039 被困！

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Morb was still in the dungeon, waiting for the trolls to arrive with the leeches

莫布还在地牢里，等着手下们把水蛭带过来。

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" So, Morb," Boz taunted, clutching the bars of his cell," what happened to your prisoners at the zoo?

“那么，莫布，”波兹抓着牢房的栏杆嘲讽道，“你动物园里的那些囚犯后来怎么样了？

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My friend Teplo told me they all escaped. Now how could that have happened?"

我的朋友泰普罗告诉我他们全跑了。这怎么可能呢？”

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In the next cell, Teplo smirked." Well, Boz, let me tell you

隔壁牢房里，泰普罗得意地笑了。“行啦，波兹，我来告诉你。

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Apparently Morb's trolls were tricked by a pile of turnips."

莫布的手下显然是被一堆萝卜给骗了。”

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" Turnips, you say?" Boz laughed

“萝卜，你是说？”波兹大笑起来。

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" That is correct," said Teplo." Perhaps Morb's not as powerful as he thinks he is, huh?"

“没错，”泰普罗说。“也许莫布不像他自己想的那么厉害，对吧？”

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Morb ignored the old men, his gaze moving past them to a couple huddled together in a cell farther down the corridor. He walked toward them

莫布没理会这两个老头，他的目光越过他们，投向走廊更深处一间牢房里紧靠在一起的一对夫妇。他朝他们走了过去。

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" Hello, Mother and Father," he greeted them with a twisted smile." I hope the accommodations suit you."

“你们好啊，父亲、母亲，”他扭曲地笑着向他们打招呼。“希望这里的住处还合你们的心意。”

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His mother looked up with tears in her eyes

他的母亲抬起头，眼中满是泪水。

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" Why are you doing this, Morb?" she whispered

“你为什么要这么做，莫布？”她小声问道。

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" Don't let him get to you, Mother!" a handsome young Red called from a few cells down." He never did appreciate you."

“别被他影响，妈妈！”隔着几间牢房，一个帅气的红族青年喊道，“他从来就没感激过你。”

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" True, I didn't appreciate being ignored and misunderstood," Morb snapped, glaring at his brother

“没错，我是不感激被人忽视和误解，”莫布怒气冲冲地瞪着哥哥说。

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Meanwhile his father climbed to his feet

与此同时，他的父亲站了起来。

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" Son, please think about what you're doing," he said

“儿子，请想想你在做什么，”他说。

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" Didn't we teach you right from wrong?"

“难道我们没教过你分辨是非吗？”

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Morb turned away from him." You taught me that I'd better do whatever was necessary to take care of myself. And I learned that lesson well."

莫布转过身背对着他。“你们教会了我，最好不惜一切代价照顾好自己。而这门课，我学得很好。”

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" Nobody had to teach you to be selfish, Morb!" a young woman — one of his sisters — called from nearby." You were born that way!"

“没人需要教你自私，莫布！”附近一个年轻女子——他的一个妹妹——喊道，“你天生就是这样！”

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Morb ignored her too. He'd just heard heavy footsteps coming down the stairs. Good. The trolls were here

莫布也对她不理不睬。他刚听到沉重的脚步声正走下楼梯。很好，巨魔们来了。

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" Bring the cauldron to me," he called to them, not looking at his parents as his mother started to sob

“把坩埚拿过来给我，”他对他们喊道，没有看向父母，此时他的母亲开始抽泣起来。

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" We'll start right here, in this cell."

“我们就从这间牢房开始。”

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" I wish I had a map," Zann muttered, peeking around a corner

“真希望有张地图。”赞恩咕哝着，从拐角探出头张望。

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" I've got to get back to my friends."

“我得回到朋友们身边。”

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Zann had been walking through the palace for some time and had not yet found an exit

赞恩在宫殿里走了好一会儿，还没找到出口。

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All he'd found were winding stairways and dark, narrow corridors

他找到的只有弯弯曲曲的楼梯和又黑又窄的走廊。

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The palace was much bigger than he'd realized

这座宫殿比他想象的大得多。

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Creeping down another flight of steps, Zann diligently watched for any trolls that might be around

赞恩轻手轻脚走下另一段楼梯，一路警觉地留意周围有没有巨魔。

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He thought briefly about just zapping out

他短暂地想过直接用魔法传送出去。

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After all, that Deceleration spell hadn't attracted Morb's attention

毕竟，刚才的减速咒语并没有惊动莫布。

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But it probably wasn't worth the risk. There had to be a way out somewhere

但冒这个险大概不值得。总该有个出口。

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" Aha!" Zann whispered when he saw sunlight pouring in through a large doorway at the end of a long hallway

“啊哈！”赞恩看到长长的走廊尽头一道宽大的门口倾泻进来的阳光时，轻声低语道。

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He hurried forward. But the doorway was not an exit — it led to a balcony overlooking the huge courtyard at the center of the palace

他急忙向前走去。但那道门并不是出口——它通向一个阳台，可以俯瞰宫殿中央的巨大庭院。

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" What in the world is that?" Zann blurted out in surprise when he saw the huge, dark, hulking shape in the middle of the courtyard

“那到底是什么东西？”赞恩看到庭院中央那个巨大、黑暗、笨重的形体时，惊讶地脱口而出。

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Zann immediately thought about what Gliss had told them yesterday

赞恩立刻想起格利斯昨天告诉他们的事。

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Could this be the horrible magic-sucking machine that Morb had built to help him take over Magica?

这会不会就是莫布为了帮他占领魔法世界而建造的那台可怕的魔力吸取机？

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He was still staring at the machine when he heard voices approaching. One of them belonged to Slib

他还在盯着那台机器时，听到了有人走近的声音。其中一个声音是斯利布的。

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" Uh-oh," Zann whispered. There was nowhere to hide on the balcony

“哎呀，糟了。”赞恩低声说。阳台上无处可藏。

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Looking around, Zann saw some pebbles in a planter. They gave him an idea

赞恩环顾四周，看到一个花盆里有些小石子。它们让他有了个主意。

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He picked up one of the pebbles and threw it down the hall, past Slib and the others

他捡起一颗小石子，朝走廊那边扔去，越过了斯利布和其他人。

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It hit a wall and made a sound. Click!

石子打到墙上，发出一声响。咔嗒！

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" What was that?" said Slib. Everyone turned around, and Zann quickly dashed into a room across the hall

“什么声音？”斯利布说。大家转过身去，赞恩飞快地冲进了走廊对面的一个房间。

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" I'm sure it's nothing," said someone else, as the group continued walking closer to Zann

“肯定没什么，”另一个人说，这时那群人继续朝赞恩这边走近。

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Zann held his breath — he could hear Slib and the others right outside the door

赞恩屏住呼吸——他能听到斯利布和其他人就在门外。

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" You can believe what I say since I'm now Morb's most trusted adviser," Slib was bragging

“你们可以相信我的话，因为我现在可是莫布最信任的顾问，”斯利布吹嘘道。

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" The era of Reds is truly over, just as I predicted

“红魔的时代真的结束了，跟我预言的一模一样。

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Thanks to King Morb, the rest of us will now have the power we deserve."

多亏了莫布国王，我们其余这些人现在终于能得到我们应得的力量了。”

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One of his companions murmured something in response, but Zann wasn't listening

他的一个同伴低声回应了些什么，但赞恩没在听。

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He barely had time to dash through another doorway before Slib and the others came into the room

他刚冲过另一扇门，斯利布和其他人就进了那个房间。

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Zann found himself in a hallway lined with half a dozen doors

赞恩发现自己身处一条走廊，两边排列着六七扇门。

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Behind him, he could hear Slib still bragging loudly

在他身后，他能听到斯利布还在大声吹嘘着。

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Zann reached for the first door

赞恩伸手去够第一扇门。

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" Ouch!" he blurted out, as the doorknob burned his hand

“哎呦！”他脱口而出，门把手烫到了他的手。

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" Did you hear that?" Slib's muffled voice came from the other room." There's someone behind that door."

“你听到了吗？”斯利布沉闷的声音从另一个房间传来。“那扇门后有人。”

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Zann gulped. He had to get out of sight!

赞恩咽了口唾沫。他必须躲起来！

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But when he looked down the hall, all the doorknobs were glowing red, just like the one he'd touched

但当他朝走廊看去时，所有的门把手都发着红光，跟他刚才碰的那个一样。

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No — not all of them. He spotted one doorknob that was glowing blue

不——不是所有。他发现有一个门把手在发蓝光。

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He hurried toward it, but then he hesitated

他赶紧朝它跑去，但随即又犹豫了。

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Who had put a spell on these doors, and why?

是谁给这些门施了魔法，又为什么要这么做？

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He'd never seen this kind of spell before

他以前从没见过这种魔法。

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Normally people just used an ordinary Shield spell if they wanted to keep others out of a room

通常，如果不想让别人进房间，人们只用个普通的护盾咒就行了。

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Then he heard the door behind him start to open

这时，他听到身后的门开始打开了。

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If he didn't get out of this hallway, Slib would see him!

要是他不离开这条走廊，斯利布就会看见他！

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Grabbing the blue doorknob, he was relieved to find it cool under his hand

他抓住那个蓝色的门把手，发现它摸起来凉凉的，顿时松了口气。

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He pushed through the door, allowing it to fall shut behind him

他推门而入，让门在他身后自动关上了。

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He found himself in what appeared to be a dusty old storage room

他发现自己好像在一个满是灰尘的旧储藏室里。

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The only light came through a single barred window

唯一的光线来自一扇装着铁条的小窗户。

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Boxes and crates were piled everywhere, and a couple of dust bugs scuttled off behind a trunk

箱子和板条箱堆得到处都是，几只灰虫匆匆爬到了一个箱子后面。

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Zann heard a sound behind him. Spinning around, he gasped

赞恩听到身后有声音。他猛地转过身，倒抽了一口凉气。

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Standing in a dim corner of the room was the old woman he and his friends had met in Wormwood

站在房间昏暗角落里的，正是他和朋友们在苦艾镇遇到的那个老妇人。