39 Thirty-nine

Thirty-nine And thus the journey ended. But the travellers lived on. Every one of them became rich and successful in the new country. The Centipede was made Vice-President-in-Charge-of-Sales of a high-class firm of boot and shoe manufacturers. The Earthworm, with his lovely pink skin, was employed by a company that made women's face creams to speak commercials on television. The Silkworm and Miss Spider, after they had both been taught to make nylon thread instead of silk, set up a factory together and made ropes for tightrope walkers. The Glow-worm became the light inside the torch on the Statue of Liberty, and thus saved a grateful City from having to pay a huge electricity bill every year.

旅行就这样结束了。 但是旅行者们继续生活。 他们每个人在这个新国家都变得富有和成功。 蜈蚣被任命为一家高级靴子和鞋子制造商公司的副总裁，负责销售。 蚯蚓，他可爱的粉红色皮肤，受雇于一家生产女性面霜的公司在电视上做广告。 蚕和蜘蛛小姐在学会制作尼龙线而不是丝绸之后，一起开了一家工厂，为走钢丝的人制作绳索。 萤火虫变成了自由女神像火炬里的光，从而使这个感激不尽的城市免于每年支付巨额电费。

The Old-Green-Grasshopper became a member of the New York Symphony Orchestra, where his playing was greatly admired. The Ladybird, who had been haunted all her life by the fear that her house was on fire and her children all gone, married the Head of the Fire Department and lived happily ever after. And as for the enormous peach stone – it was set up permanently in a place of honour in Central Park and became a famous monument. But it was not only a famous monument. It was also a famous house. And inside the famous house there lived a famous person – JAMES HENRY TROTTER himself. And all you had to do any day of the week was to go and knock upon the door, and the door would always be opened to you, and you would always be asked to come inside and see the

老绿蚱蜢成为了纽约交响乐团的一员，在那里他的演奏受到了极大的赞赏。 瓢虫一生都担心自己的房子着火了，孩子们都不见了，于是她嫁给了消防队长，从此过上了幸福的生活。 至于那颗巨大的桃核，它被永久地安置在中央公园的一个荣誉的地方，成为一个著名的纪念碑。 但它不仅是一座著名的纪念碑。 这也是一个著名的房子。 在这座著名的房子里住着一位名人——詹姆斯·亨利·特罗特本人。 你每天所要做的就是去敲门，门总是为你打开，你总是被邀请进去看看

famous room where James had first met his friends. And sometimes, if you were very lucky, you would find the Old-Green-Grasshopper in there as well, resting peacefully in a chair before the fire, or perhaps it would be the Ladybird who had dropped in for a cup of tea and a gossip, or the Centipede to show off a new batch of particularly elegant boots that he had just acquired.

詹姆斯第一次见到他的朋友的著名房间。 有时候，如果你非常幸运，你会发现老绿蚱蜢也在那里，在火炉前的椅子上安静地休息，或者是瓢虫来喝杯茶，闲聊一下，或者是蜈蚣炫耀他刚买的一批特别漂亮的靴子。

Every day of the week, hundreds and hundreds of children from far and near came pouring into the City to see the marvellous peach stone in the Park. And James Henry Trotter, who once, if you remember, had been the saddest and loneliest little boy that you could find, now had all the friends and playmates in the world. And because so many of them were always begging hhn to tell and tell again the story of his adventures on the peach, he thought it would be nice if one day he sat down and wrote it as a book. So he did. And that is what you have just finished reading

一个星期的每一天，成百上千的孩子从四面八方涌进城市，在公园里看那颗神奇的桃核。 还有詹姆斯·亨利·特罗特，如果你还记得的话，他曾经是你能找到的最悲伤、最孤独的小男孩，现在却拥有了世界上所有的朋友和玩伴。 因为他们中的许多人总是求他一遍又一遍地讲述他在桃子上的冒险故事，他想如果有一天他坐下来把它写成一本书会很好。 于是他照做了。这就是你们刚刚读到的内容