Noisy neighbours

培新小学科普剧

Noisy Neighbours吵闹的邻居

Scene 1 场景1

Poor Mr Flinch可怜的Flinch先生

Narrator: Mr Flinch lives in a grim, grey house. He is an unhappy man. It is not his grey house that make him unhappy. It is not that he is poor, because he is not. He is a miser.

Mr Flinch住在一间难看的灰房子里，他是个不快乐的人。不是他的灰房子使得他不快乐，不是因为他贫穷，因为他不是一个穷人，他是个守财奴。

Mr Flinch: I have a lot of money. But I’m not happy. I am miserable because of my neighbours. One is Carl, the other is Poppy.

我有许多钱，但我并不快乐。我的邻居们使得我很惨。一个是Carl, 另一个是Poppy.

Carl: I am Carl. I mend cars. I love cars, and motorbikes and vans and lorries.

我是Carl. 我是修理汽车的，我喜欢各种汽车。

Person 1: Hi, Carl. Look at my car. Is it beautiful? But there’s something wrong with the wheel.

Carl. 看我的车，漂亮吗？我的车轮胎有点儿毛病。

Person 2: Hey, Carl. Look at my engine. It doesn’t work.

Carl. 帮我看看发动机，它不运转了。

Person 3: How are you, Carl? Someone crashed my car. Help me to mend it. Quickly, please!

你好Carl? 有人撞了我的车，帮我修修。快点儿！

Narrator: Every morning, Mr Flinch woke up to hear hammers banging, spanners clanging and engines revving. The whole street shook with the noise.

每天早晨Mr Flinch 醒来就听到锤子砰砰、扳手当啷和发动机轰鸣声，整条街都跟着噪音摇晃起来。

Poppy: I am Poppy. I’m a music teacher. I have three students. Every morning, my students start to arrive after breakfast.

我是Poppy. 我是一位音乐老师，我有三个学生，每天早晨我的学生们都在早餐后陆续到我这里学习。

Student 1: Morning, Poppy. You look so beautiful!

早上好 Poppy. 您看上去真漂亮!

Student 2: Oh, Poppy. I’m glad to see you.

噢Poppy. 很高兴见到你!

Student 3: Hi, Poppy! Hi, everybody! So early you are! How beautiful! Listen to me!

嘿Poppy! 嘿大家好! 你们真早! 真好听！

Narrator: Mr Flinch shut his window, but the noise still came through the wall. His whole house shook and shivered. Mr Flinch locked himself in a cupboard. He wound old towels round his head. But the cars still revved and the music still jangled.

Mr Flinch 关上了窗户，但是噪音仍然透过墙传来，他的房子震动颤抖起来。Mr Flinch 曾把自己锁在壁橱里，用旧毛巾把头包起来，但是仍然听到汽车的轰鸣声和丁零当啷的音乐声。

Mr Flinch: This can’t go on.

不能再这样下去了。

Narrator: His neighbours did not hear. They were far too happy.

他的邻居们却听不到，他们太快乐了。

Scene 2 场景2

Nasty Tricks恶劣的诡计

Narrator: Mr Flinch went next door to Carl’s house. Carl was mending cars. It was easy to sneak into his kitchen and put a dead rat in the fridge. Mr Flinch到隔壁Carl家， Carl 正在修车，偷偷溜进厨房并往冰箱里放一只死老鼠是件非常容易的事。

Mr Flinch: That will get rid of him! Nobody wants to live in a house with rats!

这将会除掉他！ 没有人会愿意住在一间有老鼠的房子里。

Narrator: At midnight, Mr Flinch climbed onto his roof and –carefully, carefully crawled across the tiles. He put his head down poppy’s chimney and gave a long loud.

在半夜，Mr Flinch 爬上屋顶，小心的爬过屋顶的瓦片，他把头伸向Poppy的烟囱并发出长长的一声。

Mr Flinch: Hooowooowoooo! That will get rid of her, Nobody wants to live in a house with ghosts!

Hooowooowoooo! 这将会除掉她！没有人会愿意住在一间闹鬼的房子里。

Narrator: Next morning, Mr Flinch woke to a HUGE noise. Cars and lorries were stopping outside. He looked out of his window. Carl was sitting outside in the road,

with a table, a kettle, a loaf of bread and a bottle of tomato sauce.

第二天早晨，Mr Flinch被巨大的噪音吵醒，许多汽车和卡车正停在外面，他向窗外望去。Carl正坐在外面的道路上，摆了张桌子，上边有壶、面包、和一瓶番茄酱。

Carl: Can’t use my kitchen today! Rats, urgh! My mum is cleaning up. She told me to eat my breakfast outside. That’s how I got this great idea! Take away breakfast! Drivers can stop here and buy breakfast.

今天不能用厨房了，有老鼠，真恶心！我妈妈正在打扫。他让我到外面吃早餐，因此我有了这个好主意，早餐外卖，司机可以停下来买早餐。

Narrator: Just then, Poppy came running out of her front door.

就在这时Poppy从她的前门跑出来。

Poppy: Oh, Mr Flinch! Oh, Carl! Guess what happened last night!

噢, Mr Flinch! 噢, Carl! 猜猜昨天夜里发生了什么事！

Mr Flinch: I give up. Do tell.

我猜不着！ 快说吧！

Poppy: Last night, angels sang down my chimney! They did, I promise! But the music wasn’t very good! I think they want some new songs to sing! I’m sure

they want me to write them, and I shall! Oh, I shall!

昨天夜里，天使从我的烟囱里传来了歌声，真的，我保证！但是音乐不是太好，我想她们想唱一些新歌，我相信她们想让我给她们写，我会的！

Narrator: Poppy still had to teach music all day. But at night she wrote angel music. She made it nice and loud.

Poppy 仍然整天要教音乐，但是到晚上她要给天使写音乐，她写的又好听又热闹。

Scene 3 场景 3

Mr Flinch has a plan

Mr Flinch 的计划

Narrator: Mr Flinch went next door to Carl’s house. He showed Carl a fistful of money.

Mr Flinch去隔壁Carl 家，他给了Carl 一大把钱。

Mr Flinch: The day you move house, all this is yours!

只要你一搬家，这些钱就是你的了！

Carl: Anything you say, chief. As long as I can mend cars, I’ll be happy

anywhere. I’ll move out as soon as I can sell the house!

怎么说都行，只要我能修车，去哪里我都愿意，我把房子一卖出去就搬走。

Narrator: Next, Mr Flinch went to Poppy’s house and offered her a hatful of money.

接着，Mr Flinch去了Poppy家并给了她一帽子的钱。

Mr Flinch: The day you move house, all this is yours!

只要你一搬家，这些钱就是你的了！

Poppy: Of course! If that is what you want, dear heart! As long as I have my music, I can be happy anywhere! I will move out just as soon as I can sell my little house!

当然可以，如果你想的话，只要能开我的音乐课，去哪里我都愿意，我把房子一卖出去就搬走。

Narrator: Mr Flinch went home a happy man—well, as happy as a man like Mr Flinch can ever be.

Mr Flinch 很高高兴兴的回到家，他从没有这么高兴过。

Mr Flinch: All that money gone! Ah, but soon those noisy neighbours will be

gone, too!

钱没了，不过很快那些吵闹的邻居们就要消失了。

Narrator: In a few days, Mr Flinch’s neighbours had sold up their houses.

Now, at last, he would have peace and quiet.

几天后，Mr Flinch的邻居们卖出了房子。现在，他终于能清静清静了。

Scene 4 场景4

Moving Day搬家的日子

Narrator: Mr Flinch watched as Poppy moved out.

Mr Flinch 看着Poppy搬出去了。

Mr Flinch: Going already are you, you pest? I pity the person who has to live next door to you!

搬走了，你们这些害人虫！我真可怜那些将要做你们邻居的人。

Narrator: Seeing him, Poppy waved up at the window.

看见他后，Poppy 向他的窗户挥了挥手。

Poppy: Such luck, Mr Flinch! Fancy! A few days ago, I met someone who wants to move house too! We agreed to swap houses!

真幸运，Mr Flinch!真想不到！几天前，我遇到有人也想搬家，我们同意换房。

Narrator: Just then, Carl came out of his front door carrying two heavy tool boxes. He saw Poppy.

就在这时，Carl拿着两个沉重的工具箱走出他家前门，他看见了Poppy。

Carl: All set, Poppy?

准备好了吗Poppy？

Poppy: All set, Carl! Isn’t this fun!

准备好了Carl! 这真有意思!

Narrator: Then Carl moved into Poppy’s bright blue house and Poppy moved into Carl’s jolly red one. Then Carl had a house-warming party.

然后Carl搬进了Poppy明亮的蓝房子，Poppy搬进了Carl可爱的红房子，后来Carl开了一个乔迁聚会。

Carl: There’s no place like home!

再没有比家里更好的地方了！

Poppy: Oh, yes!

噢！是的！

Narrator: Mr Flinch heard it right through the wall of his house. Even inside his cupboard, even with a towel round his head.

Mr Flinch 甚至在他的壁橱里，头上缠着毛巾，也能听到声音从墙传进他的房里来。