6 Urp!

CHAPTER 6

第六章

Urp! Lucas, Clara, and Ruskin stopped at the palace stables and quietly saddled Clara's horse, Scallop. Then they galloped toward Bogburp. Bogburp was a spongy bog made of water and many dead plants, known as peat. Wrenly farmers harvested the peat and a plant called peat moss. The villagers burned peat in their fireplaces to warm their homes. Sometimes they lined their walls with peat moss to keep out the cold. The Witch of Bogburp lived in the middle of the peat bog up in an old, dead oak tree.

Urp !卢卡斯、克拉拉和拉斯金停在宫殿的马厩前，悄悄地给克拉拉的马“扇贝”装上马鞍。 然后他们奔向博格伯。 Bogburp是一个由水和许多死植物组成的海绵沼泽，被称为泥炭。 痛苦的农民收获了泥炭和一种叫做泥炭苔藓的植物。 村民们在壁炉里烧泥炭取暖。 有时他们在墙上铺上泥煤苔藓以御寒。 博格伯的女巫住在泥炭沼泽的中央，在一棵枯死的老橡树上。

Lucas and Clara grazed their horses on a patch of grass, away from the bog. Dragonflies hummed in the air and frogs plopped into the water around them. Urp! went the bog. The very bog itself seemed to be alive. Every few moments, it belched, and bubbles rose to the surface. That's how it had come to be known as Bogburp. Ruskin rushed to the water's edge and sniffed at the bubbles. In the distance Lucas and Clara saw a tree house in the middle of the bog on a tuft of land. Charms and lanterns hung from the bare, twisted branches. Tucked

卢卡斯和克拉拉在一片草地上吃草，远离沼泽。 蜻蜓在空中嗡嗡叫，青蛙扑通一声跳进周围的水里。 Urp !沼泽消失了。沼泽本身似乎也是活的。 每隔几分钟，它就会打嗝，气泡就会浮到水面上。 这就是为什么它被称为Bogburp。 罗斯金冲到水边，嗅着泡泡。 在远处，卢卡斯和克拉拉看到沼泽中央的一丛土地上有一座树屋。 光秃秃的、扭曲的树枝上挂着符咒和灯笼。 塞

in the branches, on top of a wooden platform, was a house with a thatched roof, along with two smaller huts. A boardwalk swirled around the trunk of the tree and led up to the house.

在树枝间的木台子上，有一座茅草屋顶的房子，旁边还有两间小茅屋。 一条木板路绕着树干蜿蜒而上，一直通向房子。

"That's the witch's house," said Clara, who always knew where everything was in the kingdom of Wrenly. "How are we going to get across the water?" questioned Lucas. Clara shrugged as she studied the swamp. Urp! The bog burped again. Ruskin jumped into the bog and landed on a rock. He leaned over and chomped

“那是女巫的房子，”克拉拉说，她总是知道兰利王国里的东西在哪里。 “我们怎么过河呢？”卢卡斯问。 克拉拉打量着沼泽，耸了耸肩。 Urp !沼泽又打了个嗝。 罗斯金跳进沼泽，落在一块岩石上。 他俯身咀嚼着

at the bubbles that had come to the surface. The bog burped again. Ruskin hopped to another rock and tried to eat the bubbles. Each time the bog belched, Ruskin jumped to another rock. "That's how we'll get across!" Clara exclaimed.

看着浮出水面的气泡。 沼泽又打了个嗝。拉斯金跳到另一块石头上，试图吃掉泡泡。 每次沼泽爆发，罗斯金就跳到另一块岩石上。 “我们就这样过去！”克拉拉喊道。