"Oh!" said Susan in a different tone. "Look! I wonder - I mean, is it safe?"
Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant.
"It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously (快乐地). "Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow."
"That wasn't exactly what I meant," whispered Susan to Lucy. But it was too late to do anything about it now even if Aslan would have listened to her.
The change was already creeping up the Giant's legs. Now he was moving his feet.
A moment later he lifted his club off his shoulder, rubbed his eyes and said,
"Bless me! I must have been asleep. Now! Where's that dratted (可恶的) little Witch that was running about on the ground. Somewhere just by my feet it was." {1}
But when everyone had shouted up to him to explain what had really happened, and when the Giant had put his hand to his ear and got them to repeat it all again so that at last he understood, then he bowed (鞠躬) down till his head was no further off than the top of a haystack (干草堆) and touched his cap repeatedly to Aslan, beaming all over his honest ugly face.
(Giants of any sort are now so rare in England and so few giants are good-tempered that ten to one you have never seen a giant when his face is beaming. It's a sight well worth looking at.) {2}
"Now for the inside of this house!" said Aslan. "Look alive, everyone. Up stairs and down stairs and in my lady's chamber (房间)! Leave no corner unsearched. You never know where some poor prisoner may be concealed (隐藏)."
And into the interior (内部) they all rushed and for several minutes the whole of that dark, horrible, fusty (发霉的) old castle echoed (回荡)with the opening of windows and with everyone's voices crying out at once,
"Don't forget the dungeons (地下城)- Give us a hand with this door! Here's another little winding stair - Oh! I say. Here's a poor kangaroo.
Call Aslan - Phew! How it smells in here - Look out for trap-doors - Up here! There are a whole lot more on the landing!"
But the best of all was when Lucy came rushing upstairs shouting out,
"Aslan! Aslan! I've found Mr. Tumnus. Oh, do come quick."
A moment later Lucy and the little Faun were holding each other by both hands and dancing round and round for joy.
The little chap was none the worse for having been a statue and was of course very interested in all she had to tell him.
But at last the ransacking (搜查) of the Witch's fortress (堡垒) was ended.
The whole castle stood empty with every door and window open and the light and the sweet spring air flooding into all the dark and evil places which needed them so badly. {3}
The whole crowd of liberated (解放) statues surged back into the courtyard.
And it was then that someone (Tumnus, I think) first said,
"But how are we going to get out?" for Aslan had got in by a jump and the gates were still locked.
"That'll be all right," said Aslan; and then, rising on his hind-legs, he bawled (呼喊) up at the Giant. "Hi! You up there," he roared. "What's your name?"
"Giant Rumblebuffin, if it please your honour," said the Giant, once more touching his cap.
"Well then, Giant Rumblebuffin," said Aslan, "just let us out of this, will you?"
"Certainly, your honour. It will be a pleasure," said Giant Rumblebuffin. "Stand well away from the gates, all you little 'uns."
Then he strode (大步走,stride的过去式) to the gate himself and bang - bang - bang - went his huge club.
The gates creaked (嘎吱作响) at the first blow, cracked at the second, and shivered (打碎) at the third.
Then he tackled (对付) the towers on each side of them and after a few minutes of crashing and thudding both the towers and a good bit of the wall on each side went thundering down in a mass of hopeless rubble;
and when the dust cleared it was odd, standing in that dry, grim, stony yard, to see through the gap all the grass and waving trees and sparkling streams of the forest, and the blue hills beyond that and beyond them the sky. {4}
"Blowed if I ain't all in a muck sweat (汗)," said the Giant, puffing (喘息) like the largest railway engine.
"Comes of being out of condition. I suppose neither of you young ladies has such a thing as a pocket-handkerchee (手绢) about you?"
"Yes, I have," said Lucy, standing on tip-toes and holding her handkerchief up as far as she could reach.
"Thank you, Missie," said Giant Rumblebuffin, stooping down.
Next moment Lucy got rather a fright for she found herself caught (被抓住) up in mid-air between the Giant's finger and thumb (拇指).
But just as she was getting near his face he suddenly started and then put her gently back on the ground muttering (低声说), "Bless me! I've picked up the little girl instead.
I beg your pardon, Missie, I thought you was the handkerchee!"
"No, no," said Lucy laughing, "here it is!"
This time he managed to get it but it was only about the same size to him that a saccharine (含糖的) tablet (药片) would be to you, so that when she saw him solemnly rubbing it to and fro across his great red face, she said, "I'm afraid it's not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin."
"Not at all. Not at all," said the giant politely. "Never met a nicer handkerchee. So fine, so handy. So - I don't know how to describe it."
"What a nice giant he is!" said Lucy to Mr. Tumnus.
"Oh yes," replied the Faun. "All the Buffins (布芬家的人) always were. One of the most respected of all the giant families in Narnia.
Not very clever, perhaps (I never knew a giant that was), but an old family.
With traditions, you know. If he'd been the other sort she'd never have turned him into stone."
At this point Aslan clapped (轻拍) his paws together and called for silence.
