第64章 幸福的家庭 The Happy Family(第4/7 頁)

我們這兒更好，我沒什麼可奢求的了！”

“there is nothing at all,” said Father Snail. “No place can be better than ours, and I have nothing to wish for!”

“是啊。” 蝸牛媽媽說，“我倒很想去莊園，被煮熟，然後放在銀盤子裡；我們所有的先輩都是這麼被對待的；裡面肯定有什麼特別的地方，你放心吧！”

“Yes,” said the dame. “I would willingly go to the manor-house, be boiled, and laid on a silver dish; all our forefathers have been treated so; there is something extraordinary in it, you may be sure!”

“莊園很可能已經破敗不堪了！” 蝸牛爸爸說，“或者牛蒡已經在它上面長得密密麻麻的，以至於人們都出不來了。不過，這事也不用著急；可你總是那麼急匆匆的，小傢伙也開始這樣了。他這三天不是一直在順著那根莖往上爬嗎？我抬頭看他的時候頭都疼！”

“the manor-house has most likely fallen to ruin!” said Father Snail. “or the burdocks have grown up over it, so that they cannot e out. there need not, however, be any haste about that; but you are always in such a tremendous hurry, and the little one is beginning to be the same. has he not been creeping up that stalk these three days? It gives me a headache when I look up to him!”

“你可別罵他。” 蝸牛媽媽說，“他爬得那麼小心；他會給我們帶來很多樂趣 —— 我們活著就為了他呀！可你沒想過這個問題嗎？—— 我們上哪兒給他找個媳婦呢？”

“You must not scold him,” said mother Snail; “he creeps so carefully; he will afford us much pleasure — and we have nothing but him to live for! but have you not thought of it? — where shall we get a wife for him?

你不覺得在牛蒡林深處很遠的地方還有我們的同類嗎？

do you not think that there are some of our species at a great distance in the interior of the burdock forest?”

“我敢說，黑蝸牛肯定是有的，” 老蝸牛說 ——“沒有房子的黑蝸牛 —— 但它們太普通了，還很自負。不過我們可以委託螞蟻幫我們找找看；它們跑來跑去的，好像有什麼要緊事要做，它們肯定知道能給我