11 OFF THEY GO AGAIN!

CHAPTER ELEVEN OFF THEY GO AGAIN! THE MEETING in the summer-house the next morning was quite exciting. Peter and Janet and Scamper waited impatiently for Jack and Colin to come. Pam and Barbara came together as usual, then came George, and last of all Colin and Jack. 'Sorry we're a bit late,' said Jack. 'I went to call for Colin. His leg's still stiff so he couldn't walk very fast, though you ran fast enough last night, didn't you, Colin?' Colin grinned. He had a bruise on the left cheek-bone near his ear, where he had been struck the night before. He felt rather proud of

第十一章他们又出发了！第二天早上在凉亭里的会面相当令人兴奋。 彼得、珍妮特和斯坎珀不耐烦地等着杰克和科林的到来。 帕姆和芭芭拉像往常一样走到一起，然后是乔治，最后是科林和杰克。 “对不起，我们来晚了一点。”杰克说。 “我去叫科林。 他的腿还僵硬，所以走不快，虽然你昨晚跑得够快了，是不是，科林？”科林咧嘴一笑。 他的左颧骨靠近耳朵处有一块淤青，那是他前一天晚上被人打过的地方。 他感到相当自豪

it. 'We've got some news,' said Jack, feeling extremely important as he looked round at the expectant faces of the others. 'Well, hurry up and tell us then,' said Peter impatiently. 'Did those two men meet? What did you hear?' 'Tell it all from the beginning,' begged Janet. 'I like to know every single thing so that I can see it in my mind's eye.' 'All right,' said Jack. 'Well, Colin and I met by the post office at eight o'clock, and the men came at half-past. Colin hid behind a tree, and I climbed up into it.' 'Well done,' said Peter approvingly. 'Just as the men were beginning to talk Colin did the most terrific sneeze you ever heard,' said Jack. 'Honestly, I nearly fell out of the tree!' 'Gosh!' said Janet. 'Whatever happened then?'

它。“我们有一些消息。”杰克说，他环顾四周，看着其他人期待的面孔，觉得自己非常重要。 “好吧，那就快点告诉我们吧。”彼得不耐烦地说。 “那两个人见过面吗？”你听到什么了？“从头讲一遍，”珍妮特恳求道。 “我想知道每一件事，这样我就能在我的脑海里看到它。“好吧，”杰克说。 “嗯，柯林和我八点钟在邮局见面，那些人在半点半来了。 科林躲在一棵树后面，我爬了上去。“干得好。”彼得赞许地说。 “就在人们开始说话的时候，科林打了一个你从未听过的最可怕的喷嚏。”杰克说。 “说实话，我差点从树上掉下来！”“天啊!珍妮特说。 “后来发生了什么事？”

'The men ran round the tree and found poor old Colin, and that bruise on his cheek is where he got hit,' said Jack. Everyone gazed in awe at Colin's bruise, and he felt very proud indeed. 'He had to run for his life, and there was I, stuck up the tree,' went on Jack, enjoying himself immensely. 'I can tell you, it was quite an adventure! Well, then the men spoke in low voices again, but I managed to hear the important thing.' 'What was it?' demanded Peter. 'You're so long-winded. Get to the point.' 'The first man – he must have been the Jim mentioned in the letter – he said "The scarecrow!"' said Jack, lowering his voice just as the men had done. "'The scarecrow! That's where it is!" he said. "The scarecrow!" Then the two men went off, and I hadn't time to shadow them because I was up the tree.' 'You did very well,' said Peter.

“那些人围着树跑，找到了可怜的老科林，他脸颊上的淤青就是他被打的地方。”杰克说。 每个人都敬畏地看着科林的伤痕，他真的感到非常自豪。 “他不得不逃命，而我就在那儿，被卡在树上。”杰克继续说，他玩得非常开心。 “我可以告诉你，这真是一次奇遇！”嗯，然后那些人又低声说话了，但我还是听到了重要的事情。“是什么？”彼得问。 “你真是啰嗦。言归正传。“第一个人——他一定就是信中提到的那个吉姆——他说‘稻草人！’”杰克说，像他们那样放低了声音。 “稻草人!就在那儿！”他说。 “稻草人!”然后那两个人走了，我没有时间跟踪他们，因为我在树上。“你做得很好，”彼得说。

well! It was a pity about Colin's sneeze. Still, you heard the main thing, Jack – and that was the word "scarecrow".' 'What does it mean, though?' asked Jack. 'Do you know? Does it mean a real scarecrow?' 'No. There's a tiny inn called "The Scarecrow" up on the common,' said Peter. 'I've often passed it when I've been in the car with my father. We'll go up there and snoop round. I bet that's where something is hidden, loot from some robbery, probably.' 'Oh, yes, I remember seeing that inn too, and thinking what an odd name it had,' said Janet. 'Peter, let's go now! Before Albert gets away with anything!' 'Yes. We'd certainly better go now, this very minute!' said Peter. 'We may find Albert there, digging away in some corner of the garden. It would be very interesting to see what he digs up!'

好!科林的喷嚏真可惜。 不过，你还是听到了最重要的事情，杰克——那就是“稻草人”这个词。“那是什么意思呢？”杰克问。 “你知道吗？”它是指一个真正的稻草人吗？“没有。 “在空地上有一家小客栈，名叫‘稻草人’。”彼得说。 “我和我父亲在车里的时候经常经过它。 我们要上去四处看看。 我打赌那是藏东西的地方，可能是抢劫得来的赃物。“哦，是的，我也记得看到过那家旅馆，觉得它的名字多么奇怪，”珍妮特说。 “彼得，我们现在就走！”在阿尔伯特逍遥法外之前！“是的。 我们最好现在就走，马上就走！彼得说。 “我们可能会在那儿找到阿尔贝，他正在花园里的某个角落里挖土呢。 看他挖出什么来一定很有趣！”

Everyone felt the delicious surge of excitement that always came over them when adventure was in the air. 'Get your bikes,' ordered Peter. 'Colin, is your knee too stiff to bike, do you think?' 'I can pedal all right with one leg,' said Colin, who wasn't going to be left out of this morning's excitement for anything. 'Come on, let's get our bikes, those of you who didn't come on them.' 'Meet at the crossroads by the old barn,' said Peter. 'Wait for each other. Then we'll all set off together. We're really on to something now!' George was the only one who had come on a bike. The others set off to get theirs. Peter and Janet fetched their two from the shed, and set off with George to the crossroads, Scamper running excitedly behind them. He knew when adventure was about, he always knew! Soon everyone was at the crossroads, even

每个人都感到一种美妙的兴奋，这种兴奋总是在冒险的气氛中袭来。 “带上你们的自行车，”彼得命令道。 “科林，你认为你的膝盖太僵硬了，不能骑自行车吗？”“我一条腿就能踩得很好。”科林说，他不会因为任何事情而被排除在今天早上的兴奋之外。 “来吧，没有骑自行车的，我们去骑自行车吧。”“在旧谷仓旁边的十字路口会合，”彼得说。 “彼此等待。然后我们一起出发。 我们现在真的有收获了！”乔治是唯一一个骑自行车来的人。 其他人都去拿他们的了。 彼得和珍妮特把他们俩从棚子里拿出来，和乔治一起向十字路口走去，斯坎普兴奋地跟在他们后面跑。 他知道什么时候会有冒险，他一直都知道！很快，每个人都走到了十字路口

Colin, who could only pedal with one leg. Jack came last, looking hot and cross. 'What's up?' asked Janet, seeing how upset he looked. 'Did you get into trouble at home about anything?' 'No. It's Susie,' said Jack, with a groan. 'She says that she and Jeff went up to our cave this morning, you know I had to tell Mother about it in front of Susie, and when she saw we'd gone, she and Jeff decided to have it for their meeting-place! Isn't that maddening?' 'Well, let them if they want to!' said Peter. 'Much good may it do them! Albert will probably visit them as he did us and take their things! Serve them right!' 'I wonder how Albert gets into the cave if he doesn't use our entrance!' said Janet. 'We know he used it once, because Jack saw him that time, when we were playing hide-and-seek. But he didn't use it when he robbed us of all those things. Those silk threads at the

科林，他只能用一条腿踩踏板。 杰克是最后一个来的，看上去气冲冲的。 “有什么事吗?珍妮特看到他心烦意乱的样子，问道。 “你在家里惹过什么麻烦吗？”“没有。 “是苏西。”杰克呻吟着说。 “她说她和杰夫今天早上去了我们的山洞，你知道我必须当着苏茜的面把这件事告诉妈妈，当她看到我们走了，她和杰夫决定把它作为他们的见面地点！”这难道不令人抓狂吗？“好吧，随他们去吧！”彼得说。 “愿这对他们大有好处！”艾伯特很可能会像对我们那样去拜访他们，拿走他们的东西！活该！“我真想知道，如果艾伯特不从我们的洞口进去，他是怎么进去的！”珍妮特说。 “我们知道他用过一次，因为那次我们玩捉迷藏的时候杰克看见过他。 但他抢劫我们所有东西的时候并没有用。 那些丝线在