Chapter 2-5

CHAPTER FiVE Florizella finds it is hard to say goodbye Florizella had hoped her parents would be pleased to discover that she was not enchanted, but had merely adopted a family of wolf cubs, but she was disappointed. For some reason they were not delighted to see her bedroom wrecked and tonight's dinner spread around the floor in chewed bits.

第五章 弗洛里泽拉发现说再见好难 弗洛里泽拉本来以为，父母发现她没有被魔法蛊惑，只是收养了一窝小狼崽，肯定会很高兴，可她失望了。 不知道为什么，他们看到她的卧室被弄得一团糟，今晚的晚餐被啃得碎碎的撒了一地，一点都不开心。

The queen ordered the wolf cubs to be taken to the kennels at once, and told Florizella that she could keep them until they were big enough to hunt for themselves– and then they must be taken back to the forest… At once! "I never get anything I want," Florizella grumbled to Bennett. It was fun keeping the wolf cubs, but they grew very fast. Within a couple of weeks they were too big for Bennett and Florizella to play with all four of them. They were too rough– they thought they were just bouncing around, but when two of them jumped up at Florizella at the same time they sent her flying into the straw bales. A week later and Florizella and Bennett had to give up taking the cubs out for a daily walk. If they all walked in the same direction, it was just about possible. But when they all went in different directions Bennett and Florizella were towed across the yard like a pair of mad waterskiers behind four motorboats. It was hopeless. Worst of all, the cubs thought of themselves as a pack. Samson was pack leader. As soon as they

王后下令立刻把小狼崽送到犬舍，还告诉弗洛里泽拉，她可以养着它们，等它们长到能自己捕猎了，就必须把它们送回森林……马上就送！ “我想要的从来都得不到。”弗洛里泽拉对着班尼特嘟囔。 养小狼崽很有意思，可它们长得太快了。 才过了几周，它们就长得太大了，班尼特和弗洛里泽拉没法同时跟四只小狼一起玩了。 它们下手没轻没重——它们以为自己只是轻轻蹦跳，可要是两只小狼同时跳到弗洛里泽拉身上，能直接把她撞飞到干草垛里去。 又过了一周，弗洛里泽拉和班尼特没法再每天带小狼崽出去散步了。 要是它们都往同一个方向走，那还勉强能牵住。 可要是它们往各个方向乱跑，班尼特和弗洛里泽拉就会被拽着穿过院子，活像四艘摩托艇后面拉着的两个疯疯癫癫的滑水者。 根本没办法。 最糟糕的是，这些小狼崽已经把自己当成一个狼群了。 参孙是狼群的首领。 只要它们一

saw any other animal– a hen in the castle yard, one of the guard's horses, or even one of the king's golden carp minding its own business in the pond– they got themselves into a pack and stalked it. When the king caught them stalking his fish, he was extremely cross. Not even Florizella could argue that they were helpless cubs who needed protection. They were four half-grown wolves, and they had to be free. "Take them back to the forest," the king said at breakfast one day. "Go on, Florizella. It's kinder to them in the long run. Go with Bennett and leave them somewhere in the forest." So Florizella sent a message over to Bennett's castle by carrier pigeon. She was in a hurry so she asked the pigeon if it would mind riding a firework rocket, and very obligingly it did. It was there in a whoosh, and Bennett rode over at once. The two of them, with four big wolf cubs loping cheerfully behind, rode into the darkest, wildest part of the Purple Forest. Florizella and Bennett pulled out four large steaks from their saddlebags and put them down on the grass. The wolf cubs

看到别的动物——城堡院子里的母鸡，卫兵的马，甚至是池塘里乖乖待着的国王养的金鲤鱼——它们都会整整齐齐排成狼群，悄悄跟着猎物走。 国王撞见它们偷偷跟踪自己的鱼的时候，气坏了。 就算是弗洛里泽拉也没法说它们还是需要保护的小奶狼了。 它们是四只半大的狼，应该获得自由。 “把它们送回森林去吧。”某天吃早饭的时候国王说。 “去吧，弗洛里泽拉。 从长远来看，这对它们更好。 你和班尼特一起去，把它们放到森林里合适的地方。” 于是弗洛里泽拉让信鸽给班尼特的城堡送了封信。 她着急得很，就问信鸽愿不愿意坐着烟花火箭飞过去，信鸽特别爽快地答应了。 嗖的一下信就送到了，班尼特立刻骑马赶了过来。 他们两个人骑着马，四只大狼崽开开心心地跟在后面小跑，一路走到了紫色森林最暗、最荒僻的深处。 弗洛里泽拉和班尼特从马鞍袋里掏出四大块牛排，放在草地上。 小狼崽们

leaped on the food as if they were starving. They tried to steal each other's share, rolling over and over and play-fighting with each other, then snatching the steaks and running off with them. "Come on, Florizella," Bennett said softly. "They're all right. Let's go before they miss us." So Florizella and Bennett rode away as quickly as they could, leaving the wolf cubs behind. Florizella cried all the way home, and Bennett was a bit sniffy too. Everyone was very nice to them at the castle because they understood that it was hard to leave the wolf cubs. The queen ordered Florizella's favourite dinner: roast chicken, roast potatoes, peas and carrots, and plum crumble for pudding. With ice cream. The king was very sympathetic. "Don't be sad, Florizella. I'm sure you'll see them again one day. Undoubtedly. Undootedly!"

一下子扑到食物上，好像饿了好久似的。 它们还想抢对方的份，滚来滚去地闹着玩，接着叼起牛排就跑远了。 “走吧，弗洛里泽拉。”班尼特轻声说。 “它们没事的。 趁它们还没想起我们，我们赶紧走吧。” 于是弗洛里泽拉和班尼特骑上马，尽快离开了，把小狼崽留在了那里。 回家的路上弗洛里泽拉哭了一路，班尼特也鼻子发酸。 城堡里的每个人都对他们很好，因为大家都知道，要和小狼崽分开太难受了。 王后吩咐做了弗洛里泽拉最爱吃的晚餐：烤鸡、烤土豆、豌豆和胡萝卜，甜点是李子酥。 还配了冰淇淋。 国王也特别体贴。 “别难过啦，弗洛里泽拉。 我肯定你总有一天会再见到它们的。 肯定会的。 百分百会的！”

Florizella saw them again sooner than she expected. The very next day, in fact. She had left their old kennel door open and when she went to see Jellybean the next morning, four wolf cubs came swarming out, thrilled to see her, and hungry for their breakfast after their long trot back from the forest. The king and the queen were firm. The wolf cubs must go back to the woods. Florizella tacked up Jellybean, whistled to the cubs and led them off again, deep into the Purple Forest. "Goodbye, little wolf cubs," she said sadly. "Goodbye, Samson." When Florizella went to bed that night, she whispered a prayer for her wolf cubs, and Samson the pack leader, and cried herself to sleep. She didn't sleep for long.

弗洛里泽拉再次见到小狼崽的时间，比她预想的要早得多。 实际上，第二天就见到了。 她之前没关旧犬舍的门，第二天早上去看软糖豆的时候，四只小狼崽呼啦啦冲了出来，看见她高兴得不行，从森林一路小跑回来，早就饿得等着吃早饭了。 国王和王后态度很坚决。 小狼崽必须送回森林里去。 弗洛里泽拉给软糖豆套上马鞍，吹口哨叫上小狼崽，又带着它们出发了，一直走到紫色森林的深处。 “再见啦，小狼崽们。”她难过地说。 “再见，参孙。” 那天晚上弗洛里泽拉上床的时候，偷偷为她的小狼崽，还有狼群首领参孙祷告，哭着哭着就睡着了。 可她没睡多久。

In the middle of the night there was a great "Kiyi- yi-yi-yi!" from the garden. Florizella jumped awake at once and ran to look out of her bedroom window. There was the fattest, naughtiest wolf cub, Samson, sitting underneath the moon and singing for her at the top of his squeaky little voice. When he saw her face at the window, he stopped and grinned with his white wolf teeth. Florizella said, "Oh no!" very softly. She opened her window and climbed down the drainpipe. Samson was delighted to see her and bounced around the garden, wanting to play. Florizella took him firmly by his soft ear, led him to the kennels and shut him up for the night. The next day she took him back to the Purple Forest again.

半夜的时候，花园里传来了好大一声“咿呀——咿呀——咿呀！” 弗洛里泽拉一下子惊醒跳了起来，跑到卧室窗边往外看。 是那只圆滚滚、最调皮的小狼崽萨姆森，正坐在月亮底下，扯着他尖细的小嗓子给她唱歌呢。 他看见她出现在窗边，就停了下来，露出白白的狼牙咧嘴笑。 弗洛里泽拉轻轻说了句：“哦，可别呀！” 她打开窗户，顺着排水管爬了下去。 萨姆森见到她可高兴了，在花园里蹦来蹦去，就想和她玩。 弗洛里泽拉牢牢攥住他软乎乎的耳朵，把他领到犬舍里，关了他一整夜。 第二天，她又把他送回了紫森林。