“How I love my chocolate factory,” said Mr Wonka, gazing down. Then he paused, and he turned around and looked at Charlie with a most serious expression on his face. “Do you love it too, Charlie?” he asked.
“我多么爱我的巧克力工厂啊！”旺卡先生看着下面说。接着他住了口，转过身来，神色凝重地望着查理。“你也爱它吗，查理？”他问道。
Charlie stared at Mr Wonka. Grandpa Joe opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out.
查理瞪眼看着旺卡先生，约瑟夫爷爷张开口要说话，但是说不出话来。
“Oh, yes,” cried Charlie, “I think it’s the most wonderful place in the whole world!”
“噢，是的，”查理叫道，“我认为它是全世界最了不起的地方！”
The great glass lift was now hovering high over the town. Inside the lift stood Mr Wonka, Grandpa Joe, and little Charlie.
现在玻璃大电梯在市镇上空高高盘旋。电梯里站着旺卡先生、约瑟夫爷爷和小查理。
“I am very pleased to hear you say that,” said Mr Wonka, looking more serious than ever. He went on staring at Charlie. “Yes,” he said, “I am very pleased indeed to hear you say that. And now I shall tell you why.” Mr Wonka cocked his head to one side and all at once the tiny twinkling wrinkles of a smile appeared around the corners of his eyes, and he said, “You see, my dear boy, I have decided to make you a present of the whole place. As soon as you are old enough to run it, the entire factory will become yours.”
“听到你说这句话，我非常高兴。”旺卡先生说，样子比任何时候都认真。他继续凝视着查理。“真的，”他说，“听到你说这句话，我确实非常高兴。现在我来告诉你为什么。”旺卡先生把他的头歪到一边，两边眼角马上现出微笑的皱纹。他说：“你知道吗？我亲爱的孩子，我决定把整座工厂送给你。等你长大有能力经营它的时候，整座工厂就是你的了。”
“I’m not joking, sir. I’m deadly serious.”
“我不是在开玩笑，老先生，我是非常认真的。”
“Listen,” Mr Wonka said, “I’m an old man. I’m much older than you think. I can’t go on for ever. I’ve got no children of my own, no family at all. So who is going to run the factory when I get too old to do it myself? Someone’s got to keep it going — if only for the sake of the Oompa-Loompas. Mind you, there are thousands of clever men who would give anything for the chance to come in and take over from me, but I don’t want that sort of person. I don’t want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won’t listen to me; he won’t learn. He will try to do things his own way and not mine. So I have to have a child. I want a good sensible loving child, one to whom I can tell all my most precious sweet-making secrets — while I am still alive.”
“听我说，”旺卡先生说道，“我是一个老人了。我比你们想象的要老得多。我不能长生不老。我根本没有子女，没有家庭。因此，当我老得不能经营这工厂的时候，谁来经营它呢？一定要有人继续经营它，就算是为了那些奥帕—伦帕人。告诉你们，有千千万万个聪明人会不惜一切寻找机会进入这工厂，从我手里把它弄走，但是我不要那种人。我根本就不要大人。大人不肯听我的话，也不肯学。他要照自己的办法而不是照我的办法去做。因此我必须有一个孩子。我要一个聪明可爱的好孩子，一个趁我活着时，能把我最宝贵的糖果制造秘密告诉他的孩子。”
“It’s quite true,” Mr Wonka said, smiling broadly now. “I really am giving it to you. That’s all right, isn’t it?”
“这完全是真话，”旺卡先生说，脸上堆满了笑容，“我的确要把它送给你。这不是很好吗？”
“Giving it to him?” gasped Grandpa Joe. “You must be joking.”
“送给他？”约瑟夫爷爷透不过气来，“你一定是在开玩笑。”
“But… but… why should you want to give your factory to little Charlie?”
“不过…不过…你为什么要把工厂送给小查理呢？”
“But Mr Wonka,” stammered Grandpa Joe, “do you really and truly mean that you are giving the whole of this enormous factory to little Charlie? After all…”
“可是旺卡先生，”约瑟夫爷爷结结巴巴地说，“你真的要把这整座大工厂交给小查理吗？究竟…”
Charlie peered down through the glass floor at the snow-covered houses that lay below. “It’s over there,” he said, pointing. “It’s that little cottage right on the edge of the town, the tiny little one…”
查理透过玻璃地板，低头看着下面覆盖着白雪的房屋。“就在那边，”他指着说，“在市郊的那栋小木屋，那栋很小很小的…”
“So that is why you sent out the Golden Tickets!” cried Charlie.
“这就是你发金奖券的目的！”查理叫道。
“Exactly!” said Mr Wonka. “I decided to invite five children to the factory, and the one I liked best at the end of the day would be the winner!”
“一点儿不错！”旺卡先生说，“我决定邀请五个小朋友到工厂里来。在这天结束时，我最喜欢的那个孩子就是胜利者！”
“There’s no time for arguments!” cried Mr Wonka. “We must go at once and fetch the rest of the family — Charlie’s father and his mother and anyone else that’s around! They can all live in the factory from now on! They can all help to run it until Charlie is old enough to do it by himself! Where do you live, Charlie?”
“没有时间争论了！”旺卡先生叫道，“我们必须马上去把你们的家人都接来——查理的爸爸妈妈和家里的其他人！从现在起，他们都可以住到工厂里来！他们可以帮助经营工厂，直到查理长大可以自己经营为止！你住在哪里，查理？”
“I see it!” cried Mr Wonka, and he pressed some more buttons and the lift shot down towards Charlie’s house.
“我看见它了！”旺卡先生叫道。他又按了几个按钮，电梯便向查理家的木屋飞驰下去。
“I’m afraid my mother won’t come with us,” Charlie said sadly.
“我怕妈妈不肯跟我们一起来。”查理难过地说。
“How?” asked Grandpa Joe.
“怎么进去？”约瑟夫爷爷问道。
“You mustn’t despair!” cried Mr Wonka. “Nothing is impossible! You watch!”
“你不用泄气！”旺卡先生叫道，“没有办不到的事情！你等着瞧吧！”
“But they must come too.”
“但他们也要一起来呀。”
“Because she won’t leave Grandma Josephine and Grandma Georgina and Grandpa George.”
“她不会离开约瑟芬奶奶、乔治娜姥姥和乔治姥爷的。”
“I’m going right on in to fetch them,” said Mr Wonka.
“我要马上进去把他们接出来。”旺卡先生说。
The lift was now hovering over the roof of the Buckets’ little house.
电梯这时已经在巴克特家的屋顶上盘旋。
“No!” shouted Charlie.
“不要！”查理大叫。
“Stop!” shouted Grandpa Joe.
“停下！”约瑟夫爷爷大喊。
“Why ever not?”
“为什么不肯？”
“They can’t,” Charlie said. “They’re very old and they haven’t been out of bed for twenty years.”
“他们不能来，”查理说，“他们太老了，已经有二十年没有下过床了。”
“You couldn’t get the bed out of the house,” said Grandpa Joe. “It won’t go through the door.”
“你可没有办法把床弄出木屋，”约瑟夫爷爷说，“它出不了那道门。”
“What are you going to do?” cried Charlie.
“你要干什么？”查理叫道。
“Through the roof,” said Mr Wonka, pressing another button.
“穿过屋顶。”旺卡先生说着去按另一个按钮。
“Then we’ll take the bed along as well, with them in it,” said Mr Wonka. “There’s plenty of room in this lift for a bed.”
“那我们把他们连床一起带来好了！”旺卡先生说，“这电梯有足够的地方放下一张床。”
CRASH went the lift, right down through the roof of the house into the old people’s bedroom. Showers of dust and broken tiles and bits of wood and cockroaches and spiders and bricks and cement went raining down on the three old ones who were lying in bed, and each of them thought that the end of the world was come. Grandma Georgina fainted, Grandma Josephine dropped her false teeth, Grandpa George put his head under the blanket, and Mr and Mrs Bucket came rushing in from the next room.
砰！电梯一直下去穿过木屋屋顶，进入了老人家的睡房。滚滚的灰尘、碎瓦、木片、蟑螂、蜘蛛、砖头、水泥像雨点一样落下去，落到躺在床上的三位老人家身上。他们都以为是世界末日到了。乔治娜姥姥晕过去了，约瑟芬奶奶落掉了她的假牙，乔治姥爷把头缩到了毯子底下，巴克特先生和巴克特太太急忙从隔壁房间里跑过来。
“Calm yourself, my darling wife,” said Grandpa Joe, stepping out of the lift. “It’s only us.”
“不要怕，我亲爱的老伴，”约瑟夫爷爷从电梯里走出来说，“不过是我们罢了。”
“Mother!” cried Charlie, rushing into Mrs Bucket’s arms. “Mother! Mother! Listen to what’s happened! We’re all going back to live in Mr Wonka’s factory and we’re going to help him to run it and he’s given it all to me and… and… and… and…”
“妈妈！”查理叫着扑到巴克特太太怀里，“妈妈！妈妈！我告诉你发生了什么事情！我们全都要住到旺卡先生的工厂里去，帮助他经营工厂。他把工厂送给我了，而且…而且…而且…而且…”
“Save us!” cried Grandma Josephine.
“救命啊！”约瑟芬奶奶叫道。
“Just look at our house!” cried poor Mr Bucket. “It’s in ruins!”
“看看我们的房子吧！”可怜的巴克特先生叫道，“它已经变成了废墟！”
“This,” said Grandpa Joe, “is Mr Willy Wonka himself.”
“这位，”约瑟夫爷爷说，“就是威利·旺卡先生。”
“What are you talking about?” said Mrs Bucket.
“你在说什么呀？”巴克特太太说。
“My dear sir,” said Mr Wonka, jumping forward and shaking Mr Bucket warmly by the hand, “I’m so very glad to meet you. You mustn’t worry about your house. From now on, you’re never going to need it again, anyway.”
“我亲爱的巴克特先生，”旺卡先生说着跳上前，和巴克特先生热烈地握手，“很高兴见到你。你不用担心你的房子。反正从现在起，你再也用不着它了。”
It took quite a time for Grandpa Joe and Charlie to explain to everyone exactly what had been happening to them all day. And even then they all refused to ride back to the factory in the lift.
约瑟夫爷爷和查理花了不少时间，才把他们这天所碰到的事情向大家解释清楚。尽管这样，大家还是拒绝乘电梯到工厂去。
“Who is this crazy man?” screamed Grandma Josephine. “He could have killed us all.”
“这个疯子是谁？”约瑟芬奶奶尖叫道，“他会把我们杀死的。”
“I’d rather die in my bed!” shouted Grandma Josephine.
“我宁愿死在我的床上！”约瑟芬奶奶叫道。
“So would I!” cried Grandma Georgina.
“我也一样！”乔治娜姥姥叫道。
So Mr Wonka and Grandpa Joe and Charlie, taking no notice of their screams, simply pushed the bed into the lift. They pushed Mr and Mrs Bucket in after it. Then they got in themselves. Mr Wonka pressed a button. The doors closed. Grandma Georgina screamed. And the lift rose up off the floor and shot through the hole in the roof, out into the open sky.
于是，旺卡先生、约瑟夫爷爷和查理不管他们大喊大叫，干脆把床推进了电梯。接着他们把巴克特先生和巴克特太太也推了进去。最后他们自己也进去了。旺卡先生按了一个按钮。电梯门关上。乔治娜姥姥哇哇大叫。电梯离地升起，冲出屋顶的大窟窿，直上云霄。
“I refuse to go!” announced Grandpa George.
“我不去。”乔治姥爷声明。
Charlie climbed on to the bed and tried to calm the three old people who were still petrified with fear. “Please don’t be frightened,” he said. “It’s quite safe. And we’re going to the most wonderful place in the world!”
查理爬到床上，试着安慰三位被吓得呆若木鸡的老人家。“请不要害怕，”他说，“很安全的。我们现在要到世界上最了不起的地方去！”
“Charlie’s right,” said Grandpa Joe.
“查理说得对。”约瑟夫爷爷说。
“Will there be anything to eat when we get there?” asked Grandma Josephine. “I’m starving! The whole family is starving!”
“我们到了那里有东西吃吗？”约瑟芬姥姥问道，“我在挨饿！全家在挨饿！”
“Anything to eat?” cried Charlie laughing. “Oh, you just wait and see!”
“有没有东西吃？”查理哈哈笑着大叫，“噢，你就等着瞧吧！”
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