Chapter 45
"I lost them," answered Pinocchio, but he told a lie,forhe had them in his pocket.
As he spoke, his nose, long though it was, became atleast two incheslonger.
"And where did you lose them?""In the wood nearby."At this second lie, his nose grew a few more inches.
"If you lost them in the near-by wood," said theFairy,"we'll look for them and find them, for everything that islost thereis always found.""Ah, now I remember," replied theMarionette,becoming more and more confused. "I did not lose thegoldpieces, but I swallowed them when I drank the medicine."At this thirdlie, his nose became longer than ever,so long that he could not even turnaround. If he turnedto the right, he knocked it against the bed or intothewindowpanes; if he turned to the left, he struck the wallsor the door; if heraised it a bit, he almost put the Fairy'seyes out.
The Fairy sat looking at him and laughing.
"Why do you laugh?" the Marionette asked her,worried nowat the sight of his growing nose.
"I am laughing at your lies.""How do you know I amlying?""Lies, my boy, are known in a moment. There are twokinds oflies, lies with short legs and lies with long noses.
Yours, just now, happen to have long noses."Pinocchio, notknowing where to hide his shame, triedto escape from the room, but his nose hadbecome so longthat he could not get it out of the door.
“我丢了！”皮诺乔回答说，他这是说谎，因为钱在他口袋里。
他一说谎，本来已经够长的鼻子又长了两指。
“你在哪儿丢了？”
“就在这儿附近的树林子里。”
这第二句谎话一说，鼻子更长了。
“你要是在附近那树林子里丢了，”仙女说，“咱们去把它们找回来。因为东西丢在附近那树林子里，完全可以找回来。”
“啊，现在我记清楚了，”木偶心里慌了，回答说，“这四个金币我没丢掉，是刚才喝您那杯药水的时候不小心，吞下肚子里去了。”
这第三句谎话一说，鼻子呼地一下长成这副样子，可怜的皮诺乔连头都没法转了。头往这边转，鼻子就碰到床，碰到窗玻璃；头往那边转，鼻子就碰到墙，碰到房门；头一抬，鼻子就有插到仙女一只眼睛里去的危险。
仙女看着他笑起来。
“您干吗笑？”木偶问她。眼看鼻子变得那么长，他完全呆住了，急得要命。
“我笑你说谎。”
“您怎么知道我说谎了？”
“我的孩子，谎话一下子就可以看出来，因为说了谎话有两种变化，一种是腿变短，一种是鼻子变长，你的一种正是鼻子变长。”
皮诺乔羞得无地自容，想溜出房间。可是办不到，他那个鼻子已经长得连门都出不去了。
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