004 新家

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The children and Mother stared at the dark house

孩子们和母亲盯着那栋黑漆漆的房子。

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" I wonder why the windows are closed

“奇怪，窗户怎么都关着。

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I asked Mrs. Viney to open them," Mother said

我明明让瓦伊尼太太把窗户打开的呀，”母亲说。

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" Who's she?" asked Bobbie

“她是谁？”博比问道。

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" The woman I asked to clean and make some supper for us."

“是我请来打扫屋子，并为我们准备晚饭的那位女士。”

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They walked to the back of the house

他们绕到了房子后面。

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The cart clattered onto the cobblestones and stopped at the back door

马车咔嗒咔嗒地驶上鹅卵石路，停在了后门。

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The children knocked but no one answered

孩子们敲了敲门，但没人应答。

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The cart driver said that Mrs. Viney had probably gone home

马车夫说，瓦伊尼太太很可能已经回家了。

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The train had arrived very late

火车到站实在太晚了。

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" But she has the key!" Mother said

“可是她有钥匙！”妈妈说。

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" Oh, I'm sure she left it under the doorstep," the cart driver said

“哦，我肯定她把钥匙放在门阶下面了，”马车夫说。

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" That's what people do around here."

“这里的人都这么做。”

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He took the lantern off his cart and bent down

他从马车上取下灯笼，弯下腰。

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" Here it is, sure enough!"

“在这儿呢，果然！”

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He unlocked the door

他打开了门锁。

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The cart driver put down his lantern and lit a candle

马车夫放下灯笼，点了一支蜡烛。

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The kitchen was large, with a stone floor

厨房很大，铺着石板地。

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The table was in the middle

桌子在中间。

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The chairs, pots, pans, and crockery were in all corners of the room

椅子、锅、平底锅和碗碟都堆在房间的各个角落。

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There was no fire, just cold ashes

没有火，只有冰冷的灰烬。

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A rustling sound came from inside the walls

墙壁里传来一阵窸窣声。

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" Oh, what's that?" cried the girls

“哦，那是什么？”女孩们叫道。

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" It's only the rats," said the cart driver

“只是耗子。”马车夫说。

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He left and shut the door, and a sudden wind blew out the candle

他离开并关上门，一阵突如其来的风把蜡烛吹灭了。

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" Oh dear," said Phyllis," I wish we hadn't come!"

“哦，天哪，”菲莉丝说，“要是我们没来就好了！”

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And she knocked a chair over

然后她撞倒了一把椅子。

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" Only the rats!" said Peter in the dark

“只是耗子！”彼得在黑暗中说。

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" What fun!" said Mother, feeling for the matches on the table

“多有趣啊！”母亲说，一边在桌子上摸着火柴。

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" I'm sure they are mice, not rats!"

“我肯定那是老鼠，不是耗子！”

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She struck a match and everyone looked at each other

她划了一根火柴，大家互相看了看。

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" Well," Mother said," you've often wanted something to happen and now it has

“哎呀，”母亲说，“你们总盼着发生点什么，现在发生了。

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This is quite an adventure, isn't it?

这还真是一场冒险，不是吗？

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Let's go and eat the supper Mrs. Viney made."

我们去吃维尼太太做的晚饭吧。”

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The dining room was next to the kitchen

餐厅挨着厨房。

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The kitchen was white

厨房是白色的。

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But the dining room was made of dark wood from floor to ceiling

但餐厅从地板到天花板都是深色木材做的。

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There was a table and chairs, but there was no supper

有桌子和椅子，但没有晚饭。

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" Let's look in the other rooms," said Mother, and they looked

“我们去别的房间看看，”母亲说，于是他们去找了。

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In each room there were furniture and boxes, but nothing to eat

每个房间里都有家具和箱子，但没有吃的。

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Even in the pantry there was only a rusty cake tin

甚至在食品储藏室里，也只有一个生锈的蛋糕罐。

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" What a horrible woman!" said Mother

“真是个可恶的女人！”母亲说。

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" She's taken the money but got us nothing to eat at all!"

“她拿了钱，却什么吃的都没给我们准备！”

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" Then we can't have any supper," said Phyllis unhappily

“那我们就没有晚饭吃了，”菲莉丝不高兴地说。

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" Yes, we can," said Mother

“不，我们可以，”母亲说。

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" We can unpack one of the boxes

“我们可以拆一个箱子。

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There's some food from the old house."

有些从老房子带来的吃的。”

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They were all very, very tired, but they cheered up at their unusual supper

他们都累极了，但这顿不寻常的晚餐让他们高兴起来。

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There were biscuits, sardines, raisins, and jam

有饼干、沙丁鱼、葡萄干和果酱。

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After supper they put sheets and blankets on the beds

晚饭后，他们把床单和毯子铺在床上。

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" Good night, darlings," said Mother

“晚安，宝贝们，”母亲说。

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" I'm sure there aren't any rats

“我确定没有大老鼠。

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But I'll leave my door open, and if a mouse comes, you can scream

但我会敞着门，如果小老鼠来了，你们可以尖叫。

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I'll come and tell the mouse to go away!"

我会过来叫它走开！”

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Bobbie, Peter, and Phyllis were not convinced by her answer

鲍比、彼得和菲莉丝不太相信她的话。

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They left candles burning and spent the first night in their new home

他们让蜡烛亮着，度过了在新家的第一晚。