15 Fifteen

Fifteen Outside in the garden, at that very moment, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker had just taken their places at the front gate, each with a bunch of tickets in her hand, and the first stream of early morning sightseers was visible in the distance climbing up the hill to view the peach. 'We shall make a fortune today,' Aunt Spiker was saying. 'Just look at all those people!' 'I wonder what became of that horrid little boy of ours last night,' Aunt Sponge said. 'He never did come back in, did he?' 'He probably fell down in the dark and broke his leg,' Aunt Spiker said. 'Or his neck, maybe,' Aunt Sponge said hopefully. 'Just wait till I get my hands on him,' Aunt Spiker said, waving her cane. 'He'll never want to stay out all night again by the time I've finished

就在这时，在花园的外面，海绵阿姨和斯派克阿姨刚刚在大门口就座，每人手里都拿着一摞票，远处可以看到第一批清晨的观光客正在上山看桃子。 “我们今天要发财了，”斯派克姑妈说。 “看看那些人!”“我不知道昨晚我们那个可怕的小男孩怎么样了，”海绵姑妈说。 “他再也没有回来过，是吗?”“他可能在黑暗中跌倒，摔断了腿，”斯派克姑妈说。 “或者他的脖子，也许。”海绵姨妈满怀希望地说。 “等着瞧，等我抓到他。”斯派克姑妈挥舞着手杖说。 “等我讲完的时候，他再也不想在外面过夜了

with him. Good gracious me! What's that awful noise?' Both women swung round to look. The noise, of course, had been caused by the giant peach crashing through the fence that surrounded it, and now, gathering speed every second, it came rolling across the garden towards the place where Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker were standing. They gaped. They screamed. They started to run. They panicked. They both got in each other's way. They began pushing and jostling, and each one of them was thinking only about saving herself. Aunt Sponge, the fat one, tripped over a box that she'd brought along to keep the money in, and fell flat on her face. Aunt Spiker immediately tripped over Aunt Sponge and came down on top of her. They both lay on the ground, fighting and clawing and yelling and struggling frantically to get up again, but before they could do this, the mighty peach was upon them.

和他在一起。天哪!那可怕的声音是什么?”两个女人都转过身去看。 当然，那声音是巨大的桃子冲破围在它周围的篱笆发出的，现在，它每一秒钟都在加快速度，滚过花园，朝海绵姑妈和斯派克姑妈站着的地方滚来。 他们目瞪口呆。他们尖叫。 他们开始跑。他们惊慌失措。 他们俩都妨碍了彼此。 他们开始推推搡搡，每个人都只想着自救。 胖的海绵阿姨被她带来的装钱的盒子绊了一下，摔了个脸朝地。 斯派克姨妈立刻被海绵姨妈绊倒了，从她身上掉了下来。 他们俩躺在地上，又打又抓，又喊又叫，拼命挣扎着要爬起来，但还没等他们站起来，那只巨大的桃子就扑到了他们身上。

There was a crunch. And then there was silence. The peach rolled on. And behind it, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker lay ironed out upon the grass as flat and thin and lifeless as a couple of paper dolls cut out of a picture book.

嘎吱一声。然后是沉默。 桃子继续滚动着。在它后面，海绵姨妈和斯派克姨妈熨平了身子躺在草地上，像从图画书上剪下来的两个纸娃娃一样，又平又薄，毫无生气。