Chapter 2-3

CHAPTER THREE Florizella eats a varied diet There was uproar in the palace when Jellybean galloped in with his reinsloose, and the stirrups flapping, and no Florizella. There were search parties in all directions and diviners with wands. They were all very relieved when Florizella walked in the next morning, damp and rather smelly, and told them all about her night in the

第三章 弗洛里泽拉的饮食多种多样 当果冻豆狂奔着冲进宫殿时，里面一片哗然，它的缰绳松松垮垮，马镫晃来晃去，背上却没有弗洛里泽拉的身影。 大家立刻派出了往各个方向搜寻的队伍，还有拿着魔杖的占卜师一起帮忙。 第二天早上，当弗洛里泽拉走进宫门时，所有人都松了一大口气。她浑身湿漉漉的，身上还怪味刺鼻，接着便给大家讲起了自己在

wolves" cave. Then she begged the king and queen to outlaw wolf-hunting for the season, so that the four little wolf cubs could grow up safely in the Purple Forest. And Florizella's mother and father– who believed in magic and in paying debts– agreed that their daughter had been spared by the wolves, so the least they could do was to make sure that all wolves were safe for a season. Throughout the land of the Seven Kingdoms everyone was warned that wolf-hunting was illegal for the rest of the year. All the wolves– including the quite beastly ones– enjoyed a pleasant holiday eating other people's goats, popping into hen houses and howling at the full moon. One day Princess Florizella was in the courtyard feeding the golden carp inthe fountain pond when a trader rode into the castle yard. He was very red-faced and hot because he wore or carried all his stock. He was wearing three shirts, two jackets

狼穴里过夜的经历。 然后她恳求国王和王后在这个季节禁止猎狼，好让四只小狼崽能在紫森林里平安长大。 弗洛里泽拉的父母既相信魔法，也看重知恩图报，他们觉得既然狼群放过了自己的女儿，那至少也要保证这一整年所有狼都能安全无虞。 随后整个七大王国的百姓都接到了通知：今年余下的时间里，猎狼是违法行为。 所有的狼——就连那些特别凶的坏狼也不例外——都过上了舒服的好日子：偷吃别人家的山羊，溜进鸡窝偷鸡，对着满月嗥叫。 有一天，弗洛里泽拉公主正在院子里，喂喷泉池里的金鲤鱼，这时一个商人骑马进了城堡的院子。 他满脸通红，浑身冒汗，因为他把所有要卖的货都穿在了身上、背在了背上。 他身上套了三件衬衫，两件短外套

and four capes. His poor horse was quite bowlegged under the weight of the saddle packs. He had toys in the right-side pack, and books in the left. He had bolts of cloth strapped on the back of the saddle, a carpet rolled up in front– and spread out over the horse's hindquarters… he had a pair of beautiful fresh wolfskins. As soon as Florizella saw them, she let out a shriek and raced up to him and grabbed his stirrup leather. "Where did you hunt those wolves?" she demanded, so fiercely that the man was quite afraid. "In the Purple Forest," he said, looking over her head to the grooms. One of them made a warning face at him, but he had travelled so far, and for so long, that he did not know this girl was Princess Florizella, and he did not know about the ban on wolf-hunting. "How could you!" said Florizella, nearly crying. "Was it a male and a female?" "Yes, a pair," he said. "I trapped them by a tree that had been struck by lightning, just beside the track."

还有四件斗篷。 他那可怜的马儿驮着沉甸甸的鞍囊，腿都被压得快弯成弓了。 马儿右边的鞍囊里装着玩具，左边的装着书。 马鞍后面捆着一匹匹布料，前面卷着一张地毯——而铺在马屁股上的……是两张漂亮的新狼皮。 弗洛里泽拉一看见这两张狼皮，立刻尖叫一声，冲上前一把抓住了他的马镫皮带。 “你在哪里猎到这些狼的？” 她怒气冲冲地质问，那模样把商人吓得够呛。 “在紫森林里。”他回答道，眼睛越过她的头顶看向马夫们。 有个马夫冲他使了个警告的眼色，可他走了太远的路，花了太长时间，根本不知道眼前的女孩就是弗洛里泽拉公主，也不知道这里颁布了禁猎狼的命令。 “你怎么能这么做！”弗洛里泽拉说，眼泪都快掉下来了。 “是不是一公一母？” “对，是一对。”他说。 “我在一棵被闪电劈过的树旁边逮到它们的，就在小路边上。”

Florizella looked at him as if he were worse than a slug. "That's forbidden!" she said furiously. "There was to be no hunting of wolves this season to protect a special family of wolves. They lived in a cave near that tree. I think you've killed them!" The trader stammered that he had not known about the ban on wolf-hunting, but Florizella looked at him as if he were worse than a slug: a squashed slug, an old, dried-out squashed slug, until he stopped and shrugged his shoulders, and said there was nothing he could do about it. For the wolves were dead and that was the end of it. It wasn't the end as far as Florizella was concerned. She felt that she owed the wolves a debt of gratitude. They could have attacked her, but instead they had shared their cave with her. They could have eaten her up, but instead they had kept her warm. So, while the trader was in the castle apologising to the king and queen, Florizella went to the kitchen and fetched a strong basket, lined it

弗洛里泽拉看着他，觉得他比鼻涕虫还让人讨厌。 “那是违法的！” 她气冲冲地说。 “这个季节禁止猎狼，就是为了保护一家特别的狼。 它们就住在那棵树附近的山洞里。 你肯定把它们杀了！” 商人结结巴巴地说自己不知道禁猎狼的命令，可弗洛里泽拉盯着他，觉得他比鼻涕虫还可恶：是只被踩扁的鼻涕虫，还是只干巴巴的老扁鼻涕虫，最后他干脆闭了嘴，耸耸肩，说事已至此他也没办法。 毕竟狼已经死了，一切都没法挽回了。 可对弗洛里泽拉来说，事情远远没有结束。 她觉得自己欠狼群一份恩情。 它们当初本可以袭击她，反而却和她共享山洞。 它们本可以把她吃掉，反而还为她取暖。 于是，趁商人在城堡里向国王和王后道歉的时候，弗洛里泽拉去厨房拿了个结实的篮子，在里面垫上

with a soft tea towel (which she took without asking!), whistled for Jellybean and set off for the Purple Forest. Why did she need the strong basket and the soft tea towel? Wait and see. Florizella had no difficulty in finding the track, and as soon as she came to the tree that had been struck by lightning she tied Jellybean to one of the fallen branches and set off up the little hill. Outside the wolves" cave she stopped and called softly. If they were still alive she didn't really want to meet them again. She wasn't altogether sure that they would be so hospitable on a second visit. But there was no noise from the cave except a very soft whimpering, which sounded like cubs. It sounded like four very hungry cubs. Florizella forgot all about being careful and plunged into the narrow entrance of the cave,

一块柔软的茶巾（她都没打招呼就拿走了！），吹了声口哨唤来果冻豆，就往紫森林出发了。 她要结实的篮子和软茶巾做什么呢？ 往下看你就知道啦。 弗洛里泽拉没费力气就找到了那条小路，一走到那棵被闪电劈过的树旁，她就把果冻豆拴在一根断树枝上，接着就往小山上走。 走到狼洞外面时，她停下脚步，轻轻喊了几声。 要是大狼还活着，她其实不太想再和它们碰面。 她也拿不准，自己第二次上门，它们还会不会那么好客。 可洞里没有别的动静，只有一阵很轻的呜咽声，听起来像是小狼崽发出来的。 听着像是四只饿坏了的小狼崽。 弗洛里泽拉瞬间把小心谨慎全抛到了脑后，一头冲进了狭窄的洞口，

blinking so that she could see in the gloom. Four little wolf cubs came squirming up and climbed all over her riding boots. Florizella bent down and stroked them. To her horror they were not fat little creatures any more. They were thin, so thin that she could feel their sharp little ribs and the bony knobbly bits on their spines. They had not been fed for several days. Florizella put down the basket and, one by one, lifted the skinny, squirming cubs into it. (That was what the basket was for!) When she picked it up, it was surprisingly heavy. She carried it carefully down the hill to where Jellybean was waiting. Jellybean didn't really like carrying a basket of wolves, but he went as steady as a rock all the way back to the castle, because he knew that Florizella had only one hand on the reins. And Florizella was lucky when she got home for there was no one in the courtyard, and no one on the stairs. She got the basket with the cubs in it all the way up to her room, and no one spotted her. Then she went straight downstairs to the kitchen and told the cook that she was starving

她眨了眨眼睛，好让自己在昏暗里能看清东西。 四只小狼崽扭扭捏捏地凑过来，爬到她的骑靴上，爬得满靴子都是。 弗洛里泽拉弯下腰摸了摸它们。 让她吓了一跳的是，它们不再是圆滚滚的小毛球了。 它们瘦得厉害，她都能摸到它们尖尖的小肋骨，还有脊柱上凸出来的骨节。 它们已经好几天没吃东西了。 弗洛里泽拉放下篮子，把这些瘦巴巴、扭来扭去的小狼崽一只一只拎进篮子里。 （这篮子本来就是用来装东西的呀！） 她把篮子提起来的时候，发现它沉得出奇。 她小心地拎着篮子走下山，果冻豆正在那儿等着她呢。 果冻豆其实不太乐意驮着一篮子狼，可回去的路上他走得稳得像块石头，因为他知道弗洛里泽拉只有一只手抓着缰绳。 弗洛里泽拉回到家的时候运气很好，院子里没人，楼梯上也没人。 她拎着装着小狼崽的篮子一路走到自己的房间，没人发现她。 然后她立刻下楼跑到厨房，跟厨师说自己快饿死了