5 The Long Flight

CHAPTER 5 The Long Flight Second to the right, and then straight on until morning.

第五章长途飞行往右第二个路口，然后一直往前走，直到早晨。

Wendy remembered what Peter had said, but it seemed that even birds carrying street maps and consulting them at windy corners couldn't have found Neverland with those directions! And so Michael and Wendy and John had no choice but to follow Peter, and to trust him completely. He led them around in circles, flying past church spires and clock towers and any other tall object that struck his fancy. John and Michael didn't mind. They were having too much fun flying over the ocean, racing each other between waves. Wendy, however, was worried. It seemed to her that they had been flying for days now. Was the island called Neverland because they would never land? It certainly seemed a possibility! She was relieved, at least, that Peter was feeding them, although his way of doing so was rather strange. He would chase birds that had food in their mouths and steal it. The birds would then steal it back. And so it went like this for a

温迪记得彼得说过的话，但似乎就连拿着街道地图的鸟儿，在有风的角落里查阅地图，也找不到这样的方向！因此，迈克尔、温迪和约翰别无选择，只能跟着彼得，完全信任他。 他领着他们绕着圈子，飞过教堂的尖顶、钟楼和任何他喜欢的高大物体。 约翰和迈克尔并不介意。 他们在海洋上飞行，在海浪之间互相赛跑，玩得太开心了。 然而，温迪很担心。 她觉得他们已经飞了好几天了。 这个岛被称为梦幻岛是因为他们永远不会登陆吗？ 这似乎当然是有可能的！彼得在喂他们，她至少松了口气，尽管他喂的方式有点奇怪。 他会追逐那些嘴里有食物的鸟，并把它们偷走。 然后鸟儿会把它偷回来。 对于a是这样的

while, until someone managed to gobble the food down. Worst of all, the children were getting incredibly sleepy. Occasionally, one of them would fall asleep while flying and drop like a heavy stone toward the cruel sea below. It always turned out all right. Either the other children would shout, "Wake up!" or Peter would swoop down at the last minute to save the falling child, but they each came awfully close to the water a few times. One of these days, Wendy thought, Peter might let them fall just for the fun of it, because it would be an interesting sight to see. "Don't make him mad," Wendy whispered to John. "What would we do if he left us?" "We would go back," John said. "We don't know the way." "Well, then, we would go on," said John. "We don't know that way, either. In fact, we don't even know how to stop flying."

直到有人把食物狼吞虎咽下去。 最糟糕的是，孩子们变得非常困。 偶尔，他们中的一个会在飞行中睡着，像一块沉重的石头一样落到下面残酷的大海里。 结果总是很好。 别的孩子要么大叫：“醒醒！”要么彼得在最后一刻扑下去救掉下去的孩子，但他们每个人都有几次离水很近。 总有一天，温迪想，彼得也许会为了好玩而让它们掉下去，因为那将是一幅有趣的景象。 “别惹他生气。”温迪小声对约翰说。 “如果他离开我们，我们该怎么办？”“我们会回去的，”约翰说。 “我们不认识路。”“好吧，那么，我们继续，”约翰说。 “我们也不知道。 事实上，我们甚至不知道如何停止飞行。”

John thought about this. Wendy was right. Peter had never shown them how to stop. "Well," he said, "worse comes to worst, we could always just keep going. The world is round, after all. Eventually, we would get back to our bedroom window, don't you think?" Peter was nowhere to be found. It wasn't uncommon for him to leave them occasionally. Easily bored and distracted, he would fly up high to talk to the stars, or down low to talk with a mermaid. He always came back, but sometimes he seemed barely to remember them, as if he had already moved on to his next adventure. "I'm Wendy," Wendy had reminded him once when he had flown back and looked at her blankly. "I know that," Peter had said, but she could tell he was lying. Eventually, the children learned how to fall asleep without falling. Peter, however, found this boring, so he would cry out and wake them up

约翰想了想。温迪是对的。 彼得从来没有教过他们如何停下来。 “好吧，”他说，“最坏的情况下，我们总是可以继续走下去。 毕竟地球是圆的。 最终，我们会回到卧室的窗口，你不觉得吗？”彼得无处可寻。 他偶尔离开他们是很平常的事。 他很容易感到无聊和心烦意乱，就会飞到高处与星星交谈，或者飞到低处与美人鱼交谈。 他总是回来，但有时他似乎几乎不记得他们，好像他已经开始了他的下一个冒险。 “我是温迪。”有一次他飞回来，茫然地看着温迪，温迪提醒他。 “我知道。”彼得说，但她看得出他在撒谎。 最终，孩子们学会了如何在不摔倒的情况下入睡。 然而彼得觉得这很无聊，所以他会大声喊叫，把他们吵醒

anyway—just to see them jump. At last they reached Neverland—less due to Peter's guidance, it seemed to Wendy, than through sheer luck, or perhaps because the island had been looking for them. "There it is," Peter said. He gestured in the direction the sun was shining, like a hundred golden arrows pointing to the island. "Look, there's the coral reef and the tiny hut and the cave!" cried John. "And my lagoon with the flying flamingos!" "And there's the hunchbacked little old lady and the turtles laying their eggs and the sewing gnomes!" Michael added. "And my flamingo with the flying lagoons!" "Hello, Wolfie," Wendy called down to her pet wolf. "Hello, boat!" The children also saw and recognized the scary first days at school, trying not to laugh at church, the pop quizzes they hadn't studied for,

不管怎样——只是为了看他们跳。 最后，他们到达了永无乡，在温迪看来，与其说是彼得的指引，不如说是纯粹的运气，或者是因为这座岛一直在寻找他们。 “在那儿。”彼得说。 他指着太阳照耀的方向，就像一百支金箭指向小岛。 “看，那里有珊瑚礁、小木屋和山洞！”约翰叫道。 “还有我那有火烈鸟的泻湖！”“还有驼背的小老太太、下蛋的乌龟和缝纫的地精！”迈克尔说。 “还有我的火烈鸟和飞翔的泻湖！”“你好，小狼。”温迪朝她的宠物狼喊道。 “你好,船!”孩子们也看到并认出了开学第一天的可怕经历，在教堂里忍住不笑，没有准备的突击测验，

the tooth fairy money, and the delicious chocolate pudding. It was all so familiar! Peter was a little annoyed with the children for knowing so much about the island. He wanted to be the one who knew everything. Shortly, however, the sun went down and the children got scared. Then Peter felt better because they needed him again. Down below, black shadows grew and strange noises could be heard. Out in the open sky, there were no night -lights or Nanas to keep a child safe. The children were on their own. Huddling close to Peter, they flew so low now that their toes occasionally brushed the ocean. Something strange hung in the air. All of them could sense it. "They don't want us to land," Peter said. "Who are they?" Wendy whispered, shuddering. Peter wouldn't say. Instead he said, "This island is full of pirates, and their captain, Hook,

牙仙的钱，还有美味的巧克力布丁。 这一切都是那么熟悉！彼得有点生孩子们的气，因为他们对这个岛知道得太多了。 他想成为那个无所不知的人。 然而不久，太阳下山了，孩子们开始害怕起来。 彼得感觉好多了，因为他们又需要他了。 下面，黑影越来越大，可以听到奇怪的声音。 在开阔的天空中，没有夜灯，也没有保姆来保护孩子的安全。 孩子们只能靠自己了。 他们紧靠着彼得，飞得很低，脚趾偶尔会碰到海面。 空气中有一种奇怪的东西。 他们都能感觉到。 “他们不想让我们着陆。”彼得说。 “他们是谁？”温迪小声说，浑身发抖。 彼得不肯说。相反，他说：“这个岛上到处都是海盗，还有他们的船长胡克，