Chapter 5

CHAPTER FIVE AN ADVENTUROUS NIGHT 'There must be somebody invisible on the chair with us!' said Binky. 'Quick- feel about on the seat and on the arms and back. Feel everywhere- and catch hold of whoever it is.' Well, they all felt here and there, but not one of them could feel anybody. They heard a little giggle, but it was quite impossible to find whoever was giggling. 'Surely the chair itself can't have grown a voice- and a giggle, said Peter at last. 'Of course not. It wouldn't be so silly,' said Binky. 'Gracious- here we are at the rainbow already!' So they were. They landed right on the top

“椅子上一定有一个看不见的人跟我们在一起！”宾基说。 “快——摸摸座位、扶手和靠背。 感受每一个地方——抓住它是谁。”嗯，他们都感觉到这里和那里，但没有一个人能感觉到任何人。 他们听到一阵咯咯的笑声，但根本找不到是谁在咯咯地笑。 “当然，椅子本身不可能发出声音——也不可能发出咯咯的笑声。”彼得最后说。 “当然不是。“不会这么傻的。”宾基说。 “天哪——我们已经到了彩虹跟前了！”确实如此。 他们正好落在山顶上

of the shimmering bow. 'It's like a coloured, curving bridge,' said Mollie, putting her foot down to it. 'Oh, Peter- we can walk on it. I never, never thought of that.'

闪闪发光的船头。“它就像一座彩色的、弯曲的桥，”莫丽说着，把脚踩在桥上。 “哦，彼得——我们可以在上面走。 我从来没有，从来没有想过这个。”

She jumped down to the rainbow- and immediately she gave a scream. 'Oh, it's slippery! I'm sliding down! Oh, Peter, help me!' Sure enough, poor Mollie had sat down with a bump, and was slithering down the curving rainbow at top speed.

她跳到彩虹上，立刻尖叫起来。 “哦，太滑了！”我要滑下去了！哦，彼得，帮帮我！”果然，可怜的莫丽砰的一声坐了下来，正以最快的速度沿着弯曲的彩虹滑下去。

'Follow her, chair, follow her!' yelled Peter. 'No, don't!' shouted the strange voice, and the chair stopped at once. That made Peter angry. He began to yell at the top of his voice. 'You do as I tell you, chair. Follow Mollie, follow Mollie, follow Mollie, follow...' And because his voice was loud and he shouted without stopping, the chair couldn't hear the other little voice that called to it to stop. It slid down the rainbow headlong after Mollie, who was now nearly at the bottom. Binky held on tightly, looking scared. Would the chair be able to stop at the bottom of the rainbow?

“跟着她，椅子，跟着她！”彼得喊道。 “不,不要!那个奇怪的声音喊道，椅子立刻停了下来。 这让彼得很生气。他开始扯着嗓子大喊大叫。 “你照我说的做，主席。 跟着莫丽，跟着莫丽，跟着莫丽，跟着……”因为他的声音很大，他不停地喊，椅子听不到另一个叫它停下来的小声音。 它跟在莫丽后面顺着彩虹滑了下去，莫丽现在几乎到了底部。 Binky紧紧地抓着，看起来很害怕。 椅子能停在彩虹的底部吗？

It wouldn't have been able to stop, that was certain- but before it reached the bottom it spread its red wings and flew right off the rainbow, hovering in the air before it flew down to Mollie.

它不可能停下来，这是肯定的——但在它到达底部之前，它展开了红色的翅膀，飞离了彩虹，在空中盘旋，然后飞向莫丽。

'That was clever of it,' said Peter, with a sigh of relief. 'Mollie, are you all right?' 'I fell on a tuffet of grass, or I'd have had a dreadful bump,' said Mollie. 'Let me get on to the chair again. I don't want it to fly off without me. Oh- what's this?' She pointed to something half-buried in the grass. It had a handle at one side, and she gave it a tug. Something bright and shining flew out of it. 'Mollie! It's the crock of gold!' shouted Peter. 'The one that is hidden where the rainbow-end touches. We've found it! All because you slid all the way down and landed by it with a bump. Let's pull it up.' He and Binky jumped off the chair to go to Mollie. All three took hold of the handle of the crock and tugged. It came up out of

“这主意真聪明。”彼得说，松了一口气。 “莫丽，你没事吧？”“我摔倒在一簇草上，不然我就会撞个稀巴烂了，”莫丽说。 “让我再坐到椅子上。 我不想让它丢下我飞走。 哦——这是什么？”她指着半埋在草丛里的什么东西。 它的一侧有一个把手，她拉了拉。 一个明亮闪亮的东西飞了出来。 “莫莉!是那罐金子！彼得喊道。 “藏在彩虹尽头的地方。 我们找到了！都是因为你一路滑下来，撞在了它旁边。 我们把它拉上来吧。”他和Binky从椅子上跳下来走向Mollie。 三个人都抓住瓦罐的把手使劲拉。 它从