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罗尔德·达尔（Roald Dahl，1916年9月13日—1990年11月23日），是挪威籍的英国杰出儿童文学作家、剧作家和短篇小说作家，作品流传于大人或小孩中，极为知名。
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Hoppy先生的退休生活表面上挺平淡的，就是照料照料阳台上的花园，从家里闲逛到商店再逛回家。不过这些平静的表面下，他激情似火而又无可救药地暗恋 上了楼下邻居Silver太太.
退休的单身汉Hoppy先生对他的邻居Silver太太有好感，而Silver太太只对她的宠物乌龟有感情。
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“That’s simple.” Mr. Hoppy said. “ Change the magic words. Instead of telling him to get bigger and bigger, tell him to get a bit smaller. But in tortoise language of course.”
“ Will that work?”
“Of course it’ll work.”
“Tell me exactly what I have to say, Mr Hoppy.”
Mr Hoppy got out a piece of paper and a pencil and wrote:
ESIO TROT, ESIO TROT,
TEG A TIB RELLAMS, A TIB RELLAMS.
“That’ll do it, Mrs Silver,” he said, handing herthe paper.
“I don’t mind trying it,” Mrs Silver said.” Butlook here, I wouldn’t want him to get titchy small all over again, Mr Hoppy.”
“He won’t, dear lady , he wo’t,” Mr Hoppy said “Say it only tonight and tomorrow morning and then see what happens. We might be lucky.”
“If it works,” Mrs Silver said, touching him softly on the arm, “then you are the cleverest man alive.”
The next afternoon, as soon as Mrs Silver had gone to work, Mr Hoppy lifted the tortoise up from her balcony and carried it inside. All he had to do now was to find one that was to find one that was a shade smaller, so that it would just go through the door of the little house.
He chose one and lowered it down with histortoise-catcher. Then, still gripped the tortoise, he tested it to see if itwould go through the door. It wouldn’t.
He chose another. Again he tested it. This one went through nicely. Good. He placed the tortoise in the middle of the balcony beside a nice piece of lettuce and went inside to await Mrs Silver’s home-coming.
That evening, Mr Hoppy was watering his plants onthe balcony when suddenly he heard Mrs Silver’s shouts from below, shrill with excitement.
“Mr Hoppy! Mr Hoppy! Where are you?” she was shouting.” Just look at this!”
Mr Hoppy popped his head over the railing and said,” What’s up?”
“Oh, Mr Hoppy, it’s worked!” She was crying. “Your magic words have worked again on Alfie! He can now get through the door of his little house! It’s a miracle!”
“Can I come down and look?” Mr Hoppy shouted back.
“Come down at once, my dear man!” Mrs Silver answered.” Come down and see the wonders you have worked upon my darling Alfie!”
Mr Hoppy turned and ran from the balcony into theliving-room, jumping on tip-toe like a ballet- dancer between the sea oftortoises that covered the floor. He flung open his front door and flew downthe stairs two at a time with the love-songs of a thousand cupids ringing in his ears. This is it! He whispered to himself under his breath. The greatest moment of my life is coming up now! I mustn’t bish it. I mustn’t bosh it! Imust keep very calm! When he was three-quarters way down the stairs hecaught sight of Mrs Silver already standing at the open door waiting to welcome him with a huge smile on her face. She flung（挥动） her arms around him and cried out,”You really are the most wonderful man I’ve ever met! You can do anything! Come in at once and Iet me make you a cup of tea. That’s the very least you deserve!”
Seated in a comfortable armchair in Mrs Silver’s parlour(客厅）, sipping his tea, Mr Hoppy was all of a twitter. He looked at the lovely lady sitting opposite him and smiled at her. She smiled right back at him.
That smile of hers, so warm and friendly, suddenly gave him the courage he needed, and he said, “ Mrs Silver, please will you marry me?”
“Why, Mr Hoppy!” she cried. “I didn’t think you’dever get round to asking me! Of course I’ll marry you!”
Mr Hoppy got rid of his teacup and the two of them stood up and embraced warmly in the middle of the room.
“It’s all due to Alfie,” Mrs Silver said, slightlybreathless.
“Good old Alfie,” Mr Hoppy said. “We’ll keep himfor ever.”
The next afternoon, Mr Hoppy took all his other tortoises back to the pet-shops and said they could have them for nothing. Then he cleaned up his living-room, leaving not a leaf of cabbage nor a trace oftortoise.
A few weeks later, Mrs Silver became Mrs Hoppy and the two of them lived very happlily ever after.
P.S I expect you are wondering what happened to little Alfie, the first of them all. Well, he was bought a week later from one of the pet-shops by a small girl called Roberta Squibb, and he settled down in Roberta’s garden. Every day she fed him lettuce and tomato slices and crispy celery（芹菜）, and in the winters he hibernated（冬眠） in a box of dried leaves in the tool-shed.
That was a long time ago. Roberta has grown up andis now married and has two children of her own. She lives in another house, but Alfie is still with her, still the much-loved family pet, and Roberta reckonsthat by now he must be about thirty years old. It has taken him all that time to grow to twice the size he was when Mrs Silver had him. But he made it in the end.
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