7 The Spell

CHAPTER 7

第七章

The Spell "Is Ruskin strong enough to pull a ship?" asked Lucas. "Probably not," Grom answered. "But he could pull a smaller boat." Grom walked toward a large dory—a lifeboat— hanging from the side of the ship. Lucas sized up the dory. "It's perfect!" he declared. Then he gave orders. "I'll lower the boat. You two get started on the tracking spell."

“罗斯金有力气拉船吗？”卢卡斯问。 “可能不会，”格罗姆回答。 “但他可以拉一艘更小的船。” 格罗姆走向挂在船舷上的一艘大船——一艘救生艇。 卢卡斯估量了一下这艘船。“太完美了！”他宣称。 然后他下了命令。“我把船放下来。 你们两个开始练习追踪咒吧。”

Grom and Clara hurried below and told Falsk and Ruskin the plan. Then Grom set a mortar and pestle on the galley counter. He opened his spell book and laid out the ingredients for a creature-tracking spell: 1 body part from creature to be tracked (hair, fingernail, scale dander, or shell) 1 cup orange blossom honey 1/2 turnip 1 handful of gooseberries 1 swoosh of snail slime Clara handed the ingredients to Grom one at a time.

格罗姆和克拉拉急忙下楼，把计划告诉了法尔斯克和罗斯金。 然后格罗姆把研钵和杵放在厨房的柜台上。 他打开咒语书，列出了追踪生物的咒语所需的材料：从要追踪的生物身上取一个部位（头发、指甲、鳞屑皮屑或贝壳）一杯橙花蜂蜜1/2个萝卜1把醋栗1勺蜗牛黏液克拉拉一次一个地把这些材料递给格罗姆。

"It's a good thing you had to pick up all these spell ingredients in Primlox today," Clara commented. Grom cut the root from a turnip. "I'd say it was a good thing we all went to Primlox today."

“幸亏你今天在普里姆洛克斯买了这么多咒语原料。”克拉拉评论道。 格罗姆把萝卜的根切掉了。 “我得说，我们今天都去了普里姆克斯，这是件好事。”

The wizard ground and mixed the spell ingredients with the mortar and pestle. Then he unclasped a silver medallion, which was also a locket, from around his neck and filled it with the potion. With all in place, Grom chanted the tracking spell.

巫师用研钵和杵磨碎并混合咒语成分。 然后他从脖子上摘下一个银奖章，那也是一个挂坠盒，把魔药装了进去。 一切就绪后，格罗姆开始念追踪咒。

Pursue-mora! Pursue-a-meest! Hot on the trail of an unknown beast. Track it down in a high-speed chase. Then make known its hidden face. POOF! Sparkling light and glitter swirled from the locket. It rippled out of the cabin and up into the sea air.

Pursue-mora !Pursue-a-meest !追踪一只未知野兽的踪迹。 在高速追击中找到它。 那就揭露它隐藏的面目。 噗!闪闪发光的光从挂坠盒里旋转出来。 它从船舱里荡起，飘进了海上的空气中。