Chapter 3-5

The king and queen had taken a long time to get everyone in the royal court moving, but they were only an hour's journey away from the giant when Florizella and Bennett met them on the road. With the royal procession was the royal zoo keeper, the royal surveyor, the royal enchanter, two hundred of the royal guard and about a

国王和王后花了好长时间才把王宫里的所有人都动员起来，不过当弗洛里泽拉和贝内特在路上碰到他们的时候，他们距离巨人只有一小时的路程了。 和王室队伍同行的还有皇家动物园管理员、皇家测量员、皇家魔法师，两百名皇家卫兵，还有大约

hundred other people who had nothing better to do on a fine summer's day than to come along and see what was happening. "Hello, Florizella!" the king said as Florizella came cantering up on Jellybean. "Found the giant?" "Yes!" Florizella said in a rush. "He's only young and he's short-sighted and lonely. But he will go back to his own country if we can help him to plant his vegetable garden." The king blinked a bit. "Oh, good," he said. He smiled at the queen. "Looks like Florizella has it under control. Perhaps we should go home and leave it all to her." The queen smiled. "I'll just see this giant before we go," she said. "Sometimes Florizella's ideas get a little out of hand—" "How do you make glasses?" Florizella interrupted. "For short sight. I need spectacles." "I expect I could magic a little something," the royal enchanter offered grandly. "Go on, then," Florizella said. There was a small clap of thunder, a puff of

一百个别的人，在这个晴朗的夏日里他们没什么更好的事做，就跟着队伍一起来看看会发生什么。 “你好呀，弗洛里泽拉！” 弗洛里泽拉骑着软糖豆小跑过来时，国王开口说道。 “找到巨人了吗？” “找到了！” 弗洛里泽拉急急忙忙地说。 “他还很小，还近视，又孤单。 不过如果我们能帮他种好菜园，他就愿意回自己的国家去。” 国王眨了眨眼睛。 “哦，太好了，”他说。 他对着王后笑了笑。 “看来弗洛里泽拉已经把事情安排得明明白白了。 说不定我们该回家，把这些事都交给她就好。” 王后笑了。 “走之前我得先见见这个巨人，”她说， “有时候弗洛里泽拉的主意会有点离谱——” “眼镜要怎么做呀？” 弗洛里泽拉打断了她的话。 “是给近视的人用的。 我需要一副眼镜。” “我应该能变出点什么来。”皇家魔法师神气十足地主动提议。 “那你快变呀。”弗洛里泽拉说。 传来一声小小的炸响，冒出一股

green smoke and then there, in the road before them, stood the most amazing scene. There were dancing girls with ostrich feathers in their hair, there were elephants, there were fireworks exploding brightly in the sky, there were trapeze artists, there was a railway train painted in gold with a song-and-dance ragtime band on silver wagons behind it. There were dancing bears and acrobats. There were jugglers, and fountains pouring into silver basins. There were rose petals tumbling down in scented showers from out of thin air. "No, no, no!" Florizella said crossly. "I meant a pair of spectacles." The royal enchanter waved his wand again. There was another small explosion, and at once there was a huge Ferris wheel with dancing girls waving and singing from the swinging chairs, a showboat paddling its way up the chalky road with people tap-dancing on the top deck, and a flying circus high in the sky with beautiful girls and handsome men standing on the wings of little biplanes that trailed coloured smoke and flags.

绿烟，接着他们面前的路上就出现了一幅特别惊人的场面。 有头发上插着鸵鸟羽毛的舞女，有大象，有烟花在天上亮闪闪地炸开，有高空秋千表演者，还有一列刷着金漆的火车，火车后面的银色车厢上还有一支拉雷格泰姆音乐的歌舞乐队。 还有会跳舞的熊和杂技演员。 有杂耍艺人，还有往银色盆里喷水的喷泉。 玫瑰花瓣带着香味，像阵雨一样从凭空落下来。 “不对，不对，不对！” 弗洛里泽拉气鼓鼓地说。 “我要的是一副眼镜。” 皇家魔法师又挥了挥他的魔杖。 又传来一声小小的爆炸声，立刻就出现了一个巨大的摩天轮，摩天轮的摇摆座椅里有舞女一边挥手一边唱歌，一艘演艺船沿着白垩质的路往前开，顶层甲板上有人在跳踢踏舞，高空还有飞行马戏团，漂亮的姑娘和帅气的小伙子站在小型双翼飞机的机翼上，飞机后面拖着彩色的烟雾和旗子。

There was a brass band, a troupe of clowns, a magician pulling doves out of every pocket, which flew around in circling flocks, and about a hundred milk-white horses cantering round a circus ring. "No! No!" Florizella said. "A pair of spectacles to help someone who is short-sighted. Glasses!" "Oh, sorry," the royal enchanter said. With a puff of blue smoke the whole thing disappeared as suddenly as it had come. "I say, Florizella, that looked rather fun," the king said wistfully. "But I need glasses for the giant," Florizella said. "He is most dreadfully short-sighted, and until he can see properly he can't go back to his own land and plant his own garden. Is it possible to make glasses big enough to fit him?" she asked. "I don't see why not," the royal surveyor offered. "It's just a question of making ordinary glasses, only ten times bigger." "Can we do it?" Bennett asked. The royal surveyor took a gold pencil from behind his ear and a piece of paper from his

还有一支铜管乐队，一群小丑，一个魔法师从每个口袋里都掏出了鸽子，鸽子成群结队地绕着圈飞，还有大约一百匹乳白色的马绕着马戏场小跑。 “不对！不对！” 弗洛里泽拉说。 “是一副给近视的人戴的眼镜。 眼镜啊！” “哦，抱歉。”皇家魔法师说。 冒出一股蓝烟，所有东西一下子就消失了，就和它们出现的时候一样快。 “我说呀弗洛里泽拉，刚才那看起来还挺有意思的。”国王满是遗憾地说。 “可我需要给巨人做眼镜呀，”弗洛里泽拉说， “他近视得特别厉害，要是他没法好好看东西，就没法回自己的国家，也没法种自己的菜园。 能做出够大的眼镜给他戴吗？” 她问道。 “我看没什么不行的，”皇家测量员主动说道， “就是做普通的眼镜而已，只不过要放大十倍。” “我们能做出来吗？” 贝内特问道。 皇家测量员从耳朵后面拿出一支金铅笔，又从他的

pocket and started doing sums for a long time, whistling softly to himself while he worked. "If everyone in the Seven Kingdoms donated a window from every household, we would have enough glass," he said after a long while. He held up his hand for silence and did his sums again. "If everyone donated a bit of their garden gates, we would have enough metal for the frames," he said. He did some more sums. "If we emptied one of the small pools at the edge of Great Valley Lake, then filled it with all the windowpanes, then made an enormous bonfire with all the wood from Bear Forest on top, keeping it stoked up all the time… we could melt the glass into the right sort of shape for lenses for spectacles." The king and queen gaped. "Burn the wood from Bear Forest?" they asked. "Empty the pools at the edge of Great Valley Lake?" "Great Valley Lake is empty already," Bennett said apologetically. "We made it into lemonade and he drank it. Sorry."

口袋里掏出一张纸，开始算了好长时间的算术，算的时候还在轻声吹着口哨。 “要是七个王国的每一户人家都捐出一扇窗户的玻璃，我们就有足够的玻璃了。”过了好半天他才说道。 他抬手示意大家安静，又重新算了一遍。 “要是每个人都捐出一点自家花园大门的材料，我们就有足够的金属做镜框了。”他说。 他又算了一些数。 “要是我们把大山谷湖边的一个小池塘抽干，再把所有窗玻璃都放进去，然后在上面堆上熊森林里所有的木头生起大火，一直保持火势……我们就能把玻璃熔成做眼镜镜片需要的形状。” 国王和王后都瞪大了眼睛。 “烧掉熊森林里的木头？”他们问道。 “抽干大山谷湖边的池塘？” “大山谷湖已经空啦。”贝内特不好意思地说。 “我们把它变成了柠檬汁，他都喝掉了。 对不起。

"This is an emergency," Florizella said. "If he can't see to plant his seeds, he can't look after himself, which means he can't go home. And everyone called him stupid at school, which isn't fair. And he is awfully nice." "Oh, all right," the king said. "Send out a royal proclamation… but people aren't going to like it."

“这是紧急情况呀。”弗洛里泽拉说。 “要是他看不见，没法播种子，就没法照顾自己，也就是说他没法回家。 以前在学校里大家都叫他笨蛋，这太不公平了。 而且他人特别好。” “唉，好吧。”国王说。 “去发布王室公告……不过大家肯定不会乐意的。”