5 The Spell is Broken

5. THE SPELL IS BROKEN Jim Lad sat bolt upright. Bones jumped up and licked his face, his tail wagging furiously. Jim turned around, pulled Matilda up off the sand, and hugged her so hard she thought she'd burst. "MATILDA!" said Jim. "I knew ye'd come!" "What happened?" asked Matilda. "Why did none of you move?" "I couldn't," said Jim. "My folks had gone in there and didn't return. So I

5. 咒语被打破了吉姆·拉德笔直地坐着。 骨头跳起来舔了舔他的脸，尾巴狂怒地摇着。 吉姆转过身，把玛蒂尔达从沙滩上拉起来，紧紧地拥抱着她，她觉得自己快要撑破了。 “玛蒂尔达！”吉姆说。“我就知道你会来！”“发生了什么事？”玛蒂尔达问。 “你们为什么都不动？”“我不能，”吉姆说。 “我的父母去了那里，没有回来。 所以我

followed 'em. Everythin' went hazy, and I couldn't stop me'self! Just kept on walkin' against me wishes. Then, when I saw that treasure, I froze. Stuck still. Couldn't move a muscle. There's a curse, f'sure... "Yer a good dog, Bones!" Jim ruffled Bones's head. "If we was all bewitched by that gold, how come you were all right? And Bones too?" "I don't know," said Matilda. "Maybe it's because you're a pirate and I'm not. And Bones is a dog. Or something."

我跟着他们。一切都变得模糊了，我无法阻止自己！一直违背我的意愿。 然后，当我看到宝藏时，我惊呆了。 卡住了。一动也不能动。 有一个诅咒，我敢肯定…… “你是条好狗，骨头！”吉姆揉了揉骨头的头。 “如果我们都被那块金子迷住了，你怎么会没事呢？” 还有骨头？”“我不知道，”玛蒂尔达说。 “也许是因为你是海盗，而我不是。 骨头是一只狗。什么的。”

Jim looked back at the cave and stood up. "We gots to go back for my folks!" "But you can't go back, Jim," said Matilda. "Wouldn't you fall under the spell again? I'd never be able to move them on my own. Bones and I could barely drag you. I'm sure your dad wouldn't mind me saying that he looks a lot heavier than you." "Then I'll head to the Blackhole and get some ropes," said Jim, pointing toward the Jolley-

吉姆回头看了看山洞，站了起来。 “我们得回去找我的家人！”“可是你回不去了，吉姆，”玛蒂尔达说。 “你不会再被魔咒迷住吗？” 我一个人永远搬不动它们。 骨头和我都拖不动你。 我相信你爸爸不会介意我说他看起来比你重得多。” “那我就去黑洞那儿弄些绳子来。”吉姆指着乔利琴说

Rogers' ship, shrouded in sea spray out in the bay. "With a block and tackle, we could yank 'em all out at once. You could go in and lash 'em up, then we could pull 'em out together from the beach!"

罗杰斯的船，被浪花笼罩在海湾里。 “只要一个拦网和铲球，我们就能一下子把他们都拉出来。 你可以进去把他们绑起来，然后我们一起把他们从海滩上拉上来！”

"I suppose that might work," said Matilda. "Or we could go up to that house and ask if we could use their phone...." Matilda pointed to an old ramshackle house that she hadn't noticed before. It was perched precariously on the cliff, directly above the cave. But Jim had already gone, running across the beach. Matilda watched him pick up a surfboard and paddle, and then he was off over the waves, standing on his board, paddling toward the Blackhole. Matilda shrugged and looked at Bones. "Maybe we should go and rescue Nugget...." Feeling a little more brave, Matilda walked back into the cave, Bones close

“我想这也许行得通，”玛蒂尔达说。 “或者我们可以去那所房子，问我们是否可以用他们的电话....” 玛蒂尔达指着一幢她以前没有注意到的摇摇欲坠的老房子。 它摇摇晃晃地矗立在山洞正上方的悬崖上。 但吉姆已经走了，跑过海滩。 玛蒂尔达看着他拿起冲浪板，划桨，然后他越过海浪，站在冲浪板上，向黑洞划去。 玛蒂尔达耸耸肩，看着骨头。 “也许我们应该去救金块....” 玛蒂尔达觉得自己更有勇气了，她走回山洞，骨头靠近了她

behind her. The rest of Jim's family were just as they'd left them. "Same again?" Matilda said to Bones. But as she went to put her arms around Nugget, she heard footsteps. Matilda squinted through the flickering light, beyond the treasure, and saw stone steps leading up into the darkness. She could just make out three pairs of feet hopping from one step to another. Matilda looked back toward the entrance of the cave, but there was no time to get out. She would surely be spotted. Bones jumped behind a rock, and Matilda followed him. Crouching in the darkness, they heard voices getting closer.

在她的身后。吉姆的其他家人和他们离开时一样。 “一样?”玛蒂尔达对骨头说。 但当她伸手去搂住纳格特时，她听到了脚步声。 玛蒂尔达眯着眼睛透过闪烁的灯光，看到了宝藏后面的石阶通向黑暗。 她只能辨认出从一个台阶跳到另一个台阶的三对脚。 玛蒂尔达回头看了看洞口，但没有时间出去。 她肯定会被发现的。 骨头跳到一块石头后面，玛蒂尔达跟着他。 他们蜷缩在黑暗中，听到声音越来越近。