12 The Really Big, Really Deep Hole

CHAPTER 12 THE REALLY BIG, REALLY DEEP HOLE We have no choice but to surrender. The Story Police arrest all of us—including the filing monster—and march us down to the beach where their boat is waiting. "Where are you taking us?" I say.

第十二章又大又深的洞我们别无选择，只能投降。 故事警察逮捕了我们所有人——包括归档怪物——把我们带到海滩上，他们的船在那里等着我们。 “你要带我们去哪儿？”我说。

"To see your old friend, Judge Pumpkin Scones," says the chief. "She's not our friend," says Jill. "She sentenced us to a billion years in prison!" "It would have been better for you if you'd stayed there," says the chief. "This time she's probably going to sentence you to a zillion years." "But why am I under arrest?" says the monster.

“去看看你的老朋友，南瓜司康法官，”警长说。 “她不是我们的朋友，”吉尔说。 “她判我们在监狱里呆十亿年！”“如果你留在那里会更好，”警长说。 “这次她可能会判你无数年监禁。” “可是为什么我被捕了呢？”怪物说。

"Because you were about to cut everybody up with a pair of scissors!" says the chief. "Young children may be reading this book, perhaps even at bedtime. They don't want to see people being cut into pieces by monsters— it could give them terrible nightmares. Now stop arguing, put those scissors down, and get in the boat with the other prisoners!"

“因为你要用一把剪刀把每个人都剪断！”警长说。 孩子们可能正在读这本书，甚至在睡觉的时候。 他们不想看到人被怪物切成碎片——那会给他们带来可怕的噩梦。 现在别吵了，放下剪刀，和其他囚犯一起上船吧！”

As we climb aboard the boat we see that the other prisoners are an old man almost bent over double, a woman with bright red frizzy hair wearing a flowerpot on her head, a moose in a doctor's coat, and an angry-looking man with a really big red nose. "Excuse me," says Terry to the man with the big nose, "you seem familiar. Have we met before?"

当我们登上小船时，我们看到其他的囚犯有一个几乎弯着腰的老人，一个头上顶着一个花盆，一头鲜红的鬈发的女人，一只穿着医生外套的驼鹿，还有一个长着大红鼻子、满脸怒气的男人。 “对不起，”特里对那个大鼻子男人说，“你看起来很眼熟。 我们以前见过面吗？”

"Of course we have, you clown!" says the man. "It's me, your publisher, Mr. Big Nose. I should have guessed you two had something to do with this! I'm a busy man, you know—I haven't got time to be

“当然有，你这个小丑！” “是我，你的出版商，大鼻子先生。 我早该猜到你们俩跟这事有关！我是个大忙人，你知道的——我没有时间