The Riddle Stone Part 1

The Riddle Stone Part 1

《谜语石 第一部分》

Dad had pulled up some floorboards. "Hello!" he said. "What's this?" Under the floor was a stone. It had some strange writing on it.

爸爸掀开了几块地板。 “你们好！”他说。 “这是什么？” 地板下面有一块石头。 石头上刻着一些奇怪的文字。

Dad was going to throw the stone away, but Chip wanted to keep it. "Look at this," he said to Biff. "Do you think the writing is Chinese?" "I don't know," said Biff. Chip took the stone to school. He showed it to a boy called Hong. "It is written in Chinese," said Hong. "I can't read it, but my grandfather can."

爸爸本来打算把石头扔掉，但奇普想留着它。 “快看这个。”他对比夫说。 “你觉得这些文字是中文吗？” “我不知道。”比夫说。 奇普把石头带去了学校。 他把石头拿给一个叫宏的男孩看。 “这是用中文写的。”宏说。 “我认不出这些字，但我爷爷能看懂。”

Hong's grandfather always came after school to take Hong home. Chip showed him the stone. "Yes, it is Chinese," said Hong's grandfather. "It says, 'Do You Mind?'" "What a strange question," said Biff. "It may be a riddle," said Hong's grandfather, "See! The stone is broken. Maybe the answer is on the other half."

宏的爷爷每天放学都会来接宏回家。 奇普把石头拿给他看。 “没错，是中文。”宏的爷爷说。 “上面写着：‘你介意吗？’” “这问题好奇怪啊。”比夫说。 “这可能是个谜语。”宏的爷爷说道， “你看！这块石头是碎的，说不定答案在另一半上面。”

Chip gave Hong the stone to keep. He put it in his bag. "May Hong come round to play with us?" asked Biff. "All right," said Hong’s grandfather. They went to play in Biff's room. "What is a riddle?" asked Chip. "It's a puzzle in words," said Hong.

奇普把石头交给宏保管。宏把石头放进了自己的书包里。 “宏可以来我们家玩吗？”比夫问道。 “可以呀。”宏的爷爷说。 他们去比夫的房间里玩耍。 “谜语是什么呀？”奇普问。 “谜语是一种文字谜题。”宏回答。

"Here is a good riddle," said Hong. "How do you spell 'hungry horse' using only four letters?" "We don't know," said Biff. "It's easy," laughed Hong. "MT GG. Here's another riddle. What is this? The more it dries the more it gets wet." Suddenly, the magic key began to glow.

“我来出个有趣的谜语。”宏说。 “你怎么只用四个字母拼写‘饿马’？” “我们猜不出来。”比夫说。 “很简单呀。”宏笑着说。 “是MT GG。再出个谜语：什么东西越干越湿？” 就在这时，魔法钥匙开始发光了。