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CHAPTER FOUR Jack of Frog Creek! Annie was laughing so hard that she could barely stand up. "What—what happened to you in there?" she said. "After I curtsied, I left. When I looked back in the room, you were still bowing!" "She didn't say 'rise'!" said Jack. "Yes, she did, dummy!" said Annie.

第四章青蛙溪的杰克！安妮笑得都快站不起来了。 “你在里面发生了什么事？”她说。 我行完礼就离开了。 当我回头看房间时，你还在鞠躬！”“她没说‘起来’！”杰克说。 “是的，她说了，笨蛋！”安妮说。

"Well, I didn't hear her!" said Jack. He turned away from Annie and started walking as fast as he could. He strode through one elegant room into another. He didn't know where he was. These rooms all look the same, he thought angrily, with stupid velvet furniture and stupid gold-trimmed walls. "Jack, wait!" Annie called. She hurried after him. Jack kept walking, desperate to get far away from the scene of his disaster. Finally he came to a door that led outside. He opened it and stepped out onto a long marble terrace overlooking the back of the palace. Bright silvery light from a full moon shone on a huge garden.

“嗯，我没听到她的声音！”杰克说。 他转身离开安妮，开始以最快的速度往前走。 他大步穿过一间优雅的房间，走进另一间。 他不知道自己身在何处。 这些房间看起来都一样，他生气地想，有愚蠢的天鹅绒家具和愚蠢的镶金边的墙壁。 “杰克,等等!”安妮叫。 她急忙跟在他后面。杰克继续走着，不顾一切地想要远离他的灾难现场。 最后，他来到一扇通向外面的门前。 他打开门，走到一个长长的大理石平台上，可以俯瞰宫殿的后面。 一轮满月皎洁的银光照在一个巨大的花园上。

Jack stood in the chilly air, trying to calm down. He took a deep breath. He desperately wanted to run back to the tree house and go home. "Jack!" Annie slipped out to join him. "I'm sorry I called you a dummy," she said. "Are you okay?" "I didn't hear her say to rise," said Jack. "And the flute fell out of my coat and my hat came off… and my wig… and I sneezed and I slipped…. Come on, let's leave. We can go down these stairs." "No, we can't leave now," said Annie. "We have a mission from Merlin. Don't feel bad. Hardly anyone saw what you did."

杰克站在寒冷的空气中，试图冷静下来。 他深吸了一口气。他拼命地想跑回树屋回家。 “杰克!”安妮溜出去和他在一起。 “对不起，我叫你傻瓜，”她说。 “你还好吗？”“我没听见她叫我站起来，”杰克说。 “笛子从我的外套里掉了出来，我的帽子掉了……还有我的假发……我打了个喷嚏，滑倒了....。 走吧，我们走吧。我们可以走下这些楼梯。” “不，我们现在不能走，”安妮说。 “梅林给了我们一个任务。 别难过。几乎没有人看到你做了什么。”

"Yeah, except Her Imperial Majesty and all those imperial kids," said Jack. "They all laughed at me." "They weren't being mean," said Annie. "You were funny. Here, give me your wig." Jack handed Annie his wig, and she put it back on his head and straightened it. "Your hat," she said. Jack gave her his hat, and she placed it over his wig. "Hide the flute," said Annie. Jack stuck the silver flute back into his pocket. "I don't know what we need this flute for," he said. "There's nothing dangerous here. I don't get this whole mission."

“是啊，除了女王陛下和那些皇室的孩子。”杰克说。 “他们都嘲笑我。”“他们不是刻薄，”安妮说。 “你很有趣。来，把你的假发给我。” 杰克把他的假发递给安妮，她把它戴回他的头上，并把它弄直。 “你的帽子，”她说。杰克把他的帽子给了她，她把它套在他的假发上。 “把笛子藏起来，”安妮说。 杰克把银笛插回口袋里。 “我不知道我们需要这支笛子做什么，”他说。 “这里没有什么危险。 我不明白这整个任务。”

"We'll figure it out. Let's just go back in," said Annie. She pulled Jack back inside the palace. "So what do we do now?" asked Jack. "We should find the party we were invited to," said Annie. "That must be what Merlin wanted us to do." She pointed across the room. People were streaming through a set of doors into another room. Loud party noises came from inside: the chatter of guests, tinkling china, and harp and violin music. Jack pulled back. But Annie took him by the arm. "Don't worry, I'll bet there are hundreds of people in there," she said. "We'll get lost in the crowd."

“我们会想出办法的。我们回去吧，”安妮说。 她把杰克拉回了宫殿。 “那我们现在怎么办？”杰克问。 “我们应该找到我们被邀请参加的聚会，”安妮说。 “那一定是梅林想让我们做的。” 她指着房间的另一头。 人们从一组门涌进另一个房间。 里面传来了聚会的嘈杂声：客人们的说话声、瓷器的丁当声、竖琴和小提琴的音乐声。 杰克后退了几步。但是安妮抓住了他的胳膊。 “别担心，我敢打赌里面有好几百人，”她说。 “我们会在人群中迷路的。”

"But what about all those kids and Her Imperial Majesty?" Jack asked. "They don't care about us," said Annie. "They have too many other guests to think about. Come on." Annie led Jack through the double doors into the party room. "Whoa," breathed Jack. He and Annie stopped and stared. The party room was the size of a football field. Grand paintings covered the towering ceiling. Everything was trimmed in gold. The glossy white walls and tall mirrors reflected the glow of at least a thousand candles. Musicians played harps and violins while hundreds of guests stood around long dinner

“但是那些孩子和女王陛下怎么办？”杰克问。 “他们不关心我们，”安妮说。 “他们要考虑的客人太多了。 来吧。”安妮领着杰克穿过两扇门进入了聚会室。 “哇，”杰克喘着气说。他和安妮停下来凝视着。 宴会厅有足球场那么大。 高耸的天花板上挂满了巨幅油画。 每样东西都镶着金子。 光滑的白墙和高高的镜子反射出至少一千支蜡烛的光芒。 音乐家们演奏竖琴和小提琴，数百名客人围坐在一起吃晚餐