7 Hambone

CHAPTER 7

第七章

Hambone Nobody greeted Lucas and Clara on the island of Burth. The trolls were neither friendly nor outgoing. They worked hard and grew vegetables for the entire kingdom. The kids walked to the stables in the village. Lucas tapped a sleeping troll on the shoulder. The troll snorted and rubbed his eyes. "What do you want?" he grumbled, with one eye closed. "We'd like to hire a horse," said Lucas. "What for?" asked the troll. "To visit a troll called Hambone," said Lucas. "Do you know where he lives?" "Pay up," said the troll. Lucas dropped a coin in the troll's grubby hand. The troll smiled and bit the coin. "He lives on Old Tinder Road. His door is marked by the sign of a

在伯斯岛上，没有人向卢卡斯和克拉拉打招呼。 这些巨魔既不友好也不外向。 他们辛勤劳作，为整个王国种植蔬菜。 孩子们走向村里的马厩。 卢卡斯拍了拍熟睡的巨魔的肩膀。 巨怪哼了一声，揉了揉眼睛。 “你想要什么？”他闭着一只眼睛嘟囔着。 “我们想雇一匹马，”卢卡斯说。 “为什么？”巨怪问。 “去拜访一个叫汉伯恩的巨怪。”卢卡斯说。 “你知道他住在哪里吗？”“付钱。”巨怪说。 卢卡斯把一枚硬币扔到巨怪肮脏的手里。 巨怪笑了笑，咬了咬硬币。 “他住在老火种路上。 他的门上有一个“a”的标志

crescent moon," said the troll. "And don't tell him I sent you."

新月。”巨怪说。 “别告诉他是我让你来的。”

So Lucas and Clara mounted the horse and galloped along the rugged valley floor. Steep, craggy mountains towered over the island of Burth. The air smelled of garlic. They passed fields of corn, rows of turnips, and gardens of parsley. Soon the road began to go up. It twisted around and around a mountainside. Lucas and Clara passed cave dwellings all along the way. "Whoa, back!" Clara cried as she jerked the reins. "We just passed a crescent moon!" They tied the horse to a hitching post and knocked on the cave door marked with the crescent moon. A potbellied troll with green eyes and wild gray hair

于是卢卡斯和克拉拉骑上马，沿着崎岖的谷底疾驰而去。 陡峭、崎岖的山脉耸立在伯斯岛上。 空气中有大蒜的味道。 他们经过玉米田、成排的萝卜和欧芹园。 不久这条路开始往上走了。 它绕着山腰不停地旋转。 卢卡斯和克拉拉一路上都经过窑洞。 “哇,回来!”克拉拉一边扯着缰绳一边叫道。 “我们刚经过一轮新月！”他们把马拴在一根拴马的柱子上，敲了敲刻有新月的洞门。 一个有着绿眼睛和灰发的大腹怪

answered the door. He looked Lucas and Clara up and down.

开了门。他上下打量着卢卡斯和克拉拉。

"We came for Queen Tasha's lost emerald," said Lucas. "Do you have it?" The troll recognized the boy as the prince. He knew better than to play games with the son of the king. "I found it in the Citrus Grove when I was gathering oranges," said Hambone. Big grins spread across Lucas's and Clara's faces.

“我们是来找塔莎女王丢失的翡翠的。”卢卡斯说。 “你拿到了吗？”巨怪认出这个男孩就是王子。 他知道不该和国王的儿子开玩笑。 哈姆伯恩说：“我在采橙子的时候在柑橘树林里发现了它。 卢卡斯和克拉拉的脸上露出了灿烂的笑容。