8 Harriet Hurry

HARRIET HURRY YOU HAD TO WATCH OUT when Harriet was about. The long-limbed lady always rode her bike far too fast. The mother of six children, all girls, she dressed in cream silk blouses and long, flowing, flowery skirts, topped off with a feathered felt hat. Each morning, Harriet piled

哈丽特，快点，哈丽特在的时候你得小心点。 那位四肢修长的女士骑自行车总是骑得太快。 她是六个孩子的母亲，都是女孩。她穿着奶油色的丝绸衬衫和飘逸的花裙，头上戴着一顶羽毛毡帽。 每天早晨，哈丽特都堆起来

all six of them on to her old-fashioned lady's bicycle to race them to school. Despite her proper appearance, Harriet was a SPEED DEMON. And the route from the country house where the Hurry family lived to school was downhill. So, with all the weight of her six children on the bicycle, Harriet could reach eye-watering speeds. She would overtake sports cars... WHIZZ! ...speed through red lights... WHOOSH! ...soar over speed bumps... ZOOM! ...take short cuts through hedges... RUSTLE! ...and perform a triumphant wheelie when they finally reached the school. WHIRR! To understand this obsession with speed, we need to go back to when Harriet was a baby herself. At her birth, she shot out of her mother's tummy super-fast. So super-fast that the midwife couldn't catch her. The poor

他们六个人都骑上她那辆老式的女士自行车，赛跑去学校。 尽管外表得体，哈丽特却是个速度恶魔。 从赫里一家住的乡间别墅到学校的路是下坡的。 所以，在她六个孩子的全部重量下，哈丽特可以达到令人瞠目结舌的速度。 她会超越跑车。 精明的人!…超速闯红灯…… 嗖!…飞越减速带…… 祖姆！…抄近路穿过树篱…… 沙沙声!…当他们终于到达学校时，表演一个胜利的轮滑。 心烦!为了理解这种对速度的痴迷，我们需要回到哈丽特还是个婴儿的时候。 在她出生的时候，她从妈妈的肚子里蹦出来的速度非常快。 速度超快，助产士都抓不到她。 穷人

lady was like a goalkeeper trying to catch a speeding football booted by a star striker. Baby Harriet soared over the head of the midwife... WHOOSH! ...sailed out of a window... ZOOM! ...luckily landing in an empty pram idling outside the hospital. DOOMPH! The force of Baby Harriet's landing made the pram shoot off. WHIRR! The seconds-old infant was immediately speeding away from the hospital. As the child's mother screamed from

女士就像一个守门员，试图抓住一个明星前锋踢出的超速足球。 小哈丽特从助产士的头顶飞过。 嗖!…从窗户飞出去了…… 祖姆！…幸运的是降落在医院外一辆空婴儿车里。 DOOMPH !小哈丽特落地的力量把婴儿车震飞了。 心烦!第二个大的婴儿立刻飞快地离开了医院。 当孩子的母亲尖叫着从

the window of the maternity ward... "STOP THAT BABY!" ...the newborn sat up in the pram, cooing with delight to be going so fast. "GOO! GOO! GAA! GAA!" The pram rattled off down the road. RITTLE! RUTTLE! ROTTLE! It weaved in and out of the path of oncoming ambulances. NEE-NAW! NEE-NAW! Someone must have alerted the police, as in no time three police officers on motorbikes were chasing after Baby Harriet. One of them shouted at the baby, "STOP, BABY! OR I WILL PUT YOU UNDER ARREST!" Baby Harriet was having none of it. Instead of stopping, she bounced harder and harder on her bottom. BOINK! BOINK! BOINK! But trouble was ahead. They were heading straight for a river at colossal speed. The baby bounced harder and harder still. BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!

产科病房的窗户… “拦住那个孩子！”…新生儿在婴儿车里坐了起来，因为走得这么快而高兴得咕咕叫。 “咕!”咕!棉酚!棉酚!”婴儿车在路上嘎吱嘎吱地开着。 RITTLE !RUTTLE !ROTTLE !它在迎面而来的救护车的道路上来回穿梭。 NEE-NAW !NEE-NAW !一定是有人报警了，因为很快就有三个骑着摩托车的警察在追赶小哈丽特。 其中一个对着婴儿喊道：“停下来，孩子！不然我就把你抓起来！”小哈丽特一点也不喜欢。 她不但没有停下来，反而用屁股越弹越猛。 波英克!波英克!波英克!但麻烦就在前面。 他们正以惊人的速度直奔一条河而去。 婴儿跳得越来越用力。 波英克!波英克!波英克!

The pram hit the riverbank so fast that it soared over the water and landed on the other side. DOOF! The police officers were not so lucky. Despite revving their engines... ROARR! ...they weren't going fast enough and plunged into the river. SPLOSH! Now there was no stopping Baby Harriet. Up ahead, more police had set up a roadblock of police cars to stop the runaway baby. There was no way through. Or was there? A huge smile spread across Baby Harriet's face when she saw the police cars lined up ahead of her. She bounced and bounced up and down on her bottom... BOING! BOING! BOING! ...making the wheels of the pram spin until they were nothing but a blur. WHIRR!

婴儿车撞到河岸上的速度太快了，它飞出水面，落在了河的另一边。 傻蛋”!警察就没那么幸运了。 尽管他们加速了引擎… ROARR !…他们走得不够快，跳进了河里。 金钱!现在没有什么能阻止小哈丽特了。 在前方，更多的警察设置了警车路障来阻止这个逃跑的婴儿。 没有出路。或者有吗？ 当小哈丽特看到警车在她前面排成一排时，她的脸上露出了灿烂的笑容。 她在屁股上蹦蹦跳跳…… 啵嘤!啵嘤!啵嘤!…让婴儿车的轮子旋转，直到它们变成一片模糊。 心烦!