7 GEORGE RESIGNS – AND A NEW MEMBER IS ELECTED

CHAPTER SEVEN GEORGE RESIGNS–AND A NEW MEMBER IS ELECTED ON MONDAY evening, immediately after school, a meeting of the Secret Seven was called. All the Seven knew why. It was about George. George had gone to see Peter on Sunday morning, and had told him what had happened. Peter was shocked. 'We must call a meeting as soon as possible,' he said, 'to see what we can do about it. Poor George! This is awful!' So a very solemn, serious meeting was held

第七章乔治辞职——新成员当选星期一晚上，七人秘密小组一放学就召开了一次会议。 七神都知道为什么。是关于乔治的。 星期天早上，乔治去看了彼得，把发生的事告诉了他。 彼得惊呆了。“我们必须尽快召开一次会议，”他说，“看看我们能做些什么。 可怜的乔治!这太可怕了！”于是召开了一次非常严肃的会议

down in the little shed that had the S.S. sign on its door. George gave the password in rather a trembling voice as he went in, and wore his badge for the last time. 'Beware!' he said, and as he spoke the door was opened. Everyone was there, Scamper as well. 'Hallo, George,' said Janet, feeling very miserable to see George's woebegone face. 'Bad luck!' 'I expect Peter's told you what happened,' said George, sitting down on a box. 'It was just, well, what Janet said just now, bad luck!' George took off his badge and handed it to Peter, who pinned it carefully to his jersey, beside his own badge. 'I now resign from the Secret Seven,' said George, in rather a shaky voice. 'Thank you for letting me belong. I'm very, very sorry to go, but my father says I must.' 'It's horrid of him!' said Pam fiercely, very

在有党卫军的小棚子里 门上的牌子。乔治一边走进去，一边用颤抖的声音说出了密码，最后一次戴上了徽章。 “当心!”他说，就在他说话的时候，门开了。 每个人都在，斯坎普也在。 “你好，乔治，”珍妮特说，看到乔治愁眉苦脸的样子感到很难过。 “坏运气!“我想彼得已经告诉你发生的事了。”乔治说着，坐在一个箱子上。 “只是，嗯，珍妮特刚才说的，运气不好！”乔治摘下徽章递给彼得，彼得小心翼翼地把它别在自己的球衣上，就在自己的徽章旁边。 “我现在辞去秘密七人组的职务。”乔治说，声音有些颤抖。 “谢谢你让我有归属感。 我非常非常抱歉要去，但我父亲说我必须去。“他太可怕了！”潘凶狠地说

sorry for George. But George was not going to have anything said against his father, much as he resented being forced to leave the Secret Seven. 'He's not horrid,' he said, loyally. 'It was that young man's fault. He caused all the trouble, making such a fuss about me. He knew I wasn't doing any harm. He's the mean, horrid one, not my father.' 'Who was he? Do you know?' asked Jack. 'No idea,' said George. 'I'd never seen him before. When Dad asked him for his address, he said that he lived at that little hotel called "Starling's". He didn't give his name.' 'I've a good mind to go and find out who he is and tell him what I think of him!' said Jack, scowling. 'Yes. That's a good idea,' said Peter. 'Colin, Jack and I will all go. It's the least we can do for old George. We'll tell that young man what we think of him!'

真替乔治难过。但是乔治不会说任何反对他父亲的话，就像他对被迫离开秘密七人团很不高兴一样。 “他并不可怕，”他忠诚地说。 “是那个年轻人的错。 所有的麻烦都是他惹的，对我这么大惊小怪。 他知道我没有做任何坏事。 他才是那个刻薄可怕的人，不是我父亲。“他是谁？” 你知道吗？杰克问。“不知道。”乔治说。 “我以前从未见过他。 当爸爸向他要地址时，他说他住在一家叫“斯特林”的小旅馆里。 他没有透露姓名。“我真想去看看他是谁，把我对他的看法告诉他！”杰克皱着眉头说。 ‘是的。“好主意。”彼得说。 “科林、杰克和我都去。 这是我们能为老乔治做的最起码的事。 我们要告诉那个年轻人我们对他的看法！”

'He'll just haul you home too, and get you into trouble!' said George, feeling rather comforted by all the interest on his behalf. 'I must say I couldn't understand why he was so interfering. Even when I told him who I was and where I lived, he was just as mean.' 'Starling's Hotel,' said Peter, and wrote it down firmly in his notebook. 'We'll go and ask for him and tell him he's done a really mean thing.' 'I'll come, too,' said Pam, bravely; but Peter said no, the three of them could manage by themselves. 'What are you going to do about the Secret Seven now?' asked George after a pause. 'I mean, you're only six, now I'm out of it. Will you be the Secret Six?' 'No,' said Peter. 'We began as the Secret Seven, and we'll have to go on as the Secret Seven. You can't suddenly change a society as important as ours.'

“他也会把你拖回家，给你惹麻烦的！”乔治说，大家都对他感兴趣，他感到很欣慰。 “我得说，我不明白他为什么这么爱管闲事。 即使我告诉他我是谁，住在哪里，他还是一样刻薄。“斯特林旅馆。”彼得说着，坚定地在笔记本上记了下来。 “我们要去找他，告诉他他做了一件非常卑鄙的事。“我也要去，”潘勇敢地说。但彼得不同意，他们三个人可以自己对付。 “现在你打算怎么处置那七个秘密人物？”乔治停了一会儿问。 “我的意思是，你才六岁，现在我已经不是了。 你会成为秘密六人组吗？“不，”彼得说。 “我们以秘密七人组的身份开始，我们必须以秘密七人组的身份继续下去。 你不可能突然改变像我们这样重要的社会。

'I see,' said George. 'Well, you'll have to get a seventh, then. I shall hate that. Who will you have? Lennie, or Richard?' 'No,' said Peter, firmly, and everyone looked at him to see who was in his mind. 'Hadn't we better all put up somebody's name, and then we'll vote?' asked Colin. 'That's if we've got to have someone else. I shan't much like anyone in George's place.' 'You will all like the one that I'm thinking of, I promise you,' said Peter, and his eyes twinkled at them. 'Nobody will say no, I promise you!' 'Who is it?' said poor George, wondering who this wonderful person was that everyone would welcome. 'Yes, who is it?' said Janet, puzzled. 'He's with us tonight,' said Peter. 'But he will only be a temporary member, not a member for good, just a temporary member till we get George back again. Because I'm

“我明白了，”乔治说。“好吧，那你得找第七个人了。 我讨厌那样。你要请谁？ 莱尼还是理查德？“不，”彼得坚定地说，大家都看着他，想看看他心里想的是谁。 “我们是不是最好先提出一个人的名字，然后再投票？”科林问。 “那是我们必须找别人的情况。 我不太喜欢任何人处在乔治的位置。“我向你们保证，你们都会喜欢我正在想的那个。”彼得说，他的眼睛向他们眨了眨。 “没有人会拒绝的，我向你保证！”“是谁？”可怜的乔治说，不知道这个人人都欢迎的了不起的人是谁。 “是的，是谁？”珍妮特困惑地说。 “他今晚和我们在一起。”彼得说。 “但他只是一个临时会员，不是永久会员，只是一个临时会员，直到乔治回来。 因为我

determined to go and find that young man and make him go and ask George's parents to let him belong to the Secret Seven again. I bet he didn't know how important it is to George to belong.' 'But who's the temporary member?' said George, puzzled. He looked all round. 'There's nobody here but us.' 'It's Scamper!' said Peter, and Scamper leapt up at his name, and wagged his tail vigorously. 'Scamper, will you please be a proper member of the Secret Seven till we get George back?' 'Woof, woof, WOOF!' said Scamper, joyously, as if he understood completely. Everyone began to laugh, even George. 'Oh, Peter!' he said, 'Scamper's the only person I don't mind taking my place! He's always really belonged to the Secret Seven, hasn't he? Oh, I do hope I come back. Still, I don't feel so bad now that Scamper's the seventh member. I just felt I couldn't bear to

决心去找那个年轻人，让他去请求乔治的父母让他重新加入秘密七人组。 我打赌他不知道归属对乔治来说有多重要。“可是谁是临时会员呢？”乔治不解地说。 他环顾四周。“这里除了我们没有别人。“是斯坎普！”彼得说，斯坎普听到他的名字就跳了起来，使劲地摇着尾巴。 “斯坎普，在我们把乔治救回来之前，你能不能好好做个七人秘密成员？”“汪，汪，汪！”斯坎普高兴地说，仿佛他完全明白了。 大家都笑了起来，乔治也不例外。 “噢,彼得!他说，“斯坎普是唯一一个我不介意代替我的人！他一直是秘密七人组的一员，不是吗？ 哦，我真希望我能回来。 不过，斯坎普已经是第七个会员了，我也没那么难过了。 我只是觉得我受不了