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They all raised their heads, listening. 'Ssshh! There it is again!' But the voice was too far away for them to hear what it was saying. 'It's a Cloud-Man!' Miss Spider cried. 'I just know it's a Cloud-Man! They're after us again!' 'It came from above!' the Earthworm said, and automatically everybody looked upward, everybody except the Centipede, who couldn't move. 'Ouch!' they said. 'Help! Mercy! We're going to catch it this time!' For what they now saw, swirling and twisting directly over their heads, was an immense black cloud, a terrible, dangerous, thundery-looking thing that began to rumble and roar even as they were staring at it. And then, from high up on the top of the cloud,

他们都抬起头来，倾听着。 “Ssshh !它又来了!”但是那声音太远了，他们听不见它在说什么。 “是云人!”蜘蛛小姐叫道。 “我只知道那是一个云人!”他们又在追我们!“它是从上面来的!”蚯蚓说，大家不由自主地抬起头来，只有蜈蚣动弹不得。 “哎哟!”他们说。“帮助!仁慈!这次我们一定会抓住它的!”因为他们现在看到的，是一团巨大的黑云，在他们头顶上旋转、扭曲，是一种可怕、危险、雷雨般的东西，就在他们盯着它看的时候，它已经开始轰鸣、咆哮了。 然后，从云层的顶端，

the faraway voice came down to them once again, this time very loud and clear. 'On with the faucets!' it shouted. 'On with the faucets! On with the faucets!' Three seconds later, the whole underneath of the cloud seemed to split and burst open like a paper bag, and then – out came the water! They saw it coming. It was quite easy to see because it wasn't just raindrops. It wasn't raindrops at all. It was a great solid mass of water that might have been a lake or a whole ocean dropping out of the sky on top of them, and down it came, down and down and down, crashing first on to the seagulls and then on to the peach itself, while the poor travellers shrieked with fear and groped around frantically for something to catch hold of – the peach stem, the silk strings, anything they could find – and all the time the water came pouring and roaring down upon them, bouncing and smashing and sloshing and slashing and swashing and swirling and surging and whirling and gurgling and gushing and rushing and rushing, and it was like being pinned down underneath the biggest

那遥远的声音又一次向他们传了过来，这次非常响亮、清晰。 “打开水龙头!”它喊道。 “打开水龙头!”把水龙头打开!”三秒钟后，整个云下面似乎裂开了，像一个纸袋一样裂开了，然后——水出来了!他们看到了它的到来。 这很容易看到，因为它不仅仅是雨滴。 那根本不是雨滴。 这是一个伟大的固体水,可能是一个湖泊或海洋辍学的天空之上,它,下来,下来,下来,撞到海鸥然后桃子本身,而可怜的旅行者尖叫与恐惧和摸索着疯狂的想要抓住什么,桃干,丝绸之弦,任何他们能找到的东西——和所有的时间水蜂拥出现,而下,蹦蹦跳跳，噼里啪啦，晃来晃去，砍来砍去，旋转着，汹涌着，旋转着，汩汩作响，喷涌着，奔涌着，奔涌着，就像被压在最大的下面一样

waterfall in the world and not being able to get out. They couldn't speak. They couldn't see. They couldn't breathe. And James Henry Trotter, holding on madly to one of the silk strings above the peach stem, told himself that this must surely be the end of everything at last. But then, just as suddenly as it had started, the deluge stopped. They were out of it and it was all over. The wonderful seagulls had flown right through it and had come out safely on the other side. Once again the giant peach was sailing peacefully through the mysterious moonlit sky.

世界上有瀑布，却出不去。 他们不能说话。他们看不见。 他们无法呼吸。詹姆斯·亨利·特罗特疯狂地抓住桃茎上方的一根丝线，告诉自己，这一定是一切的终结。 但随后，就像它开始时那样突然，洪水停止了。 他们离开了，一切都结束了。 那些奇妙的海鸥正好飞过它，安全地飞到了另一边。 巨大的桃子又一次平静地航行在神秘的月光下的天空。

'I am drowned!' gasped the Old-Green-Grasshopper, spitting out water by the pint. 'It's gone right through my skin!' the Earthworm groaned. 'I always thought my skin was waterproof but it isn't and now I'm full of rain!' 'Look at me, look at me!' shouted the Centipede excitedly. 'It's washed me clean! The paint's all gone! I can move again!' 'That's the worst news I've had in a long time,' the Earthworm said. The Centipede was dancing around the deck and turning somersaults in the air and singing at the top of his voice: 'Oh, hooray for the storm and the rain! I can move! I don't feel any pain! And now I'm a pest,

“我淹死了!”老绿蚱蜢气喘吁吁地说，吐出一品脱的水。 “它穿透了我的皮肤!”蚯蚓呻吟着说。 “我一直以为我的皮肤是防水的，但事实并非如此，现在我浑身都是雨!”“看着我，看着我!”蜈蚣兴奋地喊道。 “它把我洗干净了!”油漆都没了!我又能动了!“这是我很长时间以来听到的最坏的消息，”蚯蚓说。 蜈蚣在甲板上跳来跳去，在空中翻筋斗，扯着嗓子唱着:“哦，为暴风雨和雨欢呼!我能动了!我不觉得痛!现在我成了讨厌鬼

I'm the biggest and best, The most marvellous pest once again!' 'Oh, do shut up,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said. 'Look at me!' cried the Centipede. 'Look at ME! I am freed! I am freed! Not a scratch nor a bruise nor a bleed! To his grave this fine gent They all thought they had sent And I very near went! Oh, I VERY near went! But they cent quite the wrong Sentipede!'

我是最大最好的，又是最神奇的害虫!“哦，闭嘴，”老绿蚱蜢说。 “看着我!”蜈蚣叫道。 “看着我!”我自由了!我自由了!没有抓伤，没有淤青，没有流血!他们都以为他们派人去了他的坟墓我也差点就去了!哦，我差一点就走了!但他们完全搞错了蜈蚣!”