“This is my private yacht!” cried Mr Wonka, beaming with pleasure. “I made her by hollowing out an enormous boiled sweet! Isn’t she beautiful! See how she comes cutting through the river!”
“这是我的私人游艇，”旺卡先生叫道，高兴得满面红光，“是我挖空了一块巨大的硬糖造成的。它是不是漂亮极了？瞧它怎样破浪而来！”
“Off we go!” cried Mr Wonka. “Hurry up, everybody! Follow me to the next room! And please don’t worry about Augustus Gloop. He’s bound to come out in the wash. They always do. We shall have to make the next part of the journey by boat! Here she comes! Look!”
“我们走吧！”旺卡先生叫道，“各位，快点走！跟着我到下一个车间去！请不必为奥古斯塔斯·格卢普担心，他一定会平安无事的。进入玻璃管的人都平安无事。下一部分参观我们必须乘船！船来了，瞧！”
A steamy mist was rising up now from the great warm chocolate river, and out of the mist there appeared suddenly a most fantastic pink boat. It was a large open row boat with a tall front and a tall back (like a Viking boat of old), and it was of such a shining sparkling glistening pink colour that the whole thing looked as though it were made of bright, pink glass. There were many oars on either side of it, and as the boat came closer, the watchers on the riverbank could see that the oars were being pulled by masses of Oompa-Loompas — at least ten of them to each oar.
这时候，滚热的巧克力大河上升起了蒸汽似的迷雾，从迷雾中忽然出现了一艘最奇妙的粉红色的船。这是一艘很大的划桨船，船头船尾都高高地翘起（像古时候的海盗船一样）。由于船身的粉红色闪闪发光，整条船好像是用明亮的粉红色玻璃做成的。船两边各有许多桨，当船划近一点儿时，岸上的人可以看到，这些桨是由一大群奥帕—伦帕人划着的——每只桨至少有十个奥帕—伦帕人在划。
“What’s so funny?” asked Violet Beauregarde.
“有什么好笑的？”维奥莉特·博雷加德问道。
“Oh, don’t worry about them!” cried Mr Wonka. “They’re always laughing! They think everything’s a colossal joke! Jump into the boat, all of you! Come on! Hurry up!”
“噢，不要管他们！”旺卡先生叫道，“他们老爱笑！他们以为什么事情都是非常好笑的！大家跳上船吧！来，快一点儿！”
The gleaming pink boiled-sweet boat glided up to the riverbank. One hundred Oompa-Loompas rested on their oars and stared up at the visitors. Then suddenly, for some reason best known to themselves, they all burst into shrieks of laughter.
亮光闪闪的粉红色硬糖船漂到河边。一百名奥帕—伦帕人靠在他们的桨旁，抬头看着这十几位参观者。忽然，他们全都爆发出尖声的大笑，原因只有他们自己最清楚。
“Hey, there! Mike Teavee!” shouted Mr Wonka. “Please do not lick the boat with your tongue! It’ll only make it sticky!”
“喂，你，迈克·蒂维，”旺卡先生叫道，“请你不要用舌头去舔船！这样会使它黏糊糊的！”
“Daddy,” said Veruca Salt, “I want a boat like this! I want you to buy me a big pink boiled-sweet boat exactly like Mr Wonka’s! And I want lots of Oompa-Loompas to row me about, and I want a chocolate river and I want… I want…”
“爸爸，”维鲁卡·索尔特说，“我要一艘这样的船！我要你给我买一艘粉红色的大硬糖船，跟旺卡先生这艘一模一样的！我还要许多奥帕—伦帕人给我划船。我要一条巧克力河，我要…我要…”
“She wants a good kick in the pants,” whispered Grandpa Joe to Charlie. The old man was sitting in the back of the boat and little Charlie Bucket was right beside him. Charlie was holding tightly on to his grandfather’s bony old hand. He was in a whirl of excitement. Everything that he had seen so far — the great chocolate river, the waterfall, the huge sucking pipes, the minty sugar meadows, the Oompa-Loompas, the beautiful pink boat, and most of all, Mr Willy Wonka himself — had been so astonishing that he began to wonder whether there could possibly be any more astonishments left. Where were they going now? What were they going to see? And what in the world was going to happen in the next room?
“她要好好给骂一顿”约瑟夫爷爷悄悄地对查理说。这位老人家坐在船尾，小查理·巴克特就坐在他的身边。查理紧紧握住爷爷瘦骨嶙峋的手。他兴奋得头昏目眩。直到现在他所看见的一切——巨大的巧克力河、瀑布、大吸管、薄荷糖草地、奥帕——伦帕人、美丽的粉红色船，特别是旺卡先生本人——全都那么使他惊奇，因此他开始怀疑是否还可能有更使他惊奇的东西。他们还要去哪里？他们还要看到什么？在下一个车间将会发生什么事情呢？
As soon as everyone was safely in, the Oompa-Loompas pushed the boat away from the bank and began to row swiftly downriver.
当每一个人在船上坐稳后，那些奥帕—伦帕人把船撑离河岸，快速地划着它顺河而下。
Then Mr Wonka filled a second mug and gave it to Grandpa Joe. “You, too,” he said. “You look like a skeleton! What’s the matter? Hasn’t there been anything to eat in your house lately?”
接着旺卡先生又拿出一个杯子，舀了满满一杯巧克力递给约瑟夫爷爷。“你也来一杯，”他说，“你看上去像一具骷髅！这是怎么回事？近来你们家没有东西吃吗？”
“Isn’t it marvellous?” said Grandpa Joe, grinning at Charlie.
“真是棒极了，是不是呀？”约瑟夫爷爷对查理笑着说。
Charlie nodded and smiled up at the old man.
查理点点头，抬起眼睛向爷爷微笑。
“You like it?” asked Mr Wonka.
“你喜欢吗？”旺卡先生问。
“That’s because it’s been mixed by waterfall,” Mr Wonka told him.
“那是因为它由瀑布调匀。”旺卡先生告诉他。
“Oh, it’s wonderful!” Charlie said.
“噢，太好了！”查理说。
“Not much,” said Grandpa Joe.
“不多。”约瑟夫爷爷说。
Suddenly, Mr Wonka, who was sitting on Charlie’s other side, reached down into the bottom of the boat, picked up a large mug, dipped it into the river, filled it with chocolate, and handed it to Charlie. “Drink this,” he said. “It’ll do you good! You look starved to death!”
忽然，坐在查理另一边的旺卡先生伸手到船底下拿出一个大杯子，从河里舀起满满一杯巧克力递给查理。“把这个喝下去！”他说，“对你有好处的！看你那副样子，好像快要饿死了！”
“The creamiest loveliest chocolate I’ve ever tasted!” said Grandpa Joe, smacking his lips.
“是我尝过的巧克力当中奶油味最足、味道最好的！”约瑟夫爷爷咂着嘴说。
Charlie put the mug to his lips, and as the rich warm creamy chocolate ran down his throat into his empty tummy, his whole body from head to toe began to tingle with pleasure, and a feeling of intense happiness spread over him.
查理把杯子放到嘴边，当香浓的热奶油巧克力从他的喉咙流进他的空肚子时，他整个身体从头到脚趾快活得震动起来，有一种无限快活的感觉遍布全身。
The boat sped on down the river. The river was getting narrower. There was some kind of a dark tunnel ahead — a great round tunnel that looked like an enormous pipe — and the river was running right into the tunnel. And so was the boat! “Row on!” shouted Mr Wonka, jumping up and waving his stick in the air. “Full speed ahead!” And with the Oompa-Loompas rowing faster than ever, the boat shot into the pitch-dark tunnel, and all the passengers screamed with excitement.
船飞快地顺流而下。河道愈来愈窄。前面有条黑暗的隧道——一条巨大的圆隧道，看上去像一根大管子。河一直通到隧道里去。船也跟着进去了！“使劲划！”旺卡先生大叫，跳起来举起手杖在空中挥舞，“全速前进！”那些奥帕—伦帕人划得比先前更快了。船冲进漆黑的隧道，所有乘船的人紧张得尖叫起来。
Any signs that they are slowing…”
他们没有任何慢下来的打算…”
Which direction they are going!
他们正向哪个方向跑！
“There’s no earthly way of knowing
“根本没有办法知道，
There’s no knowing where they’re rowing,
根本不知道他们划向什么地方，
“How can they see where they’re going?” shrieked Violet Beauregarde in the darkness.
“他们怎么能看到路呢？”维奥莉特·博雷加德在黑暗中尖声问道。
And they’re certainly not showing
可以肯定一点，
So the danger must be growing,
前路一定愈来愈危险，
“He’s gone off his rocker!” shouted one of the fathers, aghast, and the other parents joined in the chorus of frightened shouting. “He’s crazy!” they shouted.
“他发狂了！”其中一个爸爸叫起来。他吓呆了，其他的爸爸妈妈也加入了这场害怕的大叫之中。“他疯了！”他们叫道。
Mot a speck of light is showing,
一点儿亮光也看不见，
“There’s no knowing where they’re going!” cried Mr Wonka, hooting with laughter.
“根本不知道他们要往哪里去！”旺卡先生大笑着叫道。
For the rowers keep on rowing,
因为划船的人只管划向前，
Or which way the river’s flowing!
也不知道河向哪儿流！
“Switch on the lights!” shouted Mr Wonka. And suddenly, on came the lights and the whole tunnel was brilliantly lit up, and Charlie could see that they were indeed inside a gigantic pipe, and the great upward-curving walls of the pipe were pure white and spotlessly clean. The river of chocolate was flowing very fast inside the pipe, and the Oompa-Loompas were all rowing like mad, and the boat was rocketing along at a furious pace. Mr Wonka was jumping up and down in the back of the boat and calling to the rowers to row faster and faster still. He seemed to love the sensation of whizzing through a white tunnel in a pink boat on a chocolate river, and he clapped his hands and laughed and kept glancing at his passengers to see if they were enjoying it as much as he.
“把灯打开！”旺卡先生叫道。忽然之间，所有的灯都亮了，整条隧道被照得通明。查理看到他们的确在一根巨型管子里，管子巨大的拱壁是纯白的，一尘不染。巧克力河在管子里流得很快，那些奥帕—伦帕人疯狂地划着，船飞也似的向前直冲。旺卡先生在船尾跳上跳下，催促划船的人划得快了再快。他好像很喜欢这样乘着粉红色的船，顺着巧克力河嗖嗖地通过隧道。他拍手大笑，一直凝视着他的乘客，看他们是不是也和他一样欣赏这样的航行。
“Look, Grandpa!” cried Charlie. “There’s a door in the wall!” It was a green door and it was set into the wall of the tunnel just above the level of the river. As they flashed past it there was just enough time to read the writing on the door: STOREROOM NUMBER 54, it said. ALL THE CREAMS — DAIRY CREAM, WHIPPED CREAM, VIOLET CREAM, COFFEE CREAM, PINEAPPLE CREAM, VANILLA CREAM, AND HAIR CREAM.
“瞧，爷爷！”查理叫道，“墙上有道门！”这是一道绿色的门，开在隧道的拱壁上，只高出河面一点儿。他们掠过门前时，仅仅来得及读出门上的字：第五十四号贮藏室。所有的奶油——乳制奶油、掼奶油、紫罗兰奶油、咖啡奶油、菠萝奶油、香草奶油、头发奶油。
“He’s beany!”
“他豆腥味！”
“He’s buggy!”
“他是神经病！”
“He’s dotty!”
“他疯疯癫癫！”
“He’s daffy!”
“他傻的！”
“He’s balmy!”
“他很温和！”
“He’s dippy!”
“他是个笨蛋！”
“He’s nutty!”
“他是疯子！”
“He’s batty!”
“他古怪的！”
“He’s wacky!”
“他很古怪！”
“He’s loony!”
“他疯了！”
“No, he is not!” said Grandpa Joe.
“不，他没有！”约瑟夫爷爷说。
“He’s goofy!”
“他太傻了！”
“He’s screwy!”
“他是变态！”
“Row on!” shouted Mr Wonka. “There’s no time to answer silly questions!”
“向前划！”旺卡先生大声说，“没有时间回答这种无聊的问题！”
“Hair cream?” cried Mike Teavee. “You don’t use hair cream?”
“头发奶油？”迈克·蒂维叫道，“你总不会用头发奶油吧？”
“Whips!” cried Veruca Salt. “What on earth do you use whips for?”
“搅打器？”维鲁卡·索尔特叫道，“你用搅打器来干什么？”
“For whipping cream, of course,” said Mr Wonka. “How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all unless it’s been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn’t a poached egg unless it’s been stolen from the woods in the dead of night! Row on, please!”
“当然是用来搅打奶油喽，”旺卡先生说，“没有搅打器怎么能搅打奶油呢？除非用搅打器搅打过，否则掼奶油便不称其为掼奶油。就像钱包，除非里面装钱，否则就不是钱包！请继续划！”
They streaked past a black door. STOREROOM NUMBER 71, it said on it. WHIPS — ALL SHAPES AND SIZES.
他们又掠过一道黑色的门。门上写着：第七十一号贮藏室。搅打器——各种形状和大小。
They passed a yellow door on which it said: STOREROOM NUMBER 77 — ALL THE BEANS, CACAO BEANS, COFFEE BEANS, JELLY BEANS, AND HAS BEANS.
他们经过一道黄色的门，门上写着：第七十七号贮藏室。所有的豆——可可豆、咖啡豆、果冻豆、狗豆子[1]。【注：[1]寄生在狗身上的一种小昆虫，灰褐色，略作椭圆形，吸狗的血液。】
“You’re one yourself!” said Mr Wonka. “There’s no time for arguing! Press on, press on!” But five seconds later, when a bright red door came into sight ahead, he suddenly waved his gold-topped cane in the air and shouted, “Stop the boat!”
“你自己就是一粒狗豆子！”旺卡先生说，“没有时间争论了！向前划，向前划！”但五秒钟后，当前面出现一道鲜红的门时，他忽然在空中挥动他的金头手杖叫道：“停船！”
“Has beans?” cried Violet Beauregarde.
“狗豆子？”维奥莉特·博雷加德叫道。
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