Chapter 3-4

Within an hour, Bennett had the Seven Kingdoms" fire brigade– all twenty-three fire engines– lined up beside the largest lake in the kingdom, pumping kilos of sugar and litres of lemon juice into it, and then pumping the whole sticky, sweet, glorious lake of lemonade into their enormous tanks.

不到一个小时，班纳特就集结了七国的消防队——整整23辆消防车，一字排开停在王国最大的湖边，先是把成公斤的糖和成升的柠檬汁倒进湖里，再把这一整湖黏糊糊、甜丝丝、超棒的柠檬水抽进消防车的巨型储水罐里。

All the children from the nearest school– Great Valley Lake School– played truant for the whole day and went down to the lakeside with straws and sucked until they were blue in the face from lack of air, and then green in the face from too much lemonade. Then, with Bennett sitting beside the driver on the box of the leading fire engine (he had always longed to do that) and with the siren going Honk! Honk! Honk!, the entire brigade of twenty-three fire engines went roaring down the road to the Plain Green Plains where the giant was sitting patiently, as still as a rock in the little wood, waiting for Florizella and Bennett to come back. The firemen unpacked their thickest and longest hosepipe and held it up to the giant. Simon put it carefully into his cavernous mouth, and then they pumped a steady stream of sweet lemonade up to him, emptying every one of the twenty-three fire engines until at last the giant burped an earth-shattering burp and said, "Pardon me." Meanwhile Florizella, mounted on Jellybean

最近的那所学校——大峡谷湖校的所有孩子逃了一整天的课，拿着吸管跑到湖边，猛吸柠檬水吸到缺氧脸都发青，又因为喝太多柠檬水脸都发绿了。 接着，班纳特坐在头辆消防车驾驶座旁的高位上（这可是他盼了好久的事），警笛鸣着：嗡！ 嗡！ 嗡！23辆消防车组成的整支队伍轰隆隆开向绿原平原，巨人正耐心地坐在那儿，像小树林里的一块石头似的一动不动，等着弗洛里泽拉和班纳特回来。 消防员们搬出最粗最长的消防水管，举到巨人面前。 西蒙小心翼翼把水管放进他巨洞似的嘴里，大家就把甜甜的柠檬水稳稳地抽给他喝，23辆消防车的水都抽得干干净净，最后巨人打了个震天响的嗝，说：“不好意思呀。” 与此同时，弗洛里泽拉骑在果冻豆背上

with Samson trotting behind her– very fast away from the giant, rather slowly back towards him was riding round to every nearby farmhouse asking everyone to come at once and to bring all the food they had in their larder for the biggest picnic in history. They weren't at all keen. There were still a number of people who thought the giant should be murdered while he slept. There were even more who thought the king and queen– or Florizella and Bennett– should move him on without delay. But Florizella, who could be very persuasive, told them all that the only way they would get rid of the giant for good would be to feed him up, equip him with glasses and seeds, then help him to go home. "He doesn't want to stay!" she said. "So we have to help him find his way home. Besides, he doesn't mean any harm. He's only little." How Florizella could call an enormous giant "little" was beyond most people. But the nicer people felt sorry for Simon. And the crosser ones were not going to attack him on their own. So

参孙跟在她身后小跑——离巨人远的时候跑得飞快，往回靠近他的时候就慢得很，她正骑着马挨个儿拜访附近的农庄，请所有人都马上过来，把家里食品柜里的食物全都带上，来参加有史以来最盛大的野餐会。 大家一开始都不太乐意。 还有不少人觉得应该趁巨人睡觉的时候把他除掉。 更多人觉得国王和王后——要么就是弗洛里泽拉和班纳特——应该立刻把他赶走。 但弗洛里泽拉特别会说服人，她告诉大家，要想彻底摆脱巨人，唯一的办法就是把他喂饱，给他配上眼镜和种子，再帮他回家。 “他根本不想留在这儿！” 她说。 “所以我们得帮他找到回家的路呀。 再说了，他一点恶意都没有。 他还只是个小不点儿呢。” 大部分人都搞不懂，弗洛里泽拉怎么能把这么个庞然大物叫“小不点儿”。 但心地好的人都很同情西蒙。 脾气坏的那些也不敢单独去攻击他。 于是

Florizella got her way and very soon led them all, in wagons and farm carts, coaches and carriages, to the wood on the Plain Green Plains where the giant was obediently sitting as still as he could. They built great bonfires. They roasted oxen on spits as big as trees. They piled mound upon mound of bread dough into bathtubs and set them to cook on the hot embers. They baked a thousand potatoes in the hot ashes, they trailed string after string of sausages like bunting through the flames, where they cooked and spat and sizzled. They found a big empty swimming pool from somewhere and threw hundreds of lettuces into it, tomatoes by the thousand and lorry-loads of onions for a fresh salad. "Not more onions!" Florizella said. They went to a garden centre and bought the biggest ornamental fishpond that anyone had ever seen, with a lovely circular wavy edge, and into it they poured all the milk from the dairy and all the custard powder they could lay their hands on. They stirred it up and then poured a long stream of red jelly on top. When it had set, which took

弗洛里泽拉说服了大家，没过多久就领着所有人，坐着运货马车、农场小推车、大客车和小马车，去往绿原平原上的小树林，巨人正乖乖坐在那儿，尽量一动不动。 他们生起了一大堆篝火。 他们用树干那么粗的烤肉叉烤整头牛。 他们把一堆又一堆的面团放进浴缸里，搁在滚烫的余烬上烤。 他们在热灰里烤了一千个土豆，把一串又一串像彩旗似的香肠架在火上烤，烤得滋滋冒油、噼啪作响。 他们不知从哪儿找来了一个空的大游泳池，往里面扔了几百颗生菜、几千个番茄，还有好几卡车的洋葱，做新鲜沙拉。 “别放那么多洋葱啦！” 弗洛里泽拉说。 他们去了园艺中心，买了有史以来最大的观赏鱼池，鱼池的圆形边缘还带着好看的波浪纹，他们把乳品厂所有的牛奶和能找到的所有吉士粉都倒了进去。 他们把东西搅匀，再在上面倒了长长一道红色果冻液。 等果冻凝固的时候——这花了

several hours, they called out the Seven Kingdoms" world-famous weight-lifting team. Dressed only in their smart blue trunks, their great muscles bulging with the strain, the twenty strong men stood on one side of the enormous jelly mould. At the count of three they tipped it up, slowly, slowly, slowly, until it was on its side and then crashed down on to a sheet of corrugated iron that was to be the giant's pudding plate. They stepped back, bowed at the crowd and slapped each other on the back. That was the first stage completed. The second stage was even harder. They all stood round the upside-down jelly mould and gripped the rim. They heaved and heaved and heaved, while their muscles bulged and their eyes popped out and their faces went most dreadfully red. There was an exciting moment when nothing happened, and then with a great Flubb ubb ubb

好几个小时，他们叫来了七国闻名世界的举重队。 20个壮汉只穿着帅气的蓝色运动短裤，浑身的肌肉因为用力都鼓了起来，他们站在这个巨型果冻模子的一边。 数到三的时候，他们慢慢把模子掀起来，慢腾腾，慢腾腾，慢腾腾，直到模子侧过来，“哐当”一声落在一块波纹铁皮上，这块铁皮就是给巨人用的布丁盘子。 他们往后退了几步，朝人群鞠了一躬，互相拍了拍后背。 第一阶段就完成啦。 第二阶段可要难得多。 他们都围着倒扣的果冻模子站好，紧紧抓住模子的边缘。 他们使劲抬呀抬呀抬呀，肌肉都鼓了起来，眼睛都凸出来了，脸涨得通红通红的。 一开始什么动静都没有，大家正紧张着呢，接着传来“扑通扑通扑通”的一声巨响

ubb ubb… …the biggest jelly-and-custard trifle in the world slithered out of the jelly mould and sat wobbling temptingly in the sunlight like a red- and-yellow island. When it was all ready, two hundred sea scouts from the Seven Kingdoms" navy struggled up with a great sail from a tall-masted ship. Carefully they spread it out, heaved it up on to the giant's knees and heaped all the food on it. Then the giant, using his huge fat fingers, very carefully picked up all the potatoes, sausages, bread, roasted oxen and salad, and ate and ate and ate. He used a scoop from a bulldozer to eat the trifle. It was like a dainty little teaspoon in his hand. He dug into the jelly-and-custard island, shovel after shovel, until finally it was all gone. Every delicious slurpy bit.

咕咚咕咚……全世界最大的果冻奶油松糕从果冻模子里滑了出来，在阳光下晃来晃去，看起来诱人极了，就像一座红黄相间的小岛。 一切准备妥当后，来自七王国海军的两百名海童军扛着一艘高桅杆大船的巨帆，吃力地走了过来。 他们小心翼翼地把帆铺开，抬到巨人的膝盖上，再把所有食物都堆在上面。 接着巨人伸出他又粗又胖的大手指，小心翼翼地抓起所有土豆、香肠、面包、烤牛和沙拉，吃啊吃啊吃个不停。 他用推土机的铲斗来吃松糕。 那铲斗在他手里就像一把精巧的小茶匙。 他挖向这座果冻奶油小岛，一铲接一铲，最后把松糕吃了个精光。 每一口软乎乎的美味都没剩下。