Chapter 5

CHAPTER 5 At dinner that night, Aunt Daisy raised her glass. "To George! No trouble for one entire day!" They clinked their glasses together just as an old man stopped by their table. "Mrs. Key," the man said to Aunt Daisy. "I've been meaning to say hello." "Mr. Stead!" Aunt Daisy said. "What a pleasure. This is George, my nephew, and Phoebe, my niece." Mr. Stead nodded hello. "So," Aunt Daisy said. "What brings you onto this magnificent ship?"

第五章那天晚上吃饭时，黛西姨妈举起了酒杯。 “乔治!一整天都没有麻烦!”他们在一起碰杯，这时一位老人在他们的桌旁停下来。 “基太太，”男人对黛西阿姨说。 “我一直想跟你打个招呼。” “代替先生!”黛西姨妈说。 “太荣幸了。这是乔治，我的侄子，还有菲比，我的侄女。” 斯特德先生点头问好。“那么，”黛西阿姨说。 “是什么风把你吹到这艘宏伟的船上来的?”

"Oh, I couldn't miss it," he said. "I think all of society is on this ship. I hear there's even an Egyptian princess on board." "Really!" Aunt Daisy said. "I haven't met her!" "Well, none of us have. She's traveling in the first class baggage room." "Excuse me?" Aunt Daisy said. "The princess is more than twenty-five hundred years old," Mr. Stead said. George's ears perked up. "I'm not sure I understand," Aunt Daisy said. "She's a mummy," Mr. Stead said. "A mummy!" Phoebe gasped. "That's right," Mr. Stead said. "From a tomb near Thebes. I understand she belongs to a man named Mr. Burrows. People are saying he sold the coffin to the British Museum. Then he packed the princess herself in a wooden crate. Apparently he's bringing her back for his collection. Some say it's bad luck to take a mummy from its tomb." "I'm glad I'm not the superstitious type!" Aunt Daisy said.

“哦，我不会错过的，”他说。 “我认为整个社会都在这艘船上。 我听说船上还有一位埃及公主。” “真的!”黛西姨妈说。 “我还没见过她呢!”“嗯，我们谁也没见过。 她乘坐的是头等舱行李舱。” “对不起?”黛西姨妈说。 “公主已经超过2500岁了，”斯特德说。 乔治的耳朵竖起来了。“我不太明白，”黛西阿姨说。 “她是一具木乃伊，”斯特德说。 “妈妈!”菲比气喘吁吁地说。“没错，”斯特德说。 底比斯附近的一座坟墓里。我知道她属于一个叫巴罗斯先生的人。 人们说他把棺材卖给了大英博物馆。 然后他把公主装进了一个木箱里。 显然他要把她带回来收藏。 有人说从坟墓里取出木乃伊会带来厄运。” “我很高兴我不是那种迷信的人!”黛西姨妈说。

Mr. Stead chuckled. "In any case, nothing can harm this ship. Not even the curse of a mummy!" Mr. Stead tipped his hat and said good-bye. "Mr. Stead is a very famous writer in England," Aunt Daisy said. "You never know who you'll meet on the Titanic!" And then it hit George, the best idea ever. That mummy! He had to see it. Maybe this day wasn't so boring after all.

斯特德轻声笑了起来。“无论如何，没有什么能伤害这艘船。 甚至连木乃伊的诅咒都没有!”斯特德先生脱帽告别。 “斯特德先生是英国非常有名的作家，”黛西姨妈说。 “你永远不知道你会在泰坦尼克号上遇到谁!”乔治突然想到了一个绝妙的主意。 这具木乃伊!他必须亲眼看到。 也许今天并没有那么无聊。