Chapter 6

CHAPTER SIX PIXIES AND SNOWFLAKES So, before very long, the town-crier was ringing his bell and crying loudly, 'Oyez! Oyez! A reward is offered to anyone having news of a pixie who fell from the sky! Oyez!' Mollie and Peter stood on a platform so that people might know to whom to go if they had news. To their delight there came quite a crowd of people to them. 'We've news, we've news!' they cried, struggling to get to Peter first. 'Well, where did you see the pixie fall?' asked Peter of the first little man. 'Sir, I saw a big snowflake fall in the Buttercup Field,' said he.

第六章小仙子和雪花所以，没过多久，城里的报信人摇着铃铛，大声喊着：“哎哟！肃静!任何知道从天而降精灵消息的人都有赏金！肃静!”莫丽和彼得站在一个平台上，这样人们就可以知道如果他们有消息该找谁。 使他们高兴的是，来了一大群人。 “有消息了，有消息了！”他们叫道，拼命想先到彼得跟前。 “那么，你是在哪里看到小妖精掉下来的？”彼得问第一个小个子男人。 “先生，我看见一片大雪花落在毛茛地里，”他说。

'Don't be foolish,' said Peter. 'I said a pixie, not a snowflake. Don't you know the difference between pixies and snowflakes? We all know that snowflakes fall from the sky. That is not news. Next, please!' But the next person said the same thing -and the next- and the next! It was most annoying and very disappointing. 'We want our reward!' suddenly shouted someone. 'We have given you news, but you have given us no reward.' 'You haven't given us the right news!' shouted back Peter angrily. 'That doesn't matter!' shouted the little folk, looking angry. They looked rather funny too, because for some reason or other they all carried their bundles and baskets balanced on their heads. 'Give us our reward!'

“别傻了，”彼得说。 “我说的是精灵，不是雪花。 你不知道仙子和雪花的区别吗？ 我们都知道雪花从天而降。 这不是新闻。接下来,请!”但是下一个人说了同样的话——下一个——下一个！这是最烦人和非常令人失望的。 “我们要赏金！”突然有人喊道。 “我们给了你消息，你却没有给我们报偿。“你没有给我们正确的消息！”彼得生气地喊道。 “没关系！”小家伙们生气地喊道。 他们看起来也很滑稽，因为不知什么原因，他们都把包袱和篮子平衡地顶在头上。 “给我们奖赏！”

They swarmed towards the platform on which the two children were standing, and Mollie and Peter suddenly felt frightened. 'I don't like this, Mollie,' said Peter. 'Let's go! These stupid creatures think that pixies and snowflakes are exactly the same- and we certainly can't give them all a reward. Climb into the chair!' Mollie jumped into the chair, which was just near them on the platform. Peter sat on the arm and cried out loudly, 'Home, chair, quickly!' The chair flapped its wings and rose up -but it didn't rise very high, only just above the heads of the angry people. Its legs began to jerk in and out, and to Peter's enormous astonishment, the chair kicked off bundles, pots, and baskets from the heads of the furious

他们涌向两个孩子站着的平台，莫丽和彼得突然感到害怕。 “我不喜欢这样，莫丽，”彼得说。 “我们走吧!这些愚蠢的生物认为小精灵和雪花是完全一样的——我们当然不能给他们一个奖励。 爬到椅子上去！”莫丽跳到离他们不远的椅子上。 彼得坐在椅子的扶手上，大声喊道：“回家，椅子，快！”椅子扇动着翅膀，飞了起来——但飞得并不高，只是略高于愤怒的人们的头顶。 椅子的腿开始抽动起来，使彼得大为吃惊的是，椅子把那些愤怒的人头上的包袱、罐子和篮子都踢掉了