有聲名著《格列佛游記》48：第10章 勒皮他飛島(3)

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I was taken to see the King，but had to wait for at least anhour while he struggled with a difficult mathematicalquestion.However，when he had finished，he spoke politelyto me，and ordered his servants to show me to a room.

我被帶去見國(guó)王，可是我不得不等了至少一個(gè)小時(shí)，因?yàn)樗谒伎家粋€(gè)很難的數(shù)學(xué)問題。不過在他完成以后，他對(duì)我說話很禮貌，叫他的仆人帶我去一個(gè)房間。

For dinner they gave me three kinds of meat—a square ofbeef，a triangle of chicken and a circle of lamb Even the bread was cut into mathematical shapesin the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language，and in a few days I was able tomake conversation with the island people.

晚餐他們給了我3種肉—一塊方形牛肉、一塊三角形雞肉和一塊圓形羊肉。甚至面包也是切成了數(shù)學(xué)形狀。晚上一個(gè)教師來教我學(xué)他們的語言，幾天后我就能夠跟島民交談了。

Laputa is a circle of land，about eight kilometres across，covered with houses and otherbuildings.It is moved by a simple machine which uses magnets to pull the island closer to land orpush it higher into the sky.The island always moves slowly.It can only fly over the countrycalled Balnibarbi，which belongs to the King of Laputa.

勒皮他是一個(gè)圓形陸地，直徑大約8公里，上面建有房屋和其他建筑。勒皮他島用一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單的機(jī)器移動(dòng)，通過磁力把島拉近地面或者是推向高空。這個(gè)島總是慢慢地移動(dòng)，它只能在一個(gè)叫巴爾尼巴比的國(guó)土上飛，那是屬于勒皮他國(guó)王的。

It is difficult talking to Laputans，as they have little interest in anything except music andmathematics.They are，however，very worried about the future of the earth，the sun，and thestars，and they often discuss this.I heard a conversation about this shortly before I leftLaputa.

跟勒皮他人談話很困難，因?yàn)樗麄儗?duì)除了音樂和數(shù)學(xué)之外的事沒有興趣。但是他們對(duì)地球、太陽(yáng)和星星的未來很是擔(dān)憂，經(jīng)常討論。在我快要離開勒皮他之前我聽到了關(guān)于這事的談話。

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于是，小人國(guó)君臣沆瀣一氣準(zhǔn)備除掉格列佛。格列佛聽到風(fēng)聲，趕快逃到不來夫斯古帝國(guó)，后來平安回到英國(guó)。