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Dorothy went to work meekly, with her mind made up to work as hard as she could;
多蘿茜順從地干活，她決定不辭辛苦地做下去；
for she was glad the Wicked Witch had decided not to kill her.
因為惡女巫不會殺死她，她已經很欣慰了。
With Dorothy hard at work, the Witch thought she would go into the courtyard and harness the Cowardly Lion like a horse;
多蘿茜在辛苦地忙碌著。這個女巫想，現在她可以到院子里去，像一匹馬那樣地駕御著那只龐大的獅子了；
it would amuse her, she was sure, to make him draw her chariot whenever she wished to go to drive.
她想從中找樂，便決定讓獅子拉游覽車，她想到什么地方去就讓它拉著去。
But as she opened the gate the Lion gave a loud roar and bounded at her so fiercely that the Witch was afraid, and ran out and shut the gate again.
當她打開柵門時，獅子卻對她大吼，兇猛地向她沖過去，女巫怕極了，急忙跑出去，鎖上了鐵門。
"If I cannot harness you," said the Witch to the Lion, speaking through the bars of the gate, "I can starve you. You shall have nothing to eat until you do as I wish."
“我倒是有辦法治你，”女巫從門柱的縫里對獅子說：“我先把你餓起來。直餓到你愿意為我做事，在你順從以前，你不會有任何東西吃。”
So after that she took no food to the imprisoned Lion;
以后幾天里，她不拿食物給被囚的獅子吃；
but every day she came to the gate at noon and asked, "Are you ready to be harnessed like a horse?"
總是每天中午，她跑到門旁去問：“你想好沒有，像一匹馬那樣地為我拉車？”
And the Lion would answer, "No. If you come in this yard, I will bite you."
獅子堅定地回答說：“不，如果你進來，我要咬死你。”
The reason the Lion did not have to do as the Witch wished was that every night, while the woman was asleep, Dorothy carried him food from the cupboard.
其實那獅子并沒有餓到那種地步，原來每天夜里，女巫熟睡了，多蘿茜便從廚房拿食物給它吃。
After he had eaten he would lie down on his bed of straw,
在它吃飽以后，就躺下在稻草鋪的床上，
and Dorothy would lie beside him and put her head on his soft, shaggy mane, while they talked of their troubles and tried to plan some way to escape.
多蘿茜在它的旁邊，她的頭枕在它那柔軟的、蓬松的長鬣上，他們便討論如何擺脫困境，想方設法逃出去。
But they could find no way to get out of the castle,
然而他們仍一籌莫展，
for it was constantly guarded by the yellow Winkies, who were the slaves of the Wicked Witch and too afraid of her not to do as she told them.
因為那些黃色的溫基人，時時刻刻看守著，他們是女巫的奴隸，不敢違抗她的命令，更不敢做多蘿茜要他們做的事。
