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“Now what?” said Harry, blinking at the solid mass of cloud pressing in on them from all sides.
“現在怎么辦？”哈利問，從四面壓過來的云塊讓他感到有些晃眼。
“We need to see the train to know what direction to go in,” said Ron.
“我們需要看到火車才能知道往哪個方向走。”羅恩說。
“Dip back down again—quickly—”
“還是降下去—快”
They dropped back beneath the clouds and twisted around in their seats, squinting at the ground.
他們重新降到云層下面，扭過身體瞇眼向地面搜尋。
“I can see it!” Harry yelled. “Right ahead—there!”
“看到了！”哈利喊道，“就在前面—那兒！”
The Hogwarts Express was streaking along below them like a scarlet snake.
霍格沃茨特快列車像一條紅蛇在他們下方疾馳。
“Due north,” said Ron, checking the compass on the dashboard.
“正北，”羅恩對了對儀表板上的羅盤說，
“Okay, we'll just have to check on it everyhalf hour or so—hold on —”
“好，我們只要每半小時下來看一眼就行了。坐好……”
And they shot up through the clouds.
汽車急速鉆入云層。
A minute later, they burst out into a blaze of sunlight.
一分鐘后，他們就沖進了炫目的陽光中。
It was a different world. The wheels of the car skimmed the sea of fluffy cloud, the sky a bright, endlessblue under the blinding white sun.
這是另一個世界。車輪掠著松軟的云海飛行，在耀眼的白日映照下，天空一片明亮蔚藍，無邊無際。
“All we've got to worry about now are airplanes,” said Ron.
“現在我們只要當心飛機就可以了。”羅恩說。
It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream.
他們仿佛進入了一個神話般的夢境。
This, thought Harry, was surely the only way totravel—past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack oftoffees in the glove compartment,
哈利想，這無疑是最好的旅行方式：坐在一輛充滿陽光的汽車里，在漩渦狀、塔林狀的白云間穿行，儀表板下面有一大包太妃糖，
and the prospect of seeing Fred's and George's jealous faces when they landedsmoothly and spectacularly on the sweeping lawn in front of Hogwarts castle.
還可以想象當他們神奇地從天而降，平穩地停在霍格沃茨城堡前的大草坪上時，弗雷德和喬治臉上嫉妒的表情。
