23 Square Sweets That Look Round

23 Square Sweets That Look Round
Everybody stopped and crowded to the door. The top half of the door was made of glass.
Grandpa Joe lifted Charlie up so that he could get a better view, and looking in, Charlie
saw a long table, and on the table there were rows and rows of small white square-
shaped sweets. The sweets looked very much like square sugar lumps – except that each
of them had a funny little pink face painted on one side. At the end of the table, a
number of Oompa-Loompas were busily painting more faces on more sweets.
‘There you are!’ cried Mr Wonka. ‘Square sweets that look round!’
‘They don’t look round to me,’ said Mike Teavee.
‘They look square,’ said Veruca Salt. ‘They look completely square.’
‘But they are square,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘I never said they weren’t.’
‘You said they were round!’ said Veruca Salt.
‘I never said anything of the sort,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘I said they looked round.’
‘But they don’t look round!’ said Veruca Salt.
‘They look square!’
‘They look round,’ insisted Mr Wonka.
‘They most certainly do not look round!’ cried Veruca Salt.
‘Veruca, darling,’ said Mrs Salt, ‘pay no attention to Mr Wonka! He’s lying to you!’
‘My dear old fish,’ said Mr Wonka, ‘go and boil your head!’
‘How dare you speak to me like that!’ shouted Mrs Salt.
‘Oh, do shut up,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘Now watch this!’
He took a key from his pocket, and unlocked the door, and flung it open… and
suddenly… at the sound of the door opening, all the rows of little square sweets looked
quickly round to see who was coming in. The tiny faces actually turned towards the door
and stared at Mr Wonka.
‘There you are!’ he cried triumphantly¹. ‘They’re looking round! There’s no argument
about it! They are square sweets that look round!’
‘By golly, he’s right!’ said Grandpa Joe.
‘Come on!’ said Mr Wonka, starting off down the corridor again. ‘On we go! We
mustn’t dawdle²!’
BUTTERSCOTCH AND BUTTERGIN, it said on the next door they passed.
‘Now that sounds a bit more interesting,’ said Mr Salt, Veruca’s father.
‘Glorious stuff!’ said Mr Wonka. ‘The Oompa-Loompas all adore it. It makes them
tiddly. Listen! You can hear them in there now, whooping³ it up.’
Shrieks⁴ of laughter and snatches of singing could be heard coming through the closed
door.
‘They’re drunk as lords,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘They’re drinking butterscotch and soda⁵.
They like that best of all. Buttergin and tonic⁶ is also very popular. Follow me, please! We
really mustn’t keep stopping like this.’ He turned left. He turned right. They came to a
long flight of stairs. Mr Wonka slid down the banisters. The three children did the same.
Mrs Salt and Mrs Teavee, the only women now left in the party, were getting very out of
breath. Mrs Salt was a great fat creature with short legs, and she was blowing like a
rhinoceros⁷. ‘This way!’ cried Mr Wonka, turning left at the bottom of the stairs.
‘Go slower!’ panted Mrs Salt.
‘Impossible,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘We should never get there in time if I did.’
‘Get where?’ asked Veruca Salt.
‘Never you mind,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘You just wait and see.’

1 triumphantly   

ad.得意洋洋地；得胜地；成功地

参考例句：

• The lion was roaring triumphantly. 狮子正在发出胜利的吼叫。
• Robert was looking at me triumphantly. 罗伯特正得意扬扬地看着我。

2 dawdle   

vi.浪费时间；闲荡

参考例句：

• Don't dawdle over your clothing.You're so beautiful already.不要再在衣着上花费时间了，你已经够漂亮的了。
• The teacher told the students not to dawdle away their time.老师告诉学生们别混日子。

3 whooping   

发嗬嗬声的，发咳声的

参考例句：

• Whooping cough is very prevalent just now. 百日咳正在广泛流行。
• Have you had your child vaccinated against whooping cough? 你给你的孩子打过百日咳疫苗了吗？

4 shrieks   

n.尖叫声( shriek的名词复数 )v.尖叫( shriek的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• shrieks of fiendish laughter 恶魔般的尖笑声
• For years, from newspapers, broadcasts, the stages and at meetings, we had heard nothing but grandiloquent rhetoric delivered with shouts and shrieks that deafened the ears. 多少年来， 报纸上， 广播里， 舞台上， 会场上的声嘶力竭，装腔做态的高调搞得我们震耳欲聋。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 soda   

n.苏打水；汽水

参考例句：

• She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
• I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。

6 tonic   

n./adj.滋补品，补药，强身的，健体的

参考例句：

• It will be marketed as a tonic for the elderly.这将作为老年人滋补品在市场上销售。
• Sea air is Nature's best tonic for mind and body.海上的空气是大自然赋予的对人们身心的最佳补品。

7 rhinoceros   

n.犀牛

参考例句：

• The rhinoceros has one horn on its nose.犀牛鼻子上有一个角。
• The body of the rhinoceros likes a cattle and the head likes a triangle.犀牛的形体像牛，头呈三角形。