4 Pinocchio Meets Fox and Cat

CHAPTER 4 Pinocchio Meets Fox and Cat The next morning, the director sent Pinocchio off with well wishes and five pieces of gold. He had given Pinocchio the gold after the puppet had described how poor Geppetto had sold his only coat. "Good-bye, fellow puppets," Pinocchio cried, and set off for home. A few steps down the road, he met a lame fox and a blind cat walking arm in arm. "Good morning, Pinocchio," Fox said. "How do you know my name?" the puppet asked.

第四章皮诺乔遇见狐狸和猫第二天早上，导演送了皮诺乔去，给了他五块金币。 木偶讲了可怜的杰佩托是如何卖掉他唯一的一件外套之后，他就把金币给了皮诺乔。 “再见了，木偶朋友们。”皮诺乔喊道，然后动身回家了。 沿着这条路走了几步，他遇到一只跛狐狸和一只瞎猫手挽着手走着。 “早上好，皮诺乔，”小狐说。 “你怎么知道我的名字？”木偶问。

"We know your father as well. We saw him just yesterday, shivering in his shirt sleeves." "Oh, poor Father!" Pinocchio cried. "Well, after today, he will shiver no longer. I have become a rich man." Thinking Pinocchio a poor, silly puppet, Cat and Fox just laughed. "Stop laughing at me!" Pinocchio said angrily. "I can prove it!" And with that, he took the gold pieces out of his pocket and revealed them. At the sight of the gold, two interesting things happened. First, the supposedly lame fox reached out his paw. Then the supposedly blind cat opened his eyes wide with excitement and greed. The paw and the eyes returned so quickly to their original conditions, however, that Pinocchio did not notice.

“我们也认识你父亲。 我们昨天还看见他穿着衬衫瑟瑟发抖呢。” “噢，可怜的爸爸！”匹诺曹哭了。 “好吧，过了今天，他就不会再发抖了。 我成了一个富翁。” 猫和狐狸认为皮诺奇是一个可怜的、愚蠢的木偶，只是笑了。 “别笑我了！”皮诺乔生气地说。 “我可以证明！”说着，他从口袋里掏出金币，露出来。 看到金子后，发生了两件有趣的事情。 首先，被认为是跛脚的狐狸伸出了爪子。 然后，这只被认为是瞎了眼的猫兴奋而贪婪地睁大了眼睛。 然而，爪子和眼睛很快就恢复了原状，皮诺乔没有注意到。

"So, what do you plan to do with your money?" Fox asked casually. "I am going to buy a new coat for my father, and a new workbook for myself," Pinocchio said. "Then I can study!" "Are you sure you want to do that?" Fox asked grimly. "Studying made me lame." "Studying made me blind," Cat added. A blackbird perched on a fence nearby started to say something that sounded like a warning, but in the blink of a not-so-blind eye, the cat leaped up and ate him, feathers and feet and all. "Why did you do that?" Pinocchio asked, alarmed. "That bird talked too much," Cat said. Not unlike a certain cricket, Pinocchio thought. "And how did you do that, if you are blind?" Pinocchio asked. "Oh, just lucky," Cat replied.

“那么，你打算怎么花你的钱呢？”小狐漫不经心地问。 “我要给爸爸买件新外套，给我自己买本新练习本，”皮诺乔说。 “这样我就可以学习了！”“你确定要这么做吗？”小狐严肃地问。 “学习让我变瘸了。”“学习让我失明了，”凯特补充道。 一只栖息在附近篱笆上的画眉鸟开始说些听起来像是警告的话，但一眨眼功夫，那只猫就跳起来把它连羽毛和脚都吃了。 “你为什么要那样做？”皮诺乔惊恐地问。 “那只鸟话太多了，”猫说。 不像一只蟋蟀，皮诺乔想。 “如果你是瞎子，你是怎么做到的？”匹诺曹问。 “哦，只是运气好，”猫回答。

"You can be lucky, too," Fox told the puppet. "You can turn your five gold pieces into two thousand." "How?" Pinocchio breathed. "Come with us to the City of Simpletons," Fox replied. Pinocchio's face fell. "I can't," he said. "Father has been waiting for me. Cricket was right. Children who do not listen cannot be happy in this world." "Nonsense," Fox said. Pinocchio hesitated. He had to ask. "How can five gold pieces possibly become two thousand?" And so Cat and Fox explained that just outside the City of Simpletons, there was a magical field called the Field of Wonders. If you went there at dawn, dug a hole and buried a gold piece, and then watered it well and sprinkled it with a pinch of salt, the gold

“你也可以很幸运，”小狐对木偶说。 “你可以把你的五个金币换成两千个。” “如何?”匹诺曹呼吸。 “跟我们一起去傻蛋城吧，”小狐回答。 皮诺乔的脸沉了下来。“我不能，”他说。 “爸爸一直在等我。 蟋蟀是对的。不听话的孩子在这个世界上是不会快乐的。” “胡说，”小狐说。匹诺曹犹豫了。 他不得不问。“五个金币怎么可能变成两千个呢？”于是猫和小狐解释说，就在傻瓜城的外面，有一块神奇的土地，叫做奇迹之地。 如果你在黎明时分去那里，挖一个洞，埋一枚金币，然后好好浇水，撒上一撮盐，那就是黄金

piece would grow into a beautiful tree whose leaves and flowers were glittering gold pieces. Pinocchio was filled with hope. Forgetting his father, the new coat, the workbook, and all his good resolutions, he told his new friends, "Let's go!" Cat and Fox and puppet walked a long time, but the Field of Wonders was far away and night was setting in. When they came to an inn called the Inn of the Red Shrimp, Fox suggested they stop to eat and rest. "At midnight we'll start out again, for at dawn tomorrow we must be at the field." Cat felt very weak and was able to eat only thirty-five sardines with tomato sauce, and four helpings of spaghetti with butter and cheese. Fox was fat, and his doctor had put him on a diet, so he had to be satisfied with a sweet

碎片会长成一棵美丽的树，它的叶子和花朵都是闪闪发光的金币。 皮诺乔充满了希望。 他忘记了他的父亲、新外套、练习本和他所有的好决心，他对他的新朋友们说：“我们走吧！”猫、狐狸和木偶走了很长时间，但奇迹之地很远，夜幕降临了。 当他们来到一家叫“红虾客栈”的旅馆时，小狐建议他们停下来吃点东西休息一下。 “半夜我们再出发，因为明天黎明我们必须到地里去。” 猫感到非常虚弱，只吃了35条番茄酱沙丁鱼和4份黄油奶酪意大利面。 小狐很胖，他的医生让他节食，所以他只能吃甜食来满足自己

and-sour rabbit and a dozen young and tender spring chickens. And a few partridges. And some pheasants. And a dozen frogs and lizards. But that was all. When supper was over, Fox asked the innkeeper for two rooms so that the group could take a nap. "And give us a wakeup call at midnight," Fox said. "Yes, sir!" the innkeeper said. Once in his room, Pinocchio immediately fell into a deep sleep, full of fantastic dreams of magical, gold-filled fields. Just as Pinocchio was about to reach out to grab the gold in his dream, he was awaked by three loud knocks at the door. It was the innkeeper. "Cat and Fox left two hours ago," he said, "Cat was called home on an emergency. "They said you agreed to pay for supper,"

酸酸兔肉和一打嫩嫩的春鸡。 还有几只鹧鸪。还有一些野鸡。 还有一打青蛙和蜥蜴。 但仅此而已。晚饭结束后，小狐向旅店老板要了两个房间，好让大家睡个午觉。 “半夜叫我们起床，”小狐说。 “是的，先生！”店主说。 皮诺乔一回到房间，马上就进入了梦乡，做了很多奇异的梦，梦见满是金子的神奇田地。 皮诺乔刚要伸手去拿金子，就被三声响亮的敲门声吵醒了。 是旅店老板打来的。“猫和小狐两个小时前就走了，”他说，“猫有紧急情况被叫回家。 “他们说你同意付晚饭的钱。”