Chapter 6

Chapter SIX Carlotta and I were sitting in the kitchen after school that afternoon, eating chocolate biscuits and making bracelets together when Mum and Dad came bursting into the room. They both looked worn out but very happy. 'We've done it!' crowed Mum. 'We've found the magic formula for the new black

第六章那天下午放学后，我和卡洛塔坐在厨房里，一边吃着巧克力饼干，一边做手镯，这时爸爸妈妈冲进了房间。 他们俩看上去都很疲惫，但都很开心。 “我们成功了！”妈妈叫道。 “我们已经找到了新黑色的神奇配方

and purple striped lipsticks we've been trying to make!' 'Ooh!' said Carlotta. 'Stripy lipstick?' 'Yes!' Dad beamed and produced a little tube from behind his back. 'It's called the Mirabelle range!' I felt a warm feeling sparkle inside me. 'Do you want to try it?' asked Dad. I took the lipstick and painted it onto my lips while looking into a little hand mirror that Mum held up. Then I handed it to Carlotta. 'Stripy lips!' we both said, staring at each other with glee. We looked wonderfully witchy!

还有我们一直想做的紫色条纹唇膏！“噢!卡洛塔说。 有条纹的口红?“是的!”爸爸笑了，从背后拿出一根小管子。 “它叫米拉贝尔系列！”我感到一种温暖的感觉在我内心闪烁。 “你想试试吗？”爸爸问。 我拿起口红，把它涂在嘴唇上，看着妈妈举起的一面小镜子。 然后我把它递给卡洛塔。 “有条纹的嘴唇!我们俩说着，高兴地面面相觑。 我们看起来像个女巫！

'Phew, it works!' said Dad. 'Time for a celebration, I think. Let's go out for dinner when Wilbur gets home from his after- school club. Carlotta can come too!'

“唷，管用了！”爸爸说。 “我想是时候庆祝一下了。 等威尔伯从课外俱乐部回来，我们一起出去吃晚饭吧。 卡洛塔也可以来！”

Carlotta and I beamed happily at each other. 'Oh, and that reminds me,' said Dad. I dug out my old fairy roller skates for you, Mirabelle. They're on the porch.' 'Roller skates!' said Carlotta. 'That means we can skate together!' 'Oh... erm... yes,' I replied. 'But they're not proper witch skates like yours they're—' 'Who cares?!' said Carlotta. 'They work, don't they?' 'I guess so,' I replied. 'Let's go and skate then!' said Carlotta, jumping down from her chair and tugging at me.

卡洛塔和我相视而笑。 “哦，这倒提醒了我，”爸爸说。 我把我的旧冰鞋给你翻出来了，米拉贝尔。 它们在门廊上。“旱冰鞋！”卡洛塔说。 “那意味着我们可以一起滑冰了！”“哦… 嗯…“是的。”我回答。“但它们不是像你的那种真正的女巫用的冰鞋——”“谁在乎呢？！”卡洛塔说。 “它们管用，不是吗？”“我想是的，”我回答。 “那我们去滑冰吧！”卡洛塔说着，从椅子上跳了起来，使劲拉着我。

I picked up Dad's roller skates from the porch, and together we made our way out into the garden. Carlotta put on her witch skates and I put on my dad's old fairy skates. We began to whizz up and down the garden path, going faster and faster, whooshing and spinning. It felt amazing. It felt like flying! And I realized it didn't really matter that my roller skates weren't the sleek and shiny expensive ones or that they didn't have sparks coming out from the heels. They worked! I could go just as fast as Carlotta in them! Suddenly I felt a little bit bad that I had been so ungrateful. It was very kind of Dad to give me his old skates. Maybe I

我从门廊上捡起爸爸的旱冰鞋，我们一起向花园走去。 卡洛塔穿上了她的女巫冰鞋，我穿上了我爸的旧仙女冰鞋。 我们开始在花园的小路上嗖嗖地上下移动，速度越来越快，嗖嗖地旋转着。 感觉太棒了。感觉就像在飞！我意识到我的旱冰鞋不是光滑闪亮的昂贵的，或者它们的鞋跟没有火花，这都不重要。 他们工作!我可以和卡洛塔一样快！突然间，我为自己的忘恩负义感到有点内疚。 爸爸把他的旧溜冰鞋给了我，真是太好了。 也许我

wasn't even so bothered about having a pair of sleek and shiny black witch skates after all. I could just keep using the fairy skates. And that would mean I wouldn't have to do any extra chores!

我根本就没想过要一双光滑闪亮的黑色女巫溜冰鞋。 我可以继续用我的冰鞋。 那就意味着我不用做任何额外的家务了！