1 A SECRET SEVEN MEETING

SECRET SEVEN Secret Seven Adventure

秘密七秘密七冒险

CHAPTER ONE A SECRET SEVEN MEETING THE SECRET Seven Society was having its usual weekly meeting. Its meeting-place was down in the old shed at the bottom of the garden belonging to Peter and Janet. On the door were the letters S.S. painted in green. Peter and Janet were in the shed, waiting. Janet was squeezing lemons into a big jug, making lemonade for the meeting. On a plate lay seven ginger biscuits and one big dog biscuit. That was for Scamper, their golden spaniel. He sat with his eyes on the plate, as if he was afraid his biscuit might jump off and

第一章七人秘密会议七人秘密会社正在举行每周例行会议。 聚会地点在花园尽头彼得和珍妮特的旧棚子里。 门上写着S.S.两个字母 漆成绿色。彼得和珍妮特在小屋里等着。 珍妮特正在把柠檬挤进一个大罐子里，为会议做柠檬水。 盘子里放着七块姜饼干和一块大狗饼干。 那是给斯坎普的，他们的金毛猎犬。 他坐在那里，眼睛盯着盘子，好像担心他的饼干会跳下来，然后

disappear! 'Here come the others,' said Peter, looking out of the window. 'Yes– Colin– George– Barbara– Pam and Jack. And you and I make the Seven.' 'Woof,' said Scamper, feeling left out. 'Sorry, Scamper,' said Peter. 'But you're not a member– just a hanger-on– but a very nice one!' Bang! Somebody knocked at the door. 'Password, please,' called Peter. He never unlocked the door until the person outside said the password. 'Rabbits!' said Colin, and Peter unlocked the door. 'Rabbits!' said Jack, and 'Rabbits,' said the others in turn. That was the very latest password. The Secret Seven altered the word every week, just in case anyone should get to hear of it. Peter looked at everyone keenly as they came in and sat down. 'Where's your badge,

消失!“其他人来了。”彼得望着窗外说。 “是的——科林——乔治——芭芭拉——帕姆和杰克。 你和我就是七神。“汪，”斯坎珀说，觉得自己被冷落了。 “对不起，斯坎普，”彼得说。 “可你不是会员——只是个过客——可是个很不错的会员！”砰!有人敲门。 “请告诉我密码。”彼得叫道。 直到外面的人说出密码，他才打开门。 “兔子!科林说，彼得打开了门。 “兔子!杰克说，“兔子。”其他人依次说。 那是最新的密码。 秘密七人每周都会改变这个词，以防有人听到它。 彼得敏锐地打量着每一个进来坐下的人。 “你的徽章呢？”

Jack?' he asked. Jack looked uncomfortable. 'I'm awfully sorry,' he said, 'but I think Susie's got it. I hid it in my drawer, and it was gone when I looked for it this morning. Susie's an awful pest sometimes.' Susie was Jack's sister. She badly wanted to belong to the Society, but as Jack kept patiently pointing out, as long as there were Seven in the Secret Seven, there couldn't possibly be any more. 'Susie wants a telling off,' said Peter. 'You'll have to get back the badge somehow, Jack, and then in future don't hide it in a drawer or anywhere, but pin it on to your pyjamas at night and wear it. Then Susie can't get it.' 'Right,' said Jack. He looked round to see if everyone else was wearing a badge. Yes– each member had a little round button with the letters S.S. neatly worked on it. He felt very annoyed with Susie.

杰克?他问。杰克看起来很不自在。 “非常抱歉，”他说，“但我想苏西拿到了。 我把它藏在抽屉里，今天早上找的时候不见了。 苏茜有时真是个讨厌鬼。”苏茜是杰克的妹妹。 她非常想加入这个社团，但杰克一直耐心地指出，只要秘密七人中还有七个，就不可能再有其他的了。 “苏茜想挨一顿教训，”彼得说。 “你总得想办法把徽章拿回来，杰克，以后不要把它藏在抽屉里或任何地方，而是晚上把它别在睡衣上戴着。” 然后苏西就拿不到它了。“好的，”杰克说。 他环顾四周，看看其他人是否都佩戴了警徽。 是的，每个成员都有一个小的圆形按钮，上面写着S.S. 干得很漂亮。他对苏西很生气。

'Has anyone anything exciting to report?' asked Peter, handing round the seven ginger biscuits. He tossed Scamper the big dog biscuit, and the spaniel caught it deftly in his mouth. Soon everyone was crunching and munching. Nobody had anything to report at all. Barbara looked at Peter. 'This is the fourth week we've had nothing to report, and nothing has happened,' she said. 'It's very dull. I don't see much point in having a Secret Society if it doesn't do something– solve some mystery or have an adventure.' 'Well, think one up, then,' said Peter, promptly. 'You seem to think mysteries and adventures grow on trees, Barbara.' Janet poured out the lemonade. 'I wish something exciting would happen, too,' she said. 'Can't we make up some kind of adventure, just to go on with?' 'What sort?' asked Colin. 'Oooh, this

“有什么激动人心的事要报告吗？”彼得问，递给大家七块姜饼。 他把大狗饼干扔给斯坎普，斯坎普灵巧地叼住了。 很快，每个人都嘎吱嘎吱地咀嚼起来。 没有人有任何报告。 芭芭拉看着彼得。她说，这是我们连续第四周没有报告，也没有发生任何事情。 “太无聊了。我不认为秘密社团有什么意义，如果它不能解决一些谜团或进行一次冒险。“好吧，那就想一个。”彼得立刻说。 “你似乎认为神秘和冒险都是从树上长出来的，芭芭拉。”珍妮特倒出柠檬水。 她说，我也希望能发生一些激动人心的事情。 “我们就不能编一个冒险故事，继续下去吗？”“什么样的？”科林问。 “噢,这

lemonade's sour!' 'I'll put some more honey in,' said Janet. 'Well, I mean, couldn't we dress up as Red Indians or something, and go somewhere and stalk people without their knowing it? We've got some lovely American Indian clothes, Peter and I.' They talked about it for a while. They discovered that between them they had six sets of American Indian clothes. 'Well, I know what we'll do, then,' said George. 'We'll dress up, and go off to Little Thicket. We'll split into two parties, one at each end of the thicket– and we'll see which party can stalk and catch Colin– he's the only one without Indian dress. That'll be fun.' 'I don't much want to be stalked by all six of you,' said Colin. 'I hate being jumped on all at once.' 'It's only a game!' said Janet. 'Don't be silly.' 'Listen– there's somebody coming!' said

柠檬是酸的!“我再放点蜂蜜进去，”珍妮特说。 “嗯，我的意思是，我们难道不能打扮成印第安人之类的，到什么地方去，在别人不知道的情况下跟踪他们吗？” 我们有一些漂亮的印第安人衣服，彼得和我。”他们讨论了一会儿。 他们发现他们之间有六套美国印第安人的衣服。 “好吧，那我知道我们该怎么办了。”乔治说。 “我们穿好衣服，到小灌木林去。 我们将分成两队，在树丛的两端各派一队——我们看哪一队能跟踪并抓住科林——他是唯一没有穿印第安服装的人。 那会很有趣的。“我可不想被你们六个人跟踪。”科林说。 “我讨厌一下子被人呵斥。“这只是一场游戏！”珍妮特说。 “别傻了。“听——有人来了！”说