根据读者的建议，门钥匙篇附上英文再发一次
一：门钥匙
Wizards who cannot Apparate (dematerialise and reappear at will), who wish to travel by daylight (meaning that broomsticks, Thestrals, flying cars and dragons are inappropriate), or whose destination has no fireplace (rendering Floo powder useless) will have to resort to the use of a Portkey.
对于那些不能幻影移形（即一种消失再出现的魔咒），但又想要公开旅行（这意味着在该种情境下使用飞天扫帚，飞行汽车或者乘骑夜骐，龙是不适宜的）的巫师，亦或是目的地没有壁炉（这意味着不能用飞路粉），他们将求助于使用门钥匙。
Almost any inanimate object can be turned into a Portkey. Once bewitched, the object will transport anyone who grasps it to a pre-arranged destination. A Portkey may also be enchanted to transport the grasper (or graspers) only at a given time. In this way, the arrivals and departures of great numbers of witches and wizards can be staggered, enabling such events such as the Quidditch World Cup to take place with few security breaches.
几乎任何无生命的物体都可以被制成门钥匙。在被施魔法后，该物体（即门钥匙）将会把任何抓住它的人传送到某一预设好的地点。门钥匙同样可以被设置为仅在某一特定时间传送抓住它的一人或多人。通过这种方式，较大数目的男女巫的离开与到达就可以交错进行。而这将使一些如魁地奇世界杯这样的事件减少安全隐患（被麻瓜发现之类的）。
When secrecy is paramount, and mass movement is planned, the chosen Portkey will be a nondescript object secreted in an out-of-the-way place, so that it will be taken for a piece of unimportant debris by Muggle passers-by. Accidents have occurred, however; two Muggle dog-walkers found themselves accidentally transported to a Celestina Warbeck concert in 2003, because their dogs had run off with an old trainer on Clapham Common (leaving an anguished crowd of witches and wizards to look frantically for their Portkey on a stretch of empty grass, hopefully seizing old crisp packets and cigarette ends). One of the Muggle dog-walkers was even invited on stage by Celestina to perform a duet of ‘A Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love’. While the Memory Charm placed upon him by a harried Ministry official seemed to take at the time, he has since written a popular Muggle song that bears an uncanny resemblance to Celestina’s worldwide hit (Ms Warbeck is not amused).
对于一些有计划且将保密放在首要要求的团体活动，被选择作为门钥匙的物体需要是一个可以完美隐藏在周遭环境中的的普通物体，因此它将会是从经过的麻瓜随手丢下的物事里挑出的一件不太起眼的物品。然而，即使如此，依然有事故发生；在2003年，两个遛狗的麻瓜意外的被传送到了Celestina Warbeck音乐会上，而这一意外事件源于他们在Clapham Commom里和一位老训练员一起跑丢的狗（这一意外使得一大群痛苦的男女巫师在一大片空草地上疯狂的寻找他们的门钥匙——一些破旧的包和烟头）。其中一个遛狗的麻瓜甚至被Celestina邀请上舞台表演一段‘A Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love’的二重唱。尽管一位焦急的魔法部官员给他施的记忆消除咒似乎起了作用，但是在那之后他写了一首颇受欢迎的麻瓜歌曲，而这首歌与Celestina的风靡全球的歌曲有着奇异的相似之处。（Warbeck夫人对此并不是太愉快）
The sensation of travelling by Portkey is universally agreed to be uncomfortable, if not downright unpleasant, and can lead to nausea, giddiness and worse. Healers recommend that the elderly, pregnant and infirm avoid using Portkeys. The suggestion of arranging Portkeys for the transportation of annoying relatives has saved many a wizarding family Christmas.
通过门钥匙来旅行的感觉公认不太舒服，不仅是令人十分不快，还可能导致头晕眼花甚至更糟。因此治疗师建议老人，孕妇及身体虚弱者应尽量避免使用门钥匙。事实上，用门钥匙来接送烦人的亲戚这一建议拯救了不少巫师家庭的圣诞节。
发表于 2018-8-28 14:12
