Chapter 1
第一章
LUCY LOOKS INTO A WARDROBE
露茜窥探衣橱
ONCE there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs Macready and three servants. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they liked him almost at once; but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it.
从前，有这么四个孩子，他们的名字分别叫彼得、苏珊、爱德蒙和露茜。下面讲的故事就是他们亲身经历过的事情。那是在战争时期，为了躲避空袭，他们被送离伦敦，来到一位老教授的家里。这位老教授的家在英国的中部，离最近的火车站有十英里远，离最近的邮局也有两英里。他没有老伴，和女管家玛卡蕾蒂太太以及另外三个仆人一起，住着一所很大很大的房子（这三个仆人一个叫爱薇，一个叫玛格丽特，还有一个叫蓓蒂，但她们在这个故事中出现的不多）。教授已经老态龙钟，一头蓬乱的白发。孩子们一来就喜欢上了他。但在头天傍晚，当他从大门口出来迎接他们一行的时候，他的这副怪模样使年龄最小的露茜感到有点害怕，而爱德蒙呢（除了露茜他年龄最小），却忍不住要笑，他只好一次又一次的装做擦鼻涕，这才没有笑出声来。
As soon as they had said good night to the Professor and gone upstairs on the first night, the boys came into the girls' room and they all talked it over.
第一天晚上，他们向老教授道了晚安，就一起上楼，两个男孩来到女孩子的寝室，互相交谈起来。
"We've fallen on our feet and no mistake," said Peter. "This is going to be perfectly splendid. That old chap will let us do anything we like."
“我们的确运气不错，”彼得说，“这儿太好了，我们高兴干啥就可以干啥，这位老先生是不会管我们的。”
"I think he's an old dear," said Susan.
“我看他是个惹人喜欢的老头。”苏珊说。
"Oh, come off it!" said Edmund, who was tired and pretending not to be tired, which always made him bad-tempered. "Don't go on talking like that."
“哎呀，别东拉西扯了！”爱德蒙说，他已经很累了，但偏偏装作不累的样子，每当这时，他往往要发脾气，“别再说这些啦。”
"Like what?" said Susan; "and anyway, it's time you were in bed."
“说什么才好？”苏珊回了他一句，“你该睡了。”
"Trying to talk like Mother," said Edmund. "And who are you to say when I'm to go to bed? Go to bed yourself."
“你倒学着妈妈教训起我来了，”爱德蒙说，“你是什么人？我什么时间睡，还要你管！你自己去睡吧。”
"Hadn't we all better go to bed?" said Lucy. "There's sure to be a row if we're heard talking here."
“大家都睡，好不好？”露茜调解说，“如果人家听见我们还在这儿说话，非要骂我们不可。”
"No there won't," said Peter. "I tell you this is the sort of house where no one's going to mind what we do. Anyway, they won't hear us. It's about ten minutes' walk from here down to that dining-room, and any amount of stairs and passages in between."
“根本不会，”彼得说，“我不是说过，在老教授家里，谁也不会管我们的吗？再说，他们也不会听见我们讲话。从这里下去到饭厅，中间有这么多楼梯和过道，大约要走十分钟的路。”
"What's that noise?" said Lucy suddenly. It was a far larger house than she had ever been in before and the thought of all those long passages and rows of doors leading into empty rooms was beginning to make her feel a little creepy.
“什么声音？”露茜突然问道。这所房子比她以前住过的任何一所房子都要大得多，一想到那些长长过道和一排排通向空荡荡的房间的门，她就感到有点儿害怕，浑身都起了鸡皮疙瘩。
"It's only a bird, silly," said Edmund.
“傻东西，这是鸟儿叫。”爱德蒙说。
"It's an owl," said Peter. "This is going to be a wonderful place for birds. I shall go to bed now. I say, let's go and explore tomorrow. You might find anything in a place like this. Did you see those mountains as we came along? And the woods? There might be eagles. There might be stags. There'll be hawks."
“这是猫头鹰的叫声。”彼得说，“这里是各种鸟儿栖息的最好场所。我要去睡啦。喂，我们明天去探险吧。在这样一个地方，随便什么东西你也许都可以找到。在来的路上，你们看见了那些山没有？还有那些树林？那里也许有鹰啊，鹿啊，鹫啊。”
"Badgers!" said Lucy.
“有獾吗？”露茜问。
"Foxes!" said Edmund.
“还有狐狸！”爱德蒙说。
"Rabbits!" said Susan.
“还有兔子呢！”苏珊说。
But when next morning came there was a steady rain falling, so thick that when you looked out of the window you could see neither the mountains nor the woods nor even the stream in the garden.
但第二天早晨，却淅沥沥地下起雨来了。雨很大，透过窗子朝外望去，你既看不见山，也看不见树林，甚至连花园里的小溪也看不见。
"Of course it would be raining!" said Edmund. They had just finished their breakfast with the Professor and were upstairs in the room he had set apart for them - a long, low room with two windows looking out in one direction and two in another.
“没有办法，天大概还要下雨，我们只好听天由命喽，”爱德蒙说。他们刚和教授一起吃好了早饭，就来到楼上教授给他们安排的房间。这是一个狭长而又低矮的房间，两头各开着两扇窗子可以看到外面。
"Do stop grumbling, Ed," said Susan. "Ten to one it'll clear up in an hour or so. And in the meantime we're pretty well off. There's a wireless and lots of books."
“别发牢骚，爱德，”苏珊说，“说不定过个把小时以后，天会转晴。就是现在，也不是没有什么可玩的。这里有无线电，还有许多书。”
"Not for me"said Peter; "I'm going to explore in the house."
“我才不稀罕这些玩意儿呢，”彼得说，“我要在这所住宅内进行探险。”
Everyone agreed to this and that was how the adventures began. It was the sort of house that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places. The first few doors they tried led only into spare bedrooms, as everyone had expected that they would; but soon they came to a very long room full of pictures and there they found a suit of armour; and after that was a room all hung with green, with a harp in one corner; and then came three steps down and five steps up, and then a kind of little upstairs hall and a door that led out on to a balcony, and then a whole series of rooms that led into each other and were lined with books - most of them very old books and some bigger than a Bible in a church.
大家都同意彼得的这个建议，一场奇遇就是这样开始的。这所住宅，你似乎永远也走不到它的尽头，里边净是些意料不到的地方。他们先试着打开了几扇门，原来是几间无人居住的空房间，这是大家事先预料到的。接下来，他们进了一个非常狭长的房间，墙上挂满了画，他们还在屋内发现了一副盔甲。然后，他们又进了另一个房间，里面全是绿色的装饰物，只是在角落里放着一把竖琴。这以后，他们走过一下一上的两段楼梯，来到楼上的一间小厅，小厅有一扇门通向外面的阳台。从小厅出来以后，他们又走进了一连串各自相通的房间，里面都放满了书，这些书绝大部分都是很旧的，有些比教堂里的《圣经》还要大。
And shortly after that they looked into a room that was quite empty except for one big wardrobe; the sort that has a looking-glass in the door. There was nothing else in the room at all except a dead blue-bottle on the window-sill.
他们在这里逗留了片刻，又顺路走进另一个空荡荡的房间望了一下，只见里面放着一只很大很大的衣橱，橱门上镶着镜子。除了窗台上面放着一个褪了色的蓝花瓶以外，别的什么也没有了。
"Nothing there!" said Peter, and they all trooped out again - all except Lucy. She stayed behind because she thought it would be worth while trying the door of the wardrobe, even though she felt almost sure that it would be locked. To her surprise it opened quite easily, and two moth-balls dropped out.
“这儿没意思！”彼得说。大家都跟着走出去了，只有露茜一个人留在后面。她想试试能否把那个大衣橱打开，尽管她几乎肯定衣橱的门是锁着的。她自己都没有想到，橱门竟然很容易的被打开了，里面还滚出了两颗樟脑丸。
Looking into the inside, she saw several coats hanging up - mostly long fur coats. There was nothing Lucy liked so much as the smell and feel of fur. She immediately stepped into the wardrobe and got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them, leaving the door open, of course, because she knew that it is very foolish to shut oneself into any wardrobe. Soon she went further in and found that there was a second row of coats hanging up behind the first one. It was almost quite dark in there and she kept her arms stretched out in front of her so as not to bump her face into the back of the wardrobe. She took a step further in - then two or three steps always expecting to feel woodwork against the tips of her fingers. But she could not feel it.
她朝橱里仔细看了一下，里面并排挂着好几件外套，几乎全都是长长的皮外套。这些衣服摸上去软绵绵的，还带有樟脑丸的清香，露茜高兴极了。她一步跨进衣橱，挤到皮衣中间，把她的小脸蛋贴在毛茸茸的皮衣上轻轻地摩擦。当然喽，她让橱门开在那儿，因为她知道，一个人把自己关在衣橱里是非常愚蠢的。她往里挪动了一下身子，发现在第一排衣服的后面还挂着一排衣服，里面黑糊糊的。她把两只手往前伸，生怕自己的脸碰到了橱的后壁。她向前又跨了一步，接着两步，三步，想用手指尖摸到木头的橱壁，但她始终没能摸到。
"This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!" thought Lucy, going still further in and pushing the soft folds of the coats aside to make room for her. Then she noticed that there was something crunching under her feet. "I wonder is that more mothballs?" she thought, stooping down to feel it with her hand. But instead of feeling the hard, smooth wood of the floor of the wardrobe, she felt something soft and powdery and extremely cold. "This is very queer," she said, and went on a step or two further.
“这个衣橱多大啊！”露茜一边暗自想，一边又继续往前走。她不时拨开交迭着的柔软的皮衣，为自己开路。这时，她感到脚底下有什么东西在“吱嘎”“吱嘎”作响。“我难道踩着了樟脑丸了？”她想，一边蹲下身来用手去摸。然而她摸到的不是坚硬而又光滑的木头橱底，而是一样柔软的、粉末似的、冰冷的东西。“多么奇怪啊。”她一边说，一边又朝前走了一两步。
Next moment she found that what was rubbing against her face and hands was no longer soft fur but something hard and rough and even prickly. "Why, it is just like branches of trees!" exclaimed Lucy. And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. Something cold and soft was falling on her. A moment later she found that she was standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air.
她很快就发现，碰在她脸上和手上的已不再是软绵绵的皮毛了，而是一种又坚硬又粗糙甚至有点戳手的东西。“哎呦，这像树枝嘛！”露茜一声惊叫。这时，她看见前面亮着一盏灯。本来衣橱后壁只有几英寸远，但这盏灯看上去却在老远老远的地方。一种轻飘飘的冰冷的东西落在她身上。一会儿以后，她发现自己站在深夜的树林中，雪花正从空中飘落下来，她的脚下全是积雪。
Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well. She looked back over her shoulder and there, between the dark tree trunks; she could still see the open doorway of the wardrobe and even catch a glimpse of the empty room from which she had set out. (She had, of course, left the door open, for she knew that it is a very silly thing to shut oneself into a wardrobe.) It seemed to be still daylight there. "I can always get back if anything goes wrong," thought Lucy. She began to walk forward, crunch-crunch over the snow and through the wood towards the other light.
露茜有点害怕起来，但同时又感到好奇和兴奋。她回头望去，穿过树干与树干之间的幽暗的空隙，依然可以看到敞开着的橱门，甚至还可以瞥见她从那里进来的那间空屋。（当然，她是让橱门开着的，因为她知道，把自己关在衣橱里是件非常愚蠢的事）。那里好像还是白天。“即使出了什么事，我也能回去。”露茜想。她又继续朝前走，“嘎吱”“嘎吱”的踩着积雪，穿过树林，一直朝着那盏灯走去。
In about ten minutes she reached it and found it was a lamp-post. As she stood looking at it, wondering why there was a lamp-post in the middle of a wood and wondering what to do next, she heard a pitter patter of feet coming towards her. And soon after that a very strange person stepped out from among the trees into the light of the lamp-post.
大约走了十分钟，她就到了那里，原来这是一根灯柱。正当她凝神望着灯柱，猜测着为什么在树林中有一个灯柱，考虑着下一步该怎么办的时候，她猛地听到一阵“啪嗒”“啪嗒”的脚步声。没多久，从树林中走出一个样子奇怪的人，一直来到灯柱下面。
He was only a little taller than Lucy herself and he carried over his head an umbrella, white with snow. From the waist upwards he was like a man, but his legs were shaped like a goat's (the hair on them was glossy black) and instead of feet he had goat's hoofs. He also had a tail, but Lucy did not notice this at first because it was neatly caught up over the arm that held the umbrella so as to keep it from trailing in the snow. He had a red woollen muffler round his neck and his skin was rather reddish too. He had a strange, but pleasant little face, with a short pointed beard and curly hair, and out of the hair there stuck two horns, one on each side of his forehead.
这人只比露茜略高一点，头上打着一把伞，伞上满是雪，一片白色。他的上半身看起来像人，但他的腿却像山羊，上面的毛黑油油的；他没有脚，却长着山羊的蹄子。他还有一条尾巴，但露茜最初并没有看见。因为怕拖在雪地里搞脏，他把它放在拿伞的那个手臂弯里。他的颈项里围着一条红色的羊毛围巾，红扑扑的小脸，长相有点奇怪，却又惹人喜欢。他留着尖尖的短胡子，长着卷曲的头发，额头两边各长着一只角。
One of his hands, as I have said, held the umbrella: in the other arm he carried several brown-paper parcels. What with the parcels and the snow it looked just as if he had been doing his Christmas shopping. He was a Faun. And when he saw Lucy he gave such a start of surprise that he dropped all his parcels.
他一只手撑着伞，另一只手臂抱着几个棕色的纸包。看起来，他很像刚买了东西回来准备过圣诞节的。他是一只羊怪。当他发现露茜时，他大吃一惊，手中所有的纸包都掉落在雪地上。
"Goodness gracious me!" exclaimed the Faun.
“天哪！”羊怪惊叫了一声。
Chapter 2
第二章
WHAT LUCY FOUND THERE
露茜的发现
"GOOD EVENING," said Lucy. But the Faun was so busy picking up its parcels that at first it did not reply. When it had finished it made her a little bow.
“晚上好。”露茜说。但是羊怪因为只顾拾地上的纸包，没有来得及回答露茜的问候。等他把东西全部拾起来以后，他才向露茜微微的鞠了一个躬。
"Good evening, good evening," said the Faun. "Excuse me - I don't want to be inquisitive - but should I be right in thinking that you are a Daughter of Eve?"
“晚上好，晚上好。”羊怪说，“对不起——我不想显得太过好奇——可我真的很想知道你是夏娃的女儿吗？”
"My name's Lucy," said she, not quite understanding him.
“我的名字叫露茜。”露茜回答说，她不全懂他的话。
"But you are - forgive me - you are what they call a girl?" said the Faun.
“但你是——请原谅——你是他们叫作的一个女孩吗？”羊怪说。
"Of course I'm a girl," said Lucy.
“当然，我是个女孩。”露茜说。
"You are in fact Human?"
“你真的是人吗？”
"Of course I'm human," said Lucy, still a little puzzled.
“我当然是人。”露茜说，她仍然有点摸不着头脑。
"To be sure, to be sure," said the Faun. "How stupid of me! But I've never seen a Son of Adam or a Daughter of Eve before. I am delighted. That is to say -" and then it stopped as if it had been going to say something it had not intended but had remembered in time. "Delighted, delighted," it went on. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tumnus."
“肯定是了，肯定是了，”羊怪说，“我多傻啊！我从没看见过亚当的儿子和夏娃的女儿是什么样子。我很高兴，这就是说……”说到这里他忽然停住不说了，话已到了嘴边，好像又猛地想起不该这么说似的。“很高兴，很高兴，”他继续说道，“请允许我做自我介绍，我的名字叫图姆纳斯。”
"I am very pleased to meet you, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy.
“见到你我很高兴，图姆纳斯先生。”露茜说。
"And may I ask, O Lucy Daughter of Eve," said Mr Tumnus, "how you have come into Narnia?"
“哦，露茜，夏娃的女儿，”图姆纳斯先生说，“我可以问一下，你是怎样到纳尼亚来的？”
"Narnia? What's that?" said Lucy.
“纳尼亚？那是什么地方？”露茜问道。
"This is the land of Narnia," said the Faun, "where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea. And you - you have come from the wild woods of the west?"
“这儿就是纳尼亚的国土，”羊怪说，“它全部的国土是在灯柱和东海边上的凯尔帕拉维尔城堡之间。你呢，你是从西边的野树林那里来的吗？”
"I - I got in through the wardrobe in the spare room," said Lucy.
“我——我是从一间空屋的衣橱里进来的。”露茜说。
"Ah!" said Mr Tumnus in a rather melancholy voice, "if only I had worked harder at geography when I was a little Faun, I should no doubt know all about those strange countries. It is too late now."
“啊！”图姆纳斯先生以一种有点忧郁的声音说道，“假如我小时候多学点地理，对这些奇怪的国家的情况就会一清二楚了，现在后悔莫及啊。”
"But they aren't countries at all," said Lucy, almost laughing. "It's only just back there - at least - I'm not sure. It is summer there."
“可它们根本不是什么国家，”露茜说，她几乎要笑出声来，“就在我后面不远的地方，真的呀，那儿还是夏天。”
"Meanwhile," said Mr Tumnus, "it is winter in Narnia, and has been for ever so long, and we shall both catch cold if we stand here talking in the snow. Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Room where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?"
“可是，”图姆纳斯先生说，“在纳尼亚，现在却是冬天。这里的冬天是这样漫长。嗯，我们这样站在冰天雪地里谈话会着凉呢。夏娃的女儿，你来自遥远的空屋之国，那里，永恒的夏天统治着光明的衣橱之城。你愿意到我家里和我一起吃点茶点吗？”
"Thank you very much, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy. "But I was wondering whether I ought to be getting back."
“非常谢谢你，图姆纳斯先生，”露茜说，“可我想我应该回去了。”
"It's only just round the corner," said the Faun, "and there'll be a roaring fire - and toast - and sardines - and cake."
“只要转个弯就到了，”羊怪说，“我家里生着很旺的炉火，有烤面包，沙丁鱼，还有鸡蛋糕。”
"Well, it's very kind of you," said Lucy. "But I shan't be able to stay long."
“好吧，你真是太好了，”露茜说，“但我只能稍坐一会儿。”
"If you will take my arm, Daughter of Eve," said Mr Tumnus, "I shall be able to hold the umbrella over both of us. That's the way. Now - off we go."
“请你抓住我的手臂，夏娃的女儿，”图姆纳斯先生说，“这样，我们就可以合撑一把伞了。好，请跟我走吧。”
And so Lucy found herself walking through the wood arm in arm with this strange creature as if they had known one another all their lives.
露茜就这样，和这个奇怪的人手挽着手穿过了树林，好像他们老早就是好朋友似的。
They had not gone far before they came to a place where the ground became rough and there were rocks all about and little hills up and little hills down. At the bottom of one small valley Mr Tumnus turned suddenly aside as if he were going to walk straight into an unusually large rock, but at the last moment Lucy found he was leading her into the entrance of a cave. As soon as they were inside she found herself blinking in the light of a wood fire. Then Mr Tumnus stooped and took a flaming piece of wood out of the fire with a neat little pair of tongs, and lit a lamp. "Now we shan't be long," he said, and immediately put a kettle on.
没过多久，他们来到了一个地方，这里的路面高低不平，到处都是石头，起伏的小山连绵成片。在一个小山谷的谷底，图姆纳斯先生突然拐向一旁，向着一块大石头径直走去，最后，露茜发现他正领着她来到一个洞口。他们一走进洞内，露茜就感到两眼被木柴火照得睁不开来。图姆纳斯先生蹲下去，用一把小巧的火钳，从火堆里夹出一块正在燃烧的木柴头，点亮了一盏灯。“马上就好啦。”他一边说，一边把一个水壶放在火上。
Lucy thought she had never been in a nicer place. It was a little, dry, clean cave of reddish stone with a carpet on the floor and two little chairs ("one for me and one for a friend," said Mr Tumnus) and a table and a dresser and a mantelpiece over the fire and above that a picture of an old Faun with a grey beard. In one corner there was a door which Lucy thought must lead to Mr Tumnus's bedroom, and on one wall was a shelf full of books. Lucy looked at these while he was setting out the tea things. They had titles like The Life and Letters of Silenus or Nymphs and Their Ways or Men, Monks and Gamekeepers; a Study in Popular Legend or Is Man a Myth?
露茜想，她从来没有到过比这更舒适的地方。窑洞不大，四壁的石头泛着红光，洞内很干净，地上铺着一条地毯，摆着两张小椅子（“一张我坐，另一张给朋友坐。”图姆纳斯先生说），还有一张桌子，一个碗橱，火炉上有个壁台，壁台的上方挂着一幅白胡子老羊怪的画像。窑洞的一角有一扇门，露茜想，这一定是通向图姆纳斯先生的卧室的。门边的壁橱上面放满了书，书名有：《森林之神的生活和学习》、《山林水泽中的仙女》、《人、僧侣和猎场看守人》、《民间传说的研究》、《人类神秘吗？》等等，羊怪摆出餐具的时候，露茜就翻看着这些书。
"Now, Daughter of Eve!" said the Faun.
“好了，夏娃的女儿，请吃吧。”羊怪说。
And really it was a wonderful tea. There was a nice brown egg, lightly boiled, for each of them, and then sardines on toast, and then buttered toast, and then toast with honey, and then a sugar-topped cake. And when Lucy was tired of eating the Faun began to talk. He had wonderful tales to tell of life in the forest. He told about the midnight dances and how the Nymphs who lived in the wells and the Dryads who lived in the trees came out to dance with the Fauns; about long hunting parties after the milk-white stag who could give you wishes if you caught him; about feasting and treasure-seeking with the wild Red Dwarfs in deep mines and caverns far beneath the forest floor; and then about summer when the woods were green and old Silenus on his fat donkey would come to visit them, and sometimes Bacchus himself, and then the streams would run with wine instead of water and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end. "Not that it isn't always winter now," he added gloomily. Then to cheer himself up he took out from its case on the dresser a strange little flute that looked as if it were made of straw and began to play. And the tune he played made Lucy want to cry and laugh and dance and go to sleep all at the same time. It must have been hours later when she shook herself and said:
说实在话，这是一顿很丰盛的茶点，先是每人一只深黄色的煮鸡蛋，煮得很嫩，接着是沙丁吐司，奶油吐司，吐司拌蜂蜜，白糖蛋糕，应有尽有。等露茜一点儿也不想再吃的时候，羊怪就和她攀谈起来。他有许多有关林中生活的精彩的故事。他向她描述了夜半舞会的盛况，讲水仙和树仙怎样出来和农牧之神一起跳舞，讲长长的打猎队伍怎样追逐乳白色的仙鹿，这种仙鹿如果你捕捉到了，它就会给你带来希望。他还讲了森林里的宴会，讲了怎样和机灵的红发矮神在离地面很深的矿井和岩洞里寻宝。最后，他讲了林中的夏天。那时，树木都披上了绿装，年迈的森林之神常常骑着肥壮的驴子来拜访他们。有时，酒神巴克斯也亲自光临。巴克斯一来，河里流着的水都变成了酒，整座森林一连好几个星期都沉浸在节日的欢宴中。“哪里像现在这样，冬天总是没完没了啊！”他话头一转，显得很是忧伤。为了振奋精神，他从碗橱上面的箱子里拿出一根小笛子吹了起来，这笛子看起来很奇怪，好像是用稻草秆做的。那曲调使露茜一会儿想哭，一会儿想笑，一会儿想跳舞，一会儿又想睡觉。露茜一直感到恍恍惚惚的，过了好几个钟头，她才醒转过来，对羊怪说：
"Oh, Mr Tumnus - I'm so sorry to stop you, and I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes."
“哦，图姆纳斯先生——我很抱歉打断了你的演奏。我非常喜欢这种曲调，可是我得回去了，真的，我本来只想逗留几分钟的。”
"It's no good now, you know," said the Faun, laying down its flute and shaking its head at her very sorrowfully.
“现在不行啊，你知道吗？”羊怪说，他放下笛子，非常悲伤地对她摇了摇头。
"No good?" said Lucy, jumping up and feeling rather frightened. "What do you mean? I've got to go home at once. The others will be wondering what has happened to me." But a moment later she asked, "Mr Tumnus! Whatever is the matter?" for the Faun's brown eyes had filled with tears and then the tears began trickling down its cheeks, and soon they were running off the end of its nose; and at last it covered its face with its hands and began to howl.
“怎么不行？”露茜被吓得猛地跳了起来，“你说什么？我要马上回去。别人还以为我出了什么事呢！”接着，她又问羊怪：“图姆纳斯先生，这究竟是怎么一回事？”这时，羊怪那棕色的眼睛里噙满了泪水，泪水沿着双颊一滴一滴地往下淌，又从鼻尖底下滚落了下来。最后，他用双手捂住了脸，号啕大哭起来。
"Mr Tumnus! Mr Tumnus!" said Lucy in great distress. "Don't! Don't! What is the matter? Aren' you well? Dear Mr Tumnus, do tell me what is wrong." But the Faun continued sobbing as if its heart would break. And even when Lucy went over and put her arms round him and lent him her hand kerchief, he did not stop. He merely took the handker chief and kept on using it, wringing it out with both hands whenever it got too wet to be any more use, so that presently Lucy was standing in a damp patch.
“图姆纳斯先生，图姆纳斯先生，”露茜感到很难过，“别哭！别哭！到底是怎么回事？你哪儿不舒服吗？亲爱的图姆纳斯先生，你得告诉我呀！”但羊怪依旧哭个不停，好像他的心都要碎了似的。露茜走过去，双手搂住了他，把她的手绢掏出来递给他，他还是不停的抽泣。他接过手绢，一边哭，一边擦着眼泪，手绢湿的不能再用时就用双手拧几下，不一会儿，露茜脚下的一小块地方就湿漉漉的了。
"Mr Tumnus!" bawled Lucy in his ear, shaking him. "Do stop. Stop it at once! You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a great big Faun like you. What on earth are you crying about?"
“图姆纳斯先生！”露茜摇着他的身子，在他的耳边大声喊道，“停住，立即停住！你应该为自己感到羞愧，一个像你这样了不起的羊怪，究竟是什么事情使你哭的这样伤心？”
"Oh - oh - oh!" sobbed Mr Tumnus, "I'm crying because I'm such a bad Faun."
“呜，呜，呜。”图姆纳斯抽噎着，“我哭，因为我是这样坏的一个羊怪。”
"I don't think you're a bad Faun at all," said Lucy. "I think you are a very good Faun. You are the nicest Faun I've ever met."
“不，你决不是一个坏的羊怪。”露茜说，“你是一个非常好的羊怪。你是我遇到过的最好的羊怪。”
"Oh - oh - you wouldn't say that if you knew," replied Mr Tumnus between his sobs. "No, I'm a bad Faun. I don't suppose there ever was a worse Faun since the beginning of the world."
“哦，哦，你如果知道了事情的真相，你就不会这样说了。”图姆纳斯先生抽泣着回答，“我是一个坏的羊怪。我想，从开天辟地以来，再也没有一个比我更坏的羊怪了。”
"But what have you done?" asked Lucy.
“那么你到底做了什么？”露茜问。
"My old father, now," said Mr Tumnus; "that's his picture over the mantelpiece. He would never have done a thing like this."
“我的年迈的父亲，”图姆纳斯先生说，“你瞧，挂在壁炉台上面的就是他的画像，就不会做出这样的事来。”
"A thing like what?" said Lucy.
“什么样的事？”露茜问。
"Like what I've done," said the Faun. "Taken service under the White Witch. That's what I am. I'm in the pay of the White Witch."
“我所做的事，”羊怪回答，“是替白女巫效劳。我干的就是这种事情，我是被白女巫收买的。”
"The White Witch? Who is she?"
“白女巫？她是什么人？”
"Why, it is she that has got all Narnia under her thumb. It's she that makes it always winter. Always winter and never Christmas; think of that!"
“哎哟，这还用问吗？就是她，控制了整个纳尼亚；就是她，使纳尼亚全年都是冬天，从来没有圣诞节，请你想想看，这是一种什么样的情景呀！”
"How awful!" said Lucy. "But what does she pay you for?"
“多可怕呀！”露茜说，“但是她要你干些什么？”
"That's the worst of it," said Mr Tumnus with a deep groan. "I'm a kidnapper for her, that's what I am. Look at me, Daughter of Eve. Would you believe that I'm the sort of Faun to meet a poor innocent child in the wood, one that had never done me any harm, and pretend to be friendly with it, and invite it home to my cave, all for the sake of lulling it asleep and then handing it over to the White Witch?"
“她要我干的是丧尽天良的事，”图姆纳斯先生长叹一声说，“我专门替她拐骗小孩，这就是我干的勾当。夏娃的女儿，这你会相信吗？我就是这样的一个羊怪，在森林里遇到一个可怜的天真无辜的孩子以后，我就假装和他交朋友，请他到我的洞里来，骗他睡熟以后，就把他给白女巫送去。”
"No," said Lucy. "I'm sure you wouldn't do anything of the sort."
“不，”露茜说，“我能肯定，你不会做出这种事情来的。”
"But I have," said the Faun.
“可是我已经做了。”羊怪说。
"Well," said Lucy rather slowly (for she wanted to be truthful and yet not be too hard on him), "well, that was pretty bad. But you're so sorry for it that I'm sure you will never do it again."
“嗯，”露茜的语调慢了下来（因为她不愿撒谎，又不想对他过分严厉），“这确实是太没有良心了。但是，你为此这样的难过，我相信你决不会再做这样的事了。”
"Daughter of Eve, don't you understand?" said the Faun. "It isn't something I have done. I'm doing it now, this very moment."
“夏娃的女儿，你还不明白吗？”羊怪说，“这不是我以前干过的事，而是此刻我正在干的事。”
"What do you mean?" cried Lucy, turning very white.
“你是什么意思？”露茜叫道，脸色一下子变得煞白。
"You are the child," said Tumnus. "I had orders from the White Witch that if ever I saw a Son of Adam or a Daughter of Eve in the wood, I was to catch them and hand them over to her. And you are the first I've ever met. And I've pretended to be your friend an asked you to tea, and all the time I've been meaning to wait till you were asleep and then go and tell Her."
“你就是那种孩子。”图姆纳斯先生说，“我早就从白女巫那里得到命令，如果我在树林里发现亚当和夏娃的儿女，我就必须把他们抓来，送交给她。你是我遇到的第一个孩子。我假装和你交朋友，邀请你来吃茶点，我一直在等着，想等你睡熟以后，我就去向她报告。”
"Oh, but you won't, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy. "Yo won't, will you? Indeed, indeed you really mustn't."
“哦，可你不会去报告的，图姆纳斯先生，”露茜说，“你不会的，对吗？真的，真的，你千万不能去告诉她啊。”
"And if I don't," said he, beginning to cry again "she's sure to find out. And she'll have my tail cut off and my horns sawn off, and my beard plucked out, and she'll wave her wand over my beautiful clove hoofs and turn them into horrid solid hoofs like wretched horse's. And if she is extra and specially angry she'll turn me into stone and I shall be only statue of a Faun in her horrible house until the four thrones at Cair Paravel are filled and goodness knows when that will happen, or whether it will ever happen at all."
“假如我不去告诉她，”说着，他又哭了起来，“她最后总会发现，她就要割去我的尾巴，锯断我的角，拔掉我的胡子。她还会挥动她的魔杖打掉我这美丽的偶蹄，把它们变成像劣马那样可怕的单蹄。如果她恼羞成怒，她就会把我变成石头，变成她那可怕的庭院里一座羊怪石像，直到凯尔帕拉维尔的四个国王的宝座被人类占去以后为止。可是，谁知道这样的事情哪一天才能发生，到底是否会发生呢。”
"I'm very sorry, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy. "But please let me go home."
“非常对不起，图姆纳斯先生，”露茜说，“请你让我回家吧。”
"Of course I will," said the Faun. "Of course I've got to. I see that now. I hadn't known what Humans were like before I met you. Of course I can't give you up to the Witch; not now that I know you. But we must be off at once. I'll see you back to the lamp-post. I suppose you can find your own way from there back to Spare Oom and War Drobe?"
“当然要让你回家，”羊怪说，“我一定得这样做。在遇见你以前，我不知道人类是什么样子。现在我明白了。既然认识了你，我就不能把你交给白女巫。但是我们必须立刻离开这儿。我把你送回到灯柱那儿。我想，到了那儿以后，你就可以找到回衣橱和空屋的路了。”
"I'm sure I can," said Lucy.
“我相信我能找到的。”露茜说。
"We must go as quietly as we can," said Mr Tumnus. "The whole wood is full of her spies. Even some of the trees are on her side."
“我们走的时候，尽可能不要有声音，”图姆纳斯先生说，“整座森林都布满了她的暗探，甚至有些树木也站在她那边。”
They both got up and left the tea things on the table, and Mr Tumnus once more put up his umbrella and gave Lucy his arm, and they went out into the snow. The journey back was not at all like the journey to the Faun's cave; they stole along as quickly as they could, without speaking a word, and Mr Tumnus kept to the darkest places. Lucy was relieved when they reached the lamp-post again.
他们站起身来，连茶具也没有收拾，图姆纳斯先生又撑起了伞，让露茜夹着，两人出了门，走进了雪地里。他们一声不响地抄着小路，从树林中最隐蔽的地方急匆匆地跑着，一直跑到灯柱跟前，露茜才松了一口气。
"Do you know your way from here, Daughter o Eve?" said Tumnus.
“夏娃的女儿，你认得从这里回去的路吗？”图姆纳斯问。
Lucy looked very hard between the trees and could just see in the distance a patch of light that looked like daylight.
露茜在树林里仔细的看了看，瞧见远方有一片亮光，看起来很像阳光。
"Yes," she said, "I can see the wardrobe door."
“是的。”她说，“我可以看见橱门。”
"Then be off home as quick as you can," said the Faun, "and - c-can you ever forgive me for what meant to do?"
“那你就赶快走吧，”羊怪说，“还有，你——你肯原谅我本来想做的坏事吗？”
"Why, of course I can," said Lucy, shaking him heartily by the hand. "And I do hope you won't get into dreadful trouble on my account."
“说到哪里去了，”露茜十分诚恳地握着他的手说，“我只是衷心地希望你不要因为我而遭到麻烦。”
"Farewell, Daughter of Eve," said he. "Perhaps I may keep the handkerchief?"
“再见了，夏娃的女儿。”他说，“这块手绢可以让我随身带走吗？”
"Rather!" said Lucy, and then ran towards the far off patch of daylight as quickly as her legs would carry her. And presently instead of rough branch brushing past her she felt coats, and instead of crunching snow under her feet she felt wooden board and all at once she found herself jumping out of the wardrobe into the same empty room from which the whole adventure had started. She shut the wardrobe door tightly behind her and looked around, panting for breath. It was still raining and she could hear the voices of the others in the passage.
“当然可以。”露茜说完，就急急忙忙向着远处有亮光的地方飞奔过去。不一会，她就感到从她身上擦过的已不再是粗硬的树枝而是柔软的衣服了，她脚下也不是“嘎吱”“嘎吱”的雪，而是坚硬的木板了。一眨眼，她发现自己已离开了衣橱，来到了原来的那间空屋——这一段奇异的经历就是从这间空屋开始的。她紧紧地关上了橱门，向四周张望了一下，不停地喘着粗气。雨仍在下着，她清清楚楚地听见他们还在走廊里说话呢。
"I'm here," she shouted. "I'm here. I've come back.I'm all right."
“我在这儿，”她喊道，“我在这儿。我回来啦，我没事。”
Chapter 3
第三章
EDMUND AND THE WARDROBE
爱德蒙和衣橱
Lucy ran out of the empty room into the passage and found the other three.
露茜从空屋里奔出来，一口气跑到走廊里，找到了另外三个人。
"It's all right," she repeated, "I've comeback."
“没事啦。”她连声说，“我回来啦。”
"What on earth are you talking about, Lucy?" asked Susan.
“你到底在说什么，露茜？”苏珊问。
"Why? said Lucy in amazement, "haven't you all been wondering where I was?"
“啊？”露茜感到很惊异，“你们干吗不问问我到哪里去过？”
"So you've been hiding, have you?" said Peter. "Poor old Lu, hiding and nobody noticed! You'll have to hide longer than that if you want people to start looking for you."
“你躲起来了，是不是？”彼得说，“可怜的露啊，你就躲这么一会儿，谁也不会理你。如果你想要别人来找你，你就得躲上更长的时间。”
"But I've been away for hours and hours," said Lucy.
“但是我已经到那里去了好几个钟头啦。”露茜说。
The others all stared at one another.
三个人都惊讶地瞪起了眼睛，你看看我，我看看你。
"Batty!" said Edmund, tapping his head. "Quite batty."
“发疯啦！”爱德蒙拍着他的脑袋瓜说，“真是发疯啦。”
"What do you mean, Lu?" asked Peter.
“你在说什么，露？”彼得问。
"What I said," answered Lucy. "It was just after breakfast when I went into the wardrobe, and I've been away for hours and hours, and had tea, and all sorts of things have happened."
“我是说，“露茜回答道，“吃了早点以后，我走进了衣橱，我在里边待了好几个钟头，人家请我吃了茶点，我还遇到了许多奇怪的事。”
"Don't be silly, Lucy," said Susan. "We've only just come out of that room a moment ago, and you were there then."
“别说傻话，露茜，”苏珊说，“我们刚从空屋里出来，你躲在哪里就这么一会儿工夫。”
"She's not being silly at all," said Peter, "she's just making up a story for fun, aren't you, Lu? And why shouldn't she?"
“她一点儿也不傻，”彼得说，“她是在编造一个很有趣的故事，是吗，露？这有什么不好呢？”
"No, Peter, I'm not," she said. "It's - it's a magic wardrobe. There's a wood inside it, and it's snowing, and there's a Faun and a Witch and it's called Narnia; come and see."
“不，彼得，我不是编故事。”她说，“这是——这是一个有魔法的衣橱，里面有一座森林，正在下着雪，那里有一个羊怪和一个女巫，那个国家叫纳尼亚，你们来看吧。”
The others did not know what to think, but Lucy was so excited that they all went back with her into the room. She rushed ahead of them, flung open the door of the wardrobe and cried, "Now! go in and see for yourselves."
她这么一说，其他的人更加莫名其妙了，但露茜越说越激动，他们就都跟她一起回到了屋里。她急匆匆地抢先推开了橱门说：“喏，你们自己进去看吧。”
"Why, you goose," said Susan, putting her head inside and pulling the fur coats apart, "it's just an ordinary wardrobe; look! there's the back of it."
“什么呀，你这个笨蛋，”苏珊把头伸进橱里，把皮衣向两边拨开说，“这只不过是一个普通的衣橱，瞧！那儿不是衣橱的后壁吗。”
Then everyone looked in and pulled the coats apart; and they all saw - Lucy herself saw - a perfectly ordinary wardrobe. There was no wood and no snow, only the back of the wardrobe, with hooks on it. Peter went in and rapped his knuckles on it to make sure that it was solid.
大家都朝衣橱里仔细地观察了一番，把皮衣拨开以后，他们都看见——露茜自己也看见——这完全是一只普通的衣橱。里面没有树林，也没有雪，只有衣橱的后壁，上面钉着一些衣钩。彼得跨进衣橱里，用手指头轻轻地敲了敲，证实这确实是衣橱的后壁。
"A jolly good hoax, Lu," he said as he came out again, "you have really taken us in, I must admit. We half believed you."
“你真会说谎啊，露。”他一边走出来，一边说，“我得承认，我们真的被你骗了，我们几乎听信你说的话。”
"But it wasn't a hoax at all," said Lucy, "really and truly. It was all different a moment ago. Honestly it was. I promise."
“我一点儿也没说谎，”露茜说，“的的确确是真的，刚才的情况不是这样。我敢发誓，这是真的。”
"Come, Lu," said Peter, "that's going a bit far. You've had your joke. Hadn't you better drop it now?"
“好了，露，”彼得说，“这可有点过分了。玩笑你已经开过了，你还不适可而止吗？”
Lucy grew very red in the face and tried to say something, though she hardly knew what she was trying to say, and burst into tears.
露茜急得满脸通红，她想争辩，但又不知说什么好，她大哭了起来。
For the next few days she was very miserable. She could have made it up with the others quite easily at any moment if she could have brought herself to say that the whole thing was only a story made up for fun. But Lucy was a very truthful girl and she knew that she was really in the right; and she could not bring herself to say this. The others who thought she was telling a lie, and a silly lie too, made her very unhappy. The two elder ones did this without meaning to do it, but Edmund could be spiteful, and on this occasion he was spiteful. He sneered and jeered at Lucy and kept on asking her if she'd found any other new countries in other cupboards all over the house. What made it worse was that these days ought to have been delightful. The weather was fine and they were out of doors from morning to night, bathing, fishing, climbing trees, and lying in the heather. But Lucy could not properly enjoy any of it. And so things went on until the next wet day.
以后接连好几天，露茜一直闷闷不乐。如果她不顾事实随口承认这个故事只是编出来让大家开开心的，那她就很容易随时与大家和好。但露茜是一个非常诚实的小姑娘，她坚信自己是对的，她不肯随便乱说。可是别人呢，都认为她在说谎，而且是说了一个非常愚蠢的谎，这使她感到非常的委屈。彼得和苏珊批评她说谎并不是有意奚落她，但爱德蒙却是有点故意找茬，这次，他抓住了把柄似的不断取笑露茜，一次又一次地问她是不是在屋内别的橱里又发现了别的国家。那几天本该是非常令人愉快的日子，天气很好，他们从早到晚都在外边，洗澡，钓鱼，爬树，掏鸟窝，躲在石楠树丛中玩，但露茜对这些却一点也不感兴趣。这样的情况一直延续到以后的又一个阴雨天。
That day, when it came to the afternoon and there was still no sign of a break in the weather, they decided to play hide-and-seek. Susan was "It" and as soon as the others scattered to hide, Lucy went to the room where the wardrobe was. She did not mean to hide in the wardrobe, because she knew that would only set the others talking again about the whole wretched business. But she did want to have one more look inside it; for by this time she was beginning to wonder herself whether Narnia and the Faun had not been a dream. The house was so large and complicated and full of hiding-places that she thought she would have time to have one look into the wardrobe and then hide somewhere else. But as soon as she reached it she heard steps in the passage outside, and then there was nothing for it but to jump into the wardrobe and hold the door closed behind her. She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.
那一天，直到下午，雨还没有停，一点也没有转晴的迹象。他们决定作捉迷藏的游戏，其他三个人躲，由苏珊负责“捉”。大家刚散开，露茜就走进了放衣橱的那间空屋。她并不想躲到橱里去，因为她知道，如果那样做的话，就只会使旁人再次谈论起那件令人难堪的事来。但她很想到橱里去看一看，因为这些天来，她开始怀疑纳尼亚和羊怪只不过是个梦罢了。她想，房子这样大，结构又是这样复杂，可躲藏的地方多得很，先到橱里看一看，再躲到旁的地方，时间总是来得及的。但她一走进衣橱，就听见外边走廊里有脚步声，她没有别的办法，只好跳了进去，并顺手带上了橱门。她没有将门关严，因为她知道，即使这不是一个魔法衣橱，一个人把自己关在衣橱里也是非常愚蠢的。
Now the steps she had heard were those of Edmund; and he came into the room just in time to see Lucy vanishing into the wardrobe. He at once decided to get into it himself - not because he thought it a particularly good place to hide but because he wanted to go on teasing her about her imaginary country. He opened the door. There were the coats hanging up as usual, and a smell of mothballs, and darkness and silence, and no sign of Lucy. "She thinks I'm Susan come to catch her," said Edmund to himself, "and so she's keeping very quiet in at the back." He jumped in and shut the door, forgetting what a very foolish thing this is to do. Then he began feeling about for Lucy in the dark. He had expected to find her in a few seconds and was very surprised when he did not. He decided to open the door again and let in some light. But he could not find the door either. He didn't like this at all and began groping wildly in every direction; he even shouted out, "Lucy! Lu! Where are you? I know you're here."
原来是爱德蒙跑进来了，他走进屋内，刚好看见露茜的身影消失在衣橱中。他急忙追上去，这倒不是他把衣橱看作是躲藏的好地方，而是因为他想继续嘲笑她编造的那个国家的故事。他拉开橱门，里边像平常一样挂着外套，还有樟脑丸的气味，黑糊糊，静悄悄的，不见露茜的人影。“她以为我是苏珊来找她的，”爱德蒙自言自语地说，“所以她一直躲在衣橱里不吱声。”于是，他一步跨进去，关上了门，也忘记了这样做有多傻。他随即在暗中摸索起来，他原以为不消几秒钟就能摸到她，但使他吃惊的是，他怎么也摸不到。他想去开门，让亮光透一点进来，可他没能找到橱门。他气得四下乱摸，还高声喊着：“露茜，露！你躲在哪里呀？还不出来，我知道，你就在这儿。”
There was no answer and Edmund noticed that his own voice had a curious sound - not the sound you expect in a cupboard, but a kind of open-air sound. He also noticed that he was unexpectedly cold; and then he saw a light.
没有回答，爱德蒙发现他的声音非常奇怪，不像你所想象的在橱里的那种声音，而像是在旷野里发出来的。他感到冷的出奇。正在这时，他看见前面有一线亮光。
"Thank goodness," said Edmund, "the door must have swung open of its own accord." He forgot all about Lucy and went towards the light, which he thought was the open door of the wardrobe. But instead of finding himself stepping out into the spare room he found himself stepping out from the shadow of some thick dark fir trees into an open place in the middle of a wood.
“谢天谢地，”爱德蒙说，“一定是橱门自己荡开了。”他已经将露茜忘的一干二净，只顾朝着那亮光走去，他还以为那里就是开着的橱门呢。但他马上发现，他并没有走出衣橱返回空屋，而是从浓密的枞树荫里走进了林中的一片空地。
There was crisp, dry snow under his feet and more snow lying on the branches of the trees. Overhead there was pale blue sky, the sort of sky one sees on a fine winter day in the morning. Straight ahead of him he saw between the tree-trunks the sun, just rising, very red and clear. Everything was perfectly still, as if he were the only living creature in that country. There was not even a robin or a squirrel among the trees, and the wood stretched as far as he could see in every direction. He shivered.
他的脚下踩着又干又脆的雪，树枝上也堆着一簇一簇的积雪，头顶上空是一片蔚蓝的天，这就像人们在冬天晴朗的早晨看到的那种天上的颜色。太阳刚从正前方的树干间升起，鲜红鲜红的。四周一片寂静，好像在那个国家，除了他以外，什么生灵也不存在了。在树林中间，连一只知更鸟和松鼠也没有，森林向四面八方伸展开去，一望无际。他不禁打起了寒颤。
He now remembered that he had been looking for Lucy; and also how unpleasant he had been to her about her "imaginary country" which now turned out not to have been imaginary at all. He thought that she must be somewhere quite close and so he shouted, "Lucy! Lucy! I'm here too-Edmund."
这时他忽然想起，他是来寻找露茜的，他也想到，他对她讲的故事是多么反感，而现在周围的一切证明她讲的情况原来是真的。他想露茜一定就在附近什么地方，所以他高声喊叫着：“露茜！露茜！我是爱德蒙，我也来了。”
There was no answer.
没有回答。
"She's angry about all the things I've been saying lately," thought Edmund. And though he did not like to admit that he had been wrong, he also did not much like being alone in this strange, cold, quiet place; so he shouted again.
“她是因为我最近错怪了她而生我的气吧。”爱德蒙想。虽然他不愿意承认自己错了，但也不想一个人孤零零地站在这个陌生、寒冷而又孤寂的地方，于是他又喊了起来：
"I say, Lu! I'm sorry I didn't believe you. I see now you were right all along. Do come out. Make it Pax."
“喂，露！以前我不相信你说的话，请你原谅。现在我明白，你说的是对的。赶快出来，我们和好吧。”
"Just like a girl," said Edmund to himself, "sulking somewhere, and won't accept an apology." He looked round him again and decided he did not much like this place, and had almost made up his mind to go home, when he heard, very far off in the wood, a sound of bells. He listened and the sound came nearer and nearer and at last there swept into sight a sledge drawn by two reindeer.
“真是女孩子气，”爱德蒙自言自语地说，“一个劲地闹别扭，人家向她赔礼道歉了，她还是不睬人。”他又看了看四周，感到实在没有必要在这里逗留。他正要准备回家的时候，听见遥远的树林里传来了铃儿的响声。他仔细倾听着。铃声越来越近，最后他看见，一辆雪橇由两匹驯鹿拉着疾驰而来。
The reindeer were about the size of Shetland ponies and their hair was so white that even the snow hardly looked white compared with them; their branching horns were gilded and shone like something on fire when the sunrise caught them. Their harness was of scarlet leather and covered with bells. On the sledge, driving the reindeer, sat a fat dwarf who would have been about three feet high if he had been standing. He was dressed in polar bear's fur and on his head he wore a red hood with a long gold tassel hanging down from its point; his huge beard covered his knees and served him instead of a rug. But behind him, on a much higher seat in the middle of the sledge sat a very different person - a great lady, taller than any woman that Edmund had ever seen. She also was covered in white fur up to her throat and held a long straight golden wand in her right hand and wore a golden crown on her head. Her face was white - not merely pale, but white like snow or paper or icing-sugar, except for her very red mouth. It was a beautiful face in other respects, but proud and cold and stern.
这两匹驯鹿和设得兰群岛的矮种马差不多大小，它们身上的毛比雪还要白，它们头上的叉角在朝阳的映照下闪烁着红光。它们脖子上的套具是用深红色的皮革制成的，上面带着铃铛。坐在雪橇上赶鹿的是个肥胖的小矮人，如果他站直了的话，大约只有三英尺高。他穿着白熊皮做的衣服，头上围着一条红色的头巾，长长的金黄色的穗子从它的顶上垂下来；他的大胡子一直垂到两膝，简直可以当作一条围巾来使用。在他后面，在雪橇中间一个高得多的座位上，坐着一个与众不同的女人，她比爱德蒙以前见过的任何一个女人都要高大。她也全身穿着雪白的毛皮衣服，右手握着一根又长又直的金棍，头上戴着一顶金冠。除了她那血红的嘴以外，她的脸就像雪、纸或冰糖一样白。她的脸孔还算漂亮，但却显得十分骄横和冷酷。
The sledge was a fine sight as it came sweeping towards Edmund with the bells jingling and the dwarf cracking his whip and the snow flying up on each side of it.
雪橇向爱德蒙疾驰而来，铃儿“叮当叮当”地响着，小矮人“噼噼啪啪”地挥着鞭子，雪向雪橇的四边飞溅，看上去真像一幅美丽的图画。
"Stop!" said the Lady, and the dwarf pulled the reindeer up so sharp that they almost sat down. Then they recovered themselves and stood champing their bits and blowing. In the frosty air the breath coming out of their nostrils looked like smoke.
“停！”坐在雪橇上的那个女人说，小矮人猛地拉了一下驯鹿，驯鹿几乎都坐了起来。它们很快恢复了原状，立在那儿，“格格”地咬着嘴里的嚼子，呼呼直喘气。在这种严寒的天气里，它们鼻孔里呼出来的热气看起来就像烟雾一般。
"And what, pray, are you?" said the Lady, looking hard at Edmund.
“喂，说说你是什么？”那个女人问，两眼紧盯着爱德蒙。
"I'm-I'm-my name's Edmund," said Edmund rather awkwardly. He did not like the way she looked at him.
“我是……我是……我的名字叫爱德蒙。”爱德蒙局促不安地说。他很不喜欢她打量他时的那种神情。
The Lady frowned, "Is that how you address a Queen?" she asked, looking sterner than ever.
那女人皱起了双眉，“你就这样对一位女王讲话吗？”她说，样子显得更加严厉了。
"I beg your pardon, your Majesty, I didn't know," said Edmund.
“请原谅，陛下，我不知道你是女王。”爱德蒙说。
"Not know the Queen of Narnia?" cried she. "Ha! You shall know us better hereafter. But I repeat-what are you?"
“不认识纳尼亚的女王？”她喊道，“哈！很快你就会认得的。那我再问一遍——你是什么？”
"Please, your Majesty," said Edmund, "I don't know what you mean. I'm at school - at least I was - it's the holidays now."
“回禀陛下，”爱德蒙说，“我不懂你的意思。我在上学——至少以前是——现在在放假。”
Chapter 4
第四章
TURKISH DELIGHT
土耳其软糖
"BUT what are you?" said the Queen again. "Are you a great overgrown dwarf that has cut off its beard?"
“但你是什么？”那女王又问，“你是个剃掉了胡子，长得特别高大的小矮人吗？”
"No, your Majesty," said Edmund, "I never had a beard, I'm a boy."
“不，陛下，”爱德蒙说，“我还没有长胡子呢，我是个男孩。”
"A boy!" said she. "Do you mean you are a Son of Adam?"
“一个男孩！”她说，“你是说你是亚当的儿子？”
Edmund stood still, saying nothing. He was too confused by this time to understand what the question meant.
爱德蒙一愣，没有开口。他被问的莫名其妙，一点也不懂这句话的意思。
"I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be," said the Queen. "Answer me, once and for all, or I shall lose my patience. Are you human?"
“我看，不管你是什么，你都是个白痴，”女王说，“回答我的问题，就这么一次了，别惹我发怒，你是人类吗？”
"Yes, your Majesty," said Edmund.
“是的，陛下。”爱德蒙说。
"And how, pray, did you come to enter my dominions?"
“那么现在，说说你是怎么来到我统治的这个地方的？”
"Please, your Majesty, I came in through a wardrobe."
“回禀陛下，我是从一个衣橱进来的。”
"A wardrobe? What do you mean?"
“一个衣橱？这是怎么一回事？”
"I - I opened a door and just found myself here, your Majesty," said Edmund.
“我……我开了橱门，一跑到里面，就发现我在这儿了，陛下。”爱德蒙回答说。
"Ha!" said the Queen, speaking more to herself than to him. "A door. A door from the world of men! I have heard of such things. This may wreck all. But he is only one, and he is easily dealt with." As she spoke these words she rose from her seat and looked Edmund full in the face, her eyes flaming; at the same moment she raised her wand. Edmund felt sure that she was going to do something dreadful but he seemed unable to move. Then, just as he gave himself up for lost, she appeared to change her mind.
“哈！”女王像是在自言自语，“一扇门，一扇通向人类世界的门！以前我也听说过这样的事。这下可糟糕了。不过，他只有一个人，还容易对付。”她一边说，一边从她的座位上站起来，死死的盯着爱德蒙的脸，眼里射出恶狠狠的光焰。她挥起手中的棍子。爱德蒙想，她一定要干什么可怕的事情了。他似乎觉得自己已动弹不得。正当他感到自己快要死的时候，那女王好像改变了主意。
"My poor child," she said in quite a different voice, "how cold you look! Come and sit with me here on the sledge and I will put my mantle round you and we will talk."
“我可怜的孩子，”她用一种截然不同的语气说，“瞧，你被冻得这个样子！坐到我雪橇上来吧，我给你裹上披风，好一起谈谈心。”
Edmund did not like this arrangement at all but he dared not disobey; he stepped on to the sledge and sat at her feet, and she put a fold of her fur mantle round him and tucked it well in.
爱德蒙内心不愿意，但又不敢违抗，他只好跨上雪橇，坐在她脚旁。她把毛皮披风的一角披在他身上，将他裹的紧紧的。
"Perhaps something hot to drink?" said the Queen. "Should you like that?"
“喝点热的怎么样？”女王问，“你想喝点吗？”
"Yes please, your Majesty," said Edmund, whose teeth were chattering.
“好的，回禀陛下。”爱德蒙说，他的牙齿在不停地打战。
The Queen took from somewhere among her wrappings a very small bottle which looked as if it were made of copper. Then, holding out her arm, she let one drop fall from it on the snow beside the sledge. Edmund saw the drop for a second in mid-air, shining like a diamond. But the moment it touched the snow there was a hissing sound and there stood a jewelled cup full of something that steamed. The dwarf immediately took this and handed it to Edmund with a bow and a smile; not a very nice smile. Edmund felt much better as he began to sip the hot drink. It was something he had never tasted before, very sweet and foamy and creamy, and it warmed him right down to his toes.
女王从身边掏出一个很小的瓶子，它看上去是铜做的。然后，她伸出手臂，从瓶里倒出一滴东西滴在雪橇旁边的雪地上。爱德蒙看到，这一滴东西在落地前像宝石一样闪闪发光，但它一碰到雪，便发出一阵咝咝的响声，顿时就变成了一个宝石杯，杯子里盛满了饮料，还直冒热气。那个小矮人马上拿起杯子，递给爱德蒙，皮笑肉不笑地向他鞠了一个躬。爱德蒙呷了一口，感到舒服多了。这是他从没尝到过的奶油饮料，非常甜，泡沫很多，他喝下以后，一直暖到脚跟。
"It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?"
“亚当的儿子，只饮不吃是傻瓜，”女王过了一会儿说，“你最喜欢吃什么东西呀？”
"Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty," said Edmund.
“土耳其软糖，回禀陛下。”爱德蒙说。
The Queen let another drop fall from her bottle on to the snow, and instantly there appeared a round box, tied with green silk ribbon, which, when opened, turned out to contain several pounds of the best Turkish Delight. Each piece was sweet and light to the very centre and Edmund had never tasted anything more delicious. He was quite warm now, and very comfortable.
女王从瓶子里又倒出一滴滴到雪地上，地上立即出现了一个圆盒子，用绿丝带扎着，把它一打开，里面装着好几磅最好的土耳其软糖。每一块又甜又软，爱德蒙从没有吃过比它还要好吃的东西。他现在感到非常暖和，非常舒适。
While he was eating the Queen kept asking him questions. At first Edmund tried to remember that it is rude to speak with one's mouth full, but soon he forgot about this and thought only of trying to shovel down as much Turkish Delight as he could, and the more he ate the more he wanted to eat, and he never asked himself why the Queen should be so inquisitive. She got him to tell her that he had one brother and two sisters, and that one of his sisters had already been in Narnia and had met a Faun there, and that no one except himself and his brother and his sisters knew anything about Narnia. She seemed especially interested in the fact that there were four of them, and kept on coming back to it. "You are sure there are just four of you?" she asked. "Two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve, neither more nor less?" and Edmund, with his mouth full of Turkish Delight, kept on saying, "Yes, I told you that before," and forgetting to call her "Your Majesty", but she didn't seem to mind now.
在他吃软糖的时候，女王接二连三地问了他许多问题。开始，爱德蒙竭力让自己记住，嘴里塞满了东西讲话是不礼貌的，但没有多久他就忘得干干净净，只顾狼吞虎咽地吃软糖。他吃得越多，就越是想吃，一点儿也没想到为什么女王要问他这么多问题。最后，他把一切情况都告诉了她：他有一个哥哥，一个姐姐和一个妹妹，他的妹妹也曾到过纳尼亚，还遇见了一个羊怪，除了他们兄妹四人以外，没有谁知道纳尼亚的情况。女王听到他们有兄妹四人，似乎感到特别有兴趣，她反反复复地问：“你能肯定你们正好是四个人吗？亚当的两个儿子和夏娃的两个女儿，不多也不少？”爱德蒙嘴里塞满了软糖，一遍又一遍地回答：“是的，我已经告诉过你了。”现在他都忘了称她“陛下”，但她好像并不在乎。
At last the Turkish Delight was all finished and Edmund was looking very hard at the empty box and wishing that she would ask him whether he would like some more. Probably the Queen knew quite well what he was thinking; for she knew, though Edmund did not, that this was enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone who had once tasted it would want more and more of it, and would even, if they were allowed, go on eating it till they killed themselves. But she did not offer him any more. Instead, she said to him,
最后，土耳其软糖全吃完了，爱德蒙的眼睛滴溜溜地看着那个空盒子，巴不得她再问他一声是不是还想吃。女王很可能知道他此时的思想活动。因为，爱德蒙虽然没有说出口，但她却十分清楚，这种土耳其软糖是一种施了妖法的迷魂糖，不管哪个吃了以后，都会越吃越想吃，只要有得吃，他就不会住口，一直吃到被毒死为止。女王并没有再给他吃，只是说：
"Son of Adam, I should so much like to see your brother and your two sisters. Will you bring them to see me?"
“亚当的儿子，我多么希望能够看到你的哥哥和姐妹啊！请你把他们带到我这儿来好吗？”
"I'll try," said Edmund, still looking at the empty box.
“我一定照办。”爱德蒙说，两只眼睛依旧盯住那只空盒子。
"Because, if you did come again - bringing them with you of course - I'd be able to give you some more Turkish Delight. I can't do it now, the magic will only work once. In my own house it would be another matter."
“如果你再来的话——当然要把他们一起带来——我就会给你更多的土耳其软糖吃。但现在不能给你，因为这种魔法只能使用一次。当然，到了我的家，情况就不同了。”
"Why can't we go to your house now?" said Edmund. When he had first got on to the sledge he had been afraid that she might drive away with him to some unknown place from which he would not be able to get back,but he had forgotten about that fear now.
“那么我们现在就到你家里去好吗？”爱德蒙说。他刚坐上雪橇时，担心她会把他带到一个非常陌生的地方去，他将永远回不来了，可是现在，他的这种担心已被抛到了九霄云外。
"It is a lovely place, my house," said the Queen. "I am sure you would like it. There are whole rooms full of Turkish Delight, and what's more, I have no children of my own. I want a nice boy whom I could bring up as a Prince and who would be King of Narnia when I am gone. While he was Prince he would wear a gold crown and eat Turkish Delight all day long; and you are much the cleverest and handsomest young man I've ever met. I think I would like to make you the Prince - some day, when you bring the others to visit me."
“我家是个很舒适的地方，”女王说，“我肯定你会喜欢，那里有好些房间是专门放土耳其软糖的。再说，我自己没有孩子，我很想领养一个漂亮的男孩当王子。你哪一天把另外三个人带到我家来，我就哪一天让你当王子。”
"Why not now?" said Edmund. His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.
“为什么不是现在呢？”爱德蒙说，他脸色变得通红，嘴和手指上面都黏糊糊的。不管女王怎么夸奖她，他乍看起来既不聪明又不漂亮。
"Oh, but if I took you there now," said she, "I shouldn't see your brother and your sisters. I very much want to know your charming relations. You are to be the Prince and - later on - the King; that is understood. But you must have courtiers and nobles. I will make your brother a Duke and your sisters Duchesses."
“哦，假如我现在就把你带回家去，”她说，“我就见不到你的哥哥、姐姐和妹妹了。我很想认识他们。你将成为王子，以后还要作国王，但你还必须有大臣和贵族。我将封你的哥哥当公爵，封你的姐姐和妹妹当女公爵。”
"There's nothing special about them," said Edmund, "and, anyway, I could always bring them some other time."
“他们没有什么值得你特别器重的，”爱德蒙说，“而且，我可以随便在哪一天把他们带来。”
"Ah, but once you were in my house," said the Queen, "you might forget all about thern. You would be enjoying yourself so much that you wouldn't want the bother of going to fetch them. No. You must go back to your own country now and come to me another day, with them, you understand. It is no good coming without them."
“啊，但是如果你现在到了我的家里，”女王说，“你就会把他们忘得干干净净，你就会只顾自己玩乐，而不想再去找他们了。不行，你现在必须回到你自己的国家去，过几天和他们一起到我这儿来，不和他们一起来是不行的。”
"But I don't even know the way back to my own country," pleaded Edmund.
“但我不认得回去的路。”爱德蒙恳求说。
"That's easy," answered the Queen. "Do you see that lamp?" She pointed with her wand and Edmund turned and saw the same lamp-post under which Lucy had met the Faun. "Straight on, beyond that, is the way to the World of Men. And now look the other way"- here she pointed in the opposite direction - "and tell me if you can see two little hills rising above the trees."
“这容易。”女王回答说，“你看见那盏灯吗？”她用手中的棍子指了指，爱德蒙转过身去，看见了露茜曾在那儿碰见了羊怪的那个灯柱。“一直往前走，到灯柱那边，就能找到通向人类世界的路。那现在看另外一条路，”她指着相反的方向问，“顺着树梢的上头看过去，告诉我你看到有两座小山吗？”
"I think I can," said Edmund.
“我想我看到了。”爱德蒙回答。
"Well, my house is between those two hills. So next time you come you have only to find the lamp-post and look for those two hills and walk through the wood till you reach my house. But remember - you must bring the others with you. I might have to be very angry with you if you came alone."
“好，我住的地方就在那两座小山之间。你下次来的时候，只要找到灯柱，朝着那两座小山的方向，穿过这座森林，就可以到我住的地方。你要让这条河流一直紧靠在你的右边。但必须记住，你得带着你的哥哥、姐姐和妹妹一起来。如果只来你一个人，可别怪我发怒。”
"I'll do my best," said Edmund.
“我将尽我最大努力。”爱德蒙回答说。
"And, by the way," said the Queen, "you needn't tell them about me. It would be fun to keep it a secret between us two, wouldn't it? Make it a surprise for them. Just bring them along to the two hills - a clever boy like you will easily think of some excuse for doing that - and when you come to my house you could just say "Let's see who lives here" or something like that. I am sure that would be best. If your sister has met one of the Fauns, she may have heard strange stories about me - nasty stories that might make her afraid to come to me. Fauns will say anything, you know, and now -"
“嗯，顺便说一句，”女王说，“你不必把我的情况告诉他们。我们两人必须严守秘密，这将是非常有趣的事情，你说是不是？要让他们来了以后大吃一惊。你只要想办法把他们带进那两座小山就行了——一个像你这样聪明的孩子要找个这样的借口还不容易——你到了我家以后，只消说一声，‘让我们看看谁住在这儿’或别的这一类的话就行了。据我看来，这是再好不过的办法。如果你的妹妹见到过一个羊怪，她或许听到过关于我的什么坏话。她可能怕到我这儿来。那些羊怪最会瞎说一通，现在……”
"Please, please," said Edmund suddenly, "please couldn't I have just one piece of Turkish Delight to eat on the way home?"
“请求陛下，”爱德蒙插嘴说，“请你再给我一块土耳其软糖，让我在回家的路上吃好吗？”
"No, no," said the Queen with a laugh, "you must wait till next time." While she spoke, she signalled to the dwarf to drive on, but as the sledge swept away out of sight, the Queen waved to Edmund, calling out, "Next time! Next time! Don't forget. Come soon."
“不行，不行，”女王大笑着说，“一定要等到下一次。”她一边说，一边向小矮人打了一个继续赶路的手势，于是雪橇便疾驶而去，女王朝爱德蒙挥手喊道，“等到下一次，等到下一次。别忘了，快来。”
Edmund was still staring after the sledge when he heard someone calling his own name, and looking round he saw Lucy coming towards him from another part of the wood.
正当爱德蒙凝视着远去的雪橇的时候，他忽然听见有人在喊他的名字。他掉转头来，看见露茜正从树林的另一个方向朝他走了过来。
"Oh, Edmund!" she cried. "So you've got in too! Isn't it wonderful, and now-"
“哦，爱德蒙！”她喊道，“你也进来了！这儿是不是很美妙啊，那么现在……”
"All right," said Edmund, "I see you were right and it is a magic wardrobe after all. I'll say I'm sorry if you like. But where on earth have you been all this time? I've been looking for you everywhere."
“是啊，”爱德蒙说，“你看，你以前说的事是真的，这真的是个魔法衣橱。我必须向你道歉，可是你刚才究竟在哪里？我到处找你呢。”
"If I'd known you had got in I'd have waited for you," said Lucy, who was too happy and excited to notice how snappishly Edmund spoke or how flushed and strange his face was. "I've been having lunch with dear Mr Tumnus, the Faun, and he's very well and the White Witch has done nothing to him for letting me go, so he thinks she can't have found out and perhaps everything is going to be all right after all."
“要是我知道你也进来了，我一定会等你。”露茜说，她高兴极了，一点也没注意到爱德蒙说话时是多么急躁，他的脸色是多么红，多么奇怪。“我和亲爱的羊怪图姆纳斯先生一起吃过饭，他平安无事，上次他把我放走了，白女巫没有对他怎么样，他说这件事女巫没有发觉，他大概不会遇到什么麻烦了。”
"The White Witch?" said Edmund,"who's she?"
“白女巫？”爱德蒙问，“她是谁？”
"She is a perfectly terrible person," said Lucy. "She calls herself the Queen of Narnia though she has no right to be queen at all, and all the Fauns and Dryads and Naiads and Dwarfs and Animals - at least all the good ones - simply hate her. And she can turn people into stone and do all kinds of horrible things. And she has made a magic so that it is always winter in Narnia - always winter, but it never gets to Christmas. And she drives about on a sledge, drawn by reindeer, with her wand in her hand and a crown on her head."
“她是个十分可怕的女巫，”露茜说，“她自称是纳尼亚的女王，可是她根本没有资格作女王。所有的羊怪、水神、树神、小矮人和动物，凡是心肠好的，都对她恨之入骨。她能把人变成石头，她能做出各种各样恐怖的事来。她施行一种妖术，使纳尼亚一年到头都是冬天，始终过不上圣诞节。她手持魔杖，头戴王冠，坐在驯鹿拉的雪橇里，到处跑着。”
Edmund was already feeling uncomfortable from having eaten too many sweets, and when he heard that the Lady he had made friends with was a dangerous witch he felt even more uncomfortable. But he still wanted to taste that Turkish Delight again more than he wanted anything else.
爱德蒙软糖吃得太多，早已感到不很舒服，现在听说和他交朋友的那个女人原来是个危险的女巫，他就感到更不舒服了。虽然如此，与别的东西相比，他还是喜欢吃土耳其软糖。
"Who told you all that stuff about the White Witch?" he asked.
“所有这些关于白女巫的废话，是谁告诉你的？”他问。
"Mr Tumnus, the Faun," said Lucy.
“羊怪图姆纳斯先生。”露茜说。
"You can't always believe what Fauns say," said Edmund, trying to sound as if he knew far more about them than Lucy.
“你不要总是相信羊怪的话。”爱德蒙说，装出一副比露茜更加了解羊怪的样子。
"Who said so?" asked Lucy.
“这话是谁说的？”露茜问。
"Everyone knows it," said Edmund,"ask anybody you like. But it's pretty poor sport standing here in the snow. Let's go home."
“大家都知道，”爱德蒙说，“随你问哪一个都行。但是，冒雪站在这儿有什么好玩的，我们还是回去吧。”
"Yes, let's," said Lucy. "Oh, Edmund, I am glad you've got in too. The others will have to believe in Narnia now that both of us have been there. What fun it will be!"
“好的，我们走吧，”露茜说，“哦，爱德蒙，你也来了，我感到很高兴。我们两人都到过纳尼亚，别人一定会相信我们了。那该多有趣呀！”
But Edmund secretly thought that it would not be as good fun for him as for her. He would have to admit that Lucy had been right, before all the others, and he felt sure the others would all be on the side of the Fauns and the animals; but he was already more than half on the side of the Witch. He did not know what he would say, or how he would keep his secret once they were all talking about Narnia.
爱德蒙却暗自认为，对他来说，纳尼亚并不像露茜说的那样有趣，但是他不得不在大家面前承认露茜是对的。他敢肯定，别人都会站在羊怪和别的动物一边，而他却站在女巫这一边。如果大家都知道纳尼亚的情况，那他就有口难辨了，也无法保守他的秘密了。
By this time they had walked a good way. Then suddenly they felt coats around them instead of branches and next moment they were both standing outside the wardrobe in the empty room.
不知不觉，他们已经走了好远，忽然他们发现，他们周围已不再是树枝而是衣服了，转瞬间，两人已站在衣橱的空屋里了。
"I say," said Lucy, "you do look awful, Edmund. Don't you feel well?"
“哎呦，”露茜说，“你的脸色多么难看啊，爱德蒙，你不舒服吗？”
"I'm all right," said Edmund, but this was not true. He was feeling very sick.
“我很好。”爱德蒙回答，但这并不是真话，他感到很不舒服。
"Come on then," said Lucy, "let's find the others. What a lot we shall have to tell them! And what wonderful adventures we shall have now that we're all in it together."
“那么走吧，”露茜说，“我们找他们去，我们有许多话要告诉他们！如果我们四个人全到了里边，我们将会遇到很多奇异的事情。”
Chapter 5
第五章
BACK ON THIS SIDE OF THE DOOR
回到了橱门这一边
BECAUSE the game of hide-and-seek was still going on, it took Edmund and Lucy some time to find the others. But when at last they were all together (which happened in the long room, where the suit of armour was) Lucy burst out:
因为彼得和苏珊还在捉迷藏，所以爱德蒙和露茜花了好长时间才找到他俩。当大家一起聚集到放有盔甲的那间狭长屋子里以后，露茜大声说：
"Peter! Susan! It's all true. Edmund has seen it too. There is a country you can get to through the wardrobe. Edmund and I both got in. We met one another in there, in the wood. Go on, Edmund; tell them all about it."
“彼得！苏珊！一点也不错，爱德蒙也看见了，那里有一个国家，可以从衣橱里面进去。爱德蒙和我进去过了，我们是在那边的树林里碰到的。来，爱德蒙，把所有的情况告诉他们。”

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