Help translating the Lady in the Painting
I thought I'd start a new thread for this.
I'm working on Chapter 6 right now. I'm stumped by a few sentences, and there are probably some I've misunderstood. Here's the first page of the chapter. I typed it in NJStar, since a screen capture from the cd-rom gets all the graphics, so I hope I didn't choose any wrong characters. I'm not sure what is meant by the three characters I underlined. I know what each character means individually, but I'm not quite getting the meaning of the sentence.
涨大明回到家里,要把那天的事情告诉美真,他还没说呢,美真已经知道了。美真就
说,“搞王太不对了,我们得想法子。现在我们没有工夫说话,我们得快一点儿做
船,船不太容易做。”
张大明不知道美真是怎么知道的。心里觉得奇怪,可是他也没问。他说,“做船得
用什么样儿的纸?”
美真说,“做船用不行。”
张大明不知道为什么用纸不行。 他想,美真用纸做的鸽子, 吹一口气就会飞,用
纸做的马,吹一口气就会跑,要是用纸做船,吹一口气,不是船也能自己在水里走
吗?他这样想,可是没问。他等美真叫他做什么,他就去做。
美真说,“你去找点儿木头来,我们快一点儿做船巴。”
张大明问明白美真要什么样儿的木头,就到外头去找,一会儿的工夫,他就找着了
好些,拿回家来了。
张大明没作过船,他一点儿都不知道应当怎么做。他们做的时候,所有的事情都得
美真告诉他。他学得很快,做得很快。
Zhang Daming arrived home and wanted to tell Mei Zhen about that day's matters, he hadn't yet said anything, Mei Zhen already knew. Mei Zhen said, "The king was too bad, we must think of a plan. Now we don't have time to talk, we must quickly make a boat, a boat is not too easy to make."
Zhang Daming didn't know how Mei Zhen knew. In his heart he felt strange, but he also didn't ask. He said, "Does the boat have to be made of paper?"
Mei Zhen said, "To make the boat of paper isn't good.
Zhang Daming didn't know why using paper wasn't good. He thought, Mei Zhen made paper pigeons, blew a breath of air on them and they flew, made a paper horse, blew a breath of air on it and it ran, if she made a paper boat and blew on it, couldn't it also go on the water? He thought of this, but didn't ask. He waited for Mei Zhen to tell him what to do and he went to work.
Mei Zhen said, "You go look for some wood. We must quickly make a boat."
Zhang Daming (wondered??) why Mei Zhen wanted some wood, went outside to look and in a little while, he found a few good ones and took them back home.
Zhang Daming couldn't make a boat, he didn't know anything about how he
should do this. This time when they made a boat, about this he must do
as Mei Zhen told him. He must learn fast and also work very fast.