Chapter 6

Chapter 6 I should have let him believe it was an alicorn, Princess Pulverizer thought regretfully. He wouldn't have known the difference. And he would have left the old unicorn alone. Why do I always have to show off? Still, there was no point thinking about should-haves or would-haves. What the

我应该让他相信那是一只独角兽，普莱泽公主后悔地想。 他不会知道其中的区别。 他会离开那只老独角兽。 为什么我总是要炫耀？ 不过，考虑“应该拥有”或“想拥有”是没有意义的。 什么

princess needed to do now was find a way to save the old unicorn. That was why she was standing quietly behind a curtain in the knights' drawing room, eavesdropping as they plotted. The princess had snuck into the room right behind the knights. It had been so easy. The knights had been huddled together and so focused on coming up with a plan, they never noticed her. The princess rubbed her ruby ring gratefully. It had done its job, allowing her to enter the room in complete silence. "Do you think the old unicorn is still where you spotted him, Gordon?" the princess heard a knight ask. "He's probably moved on, Humphrey," Gordon admitted. "To keep from being caught. Although he didn't look like he could go too far. He was really old. His beard nearly hit the ground. His fur had turned green and yellow. And he was just sitting there under

公主现在需要做的就是想办法救老独角兽。 这就是为什么她静静地站在骑士客厅的帘子后面，偷听他们密谋的原因。 公主就在骑士们后面溜进了房间。 这太容易了。骑士们都挤在一起，一心想着一个计划，根本没注意到她。 公主感激地揉了揉她的红宝石戒指。 它已经完成了它的任务，允许她在完全沉默的情况下进入房间。 “你认为那只老独角兽还在你看见它的地方吗，戈登？”公主听见一个骑士问道。 “他可能已经向前看了，汉弗莱，”戈登承认。 “为了不被抓住。 虽然他看起来不像能走得太远。 他真的很老了。他的胡子几乎碰到地面。 他的毛已经变成了绿色和黄色。 他就坐在下面

those long, drooping branches, barely moving." "Do unicorns go green when they're old?" a third knight wondered. "People go gray." "Unicorns are different from people, Filippo," Gordon reminded him. That is true. But Princess Pulverizer figured most likely the old unicorn's fur was green and yellow because he was hiding among trees that had green leaves and yellow flowers. Clearly Gordon had not read the book Unicorns from A to Z. "Are you sure it was an actual unicorn?" Filippo asked Gordon. "Maybe it was a horse." "Horses don't have beards or horns," Gordon told him. "I should've grabbed him when I had the chance. But I felt sorry for him. He was so feeble. It didn't seem like a fair fight. I figured the king would surely be fooled by that old walrus horn I got at a market."

那些又长又垂的树枝，几乎不动。” “独角兽老了会变绿吗？”第三个骑士问道。 “人们会变白。”“独角兽和人不一样，菲利波，”戈登提醒他。 这是真的。但粉蕊公主认为，这只老独角兽的毛很可能是绿色和黄色的，因为它躲在长着绿叶和黄花的树林里。 显然，戈登没有读过《独角兽》这本书。 “你确定那真的是一只独角兽吗？”菲利普问戈登。 “也许是一匹马。”“马没有胡子和角，”戈登告诉他。 “我应该在有机会的时候抓住他。 但我为他感到难过。他是那么虚弱。 这看起来不像是一场公平的战斗。 我想国王一定会被我在市场上买的那只旧海象角骗了。”

Princess Pulverizer was impressed. What a knightly thing of Gordon to do! He would have gotten away with it too—if she hadn't opened her big mouth. "Well, we have to catch him now," Humphrey insisted. "We have a direct order— and very empty stomachs—to fill." "I don't think King Harvey will be satisfied with just one horn," Gordon said. "What's going to happen when he breaks it?" "He is always breaking things," Filippo agreed. "Remember when he was about to toast the Queen of Hammerhousen, and a bird tweeted outside the window? He got so scared he dropped the glass." "When he breaks the horn, we'll go hungry again," Gordon said. "We should get him some spares." "If there's an old unicorn around, younger ones can't be too far away," Humphrey suggested. "We can track them down and get all their horns."

粉碎公主对此印象深刻。 戈登做了一件多么高尚的事啊！要不是她大嘴巴，他也会侥幸逃脱的。 “好吧，我们现在必须抓住他。”汉弗莱坚持说。 “我们有直接的订单，而且肚子很空，要填饱肚子。” 戈登说：“我认为哈维国王不会满足于只有一只角。” “如果他打破了它会发生什么？”“他总是打碎东西，”菲利波表示赞同。 “还记得有一次他正要向哈默豪森女王敬酒，一只鸟在窗外叽叽喳喳地叫着吗？” 他吓得把杯子掉了。” “当他打破号角时，我们又要挨饿了，”戈登说。 “我们应该给他买点备用的。” “如果附近有一只老独角兽，那么年轻的就不会离得太远。”汉弗莱建议道。 “我们可以找到它们，得到它们所有的角。”

"Let's head out first thing in the morning," Filippo added. "We are excellent animal trackers. I bet we'll be eating again by lunch!" This was even worse than Princess Pulverizer had feared. She had to warn the unicorns! Without thinking, she slipped from behind the curtain and raced to the door. The knights stared at her with surprise. "Where'd she come from?" Gordon asked as she whizzed by him. "Do you think she heard us?" Filippo wondered. "It doesn't matter," Humphrey told them. "She's just some princess. What can she do to stop us?" Humphrey was a fool. She wasn't just some princess. She was Princess Pulverizer. And she was going to stop the knights from

“我们明天一早就出发吧，”菲利波补充道。 “我们是优秀的动物追踪者。 我敢打赌，到午饭时我们又能吃了！”这比粉碎机公主所担心的还要糟糕。 她必须警告独角兽！她不假思索地从窗帘后面溜出来，向门口跑去。 骑士们惊讶地盯着她。 “她从哪儿来的？”当她从他身边呼啸而过时，戈登问道。 “你觉得她听到我们说话了吗？”菲利波很好奇。 “没关系，”汉弗莱告诉他们。 “她只是个公主。 她怎么能阻止我们呢？”汉弗莱是个傻瓜。 她不只是什么公主。 她就是粉碎机公主。 她要阻止骑士们

harming the unicorns. They would just have to wait and see.

伤害独角兽。他们只能等着瞧了。