2 Spoiled

CHAPTER 2

第二章

Spoiled "My meats! My poultry! My pies and custards! All my food is going to go bad!" cried Cook. "How can I make the royal meals with spoiled food?" Lucas had to admit, he hadn't thought about the food spoiling. It had been fun to hide behind the ice blocks, and Ruskin had just as much fun melting the ice with his fiery breath. This had been the best game of hide-and-seek they'd ever played. "Can't we just order more ice?" asked Lucas as he, Clara, and Ruskin followed Cook upstairs to the kitchen. Cook wheeled around on the steps and stared at Lucas.

“我的肉！我的家禽!我的派和蛋奶冻！我所有的食物都要坏了！”库克叫道。 “我怎么能用变质的食物做皇室大餐呢？”卢卡斯不得不承认，他没有想到食物会变质。 躲在冰块后面很有趣，拉斯金用他炽热的呼吸融化冰块也很有趣。 这是他们玩过的最好的捉迷藏游戏。 “我们不能再要点冰吗？”卢卡斯问，他、克拉拉和罗斯金跟着库克上楼去了厨房。 库克在台阶上转过身来，盯着卢卡斯。

"No, we cannot!" shouted Cook. "We had our ice delivery yesterday morning. The giants deliver ice from Flatfrost only once a month!" Cook shook his head. "I don't know which is more spoiled," he went on, "my food—or you!" Lucas hung his head and Ruskin cowered behind his master. "Do you children know what the giants have to do to bring ice to the palace?"

“不，我们不能！”库克喊道。 “我们昨天早上收到了冰块。 巨人每个月才从弗拉弗罗斯特运来一次冰！”库克摇了摇头。 “我不知道哪个更坏，”他接着说，“是我的食物，还是你！”卢卡斯低下头，罗斯金躲在主人身后。 “孩子们，你们知道巨人们是怎么把冰运进宫殿的吗？”

Lucas and Clara shook their heads. They had no idea, but they had a feeling they were about to find out.

卢卡斯和克拉拉摇了摇头。 他们不知道，但他们有一种感觉，他们即将找到答案。

"Each and every block of ice is hand-cut from one of Flatfrost's high mountain lakes. It's very hard work. The giants haul the harvested ice down the mountain by horse-drawn sleds. At the bottom of the mountain, the ice is transferred onto wagons. Then the ice is brought over rocky dirt roads to the castle."

每一块冰都是手工从弗拉弗罗斯特的高山湖泊中切割出来的。 这是非常辛苦的工作。巨人们用马拉的雪橇把收获的冰拖下山。 在山脚下，冰被转移到马车上。 然后把冰从多石的土路运到城堡。”

"Oh," Lucas said. He and Clara had occasionally seen the wagonloads of ice arrive at the castle, but they'd never really given it much thought. Then Cook shook a fat finger in the children's faces. "Ice is a luxury!" he declared. "It involves hard work— something you two know very little about."

“哦，”卢卡斯说。他和克拉拉偶尔会看到一车一车的冰运到城堡，但他们从来没有认真考虑过。 然后库克在孩子们的脸上摇了摇他的肥手指。 “冰是一种奢侈品！” “这需要努力工作——这是你们两个所知甚少的。”