1 THE SECRET SEVEN MEET

SECRET SEVEN Secret Seven On The Trail ILLUSTRXI'ED

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CHAPTER ONE THE SECRET SEVEN MEET 'MUMMY, HAVE you got anything we could have to drink?' asked Janet. 'And to eat too?' 'But you've only just finished your breakfast!' said their mother in surprise. 'And you each had two sausages. You can't possibly want anything more yet.' 'Well, we're having the very last meeting of the Secret Seven this morning,' said Janet. 'Down in the shed. We don't think it's worth while meeting when we all go back to school, nothing exciting ever happens then.' 'We're going to meet again when the

第一章秘密七遇见妈妈，你有什么我们可以喝的吗？珍妮特问。 “还要吃东西吗？”“可你才刚刚吃完早饭！”他们的母亲惊讶地说。 “你们每人有两根香肠。 你不可能想要更多的东西了。“嗯，今天早上我们要开七人秘密的最后一次会议，”珍妮特说。 “在下面的棚子里。当我们都回到学校时，我们认为不值得见面，那时没有什么令人兴奋的事情发生。“我们会再见面的，等……

Christmas holidays come,' said Peter. 'Aren't we, Scamper, old boy?' The golden spaniel wagged his tail hard, and gave a small bark. 'He says, he hopes he can come to the last meeting too,' said Janet. 'Of course you can, Scamper.' 'He didn't say that,' said Peter, grinning. 'He said that if there were going to be snacks of any kind at this meeting, he'd like to join in!' 'Woof,' agreed Scamper, and put his paw up on Peter's knee. 'I'll give you lemons, and some sugar, and you can make your own lemonade,' said Mummy. 'You like doing that, don't you? And you can go and see if there are any rock-buns left in the tin in the larder. They'll be stale, but I know you don't mind that!' 'Oh, thanks,' said Janet. 'Come on Peter. We'd better get the things now, because the others will be here soon!'

“圣诞节就要到了。”彼得说。 “是不是，斯坎普，老伙计？”那只金色的猎犬使劲地摇着尾巴，轻轻地叫了一声。 “他说，他希望他也能来参加最后的会议，”珍妮特说。 “你当然可以，斯坎普。“他可没这么说。”彼得咧嘴笑着说。 “他说如果这次会议上有零食的话，他也想参加！”“汪，”斯坎普附和着，把爪子放在彼得的膝盖上。 妈妈说：“我会给你柠檬和一些糖，你可以自己做柠檬水。” “你喜欢那样做，是吗？” 你可以去看看储藏室的罐头里还有没有石头面包。 它们会不新鲜，但我知道你不介意！“哦，谢谢，”珍妮特说。 “来吧，彼得。我们最好现在就去拿东西，因为其他人很快就要来了！”

They ran off to the larder, Scamper panting behind. Rock-buns! Stale or not, Scamper liked those as much as the children did. Janet took some lemons, and went to get the sugar from her mother. Peter emptied the stale rock-buns on to a plate, and the two of them, followed by Scamper, went down to the shed. Janet had the lemon-squeezer and a big jug of water. It was fun to make lemonade. They pushed open the shed door. On it were the letters S.S. in green– S.S. for the Secret Seven! 'Our Secret Society has been going for some time now,' said Janet, beginning to squeeze a lemon. 'I'm not a bit tired of it, are you, Peter?' 'Of course not!' said Peter. 'Just think of all the adventures we've had, and the exciting things we've done! But I do think it's sensible not to bother about the Secret Seven meetings till the hols. For one thing, in this Christmas

他们跑向储藏室，斯坎普气喘吁吁地跟在后面。 Rock-buns !不管是不是不新鲜，斯坎珀和孩子们一样喜欢这些东西。 珍妮特拿了一些柠檬，然后去找妈妈拿糖。 彼得把不新鲜的石头面包全倒在盘子里，他们两个，斯坎普跟在后面，下楼到小屋去了。 珍妮特拿着柠檬榨汁机和一大壶水。 做柠檬水很有趣。 他们推开了小屋的门。 上面有S.S.两个字母 绿色的——S.S.代表秘密七人组！“我们的秘密社团已经存在一段时间了，”珍妮特说着，开始挤柠檬。 “我一点也不厌倦，你呢，彼得？”“当然不会！”彼得说。 “想想我们经历过的所有冒险，我们做过的那些令人兴奋的事情吧！”但我觉得最好还是别再为秘密七人会的事操心了。 首先，在这个圣诞节

term the days get dark very quickly, and we have to be indoors.' 'Yes, and nothing much happens then,' said Janet. 'Oh, Scamper– you won't like that squeezed out lemon-skin, you silly dog! Drop it!' Scamper dropped it. He certainly didn't like it! He sat with his tongue hanging out, looking most disgusted. Peter glanced at his watch. 'Nearly time for the others to come,' he said. 'I hope they'll agree to this being the last meeting till Christmas. We'd better collect all the badges from them, and put them in a safe place. If we don't, someone is bound to lose one.' 'Or that silly sister of Jack's will take it and wear it herself,' said Janet. 'What's her name– Susie? Aren't you glad I'm not annoying to you, like Susie is to Jack, Peter?' 'Well, you're pretty annoying sometimes,' said Peter, and immediately got a squirt of

天很快就黑了，我们不得不呆在室内。“是的，然后没什么大事发生，”珍妮特说。 “噢，斯坎普——你不会喜欢榨出来的柠檬皮的，你这只傻狗！”把它!”斯坎普把它掉了。 他当然不喜欢！他耷拉着舌头坐着，一副非常厌恶的样子。 彼得看了看手表。 “差不多是其他人来的时候了，”他说。 我希望他们同意这是圣诞节前的最后一次会议。 我们最好收集他们所有的徽章，并把它们放在一个安全的地方。 如果我们不这样做，一定会有人失去一个。“不然杰克的那个傻妹妹就会把它拿走，自己戴上，”珍妮特说。 “她叫什么名字——苏西？” 彼得，你是不是很高兴我不像苏西对杰克那样让你讨厌？“哎，你有时候真讨厌。”彼得说，马上就被喷了一喷

lemon-juice in his eye from an angry Janet! 'Oh, don't do that. Don't you know that lemon-juice stings like anything? Stop it, Janet!' Janet stopped it. 'I'd better not waste the juice,' she said. 'Ah, here comes someone.' Scamper barked as somebody walked up the path and knocked on the door. 'Password!' called Peter, who never opened the door to anyone until the correct password was called. 'Pickled onions!' said a voice, and giggled. That was the latest password of the Secret Seven, suggested by Colin, whose mother had been pickling onions on the day of the last meeting they had had. It was such a silly password that everyone had laughed, and Peter had said they would have it till they thought of a better one. 'Got your badge?' said Peter, opening the door.

愤怒的珍妮特把柠檬汁泼进了他的眼睛！“哦，别这样。 难道你不知道柠檬汁很疼吗？ 别说了，珍妮特！”珍妮特制止了它。 “我最好不要浪费果汁，”她说。 “啊，有人来了。”有人沿着小路走来敲门时，斯坎普叫了起来。 “密码!彼得叫道，直到喊出正确的密码，他才给任何人开门。 “腌洋葱!一个声音说，咯咯地笑着。 这是七人秘密的最新密码，是科林提出来的，他们最后一次见面的那天，他母亲正在腌制洋葱。 这个密码太蠢了，大家都笑了，彼得说他们先用这个密码，直到想出一个更好的密码。 “拿到警徽了吗？”彼得说着打开了门。