格列佛游记——小人国游记-3

The land was called Lilliput. The emperor of Lilliput told his men to make a very big cart, because he wanted to take me to the capital city.

They had many carts for carrying trees. They also had some larger carts for taking the ships down to the sea.

　　Five hundred carpenters worked to put many of these carts together, and soon they made one big cart. It was seven feet long and four feet wide, and it had twenty-two wheels.

　　Tiny horses pulled the cart up to my side. They had to raise me and put me on it. Nine hundred men worked for three hours, and at last they raised me onto the cart. Fifteen hundred of the emperor's largest horses were used to pull me to the city. It was half a mile away. All day the horses pulled the cart along the road.

　　In the evening they stopped and rested. At night there were five hundred men on each side of me. They had bows and arrows. They were ready to shoot me if I tried to move.

　　The next morning we went on, and at noon we were near the gates of the city. When we got to the gates of the city, the emperor came out to meet me.

　　There was an old temple not far away from the city. It was the largest temple in the whole country, and the emperor told his men to take me there. The big gate in front was about four feet high and two feet wide.

The emperor's men cut the ropes which tied me to the cart. But they tied my left foot to the ground with very strong chains. I could not run away.

I stood up and all the people were astonished because I was so big. I looked at the fields and houses around me. The country was like a garden. Everything was very small. The tallest tree in the country was only seven feet high.

　　Then I crept into the temple and lay on the floor because there was no bed. And the emperor told his men to make me a big bed. They carried six hundred of their little beds to the temple and fastened them together. The bed was finished soon.

　　那个国度叫利力浦。该国皇帝叫他的臣民制作一辆大型马车，因为他想要把我运到首都去。

　　他们有许多运树的马车，也有一些用来把船拖到海边的较大型马车。
　　五百个木匠动工将这些马车组合在一起，不久他们做成了一辆大马车。这辆马车有七英尺长，四英尺宽，还有廿二个轮子。

　　小马把马车拉到我身边。他们必须将我抬起来放到车上。九百个人工作了三个小时，最后他们将我抬上了车。一千五百匹皇室最大的马被用来拉我到半英里外的城市去。那些马整天沿路拉着马车。
　　傍晚时他们停下来休息。晚上我身体两旁各站着五百人，个个配戴弓箭。如果我试图乱动，他们就随时准备射我。

　　隔天早上我们继续走，中午时分我们已近城门。我们到城门时，皇帝出来迎接我。
　　距离城内不远处有一座古庙。那是全国最大的庙，皇帝叫他的属下把我载到那里。前门大约有四英尺高，两英尺宽。

　　皇帝的属下将我绑在马车上的绳索砍断。但是他们用坚固的链子把我的左脚绑在地上。我无法逃走。
　　我站起来，这时所有的人都很震惊，因为我太巨大了。我看着周围的田舍。这个国家像个花园。一切的事物都很小。国内最高的树只有七英尺高。

　　然后我爬到庙里面，躺在地板上，因为里面没有床。皇帝要他的属下为我做一张大床。他们将六百张小床带到庙里，将它们绑在一起。这张床很快就做好了。