Chapter 1-5

CHAPTER FIVE The difficulties of being different But next morning, before anyone was up, there was a great Tooroo! Tooroo! at the palace gates, and in galloped Prince Bennett with half a dozen of his courtiers, a dozen soldiers and a couple of trumpeters. Just a small informal visit. He had come to see the king, for someone had told him that Princess Florizella was locked in her

第五章 与众不同的难处 可第二天早上，大家还没起床的时候，王宫门口传来了好响的“嘟——噜！” “嘟——噜！” 班尼特王子策马冲了进来，身后跟着六个侍臣、十二个士兵还有两个号手。 就是个随便的小拜访而已。 他是来见国王的，因为有人告诉他，弗洛里泽拉公主被锁在房间里，除非她答应嫁给王子，否则国王不会放她出来。

room and that the king would not let her out until she promised to marry the prince. Prince Bennett popped up to the king's bedroom and argued with him while the king sat up in bed and longed for his morning tea. He had never liked Bennett less than he did at that moment. Just think of him married to Florizella and living in the palace! the king warned himself. I'd never have a peaceful morning. But, out loud, all he said was that Prince Bennett should go home and wait for a message, and that he was certain Florizella would agree to a wedding soon. And then the footmen finally poured the morning cup of tea, and the king looked so hard at the door and at Prince Bennett and back again, that even the prince could see he was very much in the way. So he made a bow and got himself out of the room as quickly as he could go backwards. (You're not supposed to turn your back on the royals. It's a nuisance when you're in a hurry.) Prince Bennett didn't go home, of course. He at

房间里，除非她答应嫁给王子，否则国王不会放她出来。 班尼特王子噔噔噔跑到国王的卧室，和国王理论起来，国王坐在床上，满脑子只想喝他的早茶。 他从来没像现在这样讨厌过班尼特。 想想看，他要是娶了弗洛里泽拉，还住在王宫里！ 国王在心里警告自己。 我以后再也别想有安安静静的早上了。 可他嘴上只说让班尼特王子先回家等消息，还说他肯定弗洛里泽拉很快就会同意结婚的。 这时候仆人们终于端来了早茶，国王一会儿盯着门，一会儿盯着班尼特王子，眼神来回飘，就连王子都看出来自己特别碍事。 于是他鞠了一躬，倒着步子飞快地退出了房间。 （你可不能背对王室成员哦。 赶时间的时候可真麻烦。） 班尼特王子当然没有回家。 他至少还知道遇到这种情况，王子该怎么做。

least knew how a prince should behave in a crisis. He popped round to the back of the castle and hooted like an owl until Princess Florizella put her head out of the window and said, "Don't be silly, Bennett. Everyone knows owls come out at night. Besides, that wasn't anything like an owl." Then they argued about whether or not owls made calls like too-wit-too-whoo, or whether it was more like hoo-hee, hoo-hoo, and whether they came out at dawn or dusk. They made owl calls at each other until all the windows of the castle opened and lots of people put their heads out to see what was going on. "What on earth is that racket?" the queen asked her maid, pausing in the middle of trying on one of her twenty crowns.

他至少还知道遇到这种情况，王子该怎么做。 他绕到城堡后面，学猫头鹰叫，叫到弗洛里泽拉公主把头探出窗外，对他说：“别傻了，班尼特。 谁都知道猫头鹰是晚上才出来的。 再说了，你叫得一点都不像猫头鹰。” 然后他们就争了起来，争论猫头鹰的叫声到底是“嘟——威嘟——呼”，还是更像“呼——嘿，呼——呼”，还有它们是黎明出来还是黄昏出来。 他俩对着彼此学猫头鹰叫，叫到城堡所有窗户都打开了，好多人都探出头来看发生了什么事。 “这吵死人的声音到底是怎么回事？” 王后问她的侍女，她试戴二十顶王冠中的一顶，试到一半停了下来。

"Princess Florizella's young prince, Your Majesty, making secret signals to her," said the maid, leaning out of the window to have a good look. "He's come to rescue her, then," said the queen, extremely pleased. "That's very prompt. I like a young man who gets on with a rescue. When I was a princess, my future husband, the dear king, was very late. I was tied to a rock for three days, and if the sea monster had not had an upset stomach, my dear husband might have been too late altogether. It's not all fun being a princess, you know." The maid nodded and looked out of the window again.

“是弗洛里泽拉公主的那位年轻王子呀，陛下，他在给公主发秘密信号呢。”侍女一边说，一边探出窗户好好看了看。 “这么说他是来救她的呀。”王后说，开心得不得了。 “动作可真快。 我就喜欢这种救人干脆利落的小伙子。 我还是公主的时候，我未来的丈夫，就是咱们亲爱的国王，可慢了。 我被绑在岩石上绑了三天，要不是那只海怪闹肚子，我亲爱的丈夫说不定就彻底赶不上了。 你知道吧，当公主可不全是好玩的事。” 侍女点了点头，又看向窗外。

"He's climbing up to her bedroom, ma'am," she said. "That's unusual," said the queen, with interest. "I'd have thought Florizella would have had the sheets knotted together by now. How is he climbing? Not by her hair– it's not nearly long enough. She will keep having it cut. I told her she'd need it one of these days." "Up the ivy, ma'am," said the maid. "Looks a bit unsteady to me." The queen smiled because it had been her idea to plant the ivy outside Princess Florizella's bedroom on the very morning that she was born, to be ready for just such an occasion. And now here was Prince Bennett climbing up it to free Florizella! It was very gratifying. Next, Bennett would rescue Florizella and ride away with her. Then the queen and the king could forgive them and they could all have a wonderful party and live happily ever after. But she should have remembered that Florizella was not like other princesses. Prince Bennett should have remembered that

“他正往她的卧室爬呢，夫人。”她说。 “这可不多见呀。”王后饶有兴致地说。 我还以为弗洛里泽拉早就把床单系成绳子了呢。 他是怎么爬的？ 不会是抓她的头发吧——她头发可没那么长。 她总爱剪头发。 我早就跟她说过，哪天她肯定用得上长头发的。” “顺着常春藤爬呢，夫人。”侍女说。 “我看着有点不稳当。” 王后笑了，因为弗洛里泽拉公主出生的那天早上，就是她出主意把常春藤种在公主卧室外面的，就是为了等这样的场合。 现在班尼特王子正顺着它往上爬，要去救弗洛里泽拉！ 这可太让人满意了。 接下来，班尼特会救走弗洛里泽拉，带着她骑马离开。 然后国王和我就可以原谅他们，大家一起办个超棒的宴会，从此开开心心地生活在一起。 可她该记得，弗洛里泽拉和别的公主不一样呀。 班尼特王子也该记得，

Florizella was not like other princesses. She was not a bit grateful to him for climbing up the ivy. "But I've come to rescue you!" Bennett protested, scrambling through the window and diving head-first on to the floor. "How did you get to my bedroom window?" she demanded as if she had not seen him scrambling, and grabbing for the drainpipe when a branch broke. "The ivy," Bennett said, surprised at the question. "And don't you think," said Florizella sarcastically, "that if you can climb up, then I can perfectly well climb down?" Bennett said nothing. He hadn't thought of that. He was so used to the old idea of princesses sitting still and waiting to be rescued that he had forgotten Florizella did not follow the Princess Rules. "Just go," said Florizella, giving him a little push towards the window. "It's bad enough with everyone nagging me to marry you, without you

弗洛里泽拉和别的公主不一样。 他顺着常春藤爬上来，她可一点都不感激。 “可我是来救你的呀！” 班尼特抗议着，费力地爬进窗户，一头栽倒在地上。 “你是怎么爬到我卧室窗户这儿来的？” 她质问道，仿佛刚才没看见他爬的时候树枝断了，还伸手去抓排水管似的。 “顺着常春藤呀。”班尼特说，对这个问题很是惊讶。 “那你就没想过，”弗洛里泽拉讽刺地说，“你能爬上来，我当然也能爬下去？” 班尼特没说话。 他还真没想过这一点。 他早就习惯了老一套的想法，觉得公主都会安安静静待着等人来救，忘了弗洛里泽拉根本不遵守那些公主守则。 “你走吧。”弗洛里泽拉说着，轻轻把他往窗户那边推了推。 所有人都催着我嫁给你就够烦的了，你还来