“She’ll be purple!” cried Mr Wonka. “A fine rich purple from head to toe! But there you are! That’s what comes from chewing disgusting gum all day long!”
“她会是紫色的！”旺卡先生叫道，“从头顶到脚趾是美丽鲜艳的紫色！就是这样！这就是整天从早到晚嚼讨厌的口香糖的结果！”
“Well, well, well,” sighed Mr Willy Wonka, “two naughty little children gone. Three good little children left. I think we’d better get out of this room quickly before we lose anyone else!”
“哎呀！哎呀！哎呀！”威利·旺卡先生叹着气说，“两个淘气的小朋友离开了，现在只剩下三个好孩子。我想趁没有再丢掉什么人的时候，最好还是赶快离开这个房间！”
“They’ll de-juice her in no time flat!” declared Mr Wonka. “They’ll roll her into the de-juicing machine, and she’ll come out just as thin as a whistle!”
“他们会马上把她的果汁榨掉！”旺卡先生说，“他们把她滚进榨汁机，等到她出来，就会跟一个哨子那样瘦了！”
“But will she still be blue all over?” asked Charlie.
“不过她还是浑身蓝色吗？”查理问道。
“If you think gum is so disgusting,” said Mike Teavee, “then why do you make it in your factory?”
“既然你认为口香糖那么讨厌，”迈克·蒂维说，“为什么还在你的工厂里生产口香糖呢？”
“I do wish you wouldn’t mumble,” said Mr Wonka. “I can’t hear a word you’re saying. Come on! Off we go! Hurry up! Follow me! We’re going into the corridors again!” And so saying, Mr Wonka scuttled across to the far end of the Inventing Room and went out through a small secret door hidden behind a lot of pipes and stoves. The three remaining children — Veruca Salt, Mike Teavee, and Charlie Bucket — together with the five remaining grown-ups, followed after him.
“我真希望你不要老是嘟嘟哝哝，”旺卡先生说，“你说的话我一个字也听不清楚。来吧，我们走！快一点儿！跟着我！我们又要回到走廊去了！”旺卡先生说着，急奔到发明室的另一头，穿过一道隐藏在许多管子和炉子之间的秘密小门走出去。剩下的三个孩子——维鲁卡·索尔特、迈克·蒂维、查理·巴克特和五个大人一起跟在他的后面。
“But Mr Wonka,” said Charlie Bucket anxiously, “will Violet Beauregarde ever be all right again or will she always be a blueberry?”
“可是，旺卡先生，”查理·巴克特担心地说，“维奥莉特·博雷加德会复原吗？还是永远是一个蓝莓呢？”
They passed a door in the wall. “No time to go in!” shouted Mr Wonka. “Press on! Press on!”
他们经过墙上的一道门。“没有时间进去了！”旺卡先生叫道，“赶紧跟上！赶紧跟上！”
Charlie Bucket saw that they were now back in one of those long pink corridors with many other pink corridors leading out of it. Mr Wonka was rushing along in front, turning left and right and right and left, and Grandpa Joe was saying, “Keep a good hold of my hand, Charlie. It would be terrible to get lost in here.”
查理·巴克特发觉，他们现在又回到了那些粉红色长廊中的一条，又有许多粉红色走廊由它通出去。旺卡先生带头一路向前冲，朝左转，朝右转，朝右转，朝左转。约瑟夫爷爷说：“拉紧我的手，查理，要是在这里迷了路就糟糕了。”
They passed another door, then another and another. There were doors every twenty paces or so along the corridor now, and they all had something written on them, and strange clanking noises were coming from behind several of them, and delicious smells came wafting through the keyholes, and sometimes little jets of coloured steam shot out from the cracks underneath.
他们又经过一道门，一道接一道。一路过去，走廊上每隔二十步左右就有一道门，门上全写着字。其中有好多道门里传出奇怪的丁当声，钥匙孔里钻出了香喷喷的气味，有时候从门缝下喷出一小股彩色的蒸气。
Mr Wonka was saying, “No time for any more messing about! We’ll never get anywhere at the rate we’ve been going!” And on he rushed, down the endless pink corridors, with his black top hat perched on the top of his head and his plum-coloured velvet coat-tails flying out behind him like a flag in the wind.
旺卡先生一直在说：“不能再浪费时间了！用我们现在这个速度走，哪里也到不了！”他一直顺着那没有尽头的粉红色走廊向前冲。只见那顶黑礼帽扣在他的头顶上，那件漂亮的天鹅绒燕尾服的燕尾，在他背后像一面旗子在风中那样飞舞。
“Marshmallow pillows are terrific!” shouted Mr Wonka as he dashed by. “They’ll be all the rage when I get them into the shops! No time to go in, though! No time to go in!”
“果汁枕头软糖，妙极了！”旺卡先生跑过时叫道，“等我把它们投放到商店里出售时，它们一定会引起轰动！不过你没有时间进去了！没有时间进去了！”
LICKABLE WALLPAPER FOR NURSERIES, it said on the next door.
另一道门上写着：供婴儿室用的可舔墙纸。
“Lovely stuff, lickable wallpaper!” cried Mr Wonka, rushing past. “It has pictures of fruits on it — bananas, apples, oranges, grapes, pineapples, strawberries, and snozzberries…”
“可舔墙纸是可爱的东西！”旺卡先生冲过时叫道，“上面有不同的水果——香蕉、苹果、葡萄、菠萝、橙子、草莓、鼻子浆果…”
“Snozzberries?” said Mike Teavee.
“鼻子浆果？”迈克·蒂维问道。
“Don’t interrupt!” said Mr Wonka. “The wallpaper has pictures of all these fruits printed on it, and when you lick the picture of a banana, it tastes of banana. When you lick a strawberry, it tastes of strawberry. And when you lick a snozzberry, it tastes just exactly like a snozzberry…”
“不要打岔！”旺卡先生说，“墙纸上印着这些水果的图案，舔香蕉就有香蕉味，舔草莓就有草莓味，舔鼻子浆果就正好是鼻子浆果的味道…”
Grandpa Joe and Charlie were half running and half walking to keep up with Mr Wonka, but they were able to read what it said on quite a few of the doors as they hurried by. EATABLE MARSHMALLOW PILLOWS, it said on one.
约瑟夫爷爷和查理半跑半走地紧跟着旺卡先生，但他们匆匆经过时，仍能看到好几道门上的字。其中一道门上写着：可吃的果汁枕头软糖。
“You’re mumbling again,” said Mr Wonka. “Speak louder next time. On we go! Hurry up!”
“你又嘟嘟哝哝了，”旺卡先生说，“下次你得说大声一点儿。我们走吧！走快点！”
“But what does a snozzberry taste like?”
“但鼻子浆果到底是什么味道呢？”
“Extremely useful in the winter,” said Mr Wonka, rushing on. “Hot ice cream warms you up no end in freezing weather. I also make hot ice cubes for putting in hot drinks. Hot ice cubes make hot drinks hotter.”
“它们极其适合在冬天吃，”旺卡先生一边跑一边说，“在寒冷的天气里，热冰淇淋能使你彻底暖和起来。我还制造热冰块，放到热饮料里去，能使热饮料更加热。”
“We shall stop in time!” called out Mr Wonka. “Don’t be so madly impatient!”
“到时候我们会停下来的！”旺卡先生大声说，“不要那么没耐心！”
COWS THAT GIVE CHOCOLATE MILK, it said on the next door.
下一道门上写着：产巧克力牛奶的母牛。
HOT ICE CREAMS FOR COLD DAYS, it said on the next door.
下一道门上写着：冷天吃的热冰淇淋。
“But why can’t we see them?” asked Veruca Salt. “Why do we have to go rushing on past all these lovely rooms?”
“但我们为什么不能看看它们呢？”维鲁卡·索尔特问道，“为什么我们要奔过这些有趣的房间呢？”
“Ah, my pretty little cows!” cried Mr Wonka. “How I love those cows!”
“啊，我美丽的小母牛啊！”旺卡先生叫道，“我多么爱这些母牛啊！”
FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS, it said on the next door.
下一道门上写着：升高汽水。
“Oh, those are fabulous!” cried Mr Wonka. “They fill you with bubbles, and the bubbles are full of a special kind of gas, and this gas is so terrifically lifting that it lifts you right off the ground just like a balloon, and up you go until your head hits the ceiling — and there you stay.”
“噢，那些东西真是不可思议！”旺卡先生叫道，“它们使你肚子里充满气泡。这些气泡里充满一种特殊的气体，这种气体有很强的升高能力，可以使你像气球一样从地面上升起来，升啊升啊，直到你的头碰到了天花板才会停下来。”
“But how do you come down again?” asked little Charlie.
“可是怎样才可以再下来呢？”小查理问道。
“You do a burp, of course,” said Mr Wonka. “You do a great big long rude burp, and up comes the gas and down comes you! But don’t drink it outdoors! There’s no knowing how high up you’ll be carried if you do that. I gave some to an old Oompa-Loompa once out in the back yard and he went up and up and disappeared out of sight! It was very sad. I never saw him again.”
“当然是打嗝啰，”旺卡先生说，“你狠狠地用力打嗝，气体上来，你就下去了！但千万不要在室外喝这种汽水！如果喝了，你就会无止境地升高。有一次在后院里，我给一个奥帕—伦帕老人喝了一点儿。他升啊升啊，升得连人都看不见了！真叫人难过。我到现在都没有再见过他！”
“Of course he should have burped,” said Mr Wonka. “I stood there shouting, ‘Burp, you silly ass, burp, or you’ll never come down again!’ But he didn’t or couldn’t or wouldn’t, I don’t know which. Maybe he was too polite. He must be on the moon by now.”
“这个自然，”旺卡先生说，“我站在那里拼命叫，‘打嗝啊，你这蠢驴！打嗝啊，不然你永远也下不来了！’可是他没有打嗝，或者不能打嗝，或者不会打嗝，我也不知道是什么原因。也许他太有礼貌了。他现在一定是在月亮上。”
“He should have burped,” Charlie said.
“他应该打嗝啊！”查理说。
“Wait!” cried Mr Wonka, skidding suddenly to a halt. “I am very proud of my square sweets that look round. Let’s take a peek.”
“等一等，”旺卡先生叫着，猛地停下了脚步，“我为这种看似圆形的方糖感到十分自豪。让我们进去瞧一瞧吧。”
On the next door, it said, SQUARE SWEETS THAT LOOK ROUND.
下一道门上写着：看起来圆滚滚的方糖。
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