Chapter 7

CHAPTER SEVEN Medicine for Mother "Now, look here everyone," said Joe, "I vote we try and get some medicine for Mother, and then we'll go. Frannie is waiting patiently for us to go back, and I really think we'd better go before Rick or Saucepan do anything funny again." "What medicine do you want?" asked a goblin kindly. "What is wrong with your mother?" "Well, we really don't know, said Rick. "She just lies in bed and looks white and weak, and she worries dreadfully about everything."

第七章 给妈妈的药 “喂，大家听我说，”乔说，“我提议咱们先想办法给妈妈找点药，然后再走。 弗兰妮正耐心等着咱们回去呢，而且我真的觉得咱们最好在里克或者 saucepan 再闹出什么乱子之前就走。” “你们想要什么药呀？”一个小地精和蔼地问道。 “你们的妈妈是哪里不舒服呀？” “呃，我们其实也不清楚，”里克说。 “她就躺在床上，脸色发白，浑身没力气，而且不管什么事都愁得不得了。”

"Oh, well, I should just take a bottle of Get-Well Medicine," said the goblin. "That will be just the thing." "It sounds fine," said Joe. The goblin poured a bubbling yellow liquid into a big bottle and gave it to Joe. He put it carefully into his pocket.

“哦，这样啊，那你们就该带一瓶‘康复灵药’，”小地精说。 “那肯定再合适不过了。” “听上去很棒啊。”乔说。 小地精把冒着泡的黄色液体倒进一个大瓶子里，递给了乔。 他小心翼翼地把瓶子放进了口袋里。

"Thank you," Joe said. "Now, come along everyone. We're going." "Oh, Joe- there's a medicine here for making teeth pearly," said Saucepan, pulling at Joe's arm. "Just let me take some?" "That's for making hair CURLY!" said Joe. "You've heard wrong again. Don't try it.

“谢谢你。”乔说。 “好了，大家跟上。 我们要走了。” “哦，乔——这里有一种能让牙齿变得像珍珠一样亮的药！” saucepan 拽着乔的胳膊说。 “就让我拿点好不好？” “那是让头发变卷的药！”乔说。 “你又听错了。 别瞎试。

Do you want curls growing down to your feet? Now take my arm and don't let go till we're safely back in the tree. If I didn't look after you, you'd have a nose like an elephant's, curly hair down to your toes, and goodness knows what else!" They were not very far from the hole in the cloud, and they were soon climbing down the ladder, leaving behind them the strange Land of Magic Medicines. Joe was very careful of the bottle in his pocket.

你难道想要头发长到拖在脚面上吗？ 现在抓着我的胳膊，咱们安全回到树上之前都别松开。 要是我没看着你，你说不定会长出大象一样的长鼻子，卷头发拖到脚趾头，天知道还会变出什么怪样子！” 他们离云层上的洞口没多远了，没一会儿就顺着梯子往下爬，把那片神奇的灵药国度抛在了身后。 乔把口袋里的药瓶护得紧紧的。

"Now we'll go straight home," he said. "I'm simply longing to give dear old Mother a dose of this magic medicine. It will be so lovely to see her looking well again and rushing round the house as she always did!" Frannie was delighted to see Joe, Beth and Rick back. "Mother doesn't seem quite so well," she said. "She says she has such a bad headache. Did you get some medicine for her, Joe?"

“现在咱们直接回家，”他说。 我可太想快点给亲爱的妈妈喂上一份这个灵药了。 要是能看到她恢复健康，像以前一样在家里忙来忙去，那该多好啊！” 弗兰妮看到乔、贝丝和里克回来，高兴极了。 “妈妈看起来好像更不舒服了，”她说。 “她说头疼得特别厉害。 乔，你给她拿到药了吗？”