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Now the Wicked Witch had a great longing to have for her own the Silver Shoes which the girl always wore.
現在，那惡女巫非常的渴望把那女孩子的一雙銀鞋子，據為己有。
Her bees and her crows and her wolves were lying in heaps and drying up, and she had used up all the power of the Golden Cap;
她的黑蜂和她的惡狼，成了她驕傲的灰燼，她已用完了金冠的魔力；
but if she could only get hold of the Silver Shoes, they would give her more power than all the other things she had lost.
如果能得到銀鞋子，那就能夠補償她失去的一切東西，并且且有更強大的魔力。
She watched Dorothy carefully, to see if she ever took off her shoes, thinking she might steal them.
她細心地監視著多蘿茜，看她什么時候脫掉她的鞋子，就去偷它們。
But the child was so proud of her pretty shoes that she never took them off except at night and when she took her bath.
但是女孩子非常珍視她美麗的銀鞋子，除非在夜里，當她去洗澡的時候，她才暫時把它脫下來。
The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at night to take the shoes,
女巫怕黑暗，不敢在夜里到多蘿茜的房間里去拿走她的銀鞋子，
and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark, so she never came near when Dorothy was bathing.
并且她怕水，這恐怕是她最害怕的了，所以當多蘿茜洗澡的時候，惡女巫也害怕走過去。
Indeed, the old Witch never touched water, nor ever let water touch her in any way.
的確，這個老女巫從來不敢觸碰過水，無論如何，也從來沒有讓水觸碰著她。
But the wicked creature was very cunning, and she finally thought of a trick that would give her what she wanted.
但是，這個惡女巫是十分狡猾的，最后她想出了一個詭計，使她得到她所要得到的東西。
She placed a bar of iron in the middle of the kitchen floor, and then by her magic arts made the iron invisible to human eyes.
她在廚房間地板的中央，放著一根鐵條，用她的魔術，使得人類的一雙眼睛看不見它。
So that when Dorothy walked across the floor she stumbled over the bar, not being able to see it, and fell at full length.
當多蘿茜走過這地板上時，沒有看見鐵條，被鐵條絆了一下，就直挺挺地跌下去。
She was not much hurt, but in her fall one of the Silver Shoes came off;
摔在鐵條上面，她摔得不是很厲害，一只銀鞋子脫落了；
and before she could reach it, the Witch had snatched it away and put it on her own skinny foot.
在她撿回來以前，卻給女巫搶了去，穿在她干癟的腳上。
The wicked woman was greatly pleased with the success of her trick,
那女巫因為她的陰謀得逞，大大地快活，
for as long as she had one of the shoes she owned half the power of their charm,
她得到了這一只銀鞋子，就得到了魔力的一半，
and Dorothy could not use it against her, even had she known how to do so.
即使將來多蘿茜懂得怎樣地應用，也不能制服她了。
