2 The Prankster Puppet Is Born

CHAPTER 2 The Prankster Puppet Is Born Geppetto lived in a small, simple house. The only thing rich about him was his imagination. Instead of a real fireplace, he had painted one on the wall. Over the fake fire, instead of a real pot full of real food was a painted pot. It was bubbling over so beautifully that you could almost smell the delicious stew painted inside. Geppetto couldn't wait to get started carving and painting his puppet. He even had the perfect name picked out: Pinocchio. Upon placing the finishing touches on Pinocchio's eyes, Geppetto was surprised to

杰佩托住在一所简朴的小房子里。 他唯一丰富的是他的想象力。 他在墙上画了一个壁炉，而不是一个真正的壁炉。 在假火上，盛满食物的真正的锅不是一个真正的锅，而是一个画好的锅。 锅里的泡泡非常漂亮，你几乎可以闻到里面涂着的美味炖菜的味道。 杰佩托迫不及待地开始雕刻和绘制他的木偶。 他甚至选了一个完美的名字：皮诺奇。 杰佩托给皮诺乔的眼睛做了最后的修饰后，惊讶地发现

see the eyes blinking and staring back at him. "What are you staring at?" Geppetto asked, but there was no response. Next, Geppetto painted the puppet's perfect little nub of a nose. To his surprise, the still-wet nose immediately began to grow. Geppetto kept trimming it and trimming it, but he couldn't keep up. Soon the little nub looked more like a long narrow needle. Ducking away from the still-growing nose, Geppetto gave up and started painting the puppet's mouth. As soon as the mouth was finished, however, it began to laugh and make fun of its maker. "Stop it!" Geppetto said angrily. And how did the mouth respond? It stuck out one very long tongue. Geppetto decided he would ignore this bad behavior. After all, he had a great deal more work to do.

看到那双眼睛眨着，盯着他看。 “你在看什么？”杰佩托问，但没有人回答。 接着，格培多给木偶画上完美的小鼻子。 令他吃惊的是，湿漉漉的鼻子立刻长了起来。 杰佩托不停地修剪，但他跟不上。 很快，这个小疙瘩看起来更像一根又长又细的针了。 杰佩托从还在长鼻子的地方躲开，放弃了，开始画木偶的嘴。 然而，这张嘴一完成，就开始笑起来，嘲笑它的制造者。 “住手!”杰佩托生气地说。 嘴巴是如何反应的呢？ 它伸出一条很长的舌头。 杰佩托决定不去管这种坏行为。 毕竟，他还有很多工作要做。

As he was finishing the puppet's delicate fingertips, Geppetto felt a cool breeze on his bald head. Why, the puppet had used his brand-new hands to pull off his maker's wig! Pinocchio put the hair on his own head, which was so much smaller than Geppetto's head that half of the puppet was promptly hidden. Geppetto was getting slightly nervous. He wasn't even done making his wooden doll, and already the creature was misbehaving. Geppetto probably should have considered such risks before he'd started, but it was too late now. Retrieving his stolen wig and placing it back on his own head, Geppetto bent down to paint and polish Pinocchio's legs and feet. And wouldn't you know it? As soon as those feet were finished, one of them flew up and kicked Geppetto right in the nose.

杰佩托正在整理木偶精致的指尖时，感到一阵凉风吹在他光秃秃的头上。 为什么，木偶用他崭新的双手摘下了他的制造者的假发！皮诺乔把头发戴在自己的头上，他的头发比杰佩托的头小得多，木偶的一半很快就被遮住了。 杰佩托有点紧张了。 他的木娃娃还没做完，这个小家伙就开始调皮捣蛋了。 杰佩托也许在出发之前就应该考虑到这些风险，但现在已经太晚了。 杰佩托拿回偷来的假发，戴回自己的头上，弯下腰给皮诺乔的腿和脚涂上颜料。 你难道不知道吗？这些脚刚一做好，其中一只就飞起来，一脚踢在杰佩托的鼻子上。

"I must be patient," Geppetto told himself, "just as one is with a little baby." Taking the puppet under his arm, Geppetto put him on the floor and showed him how to walk. He learned just like a human child—bit by bit, one foot after the other. Unlike a human child, however, Pinocchio got the hang of that walking business in no time at all and quickly graduated to running around the room. In fact, he ran right out the open door and down the street. Geppetto tried to catch him, but it was no use. That puppet ran like the wind. Instead of stopping him, as Geppetto begged, the townspeople just stepped aside and stared and laughed. Pinocchio ran and ran. In fact, he ran right into the legs of a policeman, who did not take too kindly to runaway puppets. Grabbing Pinocchio by the nose, which made

“我必须有耐心，”杰佩托对自己说，“就像一个人对待一个小婴儿一样。” 杰佩托把木偶夹在腋下，把他放在地板上，教他怎么走路。 他像人类的孩子一样一点一点地学习，一步一步地学习。 然而，皮诺乔不像人类的孩子，他很快就学会了走路，很快就学会了在房间里跑来跑去。 事实上，他直接从敞开的门跑出去，跑到街上。 杰佩托想抓住他，但是没有用。 那个木偶跑得飞快。 杰佩托恳求着，镇上的人没有阻止他，而是站到一边，盯着他看，笑着。 皮诺乔跑啊跑。事实上，他正好撞到了一个警察的腿上，这个警察对逃跑的木偶可不太仁慈。 抓住皮诺奇的鼻子，这就

a perfect handle, he held him still until Geppetto reached the scene. Geppetto thanked the officer. To Pinocchio, he said, "Young man, you and I are going to settle this when we get home!" Pinocchio threw himself on the ground and refused to move. "Help!" he cried. "Don't let this mean man take me!" A concerned crowd gathered around. "Shame on you, Geppetto!" they cried. "Of course he doesn't want to go home, if you are

他把杰佩托拽住了，直到杰佩托来到现场。 杰佩托向警官道谢。 他对皮诺乔说：“年轻人，你和我回家后把这件事解决了！”皮诺乔扑倒在地，一动不动。 “救命！”他喊道。“别让这个卑鄙的人带走我！”一群关心的人围了过来。 “你真丢脸，杰佩托！” “如果你想回家，他当然不想回家了

only going to hit him!" "Who said anything about hitting?" Geppetto asked. But Pinocchio was quite an actor. "Yes," he cried. "My father beats me terribly!" The policeman, who took even less kindly to poor parents than to runaway puppets, now came and grabbed Geppetto. "Ungrateful boy!" Geppetto cried as he was dragged away to jail. "To think that I tried so hard to make the perfect puppet!" With his father in prison, Pinocchio was free to do as he liked. Running through fields like a wild and happy billy goat, he raced home, locked the door behind him, and threw himself on the couch. "This is the life!" he sighed. Just then, he heard someone saying, Cri-

我只想打他！”“谁说要打人了？”格培多问。 可是皮诺乔是个很好的演员。 “是的，”他叫道。“我爸爸把我打得很惨！”警察对可怜的父母比对逃跑的木偶更不友好，这时他来了，抓住了杰佩托。 “忘恩负义的男孩!”杰佩托被拖进监狱时哭了起来。 “想想看，我这么努力地做了一个完美的木偶！”父亲在监狱里，皮诺乔可以随心所欲了。 他像一只狂野快乐的公山羊一样跑过田野，跑回家，锁上门，扑倒在沙发上。 “这就是生活！”他叹息道。 就在这时，他听到有人叫了一声：“呼——