Chapter 1-5

CHAPTER FiVE The Sea Serpent finds something important in its new life. It's sssignificant In the days that followed, Courier, Bennett, and Princess Florizella included the Mammoth in all their games, and even created some new ones especially for him, for fear of him missing his dear friend, the Sea Serpent. But it is very hard for a Mammoth to shine in playground games. Hide and Seek is quite impossible for a large Mammoth to win, unless

第五章 海蛇在它的新生活里找到了一件很重要的事。 这意义可大啦。在接下来的日子里，信使考瑞尔、贝内特还有弗洛里泽拉公主玩什么游戏都带上猛犸象，甚至还专门为他创造了几个新游戏，就怕他想念自己的好朋友海蛇。 可对猛犸象来说，要在操场游戏里出彩可太难了。 玩捉迷藏的话，大块头的猛犸象根本不可能赢，除非

played in a huge field with haystacks, and even then, what with a trunk at one end and a large bottom at the other, it is rather obvious when a Mammoth is hiding behind a haystack. Tag is difficult too because, though Mammoths are eager, and this one was a fun-loving creature, they are not quick on their broad flat feet, and they can't dodge at all. Leapfrog is just dangerous for their playmates, and when the four of them tried Musical Bumps, it rocked the whole palace. But Musical Statues! The Mammoth was brilliant at Musical Statues, and his skill at Grandmother's Footsteps got better and better every day. He was always the last to move in Musical Statues and the first to get to the finish line when he played Grandmother's Footsteps. He could sneak up and freeze in a moment. He always won.

游戏是在有很多干草堆的超大空地里玩的，就算是这样，猛犸象一端长着长鼻子，另一端翘着大屁股，他躲在干草堆后面的时候实在太显眼了。 玩捉人游戏也很难，因为尽管猛犸象们都很热心，这只猛犸象也特别爱闹爱玩，可他们长着宽宽的扁脚，跑不快，也完全不会躲来闪去。 玩跳背游戏的话，对他的玩伴们来说太危险了，四个小伙伴试过玩音乐抢椅子游戏，整座宫殿都被震得晃来晃去。 但是音乐雕像游戏就不一样啦！ 猛犸象玩音乐雕像游戏厉害极了，而且他玩“奶奶的脚步声”的技巧每天都在进步，越来越熟练。 玩音乐雕像的时候，他永远是最后一个动的，玩“奶奶的脚步声”的时候，他永远是第一个冲到终点线的。 他能悄咪咪地往前走，下一秒就能立刻定住不动。 他每次都赢。

The Mammoth spent a lot of his time at the seaside where he helped the lifeguard make sure that swimmers did not go into deep water. Once, he performed a heroic rescue, tiptoeing out further and further with his trunk raised above the waves so that he could breathe while walking on the ocean floor. When he could see the legs of the boy splashing but sinking in the water, he came up underneath him like a submarine and the boy rode back to shore, standing on the Mammoth's submerged head, the trunk raised high before them, like a periscope on a submarine.

猛犸象大部分时间都待在海边，在那里他会帮救生员巡逻，确保游泳的人不会游到深水区去。 有一次，他还完成了一次英勇的救援：他踮着脚越走越远，把鼻子高高举在海浪上面，这样他在海底走的时候也能呼吸。 当他看见那个男孩的腿在水里扑腾、身子却在往下沉的时候，他就像潜水艇一样从男孩身下浮了上来，男孩站在猛犸象浸在水里的脑袋上，一路骑回了岸边，猛犸象的鼻子高高举在他们前面，就像潜水艇的潜望镜一样。

The Mammoth liked to help raise parasols and arrange deckchairs. Sometimes he gave rides and played games; but he never heard from his old friend. He never heard from the Sea Serpent. Nobody ever received a letter from it– not a postcard, not a message from a parrot, no word at all to say if it liked its new life in show business, or that it missed its friends.

猛犸象喜欢帮忙撑开遮阳伞，还喜欢整理躺椅。 有时候他会让人骑在他背上，还会和大家玩游戏，可他从来没收到过老朋友的消息。 他从来没收到过海蛇的消息。 谁都没收到过它的信——连张明信片都没有，也没有鹦鹉捎来的口信，半点儿消息都没有，没人知道它喜不喜欢演艺界的新生活，也不知道它有没有想念自己的朋友们。

"It doesn't phone?" the Mammoth asked Florizella. "We don't have phones," she reminded him. "It doesn't wite?" She shook her head. "It doesn't write." "Do you miss it?" "A bit," she said. "Do you?" The Mammoth bowed his head and one large tear rolled down the fluffy ginger trunk. "Vewy much." "Shall we go and visit it?" Florizella asked helpfully, patting an enormous leg. The Mammoth shook his head. "Too fwightening," he said. "The cwoss wady was too fwightening for

“它没打电话吗？” 猛犸象问弗洛里泽拉。 “我们没有电话呀。”她提醒他。 “它没写欣吗？” 她摇了摇头。 “它没写信。” “你想它吗？” “有一点儿。”她说。 “你呢？” 猛犸象低下了头，一大颗眼泪顺着他毛茸茸的姜黄色鼻子滚了下来。 “灰常想。” “我们去看看它好不好？” 弗洛里泽拉贴心地问，轻轻拍了拍他巨大的腿。 猛犸象摇了摇头。 “太吓银了，”他说， “那个凶巴巴的女银对我来说太吓银了，

me. But it wikes her. She is its new best fwend?" "I suppose so," Florizella agreed. Apparently, the Sea Serpent had become the star of the show. Everyone in the kingdom– and everyone in all the neighbouring kingdoms– had heard of the Countess N'Asty's Rare and Disagreeable Show. Lots of people bought tickets and went to see it. In a very short while, it became known simply as "the Nasty Show', a title that would only please someone as unpleasant as the countess– she took it as a compliment. It started with a display of things that were rare or unusual, just out of place or contradictory. There was a cage of hyenas, but none of them were laughing. You could win a prize (it was something quite horrible) if you told a joke so funny that it made the hyenas laugh. The next cage housed a kookaburra and it didn't laugh, either; it just looked down its beak in a really sulky way. Next door to these creatures was a spectacled bear with perfectly good eyesight, a rattlesnake without a rattle, a perfectly sensible raspberry crazy ant, a songbird without a tune, a lark with no sense of fun and a skunk with a light floral perfume. There was a good-tempered

我害怕。 可它喜欢她呀。 她是它新的最好的鹏友对不对？” “应该是吧。”弗洛里泽拉同意道。 看样子，海蛇已经成了那场演出的明星。 这个王国里的所有人——还有所有邻国的所有人——都听说了纳斯蒂伯爵夫人的“稀有别扭秀”。 好多人都买票去看演出。 没过多久，大家就直接把这个演出叫“讨厌秀”，也就只有伯爵夫人这种讨人厌的家伙才会喜欢这个名字——她还觉得这是在夸她呢。 演出一开始先展示一些稀奇古怪的东西，要么是和正常情况格格不入，要么就是完全反过来的。 有一个笼子里关着一群鬣狗，可它们全都没笑。 要是你能讲个笑话逗得鬣狗笑出来，就能赢个奖品（那奖品特别吓人）。 旁边的笼子里关着一只笑翠鸟，它也不笑， 它就摆着张臭脸，用尖嘴居高临下地盯着人。 这些动物的旁边关着一只视力好得不得了的眼镜熊，一条没有响环的响尾蛇，一只头脑特别清醒的树莓疯蚁，一只唱歌跑调的鸣禽，一只完全没趣的云雀，还有一只身上带着淡花香的臭鼬。 还有一只好脾气的