2 The Ghost of Nightmare Park

The GHOST of Nightmare Park HAVE YOU EVER been woken up after five hundred years to discover you are a ghost and that your home has been turned into a theme park? No? I thought not.

你是否曾经在五百年后醒来，发现你是一个鬼魂，而你的家已经变成了一个主题公园？ 没有?我不这么认为。

Well, that is exactly what happened to Lord Phantom. He had died five hundred years earlier when his head was detached from his body with an axe. That normally does the trick. He had displeased the king by serving up cold tomato soup at a royal banquet. The king did what any self-respecting monarch would do. He had him beheaded. "But the soup's meant to be cold. Your Majesty! It's called gazpacho!" were the lord's last words as the axeman brought his blade down hard on the man's neck. SLICE! THUMP! The lord and his head were buried together in an unmarked grave in some woodland, such was the shame his cold soup had brought on him, his family and the country at large. Soon Phantom Manor became deserted, and the house and gardens fell into disrepair.

魅影大人就是这么死的。 五百年前，他的头被斧头从身体上砍下来，他就死了。 这通常能奏效。 他在一次皇家宴会上上了冷番茄汤，惹恼了国王。 国王做了任何有自尊的君主都会做的事。 他把他斩首了。“但是汤应该是凉的。 陛下!这叫西班牙凉菜汤！”这是领主的最后一句话，斧头手把刀刃重重地砍在了他的脖子上。 片!重打!领主和他的头一起被埋在一片树林里的一个没有标记的坟墓里，这就是他的冷汤给他、他的家人和整个国家带来的耻辱。 很快，幽灵庄园就荒废了，房子和花园都年久失修。

One day, hundreds of years later, the country house was bought by an American billionaire. His name was Buzz Busby. He was a little old man with a tan so orange it would make a satsuma blush. Busby's teeth were sparkling white and what hair he had left was dyed so black it was almost blue. It created quite a contrast with his face, which resembled a dried apricot. Busby had made his billions building theme parks all over America. This was to be his first one in Great Britain. Busby named it DREAM PARK.

几百年后的一天，这座乡村别墅被一位美国亿万富翁买下。 他的名字叫巴斯·巴斯比。他是个身材矮小的老人，皮肤被晒成橘黄色，让蜜橘都脸红了。 巴斯比的牙齿闪闪发光，他剩下的头发被染得黑得几乎是蓝色的。 这和他那张像杏干的脸形成了鲜明的对比。 巴斯比在美国各地建造主题公园，赚了数十亿美元。 这是他在英国的第一份工作。 巴斯比将其命名为梦想公园。

Then he had the most marvellous idea! The crumbling old house itself would become the site of the park's rollercoaster. It would be called RUINCOASTER! No one had ever done this before. The rollercoaster track would twist and turn through the old ruin's huge double doors, into the halls, down into the cellar, around the rooms and out of the windows. It would be thrilling to speed through a spooky old country house. The dust, the cobwebs, the broken chandeliers dangling from the ceilings would all add to the atmosphere. The builders arrived in their truckloads and set to work. After months of drilling and banging, it was finally finished.

然后他想到了一个绝妙的主意！这座摇摇欲坠的老房子将成为公园过山车的所在地。 它将被称为“毁灭过山车”！以前从来没有人这样做过。 这条过山车般的轨道蜿蜒曲折地穿过这片废墟巨大的两扇门，进入大厅，下到地下室，绕过房间，走出窗户。 快速穿过一座阴森的旧乡间别墅会很刺激。 灰尘、蜘蛛网、天花板上悬挂的破碎的枝形吊灯都会增加气氛。 建筑工人开着卡车来了，开始工作。 经过几个月的钻探和敲打，终于完工了。

The instant it opened, RUINCOASTER became the most famous rollercoaster in the world. It was so popular that people from all over the country queued day and night to get on it, even though the ride was over in a few seconds. Buzz Busby wasn't a billionaire for nothing. He soon realised he had to build another rollercoaster, bigger and better than RUINCOASTER, to cope with the incredible demand. The problem was there wasn't a square foot of land he hadn't built on already to create a ride, a restaurant or a merchandise shop. Busby hated

它一开业，就成为世界上最著名的过山车。 它是如此受欢迎，以至于全国各地的人们日夜排队，即使它在几秒钟内就结束了。 巴斯·巴斯比成为亿万富翁并非无缘无故。 他很快意识到，他必须再建一个比“废墟过山车”更大更好的过山车，以应对难以置信的需求。 问题是，他已经在每一平方英尺的土地上建造了游乐设施、餐馆或商品商店。 巴斯比恨