11 ANY IDEAS

CHAPTER ELEVEN ANY IDEAS? PETER OPENED the door. Scamper tore out, barking. Then he stopped by a bush and wagged his tail. The Secret Seven ran to him. A pair of feet showed at the bottom of the bush. Jack gave a shout of rage and pushed into the bush. He dragged someone out– Susie! 'How dare you!' he yelled. 'Coming here and listening! How dare you, Susie?' 'Let me go,' said Susie. 'I like you asking me how I dare! I'm only copying what you did on Saturday! Who hid in the laurel bush, and–' 'How did you know we were having a

第十一章，有什么想法吗？彼得打开门。 斯坎普狂吠着跑了出来。 然后它停在一丛灌木旁，摇着尾巴。 七人秘密跑向他。 灌木丛底部露出一双脚。 杰克怒吼一声，冲进了灌木丛。 他拖了一个人出来-苏西！“你怎么敢！”他喊道。 “到这儿来听！”你怎么敢，苏西？“让我走，”苏西说。 “我喜欢你问我怎么敢！”我只是抄你星期六做的东西！他躲在月桂树丛里，而且——”“你怎么知道我们在做爱？

meeting?' demanded Jack, shaking Susie. 'I just followed you,' said Susie, grinning. 'But I didn't hear anything because I didn't dare to go near the door, in case Scamper barked. I did a sudden sneeze, though, and he must have heard me. What are you calling a meeting about?' 'As if we'd tell you!' said Peter, crossly. 'Go on home, Susie. Go on! Jack, take her home. The meeting is over.' 'Bother!' said Jack. 'All right. Come on, Susie. And if I have any nonsense from you, I'll pull your hair till you yell!' Jack went off with Susie. Peter faced round to the others and spoke in a low voice. 'Listen. All of you think hard about what has been said, and give me or Janet any good ideas tomorrow. It's no good going on with this meeting. Somebody else belonging to the Famous Five might come snooping round too.' 'Right,' said the Secret Seven, and went

会议?杰克摇着苏茜问道。 “我只是跟着你，”苏西笑着说。 但我什么也没听到，因为我不敢靠近门，怕斯坎普叫。 不过我突然打了个喷嚏，他肯定听到了。 你为什么要开会？“好像我们会告诉你似的！”彼得生气地说。 “回家去吧，苏西。去吧!杰克，带她回家。 会议结束了。“麻烦!杰克说。 “好吧。来吧，苏西。 如果我再听你废话，我就揪你的头发，直到你喊出来！”杰克和苏茜走了。 彼得转过脸来，低声说话。 “听。你们都好好想想刚才说的话，明天给我或珍妮特提点好主意。 这个会议开下去没有好处。 “五大名人”中的其他人可能也会来打探。“好的。”七个人说着就走了

home, excited and very much puzzled. How could they think of anything that would help to piece together the jumble of words they knew? Points. Six-two, seven-ten. Fog, mist, darkness. Dalling's. Hammond's. Each of them tried to think of some good idea. Barbara could think of nothing at all. Pam tried asking her father about Dalling's or Hammond's. He didn't know either of them. Pam felt awkward when he asked her why she wanted to know, and didn't go on with the subject. Colin decided that a robbery was going to be done one dark and foggy night, and that the goods were to be unloaded from a lorry somewhere. He couldn't imagine why they were to be sent in a truck. All the boys thought exactly the same thing, but, as Peter said, it wasn't much help because they didn't know what date, what place, or what lorry! Then Jack had quite a good idea. He

回到家，既兴奋又困惑。 他们怎么能想出什么办法来把他们所知道的混乱的单词拼凑起来呢？ 点。六十二年,七百一十年。 雾，雾，黑暗。木豆。 哈蒙德。他们每个人都试图想出一些好主意。 芭芭拉什么也想不起来。 帕姆试着问她父亲关于达林或哈蒙德的事。 他们两个他都不认识。 当他问帕姆为什么想知道这个问题时，她感到很尴尬，没有继续这个话题。 柯林决定在一个雾蒙蒙的夜晚抢劫，把货物从卡车上卸下来。 他无法想象为什么要用卡车运送这些东西。 所有的男孩都这么想，但是，就像彼得说的，这没什么用，因为他们不知道是什么日期，什么地点，什么卡车！这时杰克有了一个好主意。 他

thought it would be helpful if they tried to find a man called Zebedee, because surely he must be the Zeb at Tigger's Barn. There couldn't be many Zebedees in the district! 'All right, Jack. It's a good idea,' said Peter. 'You can do the finding out for us. Produce this Zeb, and that may be the first step.' 'Yes, but how shall I find out?' said Jack. 'I can't go round asking every man I meet if he's called Zeb.' 'No. That's why I said it was a good idea,' said Peter, grinning. 'But that's about all it is. It's an impossible thing to do, you see; so that's why it will remain just a good idea and nothing else. Finding the only Zebedee in the district would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.' 'I shouldn't like to have to do that,' said Janet, who was with them. 'Peter and I have got about the only good idea, I think, Jack.' 'What's that?' asked Jack.

我想如果他们能找到一个叫西庇太的人会有帮助，因为他一定就是跳跳虎谷仓里的西庇太。 这个地区不可能有很多西庇太！“好吧，杰克。 “这是个好主意。”彼得说。 “你可以帮我们找出答案。 生产这个Zeb，这可能是第一步。“是的，但是我怎么知道呢？”杰克说。 “我不能到处去问我遇到的每个人是不是叫泽布。“没有。 “所以我才说这是个好主意。”彼得咧嘴笑着说。 “但事情就是这样。 你看，这是一件不可能的事；这就是为什么它只是一个好主意，仅此而已。 要找到这个地区唯一的西庇太就像大海捞针一样困难。“我不愿意这么做，”珍妮特说，她也在他们身边。 “我想，彼得和我想出了唯一的好主意，杰克。“那是什么？”杰克问。

'Well, we looked in our telephone directory at home to see if any firm called Dalling or Hammond was there,' said Janet. 'But there wasn't, so we thought they must be somewhere farther off, not in our district at all. Our telephone book only gives the names of people in this area, you see.' 'And now we're going to the post office to look in the big telephone directories there,' said Peter. 'They give the names of districts much farther away. Like to come with us?' Jack went with them. They came to the post office and went in. Peter took up two telephone books, one with the Ds in and one with the Hs. 'Now I'll look for Dalling,' he said, and thumbed through the Ds. The other two leaned over him, looking down the Ds too. 'Dale, Dale, Dale, Dales, Dalgleish, Daling, Dalish, Dallas, DALLING!' read Peter, his finger following down the list of names. 'Here it is–

“嗯，我们查了一下家里的电话簿，看看有没有叫达林或哈蒙德的公司在那里，”珍妮特说。 “但是没有，所以我们想他们一定在更远的地方，根本不在我们的地区。 你看，我们的电话簿上只有这个地区的人名。“现在我们要去邮局，在那里的大电话簿里找一找，”彼得说。 “他们给出了更远的地区的名字。 愿意和我们一起去吗？”杰克和他们一起去了。 他们来到邮局，走了进去。 彼得拿起两本电话簿，一本全是d，一本全是h。 “现在我去找达林，”他说着，翻了翻d。 另外两个人也俯下身来看着他。 “戴尔，戴尔，戴尔，戴尔，达格利什，达林，达利什，达拉斯，达林！”彼得用手指顺着名单念着。 “在这儿——

Dalling. Oh, there are three Dallings! Bother!' 'There's a Mrs A. Dalling, Rose Cottage, Hubley,' said Janet. 'And E.A. Dalling, of Manor House, Tallington, and Messrs. E. Dalling, Manufacturers of Lead Goods. Well– which would be the right Dalling? The manufacturers, I suppose.' 'Yes,' said Peter, sounding excited. 'Now for the Hs. Where are they? In the other book. Here we are– Hall, Hall– goodness, what a lot of people are called Hall! Hallet, Ham, Hamm, Hammers, Hamming, Hammond, Hammond, Hammond, Hammond– oh, LOOK!' They all looked. Peter was pointing to the fourth name of Hammond. 'Hammond and Co. Ltd. Lead Manufacturers, Petlington.' 'There you are,' said Peter, triumphantly. 'Two firms dealing in lead, one called Hammond, one called Dalling. Cheeky Charlie must be something to do with both.' 'Lead!' said Jack. 'It's very valuable

木豆。啊，有三个达林！麻烦!“有一位a太太。” “达林，玫瑰小屋，哈布利，”珍妮特说。 “还有塔林顿马诺庄园的e·a·达林先生。 E. Dalling，铅制品制造商。 那么，哪个才是正确的达林？ 我想是制造商吧。“是的。”彼得激动地说。 “现在轮到h了。他们在哪里？ 在另一本书里。我们到了——霍尔，霍尔——天哪，许多人都叫霍尔！哈莱特，哈姆，哈姆，铁锤，汉明，哈蒙德，哈蒙德，哈蒙德，哈蒙德——哦，看！”他们都看了看。 彼得指着哈蒙德的第四个名字。 哈蒙德有限公司铅制造商，佩特灵顿。“给你，”彼得得意地说。 “两家做铅生意的公司，一家叫哈蒙德，一家叫达林。 无耻的查理肯定和这两件事都有关系。“领导!杰克说。 “它非常有价值