1 Plans for an S.S. meeting

THE SECRET SEVEN The Secret Seven

秘密七。秘密七

CHAPTER ONE Plans for an S.S. meeting 'WE'D BETTER have a meeting of the Secret Seven,' said Peter to Janet. 'We haven't had one for ages.' 'Oh, yes, let's!' said Janet, shutting her book with a bang. 'It isn't that we've forgotten about the Society, Peter– it's just that we've had such a lot of exciting things to do in the Christmas holidays we simply haven't had time to call a meeting.' 'But we must,' said Peter. 'It's no good having a Secret Society unless we use it. We'd better send out messages to the others.' 'Five notes to write,' groaned Janet. 'You're quicker at writing than I am, Peter– you write three and I'll write two.'

第一章党卫军的计划 “我们最好开个秘密七人会，”彼得对珍妮特说。 “我们很久没吃过了。“哦，对，我们走吧！”珍妮特说着，砰的一声合上书。 “这并不是说我们忘记了协会，彼得——只是我们在圣诞节假期里有那么多令人兴奋的事情要做，我们根本没有时间开会。”“但是我们必须这样。”彼得说。 “除非我们利用秘密社团，否则它是没有用的。 我们最好给其他人发个消息。“要写五张纸条，”珍妮特呻吟道。 “你写得比我快，彼得——你写三个，我写两个。”

'Woof!' said Scamper, the golden spaniel. 'Yes, I know you'd love to write one, too, if you could,' said Janet, patting the silky golden head. 'You can carry one in your mouth to deliver. That can be your job, Scamper.' 'What shall we say?' said Peter, pulling a piece of paper towards him and chewing the end of his pen as he tried to think of words. 'Well– we'd better tell them to come here, I think,' said Janet. 'We could use the old shed at the bottom of the garden for a meeting- place, couldn't we? Mummy lets us play there in the winter because it's next to the boiler that heats the greenhouse, and it's quite warm.' 'Right,' said Peter, and he began to write. 'I'll do this message first, Janet, and you can copy it. Let's see– we want one for Pam, one for Colin, one for Jack, one for Barbara– who's the seventh of us? I've forgotten.' 'George, of course,' said Janet. 'Pam, Colin,

“汪!”金色猎犬斯坎珀说。 “是的，我知道如果可以的话，你也想写一个，”珍妮特说着，拍了拍那丝般金黄的脑袋。 “你可以把一个含在嘴里送过去。 那是你的工作，斯坎普。“我们说什么好呢？”彼得一边说，一边把一张纸拉过来，嚼着笔头，努力想词。 “嗯——我想我们最好叫他们到这儿来，”珍妮特说。 “我们可以把花园尽头的那间旧棚子当作聚会的地方，是不是？” 冬天妈妈让我们在那里玩，因为它挨着给温室供暖的锅炉，那里很暖和。“好的，”彼得说，就开始写了起来。 “我先写这条留言，珍妮特，你可以抄一份。 让我想想——我们想要一个给帕姆，一个给科林，一个给杰克，一个给芭芭拉——我们第七个人是谁？ 我忘了。“当然是乔治，”珍妮特说。 Pam,科林

Jack, Barbara, George, you and me– that's the seven– the Secret Seven. It sounds nice, doesn't it?' The Seven Society was one that Peter and Janet had invented. They thought it was great fun to have a little band of boys and girls who knew the password, and who wore the badge– a button with S.S. on. 'There you are,' said Peter, passing his sheet of paper to Janet. 'You can copy that.' 'It doesn't need to be my best writing, does it?' said Janet. 'I'm so slow if I have to do my best writing.' 'Well– so long as it's readable,' said Peter. 'It hasn't got to go by post.' Janet read what Peter had written: 'IMPORTANT. A meeting of the Secret Seven will be held tomorrow morning in the shed at the bottom of our garden at 10 o'clock. Please give PASSWORD.' 'Oh– what was the last password we had?'

杰克、芭芭拉、乔治、你和我——那是七个人——秘密七人。 听起来不错，不是吗？”七人会是彼得和珍妮特发明的。 他们认为有一小群知道密码的男孩和女孩，戴着徽章——一个有S.S.的纽扣，这是非常有趣的 上。“给你，”彼得说着，把他的那张纸递给珍妮特。 “你可以照抄。“不需要我写得最好，对吧？”珍妮特说。 “如果我必须写出最好的作品，我的速度就会很慢。“好吧——只要能读就行。”彼得说。 “不需要邮寄。”珍妮特读了彼得写的东西：“很重要。 七人秘密会议将于明天上午十点钟在我们花园尽头的小屋里举行。 请输入密码。“哦——我们最后的密码是什么？”

said Janet in alarm. 'It's so long since we had a meeting that I've forgotten.' 'Well, it's a good thing for you that you've got me to remind you,' said Peter. 'Our latest password was Wenceslas, because we wanted a Christmassy one. Fancy you forgetting that!' 'Oh, yes, of course. Good King Wenceslas,' said Janet. 'Oh, dear– now I've gone and made a mistake in this note already. I really mustn't talk while I'm doing it.' There was a silence as the two of them wrote their notes. Janet always wrote with her

珍妮特惊慌地说。“我们已经很久没有见面了，我都忘了。“嗯，有我提醒你，这对你来说是件好事。”彼得说。 “我们最新的密码是Wenceslas，因为我们想要一个圣诞密码。 想不到你竟然忘了这一点！“哦，是的，当然。” “好国王温塞斯拉斯，”珍妮特说。 “哦，天哪——现在我走了，在这张便条上已经写错了。 我做这件事的时候真的不能说话。”两人写笔记时，一阵沉默。 珍妮特总是和她一起写信

tongue out, which made her look very funny. But she said she couldn't write properly unless her tongue was out, so out it had to come. Peter finished first. He let Scamper lick the envelopes. He was good at that; he had such a nice big wet tongue. 'You're a very licky dog,' said Peter, 'so you must be pleased when you have things like this to lick. It's a pity we're not putting stamps on the letters, then you could lick those, too.' 'Now shall we go and deliver the secret messages?' said Janet. 'Mummy said we could go out; it's a nice sunny morning– even if it is cold!' 'Woof! woof!' said Scamper, running to the door when he heard the word 'out'. He pawed at the door impatiently. Soon the three of them were out in the frost and snow. It was lovely. They went to Colin's first. He was out, so they left the note with his mother.

舌头伸出来，这使她看起来很滑稽。 但她说，如果舌头不伸出来，她就写不出字来，所以舌头必须伸出来。 彼得得了第一名。他让斯坎普舔信封。 他很擅长这个；他的舌头又大又湿。 “你是一只很爱舔的狗，”彼得说，“所以当你有这样的东西舔的时候，你一定很高兴。 很遗憾我们没有在信上贴邮票，那样你也可以舔那些。“现在我们去传递密信好吗？”珍妮特说。 “妈妈说我们可以出去；这是一个阳光明媚的早晨——尽管天气很冷！“汪!汪!斯坎珀说着，听到“出去”这个词就跑向门口。 他不耐烦地用爪子抓着门。 很快，他们三个人就到了冰天雪地里。 它很可爱。他们先去了科林家。 他出去了，所以他们把纸条留给了他母亲。