08 Snozzcumbers

Snozzcumbers 'But if you don't eat people like all the others,' Sophie said, 'then what do you live on?' 'That is a squelching tricky problem around here,' the BFG answered. 'In this sloshflunking Giant Country, happy eats like pineapples and pigwinkles is simply not growing. Nothing is growing except for one extremely icky-poo vegetable. It is called the snozzcumber.' 'The snozzcumber!' cried Sophie. 'There's no such thing.' The BFG looked at Sophie and smiled, showing about twenty of his square white teeth. 'Yesterday' he said, 'we was not believing in giants, was we? Today we is not believing in snozzcumbers. Just because we happen not to have actually seen something with our own two little winkles, we think it is not existing. What about for instance the great squizzly scotchhopper?' 'I beg your pardon?' Sophie said.

“但如果你不像其他人那样吃人，”索菲说，“那你靠什么为生呢?“这在这儿可是个棘手的问题。”好心眼巨人回答。 在这个成绩不佳的大国，像菠萝和猪皱纹这样的快乐食物根本没有生长。 除了一种极其难吃的蔬菜，什么都不长。 它被称为snozznumber。“鼻子号码!”索菲叫道。 “没有这种事。”好心眼巨人看着索菲，笑了，露出了大约二十颗方形的白牙齿。 “昨天，”他说，“我们还不相信有巨人，是吗? 今天我们不相信数字。 仅仅因为我们碰巧没有用自己的两根小皱纹看到什么东西，我们就认为它不存在。 比如伟大的斯奎兹·苏格兰跳酒呢?“请再说一遍好吗?”苏菲说。

'And the humplecrimp?' 'What's that?' Sophie said. 'And the wraprascal?' 'The what?' Sophie said. 'And the crumpscoddle?' 'Are they animals?' Sophie asked. 'They is common animals,' said the BFG contemptuously. 'I is not a very know-all giant myself, but it seems to me that you is an absolutely know-nothing human bean. Your brain is full of rotten-wool.' 'You mean cotton-wool,' Sophie said. 'What I mean and what I say is two different things,' the BFG announced rather grandly. 'I will now show you a snozzcumber.' The BFG flung open a massive cupboard and took out the weirdest-looking thing Sophie had ever seen. It was about half as long again as an ordinary man but was much thicker. It was as thick around its girth as a perambulator. It was black with white stripes along its length. And it was covered all over with coarse knobbles.

“那驼背卷饼呢?”“那是什么?”苏菲说。 “那包裹呢?”“什么?”苏菲说。 “那皱巴巴的小船儿呢?”“它们是动物吗?”苏菲问。 “他们是普通的动物，”好心眼巨人轻蔑地说。 “我自己并不是一个无所不知的巨人，但在我看来，你是一个一无所知的人。 你的脑子里全是烂毛。"你是说棉絮吗? "索菲说。 “我的意思和我说的是两回事。”好心眼巨人相当神气地宣布。 “我现在给你看一个数字。”好心眼巨人打开一个巨大的橱柜，拿出索菲从未见过的最奇怪的东西。 它大约是一个普通人的一半长，但要厚得多。 它的周长和婴儿车一样厚。 它是黑色的，身上有白色的条纹。 到处都是粗糙的疙瘩。

'Here is the repulsant snozzcumber!' cried the BFG, waving it about. 'I squoggle it! I mispise it! I dispunge it! But because I is refusing to gobble up human beans like the other giants, I must spend my life guzzling up icky-poo snozzcumbers instead. If I don't, I will be nothing but skin and groans.' 'You mean skin and bons,' Sophie said. 'I know it is bones,' the BFG said. 'But please understand that I cannot be helping it if I sometimes is saying things a little squiggly. I is trying my very best all the time.' The Big Friendly

“这是讨厌的鼻涕号码!”好心眼巨人喊着，挥舞着它。 “我拼出来的!”我弄错了!我把它放出来!但是因为我拒绝像其他巨人一样吞食人类的豆子，我必须把我的一生都花在吞食便便鼻涕虫上。 如果我不这样做，我将只是一个皮囊和呻吟。"你是说皮包骨头吗? "索菲说。 “我知道是骨头，”好心眼巨人说。 “但请理解，如果我有时说话有点弯弯曲曲，我也没办法。 我一直在尽我最大的努力。”大友好

Giant looked suddenly so forlorn that Sophie got quite upset. 'I'm sorry' she said. 'I didn't mean to be rude.' 'There never was any schools to teach me talking in Giant Country,' the BFG said sadly. 'But couldn't your mother have taught you?' Sophie asked. 'My mother!' cried the BFG. 'Giants don't have mothers! Surely you is knowing that.' 'I did not know that,' Sophie said. 'Whoever heard of a woman giant!' shouted the BFG, waving the snozzcumber around his head like a lasso. 'There never was a woman giant! And there never will be one. Giants is always men!' Sophie felt herself getting a little muddled. 'In that case,' she said, 'how were you born?' 'Giants isn't born,' the BFG answered. 'Giants appears and that's all there is to it. They simply appears, the same way as the sun and the stars.' 'And when did you appear?' Sophie asked. 'Now how on earth could I be knowing a thing like that?' said the BFG. 'It was so long ago I couldn't count.'

巨人突然显得那么凄凉，索菲很不高兴。 “对不起，”她说。“我不是有意无礼。“在巨人国从来没有任何学校教我说话，”好心眼巨人悲伤地说。 “可是你妈妈就不能教你吗?”苏菲问。 “我的母亲!好心眼巨人叫道。 “巨人没有妈妈!”你肯定知道。"我不知道，"索菲说。 “谁听说过女巨人!”好心眼巨人喊道，一边像挥动套索一样挥动着头上的鼻塞。 “从来就没有一个女巨人!”永远也不会有。 巨人永远是人!”索菲觉得自己有点糊涂了。 “那样的话，”她说，“你是怎么出生的?“巨人不是天生的，”好心眼巨人回答。 巨人出现了，这就是一切。 它们只是简单地出现，就像太阳和星星一样。“你什么时候出现的?”苏菲问。 “我怎么会知道这种事呢?”好心眼巨人说。 “那是很久以前的事了，我都数不清了。”

'You mean you don't even know how old you are?' 'No giant is knowing that,' the BFG said. 'All I is knowing about myself is that I is very old, very very old and crumply Perhaps as old as the earth.' 'What happens when a giant dies?' Sophie asked. 'Giants is never dying,' the BFG answered. 'Sometimes and quite suddenly, a giant is disappearing and nobody is ever knowing where he goes to. But mostly us giants is simply going on and on like whiffsy time-twiddlers.' The BFG was still holding the awesome snozzcumber in his right hand, and now he put one end into his mouth and bit off a huge hunk of it. He started crunching it up and the noise he made was like the crunching of lumps of ice. 'It's filthing!' he spluttered, speaking with his mouth full and spraying large pieces of snozzcumber like bullets in Sophie's direction. Sophie hopped around on the table-top, ducking out of the way. 'It's disgusterous!' the BFG gurgled. 'It's sickable! It's rotsome! It's maggotwise! Try it

“你是说你甚至不知道自己多大了?”“没有巨人知道这一点。”BFG说。 “我只知道我已经很老了，很老，很皱，也许和地球一样老。“巨人死了会怎么样?”苏菲问。 “巨人是不会死的。” “有时候，一个巨人突然消失了，没有人知道他去了哪里。 但大多数美国巨人只是在不停地往前走，就像在浪费时间。”好心眼巨人的右手仍然拿着那只可怕的鼻涕虫，现在他把一头放进嘴里，咬下了一大块。 他开始把它嘎吱作响，发出的声音就像冰块嘎吱作响一样。 “这是污秽!他吞吞吐吐地说，嘴里塞满了东西，像子弹一样向苏菲的方向喷出大块的鼻涕。 索菲在桌上跳来跳去，躲开了。 “这是disgusterous !好心眼巨人咯咯地说。 “这是sickable !rotsome !maggotwise !试一试

yourself, this foulsome snozzcumber!' 'No, thank you,' Sophie said, backing away. 'It's all you're going to be guzzling around here from now on so you might as well get used to it,' said the BFG. 'Go on, you snipsy little winkle, have a go!' Sophie took a small nibble. 'Uggggggggh!' she spluttered. 'Oh no! Oh gosh! Oh help!' She spat it out quickly. 'It tastes of frogskins!' she gasped. 'And rotten fish!' 'Worse than that!' cried the BFG, roaring with laughter. 'To me it is tasting of clockcoaches and slime-wanglers!'

你自己，这个讨厌的笨蛋!"不，谢谢你。"索菲说着，向后退了几步。 “从现在起，你们在这里就只能喝这个了，所以你们最好习惯一下。” “来吧，你这个调皮的小东西，来吧!”苏菲咬了一小口。 “Uggggggggh !她气急败坏地说。 “哦,不!噢,天哪!哦,救命!”她很快就吐了出来。 “有青蛙皮的味道!”她喘着气说。 “还有烂鱼!”“比那还糟!”好心眼巨人大声笑着说。 “对我来说，它尝起来就像钟表和黏液!”