第63章 一滴水 The Drop of Water(第2/3 頁)

“but this is abominable!” said creep-and-crawl, “can one not get them to live in peace and quiet, and each mind his own business?”

他想了又想，但就是得不出結論，於是只好施起魔法來。

And he thought and thought, but he could e to no conclusion, and so he was obliged to conjure.

“我得給它們上點顏色，這樣它們就能更顯眼些！” 他說；於是他往那滴水裡倒了大概像一小滴紅酒那樣的東西，但那其實是從耳垂取來的被施了魔法的血 —— 花一便士能買到的最好的那種；然後所有那些奇怪的生物全身都變成了玫瑰色。

“I must give them a color, that they may be more discernible!” said he; and so he poured something like a little drop of red wine into the drop of water, but it was bewitched blood from the lobe of the ear — the very finest sort for a penny; and then all the strange creatures became rose-colored over the whole body.

看起來就像一整座全是裸體野蠻人的城鎮。

It looked like a whole town of naked savages.

“你在那兒弄的啥呀？” 另一個老巫師說，他沒名字，而這恰恰是最好的地方。

“what have you got there?” said another old wizard, who had no name, and that was just the best of it.

“嘿，”“爬來爬去” 說，“要是你能猜出這是啥，我就把它送給你；但要是不知道的話，要猜出來可不容易呢！”

“why,” said creep-and-crawl, “if you can guess what it is, I will make you a present of it; but it is not so easy to find out when one does not know it!”

那個沒名字的巫師透過放大鏡看了看。

the wizard who had no name looked through the magnifying glass.

那看上去真的就像一座完整的城鎮，所有居民都沒穿衣服四處亂跑！太可怕了，更可怕的是看到他們一個撞一個、推一個，互相咬，還把彼此拖來拽去。

It actually appeared like a whole town, where all the inhabitants ran about without clothes! it was terrible, but still more terrible to see how the one knoc