2 The Feather

CHAPTER 2

第二章

The Feather The next day Lucas and Clara went berry picking on Primlox, the island of fairies. The fairies grew the sweetest fruit in the kingdom of Wrenly. Clara filled her bucket to the top with black raspberries. "How many have you got?" asked Clara. Lucas wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. His fingers and mouth had purple berry stains. Clara shook her head. "Did you collect any?" she cried. Lucas blushed. "A few," he said sheepishly.

第二天，卢卡斯和克拉拉到仙女岛普里姆洛克斯去摘浆果。 仙女们在雷利王国种出了最甜的水果。 克拉拉把她的桶装满了黑树莓。 “你有几个？”克拉拉问。 卢卡斯用手背擦了擦嘴。 他的手指和嘴巴上有紫色的浆果渍。 克拉拉摇了摇头。“你收集了吗？”她叫道。 卢卡斯脸红了。“有几个，”他不好意思地说。

Clara peeked into his bucket. "Cook will need more berries than that to make his pies," she said. "Let's pick some more, but we'd better hurry or you'll be late for your music lesson again." Plink! Plink! Plink! Lucas and Clara picked berries and dropped them into his nearly empty bucket. "Well, I don't care if I'm on time," said Lucas. "I hate music lessons."

克拉拉朝他的桶里偷看了一眼。 “库克需要更多的浆果来做馅饼，”她说。 “我们再摘一些吧，但我们最好快点，否则你的音乐课又要迟到了。” 叮铃声!叮铃声!叮铃声!卢卡斯和克拉拉摘下浆果，扔进他那几乎空了的桶里。 “嗯，我不在乎是否准时，”卢卡斯说。 “我讨厌音乐课。”

Clara stopped picking and threw a berry at Lucas. It pinged his cheek and fell to the ground. "Hey!" said Lucas, wiping his face clean of the berry stains. "Do you want to get in trouble again?" Clara asked. "No," said Lucas, flinging a berry back at his friend. "But I still don't want to take music lessons." Just as an all-out berry war was starting, they heard a great flapping of wings. Ruskin, who had been napping in the crook of a nearby tree, began to growl. He jumped down from the tree and scampered into the underbrush.

克拉拉停止采摘，向卢卡斯扔了一个浆果。 它打在他的脸颊上，掉在地上。 “嘿！”卢卡斯说着，擦去脸上的浆果渍。 “你还想再惹麻烦吗？”克拉拉问道。 “不，”卢卡斯说着，把一个浆果扔回给他的朋友。 “但我还是不想上音乐课。” 就在一场全面的浆果大战开始的时候，他们听到了巨大的拍打翅膀的声音。 拉斯金一直在附近的一棵树下打盹，这时他开始咆哮起来。 他从树上跳下来，跑进矮树丛里。

"Ruskin!" Lucas shouted. He and Clara left their buckets and raced after him. Ruskin stood on the other side of the thicket and squawked at the sky.

“拉斯金!”卢卡斯喊道。他和克拉拉丢下水桶，跟在他后面跑。 罗斯金站在灌木丛的另一边，对着天空尖叫。