CHAPTER SIXTEEN FAREWELL TO SHADOWLANDS（第4/4页）

And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories，and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page：now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read：which goes on forever：in which every chapter is better than the one before．

[1]编注：尤斯塔斯这个名字来源于希腊语，含义是“五谷丰登”，斯克罗布(Scrubb) 有“矮个子”的意思。读者读了下文就知道这里说的“名副其实”有挖苦的意味。

[2]原文中尤斯塔斯的名字“Eustace”与“useless”（没用处）的发音相近。　

[3]　“码”是英制长度单位，1 码（yard）=3 英尺（foot）=91.44 厘米。