6. A Visit to Fairyland

A Visit to Fairyland "Of course we'll search for your sisters," Kirsty said quickly. "Won't we, Rachel?" Rachel nodded. "Oh, thank you!" Ruby said happily. "But we're only here for a week," Rachel said. "Will that be long enough?"

“我们当然会去找你的姐姐们的。”柯斯蒂很快地说。 “不是吗，瑞秋?”雷切尔点了点头。 “哦，谢谢你!”鲁比高兴地说。 “但我们只在这里待一个星期，”瑞秋说。 “时间够长吗?”

"We have to get started right away," said Ruby. "First, I must take you to Fairyland to meet our king and queen. They will be very pleased to know that you are going to help me find my sisters." Rachel and Kirsty stared at Ruby. "You're taking us to Fairyland?" Kirsty gasped. She could hardly believe her ears. "But how will we get there?" Rachel wanted to know. "We'll fly," Ruby replied. "But we can't fly!" Rachel pointed out. Ruby smiled. She whirled up into the air over the girls' heads. Then she swirled her wand above them. Magic red fairy dust fluttered down. Rachel and Kirsty began to feel a bit strange. Were the trees getting bigger or were they getting smaller? They were getting smaller!

“我们必须马上开始，”鲁比说。 “首先，我必须带你去仙境见我们的国王和王后。 他们知道你要帮我找到我的姐姐们，一定会很高兴的。” 瑞秋和科斯蒂盯着鲁比。 “你要带我们去仙境?”气喘吁吁地说。 她简直不敢相信自己的耳朵。 “但是我们怎么去呢?”瑞秋想知道。 “我们坐飞机，”鲁比回答。 “但是我们不会飞!”瑞秋指出。 Ruby笑了。她在女孩们头顶的空中盘旋着。 然后她在他们上方挥动魔杖。 神奇的红色仙尘飘了下来。 瑞秋和科斯蒂开始觉得有点奇怪。 树木是变大了还是变小了? 它们越来越小了!

Smaller and smaller and smaller, until they were the same size as Ruby. "I'm tiny!" Rachel laughed. She was so small, the flowers around her seemed as big as trees. Kirsty twisted around to look at her back. She had wings — shiny and delicate as a butterfly's!

越来越小，越来越小，直到它们和Ruby一样大。 “我小!”瑞秋笑了。 她是那么小，她周围的花看起来像树一样大。 科斯蒂转过身来看着她的背影。 她有翅膀——像蝴蝶的翅膀一样闪亮而精致!

Ruby beamed at them. "Now you can fly," she said. "Let's go." Rachel twitched her shoulders. Her wings fluttered, and she rose up into the air. She felt quite wobbly at first. Flying was not at all like walking! "Help!" Kirsty yelled, as she shot up into the air. "I'm not very good at this!"

鲁比微笑着看着他们。“现在你可以飞了，”她说。 “我们走吧。”瑞秋扭动着她的肩膀。 她扇动着翅膀，飞上了天空。 起初她感到很不稳定。 飞行一点也不像走路!“救命!”科斯蒂喊道，她猛地飞到空中。 “我不太擅长这个!”

"Come on," said Ruby, taking their hands. "I'll help you." She led them up out of the meadow. From the air, Rachel looked down on Rainspell Island. She could see the cottages next to the beach, and the harbor. "Where is Fairyland, Ruby?" Kirsty asked. They were flying higher and higher, up into the clouds. "It's so far away that no human could ever find it," Ruby said. They flew on through the clouds for a long, long time. But at last Ruby turned to them and smiled. "We're here," she said. "Luckily, while we're in Fairyland, no time passes in your world. No one will even know you were gone!"

“来吧。”鲁比说着，拉起他们的手。 “我来帮你。”她领着他们走出草地。 雷切尔从空中俯瞰雨魔岛。 她可以看到海滩旁边的小屋和港口。 “仙境在哪里，鲁比?”基问道。 他们飞得越来越高，一直飞到云端。 鲁比说:“它太遥远了，没有人能找到它。” 他们在云层中飞了很长很长时间。 但最后，鲁比转向他们，微笑着。 “我们在这里，”她说。“幸运的是，当我们在仙境的时候，你的世界没有时间流逝。 没有人会知道你离开了!”

As they flew down from the clouds, Kirsty and Rachel saw places they recognized from the pond picture: the palace, the hillsides with their toadstool houses, the river. But there were no bright colors now. Because of Jack Frost's spell, everything was a drab shade of gray. A few fairies walked miserably across the hillsides. Their wings hung limply down their backs. No one even had the energy to fly.

当他们从云层中飞下来时，科斯蒂和雷切尔看到了他们在池塘里看到的地方:宫殿，山坡上有蘑菇屋，还有河。 但是现在没有鲜艳的颜色了。 因为杰克·弗罗斯特的咒语，一切都是单调的灰色。 几个仙女痛苦地走过山坡。 它们的翅膀软绵绵地垂在背上。 甚至没有人有力气飞。