6. Surprise Visitors!

6 Surprise Visitors! Oda Nobu had said that they would see many wonderful sights at the end of their journey. Stanley was not disappointed. Everywhere he looked, he saw hundreds of cherry trees, each covered with thousands of pink blossoms. The blossoms swayed in a warm breeze blowing in from the East China Sea. Standing there in the bright sunlight under a deep-blue sky, Stanley thought it was the most beautiful sight he'd ever seen.

6个惊喜访客!Oda Nobu曾说过他们在旅途结束时会看到许多美丽的景色。 斯坦利没有失望。 无论往哪里看，他都看到成百上千棵樱桃树，每棵树上都开着成千上万朵粉红色的花。 花儿在从东海吹来的和风中摇曳。 站在明亮的阳光下，深蓝色的天空下，斯坦利认为这是他所见过的最美丽的景象。

"Someday, Stanley-san," Oda Nobu said, "I will visit you in America. We will go together to your nation's capital, Washington, District of Columbia. Did you know that you have your own cherry trees there?" Stanley said he hadn't known that. "Oh, yes," Oda Nobu said. "In nineteen-twelve, the people of Japan, as a sign of friendship, gave your country three thousand cherry trees. And now every spring, you have your very own Cherry Blossom Festival. Yes, I believe that someday we will go to it together."

“总有一天，斯坦利先生，”Oda Nobu说，“我会去美国看你。 我们将一起前往你们国家的首都华盛顿，哥伦比亚特区。 你知道那里有你自己的樱桃树吗?”斯坦利说他不知道。 “哦，是的，”Oda Nobu说。“1912年，日本人民作为友谊的象征，送给贵国三千棵樱桃树。 现在每年春天，你们都有自己的樱花节。 是的，我相信有一天我们会一起去的。”

Oda Nobu smiled down warmly. But then he looked at Stanley closer. He frowned. "Stanley-san, I am sorry to say that you are still a little creased from being folded up last night. But I know something that may help." He hailed a taxi, and they took a short ride into the countryside. Looking out the window, Stanley saw something amazing: There in the distance was a volcano! Smoke rose in a dark plume from the crater at the top. "Oda-san! Is that a real volcano?" "Oh, yes," Oda Nobu replied. "Japan is a group of islands formed long ago by volcanoes. In fact, although Japan is a very small country, more than ten percent of all the active volcanoes in the world are found here." The taxi pulled to a stop in front of a beautiful low building. Stanley recognized the words inn and spa among the Japanese characters on the sign. "Here we are," Oda Nobu said. "Now you will discover one of the advantages of living in the land of volcanoes." They walked along a raked gravel path until they came to what looked like a gigantic stone

Oda Nobu热情地微笑着。 但他又仔细看了看斯坦利。 他皱起了眉头。“史丹利先生，我很遗憾地告诉你，昨晚你被打了一顿，到现在还有些不舒服。 但我知道一些可能有用的东西。” 他叫了一辆出租汽车，他们骑了一小段路到乡下去。 向窗外望去，斯坦利看到了令人惊奇的一幕:远处有一座火山!黑烟从山顶的火山口升起。 “Oda-san !那是一座真正的火山吗?”“哦，是的，”Oda Nobu回答。 “日本是一群很久以前由火山形成的岛屿。 事实上，虽然日本是一个非常小的国家，但世界上10%以上的活火山都在这里。” 出租车在一座漂亮的矮楼前停了下来。 史丹利在招牌上的日文中认出了“客栈”和“温泉”这两个字。 “我们到了，”Oda Nobu说。 “现在你会发现生活在火山之地的一个好处。” 他们沿着一条倾斜的砾石小道走着，走到一块看起来像巨石的地方

swimming pool. The big volcano smoked in the distance, and the swimming pool appeared to be smoking, too. "Throughout Japan you will find hot springs," Oda Nobu said. "The water comes from deep underground. It is heated by the same forces that make the volcano erupt." Stanley stood in the warm steam rising from the hot springs. He felt his wrinkles melting away. It felt so good. Afterward, he and Oda Nobu found a stone bench in a bonsai garden. They sat in silence, as Oda Nobu made one origami figure after another. When he finished one, he would hand it to Stanley. Stanley lined the creatures along the bench. A dog. A cat. A grasshopper. A swan. And then a small flat boy. Stanley knew who that was supposed to be. "You have a brother, yes?" Oda Nobu asked. Stanley nodded, and Oda Nobu made another paper boy, this one not so flat. "And a mother and a father?" Oda Nobu said, and handed him a paper mother and father. Stanley sighed as he lined them up on the bench.

游泳池。远处的大火山在冒烟，游泳池似乎也在冒烟。 “在日本到处都能找到温泉，”Oda Nobu说。 “水来自地下深处。 它被同样的力量加热，使火山喷发。” 斯坦利站在从温泉中冒出来的热气中。 他感到自己的皱纹渐渐消失了。 感觉好极了。后来，他和Oda Nobu在一个盆景花园里找到了一条石凳。 他们安静地坐着，织田信一个接一个地折纸。 当他完成一个时，他会把它交给斯坦利。 斯坦利把这些动物排成一行。 一只狗。一只猫。蚱蜢。 一只天鹅。然后是一个小扁平男孩。 斯坦利知道那是谁。 “你有个哥哥，是吗?”Oda Nobu问。 斯坦利点了点头，织田信又做了一个纸童，这个不那么平。 “还有母亲和父亲?”织田信说着，递给他一张父母亲的纸。 斯坦利叹了口气，把他们排在长凳上。

"You miss your family, don't you, Stanley-san," Oda Nobu asked. Stanley admitted that he did, very much. "Well, I am sure they miss you, too, very much," Oda Nobu said. "Perhaps, then, it is time you went home." Thinking about how much he missed his family, Stanley could almost hear his mother's voice calling his name: "Stanley Lambchop!" The voice sounded so real! "Stanley Lambchop, you were supposed to be down for breakfast four days ago!" Stanley whirled around and there they were! His mother and his father and Arthur, all hurrying

“你想念你的家人，是吗，斯坦利先生?” 斯坦利承认他非常喜欢。 “嗯，我相信他们也非常想念你，”Oda Nobu说。 “那么，也许你该回家了。” 想到他是多么想念他的家人，斯坦利几乎可以听到他母亲呼唤他名字的声音:“斯坦利·兰博切!”那声音听起来是那么真实!“斯坦利·兰博切，你四天前就该下来吃早饭了!”斯坦利一转身，他们就在那儿!他的母亲、父亲和阿瑟都急急忙忙地走着

toward him! Arthur was the first to reach him. "Sorry," he said. "They made me tell where—" Arthur gasped as he recognized the man on the bench beside his brother. "Oh, my gosh! It's the Seventeenth Samurai!" he cried, bowing several times. "I salute you, Master Oda Nobu, greatest of all samurai warriors!" Oda Nobu smiled and bowed to Arthur. Mr. and Mrs. Lambchop joined them then. "Young man," Mr. Lambchop said to Stanley sternly. "Can and may are two entirely different words. Just because you can mail yourself halfway around the world does not mean that you may. Your mother and I have been worried sick." "Sorry, Mom. Sorry, Dad," Stanley said. He gave them big hugs and then hugged his brother, too. He was so happy to see them all! "But I've been having such a good time! I ate raw fish, and I went to the movie studio, and do you know that Japan has more than ten percent of the—" "I don't want to interrupt you, dear," Mrs. Lambchop interrupted him. "But I think we should get going. We shall hear all about your adventure on the way."

向他!阿瑟第一个找到了他。 “对不起，”他说。“他们让我说出在哪里——”阿瑟喘着气说，因为他认出了坐在他哥哥旁边长凳上的那个人。 “哦，我的天哪!是第十七武士!”他喊着，鞠了几下躬。 “向你致敬，织田信大师，最伟大的武士!”Oda Nobu微笑着向Arthur鞠躬。 然后兰彻先生和太太也加入了他们。 “年轻人，”兰彻先生严厉地对斯坦利说。 “Can和may是两个完全不同的词。 仅仅因为你可以把自己邮寄到半个地球并不意味着你可以。 你妈妈和我都担心得要命。” “对不起,妈妈。对不起，爸爸。”斯坦利说。 他给了他们一个大大的拥抱，然后也拥抱了他的弟弟。 他很高兴看到他们所有人!“但我一直玩得很开心!”我吃了生鱼，还去了电影制片厂，你知道日本有百分之十以上的——”“我不想打断你，亲爱的，”兰彻太太打断了他的话。 “但我认为我们应该出发了。 我们在路上会听到你的冒险经历的。”