01 The Three Farmers

1 The Three Farmers Down in the valley there were three farms. The owners of these farms had done well. They were rich men. They were also nasty men. All three of them were about as nasty and mean as any men you could meet. Their names were Farmer Boggis, Farmer Bunce and Farmer Bean.

在山谷下面有三个农场。 这些农场的主人做得很好。 他们都是有钱人。他们也是讨厌的人。 他们三个人都是你能遇到的最下流、最卑鄙的男人。 他们的名字是农夫Boggis，农夫Bunce和农夫Bean。

Boggis was a chicken farmer. He kept thousands of chickens. He was enormously fat. This was because he ate three boiled chickens smothered with dumplings every day for breakfast, lunch and supper. Bunce was a duck-and-goose farmer. He kept thousands of ducks and geese. He was a kind of pot-bellied dwarf. He was so short his chin would have been underwater in the shallow end of any swimming-pool in the world. His food was

Boggis是一个养鸡户。 他养了几千只鸡。 他非常胖。这是因为他每天早餐、午餐和晚餐都要吃三只水煮鸡和饺子。 邦斯是个养鸭养鹅的农民。 他养了成千上万只鸭和鹅。 他是个大腹便便的侏儒。 他太矮了，在世界上任何一个游泳池的浅水区，他的下巴都能被水淹没。 他的食物是

doughnuts and goose-livers. He mashed the livers into a disgusting paste and then stuffed the paste into the doughnuts. This diet gave him a tummyache and a beastly temper.

甜甜圈和鹅肝。 他把猪肝捣碎成恶心的糊状，然后把糊状塞进甜甜圈里。 这种饮食使他胃痛，脾气暴躁。

Bean was a turkey-and-apple farmer. He kept thousands of turkeys in an orchard full of apple trees. He never ate any food at all. Instead, he drank gallons of strong cider which he made from the apples in his orchard. He was as thin as a pencil and the cleverest of them all.

比恩是一个种植火鸡和苹果的农民。 他在一个长满苹果树的果园里养了几千只火鸡。 他从来不吃任何东西。 相反，他喝了几加仑的烈性苹果酒，这是他用果园里的苹果酿造的。 他像铅笔一样瘦，是他们中最聪明的。

'Boggis and Bunce and Bean One fat, one short, one lean. These horrible crooks So different in looks Were none the less equally mean.' That is what the children round about used to sing when they saw them.

Boggis, Bunce和Bean一个胖，一个矮，一个瘦。 这些可怕的骗子相貌如此不同，却同样卑鄙。”这就是周围的孩子们过去看到他们时唱的歌。