一
They went to sea in a sieve, they did;
In a sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a sieve they went to sea.
And when the sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, "You'll all be drowned!"
They called aloud, "Our sieve ain't big;
But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig:
In a sieve we'll go to sea!"
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue
And they went to sea in a sieve.
他們乘著隻濾網舟出海去呀，出海去；
乘著隻濾網舟呀，出海去：
不管他們的朋友們怎樣說，
在一個冬日早晨，狂風大作，
他們乘著隻濾網舟呀，出海去。
濾網舟在海裏翻了又滾不停下，
大夥兒見了都喊：“他們快要淹死啦！”
他們回答道：“我們的船兒雖不大，
但我們絲毫都不怕：
乘著隻濾網舟呀，我們出海去！”
小小世界，世界小小，
小精靈居住的土地越來越少：
他們手兒藍呀，腦袋綠，
乘著隻濾網舟呀，出海去。
二
They sailed away in a sieve, they did,
In a sieve they sailed so fast,
With only a beautiful pea-green veil
Tied with a ribbon, by way of a sail,
To a small tobacco-pipe mast.
And every one said who saw them go,
"Oh! won't they be soon upset, you know?
For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long;
And, happen what may, it's extremely wrong
In a sieve to sail so fast."
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
他們乘著隻濾網舟去遠航呀，去遠航；