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Mr Wonka suddenly exploded with excitement.

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Chapter28

Only Charlie Left

'Which room shall it be next?' said Mr Wonka as he turned away and darted into the lift. 'Come on! Hurry up! We must get going! And how many children are there left now?'

Little Charlie looked at Grandpa Joe, and Grandpa Joe looked back at little Charlie.

'But Mr Wonka,' Grandpa Joe called after him, 'there's . . . there's only Charlie left now.'  Mr Wonka swung round and stared at Charlie.

There was a silence. Charlie stood there holding tightly on to Grandpa Joe's hand.

'You mean you're the only one left?' Mr Wonka said, pretending to be surprised.

'Why, yes,' whispered Charlie. 'Yes.'

Mr Wonka suddenly exploded with excitement. 'But my dear boy,' he cried out, 'that means you've won!' He rushed out of the lift and started shaking Charlie's hand so furiously it nearly came off. 'Oh, I do congratulate you!' he cried. 'I really do! I'm absolutely delighted! It couldn't be better! How wonderful this is! I had a hunch, you know, right from the beginning, that it was going to be you! Well done, Charlie, well done! This is terrific! Now the fun is really going to start! But we mustn't dilly! We mustn't dally! There's even less time to lose now than there was before! We have an enormous number of things to do before the day is out! Just think of the arrangements that have to be made! And the people we have to fetch! But luckily for us, we have the great glass lift to speed things up! Jump in, my dear Charlie, jump in! You too, Grandpa Joe, sir! No, no, after you! That's the way! Now then! This time I shall choose the button we are going to press!' Mr Wonka's bright twinkling blue eyes rested for a moment on Charlie's face.

Something crazy is going to happen now, Charlie thought. But he wasn't frightened. He wasn't even nervous. He was just terrifically excited. And so was Grandpa Joe. The old man's face was shining with excitement as he watched every move that Mr Wonka made. Mr Wonka was reaching for a button high up on the glass ceiling of the lift. Charlie and Grandpa Joe both craned their necks to read what it said on the little label beside the button.

It said . . . UP AND OUT.

'Up and out,' thought Charlie. 'What sort of a room is that?'

Mr Wonka pressed the button.

The glass doors closed.

'Hold on!' cried Mr Wonka.

Then WHAM! The lift shot straight up like a rocket! 'Yippee!' shouted Grandpa Joe. Charlie was clinging to Grandpa Joe's legs and Mr Wonka was holding on to a strap from the ceiling, and up they went, up, up, up, straight up this time, with no twistings or turnings, and Charlie could hear the whistling of the air outside as the lift went faster and faster. 'Yippee!' shouted Grandpa Joe again. 'Yippee! Here we go!'

'Faster!' cried Mr Wonka, banging the wall of the lift with his hand. 'Faster! Faster! If we don't go any faster than this, we shall never get through!'  'Through what?' shouted Grandpa Joe. 'What have we got to get through?'

'Ah-ha!' cried Mr Wonka, 'you wait and see! I've been longing to press this button for years! But I've never done it until now! I was tempted many times! Oh, yes, I was tempted! But I couldn't bear the thought of making a great big hole in the roof of the factory! Here we go, boys! Up and out!'

'But you don't mean . . .' shouted Grandpa Joe, '. . . you don't really mean that this lift . . .'

'Oh yes, I do!' answered Mr Wonka. 'You wait and see! Up and out!'

'But . . . but . . . but . . . it's made of glass!' shouted Grandpa Joe. 'It'll break into a million pieces!'

'I suppose it might,' said Mr Wonka, cheerful as ever, 'but it's pretty thick glass, all the same.'

The lift rushed on, going up and up and up, faster and faster and faster . . .

Then suddenly, CRASH! — and the most tremendous noise of splintering wood and broken tiles came from directly above their heads, and Grandpa Joe shouted, 'Help! It's the end! We're done for!' and Mr Wonka said, 'No, we're not! We're through! We're out!' Sure enough, the lift had shot right up through the roof of the factory and was now rising into the sky like a rocket, and the sunshine was pouring in through the glass roof. In five seconds they were a thousand feet up in the sky.

'The lift's gone mad!' shouted Grandpa Joe.

'Have no fear, my dear sir,' said Mr Wonka calmly, and he pressed another button. The lift stopped. It stopped and hung in mid-air, hovering like a helicopter, hovering over the factory and over the very town itself which lay spread out below them like a picture postcard! Looking down through the glass floor on which he was standing, Charlie could see the small far-away houses and the streets and the snow that lay thickly over everything. It was an eerie and frightening feeling to be standing on clear glass high up in the sky. It made you feel that you weren't standing on anything at all.

'Are we all right?' cried Grandpa Joe. 'How does this thing stay up?'

'Sugar power!' said Mr Wonka. 'One million sugar power! Oh, look,' he cried, pointing down, 'there go the other children! They're returning home!'

中文翻译

二十八、只剩下查理了

“接下来该去哪个房间？”旺卡先生问，他一转身，冲进了电梯。“来吧，快点！我们还得继续下去！还剩下多少小孩？”

查理瞧瞧乔爷爷，乔爷爷也瞧瞧小查理。

“旺卡先生，”乔爷爷在他身后喊道，“只有……只剩下查理一人了。”

旺卡先生猛然转过身来，瞪大眼睛瞧着查理。

静默了一会儿。查理站在那儿，紧紧抓着乔爷爷的手。

“你是说，就剩下你一个人了？”旺卡先生问道，装出一副十分惊讶的样子。

“怎么不是呢，”查理嘟哝着，“就是嘛。”

旺卡先生突然变得异乎寻常的激动，他叫嚷道；“我亲爱的孩子，这意味着你羸啦！”他一阵风似地冲出电梯，开始狂热地握着查理的手，拼命摇着，几乎要把查理的手拉脱了。“嘿，我要好好恭喜你！”他叫道，“我真心祝贺你！我实在高兴极了！没有比这更好的啦！这可真太妙啦！你知道从一开始，我就有一个感觉，一定会是你！干得好，查理，干得太好啦！这真是妙不可言！这下好戏才真正要开场了！不过我们可不能兴奋过头！我们不能闹着玩了！时间紧迫！不能再浪费了！天黑以前我们还有许多事情要做！只要想想有那么多事要好好安排就明白了！我们还要去接人！不过我们很幸运，我们有这架伟大的玻璃电梯，会大大加快我们办事的速度！快进来，亲爱的查理，快进来！还有你，乔爷爷，先生！不，不，您先请！请这边走！好啦！这回得出我来选择该按哪个按钮了！”旺卡先生的两只炯炯有神的蓝眼睛在查理的脸上注视了一会。

这下准有什么古怪的事情要发生了，查理心想。不过他毫不害怕。他甚至一点都不感到紧张。他只是感到极其兴奋。乔爷爷也一样。这位老人看着旺卡先生的一举一动，兴奋得脸上容光焕发。旺卡先生伸手去按电梯玻璃顶上的一个按钮。查理和乔爷爷两人伸长脖颈去看那个按钮旁边的小标签上写的是什么。

它写的是……直上，出去。

“直上，出去，”查理捉摸着，“这又是什么房间？”

旺卡先生按了一下这个按钮。

玻璃门关上了。

“抓紧！”旺卡先生喊道。

嗖！电梯就象一架火箭一样笔直向上射了出去！“咿嘿！”乔爷爷喊起来。查理紧紧贴在乔爷爷的腿上，旺卡先生则抓住从顶上垂下的一根带子，他们朝上升啊升，这回是笔直地朝上升去，一点没旋转或转弯，电梯越升越快，查理能听见电梯外面呼呼的风声。“咿嘿！”乔爷爷又喊起来，“嘿！我们来啦！”

“快！”旺卡先生叫着，用手捶击着电梯的墙壁。“快！再快些！如果我们不再快一些，我们就再也穿不过去啦！”

“穿过什么？”乔爷爷喊道，“我们必须穿过什么？”

“啊－哈！”旺卡先生叫起来，“等着瞧吧！我盼着按这个按钮盼了好几年了！直到现在才如愿以偿！好几次我真想按上去！啊，是的，我真想按！可我不想把工厂的屋顶穿一个大窟窿！来啦，孩子们！升啊，出去吧！”

“你该不是说……”乔爷爷喊起来，“……你莫非真的是说这架电梯……”

“嘿，不错，我就是这个意思！”旺卡先生答道，“等着瞧吧，升啊，出去吧！”

“可……可……可电梯是玻璃做的啊！”乔爷爷喊道，“它会撞得粉碎的！”

“我倒想看看它是否会呢，”旺卡先生说，他还是那样兴奋欢快，“它是用最好的厚玻璃做的。”

电梯风驰电掣，飞快地一直朝上升去，而且升得越来越快……

突然，哗啦一声！──接着便是劈里啪啦一阵巨响，无数碎木头烂瓦片直接朝他们头上砸下来，乔爷爷叫起来：“救命！世界末日到了！我们完了！”

旺卡先生说：“不，完不了！我们已经穿过去了！我们穿过去了！”

千真万确，这架电梯已经穿过了工厂的屋顶，这会儿正象一架火箭一样朝空中窜去，灿烂的阳光透过玻璃梯顶直泻进来，五秒钟后他们已经升到了一千英尺的高空。

“这架电梯准是发疯了！”乔爷爷喊道。

“别怕，亲爱的先生。”旺卡先生镇静地说，他又按了一下另一个按钮。电梯停住了，它不再上升而是高悬在半空，象一架直升飞机似地停在那儿，停在工厂和整个城镇的上空，镇子在他们脚下一览无余，看上去就象一张明信片！查理从脚下的玻璃地板俯瞰下去，能看见底下远远的房屋和街道，一切都变得那么小，他还看到厚厚地覆盖了整个大地的白雪。站在离地这么高的空中，脚下又是透明的玻璃，真让人有一种惊惧的感觉，就好象自己脚下什么也没有似的。

“我们不会出事么？”乔爷爷大声问道，“这东西怎么竟会停住不动呢？”

“是糖能！”旺卡先生答道，“一百万能量的糖能！噢，看哪，”他叫道，朝下指着，“那几个孩子都出来了！他们正准备回家去呢！”