Chapter 1

The Land of GOODIES

美食王国

CHAPTER ONE The Woodpecker Brings a Note Joe, Beth, Frannie and Rick were usually very good children, but they had been rather naughty lately. Rick and Joe quarrelled, and they fell over when they began to wrestle with one another, and broke a little table. Then Beth scorched a tablecloth when she was ironing it- and Frannie tore a hole in her clothes when she went picking blackberries.

第一章 啄木鸟送来便条 乔、贝丝、弗兰妮和瑞克平时都是很乖的小朋友，可最近他们实在有点调皮。 瑞克和乔吵了架，两个人扭打在一起的时候摔了一跤，把一张小桌子砸坏了。 之后贝丝熨桌布的时候把布烫焦了——而弗兰妮去摘黑莓的时候，把自己的衣服扯破了一个洞。

"Really, you are all very careless lately," said their mother. "Joe, you will mend that table as best you can. Rick, you must help him- and if I see you quarrelling like that again I shall send you both to bed at once. Frannie, why didn't you put on your old clothes when you went to pick blackberries, as I told you to? Now you will have to mend your clothes, and properly." Beth had to wash the tablecloth carefully to try and get the scorch marks out of it.

“哎呀，你们最近一个个都太不小心了。”妈妈说。 “乔，你要尽量把那张桌子修好。 瑞克，你得帮他——要是我再看到你们像那样吵架，我马上就让你们俩都上床睡觉去。 弗兰妮，你去摘黑莓的时候怎么不按我叮嘱的那样穿旧衣服呢？ 现在你得把自己的衣服补好，要补得整整齐齐的。” 贝丝则得小心地清洗那块桌布，尽量把上面的焦印洗掉。

"Oh my, it's a pity all these things have happened this week, groaned Joe to Rick, as the two boys did their best to mend the table. I'm afraid the Land of Goodies will come and go before we get there! I daren't ask Mother or Father if we can go off to the Faraway Tree. We've been so careless that they are sure to say no." "Moon-Face and the others will be wondering why we don't go," said Beth, almost in tears.

“唉，真倒霉，这周怎么偏偏出了这么多事啊。”两个男孩尽力修桌子的时候，乔对瑞克抱怨道。 我怕等我们能去的时候，美食王国都已经走了！ 我都不敢问爸爸妈妈能不能去遥远之树那边。 我们这么毛手毛脚的，他们肯定不会同意的。” “圆脸和其他人肯定会奇怪我们怎么不去了。”贝丝说着，眼泪都快掉下来了。

They were. The Land of Goodies had come, and a delicious smell kept coming down the ladder. Moon-Face waited and waited for the children to come, but they didn't. Then he heard that the Land of Goodies was going to move away the next afternoon, and he wondered what to do.

他们确实在奇怪。 美食王国已经来了，一阵阵诱人的香味不停地顺着梯子飘下来。 圆脸等啊等，等着小朋友们过来，可他们一直没出现。 后来他听说美食王国第二天下午就要离开了，正发愁不知道该怎么办才好。

"We said we'd wait for the children- but we don't want to miss going ourselves," he said to Silky. "We had better send a note to them. Perhaps something has happened to stop them coming."

“我们本来说好要等孩子们的——可我们也不想自己错过这次机会啊。”他对西尔基说。 “我们最好给他们送张便条去。 说不定是出了什么事，他们来不了了。”