The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · chapter 16 of 25
The Witch of the West
西方女巫
In the night, forty wolves come for the sleeping friends. Then crows, then bees: the Wicked Witch of the West has a long list of tricks, and one more up her sleeve.
Read what you hear
- Narrator 那天晚上，多萝西、托托和狮子在西边睡觉。
Nà tiān wǎnshang, Duōluóxī, Tuōtuō hé Shīzi zài xībian shuìjiào.
That night Dorothy, Toto and the Lion lay asleep, out in the West.
- Tin Woodman 稻草人，你听！是狼！很多很多！
Dàocǎorén, nǐ tīng! Shì láng! Hěn duō hěn duō!
Scarecrow, listen! Wolves! Lots and lots of them!
- Scarecrow 一定是女巫叫来的！它们要吃多萝西！
Yídìng shì nǚwū jiào lái de! Tāmen yào chī Duōluóxī!
The witch must have sent them! They want to eat Dorothy!
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- Tin Woodman 他们在睡觉。这次我来！
Tāmen zài shuìjiào. Zhè cì wǒ lái!
They're asleep. This fight is mine!
- Narrator 铁皮人举起斧头，一下，又一下……四十只狼都不动了。
Tiěpírén jǔqǐ fǔtóu, yíxià, yòu yíxià… sìshí zhī láng dōu bú dòng le.
The Tin Woodman raised his axe, again and again... until all forty wolves lay still.
- Dorothy 早上好……天哪！是狼！
Zǎoshang hǎo… Tiān na! Shì láng!
Good morning... Good heavens! Wolves!
- Scarecrow 四十只！都是铁皮人一个人打的！
Sìshí zhī! Dōu shì Tiěpírén yí gè rén dǎ de!
Forty of them! And the Tin Woodman fought every one by himself!
- Cowardly Lion 什么？我一点儿也没听到……还好我在睡觉！
Shénme? Wǒ yìdiǎnr yě méi tīngdào… háihǎo wǒ zài shuìjiào!
What? I didn't hear a thing... Good thing I was asleep!
- Witch of the West 我的狼都不动了？好，我吹两下哨子！
Wǒ de láng dōu bú dòng le? Hǎo, wǒ chuī liǎng xià shàozi!
My wolves, all lying still? Very well. Two blasts on my whistle!
- Dorothy 你们看！很多黑鸟飞过来了！
Nǐmen kàn! Hěn duō hēi niǎo fēi guòlai le!
Look! Lots of crows, flying this way!
- Scarecrow 这次我来！你们都坐下，别动！
Zhè cì wǒ lái! Nǐmen dōu zuò xià, bié dòng!
This one's mine! All of you, sit down and don't move!
- Dorothy 可是你说过，黑鸟都不怕你！
Kěshì nǐ shuō guo, hēi niǎo dōu bú pà nǐ!
But you told me crows aren't afraid of you!
- Scarecrow 那是以前！今天，看我的！
Nà shì yǐqián! Jīntiān, kàn wǒ de!
That was before! Today, just watch me!
- Cowardly Lion 看！黑鸟来一只，他就抓一只！
Kàn! Hēi niǎo lái yì zhī, tā jiù zhuā yì zhī!
Look! Every crow that comes at him, he grabs!
- Scarecrow 四十只！跟铁皮人一样多！
Sìshí zhī! Gēn Tiěpírén yíyàng duō!
Forty! Just as many as the Tin Woodman!
- Witch of the West 黑鸟也没有用？那就吹三下哨子！蜜蜂，去！
Hēi niǎo yě méiyǒu yòng? Nà jiù chuī sān xià shàozi! Mìfēng, qù!
The crows are no good either? Then three blasts on the whistle! Bees, go!
- Tin Woodman 蜜蜂来了！很多很多！
Mìfēng lái le! Hěn duō hěn duō!
Here come the bees! Lots and lots of them!
- Scarecrow 铁皮人，快拿我的稻草，放在多萝西他们身上！
Tiěpírén, kuài ná wǒ de dàocǎo, fàng zài Duōluóxī tāmen shēnshang!
Tin Woodman, quick! Take out my straw and pile it on Dorothy and the others!
- Tin Woodman 来吧！我不怕你们！
Lái ba! Wǒ bú pà nǐmen!
Come on, then! I'm not afraid of you!
- Narrator 蜜蜂飞到铁皮人身上，很快都不动了。
Mìfēng fēi dào Tiěpírén shēnshang, hěn kuài dōu bú dòng le.
The bees flew at the Tin Woodman, and soon not one of them was moving.
- Scarecrow 多萝西，我的稻草！快放回来！没有稻草，我站不起来！
Duōluóxī, wǒ de dàocǎo! Kuài fàng huílai! Méiyǒu dàocǎo, wǒ zhàn bu qǐlai!
Dorothy, my straw! Put it back, quick! Without my straw, I can't even stand up!
- Witch of the West 黄衣人！你们十二个，快去打他们！
Huángyīrén! Nǐmen shí'èr gè, kuài qù dǎ tāmen!
People in Yellow! You twelve, go and fight them!
- Cowardly Lion 我大叫一声，他们都跑了！他们比我还怕！
Wǒ dàjiào yì shēng, tāmen dōu pǎo le! Tāmen bǐ wǒ hái pà!
One big roar from me, and they all ran! They're even more scared than I am!
- Witch of the West 都没有用！还有金帽子……它能叫飞猴来三次，我叫过两次了。
Dōu méiyǒu yòng! Hái yǒu jīn màozi… tā néng jiào fēihóu lái sān cì, wǒ jiào guo liǎng cì le.
All useless! But there's still the Golden Cap... It can call the Winged Monkeys three times, and I've called them twice.
- Narrator 她戴上金帽子，说了魔法的话。
Tā dàishang jīn màozi, shuō le mófǎ de huà.
She put on the Golden Cap and spoke the magic words.
- Witch of the West 听！是翅膀！我的飞猴来了！
Tīng! Shì chìbǎng! Wǒ de fēihóu lái le!
Listen! Wings! My Winged Monkeys are coming!
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What changed in the story?
- Who fights the forty wolves in the night?
“这次我来！”……“铁皮人举起斧头，一下，又一下……四十只狼都不动了。”
- Why didn't the Lion hear the wolves?
“我一点儿也没听到……还好我在睡觉！”
- Why does Dorothy tease the Scarecrow when the crows come?
“可是你说过，黑鸟都不怕你！”
- How does the Scarecrow keep the bees off his friends?
“铁皮人，快拿我的稻草，放在多萝西他们身上！”
- How many times can the Golden Cap call the Winged Monkeys?
“它能叫飞猴来三次”