Chapter 3

Chapter THREE Our first lesson was potions. My favourite! I watched in excitement as Miss Spindlewick handed out a shiny new cauldron to every pair of witches in the room. These cauldrons were bigger than the baby ones we had been allowed to use last year. I poked my head right into mine and Carlotta's, disappearing into the

我们的第一节课是魔药课。 我最喜欢的!我兴奋地看着斯平德威克小姐把一个锃亮的新坩埚分发给房间里的每一对女巫。 这些坩埚比去年允许我们使用的小坩埚要大。 我把头伸到我和卡洛塔的脑袋里，消失在

velvety blackness. 'Can you heeear me?' I said. My voice sounded all strange and echoey as it bounced off the inside walls. 'Head out of your cauldron Mirabelle!' snapped Miss Spindlewick

柔软的黑暗。“你能听到我说话吗？”我说。 我的声音在里面的墙壁上反弹，听起来很奇怪，很有回声。 “从你的坩埚里出来，米拉贝尔！”斯平德威克小姐厉声说

as she walked past. I quickly took my head out of the cauldron and glanced at Carlotta who was trying not to laugh. 'Mirabelle!' whispered Carlotta. 'We really do have to try and be good this year. We promised!' 'I know,' I said. 'I'm sorry. I forgot! I'll try harder from now on.' 'Right!' said Miss Spindlewick from the front of the class. 'Today we are going to learn how to make a colour changing potion.' 'Ooh,' said the class. 'If you make it correctly,' said Miss Spindlewick, 'then you should be able to change the colour of this rose with just

当她走过的时候。我赶紧把头从坩埚里伸出来，看了卡洛塔一眼，她强忍着不笑出来。 “李子!卡洛塔低声说。 今年我们真的必须努力做好。 我们承诺!“我知道，”我说。 “我很抱歉。我忘记了!从现在开始我会更加努力。“对!斯平德威克小姐站在教室前面说。 “今天我们将学习如何制作变色药水。“哦，”同学们说。 “如果你做对了，”斯平德威克小姐说，“那么你就可以用一种简单的方法来改变玫瑰的颜色。

a splash of the mixture.' She held up a red rose in a vase that had been sitting on the corner of her desk. 'Once you've made your potion you will come up and take it in turns to put a drop of it on this rose. The more drastically you can change the colour, the higher your mark will be.' She put the rose gently back down on the desk. 'You may open your spell books at page eighty seven and begin!' There was a riffing of pages around the classroom as everyone opened their spell books.

洒一点混合物。”她举起放在书桌角落里的花瓶里的一朵红玫瑰。 “配制好药水后，你们就上来轮流把一滴药水滴在这朵玫瑰上。 颜色变化得越剧烈，你的分数就越高。”她轻轻地把玫瑰放回桌子上。 “你们可以把咒语书翻到八十七页，开始读了！”每个人都打开自己的咒语书，教室里一片混乱。

'This doesn't look too hard,' said Carlotta. 'I'll go and get the ingredients from the cupboard,' I said, jumping off my stool and hurrying over to the big store cupboard where all the jars and bottles were kept. I had to wait a little bit as everyone else was also trying to get their ingredients too but at last I was able to squirm in and get all the things we needed. There were so many little bottles that I had to put some of them in my pockets in order to get them back to the desk. Meanwhile, Miss Spindlewick had turned off the lights and was busy

“这看起来并不难，”卡洛塔说。 “我去碗橱里拿食材，”我说着，从凳子上跳起来，匆匆走向放着罐子和瓶子的大储藏柜。 我不得不等了一会儿，因为其他人也在试着拿他们的食材，但最后我能蠕动进去，拿到我们需要的所有东西。 有这么多的小瓶子，我不得不把一些放在口袋里，以便把它们放回桌子上。 与此同时，斯平德威克小姐关了灯，忙得不可开交

lighting candles all around the room. 'For atmosphere,' she explained. 'Witch magic always works best with a bit of atmosphere.'

在房间里点燃蜡烛。 “为了营造气氛，”她解释说。 “女巫的魔法总是在气氛中发挥最好的作用。”