Chapter 5

Chapter 5 "Worms?" Princess Pulverizer asked the wizard with surprise. "You turned a whole army of soldiers into worms?" It was the middle of the afternoon, and for hours now the wizard had been bragging about the amazing things he'd done with his magic. "Those soldiers came to steal from me," the Wizard of Wurst declared. "So I turned them into worms. Worms can't steal. They don't have any hands." Princess Pulverizer stared nervously at the jar of worms. If she wasn't careful, she might wind up in there with them. The thought of it made her hands shake. CRASH!

第五章“蠕虫？”粉碎机公主惊奇地问巫师。 “你把一整支军队都变成了虫子？”已经是下午三点左右了，几个小时以来，巫师一直在吹嘘他使用魔法所取得的惊人成就。 “那些士兵是来偷我的东西的。”武斯特巫师宣称。 “所以我把它们变成了虫子。 虫子不会偷东西。他们没有手。” 粉碎机公主紧张地盯着那罐虫子。 如果她不小心，她可能会和他们在一起。 一想到这，她的手就发抖。 崩溃!

The jar of worms slipped from Princess Pulverizer's fingers and broke into pieces on the floor. "Look what you've done!" the Wizard of Wurst bellowed angrily. "You've freed my prisoners!" Princess Pulverizer frowned as she looked at the worms that were now crawling around on the floor. Those were definitely not the prisoners she'd come here to free. The wizard handed her an empty jar. "Catch those worms and put them in here. You better

那瓶虫子从粉碎机公主的指间滑落，摔在地板上碎成了碎片。 “看看你都干了些什么！”Wurst巫师生气地吼道。 “你释放了我的囚犯！”粉粉公主看着地上爬来爬去的虫子，皱起了眉头。 这些绝对不是她来这里释放的囚犯。 巫师递给她一个空罐子。 “抓住那些虫子，把它们放在这里。 你最好

get every single one—if you know what's good for you." Gulp. Princess Pulverizer dropped nervously to her knees and started picking up worms and dropping them into the jar. It wasn't easy. The worms were really slimy. And to make matters worse, some of them were crawling over the broken glass. The sharp slivers cut them clean in half. Strangely, the sliced worms didn't die. They kept on creeping and crawling. Except now, where there had been only one worm, there were two. And where there had been only two worms, there were four. And where there had been only four worms, there were eight. Soon, there were hundreds of worms. They were everywhere. Crawling into the corners. Winding their way up the walls. Wiggling onto the windowsills.

如果你知道什么对你有好处，就把每一种都买下来。” 饮而尽。粉碎机公主紧张地跪了下来，开始捡起虫子扔进罐子里。 这并不容易。虫子真的很黏。 更糟糕的是，他们中的一些人在碎玻璃上爬行。 锋利的刀把它们切成两半。 奇怪的是，切片的蠕虫并没有死。 他们不停地爬啊爬。 只是现在，原来只有一条虫子的地方，变成了两条。 原来只有两只虫子的地方，现在变成了四只。 原来只有四只虫子的地方，现在变成了八只。 很快，就有了成百上千的虫子。 他们无处不在。爬进角落。 蜿蜒爬上城墙。 爬上窗台。

The Wizard of Wurst let out an evil laugh. "I'll meet you in my study when you've caught them all," he told Princess Pulverizer. "If you ever do." By the time Princess Pulverizer had captured the very last worm, she was very tired. And hungry. And cranky. "I've gotten them all," Princess Pulverizer told the Wizard of Wurst as she entered his study after hours of worm gathering. "Took you long enough," he replied gruffly. "There were a lot of worms," Princess Pulverizer explained. "And they kept slipping out of my hands." "No excuses," the wizard huffed. He pointed to an extra magic wand on his desk. "Grab that. Let's do some magic!" "Now?" the princess asked. "Can't I eat something first?"

Wurst法师发出一声邪恶的笑声。 “等你把它们都抓了，我就到我的书斋里来找你。”他对普瓦瑞尔公主说。 “如果你有机会的话。”当粉碎机公主捕捉到最后一条虫子的时候，她已经很累了。 又饿。和暴躁。“我把它们都抓来了，”粉碎公主在收集了几个小时的蠕虫后，走进巫师的书房，对他说。 “你花的时间够长了。”他粗声粗气地回答。 “有很多虫子，”普瓦瑞尔公主解释说。 “它们总是从我手中溜走。” “没有借口。”巫师生气地说。 他指着桌子上另一根魔杖。 “抓住。让我们变点魔法吧！”“现在吗？”公主问。 “我不能先吃点东西吗？”

"I've made you a liverwurst sandwich," the wizard said. "You can eat it later." Princess Pulverizer glanced at the tiny sandwich on the wizard's desk. It was two pieces of white bread with a single slice of pale pink lunch meat slapped in between. Some dinner that was. What the princess wouldn't give for one of Dribble's grilled cheese sandwiches right around now. Still, since the small black cat perched on the windowsill was also eyeing the sandwich, Princess Pulverizer figured she'd better get busy learning her magic spells if she was ever going to get to eat. "I'm ready," she told the wizard. "Let's start with something easy," the wizard said. "A growing spell." "A what?" Princess Pulverizer asked.

“我给你做了一个肝香肠三明治，”巫师说。 “你可以以后再吃。”粉碎机公主瞥了一眼巫师桌上的小三明治。 那是两片白面包，中间夹着一片淡粉色的午餐肉。 那是一些晚餐。公主现在什么都愿意买Dribble的烤奶酪三明治。 不过，因为窗台上的那只小黑猫也在盯着三明治看，粉粉公主觉得，如果她想要吃东西，她最好赶紧学咒语。 “我准备好了。”她告诉巫师。 “让我们从简单的开始吧。”巫师说。 “一个不断增长的魔咒。”“什么?”粉碎机公主问。

"A growing spell." The wizard sounded annoyed to have to repeat himself. "Point the wand at something and come up with a rhyme to make it bigger." Princess Pulverizer nodded. That didn't sound too tough. She just had to find something small that should be big. Rumble. Grumble. Just then, the princess's empty stomach began to churn. Which gave her an idea. Princess Pulverizer pointed her wand toward the liverwurst sandwich, and said, "I like things big. And I'm in charge. This object, once small, I will enlarge." Poof! There was a flash of orange smoke. When it cleared, the princess came eye to eye with the largest mouse she had ever seen!

“一个不断增长的魔咒。”巫师听起来很恼火，不得不重复一遍。 “用魔杖指着某样东西，念个押韵，让它变大。” 粉碎机公主点点头。 这听起来并不太难。 她只是需要找到一些小的，应该是大的东西。 隆隆作响。抱怨。就在这时，公主空空的胃开始翻腾起来。 这给了她一个主意。粉粉公主用魔杖指着肝香肠三明治说：“我喜欢大的东西。 我是负责人。这个物体，一旦很小，我就要把它放大。” 噗!一阵橘色的烟雾闪过。 当天空晴朗时，公主与她所见过的最大的老鼠相遇了！