木偶奇遇记：Chapter 7

The poor Marionette, who was still half asleep, had not yet found out that his two feet were burned and gone. As soon as he heard his Father's voice, he jumped up from his seat to open the door, but, as he did so, he staggered and fell headlong to the floor.

可怜的皮诺乔睡眼惺忪，还没看到他的两只脚已经完全烧没了，因此他一听到父亲的声音，马上跳下凳子要跑去开门，可他身子摇了那么两三摇，一下子就直挺挺倒在地板上了。

In falling, he made as much noise as a sack of wood falling from the fifth story of a house.

他倒在地板上这啪哒一声，听着就似是一口袋木勺子从五层楼上落下来似的。

"Open the door for me!" Geppetto shouted from the street.

“给我开开门!”这时杰佩扦在外面衔上叫。

"Father, dear Father, I can't," answered the Marionette in despair, crying and rolling on the floor.

“我的爸爸，我开不了门”，木偶回答说，又是哇哇哭，又是在地上打滚。

"Why can't you?"

“为什么开不了?”

"Because someone has eaten my feet."

“因为我的两只脚给吃掉了。”

"And who has eaten them?"

“给什么吃吃掉了?”

"The cat," answered Pinocchio, seeing that little animal busily playing with some shavings in the corner of the room.

“给猫”，皮诺乔说。因为这时候他正好看见一只猫，用前脚在玩一些刨花。

"Open! I say," repeated Geppetto, "or I'll give you a sound whipping when I get in."

“我说，给我开开门!”杰佩托又说一遍，“要不，我进屋子给你只‘猫’!”

"Father, believe me, I can't stand up. Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I shall have to walk on my knees all my life."

“可我站不起来，相信我吧。噢，我真可怜，我真可怜!我一辈子得用膝头跪着走路啦!……”

Geppetto, thinking that all these tears and cries were only other pranks of the Marionette, climbed up the side of the house and went in through the window.

杰佩托听见木偶又哭又叫，以为又是他在捣鬼，想好好收拾他，于是打窗口爬进屋子。

At first he was very angry, but on seeing Pinocchio stretched out on the floor and really without feet, he felt very sad and sorrowful. Picking him up from the floor, he fondled and caressed him, talking to him while the tears ran down his cheeks:

杰佩托先还想骂他打他，可等到看到他躺在地上，当真没有脚，心马上软了下来，他赶紧搂住皮诺乔的脖子，把他抱在怀里，抚摸了他成千遍，哄了他成千回，大滴大滴的眼泪流下腮帮，哭着说：

"My little Pinocchio, my dear little Pinocchio! How did you burn your feet?"

“我的好皮诺乔!你的脚怎么烧掉啦?”

"I don't know, Father, but believe me, the night has been a terrible one and I shall remember it as long as I live. The thunder was so noisy and the lightning so bright -- and I was hungry. And then the Talking Cricket said to me, 'You deserve it; you were bad;' and I said to him, 'Careful, Cricket;' and he said to me, 'You are a Marionette and you have a wooden head;' and I threw the hammer at him and killed him. It was his own fault, for I didn't want to kill him. And I put the pan on the coals, but the Chick flew away and said, 'I'll see you again! Remember me to the family.' And my hunger grew, and I went out, and the old man with a nightcap looked out of the window and threw water on me, and I came home and put my feet on the stove to dry them because I was still hungry, and I fell asleep and now my feet are gone but my hunger isn't! Oh! -- Oh! -- Oh!"

“不知道，爸爸，可请您相信，这是个可怕的冬夜，我一辈子也忘不了，又打雷，又闪电，我肚子饿得要命，当时会说话的蟋蟀对我说：‘你是活该，你不好，自作自受，’我对它说：‘你小心点，蟋蟀!……’它对我说：‘你是个木偶，有个木头脑袋，’于是我抓起个木头槌子，扔过去，它就死了，可这都怪它自己，因为我并不想打死它，我把煎锅放在火盆的炭火上，可是小鸡跑出来说：‘再见……给我向您一家人问好’，可肚子越来越饿，因此那个老头儿，戴睡帽的，把头探出窗口，对我说：你在下站着，把帽子拿好。’我头上挨了那么一盆水，讨点面包吃并不可耻，对吗?我马上回家，因为饿坏了，我把脚搁在火盆上烤干。您回来了，我的脚烧没了。可我这会儿肚子还是那么饿。脚再也没有了!噫……!噫!……噫!……噫!……”。

And poor Pinocchio began to scream and cry so loudly that he could be heard for miles around.

可怜的皮诺乔说着哭起来，哭得那么响，五公里外都能听见，

Geppetto, who had understood nothing of all that jumbled talk, except that the Marionette was hungry, felt sorry for him, and pulling three pears out of his pocket, offered them to him, saying:

杰佩托听他说了半天，只听懂一点，就是木偶饿得要死了。于是他打口袋里掏出三个梨，递给他，说：

"These three pears were for my breakfast, but I give them to you gladly. Eat them and stop weeping."

“这三个梨是我准备当早饭吃的，可我很高兴给你吃。吃吧，吃了梨就好了。”

"If you want me to eat them, please peel them for me."

“你要是给我吃，请把皮削掉吧。”

"Peel them?" asked Geppetto, very much surprised. "I should never have thought, dear boy of mine, that you were so dainty and fussy about your food. Bad, very bad! In this world, even as children, we must accustom ourselves to eat of everything, for we never know what life may hold in store for us!"

“削皮?”杰佩托听了很惊奇，反问说，“我的孩子，我简直不能相信，你的嘴那么刁，你那么难侍候，这可不好!在这个世界上，得从小习惯什么都吃，懂得给什么吃什么，因为你永远不知道会遇到什么事情，什么事情都会有!……”

"You may be right," answered Pinocchio, "but I will not eat the pears if they are not peeled. I don't like them."

“您的话是不错，”皮诺乔接下去说，“可我永远不吃不削皮的水果，水果皮我受不了。”

And good old Geppetto took out a knife, peeled the three pears, and put the skins in a row on the table.

杰佩托是个大好人，就拿出一把小刀，用天使般的耐心，削好了三个梨，把梨皮放在桌子角上。

Pinocchio ate one pear in a twinkling and started to throw the core away, but Geppetto held his arm.

皮诺乔两口就吃掉了第一个梨。他正要把梨心扔掉，杰佩托拦住他的手，对他说：

"Oh, no, don't throw it away! Everything in this world may be of some use!"

“别扔掉。在这个世界上，样样东西都会有用的。”

"But the core I will not eat!" cried Pinocchio in an angry tone.

“可说真的，我不要吃梨心!……”木偶像蛇那么扭来扭去叫道。

"Who knows?" repeated Geppetto calmly.

“谁知道呢!什么事情都会有!……”杰佩托并不生气，又说了一遍。

And later the three cores were placed on the table next to the skins.

就这样，三个梨心没扔出窗口，跟梨皮一起，都放在桌子角上。

Pinocchio had eaten the three pears, or rather devoured them. Then he yawned deeply, and wailed:

皮诺乔吃了三个梨，或者说得准确点，吞下三个梨，打了个很长很长的哈欠，接着又哭也似地说：

"I'm still hungry."

“我肚子又饿了!”

"But I have no more to give you."

“可我的孩子，我再没什么可以给你了。”

"Really, nothing -- nothing?"

“没有了，真的没有了?”

"I have only these three cores and these skins."

“就剩下这儿一点梨皮和梨心了。”

"Very well, then," said Pinocchio, "if there is nothing else I'll eat them."

“没法子，”皮诺乔说，“要是没别的，我就吃块梨皮吧。”

At first he made a wry face, but, one after another, the skins and the cores disappeared.

他于是嚼起梨皮来，他先还歪着点嘴，可后来一块接一块，一转眼就把所有的梨皮都吃光了，吃完梨皮，又吃梨心。等到全给吃完，他心满意足地拍拍肚子，兴高采烈地说：

"Ah! Now I feel fine!" he said after eating the last one.

“这会儿我觉得好受了!”

"You see," observed Geppetto, "that I was right when I told you that one must not be too fussy and too dainty about food. My dear, we never know what life may have in store for us!"

“现在你看，”杰佩托给他指出说，“我刚才对你说没错吧，得学会不要太挑肥拣瘦，不要太嘴刁。我的小宝贝，在这个世界上，咱们永远不知道会遇到什么事情。什么事情都会有!……