Then for quite a long time neither said any more.
两人久久地沉默着。
8220;Look here, 8221; said the girl presently, 8220;I wonder did we ever really meet before? I had a sort of idea 8211; a sort of picture in my head 8211; of a boy and a girl, like us 8211; living somewhere quite different 8211; and doing all sorts of things. Perhaps it was only a dream. 8221;
“唉呀，”女孩这才说，“我真想知道，我们以前是不是见过?我有个想法——脑子里有幅图画——一个男孩和一个女孩，就像我们——住在另一个跟这儿很不相同的地方——做着各种各样的事情。可能只是一个梦。”
8220;I 8217;ve had that same dream, I think, 8221; said Digory. 8220;About a boy and a girl, living next door 8211; and something about crawling among rafters. I remember the girl had a dirty face. 8221;
“我想，我也做过同样的梦。”迪格雷说，“一个男孩和一个女孩，住在隔壁——好像在椽子之间爬行。我记得那女孩的脸很脏。”
8220;Aren 8217;t you getting it mixed? In my dream it was the boy who had the dirty face. 8221;
“弄反了吧?在我的梦里，男孩的脸才是脏的。”
8220;I can 8217;t remember the boy 8217;s face, 8221; said Digory: and then added, 8220;Hullo! What 8217;s that? 8221;
“我记不得男孩的脸了，”迪格雷说，接着补充道，“嗨!那是什么?”
8220;Why! it 8217;s a guinea-pig, 8221; said the girl. And it was 8211; a fat guinea-pig, nosing about in the grass. But round the middle of the guinea-pig there ran a tape, and, tied on to it by the tape, was a bright yellow ring.
“哇!一只豚鼠。”女孩说。一只胖胖的豚鼠，正在草地里东嗅西闻。但豚鼠的腰间缠着一根纱带，身上绑着一枚闪光的黄戒指。
8220;Look! look, 8221; cried Digory, 8220;The ring! And look! You 8217;ve got one on your finger. And so have I. 8221;
“看!看!，”迪格雷大叫， “戒指！快看!你的手指上套了一枚，我也有。”
The girl now sat up, really interested at last. They stared very hard at one another, trying to remember. And then, at exactly the same moment, she shouted out 8220;Mr Ketterley 8221; and he shouted out 8220;Uncle Andrew 8221;, and they knew who they were and began to remember the whole story. After a few minutes hard talking they had got it straight. Digory explained how beastly Uncle Andrew had been.
那女孩终于有了兴趣，坐了起来。他们互相凝视着，试图回忆往事。几乎就在同时，她喊道“凯特利先生”，他喊道“安德鲁舅舅”，两人都明白了自己是谁，并开始回想事情的全部经过。艰难地谈了一阵后，他们完全清醒了。迪格雷述说了安德鲁舅舅如何像畜生一样冷酷无情。
8220;What do we do now? 8221; said Polly. 8220;Take the guineapig and go home? 8221;
“我们现在怎么办?”波莉说，“带上豚鼠一块儿回去吗?”
8220;There 8217;s no hurry, 8221; said Digory with a huge yawn.
“不着急。”迪格雷长长地打了一个呵欠。
8220;I think there is, 8221; said Polly. 8220;This place is too quiet. It 8217;s so 8211; so dreamy. You 8217;re almost asleep. If we once give in to it we shall just lie down and drowse for ever and ever. 8221;
“我觉得应该着急，”波莉说，“这地方太静，像——像梦境一样，你总觉得昏昏欲睡。一旦我们支撑不住，就会躺下来，永远永远地睡过去。”
8220;It 8217;s very nice here, 8221; said Digory.
“这地方很不错。”迪格雷说。
8220;Yes, it is, 8221; said Polly.
“是的，”波莉说，“但我们还是得回去。”她站起来，开始小心翼翼地向豚鼠走去，可是，她又改变了主意。
8220;But we 8217;ve got to get back. 8221; She stood up and began to go cautiously towards the guinea-pig. But then she changed her mind.
“留下这只豚鼠吧，”她说，“这里很快活，如果我们带它回去，你的安德鲁舅舅只会害它。”
8220;We might as well leave the guinea-pig, 8221; she said. 8220;It 8217;s perfectly happy here, and your uncle will only do something horrid to it if we take it home. 8221;
“我相信他会的，”迪格雷回答，“看看他是怎样对待我们的!唉呀，我们怎么回去呢?”
8220;I bet he would, 8221; answered Digory. 8220;Look at the way he 8217;s treated us. By the way, how do we get home? 8221;
“我想，回到水潭里就行了。”
8220;Go back into the pool, I expect. 8221;
他们走过去，并肩站在水潭边，看着平静的水面。倒映在水中的茂密的绿树使潭水显得非常深邃。
They came and stood together at the edge looking down into the smooth water. It was full of the reflection of the green, leafy branches; they made it look very deep.
“我们没有游泳衣。”波莉说。
8220;We haven 8217;t any bathing things, 8221; said Polly.
“不需要，傻瓜，”迪格雷说，“我们穿着衣服进去。你难道忘了我们上来时衣服都没湿吗?”
8220;We shan 8217;t need them, silly, 8221; said Digory. 8220;We 8217;re going in with our clothes on. Don 8217;t you remember it didn 8217;t wet us on the way up? 8221;