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双语·木偶奇遇记 第三章

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2022年10月24日

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CHAPTER 3

As soon as he gets home,Geppetto fashions the Marionette and calls it Pinocchio.The first pranks of the Marionette.

Little as Geppetto's house was,it was neat and comfortable.It was a small room on the ground floor,with a tiny window under the stairway.The furniture could not have been much simpler:a very old chair,a rickety old bed,and a tumble-down table.A fireplace full of burning logs was painted on the wall opposite the door.Over the fire,there was painted a pot full of something which kept boiling happily away and sending up clouds of what looked like real steam.

As soon as he reached home,Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette.

“What shall I call him?” he said to himself.“I think I'll call him PINOCCHIO.This name will make his fortune.I knew a whole family of Pinocchi once—Pinocchio the father,Pinocchia the mother,and Pinocchi the children—and they were all lucky.The richest of them begged for his living.”

After choosing the name for his Marionette,Geppetto set seriously to work to make the hair,the forehead,the eyes.

Fancy his surprise when he noticed that these eyes moved and then stared fixedly at him.Geppetto,seeing this,felt insulted and said in a grieved tone:

“Ugly wooden eyes,why do you stare so?”

There was no answer.

After the eyes,Geppetto made the nose,which began to stretch as soon as finished.It stretched and stretched and stretched till it became so long,it seemed endless.

Poor Geppetto kept cutting it and cutting it,but the more he cut,the longer grew that impertinent nose.In despair he let it alone.

Next he made the mouth.No sooner was it finished than it began to laugh and poke fun at him.

“Stop laughing!” said Geppetto angrily;but he might as well have spoken to the wall.

“Stop laughing,I say!” he roared in a voice of thunder.

The mouth stopped laughing,but it stuck out a long tongue.

Not wishing to start an argument,Geppetto made believe he saw nothing and went on with his work.

After the mouth,he made the chin,then the neck,the shoulders,the stomach,the arms,and the hands.

As he was about to put the last touches on the finger tips,Geppetto felt his wig being pulled off.He glanced up and what did he see?His yellow wig was in the Marionette's hand.

“Pinocchio,give me my wig!”

But instead of giving it back,Pinocchio put it on his own head,which was half swallowed up in it.

At that unexpected trick,Geppetto became very sad and downcast,more so than he had ever been before.“Pinocchio,you wicked boy!” he cried out.“You are not yet finished,and you start out by being impudent to your poor old father.Very bad,my son,very bad!”

And he wiped away a tear.

The legs and feet still had to be made.As soon as they were done,Geppetto felt a sharp kick on the tip of his nose.

“I deserve it!” he said to himself.“I should have thought of this before I made him.Now it's too late!”

He took hold of the Marionette under the arms and put him on the floor to teach him to walk.

Pinocchio's legs were so stiff that he could not move them,and Geppetto held his hand and showed him how to put out one foot after the other.

When his legs were limbered up,Pinocchio started walking by himself and ran all around the room.He came to the open door,and with one leap he was out into the street.Away he flew!

Poor Geppetto ran after him but was unable to catch him,for Pinocchio ran in leaps and bounds,his two wooden feet,as they beat on the stones of the street,making as much noise as twenty peasants in wooden shoes.

“Catch him!Catch him!” Geppetto kept shouting.But the people in the street,seeing a wooden Marionette running like the wind,stood still to stare and to laugh until they cried.

At last,by sheer luck,a Carabineer(1)happened along,who,hearing all that noise,thought that it might be a runaway colt,and stood bravely in the middle of the street,with legs wide apart,firmly resolved to stop it and prevent any trouble.

Pinocchio saw the Carabineer from afar and tried his best to escape between the legs of the big fellow,but without success.

The Carabineer grabbed him by the nose(it was an extremely long one and seemed made on purpose for that very thing)and returned him to Mastro Geppetto.

The little old man wanted to pull Pinocchio's ears.Think how he felt when,upon searching for them,he discovered that he had forgotten to make them!

All he could do was to seize Pinocchio by the back of the neck and take him home.As he was doing so,he shook him two or three times and said to him angrily:

“We're going home now.When we get home,then we'll settle this matter!”

Pinocchio,on hearing this,threw himself on the ground and refused to take another step.One person after another gathered around the two.Some said one thing,some another.

“Poor Marionette,” called out a man.“I am not surprised he doesn't want to go home.Geppetto,no doubt,will beat him unmercifully,he is so mean and cruel!”

“Geppetto looks like a good man,” added another,“but with boys he's a real tyrant.If we leave that poor Marionette in his hands he may tear him to pieces!”

They said so much that,finally,the Carabineer ended matters by setting Pinocchio at liberty and dragging Geppetto to prison.The poor old fellow did not know how to defend himself,but wept and wailed like a child and said between his sobs:

“Ungrateful boy!To think I tried so hard to make you a well-behaved Marionette!I deserve it,however!I should have given the matter more thought.”

What happened after this is an almost unbelievable story,but you may read it,dear children,in the chapters that follow.

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(1) A military policeman.

第三章

杰佩托一回到家,就做成了木偶,把他称为匹诺曹。这个木偶最初的一些恶作剧。

尽管杰佩托的房子很小,但整洁舒适。这是底层的一间小屋,楼梯下有一扇小窗。家具简单得不能再简单了:一把很旧的椅子,一张摇摇晃晃的床,一张摇摇欲坠的桌子。放满燃木的壁炉画在门对面的墙上,火上面画着一口锅,锅里放满了东西,一直在欢快地沸腾着,冒出来的热气看上去像真的一样。

一到家里,杰佩托就拿起工具,动手把那截木头刻成了一个木偶。

“我叫他什么名字呢?”他自言自语说,“我想叫他匹诺曹。这个名字会让他发财的。我认识一家人,他们都叫匹诺曹:爸爸叫匹诺曹,妈妈叫匹诺曹,孩子们也叫匹诺曹,他们都很幸运,其中最富有的那个靠乞讨为生。”

杰佩托给木偶选好了名字,就开始认真地刻起了头发、额头和眼睛。

试想一下,当他发觉这两只眼睛转动起来,然后定定地看着他时,他是多么吃惊啊。看到这个情景,杰佩托感觉受到了侮辱,伤心地说道:“难看的木头眼睛,你为什么这样瞪着我呀?”

没有回答。

做完眼睛后,杰佩托又做起了鼻子。鼻子一做好,就开始长了起来,它长啊长啊长,已经变得很长很长了,还好像会一直长下去似的。

可怜的杰佩托一直不断地削啊削,但他越削,这只无礼的鼻子越长。无奈之际,他决定不再管这只鼻子了。

接下来是做嘴巴。嘴巴一做完,就开始哈哈大笑,嘲笑起了杰佩托。

“别笑了!”杰佩托生气地说,但他还不如对着墙说。

“我说,别笑了!”他大声吼道。

嘴巴不再笑了,却伸出了长舌头。

杰佩托不想跟它争论,假装什么也没有看到,继续干起了活儿。

做完嘴巴,他做下巴,接着做脖子、肩膀、肚子、胳膊和两只手。

正要准备最后修饰指尖时,杰佩托感到自己的假发被拽了下来。他抬起头来,看到了什么?只见他的黄色假发拿在了木偶的手里。

“匹诺曹,把假发给我!”

但是,匹诺曹没有给他,而是戴到了自己的头上,假发几乎把他整个头都罩在了里面。

对这个意想不到的恶作剧,杰佩托感到从来没有过的伤心和难过。“匹诺曹,你这个坏小子!”他大声嚷道,“我还没有把你做完,你就开始对你可怜的老父亲放肆无礼了!真坏,我的儿子,你真坏啊!”

说完,他擦掉了一滴眼泪。

接下来还要做腿和脚。杰佩托把腿和脚一做好,就感到鼻尖上狠狠地挨了一脚。

“我这是自作自受!”杰佩托自言自语说,“一开头我就应该想到这一点,现在太晚了!”

他抱住木偶的胳肢窝,把他放在地上,要教他走路。

匹诺曹的腿非常僵硬,不会移动。杰佩托抓住他的手,教他怎样一步一步地往前走。

等到腿一会动,匹诺曹就开始自己走了起来,接着满屋乱跑。他跑到敞开的门口,一下子蹦到了街上,飞快地跑走了!

可怜的杰佩托在后面追,但怎么也追不上,因为匹诺曹蹦蹦跳跳,像只野兔。他的两只木脚拍打在石街上,噼里啪啦的,就像二十个农夫穿着木屐发出的响声。

“抓住他!抓住他!”杰佩托不停地大叫。但是,看到一只木偶飞跑如风,街上的人只是静立不动盯着看,然后大声笑啊笑,直到把眼泪都笑了出来。

最后,幸亏一个宪兵(1)碰巧路过,他听到了嘈杂声,以为是一匹逃跑的小马驹,就勇敢地站在街中央,叉开两条腿,下定决心要拦住它,防止产生任何麻烦。

匹诺曹从远处看到了那名宪兵,就想尽力从这位大个子的两腿间逃过去,但没有成功。

宪兵一把就抓住了他的鼻子(那是一只特别长的鼻子,好像是有意做出来让宪兵抓的),把他交还给了杰佩托师傅。

小老头想拽匹诺曹的耳朵,他找来找去,发现竟忘了给木偶做耳朵,诸位想想他是多么惊讶吧!

杰佩托所能做的就是抓住匹诺曹的脖颈,把他带回家。他一边这样做,一边晃了木偶两三次,生气地对他说:“现在我们回家,等到家后,我们再算这笔账!”

听了这话,匹诺曹扑倒在地,一步也不肯再走了。人们一个个地围住他们俩,众说纷纭。

“可怜的木偶,”有个人大声嚷道,“他不想回家,我并不吃惊。毫无疑问,杰佩托这个坏蛋会狠心地揍他的。”

“杰佩托看上去是一个好人,”另一个人补充道,“而对孩子们来说,他是一个真正的暴徒。要是我们把那个可怜的木偶交到他手里,说不定他就会把木偶撕成碎片!”

他们议论纷纷,最后那位宪兵放开匹诺曹,把杰佩托送到了监狱。可怜的老人不知道如何自卫,而是像孩子似的一边号哭,一边哽咽着说:

“忘恩负义的小子!想一想我费了多么大的劲儿想把你做成一个规规矩矩的木偶啊!我这可是自作自受啊!我本该早就想到这一点啊。”

之后发生的故事简直让人难以相信,亲爱的孩子们,你们将会在下面各章一一看到的。

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(1) 维持治安的警察。

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