第63章 一滴水 The Drop of Water (第2/3页)

“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，但就是得不出结论，于是只好施起魔法来。

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

“我得给它们上点颜色，这样它们就能更显眼些！” 他说；于是他往那滴水里倒了大概像一小滴红酒那样的东西，但那其实是从耳垂取来的被施了魔法的血 —— 花一便士能买到的最好的那种；然后所有那些奇怪的生物全身都变成了玫瑰色。

“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.

看起来就像一整座全是裸体野蛮人的城镇。

It looked like a whole town of naked savages.

“你在那儿弄的啥呀？” 另一个老巫师说，他没名字，而这恰恰是最好的地方。

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

“嘿，”“爬来爬去” 说，“要是你能猜出这是啥，我就把它送给你；但要是不知道的话，要猜出来可不容易呢！”

“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!”

那个没名字的巫师透过放大镜看了看。

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镇，所有居民都没穿衣服四处乱跑！太可怕了，更可怕的是看到他们一个撞一个、推一个，互相咬，还把彼此拖来拽去。

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