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He pulled open the next door, both of them hardly daring to look at what came next - but there was nothing very frightening in here, just a table with seven differently shaped bottles standing on it in a line.
他拉开了下一道门，一时间，两人简直不敢看接下来是什么在等待他们——然而这里并没有什么可怕的东西，只有一张桌子，上面排放着七个形状各异的瓶子。

"Snape's," said Harry. "What do we have to do?"
“斯内普的魔法，”哈利说，“我们应该怎么做？”

They stepped over the threshold, and immediately a fire sprang up behind them in the doorway. It wasn't ordinary fire either; it was purple. At the same instant, black flames shot up in the doorway leading onward. They were trapped.
两人刚跨过门槛，身后就腾地升起一股火焰，封住了门口。这股火焰不同寻常，是紫色的。与此同时，通往前面的门口也蹿起了黑色的火苗。他们被困在了中间。

"Look!" Hermione seized a roll of paper lying next to the bottles. Harry looked over her shoulder to read it:
“看！”赫敏抓起放在瓶子旁边的一卷羊皮纸。哈利站在她背后，和她一起读道：

Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind, Two of us will help you, which ever you would find, One among us seven will let you move ahead, Another will transport the drinker back instead, Two among our number hold only nettle wine, Three of us are killers, waiting bidden in line. Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore, To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
危险在眼前，安全在后方。我们中间有两个可以给你帮忙。把它们喝下去，一个领你向前，另一个把你送回原来的地方。两个里面装的是荨麻酒。三个是杀手，正排着队等候。选择吧，除非你希望永远在此耽搁。我们还提供四条线索帮你选择：

重点讲解

重点讲解

step over the threshold
跨过门槛
We had to step over piles of broken bricks when we went to see our new house being built.
当我们去看正在建造的新房时, 必须小心地走过一堆堆碎砖头。

shot up
迅速成长，猛涨
That boy has shot up since we last saw him.
自上次见面后，那男孩长得很快。
With the deepening of the economic crisis, unemployment shot up.
经济危机加剧，失业人数激增。

人物介绍

伏地魔:

小说《哈利·波特》中的人物。伏地魔（繁体版译作：佛地魔）（Lord Voldemort）（1926-1998），原名汤姆·马沃罗·里德尔（Tom Marvolo Riddle），但是极其厌恶这个名字，因为这个名字属于他自己认为那无能的麻瓜父亲，所以后来改名为Lord Voldemort（伏地魔），意为“飞离死亡”。Tom Marvolo Riddle经过调换便可以变成“I amLord Voldemort（我是伏地魔）”。

他的母亲是巫师，大名鼎鼎的霍格沃茨魔法学校创始人之一的斯莱特林的后代。汤姆·里德尔1926年出生在伦敦的一家孤儿院里，母亲难产而死。