Piccolissima — Page 13

苍蝇那阴郁、略带愠色的神情，让人想起哈勒昆滑稽面具的模样，皮科利西玛正要用大笑来展示嘴唇是怎么笑的，对着苍蝇的脸笑起来，就在这时，苍蝇从翅膀下方的呼吸孔里轻轻地透出一股气；

The look, gloomy, and a little sullen, of the fly, recalled somewhat the funny mask of a harlequin, and Piccolissima was on the point of showing how one laughs with the lips, by laughing in the fly's face, when the latter forced air slightly through the breathing holes which open under the wings;

那两片小小的双层薄片——翅芽——是出生时展开的，此刻开始振动起来；

the two little double scales, the winglets, which unfold at birth, began to vibrate;

皮科利西玛刚刚注意到，这正是她的新相识发出声音的方式，她急切地想听听它会说些什么；于是她努力克制自己，收起笑容，变得正经起来。

and Piccolissima, who just now remarked that this was the method that her new acquaintance took to emit sounds, was eager to listen to what he might say; so she made an effort to command herself, and became serious.

「难道你那迟钝的人类智识，看不出我的吻管是一个泵，一根空心管，一件吸吮的器具，我可以随意将它伸出或缩回吗？」

"Do you not see, with your dull human intelligence, that my trunk is a pump, a hollow tube, an instrument for sucking which I stretch out and draw in at my pleasure?"

苍蝇一边这样说着，一边从头部中央的凹腔里——就在眼睛正下方——伸出了半截吻管，吻管有两三节，末端有一个开口，像两片黑色的嘴唇折叠在一起，上面有沟槽和小凹陷。

While speaking thus, the fly thrust half way out from the cavity in the middle of his head, just under his eyes, a trunk with two or three joints in it; at the end was an opening like two black lips, folded over, with grooves or little hollows.

苍蝇被这样一番催促，不得不展示它吻管的用途，或者更有可能的是，它忘记了自己以如此浮夸的口吻开始的那番话该如何继续，便飞到糖上，又重新吸吮起来。

The fly, thus urged to show the use of his trunk, or, more probably, forgetting the sequel of a discourse upon which he had entered in such a pompous style, flew upon the sugar, and set himself again to sucking it.

皮科利西玛再次注意到，那些她之前就已发现的小水珠，又一滴滴地落下来了。

Piccolissima again observed the little drops fall which she had noticed before.