009 皇宫失火

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From then on, the king of Lilliput did not demand much of me

从那时起，小人国的国王就不再对我有很多要求了。

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I suppose that was because he no longer liked me

我想那是因为他不再喜欢我了。

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I could do as I pleased and go wherever I liked in Lilliput

我可以随心所欲，在小人国里想去哪儿就去哪儿。

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Not long after the Blefuscan officials visited me, I had an opportunity to help the king of Lilliput

在布莱福斯库的官员们拜访我之后不久，我有了一个帮助小人国国王的机会。

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About midnight one night, people screaming outside my house woke me up

一天夜里大约午夜时分，屋外人们的尖叫声把我吵醒了。

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They were frantic, and I could not understand what they were shouting

他们非常慌乱，我听不懂他们在喊什么。

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Suddenly, some palace officials arrived

突然，一些宫廷官员赶到了。

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" Hurry!" one of them cried

“快！”其中一个人喊道。

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" You must come with us

“你必须跟我们走。

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It's an emergency — the palace is on fire!"

是紧急情况——王宫着火了！”

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" Of course," I replied and rushed to get dressed

“当然，”我回答，然后急忙穿好衣服。

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" Jump onto my hand

“跳到我的手上。

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I'll carry you all so that we'll get there quickly."

我会把你们都带上，这样我们就能快点到那儿。”

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We hurried to the palace

我们匆忙赶往王宫。

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The fire had started by accident in the room of one of the queen's maids

火是意外引起的，在王后的一名侍女的房间里。

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A burning candle had fallen over and some curtains caught on fire

一支燃烧的蜡烛倒下了，窗帘着火了。

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When we arrived, the fire was out of control

我们到达时，火势已经失控。

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Many people were trying to put it out

许多人正试图扑灭它。

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Two ladders were leaning up against the castle walls near the open windows of the maid's room

两架梯子靠在城堡的墙上，靠近侍女房间敞开的窗户。

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A man was at the top of each ladder

每架梯子的顶端都有一个人。

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People were passing buckets of water up to those men

人们正将一桶桶水递给那些梯子上的人。

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The men threw water on the flames, but it did not do much good

那些人把水泼向火焰，但收效甚微。

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The Lilliputian buckets were tiny and held very little water

小人国的水桶非常小，装的水也少得可怜。

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As each minute passed, the fire burned more strongly

时间一分一秒过去，火势却越烧越旺。

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" The fire's spread to another room!" cried one of the men on the ladder

"火已经蔓延到另一个房间了！" 梯子上的一个人喊道。

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" The whole palace might burn down!" shouted the other one

"整座王宫都可能烧毁！" 另一个人喊道。

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A feeling in my body suddenly gave me an idea

身体里的一种感觉让我突然有了个主意。

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The night before, I had drunk quite a lot of wine

前一天晚上，我喝了不少酒。

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The wine had made me very thirsty

酒让我感到非常口渴。

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So I had drunk a lot of water too, enough to fill about twenty Lilliputian barrels

所以我也喝了很多水，多到能装满大约二十个小人国的酒桶。

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I had felt so tired after drinking the wine that I had fallen asleep right away

喝了酒之后，我感到太累了，很快就睡着了。

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I could feel all that water still inside me

我能感觉到那些水还在我身体里。

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The firefighters did not have enough water to put out the fire. But I did

消防员们没有足够的水来灭火。但是我有。

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" Stand back!" I shouted to them

“退后！”我对他们喊道。

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" I will put out the fire

“我来把火扑灭。

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Please turn your backs to me and don't look."

请转过身去，不要看。”

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I did just what a little boy would do when he is outside and needs to go to the bathroom

我就像一个小男孩在户外需要上厕所时那样做了。

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I aimed through the open windows at the fire

我透过敞开的窗户瞄准了火焰。

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Soon, the fire was out

很快，火就灭了。

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" Hooray!" shouted the crowd of people who had been watching

“万岁！”围观的人群喊道。

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" Three cheers for the Enormous One!

“为巨人欢呼三声！

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He has saved the palace."

他救了王宫。”

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The emergency was over, so I went back to my house

紧急情况结束了，于是我回到了我的房子。

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I was happy that I had been able to put out the fire

我很高兴能扑灭大火。

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But I was worried that the king would not like the way I had done it

但我担心国王会不喜欢我的做法。

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The king had a law about people doing what I had done right outside the palace

国王立过一条法律，禁止任何人在王宫外做我刚才做的事。

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The next day, the king sent me a message. It said:

第二天，国王给我送来一条消息。上面写着：

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Enormous One: Your behavior was against the law

巨人：你的行为违反了法律。

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I realize, though, that there was no other way to put out the fire

不过，我明白当时没有别的办法可以灭火。

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So I will excuse your bad behavior just this once

所以我这次就原谅你的不当行为，但下不为例。

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I am grateful that you saved my palace

我很感激你救了我的王宫。

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The queen was not as understanding as the king

王后却没有国王那么通情达理。

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My behavior disgusted her

我的行为让她感到厌恶。

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She told everyone she would not allow the burned part of the palace to be repaired

她告诉所有人，她不允许修复王宫被烧毁的部分。

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" I will never go into those rooms again," she said

“我永远不会再踏进那些房间了，”她说。

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" I will never forgive the giant

“我永远不会原谅那个巨人。

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He has no manners!"

他太无礼了！”