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When it is time for news from my father, answered Diego proudly, "it shall be great news, I promise you!"
選戈自豪地回答道：我父親有消息的時(shí)候，那一定是重大新聞。我可以向你保證！
Time! cried another boy rudely. "Aren't seven months enough time?
另一個(gè)男孩粗魯?shù)厝碌溃簳r(shí)間啊！難道七個(gè)月的時(shí)間還不夠嗎？
Long before this your father reached the edge of the world and sailed right over it.
很久之前，你的父親就到了地球的邊界，航行出了邊界。
Down, down, down, he fell, he and his ships and his men!"
然后，他就這樣往下掉，往下掉，他和他的船還有他的水手們都掉下去了！
The earth is round! cried Diego. "There is no edge to sail over.
迭戈嚷道：地球是圓的！不會有什么航行出邊界的事。
It is only silly people who think that the earth is flat.
只有傻子才會認(rèn)為地球是平的。
My father will sail on and on until he reaches land on the other side of the world!"
我的父親將會一路航行，直到他抵達(dá)了地球另一邊的大陸！
Ha! ha! ha! laughed all the other boys. "The earth round! Ha! ha! ha!"
哈！哈！哈！其他所有的孩子都笑了，地球是圓的！哈！哈！哈！
Everyone knows that the earth is flat and that it rests upon the back of a great turtle! said one of the boys,
每個(gè)人都知道地球是平的。它坐落在一只大海龜?shù)谋成希∫粋€(gè)孩子說，
"And there are terrible monsters in the ocean, which have already swallowed your father's three ships."
海里還有可怕的怪獸，它已經(jīng)吞了你父親的三只船。
It is not so, said Diego. "My father will soon come back and prove that you are wrong."
不是這樣的，迭戈說，我父親很快就會回來，證明你們都錯(cuò)了。
Suddenly a messenger ran into the hall where the boys were talking.
這時(shí)候，一個(gè)信使突然跑進(jìn)了男孩們談話的小屋里。
"Diego, the son of Columbus!" he called. "Where is he? The queen sends for him!
哥倫布的兒子迭戈！他叫道，他在哪兒？女王請他過去！
The great Columbus has found the land across the sea and has come back to tell us about it."
偉大的哥倫布找到了海上之路，他已經(jīng)回來告訴我們了。
