5. Happy Pigs

Rachel grabbed Kirsty's hand and they both sprinted toward the farmhouse as fast as their feet would carry them. The goblin wasn't far behind, making a horrible growling sound in his throat as he ran. "Give me back that feather! Give it back!" he yelled angrily. Rachel's heart thumped in her chest. The goblin was closing in on them. She could hear his breathing. The goblin stretched out his hand to grab her and Rachel gasped. "Got y—" the goblin began. Then his voice turned from anger to confusion. "Hey! What's going on?"

雷切尔抓住科斯蒂的手，两人以最快的速度向农舍跑去。 妖精跟在后面不远，一边跑一边在喉咙里发出可怕的咆哮。 “把羽毛还给我！”还给我！”他生气地喊道。 瑞秋的心怦怦直跳。 妖精正在向他们逼近。 她能听到他的呼吸声。 妖精伸出手去抓她，瑞秋倒吸了一口气。 “明白了——”妖精开始说。 然后他的声音从愤怒变成了困惑。 “嘿!发生了什么事？”

In a swirl of dancing sunbeams, Goldie had waved the Sunshine Feather and pointed it straight at the goblin. Now the sun beat down fiercely upon him— and the thick mud that covered him started to dry rapidly. As his legs became stiff and heavy with the hardening mud, the goblin slowed down. Then the mud dried completely, and the goblin couldn't move at all. "No-o-o!" he wailed. Despite having been so scared just a few seconds before, the girls found themselves smiling at the goblin now. "It's a goblin statue!" Rachel exclaimed, laughing. Only his eyes moved now. They flicked back and forth wildly. The goblin glared at the girls, and then at Goldie. Kirsty noticed that her dad's sunglasses were still perched on top of the goblin's head. She

在飞舞的阳光的漩涡中，戈尔迪挥舞着阳光羽毛，把它对准了妖精。 现在，太阳猛烈地照在他身上——盖在他身上的厚厚的泥土开始迅速干涸。 他的腿在硬化的泥浆中变得僵硬而沉重，于是半兽人放慢了脚步。 然后泥完全干了，地精根本动不了。 “不——不——不！”尽管几秒钟前还很害怕，但现在女孩们发现自己对着妖精笑了。 “这是一个妖精雕像！”瑞秋笑着叫道。 现在只有他的眼睛在动。它们疯狂地来回弹跳。 妖精瞪了女孩们一眼，然后又瞪了戈尔迪一眼。 科斯蒂注意到爸爸的太阳镜还戴在小妖精的头上。 她

took a cautious step toward him, then another. The goblin didn't move, so Kirsty marched right up to him and carefully grabbed the glasses. "I'll take these back now, I think," she said. "If I'd known that these sunglasses would be so useful, I'd never have laughed at Dad for wearing them!" she told Rachel. Goldie and the girls made their way back to the farmhouse. The pigs were waiting expectantly for them. "The mudhole is all yours again," Goldie told the pigs in her sweet voice. "You'll see a new goblin statue nearby," she added. "But don't worry. I don't think he'll be in any hurry to go back into the mud." The pigs grunted happily and trotted off toward their cool mud pool. The smallest piglet nuzzled Kirsty and Rachel's legs before he went. "Thank you!" he squealed.

我小心翼翼地朝他走了一步，然后又走了一步。 妖精没有动，于是科斯蒂径直走到他跟前，小心翼翼地抓起眼镜。 “我想我现在要把这些拿回去，”她说。 “如果我早知道这副太阳镜这么有用，我就不会嘲笑爸爸戴它了！”她告诉瑞秋。 戈尔迪和姑娘们回到了农舍。 猪在等着他们。 “泥坑又归你们了，”戈尔迪用她甜美的声音对猪们说。 “你会在附近看到一座新的妖精雕像。”她补充道。 “不过别担心。我想他不会急着回到泥里去的。” 猪们高兴地哼了一声，小跑着向凉爽的泥池走去。 最小的小猪在走之前用鼻子蹭了一下科斯蒂和瑞秋的腿。 “谢谢你！”他尖叫道。

Rachel watched the pigs go. "What will happen to the goblin?" she asked. "He won't have to stay there forever, will he?" Goldie's eyes twinkled mischievously. "Not forever, no," she said. "The dried mud will wash off as soon as it rains." She smiled cheerfully. "But Jack Frost won't be happy with him when he finds out we got the Sunshine Feather back!"

瑞秋看着猪走了。 “那妖精会怎么样？”她问。 “他不会永远呆在那里的，对吧？”戈尔迪淘气地眨着眼睛。 “不会永远，不会，”她说。 “一下雨，干泥就会被洗掉。” 她高兴地笑了。“但是如果杰克·弗罗斯特发现我们把阳光羽毛拿回来了，他会不高兴的！”