The Emperor's New Clothes[皇帝的新装]（下）

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        Now the swindlers（/ˈswɪndlə（r）/ n. 骗子）asked for more money, silk and gold-cloth, which they required for weng（/ˈwiːvɪŋ/ v. 编，织）. They kept everything for themselves, and not a thread（/θred/ n. 线） came near the loom（/luːm/ n. 织布机）, but they continued, as hitherto（/ˌhɪðəˈtuː/ adv. 迄今；至今）, to work at the empty looms. 

          这两个骗子又要了很多的钱，更多的丝和金子，他们说这是为了织布的需要。他们把这些东西全装进腰包里，连一根线也没有放到织机上去。不过他们还是继续在空空的机架上工作。
　　

　　Soon afterwards the emperor sent another honest courtier （/ˈkɔːtiə（r）/ n. 朝臣） to the weers to see how they were getting on, and if the cloth was nearly finished. Like the old minister（/ˈmɪnɪstə（r）/ n. 部长；大臣）, he looked and looked but could see nothing, as there was nothing to be seen. 

        过了不久，皇帝派了另一位诚实的官员去看看，布是不是很快就可以织好。他的运气并不比头一位大臣的好：他看了又看，但是那两架空空的织机上什么也没有，他什么东西也看不出来。

　　“Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?” asked the two swindlers, showing and explaining the magnificent pattern（/ˈpætn/ n. 图案；样品）, which, however, did not exist. 

         “您看这段布美不美？”两个骗子问。他们指着一些美丽的花纹，并且作了一些解释。事实上什么花纹也没有。 

　　“I am not stupid,” said the man. “It is therefore my good appointment for which I am not fit. It is very strange, but I must not let any one know it;” and he praised the cloth, which he did not see, and expressed his joy at the beautiful colours and the fine pattern. “It is very excellent,” he said to the emperor. 

        “我并不愚蠢！”这位官员想。“这大概是因为我不配担当现在这样好的官职吧？这也真够滑稽，但是我决不能让人看出来！”因此他就把他完全没有看见的布称赞了一番，同时对他们说，他非常喜欢这些美丽的颜色和巧妙的花纹。“是的，那真是太美了，”他回去对皇帝说。

　　Everybody in the whole town talked about the precious cloth. At last the emperor wished to see it himself, while it was still on the loom. With a number of courtiers, including the two who had already been there, he went to the two clever swindlers, who now worked as hard as they could, but without using any thread. 

        城里所有的人都在谈论这美丽的布料。 当这布还在织的时候，皇帝就很想亲自去看一次。他选了一群特别圈定的随员——其中包括已经去看过的那两位诚实的大臣。这样，他就到那两个狡猾的骗子住的地方去。这两个家伙正以全副精神织布，但是一根线的影子也看不见。

　　“Is it not magnificent?” said the two old statesmen （/'steɪtsmən/ n. 政治家）who had been there before. “Your Majesty（/ˈmædʒəsti/ 陛下） must admire the colours and the pattern.” And then they pointed to the empty looms, for they imagined the others could see the cloth. 

        “您看这不漂亮吗？”那两位诚实的官员说。“陛下请看，多么美丽的花纹！多么美丽的色彩！”他们指着那架空空的织机，因为他们以为别人一定会看得见布料的。

　　“What is this?” thought the emperor, “I do not see anything at all. That is terrible! Am I stupid? Am I unfit to be emperor? That would indeed be the most dreadful （/ˈdredfl/ adj. 可怕的；糟透的） thing that could happen to me.” 

        “这是怎么一回事儿呢？”皇帝心里想。“我什么也没有看见！这真是荒唐！难道我是一个愚蠢的人吗？难道我不配做皇帝吗？这真是我从来没有碰见过的一件最可怕的事情。”

　　“Really,” he said, turning to the weers, “your cloth has our most gracious approval;” and nodding contentedly he looked at the empty loom, for he did not like to say that he saw nothing. 

         “啊，它真是美极了！”皇帝说。“我表示十二分地满意！”  于是他点头表示满意。他装做很仔细地看着织机的样子，因为他不愿意说出他什么也没有看见。

        All his attendants（/əˈtendənt/  n. 侍者）, who were with him, looked and looked, and although they could not see anything more than the others, they said, like the emperor, “It is very beautiful.” And all advised him to wear the new magnificent clothes at a great procession which was soon to take place. “It is magnificent, beautiful, excellent,” one heard them say; everybody seemed to be delighted, and the emperor appointed the two swindlers “Imperial Court weers.” 

       跟他来的全体随员也仔细地看了又看，可是他们也没有看出更多的东西。不过，他们也照着皇帝的话说：“啊，真是美极了！”他们建议皇帝用这种新奇的、美丽的布料做成衣服，穿上这衣服亲自去参加快要举行的游行大典。“真美丽！真精致！真是好极了！”每人都随声附和着。每人都有说不出的快乐。皇帝赐给骗子每人一个爵士的头衔和一枚可以挂在纽扣洞上的勋章；并且还封他们为“御聘织师”。

　　The whole night previous to the day on which the procession was to take place, the swindlers pretended to work, and burned more than sixteen candles. People should see that they were busy to finish the emperor’s new suit. They pretended to take the cloth from the loom, and worked about in the air with big scissors, and sewed with needles without thread, and said at last: “The emperor’s new suit is ready now.” 

        第二天早晨游行大典就要举行了。在头天晚上，这两个骗子整夜不睡，点起１６支蜡烛。你可以看到他们是在赶夜工，要完成皇帝的新衣。他们装做把布料从织机上取下来。他们用两把大剪刀在空中裁了一阵子，同时又用没有穿线的针缝了一通。最后，他们齐声说：“请看！新衣服缝好了！”

　　The emperor and all his barons （/ˈbærən/ n. 男爵） then came to the hall; the swindlers held their arms up as if they held something in their hands and said: “These are the trousers!” “This is the coat!” and “Here is the cloak!” and so on. “They are all as light as a cobweb, and one must feel as if one had nothing at all upon the body; but that is just the beauty of them.” 

        皇帝带着他的一群最高贵的骑士们亲自到来了。这两个骗子每人举起一只手，好像他们拿着一件什么东西似的。他们说：“请看吧，这是裤子，这是袍子！这是外衣！”等等。“这衣服轻柔得像蜘蛛网一样：穿着它的人会觉得好像身上没有什么东西似的——这也正是这衣服的妙处。”

　　“Indeed!” said all the courtiers; but they could not see anything, for there was nothing to be seen.   

        “一点也不错，”所有的骑士们都说。可是他们什么也没有看见，因为实际上什么东西也没有。

　　“Does it please your Majesty now to graciously undress,” said the swindlers, “that we may assist your Majesty in putting on the new suit before the large looking-glass?” 

        “现在请皇上脱下衣服，”两个骗子说，“我们要在这个大镜子面前为陛下换上新衣。

　　The emperor undressed, and the swindlers pretended to put the new suit upon him, one piece after another; and the emperor looked at himself in the glass from every side. 

        皇帝把身上的衣服统统都脱光了。这两个骗子装做把他们刚才缝好的新衣服一件一件地交给他。皇帝在镜子面前转了转身子，扭了扭腰肢。  

　　“How well they look! How well they fit!” said all. “What a beautiful pattern! What fine colours! That is a magnificent suit of clothes!”
　　The master of the ceremonies（/'serɪmənɪz/ n. 仪式；典礼） announced that the bearers of the canopy（/ˈkænəpi/ n. 天篷；华盖）, which was to be carried in the procession, were ready. 

        “上帝，这衣服多么合身啊！式样裁得多么好看啊！”大家都说。“多么美的花纹！多么美的色彩！这真是一套贵重的衣服！”
　　“大家已经在外面把华盖准备好了，只等陛下一出去，就可撑起来去游行！”典礼官说。

　　“I am ready,” said the emperor. “Does not my suit fit me marvellously?” Then he turned once more to the looking-glass, that people should think he admired his garments. 

        “ 对，我已经穿好了，”皇帝说，“这衣服合我的身么？”于是他又在镜子面前把身子转动了一下，因为他要叫大家看出他在认真地欣赏他美丽的服装。 

　　The chamberlains, who were to carry the train（n. 裙裾）, stretched their hands to the ground as if they lifted up a train, and pretended to hold something in their hands; they did not like people to know that they could not see anything. 

       那些将要托着后裾的内臣们，都把手在地上东摸西摸，好像他们真的在拾其后裾似的。他们开步走，手中托着空气——他们不敢让人瞧出他们实在什么东西也没有看见。 
　　The emperor marched in the procession under the beautiful canopy, and all who saw him in the street and out of the windows exclaimed: “Indeed, the emperor’s new suit is incomparable! What a long train he has! How well it fits him!” Nobody wished to let others know he saw nothing, for then he would he been unfit for his office or too stupid. Never emperor’s clothes were more admired. 

        这么着，皇帝就在那个富丽的华盖下游行起来了。站在街上和窗子里的人都说：“乖乖，皇上的新装真是漂亮！他上衣下面的后裾是多么美丽！衣服多么合身！”谁也不愿意让人知道自己看不见什么东西，因为这样就会暴露自己不称职，或是太愚蠢。皇帝所有的衣服从来没有得到这样普遍的称赞。

　　“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last. “Good heens! listen to the voice of an innocent child,” said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. “But he has nothing on at all,” cried at last the whole people. 

        “可是他什么衣服也没有穿呀！”一个小孩子最后叫出声来。
　　“上帝哟，你听这个天真的声音！”爸爸说。于是大家把这孩子讲的话私自低声地传播开来。
　　“他并没有穿什么衣服！有一个小孩子说他并没有穿什么衣服呀！”
　　“他实在是没有穿什么衣服呀！”最后所有的老百姓都说。

       That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, “Now I must bear up to the end.” And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist.
       皇帝有点儿发抖，因为他似乎觉得老百姓所讲的话是对的。不过他自己心里却这样想：“我必须把这游行大典举行完毕。”因此他摆出一副更骄傲的神气，他的内臣们跟在他后面走，手中托着一个并不存在的后裾。

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