16 Pinocchio Meets the Shark

CHAPTER 16 Pinocchio Meets the Shark Pinocchio ran so fast that, upon reaching a cliff next to the sea, he couldn't stop. He plunged right over the edge! He inhaled a great deal of water and thought he would drown. And perhaps he would have, had a thousand fish not suddenly surrounded him—sent, they said, by Fairy. The fish began to nibble on his ears, his nose, his neck, and his mane. One fish even did him the great favor of eating his hairy tail. When the fish were done eating all the

第十六章皮诺乔遇到鲨鱼皮诺乔跑得很快，一跑到海边的悬崖上，就停不下来了。 他从悬崖边上掉下去了！他吸入了大量的水，以为自己会淹死。 要不是突然有一千条鱼围在他身边——据说是仙女派来的。 鱼开始啃咬他的耳朵、鼻子、脖子和鬃毛。 一条鱼甚至帮了他大忙，吃掉了他毛茸茸的尾巴。 当鱼吃完了所有的

meat, they came to the bones—or rather, in Pinocchio's case, to the wood that the puppet was made of. But it was very hard wood—the kind that gave fish indigestion— and so they swam away and the puppet was saved. Pinocchio was a light and bouncy puppet once more, and he turned and started to swim out to sea. Soon he spotted a large white rock in the middle of the sea. On the rock stood a little blue goat, bleating and beckoning to the puppet. Something about the goat seemed familiar. It was her blue hair, Pinocchio realized. It reminded him of Fairy's! Kicking his legs even harder, he speed-swam toward the rock to greet her. Just then, however, a horrible sea monster with a huge head lunged out of the water in

肉，他们来到骨头，或者更确切地说，皮诺乔的情况下，木偶的木头。 但是这是一种很硬的木头——就是那种会使鱼消化不良的木头——所以它们游走了，木偶得救了。 皮诺乔又变成了一个轻盈而有弹性的木偶，他转身开始向海里游去。 不久，他在海中央发现了一块巨大的白色岩石。 岩石上站着一只蓝色的小山羊，咩咩叫着向木偶招手。 这只山羊似乎有些眼熟。 皮诺乔意识到是她的蓝头发。 这使他想起了仙女的！他更用力地踢着腿，飞快地游向岩石，向她致意。 然而，就在这时，一个可怕的海怪，长着一个巨大的头，从水里冲了出来

front of him. Do you know what it was? None other than the enormous shark that has already been mentioned in this story. "Look out!" bleated the little blue goat. And Pinocchio tried to look out. He swam and kicked as hard as he could, but it was no use. The monster opened its mouth and Pinocchio disappeared into it. Pinocchio found himself resting on the shark's tongue, in between three rows of gleaming white teeth. A second later, however, and without even chewing him first, the shark swallowed the tiny puppet as easily as if he were a pill. He sucked Pinocchio down deep into his stomach with one satisfied gulp. Pinocchio must have fainted from fear, or hit his hard wooden head during the fall. When he awoke, he could not remember

在他面前。你知道是什么吗？ 正是在这个故事中已经提到的巨大的鲨鱼。 “小心！”小蓝山羊咩咩地叫着。 皮诺乔试着往外看。 他拼命地游，拼命地踢，但是没有用。 怪物张开嘴，皮诺乔就钻进去了。 皮诺乔发现自己躺在鲨鱼的舌头上，在三排闪闪发光的白牙齿之间。 然而，一秒钟后，鲨鱼甚至没有先咀嚼他，就像吞药丸一样轻松地吞下了这个小木偶。 他心满意足地把皮诺乔深深吸进肚子里。 皮诺乔一定是吓晕了，要不就是摔到硬梆梆的木头脑袋上了。 当他醒来时，他不记得了

where he was. It was pitch-black in that shark's stomach. Once in a while, a cold breeze blew. Some time later, Pinocchio remembered what had happened and realized that the breeze was from the shark breathing. (The poor shark was suffering from asthma, so it was some breeze!) Pinocchio burst into tears. "Help! Help!" he cried. "Oh, poor me! Won't someone come to save me?" "And who do you think will hear and help you in here?" asked a rough gravelly voice beside Pinocchio. "Who's there?" Pinocchio whispered. It turned out that the voice belonged to a poor tunny fish, which had also been swallowed by the shark. "What kind of fish are you?" the tunny fish asked.

他在哪里。鲨鱼的胃里一片漆黑。 偶尔刮起一阵冷风。 过了一会儿，皮诺乔想起了刚才发生的事，他意识到这是鲨鱼的呼吸。 （这条可怜的鲨鱼患有哮喘，所以这是一阵微风！）皮诺乔哭了起来。 “救命!救命！”他喊道。“啊，可怜的我！难道没有人来救我吗？”“你觉得谁会听见，谁会帮你呢？”皮诺乔身边一个粗哑的声音问。 “谁在那里?”匹诺曹低声说。 原来这声音是一条可怜的金枪鱼发出的，它也被鲨鱼吞下了。 “你是什么鱼？”金枪鱼问。

"What are we going to do?" Pinocchio replied, ignoring the question. "Wait until the shark has digested us both, I suppose," the tunny fish said in a resigned voice. "But I don't want to be digested," shouted Pinocchio, starting to sob. "Well neither do I," said the tunny. "But I suppose dying this way is more dignified than being fried up in a pan." Pinocchio guessed that the tunny was right, and he was certainly grateful that he was no longer covered in flour. But unlike the tunny, he refused to give up so easily. Just then, about a mile in the distance, Pinocchio thought he saw a faint light. Thinking that he might find some other poor swallowed soul, possibly a wise old fish who might know how to escape, Pinocchio vowed to reach the light.

“我们该怎么办？”皮诺乔回答，没有理会这个问题。 “我想，等着鲨鱼把我们俩都消化掉吧，”金枪鱼无可奈何地说。 “可我不想被消化。”皮诺乔叫道，开始抽泣起来。 “我也不知道，”金枪鱼说。 “不过，我想这样死去比在平底锅里煎要体面得多。” 皮诺乔猜这条鱼是对的，他当然很庆幸自己不再被面粉覆盖了。 但与金枪鱼不同的是，他拒绝轻易放弃。 就在这时，大约一英里远的地方，皮诺乔好像看见了微弱的灯光。 皮诺乔心想，他可能会找到别的被吞下去的可怜的灵魂，也许是一条聪明的老鱼，知道怎么逃出来。

"Come with me," Pinocchio suggested. "No," the tunny sighed. "I'm too scared to try. Good luck and good-bye!"

“跟我来，”皮诺乔建议。 “不，”兔子叹了口气。“我太害怕了，不敢尝试。 祝你好运，再见！”