Chapter 2-6

CHAPTER SIX Bennett has a plan that turns out to be brilliant When he arrived, Prince Bennett had A Plan. It was a really great plan with deception and hair dye. He took Florizella to Mrs Fitzherbert's shop, which sold useful white-magic spells and speciality teas. Bennett looked carefully along the

第六章 贝内特有个绝妙的好主意 贝内特王子抵达的时候，心里已经有了个周全的计划。 这计划可太棒了，里头既有用到障眼法，还得用上染发剂。 他带着弗洛里泽拉去了菲茨赫伯特夫人的小店，店里卖的都是好用的白魔法咒语和特色茶饮。 贝内特顺着货架仔细瞅了好一会儿，然后拿出

shelves and showed Florizellaa box. It read: As yollow as Goldilocks! The hair dye for all would-be golden haired goodie-goodias! "What do we do with that?" Florizella asked. "We transform him," Bennett said mysteriously. As soon as they got back to the palace, they caught Samson– who thought it was all a new and exciting game– and washed him thoroughly. Then they smeared the dye all over him and left it on for half an hour. When they rinsed him clean, his coat was as golden as the royal crowns. They had left the dye on his tail a little bit too long– it was slightly green– but they thought no one would notice. They cleaned his teeth. They brushed him well. They even put a pink bow round his neck with a label that read:

一个盒子递给弗洛里泽拉。 盒子上写着：和金发姑娘的头发一样黄！ 这款染发剂，献给所有想拥有金发的乖乖仔乖乖女！ “我们拿这个做什么呀？” 弗洛里泽拉问道。 “我们要改造他呀。”贝内特神神秘秘地说。 他们一回到王宫，就抓住了萨姆森——这小家伙还以为是什么新鲜好玩的游戏呢——乖乖被他们洗得干干净净。 接着他们把染发剂仔仔细细涂满他全身，等着染发剂上色，一等就是半个小时。 等把染发剂冲洗干净，他的皮毛亮得就像王室的王冠一样金闪闪的。 就是尾巴上的染发剂留的时间稍微久了点，带了点发绿的色调，不过他们觉得没人会注意到这点小问题。 他们给他刷了牙。 把他的皮毛梳得顺顺滑滑。 他们甚至在他脖子上系了个粉色蝴蝶结，蝴蝶结上挂着的标签写着：

My name is Sampson. Obelong to Princess Florizella. Please love me. "Ewww!" said Florizella. Even Bennett thought that might be going a bit far. But they agreed that nothing that might help with Samson's transformation from wolf into lapdog should be left out. When he was looking as sweet and as tame as could be, they took him to the king and told him that they'd found this golden puppy and could Florizella possibly keep him? The king said yes. The king said it looked like a well-bred dog to him. The king said it might make a very useful guard dog around the palace. Florizella gulped down all the lies, and smiled and said, "Thank you," and hoped for the best. To Florizella's surprise, Samson the wolf cub settled down very well to being a palace guard

我叫萨姆森。 我是弗洛里泽拉公主的小宝贝。 请你喜欢我呀。 “噫！好肉麻！”弗洛里泽拉叫出声。 就连贝内特都觉得这会不会有点太夸张了。 但他俩都觉得，要帮萨姆森从狼彻底变成家养小宠物，所有能帮上忙的细节都不能漏掉。 等萨姆森看起来软乎乎、乖得不能再乖的时候，他们就把他带到国王面前，说他们捡到了这只金色的小狗狗，问国王能不能让弗洛里泽拉养他。 国王一口就答应了。 国王说，在他看来这狗一看就是血统优良的好品种。 国王还说，这狗说不定能当个特别好用的王宫护卫犬呢。 弗洛里泽拉把这些误会都默默咽进肚子里，笑着对国王说“谢谢您”，心里只盼着一切都能顺顺利利。 让弗洛里泽拉意外的是，小狼萨姆森适应王宫护卫犬的身份适应得特别好

dog, and nobody ever thought that he'd had anything to do with the wolves. He even learned to bark during the day, and though he would howl when there was a full moon, the king slept heavily at nights and did not hear him. During the day, Samson would follow the king everywhere, sitting under the breakfast table, resting his chin on the king's feet, sitting at his side in the royal office. He ignored the golden carp in the pond with an air of utter disdain. He pottered with the king among the roses and made a point of eating greenfly when the king was looking. The king loved him doing that. In the end, everyone accepted the big golden puppy as the palace dog. No one ever realised that under the dyed blond hair was a wild wolf. Every day when Florizella went riding, Samson went too, running alongside Jellybean. Some days Florizella rode beside the river, sometimes she went to the seaside. One day she was late home and took a shortcut through an especially wild part of a forest. She didn't see a dark shadow on a

，从来没人怀疑过他和狼群有半毛钱关系。 他甚至学会了白天汪汪叫，虽然满月的时候他还是忍不住会嚎，但国王晚上睡得特别沉，根本听不见。 白天的时候，萨姆森到哪儿都跟着国王，早餐时钻到桌子底下，把下巴搁在国王的脚边，国王在王室办公时他就乖乖坐在旁边。 他瞅着池塘里的金鲤鱼，一脸满不在乎的高傲模样，连理都不理。 国王去玫瑰园里转悠的时候他也跟着，还特意在国王看着的时候去吃蚜虫。 国王可爱他这个小举动了。 到最后，所有人都接受了这只金色的大狗狗就是王宫的护卫犬。 没人想到，这染成金色的皮毛底下，藏着的是一匹野生的狼。 每天弗洛里泽拉骑马出门的时候，萨姆森都跟着，在果冻豆旁边一路跑着。 有时候弗洛里泽拉会骑着马去河边溜达，有时候会去海边玩。 有一天她回家晚了，就抄了条近路，穿过一片特别荒僻的森林区域。 她没注意到，一棵树的低枝上藏着个黑影

low branch of a tree. Samson didn't see it, either. Jellybean saw it… but too late! It was a black jaguar crouched low and silent, and as Florizella rode underneath the tree the jaguar crashed down on to Jellybean's plump bottom. Jellybean neighed in terror and reared up, shaking the jaguar loose and dumping Florizella on the ground. In a second the horse had raced off. The jaguar took three swift steps after him, then swung round and started coming for Florizella instead! The jaguar's green eyes flashed like jade. Florizella turned and ran as fast as she could for the nearest tree, jumping up to catch the lowest branch. Then she swarmed upwards, climbing like a monkey to get away from the jaguar. This was a good plan with one great flaw: jaguars can climb trees too. And they can climb rather better than princesses. With one smooth bound, the jaguar started up after her, its razor- sharp claws digging into the bark of the tree trunk. But just as it started up the tree, there was a great How-how-howl! of rage, and Samson raced towards

。 萨姆森也没注意到。 果冻豆看见了……可已经来不及了！ 那是一头黑色的美洲豹，正悄无声息地蹲在树枝上，弗洛里泽拉刚骑马走到树下，美洲豹就猛地扑了下来，正好落在果冻豆圆滚滚的屁股上。 果冻豆吓得嘶鸣起来，前蹄高高扬起，一下子把美洲豹甩了下去，弗洛里泽拉也被甩到了地上。 马儿一眨眼的功夫就跑得没影了。 美洲豹追着他飞快地跑了三步，然后突然转过身，反倒朝着弗洛里泽拉走了过来！ 美洲豹的绿眼睛亮得像两块翡翠。 弗洛里泽拉转身就往最近的树跑，拼尽全力跑得飞快，跳起来够到了最低的那根树枝。 接着她就拼命往上爬，像猴子一样爬得飞快，只想离美洲豹远远的。 这个主意挺好，可有个大问题：美洲豹也会爬树啊。 而且他们爬树可比公主厉害多了。 美洲豹轻轻一跃就跟着往树上爬， razor锋利的爪子深深抠进了树干的树皮里。 可就在它刚开始往树上爬的时候，突然传来了一声响亮的“嗷——嗷——嗷！” 那是充满愤怒的嚎叫，紧接着萨姆森就朝着

the jaguar and leaped and bit, fastening his teeth on to its fat black tail. That gave Florizella the chance she needed. Up and up she went until she reached the small branches where the heavy jaguar could not follow her. Then she turned and screamed to Samson to fetch help from the palace. The wolf dropped the jaguar's tail and the jaguar turned round, snarling and slashing at him, but Samson was too quick. He streaked away in the direction of the palace, howling, "Ki-yi-yi-yi-yi!" as he went. Florizella gave a cheer in a rather scared voice when she saw Samson racing off. But then she fell silent. Down at the foot of the tree, the jaguar had realised that it could not climb up and get Florizella. But it did not go away. It settled down, eyed Florizella and licked its lips. At first Florizella thought how silly it was to sit there, tail curled round its paws like a big black cat. Then she thought how scary it was to sit there, waiting and waiting. And then she realised that the jaguar was a lot

美洲虎纵身一跃狠狠咬下，牙齿死死咬住了它那条肥嘟嘟的黑尾巴。 这可给了弗洛里泽拉急需的好机会。 她一个劲儿地往上爬，一直爬到了细树枝的位置，笨重的美洲虎根本没法跟着爬上来。 接着她转过身，大声呼喊萨姆森，让它回王宫搬救兵。 狼松开了美洲虎的尾巴，美洲虎猛地转过身，一边怒吼一边挥爪朝它扑去，可萨姆森动作快极了。 它朝着王宫的方向飞奔而去，一边跑一边嚎叫：“咿——呀——呀——呀——呀！” 一路都叫个不停。 弗洛里泽拉看见萨姆森跑远了，用还带着点发抖的声音欢呼了一声。 可她很快就没了声响。 树底下的美洲虎已经反应过来，自己爬不到上面去抓弗洛里泽拉。 但它压根没打算走。 它蹲坐下来，眼睛死死盯着弗洛里泽拉，还舔了舔嘴唇。 一开始弗洛里泽拉还觉得它那样坐在那儿，尾巴绕在爪子上，活像一只大黑猫，傻里傻气的。 可紧接着她又觉得，它就这么坐在那儿等啊等啊，实在太吓人了。 然后她才意识到，这只美洲虎可比她之前想的要