4. A Confused Goblin

Kirsty, Rachel, and Goldie held their breath and listened to the strange new sound. It was a loud, wheezing, rumbling noise, somewhere between a grunt and a hiss. Grumble-sshhh, grumble-sshhh, grumble-sshhh… The sound was coming from the direction of the mudhole. Kirsty and Rachel crept back to the tree and peeked out from behind it, wondering what sort of terrifying creature had appeared. When Rachel saw what was making the noise, though, she had to clap her hand over her mouth to stop herself from laughing out loud. The wheezy rumble was coming from the goblin—he was snoring!

科斯蒂、雷切尔和戈尔迪屏住呼吸，倾听着这奇怪的新声音。 那是一种响亮的、呼哧呼哧的、隆隆的声音，介于咕噜声和嘶嘶声之间。 咕噜——嘘，咕噜——嘘，咕噜——嘘……声音是从泥坑那边传来的。 科斯蒂和雷切尔悄悄回到树下，从树后向外偷看，不知道出现了什么可怕的生物。 然而，当瑞秋看到是什么在发出声音时，她不得不用手捂住嘴，不让自己大声笑出来。 那呼哧呼哧的隆隆声是妖精发出的——他在打鼾！

"At least he isn't singing anymore," Kirsty whispered, laughing. Goldie fluttered her wings hopefully when she saw that the goblin was asleep, and she flew a little closer to the Sunshine Feather. But her face fell when she saw just how tightly the goblin was clutching the feather to his chest. Goldie flew back to the girls, shaking her head. "If I try to pull it out of his hand, the goblin is sure to wake up," she told them. "How are we going to get that feather?" Kirsty smiled. "Maybe we could…" she began thoughtfully. Then she grinned from ear to ear. "Yes! That could work!" she said.

“至少他不再唱歌了，”科斯蒂笑着小声说。 金迪看到妖精睡着了，满怀希望地拍打着翅膀，朝阳光羽毛飞近了一点。 但当她看到妖精把羽毛紧紧地抓在胸前时，她的脸沉了下来。 戈尔迪摇着头飞回女孩们身边。 “如果我试图把它从他手中夺过来，妖精肯定会醒过来的。”她告诉他们。 “我们怎样才能得到那根羽毛呢？”柯笑了。 “也许我们可以……”她若有所思地说。 然后她笑得合不拢嘴。 “是啊!这行得通！”她说。

Without another word, Kirsty began running back toward her house. "I'll be back in a minute," she called over her shoulder. Rachel and Goldie watched her go. They were both dying to know what Kirsty was up to. Luckily, they didn't have to wait very long. When Kirsty came back, she looked quite different! "What is she wearing?" Goldie whispered to Rachel as Kirsty ran toward them. "Her dad's sunglasses," Rachel replied, staring at her friend in disbelief. She was starting to wonder if Kirsty had been in the sun for too long. Why had she brought the enormous sunglasses back with her? And why was she carrying a fishing pole?

科斯蒂二话没说，开始向自己的家跑去。 “我马上就回来，”她回过头喊道。 瑞秋和戈尔迪看着她走了。 他们俩都很想知道科斯蒂在干什么。 幸运的是，他们不用等很长时间。 当Kirsty回来时，她看起来完全不同了！“她穿的是什么？”科斯蒂朝他们跑去，戈尔迪低声对瑞秋说。 “她爸爸的太阳镜，”瑞秋回答，难以置信地盯着她的朋友。 她开始怀疑科斯蒂是不是在太阳底下晒太久了。 她为什么要把那副巨大的太阳镜带回来？ 她为什么带着钓鱼竿？

Kirsty grinned at the confused expressions on her friends' faces. "I'll explain everything," she promised, propping the fishing pole and sunglasses up in the tree branches. "But first, Rachel and I need to shrink to fairy size." Both Kirsty and Rachel had been given beautiful gold lockets by the Fairy Queen. Inside each locket was magical fairy dust. A tiny pinch of the sparkling dust turned the girls into fairies in the blink of an eye!

看到朋友们脸上困惑的表情，科斯蒂咧嘴笑了。 “我会解释一切，”她保证说，把鱼竿和太阳镜撑在树枝上。 “但首先，蕾切尔和我需要缩小到仙女的尺寸。” 仙女女王给了科斯蒂和瑞秋两个漂亮的金坠子。 每个挂坠盒里都有魔法仙尘。 一撮闪闪发光的灰尘，眨眼之间，女孩们就变成了仙女！

Kirsty and Rachel both pulled out their lockets and sprinkled themselves with fairy dust. It glittered a bright sunshine-yellow in the light and then— whoosh— they shrank smaller and smaller and smaller. The tree next to them looked enormous as the girls shrank to Goldie's size.

科斯蒂和瑞秋都拿出了自己的挂坠盒，在身上洒上了仙尘。 它在阳光下闪着明亮的太阳黄色，然后——嗖——它们变小了，变小了，变小了，变小了。 她们旁边的那棵树看起来很大，因为女孩们都缩到戈尔迪那么大了。

Kirsty and Rachel fluttered their wings happily. They both loved being fairies! "Now," Kirsty said. "Let's fly up into the tree and I'll tell you my plan." The three friends all perched near the fishing pole, and Goldie and

科斯蒂和瑞秋高兴地拍打着翅膀。 他们都喜欢做仙女！“现在，”科斯蒂说。 “让我们飞到树上，我告诉你我的计划。” 三个朋友都在鱼竿附近坐着，戈尔迪和