听童话学英文- The Princess and the Goblin

第27章02 The Goblins in the King's House/登堂入室


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他跑到一楼的时候,发现可真是“人”山“人”海。

山上所有的地精好像都跑在这儿来了。他冲过去大喊:

“一个,两个,

打倒一个,砍死一个!

三个,四个,

开火开枪,个个打穿!”

他每唱一句,就狠狠地给地精踩上一脚,再冲他们的脸砍一剑,似乎是在跳着最疯狂地剑舞。那些地精哗一下四处跑开了,有的躲进了衣柜,有的跑上楼去,有的钻进了烟囱,有的窜上屋顶,还有的逃回了地窖。科迪还是一脚一个,用力砍着,还不停唱歌。但是他找不到这里的仆人,到了大厅才发现他们。科迪一到这儿,地精就大声嚎叫起来。这时候,连最后一个侍卫也摔倒在地上了。那是侍卫长,他的身上还压着一群打滚的地精。他只能拼命保护自己了,每一刀都朝他们肥厚的身体插进去,因为他发现这些地精的头简直刀枪不入,可是地精王后却趁这时候用大石头鞋子偷袭侍卫长的腿和脚。很快他就被打垮了,但他退到了墙边,还坚持了一下。要不是地精国王下令要活捉这群人,他们可能已经被撕成碎片了。现在他们被分成十二组,边上都有一群地精看着。有些人躺在地上,许多地精看见有得坐,就坐在了他们身上。

科迪变成一股小旋风,朝地精挥舞着剑冲了进去,踩他们的脚,唱着歌谣:

“报告长官这儿有个洞,

但是这里从来没有洞;

报告长官他们的鞋有底,

可是他们灵魂全无影;

报告长官她有一双鞋,

花岗岩石脚上穿;

报告长官六双大皮靴,

最最结实,现在都磨穿。”

王后又愤怒又害怕,嚎地一声咆哮起来。可是不等她回过神来,科迪已经从身边开始,救起了十一个侍卫。

“快踩他们的脚!”一拉起一个侍卫他就告诉他们。不一会儿,大厅里就空了,因为那些怪物都没命地逃出去,一瘸一拐地,还时不时鬼哭狼嚎,痛得直不起腰来。他们跑开用粗硬的手捧住受伤的脚,怕又被侍卫重重踩到。那一脚可真要命。

王后和她的大鞋子护着一帮地精,他们押着躺在地上的侍卫长。科迪慢慢挨了过去。地精大王坐在侍卫长头上,王后站在前面,看起来就像一只生气的母猫。她的眼睛直直地发出绿光,可怕的头上头发都要竖起来了。其实,她心中却是扑咚扑咚直发抖,光着的那只脚也紧张得一直挪来挪去。



PART II

Then he reached the ground floor he found the whole place swarming.

All the goblins of the mountain seemed gathered there. He rushed amongst them, shouting:

'One, two,
Hit and hew!
Three, four,
Blast and bore!'

and with every rhyme he came down a great stamp upon a foot, cutting at the same time their faces—executing, indeed, a sword dance of the wildest description. Away scattered the goblins in every direction—into closets, up stairs, into chimneys, up on rafters, and down to the cellars. Curdie went on stamping and slashing and singing, but saw nothing of the people of the house until he came to the great hall, in which, the moment he entered it, arose a great goblin shout. The last of the men-at-arms, the captain himself, was on the floor, buried beneath a wallowing crowd of goblins. For, while each knight was busy defending himself as well as he could, by stabs in the thick bodies of the goblins, for he had soon found their heads all but invulnerable, the queen had attacked his legs and feet with her horrible granite shoe, and he was soon down; but the captain had got his back to the wall and stood out longer. The goblins would have torn them all to pieces, but the king had given orders to carry them away alive, and over each of them, in twelve groups, was standing a knot of goblins, while as many as could find room were sitting upon their prostrate bodies.

Curdie burst in dancing and gyrating and stamping and singing like a small incarnate whirlwind.

'Where 'tis all a hole, sir,
Never can be holes:
Why should their shoes have soles, sir,
When they've got no souls?

'But she upon her foot, sir,
Has a granite shoe:
The strongest leather boot, sir,
Six would soon be through.'

The queen gave a howl of rage and dismay; and before she recovered her presence of mind, Curdie, having begun with the group nearest him, had eleven of the knights on their legs again.

'Stamp on their feet!' he cried as each man rose, and in a few minutes the hall was nearly empty, the goblins running from it as fast as they could, howling and shrieking and limping, and cowering every now and then as they ran to cuddle their wounded feet in their hard hands, or to protect them from the frightful stamp-stamp of the armed men.

And now Curdie approached the group which, in trusting in the queen and her shoe, kept their guard over the prostrate captain. The king sat on the captain's head, but the queen stood in front, like an infuriated cat, with her perpendicular eyes gleaming green, and her hair standing half up from her horrid head. Her heart was quaking, however, and she kept moving about her skin-shod foot with nervous apprehension.



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