有声读物-哈利波特与魔法石 11
上集说到，今天是达力的生日，德思礼一家准备好好庆祝，哈利也理所当然的一同前往——他们决定去动物园。那么，在动物园里，会有怎样的奇遇？以下是听力原文和翻译，结合MP3开始今天的有声读物听力学习吧！
原文及翻译
"Don't cry, Mummy won't let him spoil your special day!” she cried, flinging her arms around him. “I… don't… want… him… t-t-to come!” Dudley yelled between huge, pretend sobs. “He always sp-spoils everything!” He shot Harry a nasty grin through the gap in his mother's arms. Just then, the doorbell rang — “Oh, good Lord, they're here!” said Aunt Petunia frantically — and a moment later, Dudley's best friend, Piers Polkiss, walked in with his mother. Piers was a scrawny boy with a face like a rat. He was usually the one who held people's arms behind their backs while Dudley hit them. Dudley stopped pretending to cry at once.
“别哭，妈妈不会让他破坏你的特别日的！”她哭着，张开双臂抱住了他。“我不想他来——！”达力一边假哭一边喊道。“他总是把一切都搞砸！”他透过妈妈的怀抱对哈利露出一个恶作剧般的笑容。就在这时，门铃响了。“哦，天啊，他们来了！”佩妮姨妈慌乱地说——不一会儿，达力最好的朋友皮尔斯·波尔基斯和妈妈走了进来。皮尔斯是个瘦骨嶙峋的男孩，长着一张老鼠脸。达力打人的时候，通常是他把人的胳膊放在身后。达力立刻停止了假装哭泣。
Half an hour later, Harry, who couldn't believe his luck, was sitting in the back of the Dursleys' car with Piers and Dudley, on the way to the zoo for the first time in his life. His aunt and uncle hadn't been able to think of anything else to do with him, but before they'd left, Uncle Vernon had taken Harry aside. “I'm warning you,” he had said, putting his large purple face right up close to Harry's, “I'm warning you now, boy — any funny business, anything at all — and you'll be in that cupboard from now until Christmas.”
半小时后，哈利和皮尔斯、达力坐在德思礼家的车后座上，他简直不敢相信自己的运气，这是他有生以来第一次和皮尔斯、达力一起去动物园。他的姨妈和姨夫想不出还能拿他怎么办，但在他们离开之前，弗农姨父把哈利拉到一边。“我警告你，”他说着，把他那张大大的脸凑到哈利的面前，“我现在警告你，孩子，如果发生了任何滑稽的事情——那么，你就得一直待在那个橱柜里，直到圣诞节。"
“I'm not going to do anything,” said Harry, “honestly…” But Uncle Vernon didn't believe him. No one ever did. The problem was, strange things often happened around Harry and it was just no good telling the Dursleys he didn't make them happen. Once, Aunt Petunia, tired of Harry coming back from the barbers looking as though he hadn't been at all, had taken a pair of kitchen scissors and cut his hair so short he was almost bald except for his bangs, which she left “to hide that horrible scar.”
“我什么也不会做，”哈利说，“我发誓……”但弗农姨父不相信他，从来没人相信他。问题是，奇怪的事情经常发生在哈利身边，告诉德思礼一家这些事情不是他造成的，根本没用。有一次，佩妮姨妈厌倦了哈利从理发店回来时看起来好像根本没去过一样，于是她用一把厨房剪刀把他的头发剪得很短，除了刘海外，他几乎秃了，她说“刘海是为了遮住那可怕的伤疤”。
Dudley had laughed himself silly at Harry, who spent a sleepless night imagining school the next day, where he was already laughed at for his baggy clothes and taped glasses. Next morning, however, he had gotten up to find his hair exactly as it had been before Aunt Petunia had sheared it off. He had been given a week in his cupboard for this, even though he had tried to explain that he couldn't explain how it had grown back so quickly. Another time, Aunt Petunia had been trying to force him into a revolting old sweater of Dudley's (brown with orange puff balls) — The harder she tried to pull it over his head, the smaller it seemed to become, until finally it might have fitted a hand puppet, but certainly wouldn't fit Harry.
达力被哈利逗得笑得半死，哈利整晚没睡，想象着第二天上学的情景，他因为宽松的衣服和用胶带粘着的眼镜而被人嘲笑。然而第二天早上，他起床后发现他的头发和佩妮姨妈剪掉之前一模一样。尽管他试图解释，他无法解释头发怎么长得这么快，但他还是被关了一个星期的柜子。还有一次，佩妮姨妈试图强迫他穿上达力的一件令人作呕的旧毛衣（棕色，有橙色的绒球）——她越用力地把它从他的头上拉下来，它似乎就变得越小，最后它可能适合一只手偶，但肯定不适合哈利。
Aunt Petunia had decided it must have shrunk in the wash and, to his great relief, Harry wasn't punished. On the other hand, he'd gotten into terrible trouble for being found on the roof of the school kitchens. Dudley's gang had been chasing him as usual when, as much to Harry's surprise as anyone else's, there he was sitting on the chimney.
佩妮姨妈认为它一定是洗了之后缩水了，哈利没有受到惩罚，这让他松了一口气。另一方面，他因为被发现在学校厨房的屋顶上而惹上了大麻烦。达力的团伙像往常一样追着他，这时，让哈利和其他人都感到惊讶的是，他正坐在烟囱上。
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