谢谢啦，我觉得挺好的
CHAPTER III
第三章
Next day Tippy Toes woke upearly（从后面的意思里看，他起得也不算太早）and cried out, "Oh, Mother Cotton-Tail, it is time to wake up! Oh, Papa Cotton-Tail, it is time to wake up!"
第二天，歪脚趾一早醒来大声喊：“哦，棉尾巴妈妈，该起床啦！哦，棉尾巴爸爸，该起床了！”
Sure enough it was time for Bunnies to wake up because it was sunrise.
可不是嘛，这些兔子们是该起床了，太阳都晒屁股了。
Tippy Toes helped to get breakfast. He went to the well to draw water.
He began to sing a little fairy song,
"Ding, dong bell,
Pussy's in the well."
歪脚趾帮忙准备早饭。他到井边打水的时候，唱起一首可爱的精灵之歌：
“铃儿叮当响，
猫咪井里藏”
"Poor Pussy, I wonder if she is still in the well," he said. He peeped down to look into the well.
“可怜的猫咪，不知道她还在不在井里。”他边说着，边探身往井里瞧。
Papa Cotton-Tail called, "Hurry, hurry, it is time for breakfast."
棉尾巴爸爸喊道：“快点儿，快点儿，该吃早饭啦！”
Then Tippy Toes drew a bucket full of water and said, "Is poor Pussy
still in the well?"
歪脚趾打回一大桶水，进屋就问：“可怜的猫咪还在井里吗？”
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "If you ever read your Mother Goose you would know she is not in the well."
棉尾巴爸爸说：“要是你看过《鹅妈妈的故事》，就会知道她早不在井里啦。”
"Who pulled her out?" asked Tippy Toes.
歪脚趾问：“是谁把她捞上来的呢？”
Mother Cotton-Tail said, "Hush, be still, you ask too many questions!"
棉尾巴妈妈说：“嘘，安静，你的问题太多了。”
Tippy Toes wondered all day who pulled poor Pussy out. He danced this way, and he danced that way, and he set the table for breakfast.
歪脚趾一整天都在琢磨着，到底是谁把猫咪捞上来的。
他一边跳来跳去，一边摆好了早餐桌。
He said, "If you are home by dinner time Papa Cotton-Tail, may I go and visit Bunny and Susan?"
他说：“棉尾巴爸爸，如果到吃晚饭的时候你能赶回来送我，我就能去巴尼和苏姗家了吧？”
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "If I get home in time with Susan's spectacles you may go to-day."
棉尾巴爸爸说：“如果我买到眼镜，又及时赶回来的话，你就可以走了。”
Papa Cotton-Tail put on his big fur coat and went merrily down the road. Mother Cotton-Tail began to make cookies and Tippy Toes rolled them out for her. Now, will you believe it? before they had a single pan of cookies baked, Papa Cotton-Tail was back home again.
棉尾巴爸爸穿上大大的皮衣，高高兴兴地沿着小路出发了。棉尾巴妈妈开始做饼干，歪脚趾负责帮她把饼干擀平。哦，你能相信吗？！他们连一锅饼干都没烤好呢，棉尾巴爸爸就回来了。
Mother Cotton-Tail said, "Why are you back so soon?"
棉尾巴妈妈说：“你怎么这么快就回来了？”
Tippy Toes said, "Did you get the spectacles already?"
歪脚趾说：“你已经买到眼镜了么？”
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "I met a peddler and he had a pair of black spectacles in his pack."
棉尾巴爸爸说：“我遇到一个小贩，他摊子上正好有一副黑框眼镜。”
Papa Cotton-Tail put on the black spectacles and he looked so funny that Mother Cotton-Tail said, "Let me try them on," and Tippy Toes cried, "Please let me try them on!"
棉尾巴爸爸把黑框眼镜戴上。哈哈，他看上去太滑稽啦！棉尾巴妈妈说：“让我戴戴。”歪脚趾说：“请让我也戴戴。”
Mother Cotton-Tail said, "I will pack Bunny's lamp and Susan's spectacles and you may start on your long journey at once."
棉尾巴妈妈说：“我来帮你把灯和眼镜装好，你就可以马上开始长途旅行了。”
Tippy Toes put on his best coat and cap and kissed his mother good-bye.
歪脚趾穿上他最好的外套，戴上他最好的帽子，和妈妈吻别了。
Papa Cotton-Tail went with him again to the bend of the road. Suddenly Tippy Toes stopped still. He stopped stock-still in the road. He said,
"Oh, Pa, I must go back, I forgot something!"
棉尾巴爸爸再次陪他走到了小路的拐角。突然，歪脚趾站住不走了。他一动不动地定在路上，说：
“哦，爸，我必须回家去，我忘了件事情。”（到底用爸爸还是爸呢，如果按中国的习俗，单字的爸、妈都是大一些的孩子或是大人称呼父母时的用法，而英语里呢？）What do you suppose Tippy Toes forgot?
你猜歪脚趾忘了什么呀？
He always danced up and down before the mirror before he went out. So, he went back home, hoppity, skippity, hop; and Papa Cotton-Tail waited for him at the bend of the road.
他每次出门之前，都要对着镜子来来回回地跳上一段儿。这会儿，他回到家，单脚蹦，双脚跳，跳跳蹦蹦，蹦蹦跳跳，棉尾巴爸爸就在路拐角等着。
歪脚趾对着镜子，一边舞来又跳去，一边说着：
“谁像我这幅丑模样？没人知来没人讲。”
镜子回答：“翘鼻子就像你这个样。”
Tippy Toes stood before the mirror and he danced this way and he danced that way and said,
"Who is so ugly? Nobody knows."
The mirror answered, "Snubby Nose."
Then Tippy Toes laughed and laughed.
听了这话，歪脚趾就大笑起来没个完。
"I will go and find Snubby Nose," he said, "for he must be as ugly as I am with my little turned-up nose."
他说：“我要找到翘鼻子，他一定和我一样地丑，也一样长了个歪鼻子。”
He went running down the road and was soon off and away. The wind whistled in his ears.
他顺着小路一溜烟跑远了。风在他耳边呼啸而过/速度快得只听见风声嗖嗖地响。
At that very minute he heard Papa Cotton-Tail crying, "Hello, hello!
Come back to the bend in the road, Tippy Toes."
正在这时候，他听见棉尾巴爸爸喊：“喂——喂——歪脚趾——，回来。”
Tippy Toes said to himself, "What can Papa Cotton-Tail want? Shall I never get started?"
歪脚趾自言自语道：“棉尾巴爸爸这是想干嘛呢？我不会又走不了了吧？！”
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "How will you know the house when you come to it?"
棉尾巴爸爸说：“去了之后，你怎么知道哪栋房子是你要找的呢？”
Tippy Toes said, "I will ask any one I meet."
歪脚趾说：“我随便找个人问问就好了呀。”
Papa Cotton-Tail said, "That is right, and be sure to bow when you meet Grandpa Grumbles."
棉尾巴爸爸说：“那好吧，记得见到牢骚祖爷爷的时候，一定要鞠躬行礼呀。”
Then they said "Good-bye" again, and Tippy Toes went merrily along. He met Bushy-Tail, the sly old Fox. Bushy-Tail asked, "Where are you going in such a hurry, Snubby Nose?"
然后他们再次告别，歪脚趾高高兴兴地上路了。
走了不知多久，他遇到了毛尾巴。毛尾巴是一只狡猾的老狐狸。毛尾巴问他说：“翘鼻子，你这么急想去哪儿啊？”
Then Tippy Toes danced this way and he danced that way, and he said,
"That is a matter I do not disclose,
But, sir, my name is not Snubby Nose."
歪脚趾跳来又跳去/这边跳跳，又那边跳跳，说：
“我不能告诉您这件事，不过，先生，我可不叫翘鼻子。”
图释：“我不叫翘鼻子。”
Bushy-Tail was surprised you may be sure. He said, "Well, you and Snubby Nose are as much alike as two peas."
你知道毛尾巴有多惊讶么？他说：“呃，你和翘鼻子长得就跟一个豆荚里的两颗豌豆一样相像。”
Tippy Toes bowed and said, "Will you please tell me how I may know when I have passed by the house Bunny and Susan Cotton-Tail live in?"
歪脚趾鞠了个躬说：“请问，我怎么才能知道这附近的房子哪个是巴尼和苏珊家的呢？” Tippy Toes did not say he was going to stop and see Bunny and Susan.
歪脚趾没说他这次本来就是要去看巴尼和苏姗的。
Bushy-Tail looked cross-eyed. He said, "If you will tell me your name little fellow, I will take you straight to Bunny Cotton-Tail's house in the woods."
毛尾巴斜眼瞧着他说：“小家伙，如果你肯把你的名字告诉我，我就直接把你带到巴尼棉尾巴的家里去，他家就在树林里。”
I do not know what would have happened next if Grandpa Grumbles and Doctor Cotton-Tail had not come along.
要不是牢骚爷爷和棉尾巴大夫正巧经过，接下来会发生什么可就难说了/真不知道接下来会怎么样呢。Grandpa Grumbles thought it was Snubby Nose, of course, and he shouted,
"You're a careless Bunny, it is not funny,
The Doctor costs us a lot of money."
不过当然啦，牢骚爷爷还以为他是翘鼻子呢，他喊道：
“你这小兔还不小心点儿，这可不是闹着玩儿，看医生花了咱们不少钱。”
Then whisk! Before Tippy Toes or Doctor Cotton-Tail could say a word, Grandpa Grumbles opened his green cotton umbrella and set Tippy Toes inside and carried him through the woods. The wind whistled in their ears as they went. Grandpa Grumbles kept saying over and over to himself,
"You were ill, and it is not funny,
To call the Doctor and pay out money."
欻地一声！歪脚趾和棉尾巴大夫都还没来得及说话呢，牢骚爷爷已经撑开绿布伞，把歪脚趾放进去，带他一路穿过了树林，只听见风在耳边呼啸。牢骚爷爷自言自语没个完：
“你还病恹恹，不是闹着玩，去请医生要花钱。”
Tippy Toes shouted at last so loud he could be heard,
"Grandpa, I have a funny nose,
But my real name is Tippy Toes."
到了最后，歪脚趾使劲儿大喊，好让牢骚爷爷听见：
“老爷爷，虽然我鼻子很滑稽，但我的名字是歪脚趾。”
Grandpa Grumbles answered him,
"Snubby Nose, you can't fool me,
Though I'm foolish as can be."
牢骚爷爷回答他说：
“翘鼻子，别耍我，好像我真傻呵呵。”
Then Tippy Toes stuffed his furry little paw into his mouth to keep from laughing out loud.
"I wonder if Bunny and Susan will think I am Snubby Nose, too," he said. "What fun that will be. I will visit them until Snubby Nose comes home."
歪脚趾用毛茸茸的小爪子捂着嘴，免得笑出声。他小声说：“我想知道巴尼和苏珊会不会也把我当成翘鼻子呢。要是那样该多好玩儿呀。我要在他们那儿待到翘鼻子回家。”
By and by they came to Bunny Cotton-Tail's house. Grandpa Grumbles set Tippy Toes down on the doorstep and shouted,
"The house is dark, as you can see,
You'll have to come and visit me."
只一会儿工夫，巴尼.棉尾巴家就到了。牢骚爷爷在门口的台阶上把歪脚趾放下，大声对他说：
“正像咱们看见的，房子里面黑漆漆，你只好到我家去。”
So, they went on through the woods to Grandpa Grumble's house; for, sure enough, Bunny and Susan had gone to bed and turned out all the lights.
于是，两个人又穿过树林，来到牢骚爷爷家，因为很显然，巴尼和苏珊已经关掉所有的灯，上床睡觉了。
When they got to Grandpa Grumble's house a fire was burning merrily on the hearth, and they went up and warmed their paws. Tippy Toes danced up and down before the mirror and cried,
"Who is so ugly? Nobody knows."
The mirror answered, "Snubby Nose."
当他们来到牢骚爷爷家的时候，一团火焰正在火炉里快活地燃烧着，他们走过去暖爪子。歪脚趾一边对着镜子跳来跳去，一边大声说：
“谁像我这幅丑模样？没人知来没人讲。”
镜子回答：“翘鼻子就像你这个样。”
Grandpa Grumbles looked at Tippy Toes over his spectacles and said, "I have not heard you cry or scream or howl for thirty minutes."
牢骚爷爷透过眼镜儿看着歪脚趾说：“我已经有半个钟头没听见你大哭、大叫、大嚎了。”
Tippy Toes did not know what this meant, for he had never cried or screamed or howled in all his life.
歪脚趾可不明白这是什么意思，因为他一生中还从没哭叫过或是嚎过。
He went up to Grandpa Grumbles and made a low bow and said, "Dear Grandpa Grumbles, I want to thank you for the ride in your green cotton umbrella."
他走到牢骚爷爷跟前深鞠一躬说：“亲爱的牢骚祖爷爷，我很感谢你让我坐你的绿布伞。”
Grandpa Grumbles could hardly believe his ears. He grumbled,
"You might be fooling me I suppose,
Except for your ugly little nose."
牢骚爷爷简直不敢相信自己的耳朵，他抱怨着：
“要不是因为你这丑丑的小鼻子，我想你可能在捉弄我这老头子。”