Chapter 3-2

CHAPTER TWO In which Courier discovers it is harder to get rid of cars than invent them "It's going to be all right. This is fairytale land," Florizella assured Courier. "We can get the royal enchanter to uninvent your car. We can have the future we want." So the three children parked Courier's brilliant invention, the car, at the side of a grassy track that was bordered with wild flowers, and busy with bees.

第二章 这一章里，库瑞尔发现淘汰汽车可比发明汽车难多了“会没事的。 这里可是童话王国呀。”弗洛里泽拉安慰库瑞尔。 “我们可以找皇家魔法师来消除你发明的汽车。 我们能拥有想要的未来。” 于是三个孩子把库瑞尔的绝妙发明——汽车，停在了一条青草小径旁，小径边长满了野花，还有蜜蜂忙着采蜜。

"How do we get the royal enchanter to come and uninvent it?" Courier asked. "Should I invent a telephone?" "No!" Bennett and Florizella said together. "That's enough inventions for one day," Florizella told him. "You get a royal enchanter by wishing for one. They know when they're wanted." The three of them joined hands, closed their eyes and wished very earnestly that an enchanter would come and help them out with Courier's inconvenient invention. There was a rumble like thunder and a crack of lightning, and not one, not two, but three enchanters suddenly appeared in the middle of the hand-clasped children. "Oh!" Florizella said. "Three of you." "Three wishes," the royal enchanter of the Seven Kingdoms told her severely. "That's a good number for wishes, but usually you do one after another." He smiled and started his only enchanter joke. "And d'you know what number three wish should be?"

“我们要怎么让皇家魔法师过来消除它呀？” 库瑞尔问。 “要我发明个电话吗？” “不行！” 贝内特和弗洛里泽拉异口同声地说。 “一天发明的东西已经够多啦。”弗洛里泽拉告诉他。 “你只要许愿，皇家魔法师就会来的。 他们知道什么时候有人需要自己。” 三个人手拉手，闭上眼睛，非常诚恳地许愿，希望能有个魔法师来帮他们处理库瑞尔这个带来麻烦的发明。 一阵雷鸣似的轰隆声响起，闪过一道闪电，突然，不是一个，不是两个，整整三个魔法师出现在了手拉手的孩子们中间。 “哦！” 弗洛里泽拉说。 “来了三位呀。” “三个愿望呀。”七国的皇家魔法师严肃地对她说。 “用来许愿倒是个好数字，不过通常你们得一个一个许。” 他笑了起来，开始讲他那唯一一个魔法师笑话。 “你们知道第三个愿望该许什么吗？”

"Yes," Florizella said. "You do? How do you know? This is an enchanter joke." "Number-three wish should be for three more wishes," Florizella said. He had told her the wishing joke something like three million times. "That's right!" He drew his purple robe round him and straightened his tall purple enchanter hat. "Ha, ha, ha. Very funny. My little joke." "Mine too," said the other two. "I see there are three of you," the enchanter of the Seven Kingdoms said. "That explains the triplicate summons." "Triplicate?" Courier asked, interested. "Three of them," Bennett explained. To his own enchanter from the Land of Deep Lakes, who was wearing a dark greeny-blue robe, he said, "Good morning, Sir. Thank you for coming." "If he means three, why doesn't he just say three?" Courier persisted. The third enchanter tapped him on the shoulder with his long golden wand, which matched his yellow and orange

“知道呀。”弗洛里泽拉说。 “你居然知道？ 你怎么会知道？ 这可是魔法师专属笑话哦。” “第三个愿望该是再要三个愿望。”弗洛里泽拉答道。 这个关于许愿的笑话他都跟她讲了大概三百万次了。 “答对啦！” 他裹了裹身上的紫色长袍，扶了扶头上高高的紫色魔法师帽子。 “哈哈哈。 太好笑了。 这可是我的小笑话。” “也是我的。”另外两个魔法师说道。 “我就说怎么来了三个，”七国的魔法师说， “原来是召唤发了三份呀。” “三份？” 库瑞尔好奇地问。 “就是三个的意思。”贝内特解释道。 他对着来自深湖之国、穿着藏青色长袍的那位魔法师打招呼：“早上好，先生。 谢谢您能来。” “他要是说三个的意思，干嘛不直接说三个呀？” 库瑞尔追问道。 第三个魔法师用长长的金色魔杖点了点他的肩膀，那魔杖和他黄橙相间的

swirly robe. "Where did you come from?" Courier asked. "Just passing," the orange-coloured enchanter said. "And someone wished for me." "In triplicate!" Courier agreed. He loved new words. "Sorry about that. It's because there were three of us wishing at once." "But what did you want us to do?" the orange enchanter asked. "I've got this this brilliant invention." Courier took the enchanter by the corner of his sleeve and led him to the car. "The thing is, it's not such a good idea as I'd first thought. I'd like you to uninvent it." "What does it run on?" the enchanter asked, taking a look at the engine. Courier took hold of the enchanter's enormously long snowy beard to direct his attention to the fuel tank. "That's part of the trouble," he said. "Diamonds." "Must make it very expensive," Bennett's enchanter chimed in. "It would have been better to run it on magic."

漩涡纹长袍正好相配。 “你是从哪里来的呀？” 库瑞尔问。 “刚好路过，”穿橙袍的魔法师说， “然后就有人许愿找我啦。” “还是三份召唤！” 库瑞尔附和道。 他可爱新鲜词儿了。 “不好意思啊。 是因为我们三个刚好一起许愿来着。” “不过你们想让我们做什么呀？” 橙袍魔法师问。 “我发明了个特别厉害的东西。” 库瑞尔拽着魔法师的袖子角，把他领到汽车旁边。 “问题是，它不像我一开始想的那么好用。 我想请您把它消除掉。” “它靠什么发动呀？” 魔法师看了一眼发动机，问道。 库瑞尔抓过魔法师长得不得了的雪白胡须，把他的注意力引向油箱。 “这就是问题的一部分，”他说， “它烧钻石。” “那成本肯定很高吧。”贝内特的那位魔法师插话道。 “要是靠魔法驱动就好多了。”

"Then it wouldn't have been a car," Courier explained. "It could have been a coach made from a pumpkin and drawn by rats once you start getting magic into it. I wanted something a bit more normal." "There's nothing normal about the only car in the entire world that runs on diamonds," Florizella's enchanter pointed out. He held his sleeves and his beard out of the way, as if he feared Courier would lay hold of him, and he leaned forward to have a good look at the car. "If it carried more people and didn't throw out dirty smoke it would be OK," he said. "Then it would be a train," Florizella said patiently, feeling that she had said this once before. "What about a fuel like rain?" Bennett's enchanter suggested. "That's practically free." "Or snow?" said the bright orange enchanter. "Snow would be great. We could magic up a great iceberg and people could just chip off a chunk, pop it in the fuel tank, and away they would go, watering the verge as they drove along. Nice."

“那它就不是汽车了呀。”库瑞尔解释道。 “要是用上魔法，它说不定就变成南瓜做的马车，还得靠老鼠拉呢。 我想要个更普通点的东西。” “全世界唯一一辆烧钻石的汽车，可一点都不普通哦。”弗洛里泽拉的魔法师指出。 他把袖子和胡须都撩到一边，好像怕库瑞尔会抓他似的，探着身子仔细打量这辆汽车。 “要是它能载更多人，还不排黑烟的话，倒是还不错。”他说。 “那它就变成火车啦。”弗洛里泽拉耐心地说，感觉这话她之前已经说过一次了。 “用雨水当燃料怎么样？” 贝内特的魔法师提议。 “这东西几乎不要钱。” “那雪呢？”亮橙色长袍的魔法师说。 “雪可太棒了。 我们可以变出一座大冰山，大家只要敲下一大块，塞进油箱，就能开车上路了，开的时候还能给路边的植物浇水呢。 多好呀。”