “你不冷吗?”“我很好，”索菲说。 “我忍不住在想，”好心眼巨人说，“你可怜的父母。 现在他们一定在屋子里蹦蹦跳跳地喊着“喂，喂，苏菲去哪儿了?”“我没有父母，”索菲说。 “在我还是个婴儿的时候，他们就去世了。“啊，你这个可怜的小笨蛋!”好心眼巨人叫道。 “你不是很想念他们吗?”"不知道，"索菲说，"因为我从来不认识他们。"“你让我很难过，”好心眼巨人揉着眼睛说。 “别难过，”索菲说。 “没人会太担心我。 那个地方

took me from was the village orphanage. We are all orphans in there.' 'You is a norphan?' 'Yes.' 'How many is there in there?' 'Ten of us,' Sophie said. 'All little girls.' 'Was you happy there?' the BFG asked. 'I hated it,' Sophie said. 'The woman who ran it was called Mrs Clonkers and if she caught you breaking any of the rules, like getting out of bed at night or not folding up your clothes, you got punished.' 'How is you getting punished?' 'She locked us in the dark cellar for a day and a night without anything to eat or drink.' 'The rotten old rotrasper!' cried the BFG. 'It was horrid,' Sophie said. 'We used to dread it. There were rats down there. We could hear them creeping about.' 'The filthy old fizzwiggler!' shouted the BFG. 'That is the horridest thing I is hearing for years! You is making me sadder than ever!' All at once, a huge tear that would have filled a bucket rolled down one of the BFG's cheeks and fell with a splash on the floor. It made quite a puddle.

把我从村里的孤儿院带走。 我们在那里都是孤儿。“你是个孤儿?”“是的。“里面有多少?”"我们十个人。"索菲说。 “都是小女孩。“你在那儿过得愉快吗?”好心眼巨人问。 “我讨厌它，”索菲说。 “经营这家店的女人叫克朗克斯太太，如果她发现你违反了任何规定，比如晚上起床或不叠衣服，你就会受到惩罚。”“你是怎么受到惩罚的?”“她把我们锁在黑暗的地窖里一天一夜，没有吃的也没有喝的。”“这个腐烂的老家伙!”好心眼巨人叫道。 "太可怕了，"索菲说。 “我们过去很害怕。那里有老鼠。 我们能听到他们在蠕动。“那个肮脏的老家伙!”好心眼巨人喊道。 “这是我多年来听到的最可怕的事情!”你让我比以前更伤心了!”突然，一颗可以装满一桶水的大眼泪从一个好心眼巨人的脸颊上滚落下来，哗啦一声落在地板上。 弄出了一个水坑。

Sophie watched with astonishment. What a strange and moody creature this is, she thought. One moment he is telling me my head is full of squashed flies and the next moment his heart is melting for me because Mrs Clonkers locks us in the cellar. 'The thing that worries me,' Sophie said, 'is having to stay in this dreadful place for the rest of my life. The orphanage was pretty awful, but I wouldn't have been there for ever, would I?' 'All is my fault,' the BFG said. 'I is the one who kidsnatched you.' Yet another enormous tear welled from his eye and splashed on to the floor. 'Now I come to think of it, I won't actually be here all that long,' Sophie said. 'I is afraid you will,' the BFG said. 'No, I won't,' Sophie said. 'Those brutes out there are bound to catch me sooner or later and have me for tea.' 'I is never letting that happen,' the BFG said. For a few moments the cave was silent. Then Sophie said, 'May I ask you a question?' The BFG wiped the tears from his eyes with the back of his hand and gave Sophie a long thoughtful stare. 'Shoot away' he said.

索菲惊讶地看着。 这是一个多么奇怪和喜怒无常的生物啊，她想。 这一刻他说我的脑袋里全是被压扁的苍蝇，下一刻他的心就为我融化了，因为Clonkers太太把我们锁在地窖里。 “让我担心的是，”索菲说，“我得在这个可怕的地方度过余生。 孤儿院很糟糕，但我不会永远待在那里，不是吗?“都是我的错，”好心眼巨人说。 “是我绑架了你。”又一颗巨大的眼泪从他的眼睛里涌出，溅落在地板上。 “现在我想起来了，我不会在这儿待那么久的。” “恐怕你会的，”好心眼巨人说。 “不，我不会的，”索菲说。 “外面的那些畜生迟早会抓住我，把我当茶吃的。“我绝不会让这种事发生，”好心眼巨人说。 山洞里沉默了一会儿。 然后苏菲说:“我可以问你一个问题吗?”好心眼巨人用手背擦去眼泪，若有所思地盯了索菲很久。 “开枪吧，”他说。

'Would you please tell me what you were doing in our village last night? Why were you poking that long trumpet thing into the Goochey children's bedroom and then blowing through it?' 'Ah-ha!' cried the BFG, sitting up suddenly in his chair. 'Now we is getting nosier than a parker!' 'And the suitcase you were carrying,' Sophie said. 'What on earth was that all about?' The BFG stared suspiciously at the small girl sitting cross-legged on the table. 'You is asking me to tell you whoppsy big secrets,' he said. 'Secrets that nobody is ever hearing before.' 'I won't tell a soul,' Sophie said. 'I swear it. How could I anyway? I am stuck here for the rest of my life.' 'You could be telling the other giants.' 'No, I couldn't,' Sophie said. 'You told me they would eat me up the moment they saw me.' 'And so they would,' said the BFG. 'You is a human bean and human beans is like strawbunkles and cream to those giants.' 'If they are going to eat me the moment they see me, then I wouldn't have time to tell them anything, would I?' Sophie said.

“你能告诉我你昨晚在我们村里干什么吗?” 你为什么要把那个长长的小号伸进古奇家孩子的卧室然后吹破它?“啊哈!好心眼巨人叫道，突然从椅子上坐了起来。 “现在我们比帕克还要吵!”"还有你提着的手提箱。"索菲说。 “这到底是怎么回事?”好心眼巨人怀疑地盯着盘腿坐在桌子上的小女孩。 “你是要我告诉你一个天大的秘密，”他说。 以前没人听说过的秘密。"我不会告诉任何人的，"索菲说。 “我发誓。我怎么可能呢? 我的下半辈子都要困在这里了。”“你可以告诉其他巨人。"不，我不能，"索菲说。 “你告诉过我，他们一见到我就会把我吃掉。“他们会的，”好心眼巨人说。 “你是一颗人类的豆子，而人类的豆子对那些巨人来说就像稻草和奶油。“如果他们一看到我就打算吃掉我，那我就没有时间跟他们说什么了，不是吗?”苏菲说。

'You wouldn't,' said the BFG. 'Then why did you say I might?' 'Because I is brimful of buzzburgers,' the BFG said. 'If you listen to everything I am saying you will be getting earache.' 'Please tell me what you were doing in our village,' Sophie said. 'I promise you can trust me.' 'Would you teach me how to make an elefunt?' the BFG asked. 'What do you mean?' Sophie said. 'I would dearly love to have an elefunt to ride on,' the BFG said dreamily. 'I would so much love to have a jumbly big elefunt and go riding through green forests picking peachy fruits off the trees all day long. This is a sizzling-hot muckfrumping country we is living in. Nothing grows in it except snozzcumbers. I would love to go somewhere else and pick peachy fruits in the early morning from the back of an elefunt.' Sophie was quite moved by this curious statement. 'Perhaps one day we will get you an elephant,' she said. 'And peachy fruits as well. Now tell me what you were doing in our village.'

“你不会的，”好心眼巨人说。 “那你为什么说我可以呢?”“因为我满脑子都是嗡嗡声，”BFG说。 “如果你听我说的话，你会耳朵疼的。“请告诉我你在我们村里干什么。”索菲说。 “我保证你可以信任我。“你能教我如何制作一幅画吗?”好心眼巨人问。 “你是什么意思?”苏菲说。 “我非常希望能骑上一只大象，”好心眼巨人梦幻般的说。 “我很想有一头笨重的大象，整天骑着大象穿过绿色的森林，从树上摘桃子。 这是我们生活的一个充斥着垃圾的国家。 里面除了大麻什么都不长。 我很想去别的地方，在清晨从大象的后面摘桃子。”索菲听了这句奇怪的话，十分感动。 “也许有一天我们会给你买一头大象，”她说。 “还有桃子味的水果。 现在告诉我你在我们村里干什么。”

'If you is really wanting to know what I am doing in your village,' the BFG said, 'I is blowing a dream into the bedroom of those children.' 'Blowing a dream?' Sophie said. 'What do you mean?' 'I is a dream-blowing giant,' the BFG said. 'When all the other giants is galloping off every what way and which to swollop human beans, I is scuddling away to other places to blow dreams into the bedrooms of sleeping children. Nice dreams. Lovely golden dreams. Dreams that is giving the dreamers a happy time.' 'Now hang on a minute,' Sophie said. 'Where do you get these dreams?' 'I collect them,' the BFG said, waving an arm towards all the rows and rows of bottles on the shelves. 'I has billions of them.' 'You can't collect a dream,' Sophie said. 'A dream isn't something you can catch hold of.' 'You is never going to understand about it,' the BFG said. 'That is why I is not wishing to tell you.' 'Oh, please tell me!' Sophie said. 'I will understand! Go on! Tell me how you collect dreams! Tell me everything!'

“如果你真的想知道我在你们村子里做什么，”好心眼巨人说，“我正在把一个梦吹进那些孩子的卧室里。“吹梦?”苏菲说。 “你是什么意思?”“我是一个吹梦巨人，”好心眼巨人说。 当所有的巨人都四处奔逃去吞豆子的时候，我却匆匆跑到别的地方去，把梦吹进熟睡的孩子们的卧室里。 不错的梦想。可爱的金色梦。 梦想是给做梦的人一个快乐的时光。"等一下，"索菲说。 “你从哪里得到这些梦的?”“我收集瓶子。”好心眼巨人说着，向架子上一排排的瓶子挥了挥手。 “我有数十亿这样的人。"你不能收集一个梦，"索菲说。 “梦想不是你能抓住的东西。“你永远也不会明白的。”BFG说。 “这就是我不想告诉你的原因。“噢，请告诉我吧!”苏菲说。 “我会理解的!”去吧!告诉我你是怎么收集梦境的!把一切都告诉我!”