4. A Sticky Situation

"Come on," Rachel said. "Let's go inside." The girls and Pearl rushed over to the door. But their hearts sank when they saw the big, heavy padlock. "Of course, it's Saturday. The factory's closed." Kirsty said, looking disappointed. "What are we going to do?" They stood and thought for a minute. Then Rachel glanced up, and a smile spread across her face. "Look!" she said, pointing. "There's an air vent near the roof. We have our magic fairy dust. Let's turn ourselves into fairies. Then we can all fly in through the air vent." The Fairy Queen had given Kirsty and Rachel gold lockets full of fairy dust, which they could use to turn themselves into fairies

“来吧，”瑞秋说。“我们进去吧。” 姑娘们和珠儿冲到门口。 但当他们看到那把又大又重的挂锁时，他们的心都沉了下来。 “当然，今天是星期六。 工厂关门了。”柯斯蒂失望地说。 “我们该怎么办？”他们站在那里想了一会儿。 瑞秋抬起头来，脸上绽开了笑容。 “看！”她指着说。 “屋顶附近有个通风口。 我们有魔法仙尘。 让我们把自己变成仙女。 然后我们都可以从通风口飞进去。” 仙后给了柯斯蒂和瑞秋装满仙尘的金吊坠，她们可以用它把自己变成仙女

whenever they needed to. "Good idea!" Pearl laughed, clapping her hands happily. Quickly, Rachel and Kirsty opened their lockets and sprinkled some fairy dust over themselves. Almost immediately, they began to shrink, and beautiful shimmering fairy wings grew from their backs.

只要他们需要。“好主意!”珠儿笑了，高兴地拍着手。 雷切尔和科斯蒂迅速打开她们的挂坠盒，在身上洒了一些仙尘。 几乎立刻，他们开始收缩，美丽的闪闪发光的仙女翅膀从他们的背上长了出来。

"Come on," Pearl cried, zooming back and forth impatiently. "Up we go!" And she flew up to the air vent in the wall. Kirsty and Rachel flew after her. Pearl slipped through the vent first, and the two girls followed. They all stopped inside and gazed around the factory. "Wow!" Kirsty gasped, her eyes wide. Lots of big silver machines were busy making all kinds of different candy, Peppermints poured out of one machine, while long strings of

“走吧，”珠儿叫着，不耐烦地来回跳着。 “我们上去！”她飞到墙上的通风口。 科斯蒂和瑞秋跟在她后面。 珠儿先溜进通风口，两个姑娘跟在后面。 他们都在里面停了下来，环视着工厂。 “哇!”科斯蒂喘着气，眼睛睁得大大的。 许多银色的大机器正忙着制作各种各样的糖果，薄荷糖从一台机器里倒出来，而长长的一串

strawberry licorice came out of another. Soft ice cream fizzed into paper cups, and pink and white marshmallows bounced along a moving conveyor belt. Chocolate bars were being wrapped in gold foil, while a different machine wrapped caramel candies in shiny silver paper. There were large sticky lollipops and striped candy canes in every color and flavor. "Isn't this amazing?" asked Rachel. "Look at all the different kinds of candy!" Kirsty looked confused. "But the people who work here wouldn't have left all the machines on, would they?" she pointed out. Pearl grinned. "I bet they turned them off, but somebody else has turned them on again." "The goblin!" Kirsty exclaimed. "Where is he?" "Let's split up and see if we can find him," Pearl replied. They flew off to different parts of the factory. Rachel flew toward a machine that was mixing fluffy pink cotton candy in a huge silver tub. She looked at the machine for a minute and was about to fly on, but then she heard the sound of someone loudly smacking his lips. Rachel flew down to take a closer look. There, lying with his back to her, on a huge, fluffy pink cloud, was the goblin! He was greedily scooping up sticky handfuls of cotton candy and munching them happily. He was quite chubby— probably from stuffing himself with so

草莓甘草从另一个瓶子里冒出来。 软冰淇淋在纸杯里嘶嘶作响，粉红色和白色的棉花糖在移动的传送带上跳动。 巧克力棒用金箔包装，而另一台机器用闪亮的银纸包装焦糖糖果。 那里有又大又粘的棒棒糖和各种颜色、各种口味的条纹棒棒糖。 “这不是很神奇吗？”雷切尔问。 “看看这些不同种类的糖果！”柯斯蒂看起来很困惑。 “但在这里工作的人不会让所有的机器都开着吧？”她指出。 珍珠咧嘴一笑。“我敢说他们把它们关了，但又有人把它们打开了。” “小妖精!”基喊道。 “他在哪儿？”“我们分头行动，看看能不能找到他，”珠儿回答。 他们飞到工厂的不同地方。 瑞秋飞向一台机器，它正在一个巨大的银色桶里搅拌蓬松的粉红色棉花糖。 她看了一会儿机器，准备继续飞行，但她听到有人大声咂嘴的声音。 瑞秋飞下来仔细看了看。 在那里，背对着她，躺在一片巨大的、蓬松的粉红色云上的，就是那个妖精！他贪婪地捧起一把把黏糊糊的棉花糖，开心地嚼着。 他很胖——可能是因为吃了这么多

much cotton candy, Rachel thought. She flew a little closer and peeked over the goblin's shoulder to see if she could spot the magic Cloud Feather. There it was, in his hand! Tiny pink and white clouds drifted from it as the goblin waved it in the air.

太多棉花糖了，瑞秋想。 她飞得更近一些，从妖精的肩膀上偷看，看能否发现那根神奇的云羽。 就在那儿，在他手里！小妖精在空中挥舞着它，上面飘着粉红色和白色的云朵。

I have to tell Kirsty and Pearl, Rachel thought. She turned to fly away, but as she did, one wing brushed the goblin's shoulder. With a yelp of surprise, the goblin reached up and grabbed Rachel with one hand. "You're not getting my feather!" he shouted, and stuffed Rachel inside one of the pink clouds that was drifting by. Poor Rachel was trapped! She tried to push her way out of the cloud, but she couldn't make a hole in it. The cloud drifted farther and farther away from the goblin.

我得告诉科斯蒂和珀尔，瑞秋想。 她转身要飞走，但就在她飞走的时候，一只翅膀擦到了妖精的肩膀。 随着一声惊叫，妖精伸出一只手抓住了瑞秋。 “你拿不到我的羽毛！”他喊道，把雷切尔塞进了飘过的一朵粉红色的云里。 可怜的瑞秋被困住了！她试图从云层中挤出一条路来，但她无法在云层中钻出一个洞。 云离妖精越飘越远。