14 Spells and Potions!

14. SPELLS AND POTIONS! Matilda rushed down the steps. Her eyes adjusted to the dark as she went, until she reached the glowing lanterns in the cave below. The Jolley-Rogers were exactly as she'd left them the day before, staring blankly at the gold. Matilda carefully placed the glass bottle containing the

14. 咒语和魔药！玛蒂尔达冲下台阶。 她的眼睛慢慢适应了黑暗，一直走到下面山洞里发光的灯笼前。 乔利-罗杰斯一家和她前一天离开时一模一样，茫然地盯着金子。 玛蒂尔达小心翼翼地把玻璃瓶放好

Blackhole on the sand. She sat on a rock and opened the spell book. There was no contents page or index, so Matilda started leafing through, looking for anything to do with bewitching treasure. Bones came over and dropped the wand at Matilda's feet, wagging his tail. Jim was still on Bones's back, clinging to his collar, with his eyes firmly closed and his fingers pinching his nose. "Just in case I fall under the curse again," said Jim. "Ye found anythin', Tilly?" "Not... yet...." said Matilda, flicking the pages with more urgency. "Aaah! Yes! Here's one for treasure.... She picked up the wand from the floor

沙滩上的黑洞。她坐在一块石头上，打开了咒语书。 没有目录页或索引，所以玛蒂尔达开始翻阅，寻找任何与魔法宝藏有关的东西。 骨头走过来，摇着尾巴，把魔杖扔在玛蒂尔达的脚边。 吉姆仍然坐在骨头的背上，紧抓着他的衣领，眼睛紧紧地闭着，手指捏着鼻子。 “万一我又被诅咒了，”吉姆说。 “你找到什么了吗，蒂莉？”“不… 可是....”玛蒂尔达说，更急迫地翻着书页。 “啊!是的!这里有一个宝藏.... 她从地板上捡起魔杖

and, supporting the spell book on her other arm, pointed it at the treasure. "Hocus pocus, gold doubloons, emeralds and silver spoons, Rubies, sapphires, diamond rings, A treasure trove of shiny things! Add some drops of parrots blood, Curse this treasure, curse it good!" Nothing happened, but then Matilda didn't have any parrot blood and Squawk was probably a bit small, at the moment, to ask him for any. It didn't sound right anyway. She needed to uncurse the treasure, not double curse it.

她用另一只胳膊托着咒语书，指着宝藏。 “魔法，金币，绿宝石，银勺子，红宝石，蓝宝石，钻戒，一堆闪闪发光的东西！”加几滴鹦鹉血，诅咒这个宝藏，好好诅咒它！”什么也没发生，但是玛蒂尔达身上没有鹦鹉血，而Squawk现在可能太小了，无法向他要血。 反正听起来也不对。 她需要解开宝藏的诅咒，而不是双重诅咒。

"Maybe I need to find spells that don't list ingredients," she mumbled. "Hmm, this one sounds better.... Scurvy pirates, brave and bold, Still beneath the treasure's hold. Be still no more! Give flight to thee! Do my bidding and be free!" Jim's mom and dad and Nugget all started rising into the air. They still stared blankly at the treasure, but they floated up and up until their heads bumped against the cave roof. They just hung there, arms and legs dangling. "Hmm, that wasn't supposed to happen," said Matilda.

“也许我需要找到不列出成分的咒语。”她喃喃地说。 “嗯，这个听起来更好.... 坏坏的海盗，勇敢无畏，仍在宝藏之下。 不要再安静了！让你飞吧！照我的话去做，你就自由了！”吉姆的爸爸妈妈和努格特都开始飞到空中。 他们仍然茫然地盯着宝藏，但他们飘得越来越高，直到他们的头撞到了洞顶上。 他们只是挂在那里，胳膊和腿晃来晃去。 “嗯，这是不应该发生的。”玛蒂尔达说。

"I don't think that's the one!" Jim Lad cried, clinging onto Bones's collar, still squeezing his eyes tight shut as his body kept trying to float up to join the others. "Ooops!" said Matilda. "I'll try another one!" Matilda looked at the next spell in the book and noticed some scribbles at the bottom of the page. The handwriting was terrible, but she could just about read it: If pirates are to be unbound, the spell must then be rewound, one word and then

“我不认为是那个！”吉姆·拉德哭着，紧紧抓住骨头的衣领，仍然紧紧地闭着眼睛，因为他的身体一直试图浮起来，加入其他人的行列。 “哎哟！”玛蒂尔达说。“我再试试！”玛蒂尔达看了看书上的下一个咒语，注意到那一页底部有一些潦草的字迹。 字迹写得很糟糕，但她勉强能读出来：如果要解除海盗的束缚，就必须解除咒语，一个字一个字地解除

another read, but in reverse it should be said. Matilda raised Dabberlocks's wand again and read the spell backward. "Will their against here them keep, Still them hold, them tempt, them call, Hypnotize will hoard treasure this, Eyes yer curse, rubies and diamonds!"

另一种解读，但应该反过来说。 玛蒂尔达再次举起达博洛克斯的魔杖，倒着念咒语。 “他们会在这里坚守吗？他们会坚守吗？他们会诱惑吗？他们会召唤吗？他们会催眠吗？他们会囤积宝藏，眼睛会诅咒，红宝石和钻石！”