4. Up, Up and Away!

"How are we going to get up there?" Rachel asked. "Easy!" Abigail told her. "We use fairy magic!" The girls immediately reached for their shining golden lockets. The lockets were full of magic fairy dust. They had been special gifts from Titania, the Fairy Queen. A pinch of the dust would turn the girls into fairies, and another pinch would turn them back into humans again.

“我们怎么上去呢？”雷切尔问道。 “简单!”阿比盖尔告诉她。“我们用仙女的魔法！”姑娘们立刻伸手去拿她们闪闪发光的金坠子。 挂坠盒里装满了魔法仙尘。 它们是来自仙女女王泰坦尼亚的特殊礼物。 一撮灰尘会把女孩变成仙女，再一撮就会把她们变回人类。

Rachel sprinkled herself with sparkling fairy dust, then laughed with delight as she shrank to fairy size. The grass was as tall as she was, and the buttercups now seemed as big as trees! Kirsty did the same, and turned around to look at her silvery wings. "Wow! I'm a fairy again!" "We have to hurry!" Abigail said, zooming up into the air. She was quickly followed by Kirsty and Rachel. The higher Abigail and the girls flew, the more the wind tried to blow them off course. Kirsty and Rachel's wings soon felt really tired. "Fly right behind me," Abigail urged the girls. "It might be easier for you."

雷切尔给自己洒上闪闪发光的仙尘，然后高兴地笑了起来，因为她缩成了仙女的大小。 草和她一样高，毛茛现在看起来像树一样大！科斯蒂也这样做了，然后转过身来看着她银色的翅膀。 “哇!我又变成仙女了！”“我们得快点了！”阿比盖尔说着，一下子飞到了空中。 科斯蒂和蕾切尔紧随其后。 阿比盖尔和女孩们飞得越高，风就越想把她们吹离航线。 科斯蒂和瑞秋的翅膀很快就感到很累。 “跟在我后面飞。”阿比盖尔催促姑娘们。 “这对你来说可能更容易。”

Rachel and Kirsty gave it a try. Luckily, it was less of a struggle to follow the experienced flying fairy. Abigail seemed to create an invisible path through the sky. Gradually, they drew closer and closer to the balloon's basket. "We were right. Look!" cried Kirsty. An ugly face peered over the edge of the balloon's basket. It was a goblin with pointed ears and a big, lumpy nose. "He's a very big goblin," said Abigail nervously.

瑞秋和科斯蒂试了试。 幸运的是，跟随这位经验丰富的飞天仙子并不困难。 阿比盖尔似乎在天空中创造了一条看不见的路。 渐渐地，他们越来越靠近气球的篮子。 “我们是对的。看！”柯斯蒂叫道。 一张丑陋的脸从气球的篮子边缘探出头来。 那是一个长着尖耳朵和大鼻子的妖精。 “他是一个很大的妖精。”阿比盖尔紧张地说。

"I don't think he's seen us yet," Rachel whispered. "Let's creep up behind him." The goblin was staring at Twiglet, who was still barking down below. "Ha, ha! Silly little doggy. You can't catch me!" he sneered. Kirsty and Rachel heard the goblin's tummy rumble. It sounded like mud being stirred in a bucket. The goblin gave a huge burp, and a blast of stinky breath blew over Rachel, Kirsty, and Abigail. "Ugh!" Abigail held her nose. "What a terrible smell!" complained Rachel. "What has that goblin been eating?" "Can't catch me, doggy!" The goblin continued to taunt Twiglet, jumping up and down and waving a shining bronze feather. Down on the ground, a strong gust of wind swept Twiglet off his feet. The puppy tumbled over, got up again, and shook his head

“我想他还没看到我们。”瑞秋小声说。 “我们从他后面爬过去吧。” 妖精盯着还在下面吠叫的特威莱特。 “哈,哈!愚蠢的小狗。 你抓不到我！”他冷笑着说。 科斯蒂和瑞秋听到了妖精肚子的咕噜声。 听起来就像在桶里搅泥。 妖精打了个大嗝，一股臭气吹到了瑞秋、科斯蒂和阿比盖尔身上。 “哎!”阿比盖尔捏着鼻子。 “好难闻的味道！”雷切尔抱怨道。 “那个妖精吃了什么？”“抓不到我，小狗！”妖精继续奚落特威莱特，跳上跳下，挥舞着一根闪闪发光的青铜羽毛。 在地上，一阵强风把特威莱特从他的脚上刮了下来。 小狗翻了个身，又站了起来，摇了摇头

angrily. Then he looked up and began barking even more loudly. The goblin jumped back, surprised. Then he recovered. "I'm safe up here!" he said to himself, and laughed. Rachel was confused. The goblin's afraid of Twiglet, she thought. I wonder why. "He's holding the Breeze Feather!" whispered Abigail. Her leaf- green eyes flashed with anger. "Yes. And he's using it to tease poor Twiglet!" said Kirsty. "What a mean goblin! We have to get that feather back." Rachel was thinking hard. "I've got a plan," she told her friends.

愤怒的。然后他抬起头，开始更大声地叫。 妖精吃惊地往后跳了跳。 后来他恢复了健康。“我在这儿很安全！”他自言自语，笑了起来。 瑞秋很困惑。妖精怕特威莱特，她想。 我想知道为什么。“他拿着微风羽毛！”阿比盖尔小声说。 她叶绿色的眼睛里闪着愤怒的光芒。 “是的。他还用它来戏弄可怜的小威！” “多么卑鄙的妖精！”我们得把那根羽毛拿回来。” 瑞秋在苦苦思索。“我有个计划，”她告诉朋友们。

"Kirsty, you land in the basket. Then Abigail can make you human-sized, and the two of you can distract the goblin while I fly up and turn off the balloon's burner. The balloon will sink, and we'll have a better chance of getting the feather back once that goblin's back on the ground." "That's a good idea," said Abigail. "But Kirsty and I will be very close to the goblin. Can you be quick, Rachel?" "I will," Rachel promised. "Okay, then here I go," Kirsty said. She checked to make sure that the goblin wasn't looking, and then flew up and over the edge of the basket. Abigail hovered next to her. With a wave of her wand, she turned Kirsty back to her normal size. When he saw Kirsty, the goblin's eyes grew as big as golf balls. "Who are you?" he demanded. "I'm Kirsty, a friend of the Weather Fairies," Kirsty declared firmly. "And I'm Abigail the Breeze Fairy," Abigail added in her soft, musical voice. The goblin glared at Abigail. "Boo!" he shouted, and lunged at her.

“科斯蒂，你落在篮子里。 然后阿比盖尔可以把你变成人类大小，你们两个可以分散妖精的注意力我飞上去关掉气球的燃烧器。 气球会沉下去，等妖精回到地面上，我们拿回羽毛的机会就大了。” “好主意。”阿比盖尔说。 “但是我和科斯蒂会和妖精走得很近。 你能快点吗，瑞秋？”“我会的，”瑞秋保证。 “好吧，那我走了，”科斯蒂说。 她检查了一下，确保妖精没有看见，然后飞了起来，越过了篮子的边缘。 阿比盖尔在她身边徘徊。 她一挥魔杖，把科斯蒂变回了原来的大小。 当他看到科斯蒂时，小妖精的眼睛变得像高尔夫球一样大。 “你是谁？”他问道。 “我是科斯蒂，天气仙子的朋友。”科斯蒂坚定地说。 “我是微风仙女阿比盖尔。”阿比盖尔用她柔和悦耳的声音补充道。 妖精怒视着阿比盖尔。 “嘘！”他喊道，扑向她。