Suddenly, a tremendous thumping1 noise came from outside the cave entrance and a voice like
thunder shouted, ‘Runt! Is you there, Runt? I is hearing you jabbeling! Who is you jabbeling to,
Runt?’
‘Look out!’ cried the BFG. ‘It’s the Bloodbottler!’ But before he had finished speaking, the
stone was rolled aside and a fifty-foot giant, more than twice as tall and wide as the BFG, came
striding into the cave. He was naked except for a dirty little piece of cloth around his bottom.
Sophie was on the table-top. The enormous partly eaten snozzcumber was lying near her. She
ducked behind it.
The creature came clumping2 into the cave and stood towering over the BFG. ‘Who was you
jabbeling to in here just now?’ he boomed.
‘I is jabbeling to myself,’ the BFG answered.
‘Pilfflefizz!’ shouted the Bloodbottler. ‘Bugswallop!’ he boomed. ‘You is talking to a human
bean, that’s what I is thinking!’
‘No no!’ cried the BFG.
‘Yus yus!’ boomed the Bloodbottler. ‘I is guessing you has snitched away a human bean and
brought it back to your bunghole as a pet! So now I is winkling it out and guzzling3 it as extra snacks
before my supper!’
The poor BFG was very nervous. ‘There’s n-no one in here,’ he stammered4. ‘W-why don’t you
Heave me alone?’
The Bloodbottler pointed5 a finger as large as a tree- trunk at the BFG. ‘Runty little
scumscrewer!’ he shouted. ‘Piffling little swishfiggler! Squimpy little bottle- wart6! Prunty little
pogswizzler! I is now going to search the primroses7!’ He grabbed the BFG by the arm. ‘And you is
going to help me do it. Us together is going to winkle out this tasteful little human bean!’ he shouted.
The BFG had intended to whisk Sophie off the table as soon as he got the chance and hide her
behind his back, but now there was no hope of doing this. Sophie peered around the chewed-off end
of the enormous snozzcumber, watching the two giants as they moved away down the cave. The
Bloodbottler was a gruesome sight. His skin was reddish-brown. There was black hair sprouting8 on
his chest and arms and on his stomach. The hair on his head was long and dark and tangled9. His foul10
face was round and squashy-looking. The eyes were tiny black holes. The nose was small and flat.
But the mouth was huge. It spread right across the face almost ear to ear, and it had lips that were like
two gigantic purple frankfurters lying one on top of the other. Craggy yellow teeth stuck out between
the two purple frankfurter lips, and rivers of spit ran down over the chin.
It was not in the least difficult to believe that this ghastly brute11 ate men, women and children
every night.
The Bloodbottler, still holding the BFG by the arm, was examining the rows and rows of bottles.
‘You and your pibbling bottles!’ he shouted. ‘What is you putting in them?’
‘Nothing that would interest you,’ the BFG answered. ‘You is only interested in guzzling human
beans.’
‘And you is dotty as a dogswoggler!’ cried the Bloodbottler.
Soon the Bloodbottler would be coming back, Sophie told herself, and he was bound to search
the table-top. But she couldn’t possibly jump off the table. It was twelve feet high. She’d break a leg.
The snozzcumber, although it was as thick as a perambulator, was not going to hide her if the
Bloodbottler picked it up. She examined the chewed-off end. It had large seeds in the middle, each
one as big as a melon. They were embedded13 in soft slimy stuff. Taking care to stay out of sight,
Sophie reached forward and scooped14 away half a dozen of these seeds. This left a hole in the middle
of the snozzcumber large enough for her to crouch15 in so long as she rolled herself up into a ball. She
crawled into it. It was a wet and slimy hiding-place, but what did that matter if it was going to save
her from being eaten.
The Bloodbottler and the BFG were coming back towards the table now. The BFG was nearly
fainting with fear. Any moment, he was telling himself, Sophie would be discovered and eaten.
Suddenly, the Bloodbottler grabbed the half-eaten snozzcumber. The BFG stared at the bare
table. Sophie, where is you? he thought desperately16. You cannot possibly be jumpelling off that high
table, so where is you hiding, Sophie?
‘So this is the filthing rotsome glubbage you is eating!’ boomed the Bloodbottler, holding up the
partly eaten snozzcumber. ‘You must be cockles to be guzzling such rubbsquash!’
For a moment, the Bloodbottler seemed to have forgotten about his search for Sophie. The BFG
decided17 to lead him further off the track. ‘That is the scrumdiddlyumptious snozzcumber,’ he said. ‘I
is guzzling it gleefully every night and day. Is you never trying a snozzcumber, Bloodbottler?’
‘Human beans is juicier,’ the Bloodbottler said.
‘You is talking rommytot,’ the BFG said, growing braver by the second. He was thinking that if
only he could get the Bloodbottler to take one bite of the repulsive18 vegetable, the sheer foulness19 of its
flavour would send him bellowing20 out of the cave. ‘I is happy to let you sample it,’ the BFG went on.
‘But please, when you see how truly glumptious it is, do not be guzzling the whole thing. Leave me a
little snitchet for my supper.’
The Bloodbottler stared suspiciously with small piggy eyes at the snozzcumber.
Sophie, crouching21 inside the chewed-off end, began to tremble all over.
‘You is not switchfiddling me, is you?’ said the Bloodbottler.
‘Never!’ cried the BFG passionately22. ‘Take a bite and I am positive you will be shouting out oh
how scrum-diddlyumptious this wonderveg is!’
The BFG could see the greedy Bloodbottler’s mouth beginning to water more than ever at the
prospect23 of extra food. ‘Vegitibbles is very good for you,’ he went on. ‘It is not healthsome always to
be eating meaty things.’
‘Just this once,’ the Bloodbottler said, ‘I is going to taste these rotsome eats of yours. But I is
warning you that if it is filthsome, I is smashing it over your sludgy little head!’
He picked up the snozzcumber.
He began raising it on its long journey to his mouth, some fifty feet up in the air.
Sophie wanted to scream Don’t! But that would have been an even more certain death.
Crouching among the slimy seeds, she felt herself being lifted up and up and up.
Suddenly, there was a crunch24 as the Bloodbottler bit a huge hunk off the end. Sophie saw his
yellow teeth clamping together, a few inches from her head. Then there was utter darkness. She was
in his mouth. She caught a whiff of his evil-smelling breath. It stank25 of bad meat. She waited for the
teeth to go crunch once more. She prayed that she would be killed quickly.
‘Eeeeeowtch!’ roared the Bloodbottler. ‘Ughbwelch! Ieeeech!’ And then he spat26.
All of the great lumps of snozzcumber that were in his mouth, as well as Sophie herself, went
shooting out across the cave.
If Sophie had struck the stony27 wall of the cave, she would most certainly have been killed.
Instead, she hit the soft folds of the BFG’s black cloak hanging against the wall. She dropped to the
ground, half-stunned. She crawled under the hem12 of the cloak and there she crouched28.
‘You little swinebuggler!’ roared the Bloodbottler. ‘You little pigswiller!’ He rushed at the BFG
and smashed what was left of the snozzcumber over his head. Fragments of the filthy29 vegetable
splashed all over the cave.
‘You is not loving it?’ the BFG asked innocently, rubbing his head.
‘Loving it!’ yelled the Bloodbottler. ‘That is the most disgusterous taste that is ever clutching
my teeth! You must be buggies to be swalloping slutch like that! Every night you could be galloping30
off happy as a hamburger and gobbling juicy human beans!’
‘Eating human beans is wrong and evil,’ the BFG said.
‘It is guzzly and glumptious!’ shouted the Bloodbottler. ‘And tonight I is galloping off to Chile
to swobble a few human Chile beans. Is you wishing to know why I is choosing Chile?’
‘I is not wishing to know anything,’ the BFG said, very dignified32.
‘I is choosing Chile,’ the Bloodbottler said, ‘because I is fed up with the taste of Esquimos. It is
important I has plenty of cold eats in this scuddling hot weather, and the next coldest thing to an
Esquimo is a Chile bean. Human beans from Chile is very chilly33.’
‘Horrible,’ the BFG said. ‘You ought to be ashamed.’
‘Other giants is all saying they is wanting to gallop31 off to England tonight to guzzle34 school-
chiddlers,’ the Bloodbottler said. ‘I is very fond indeed of English school-chiddlers. They has a nice
inky-booky flavour. Perhaps I will change my mind and go to England with them.’
‘You is disgusting,’ the BFG said.
‘And you is an insult to the giant peoples!’ shouted the Bloodbottler. ‘You is not fit to be a
giant! You is a squinky little squiddler! You is a pibbling little pitsqueak! You is a… cream puffnut!’
With that, the horrible Bloodbottling Giant strode out of the cave. The BFG ran to the cave
entrance and quickly rolled the stone back into place.
‘Sophie,’ he whispered. ‘Sophie, where is you, Sophie?’
Sophie emerged from under the hem of the black cloak. ‘I’m here,’ she said.
The BFG picked her up and held her tenderly in the palm of his hand. ‘Oh, I is so happy to be
finding you all in one lump!’ he said.
‘I was in his mouth,’ Sophie said.
‘You was what!’ cried the BFG.
Sophie told him what had happened.
‘And there I was telling him to eat the filthsome snozzcumber and you was all the time inside
it!’ the BFG cried.
‘Not much fun,’ Sophie said.
‘Just look at you, you poor little chiddler!’ cried the BFG. ‘You is all covered in snozzcumber
and giant spit.’ He set about cleaning her up as best he could. ‘I is hating those other giants more than
ever now,’ he said. ‘You know what I should like?’
‘What?’ Sophie said.
‘I should like to find a way of disappearing them, every single one.’
‘I’d be glad to help you,’ Sophie said. ‘Let me see if I can’t think up a way of doing it.’
喝血巨人
忽然之间，山洞外面响起了很大的轰轰隆隆声，一个像打雷似的声音叫道：“小矮子！你
在家吗，小矮子！我听见你在叽里咕噜！你在跟谁叽里咕噜说话啊，小矮子？”
“小心！”好心眼儿巨人叫道，“这是喝血巨人！”可他话没说完，山洞口那块大圆石头已
经滚到一边，一个五十英尺高、比好心眼儿巨人高一倍、胖一倍的巨人大踏步走进了山洞。
他赤身露体，只有一块脏布条围住他的屁股。
索菲站在桌子上面。那根吃掉一点儿的大鼻子瓜就在她旁边。她连忙躲到它后面去。
那家伙啪嗒啪嗒走进山洞，像座塔似的站在好心眼儿巨人面前。“你刚才在这里跟谁叽里
咕噜说话啊？”他轰隆轰隆地说。
“我在自言自语。”好心眼儿巨人回答说。
“你说谎！”喝血巨人叫道，“你这吃臭虫的小矮子！”他轰隆轰隆地说，“你在跟一个人豆
子说话，我想是这么回事！”
“噢，不是！”好心眼儿巨人叫道。
“是的，是的！”喝血巨人轰隆轰隆地说，“我猜你是抓来了一个人豆子，把他带回家来
玩！因此我现在来找出他，在吃晚饭前当额外点心吃！”
可怜的好心眼儿巨人非常紧张。“这里没……没……没有人豆子。”他结结巴巴地说，“你
为……为……为什么不能别……别……别来打搅我呢？”
喝血巨人用一根大得像树干的手指头指住好心眼儿巨人。“你这小矮子！”他大吼大叫
道，“你这小骗子！你这小坏蛋！我现在来搜这好东西！”他一把抓住好心眼儿巨人的胳
膊。“你要给我帮忙，我们一起找出这个好味道的小人豆子！”他叫道。
好心眼儿巨人本来打算，一有机会就把索菲从桌子上抓起来，藏到他的背后，可现在没
希望这样做了。索菲从大鼻子瓜被啃过的那一头后面探出头来，看着两个巨人走到山洞的另
一头。喝血巨人的那副样子真是可怕。他的皮肤是红粉色的，胸前、胳膊和肚子上都长着黑
毛。他的头发又长又黑，乱蓬蓬的。他那张丑脸圆滚滚，像熟透了的烂苹果。眼睛是两个小
黑洞。鼻子小小的，可是嘴巴很大，横过整张脸，几乎是从这边耳朵到那边耳朵。两片嘴唇
像横过来的两根巨大的紫色香肠，一根在另一根上面。参差不齐的黄牙齿从两片紫色香肠厚
嘴唇之间暴出来，口水像河水那样不断地流到下巴上。
一看就不难相信，这个吓人的野兽每天夜里都要吃男人、女人和小孩。
喝血巨人抓住好心眼儿巨人的胳膊，查看一排排的玻璃瓶。“你和你那些该死的瓶
子！”他叫道，“你在它们里面都装了些什么？”
“没有你感兴趣的东西，”好心眼儿巨人回答说，“你只对吃人豆子感兴趣。”
“你这脏狗崽！”喝血巨人大吼大叫。
索菲想，喝血巨人很快就要回来搜查桌子上面。可她没办法跳下桌子，因为桌面离地面
足有十二英尺，她跳下去会摔断腿的。那大鼻子瓜虽然粗得像辆童车，可万一喝血巨人把它
拿起来，她就无处藏身了。她仔细看着啃过的一头。它当中有些大粒瓜子，每一粒就跟一个
西瓜一样大，它们嵌在软软的瓜瓤里。索菲小心翼翼地剔掉半打瓜子，这样瓜瓤中间就有了
一个洞，她只要把身子缩成一个球，就可以躲进去。她小心地爬到了里面。这是个湿漉漉黏
糊糊的藏身地方，可只要不被吃掉，这又算得了什么呢！
这时候，喝血巨人和好心眼儿巨人正向桌子走过来。好心眼儿巨人吓得简直要昏过去
了。他心里说：“索菲随时会被找到，被他吃掉。”
喝血巨人一下子抓住吃过的大鼻子瓜。好心眼儿巨人看着空空的桌子。“索菲，你在哪
里？”他绝望地想，“你不可能跳下那么高的桌子，那么你躲在哪里呢，索菲？”
“这么说，你吃的是这种臭垃圾！”喝血巨人举起那吃过的大鼻子瓜轰轰地叫，“吃这种垃
圾，你准是只鸟蛤！”
喝血巨人一下子好像忘记了搜索索菲。好心眼儿巨人决定顺着这条路子引他说下去。“这
是美味的大鼻子瓜，”他说，“我日日夜夜馋得要命地吃它。你不想尝一尝大鼻子瓜吗，喝血
巨人？”
“人豆子汁水多味道好。”喝血巨人说。
“你说错了。”好心眼儿巨人这时候变得更加勇敢了。他在想，只要他能让喝血巨人咬一
口那难吃的蔬菜，那可怕的怪味准能够让他哇哇大叫着离开山洞。“我很高兴让你品尝品尝
它。”好心眼儿巨人说下去，“不过求求你，万一你觉得它真那么了不起地好吃，可不要把它
全吃光了，记得给我留一点儿，让我当晚饭吃。”
喝血巨人用他两只猪猡小眼睛怀疑地看着手里的大鼻子瓜。
索菲正躲在啃过的一头里面浑身发抖呢。
“你不是在骗我吧？”喝血巨人说。
“根本不是！”好心眼儿巨人热烈地叫道，“咬一口吧，我保证你会大叫：‘噢，这了不起的
蔬菜是多么好吃啊！’”
好心眼儿巨人看出来，喝血巨人看到有额外的点心可吃，他那张馋嘴开始流下更多的口
水。“蔬菜对你非常有好处，”好心眼儿巨人继续说，“总吃肉不健康。”
“只此一回，”喝血巨人说，“我来尝尝你这种垃圾食物。不过我警告你，如果它难吃，我
要把它砸在你那个烂泥小脑袋上！”
他拿起了大鼻子瓜。
他开始举起它，经过一段很长的路程到他的嘴巴，停在了离地五十英尺的高空。
索菲想叫：不要！可这样做更是必死无疑。她蜷缩在黏糊糊的瓜子之间，只觉得自己被
越举越高，越举越高，越举越高。
忽然嘎巴一声，喝血巨人在大鼻子瓜头上咬了一大口。索菲看到两排黄牙齿咬到一起，
离她的脑袋只有几英寸。这时候一片漆黑。她到了他的嘴巴里。她闻到嘴巴里发出的一股难
闻的臭肉气味。她等着那两排牙齿再次嘎巴一咬，她祈求能快点被咬死。
“呃呃呃呃呃呃，呸！”喝血巨人咆哮着，“呸呸呸！噗噗噗！”接着他吐了起来。
他嘴里所有的大鼻子瓜大碎块，连同索菲在内，全喷到山洞的四面八方。
如果索菲撞到山洞的石墙上，就死定了。可是她撞到好心眼儿巨人挂在墙上的黑色大氅
柔软的褶皱里了。她从大氅上落到地上，都快昏过去了。她悄悄地爬到大氅下摆底下，蜷缩
在那里。
“你这小猪肉包！”喝血巨人咆哮道，“你这小猪肉馅饼！”他向好心眼儿巨人扑过去，把
手里剩下的大鼻子瓜啪嗒一下打在好心眼儿巨人的头上。难吃的大鼻子瓜摔碎了，溅得满山
洞都是。
“你不喜欢它？”好心眼儿巨人做出一副无辜的样子，擦着他的头说。
“喜欢它？”喝血巨人大叫，“这是我的牙齿碰到的最恶心的味道！你会咽下那样难吃的东
西，你一定是傻瓜！每天晚上你本可以快活得像个汉堡包那样跑出去吃汁多味美的人豆子！”
“吃人豆子是错误的，是邪恶的。”好心眼儿巨人说。
“人豆子是好吃的，美味的！”喝血巨人叫道，“今天晚上我就要上牙买加去吃几个牙买加
人豆子 [1] 。你知道我为什么专门上牙买加去吗？”
“我什么也不想知道。”好心眼儿巨人很庄重地说。
“我专门去牙买加，”喝血巨人说，“因为因纽特人豆子我吃腻了。在这热死人的天气里，
我必须吃许多冰冷的食品。最冷的食品除了因纽特人豆子，就是牙买加人豆子了。牙买加人
豆子可以冷得使牙齿打架。”
“真可怕！”好心眼儿巨人说，“你真不害臊！”
“其他巨人全都说今天晚上要去英国吃小学生，”喝血巨人说，“我也实在爱吃英国小学
生。他们有很好的鹦哥味道。也许我会改变主意跟大伙儿到英国去。”
“你真叫人恶心！”好心眼儿巨人说。
“你是巨人族的耻辱！”喝血巨人大叫，“你不配当巨人！你是条小鱿鱼！你是条小泥鳅！
你是个……你是个……小奶油泡芙！”
可怕的喝血巨人这么哇啦哇啦叫着，大踏步走出了山洞。好心眼儿巨人连忙跑到山洞
口，把那块大圆石头滚回原来的位置，把山洞口堵上。
“索菲，”他悄悄地叫，“索菲，你在哪里，索菲？”
索菲从那件黑色大氅下摆底下钻出来。“我在这里。”她说。
好心眼儿巨人把她捡起来，轻轻地放在手心里。“我找到完完整整的你，真是太高兴
了！”他说。
“我曾经在他的嘴巴里。”索菲说。
“你曾经什么？”好心眼儿巨人大叫起来。
索菲把刚才发生的事原原本本地告诉了他。“我叫他吃那恶心的大鼻子瓜时，你一直都在
它里面！”好心眼儿巨人叫道。
“实在不好玩。”索菲说。
“看看，你这可怜的小妞！”好心眼儿巨人叫道，“你浑身都是大鼻子瓜和那巨人的口
水。”他用手尽可能把她擦干净。“现在我比任何时候更恨那些巨人了。”他说，“你知道我想
做什么吗？”
“做什么？”索菲说。
“我想找个办法让他们消失，一个不剩。”
“我很乐意帮你的忙。”索菲说，“让我来看看，是不是能想出个办法做到这一点。”
[1]原文是去智利，因为英文里“智利”和“寒冷”同音。
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crouch
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foulness
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| n. 纠缠, 卑鄙 | |
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bellowing
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| v.发出吼叫声，咆哮（尤指因痛苦）( bellow的现在分词 )；（愤怒地）说出（某事），大叫 | |
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prospect
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| adj.石头的，多石头的，冷酷的，无情的 | |
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| adj.卑劣的；恶劣的，肮脏的 | |
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| adj. 飞驰的, 急性的 动词gallop的现在分词形式 | |
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guzzle
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| v.狂饮，暴食 | |
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