6 Part 06

To the Pelican I gave a big bag of Pishlets. Pishlets, as you probably know, are bought by children who are unable to whistle a tune as they walk along the street but long to do so. They had a splendid effect upon the Pelican, for after he had put one of them into his beak and chewed it for a while, he suddenly started singing like a nightingale. This made him wildly excited because Pelicans are not song-birds. No Pelican had ever been known to whistle a tune before. To the Monkey I gave bag of Devil's Drenchers, those small fiery black sweets that one is not allowed to sell to children under four years

我给了鹈鹕一大袋鱼。 你可能知道，皮什莱特是由那些在街上走路时不会吹口哨的孩子们买的，但他们很想这样做。 它们对鹈鹕产生了奇妙的影响，因为当它把其中一颗放进嘴里咀嚼了一会儿后，它突然开始像夜莺一样唱歌。 这让他非常兴奋，因为鹈鹕不是唱歌的鸟。 以前从来没有听说过鹈鹕会吹口哨。 我给了猴子一袋魔鬼淋糖，那是一种黑色的小糖果，不允许卖给四岁以下的孩子

old. When you have sucked a Devil's Drencher for a minute or so, you can set your breath alight and blow a huge column of fire twenty feet into the air. The Duke put a match to the Monkey's breath and shouted, 'Blow, Monkey, blow!' A sheet of orange flame shot up as high as the roof of the Grubber house and it was wonderful.

老了。当你吸了魔鬼雨一分钟左右，你就可以点燃你的呼吸，向空中吹出20英尺高的巨大火柱。 公爵在猴子的呼吸上划了根火柴，喊道:“吹，猴子，吹!”一团橘黄色的火焰直窜到格鲁伯家的屋顶上，真是太奇妙了。

'I've got to leave you now,' I said. 'I must go and look after my customers in the shop.' 'We must go, too,' said the Giraffe. 'We have one hundred windows to clean before dark.' I said goodbye to the Duke, and then one by one I said goodbye to the three best friends I had ever had. Suddenly, we all became very quiet and melancholy, and the Monkey looked as though he

“我现在得离开你了，”我说。 “我得去店里照顾顾客了。“我们也得去，”长颈鹿说。 “天黑前我们有一百扇窗户要擦干净。”我向公爵告别，然后一个接一个地向我曾经有过的三个最好的朋友告别。 突然，我们都变得非常安静和忧郁，猴子看起来好像他

was about to cry as he sang me a little song of farewell: 'We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. So do please now and then Come and see us again, The Giraffe and the Pelly and me. All you do is to look At a page in this book Because that's where we always will be. No book ever ends When it's full of your friends The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.'

当他为我唱了一首告别的小曲时，我几乎要哭了:“当我们挥手告别时，我们热泪盈眶，我们是如此喜欢和你在一起，我们三个。” 所以，请偶尔来看看我们，长颈鹿，贝利和我。 你所要做的就是看这本书的某一页因为我们永远都在那里。 如果书里写满了你的朋友，长颈鹿、贝利和我，那本书就永远不会结束。”