Chapter 6

Chapter Six IN WHICH Jared Is Forced to Make a Difficult Choice Let me OUT!" Hogsqueal yelled. Jared snapped into motion and cut through the last knot. Hogsqueal danced onto the branch, heedless of the goblins barking beneath him. They had begun to surround the tree. Jared looked around for some kind of weapon, but all he had was his little knife. Simon was breaking off more branches and Hogsqueal was running away, jumping from tree to tree like a

第六章杰瑞德被迫做出艰难抉择放我出去！”Hogsqueal喊道。 杰瑞德迅速行动，割断了最后一个结。 霍格斯奎跳到树枝上，根本不理会在他下面狂吠的半兽人。 他们开始把树围起来。 贾里德四处寻找什么武器，但他只有一把小刀。 西蒙折断了更多的树枝，Hogsqueal跑开了，从一棵树跳到另一棵树，像一只

monkey. He and his brother were abandoned and trapped. If they tried to climb down, the goblins would be upon them. And somewhere down there, in the gloom, Mallory was alone and blind. Her only protection was the red of the sweatshirt she wore. "What about the animals in the cages?" Simon asked. "No time!" "Hey, mucky-pups!" Jared heard Hogsqueal shout. He looked in the direction of the voice, but Hogsqueal wasn't talking to them at all. He was dancing around the campfire and sticking a large strip of burnt cat meat in his mouth. "Ninnyhammers!" he yelled at the other goblins. "Pestleheads! Goobernuts! Jibbernolls! Fiddlewizzits!" He leaned back and urinated on the fire, making the flames blaze green. The goblins turned from the tree and headed right for Hogsqueal. "Move!" Jared said. "Now!"

猴子。他和他的兄弟被遗弃并被困住了。 如果他们想爬下来，半兽人就会追上他们。 在下面的某个地方，在黑暗中，马洛里独自一人，双目失明。 她唯一的保护是她穿的红色运动衫。 “笼子里的动物怎么办？”西蒙问。 “没时间!”“嘿,mucky-pups !”杰瑞德听到霍格尖叫。 他朝声音传来的方向望去，但霍格squeal根本没有和他们说话。 他围着营火跳舞，嘴里叼着一大块烧焦的猫肉。 “宁神锤！”他对其他半兽人喊道。 “Pestleheads !Goobernuts !Jibbernolls !Fiddlewizzits !”他向后一靠，在火上撒尿，把火焰烧得通红。 妖精们从树上转过身来，径直朝霍格squeal走去。 “行动!”杰瑞德说。“现在!”

Simon climbed down the tree as fast as he could, jumping once he was close enough. He fell to the ground with a soft thud. Jared landed beside him. Mallory hugged them both, but she didn't let go of her stick. "I heard the goblins get close, but I couldn't see a thing," she said. "Put this on." Jared held out the eyepiece to her. "You need it," she protested. "Now!" Jared said. Surprisingly Mallory buckled it on without another word. After it was on, she reached into her sweatshirt and gave Simon his shoe. They started moving into the woods, but Jared couldn't help looking back. Hogsqueal was surrounded like the griffin had been only moments before. They couldn't leave him like that. "Hey!" he called. "Over here!"

西蒙尽可能快地爬下树，一靠近就跳了下来。 他轻轻一声倒在地上。 杰瑞德落在他身边。马洛里拥抱了他们俩，但她没有放开她的棍子。 “我听到半兽人靠近了，但我什么也看不见。”她说。 “把这个穿上。”杰瑞德把目镜递给她。 “你需要它，”她抗议道。 “现在!”杰瑞德说。令人惊讶的是，马洛里二话没说就把它扣上了。 衣服穿上后，她把手伸进运动衫里，把西蒙的鞋子给了他。 他们开始向树林走去，但杰瑞德忍不住回头看了看。 霍格squeal被包围了，就像刚才那头狮鹫一样。 他们不能就这样离开他。 “嘿！”他喊道。“在这里!”

The goblins turned and, seeing the three children, started moving toward them. Jared, Mallory, and Simon started to run. "Are you crazy?" Mallory yelled. "He was helping us," Jared yelled back. He couldn't be sure she'd heard him since he was panting at the same time he was speaking. "Where are we going?" Simon shouted. "The stream," said Jared. He was thinking fast, faster than he'd ever thought in his life. The troll was their only chance. He was sure that it could stop ten goblins with no problem. What he wasn't sure of was how they could avoid it themselves. "We can't go this way," Mallory said. Jared ignored her. If only they could jump the stream, maybe that would be enough. The goblins wouldn't know there was a monster to avoid. The goblins were still far enough behind. They wouldn't see what was coming. Almost there. Jared could see the stream ahead, but they weren't to the ruined bridge yet.

半兽人转过身来，看到三个孩子，开始朝他们走来。 贾里德、马洛里和西蒙开始跑。 “你疯了吗？”马洛里喊道。 “他在帮我们。”贾里德喊道。 他不能确定她是否听到了他的话，因为他在说话的同时还在喘气。 “我们要去哪儿？”西蒙喊道。 “小溪。”杰瑞德说。他想得很快，比他一生中想得都要快。 巨魔是他们唯一的机会。 他确信它可以毫无问题地阻止十个半兽人。 他不确定的是他们自己怎么能避免。 “我们不能走这条路，”马洛里说。 杰瑞德不理她。只要他们能跳过小溪，也许就足够了。 妖精们不知道有个怪物要躲避。 半兽人还远远落在后面。 他们看不到将要发生什么。 差不多了。贾里德可以看到前面的小溪，但他们还没到那座被毁的桥。

Then Jared saw something that stopped him cold. The troll was out of the water. It stood at the edge of the bank, eyes and teeth gleaming in the moonlight. Even hunched over, Jared guessed that it was more than ten feet tall. "Luckyyyy meee," it said, reaching out a long arm in their direction. "Wait," said Jared. The creature moved toward them, a slow smile showing broken teeth. It definitely was not waiting. "Hear that?" Jared asked. "That's goblins. Ten fat goblins. That's a lot more than three skinny kids."

然后杰瑞德看到了让他停了下来的东西。 巨怪从水里出来了。 它站在岸边，眼睛和牙齿在月光下闪闪发光。 杰瑞德即使弯着腰，也猜到它有十多英尺高。 “真幸运。”它说着，朝他们的方向伸出了一只长长的手臂。 “等等。”杰瑞德说。那家伙朝他们走来，慢慢地笑了笑，露出破碎的牙齿。 它绝对不是等待。 “听到了吗?”杰瑞德问。“这是地精。 十个胖妖精。这可比三个瘦孩子多了。”

It stood at the edge of the bank.

它站在河岸边上。