Chapter 3

CHAPTER THREE THE SNOOGLE 'If the Snoogle has your mother's ring, we shall have to find some way of getting it back,' said Binky. 'I wonder who or what he is. I've never heard of him before.' The chair flew on. Soon, in the distance, the three could see an enormous castle set on a hilltop. At the bottom, all round the foot was a great moat full of water. A drawbridge

“如果你妈妈的戒指被斯努格人拿走了，我们就得想办法把它拿回来。” “我想知道他是谁或者是什么。 我以前从来没听说过他。”椅子飞了起来。 很快，三个人就看到远处山顶上矗立着一座巨大的城堡。 在底部，围绕着脚的是一条充满水的巨大护城河。 一个吊桥

stretched across the moat- but, even as the children looked at it, it was drawn up into the gateway on the castle side of the moat. 'There's no way of getting in the Snoogle's castle except by flying, that's plain,' said Binky. 'Fly on to the roof, wishing-chair.'

横跨在护城河上——但是，就在孩子们看着它的时候，它已经被拉进了护城河城堡一侧的大门。 “很明显，要想进入斯努格尔人的城堡，除了飞，没有别的办法。” “飞到屋顶上去吧，许愿椅。”

The wishing-chair flew to the roof of the castle. It was turreted, and the chair flew over the turrets and down on to a flat part behind. Sitting on the roof, basking in the sunshine, was the Snoogle. The children stared at him in astonishment. He was the funniest-looking creature they had ever seen. He had the body of a dragon,

许愿椅飞到了城堡的屋顶上。 它有一个塔楼，椅子飞过塔楼，落在后面的一块平地上。 坐在屋顶上晒太阳的是斯努格狗。 孩子们惊讶地盯着他。 他是他们见过的长相最滑稽的动物。 他有龙的身体，

the tail of a cat always twirling and twisting, and the head of a yellow duck! He was sitting in a deck-chair fast asleep. The wishing-chair flew down beside his chair, and the children stared at the Snoogle. They did not get out of the chair because, really, they hardly liked the look of the Snoogle. But Binky jumped down and went to have a good stare at him.

猫的尾巴总是旋转和扭曲，和黄色的鸭子的头！他坐在甲板上的一把椅子上睡着了。 许愿椅在他的椅子旁边飞了下来，孩子们盯着斯努格狗。 他们没有从椅子上站起来，因为他们真的不喜欢史努格的样子。 但Binky跳了下来，去好好地盯着他看。

'Snore-r-r-r-r-r!' went the sleeping Snoogle. 'Snore-r-r-r-r-r!' 'Hie! Wake up, Snoogle!' shouted Binky, and he gave the Snoogle a poke in the chest. The Snoogle woke up in a fright and quacked loudly. 'Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack!' He leapt to his two pairs of dragon feet and glared at Binky.

“Snore-r-r-r-r-r !正在睡觉的史努格人说。 “Snore-r-r-r-r-r !“快走!醒醒吧，史努格！宾基喊道，他在史努格狗的胸口戳了一下。 斯努格狗吓醒了，大声呱呱叫着。 “呱，呱，呱，呱，呱！”他跳上他的两对龙脚，怒视着宾奇。

'I've come to fetch the ring that Big-Ears the goblin gave you,' said Binky boldly. 'Will you get it, please?' 'You'd better get it yourself,' said the Snoogle sulkily. 'Where is it, then?' asked Binky. 'Go down the stairs there, and walk down two hundred steps,' said Snoogle. 'You will come to a bolted door. Unbolt it and walk in. You will see my bedroom there. In a big box on the mantelpiece you will find the ring. It was given to me by Big-Ears, and I think you should give me something in return for it.' 'You shall have nothing!' cried Binky. 'You knew quite well that Big-Ears should not have taken that ring from our garden. I believe you were just keeping it for him till people had forgotten it and had given up hunting for it.

“我是来取大耳朵妖精给你的戒指的。” “请你去拿好吗？”“你最好自己去拿。”史努格狗不高兴地说。 “那么它在哪儿呢？”宾基问。 “从那儿下去，走下两百级台阶，”斯努格说。 “你会来到一扇上了闩的门前。 打开门闩，走进去。你会看到我的卧室。 在壁炉架上的一个大盒子里，你会找到戒指。 是大耳朵给我的，我觉得你应该给我点回报。“你什么也得不到！”宾基叫道。 “你很清楚，大耳朵不应该从我们的花园里拿走那枚戒指。 我相信你只是为他保存着直到人们忘记它，不再寻找它。