017 被展出的格列佛

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The next morning, Glumdalclitch told me what she had found out

第二天早上，格卢姆达克利奇告诉我她发现了什么。

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" Our neighbor thought you were very rude and he's angry with you

“我们的邻居觉得你非常粗鲁，他生你的气了。

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He told my father that people would pay him to see you

他告诉我父亲，人们会付钱给他来看你。

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Papa is going to take you to town on the next market day and put you on display."

爸爸打算在下一个集市日带你去镇上，把你展出。”

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She was crying now

她现在哭了。

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" People will stare at you."

“人们会盯着你看。”

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" Hmm," I said," perhaps nothing bad will happen."

“嗯，”我说，“也许不会有什么坏事发生。”

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" But what if people hurt you or drop you?" she said

“但是如果人们伤害你或者把你摔了怎么办？”她说。

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" Papa told me you were mine, but now he wants to show you off to get money

“爸爸告诉过我你是我的，但现在他却想拿你去炫耀赚钱。

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It's just like what he did last year when he gave me a lamb."

这就像他去年给我一只小羊时做的一样。”

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She cried harder

她哭得更厉害了。

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" What happened?" I asked nervously

“发生什么事了？”我紧张地问。

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" I cared for the lamb, and it grew into a fine, fat sheep

“我照料过那只小羊，它长成了一只又好看又肥的绵羊。

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Then Papa sold it to the butcher."

后来爸爸把它卖给了屠夫。”

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She sobbed unhappily at the memory of her lost pet lamb

想起失去的宠物小羊，她伤心地啜泣着。

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But I was not quite as worried as Glumdalclitch

但我并不像格卢姆达克利奇那样担心。

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And I still had hope that one day I would be free again

而且我仍然希望有一天能重获自由。

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On market day, my master put me in a box

赶集那天，主人把我放进一个盒子里。

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It had an opening for a door and some holes in the top to let in air

盒子有一个门洞，顶部还有一些通气孔。

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I remembered keeping a frog in a similar box when I was a little boy

我记得小时候也曾把一只青蛙关在类似的盒子里。

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" How strange to be treated like a captive frog," I said to myself

“被当成一只关着的青蛙，真是奇怪。”我自言自语道。

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My master put Glumdalclitch on his horse and got on in front of her

主人把格卢姆达克利奇扶上马，然后自己骑在她前面。

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" Hold the box tightly. Don't drop it!"

“把盒子抓紧，别掉了！”

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he told her as we set off for the town

我们出发去镇上的时候，他对她说。

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As the horse trotted along, I was bounced around violently

马一路小跑，我被颠得东倒西歪。

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I felt as if I were on a ship in a very bad storm

我觉得自己就像在一艘遭遇暴风雨的船上。

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But soon we arrived at the hotel where my master stayed on market days

不过我们很快就到了主人赶集时常住的旅馆。

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" I want to rent your largest meeting room," he said to the hotel man

“我想租你们最大的会客厅，”他对旅馆老板说。

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" I will have many guests tonight."

“今晚会有很多客人来。”

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My master hired a man to spread the word about the strange creature that would be on show at the hotel that night

主人雇了一个人去散布消息，说当晚旅馆里会有一个奇怪的生物展出。

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" Come and see the tiny man!" this man shouted in the streets

这人在街上大喊：“快来看小人儿！”

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" It walks, it talks, but it's only the size of a small doll!"

它会走路，会说话，可只有小娃娃那么大！

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Many people came to the hotel that evening

那天晚上，许多人来到了旅馆。

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My master put me on the table in the meeting room

主人把我放在会议室的桌子上。

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" Glumdalclitch," he said to his daughter," make Grildig show the people what he can do."

他对女儿说：“格卢姆达克利奇，让格里尔迪格给大伙儿表演一下他的本事。”

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" I'm sorry," she whispered to me," but please do what my father wants."

她悄声对我说：“对不起，但请你照我父亲说的去做。”

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She sat nearby while I bowed to the crowd

我向众人鞠躬时，她就坐在旁边。

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" I'm delighted to meet you all," I said

我说：“很高兴见到大家。”

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I walked about and answered the people's questions in a loud voice

我走来走去，大声回答人们的问题。

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They clapped and cheered when I pulled out my sword and pretended to fight

我拔出剑假装打斗时，他们鼓掌欢呼起来。

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My master let only thirty people into the room at a time so that all could see me well

主人每次只让三十人进屋，好让所有人都能看清楚我。

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I performed for 12 groups that night, and everyone paid my master for the show

那天晚上我演了十二场，每个人都向主人付了表演费。

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He watched the people carefully and would not let anyone touch me

他仔细盯着人群，不让任何人碰我。

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I was valuable to him, so he did not want me to get hurt

我对他很值钱，所以他不愿让我受伤。

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Throughout the evening, the crowd outside the hotel grew

整个晚上，旅馆外的人群越来越多。

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" Come again on the next market day

“下个赶集日再来。

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Send your friends," my master told the people

把你们的朋友也带来，”主人对人们说。

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I was so exhausted after the last show that I could hardly stand up

最后一场表演后，我累得几乎站不起来。

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The next day, we went home, and after three days I began to feel a little better

第二天我们回了家，三天后我才感觉好了一点。

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But even at the farmer's house, people demanded to see me

可是即便在农夫家里，人们也要求见我。

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My master got more and more money, and I got more and more tired

主人赚的钱越来越多，我也越来越累。