3 A NEW PASSWORD – AND A FEW IDEAS

CHAPTER THREE A NEW PASSWORD– AND A FEW IDEAS EVERYONE SAT quietly. Scamper stopped his tail-thumping and sat still too, his head on one side. He was very, very proud to be at all the meetings, even though he wasn't a proper member. 'First of all,' said Peter, 'we must choose a new password, partly because Susie knows it!' Jack was startled. How did Peter know that Susie knew it? 'Yes, she does know it,' he said, and fished the piece of paper out of his pocket, on which he had written the old password, and on which Susie had scribbled her nonsense.

第三章一个新的密码和一些想法，每个人都静静地坐着。 斯坎普停止了拍尾巴，也静静地坐着，头歪向一边。 他非常非常自豪能参加所有的会议，尽管他不是一个正式的成员。 “首先，”彼得说，“我们必须选一个新密码，部分原因是苏西知道！”杰克吓了一跳。 彼得怎么知道苏茜知道呢？ “是的，她知道。”他说着，从口袋里掏出那张纸，上面写着旧的密码，苏西在上面胡乱地写着她的废话。

'Look there, she found this bit of paper, with our password on it. I wrote it down so that I wouldn't forget it, and I hid it, and she found it and scribbled on it! But how did you know she knew it, Peter?' 'She told me,' said Peter. 'She seemed to think our Society was about to come to an end, or something, and she was so annoying that it made me decide to call a meeting at once. Jack, for goodness' sake don't leave our passwords about again!' 'All right. I won't,' said Jack, looking rather red in the face. 'But you don't know what it is to have a sister like Susie. I wouldn't be surprised if she isn't trying to peep in at the window this very minute.' Everyone at once looked up at the little window, Scamper too. Peter shook his head. 'No, nobody's about. Scamper would bark if he heard the slightest sound. Well, what about a new password? Anyone got a good idea?'

“看那儿，她发现了这张纸，上面有我们的密码。 我把它写了下来，这样我就不会忘记了，我把它藏了起来，她发现了它，在上面乱涂乱画！但你怎么知道她知道的，彼得？“她告诉我的，”彼得说。 “她似乎认为我们的协会要走到尽头了，还是怎么的。她太烦人了，我决定马上召开一次会议。” 杰克，看在上帝的份上，别再把我们的密码到处乱丢了！“好吧。” “我不会的，”杰克说，脸涨得通红。 “但你不知道有苏西这样的妹妹是什么感觉。 如果她此刻没有试图从窗户往里偷看，我也不会感到奇怪。”每个人都立刻抬头看着小窗户，斯坎普也不例外。 彼得摇了摇头。“没有，周围没有人。 斯坎普听到最轻微的声音就会吠叫。 那新密码呢？ 谁有什么好主意？”

'Snooper!' said Colin, thinking of Susie. 'That would be a good one.' 'Yes, we'd all remember that because of Susie,' said Janet. 'We'll have to remember the password is Snooper, not Susie,' said Pam, with a giggle. 'I'm sure I shall say "Susie" if anyone asks me the password next week!' Jack often felt cross with his sister, but he didn't very much like the idea of the password being chosen because of Susie's snoopy behaviour. After all, she was his sister, and although she was very annoying at times, he was fond of her. He shook his head. 'No. I don't want that password, if you don't mind. I've got a better one. One that nobody would ever think of. What about "Beware!"? It sounds sort of suitable for us.' 'Yes, it does,' agreed Peter, and the others nodded their heads. They began to say the password to one another, in hollow,

“爱管闲事者!柯林说，想起了苏茜。 “这倒是个好主意。“是的，因为苏西，我们都会记得的，”珍妮特说。 “我们得记住密码是史努比，不是苏西。”帕姆咯咯笑着说。 “如果下周有人问我密码，我肯定会说‘苏西’！”杰克经常生妹妹的气，但他不太喜欢因为苏茜的史努比行为而选择密码。 毕竟，她是他的妹妹，虽然她有时很烦人，但他很喜欢她。 他摇了摇头。“不。如果你不介意的话，我不想要那个密码。 我有一个更好的。一个没人会想到的。 那“小心！”呢？听起来挺适合我们的。“是的，确实是这样。”彼得同意了，其他人都点了点头。 他们开始互相低声说出密码，

mysterious voices, and Scamper looked rather startled. 'Beware!' Janet said to Barbara, solemnly. 'Be-warrrrrrre!' hissed Colin to Jack. 'BEWARE!' said Peter to Scamper, who got up at once and sniffed in every corner of the shed, as if he had to discover what it was that everyone was warning him about. Beware! Well, he would beware all right, but what of? 'Look at Scamper. He's puzzled to bits,' said Pam, with a laugh. 'It's all right, Scamper. It's just our new password. Well, I don't think any of us will forget it. It's a very good one. Beware! It makes me feel quite creepy.' 'The next thing to discuss is what the Secret Seven are to do,' said Peter. 'I suppose nobody has heard of anything peculiar or mysterious or extraordinary that we could look into?' Nobody said a word. They just looked at one another hopefully, and then shook their heads. 'Well, as there's nothing peculiar to make

斯坎普显得相当吃惊。 “小心!”珍妮特严肃地对芭芭拉说。 “Be-warrrrrrre !科林对杰克嘶嘶地说。 “当心!”彼得对斯坎普说。斯坎普立刻站起来，在小屋的每个角落里嗅了嗅，好像要弄清楚大家都在警告他的是什么东西似的。 小心!好吧，他当然会小心的，但那又怎样呢？ “看看斯坎普。“他被弄糊涂了，”潘笑着说。 “没关系，斯坎普。这只是我们的新密码。 我想我们都不会忘记的。 这是一本非常好的书。小心!这让我觉得很毛骨悚然。“接下来要讨论的是秘密七人该怎么办。”彼得说。 “我想没有人听说过什么特别的、神秘的或不寻常的事情，我们可以调查一下吧？”没有人说话。 他们只是满怀希望地面面相觑，然后摇了摇头。 “嗯，因为没有什么特别的事要做

plans about, we'll have to decide something to do,' said Peter. 'I mean, it's been such a long time since we held a meeting, and societies just fizzle out if they're not kept going somehow. We must do something to keep up our interest or when something does come along, we'll miss it.' 'Yes, but what do you mean, do something?' asked Colin. 'We can't make things happen.' 'No. I know that,' said Peter. 'But we can put in a bit of practice. We can set ourselves one or two things to do.' 'What, for instance?' said George. 'Well, we could practise shadowing people,' said Peter. 'And we might perhaps have a shot at disguising ourselves, just to see if we could get away with it.' 'Disguising ourselves? But how could we?' said Pam. 'We're only children. We can't wear false beards, or ragged clothes, or pretend to walk with limps or anything. We'd be spotted

“我们得决定做点什么。”彼得说。 “我的意思是，我们已经很久没有召开过会议了，如果不设法保持下去，社会就会失败。” 我们必须做点什么来保持我们的兴趣，否则当事情发生时，我们会错过它。“是的，但是你说做点什么是什么意思？”科林问。 “我们不能让事情发生。“没有。 “我知道。”彼得说。“但我们可以多练习一下。 我们可以给自己安排一两件事做。“比如说，什么？”乔治说。 “嗯，我们可以练习跟在人后面。”彼得说。 “我们也许可以试着把自己化装一下，看看能不能侥幸逃脱。“乔装打扮？” 但我们怎么可能呢？潘说。 “我们只是孩子。我们不能戴假胡子，不能穿破衣服，不能假装走路一瘸一拐。 我们会被发现的

at once.' 'Well, perhaps that's not such a good idea,' admitted Peter. 'We'll leave that for the minute. But we could practise spotting somebody, and then writing down a very clear description of him, so as to get practice at that kind of thing. It's always useful to be able to describe a thief in great detail, for instance.' 'But how do we know who's a thief?' said Jack. 'We don't,' said Peter, beginning to be impatient. 'We just go, say, to the railway station, and sit down on a seat. We watch the people standing there waiting for a train. We pick on somebody, it doesn't matter who. We look at them carefully, and memorise everything about them. Then, when they've gone, we write down what we've remembered. It would be very, very good practice for observing people.' 'It sounds rather dull to me,' said George.

在一次。“嗯，也许这不是个好主意，”彼得承认。 “我们先不谈这个问题。 但是我们可以练习辨认某个人，然后写下对他的非常清晰的描述，这样就可以在这方面得到练习。 例如，能够非常详细地描述一个小偷总是有用的。“可是我们怎么知道谁是贼呢？”杰克说。 “我们不知道。”彼得说，开始不耐烦了。 “我们就去，比如说，到火车站，找个座位坐下来。 我们看到人们站在那里等火车。 我们找个人麻烦，不管是谁。 我们仔细地看着他们，记住关于他们的一切。 然后，当他们离开后，我们写下我们记得的东西。 这将是观察他人非常非常好的练习。“听起来挺无聊的，”乔治说。