9 Ch9-The Lost Knights

CHAPTER NINE The Lost Knights Annie chased Jack around the circle. "Stop, Jack!" she cried. "Stop!" She grabbed his shirt and tried to pull him out of the dance. "Let go, Annie!" he said. "Leave me alone!" But Annie wouldn't let go. Finally, she pulled so hard that Jack broke hands with the dancers and

第九章失落的骑士安妮追着杰克绕着圈子跑。 “住手，杰克!”她喊道。“住手!”她抓住他的衬衫，想把他拉出舞会。 “放手，安妮!”他说。“放开我!”但安妮不肯放手。 最后，她拉得太用力了，杰克和跳舞的人掰了手

tumbled backward into the grass. The winged dancers didn't seem to notice. They closed their circle and kept going around and around. "Why did you do that?" said Jack, sitting up. "I was having fun!" "Look at the knights!" said Annie. "See them?" Jack still couldn't see. The world was spinning before his eyes. He ached to get back into the dance. "Here, I found your glasses!" said Annie. "Put them on!" Jack put on his glasses. He peered at the circle of dancers. He caught sight of armor glinting in the sunlight. He saw three knights dancing in a

向后摔倒在草地上。 带翅膀的舞者似乎没有注意到。 他们围成一个圈，不停地转啊转。 “你为什么要那样做?”杰克说着，坐了起来。 “我玩得很开心!”“看那些骑士!”安妮说。 “看到他们?”杰克还是看不见。 世界在他眼前旋转。 他渴望回到舞会中去。 “来，我找到你的眼镜了!”安妮说。 “穿上!”杰克戴上了眼镜。 他凝视着那一圈跳舞的人。 他看见一件盔甲在阳光下闪闪发光。 他看见三个骑士在跳舞

row. Two of them looked very young. The third looked much older. As they came closer, Jack saw their faces. All the joy of the music drained out of him. The knights looked tired and sick. Their hair and beards were long and scraggly. Their faces were bony and pale. Their eyes stared wildly and their lips were frozen in ghostly smiles. "What's wrong with them?" asked Jack. "They can't stop dancing!" said Annie. "They're dancing themselves to death!" "They must be the lost knights from Camelot," said Jack. "We have to save them!" said Annie.

行。其中两个看起来很年轻。 第三个看起来老多了。 当他们走近时，杰克看到了他们的脸。 音乐的乐趣从他身上消失了。 骑士们看上去又累又病。 他们的头发和胡须又长又乱。 他们的脸骨瘦如柴，脸色苍白。 他们的眼睛疯狂地瞪着，他们的嘴唇凝固在幽灵般的微笑中。 “他们怎么了?”杰克问。 “他们不停地跳舞!”安妮说。 “他们跳得要死!”“他们一定是从卡梅洛特来的失落骑士。”杰克说。 “我们必须救他们!”安妮说。

"Yeah," said Jack. He tried to clear his mind and think. "What about this? We get back in the dance—and we take places between the dancers and the knights." "Yes! Then we can pull the knights out of the circle!" said Annie. "Wait," said Jack. "What if I can't stop dancing again?" "Just don't let yourself get caught by the music," said Annie. "You have to think about something else. Think about why we're here. Think about Morgan." "Okay," said Jack. "I'll try." Jack and Annie crouched in the grass. They watched and waited as the knights danced

“是的，”杰克说。他努力使头脑清醒，开始思考。 “这个怎么样?”我们回到舞池中——我们坐在舞者和骑士之间。” “是啊!然后我们就可以把骑士们从圈子里拉出来了!”安妮说。 “等等，”杰克说。“如果我再也停不下来怎么办?”安妮说:“别让自己被音乐迷住了。” “你得想想别的事情。 想想我们为什么在这里。 想想摩根吧。”“好吧，”杰克说。 “我试试看。”杰克和安妮蹲在草地上。 他们看着骑士们跳舞

closer… and closer… and closer.… "Now!" shouted Annie. Jack and Annie rushed forward. They broke into the circle on either side of the knights. As Jack started dancing, his feet seemed to fly to the beat of the drum. He felt a wave of great joy. His worries left him. "Now, Jack!" cried Annie. "Pull away!" But Jack didn't want to pull away. The music rang in his ears. Nothing mattered except the dancing. "Jack! Pull away NOW!" Annie shouted again. Jack shook his head, trying to shake off Annie's voice.

越来越近，越来越近。“现在!”安妮喊道。 杰克和安妮冲上前去。 他们从骑士的两边闯入了圈子。 当杰克开始跳舞时，他的脚似乎随着鼓点的节拍飞了起来。 他感到一阵巨大的喜悦。 他不再担心了。“现在，杰克!”安妮叫道。 “躲开!”但杰克不想抽离。 音乐在他耳边回响。 除了跳舞，什么都不重要。 “杰克!现在就抽!”安妮又喊了一声。 杰克摇了摇头，试图摆脱安妮的声音。

"Morgan! Morgan!" Annie yelled. The word Morgan made Jack stumble a bit in the dance. "Morgan! Morgan!" Annie shouted. Jack stumbled again. Then he used all his might to stop himself from dancing. He let go of the hand of the dancer on his right and threw himself out of the dance—pulling the knight on his left with him. Annie and the other two knights tumbled back with them onto the grass. Just as before, the dancers didn't seem to notice. They closed their circle and kept going round and round in their joyous, timeless dance.

“摩根!摩根!”安妮喊道。 “摩根”这个词让杰克在跳舞时有点磕磕绊绊。 “摩根!摩根!”安妮喊道。 杰克又绊了一下。然后他用尽全身力气阻止自己跳舞。 他放开了右边跳舞者的手，拉着左边的骑士一起跳了出去。 安妮和另外两个骑士跟着他们滚回草地上。 和之前一样，跳舞的人似乎没有注意到。 他们围成一圈，继续欢快地跳着永恒的舞蹈。