听童话学英文- The Princess and the Goblin

第31章01 The Subterranean Waters/地下洪流


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31 地下洪流


国王的竖琴师一向都会陪同护卫队出行,这次也一同来了。他自弹自唱,把公主和地精的故事也唱进了自己编的歌里,还有英勇的科迪。突然他停了下来,眼睛看着大厅的门。于是国王和其他客人也望向那去。下一秒便看见公主从门外走来,她直直地向她父王走去,右手稍微往外伸,食指摸索着看不见的蛛丝。国王和科迪知道她在摸着蛛丝走路。国王抱她坐在腿上,公主贴着他耳朵说:



“父王,你听到那声音吗?”


“我什么都没听到。”国王说。


“听听。”她竖起食指。


国王竖起耳朵,大家都安静了下来,看见国王在听什么,也跟着听起来。竖琴师也抱着琴坐下来,手指把弦按住。


“我是听到了一点声音。”国王终于出声了,“听起来像是远处的雷声。声音越来越近了,会是什么呢?”


这时候大家都听到了,一听到那声音,大家似乎都坐不住了,但都还是坐着。那声音一下子更近了。


“会是什么呢?”国王又问了一遍。


“我想一定是山里又要下暴雨了吧。”沃尔特爵士说。

而科迪一听到国王的话就已经从座位上跑到地上,耳朵贴到地面听。这时他一下子跳起来,到国王跟前匆忙禀报:



“陛下,我想我知道是怎么回事。没时间解释了,再不走就晚了。陛下您能不能下令,让所有人离开这里、立刻上山?”


国王是这个王国最聪明的人,他很清楚有时候必须先采取行动,把问题留在后头。他信任科迪,立刻抱着艾琳站起来。



“所有人跟着我。”他说着大步向黑暗中走去。


还没走到庄园大门,先前那声音就变得像炸雷一样,脚下地面摇晃起来。不等所有人穿过庭院,一大股污水就从大厅门口朝人们涌过来,差点把人都冲走了。但大家都安全逃出庄园到了山上,那股大水就沿路冲下了山谷。




CHAPTER 31 The Subterranean Waters

The king's harper, who always formed a part of his escort, was chanting a ballad which he made as he went on playing on his instrument—about the princess and the goblins, and the prowess of Curdie, when all at once he ceased, with his eyes on one of the doors of the hall. Thereupon the eyes of the king and his guests turned thitherward also. The next moment, through the open doorway came the princess Irene. She went straight up to her father, with her right hand stretched out a little sideways, and her forefinger, as her father and Curdie understood, feeling its way along the invisible thread. The king took her on his knee, and she said in his ear:

'King-papa, do you hear that noise?'

'I hear nothing,' said the king.

'Listen,' she said, holding up her forefinger.

The king listened, and a great stillness fell upon the company. Each man, seeing that the king listened, listened also, and the harper sat with his harp between his arms, and his finger silent upon the strings.

'I do hear a noise,' said the king at length—'a noise as of distant thunder. It is coming nearer and nearer. What can it be?'

They all heard it now, and each seemed ready to start to his feet as he listened. Yet all sat perfectly still. The noise came rapidly nearer.

'What can it be?' said the king again.

'I think it must be another storm coming over the mountain,' said Sir Walter.

Then Curdie, who at the first word of the king had slipped from his seat, and laid his ear to the ground, rose up quickly, and approaching the king said, speaking very fast:

'Please, Your Majesty, I think I know what it is. I have no time to explain, for that might make it too late for some of us. Will Your Majesty give orders that everybody leave the house as quickly as possible and get up the mountain?'

The king, who was the wisest man in the kingdom, knew well there was a time when things must be done and questions left till afterwards. He had faith in Curdie, and rose instantly, with Irene in his arms.

'Every man and woman follow me,' he said, and strode out into the darkness.

Before he had reached the gate, the noise had grown to a great thundering roar, and the ground trembled beneath their feet, and before the last of them had crossed the court, out after them from the great hall door came a huge rush of turbid water, and almost swept them away. But they got safe out of the gate and up the mountain, while the torrent went roaring down the road into the valley beneath.




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