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The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families.
解決的辦法是拋棄親麻瓜的寓意，保留長滿疣的坩堝形象，于是到了十六世紀中期，一個不同的故事版本在巫師家庭中廣泛流傳。
In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork- toting neighbors by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.
在改編后的故事里，跳跳堝保護一個無辜的巫師，把那些舉著火把、拿著草耙的鄰居從巫師的屋子周圍趕走，并且抓住他們，連頭帶腳地囫圇吞下。
At the end of the story, by which time the Pot has consumed most of his neighbours, the wizard gains a promise from the few remaining villagers that he will be left in peace to practise magic.
故事的最后，坩堝已經(jīng)把巫師的大部分鄰居都吃掉了，僅存的那些村民保證，以后再也不打擾巫師練習(xí)魔法。
In return, he instructs the Pot to render up its victims, who are duly burped out of its depths, slightly mangled.
作為回報，巫師吩咐坩堝交出那些受害者，于是坩堝打著嗝兒把他們都吐了出來，那些人都有點不成人形了。
To this day, some wizarding children are only told the revised version of the story by their (generally anti- Muggle) parents, and the original, if and when they ever read it, comes as a great surprise.
直到今天，有些巫師家庭的孩子仍然只聽過他們的父母（一般都是反麻瓜的）講過的改編的故事，因此，當他們有機會讀到原版的故事時，便會大吃一驚。
As I have already hinted, however, its pro- Muggle sentiment was not the only reason that “The Wizard and the Hopping Pot” attracted anger.
不過，正如我已經(jīng)暗示過的，《巫師和跳跳堝》里的親麻瓜傾向，并不是它引起憤怒的唯一原因。
As the witch-hunts grew ever fiercer, wizarding families began to live double lives, using charms of concealment to protect themselves and their families.
隨著抓捕巫師的行為越來越殘酷，巫師家庭開始過著一種雙重生活，用隱藏咒來保護自己以及家人。
By the seventeenth century, any witch or wizard who chose to fraternize with Muggles became suspect, even an outcast in his or her own community.
到了十七世紀，任何選擇與麻瓜親善的巫女或巫師都會被懷疑，甚至被自己的社團拋棄。
Among the many insults hurled at pro-Muggle witches and wizards (such fruity epithets as “Mudwallower”, “Dunglicker” and “Scumsucker” date from this period) , was the charge of having weak or inferior magic.
許多侮辱性的言辭擲向親麻瓜的武士（如流傳至今的“泥巴蟲”、“吃屎貨”、“食渣鬼”之類的粗俗綽號），指責(zé)他們魔法微弱或低下。
Influential wizards of the day, such as Brutus Malfoy, editor of Warlock at War, an anti-Muggle periodical, perpetuated the stereotype that a Muggle-lover was about as magical as a Squib.
當今一些很有影響的巫師，如反麻瓜雜志《戰(zhàn)爭中的巫師》（一本反麻瓜的期刊）的編輯布魯圖斯·馬爾福，延續(xù)了一種成見：喜歡麻瓜的人在魔法上都是啞炮。
