Chapter 2

CHAPTER TWO HIGH UP IN THE AIR 'Where shall we go?' said Binky. 'Well- we never did get to the Land of Goodness Knows Where after all,' said Mollie. 'Shall we try to get there again? We know it's a good way away, so it should be a nice long flight, very cool and windy high up in the air.' 'We may as well,' said Binky. 'Fly to the Land of Goodness Knows Where, chair. We saw it on the map- it's due east from here, straight towards where the sun rises- you go over the Tiptop Mountains, past the Crazy Valley and then down by the Zigzag Coast: 'It sounds exciting,' said Mollie. 'Oh, isn't it lovely to be cool again? It's so very hot today.'

第二章在空中我们要去哪里？宾基说。 “好吧——我们终究没能到达那个不知从何而来的国度。”莫丽说。 “我们再去一次好吗？” 我们知道这是一个很好的距离，所以这应该是一个愉快的长途飞行，非常凉爽和风高的空中。“我们也可以，”宾基说。 “椅子，飞到上帝知道的地方去吧。” 我们在地图上看到了它——从这里往东，正对着太阳升起的地方——你越过蒂普托普山脉，经过疯狂谷，然后沿着之字形海岸向下走。“听起来很刺激，”莫丽说。 “哦，又变酷了，这不是很好吗？” 今天太热了。”

They were now high up in the air, and a lovely breeze blew past them as they flew. Little clouds, like puffs of cotton wool, floated below them. Mollie leaned out to get hold of one as they passed.

他们现在已经飞到很高的空中了，在他们飞翔的时候，一阵可爱的微风从他们身边吹过。 像一团团棉絮一样的小云在他们下面飘浮。 他们经过的时候，莫丽探出身子去拿了一把。

'This is fun,' she said. 'Binky, is there a land of ice-creams? If so, I'd like to go there sometime!' 'I don't know. I've never heard of one,' said Binky. 'There's a Land of Goodies though, I know that. It once came to the top of the Faraway Tree, and I went there. It was lovely -biscuits growing on trees, and chocolates sprouting on bushes.' 'Oh- did you see Moon-Face and Silky and the old Saucepan Man?' asked Mollie, in excitement. 'I've read the books about the Faraway Tree, and I've always wished I could climb it.' 'Yes, I saw them all,' said Binky. 'Silky is sweet, you'd love her. But Moon-Face was cross because somebody had taken all his slippery-slip cushions- you know, the cushions

“这很有趣，”她说。“宾基，世界上有冰淇淋吗？” 如果是这样的话，我想有时间去那里！”“我不知道。 “我从来没听说过。”宾基说。 “不过，我知道有个好心人的国度。 有一次它来到了远方树的顶端，我就去了那里。 一切都很美好——树上长出了饼干，灌木上长出了巧克力。“哦——你看见月脸、丝绸和老炖锅人了吗？”莫丽兴奋地问。 “我读过关于那棵遥远之树的书，我一直希望能爬上它。“是的，我都看见了，”宾基说。 “丝莉很可爱，你会喜欢她的。 但是月亮脸很生气，因为有人拿走了他所有的防滑靠垫——你知道，就是那些靠垫

he keeps in his room at the top of the tree for people to sit on when they slide down from the top to the bottom.'

他在树顶的房间里放了一张椅子，供人们从树顶滑到树底时坐在上面。”

'I wouldn't mind going to the Land of Goodies at all,' said Peter. 'It sounds really fine. I almost wish we'd told the chair to go there instead of the Land of Goodness Knows Where.' 'Well, don't change its mind for it,' said Binky. 'It doesn't like that. Look, there are the Tip-Top Mountains.' They all leaned out to look. They were very extraordinary mountains, running up into high, jagged peaks as if somebody had drawn them higgledy-piggledy with a pencil, up and down, up and down.

“我一点也不介意去天堂。”彼得说。 “听起来真的不错。我几乎希望我们告诉椅子去那里，而不是去“上帝知道哪里的土地”。“好吧，别让它改变主意，”宾基说。 “它不喜欢那样。看，那是尖顶山。”他们都探出身子去看。 它们是非常奇特的山脉，高耸入云，参差不齐，就好像有人用铅笔把它们画得乱七八糟，上上下下，上上下下。