A Little Princess
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Part One: Sara nce on a dark winter’s day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
第一部分:在黑暗的冬天,当黄雾笼罩在伦敦街道上时,灯光被点燃,商店的窗户被煤气吹起,夜晚,一个外表古怪的小女孩同她的父亲坐在出租车上,被缓慢地驱走。
She sat with her feet tucked under her and leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passing people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes.
她坐在她下方并用脚向她父亲倾斜,父亲将她抱在手臂上,当时她正从窗户外望着路过的人们,她的大眼睛里充满了古怪的老式思维。
She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face.
她是个小女孩 没想到她脸上有这么一副表情
It would have been an old look for a child of twelve, and Sara Crewe was only seven.
本来是十二岁小孩的老样子 莎拉克瑞才七岁
The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to.
然而,事实是,她总是在做梦,在想奇怪的事情,而且她自己也不记得有什么时候她没有在想关于成年人和他们所属的世界的事情。
She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.
她感觉好像活了很久
At this moment she was remembering the voyage she had just made from Bombay with her father, Captain Crewe.
此时她正在回忆她刚从孟买与她的父亲克鲁船长一起从孟买做的旅行.
She was thinking of the big ship, of the lascars passing silently to and fro on it, of the children playing about on the hot deck, and of some young officers’ wives who used to try to make her talk to them and laughed at the things she said.
她想到的是大船,拉斯卡尔悄悄地经过船上和船上,孩子们在热甲板上玩耍,以及一些年轻军官的妻子,她们曾经试图让她和她们说话并嘲笑她说的话。
Principally, she was thinking of what a queer thing it was that at one time one was in India in the blazing sun, and then in the middle of the ocean, and then driving in a strange vehicle through strange streets where the day was as dark as the night.
主要是,她想着一件奇怪的事情, 曾经有一次,一个在印度的阳光下, 然后在海洋中,然后驾驶一辆陌生的车 穿过陌生的街道, 在那里白天和夜晚一样黑暗。
She found this so puzzling that she moved closer to her father.
她觉得这太令人费解了 她搬到她父亲身边
“Papa,” she said in a low, mysterious little voice which was almost a whisper, “Papa.”
“爸爸,”她用一个低沉而神秘的小声音说,“爸爸”。
“What is it, darling?”
“这是什么,亲爱的? “
Captain Crewe answered, holding her closer and looking down into her face.
克鲁船长回答说,抱住她,俯视她的脸.
“What is Sara thinking of?”
“萨拉在想什么? “
“Is this the place?”
“是这里吗? “
Sara whispered, cuddling still closer to him.
莎拉悄悄地说着 拥抱他还是更接近他
“Is it, Papa?”
“是吗,爸爸? “
“Yes, little Sara, it is.
“是的,小萨拉,这是。
We have reached it at last.”
我们终于达到了目标。 “
And though she was only seven years old, she knew that he felt sad when he said it.
虽然她才七岁,她知道当他说的时候他感到悲伤.
It seemed to her many years since he had begun to prepare her mind for “the place,” as she always called it.
在她看来,自从他开始为“地方”做好准备以来,这在她看来已经很多年了。
Her mother had died when she was born, so Sara had never known or missed her.
她的母亲生来就已经去世了,因此萨拉从未认识或想念她.
Her young, handsome, rich, petting father seemed to be the only relation she had in the world.
她年轻 英俊 富有 可爱的父亲 似乎是她世界上唯一的亲戚
They had always played together and been fond of each other.
他们总是一起玩 互相喜欢
She only knew he was rich because she had heard people say so when they thought she was not listening, and she had also heard them say that when she grew up she would be rich, too.
她只知道他很有钱,因为她听到人们说,当他们认为她不听的时候,她也听到他们说,当她长大后,她也会发财.
She did not know all that being rich meant.
她不知道有钱意味着什么
She had always lived in a beautiful bungalow, and had been used to seeing many servants who made salaams to her and called her “Missee Sahib,” and gave her her own way in everything.
她一直住在一个漂亮的平房里,习惯于看到许多仆人为她做香肠并称她为"萨希布小姐",在一切方面都给她自己的路.
She had had toys and pets and an ayah who worshipped her, and she had gradually learned that people who were rich had these things.
她有玩具和宠物 还有崇拜她的人 她逐渐得知有钱人有这些东西
That, however, was all she knew about it.
然而,她只知道这一点。
During her short life only one thing had troubled her, and that thing was “the place” she was to be taken to some day.
在她短暂的一生中,只有一件事困扰她,那就是她要被带到的“地方”。
The climate of India was very bad for children, and as soon as possible they were sent away from it—generally to England and to school.
印度的气候对儿童非常不利,他们尽快被送出印度,一般到英国去上学。
She had seen other children go away, and had heard their fathers and mothers talk about the letters they received from them.
她看到其他孩子离开,并听到他们的父亲和母亲谈到他们收到的信件。
She had known that she would be obliged to go also, and though sometimes her father’s stories of the voyage and the new country had attracted her, she had been troubled by the thought that he could not stay with her.
她知道她也有义务去,虽然有时她父亲关于航行和新国家的故事吸引了她,但她为他不能留在她身边的想法所困扰。
“Couldn’t you go to that place with me, Papa?”
" 爸爸,你可以和我一起去那个地方吗? “
she had asked when she was five years old.
她五岁时就问了
“Couldn’t you go to school, too?
“你也不能去上学吗?
I would help you with your lessons.”
我会帮你的课。 “
“But you will not have to stay for a very long time, little Sara,” he had always said.
“但是,小萨拉,你不必呆很长时间。”
“You will go to a nice house where there will be a lot of little girls, and you will play together, and I will send you plenty of books, and you will grow so fast that it will seem scarcely a year before you are big enough and clever enough to come back and take care of Papa.”
“你会去一个漂亮的房子, 那里有很多小女孩, 你们一起玩, 我会寄给你很多书, 你们会长得这么快,
She had liked to think of that.
她喜欢想到这一点。
To keep the house for her father; to ride with him, and sit at the head of his table when he had dinner parties; to talk to him and read his books—that would be what she would like most in the world, and if one must go away to “the place” in England to attain it, she must make up her mind to go.
为她父亲保留这所房子;和他一起骑马,在他举行宴会时坐在他桌子上;和他交谈并阅读他的书——这是她最喜欢的,如果一个人必须去英国的"地方"去得到它,她必须下定决心去.
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
她并不非常关心其他的小女孩,但是如果她有丰富的书,她可以安慰自己.
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
她更喜欢书籍, 并且,事实上,总是发明 美丽的故事 并告诉自己。
Sometimes she had told them to her father, and he had liked them as much as she did.
有时她告诉她的父亲,他和她一样喜欢他们。
“Well, Papa,” she said softly, “if we are here I suppose we must be resigned.”
“嗯,爸爸,”她温和地说,“如果我们在这里,我想我们必须辞职。 “
He laughed at her old-fashioned speech and kissed her.
他嘲笑她老式的演讲并亲吻她.
He was really not at all resigned himself, though he knew he must keep that a secret.
虽然他知道他必须保守这个秘密 但其实他完全没有辞职
His quaint little Sara had been a great companion to him, and he felt he should be a lonely fellow when, on his return to India, he went into his bungalow knowing he need not expect to see the small figure in its white frock come forward to meet him.
他的花花公子小萨拉曾是他的好伙伴,他觉得他应该是一个孤独的人,当他回到印度时,他走入了自己的平房,知道自己不必期待看到其白色花旗上的小人物出来迎接他.
He held her very closely in his arm as the cab rolled into the big, dull square in which stood the house which was their destination.
他紧紧抱住她的手臂,当时出租车滚入一个大而乏味的广场,那栋房子就是他们的目的地。
It was a big, dull, brick house, exactly like all the others in its row, but that on the front door there shone a brass plate on which was engraved in black letters: MISS MINCHIN, Select Seminary for Young Ladies.
它是一个又大又无聊又砖瓦的房子, 和它排成一行的其他人一样, 但是在正门上,有一个铜板被用黑色字母刻上: MINCHIN小姐,为年轻女士选择神学院。
“Here we are, Sara,” said Captain Crewe, making his voice sound as cheerful as possible.
克鲁船长说,“萨拉,我们在这里”,他的声音尽可能令人高兴。
Then he lifted her out of the cab and they mounted the steps and rang the bell.
然后他把她抬出计程车 他们搭起台阶并按下钟声
Sara often thought afterward that the house was somehow exactly like Miss Minchin.
莎拉经常觉得房子跟敏钦小姐完全一样
It was respectable and well furnished, but everything in it was ugly; and the very armchairs seemed to have hard bones in them.
这幅画是可敬的,布置良好,但里面的一切都是丑陋的;而那副扶手看来是硬骨头。
In the hall everything was hard and polished—even the red cheeks of the moon face on the tall clock in the corner had a severe varnished look.
在大厅里,一切是坚硬和被打磨的 -- -- 即使是在角落高高的钟上月面的红色脸颊,都有着一副严重的被粉刷的外观.
The drawing room into which they were ushered was covered by a carpet with a square pattern upon it, the chairs were square, and a heavy marble timepiece stood upon the heavy marble mantel.
他们被带入的取景室被一地毯所覆盖,上面有正方形图案,椅子是正方形的,而一个沉重的大理石计时器站在了沉重的大理石地幔上.
As she sat down in one of the stiff mahogany chairs, Sara cast one of her quick looks about her.
当她坐在一个僵硬的马哈干尼椅子上时 Sara用她的一副快速的表情
“I don’t like it, Papa,” she said.
「我不喜欢,
“But then I dare say soldiers—even brave ones—don’t really like going into battle.”
我却敢说士兵, “
Captain Crewe laughed outright at this.
克鲁船长直言不讳的笑了
He was young and full of fun, and he never tired of hearing Sara’s queer speeches.
他年轻且充满乐趣,
“Oh, little Sara,” he said.
他说:"哦,小萨拉"。
“What shall I do when I have no one to say solemn things to me?
“没有人对我说庄严的话,我该怎么办?
No one else is as solemn as you are.”
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“But why do solemn things make you laugh so?”
“但是,为什么庄严的事物让你如此取笑? “
inquired Sara.
问萨拉。
“Because you are such fun when you say them,” he answered, laughing still more.
他回答说,“因为你说这些话的时候,你很有趣。”
And then suddenly he swept her into his arms and kissed her very hard, stopping laughing all at once and looking almost as if tears had come into his eyes.
然后他突然把她卷入怀中并非常用力地吻她,停止了一次一笑一笑地看着几乎好像眼中流出泪来.
It was just then that Miss Minchin entered the room.
就在那时,敏钦小姐进入了房间.
She was very like her house, Sara felt: tall and dull, and respectable and ugly.
她就像她的房子,Sara觉得: 高而乏味, 和可敬而丑陋。
She had large, cold, fishy eyes, and a large, cold, fishy smile.
她的眼睛大而冷而有鱼 有大而冷而有鱼的微笑
It spread itself into a very large smile when she saw Sara and Captain Crewe.
当她看到萨拉和克鲁船长时,它扩散成一个非常大的微笑.
She had heard a great many desirable things of the young soldier from the lady who had recommended her school to him.
她听到一位年轻士兵 向她推荐学校的女士的很多话
Among other things, she had heard that he was a rich father who was willing to spend a great deal of money on his little daughter.
除其他外,她听说他是一个有钱的父亲,愿意花一大笔钱去照顾他的女儿.
“It will be a great privilege to have charge of such a beautiful and promising child, Captain Crewe,” she said, taking Sara’s hand and stroking it.
" 克鲁船长说,要对这样一个美丽而有希望的孩子负责,将是非常荣幸的。 " 她说,她抓住了萨拉的手并踩住它。
“Lady Meredith has told me of her unusual cleverness.
“梅雷迪丝女士告诉我,她非常聪明。
A clever child is a great treasure in an establishment like mine.”
聪明的孩子是像我这样的机构的宝藏 “
Sara stood quietly, with her eyes fixed upon Miss Minchin’s face.
Sara静静地站着,
She was thinking something odd, as usual.
她像往常一样在想奇怪的事情
“Why does she say I am a beautiful child?”
“为什么她说我是一个美丽的孩子? “
she was thinking.
她在考虑
“I am not beautiful at all.
“我一点也不漂亮。
Colonel Grange’s little girl, Isobel, is beautiful.
Grange上校的小女孩Isobel很漂亮。
She has dimples and rose-colored cheeks, and long hair the color of gold.
她有凹陷和玫瑰色的脸颊 有金色的长发
I have short black hair and green eyes; besides which, I am a thin child and not fair in the least.
我有黑色短发和绿色眼睛;此外,我是一个瘦小的孩子,而且至少不公平。
I am one of the ugliest children I ever saw.
我是我见过最丑的孩子之一。
She is beginning by telling a story.”
她从讲故事开始 “
She was mistaken, however, in thinking she was an ugly child.
然而,她误以为自己是个丑陋的孩子。
She was not in the least like Isobel Grange, who had been the beauty of the regiment, but she had an odd charm of her own.
她并不像伊索贝尔·格朗奇(Isobel Grange,曾是该团的美人),但她拥有自己奇特的魅力.
She was a slim, supple creature, rather tall for her age, and had an intense, attractive little face.
她是一个瘦小又可爱的生物, 相当高的年纪, 而且有一个强烈,迷人的小脸。
Her hair was heavy and quite black and only curled at the tips; her eyes were greenish gray, it is true, but they were big, wonderful eyes with long, black lashes, and though she herself did not like the color of them, many other people did.
她的头发很重,相当黑色,只在尖端上卷曲;她的眼睛是绿色的灰色,这是真的,但眼睛是大而美妙的,长而黑色的鞭子;虽然她自己不喜欢它们的颜色,但许多人也喜欢.
Still she was very firm in her belief that she was an ugly little girl, and she was not at all elated by Miss Minchin’s flattery.
她仍然坚信自己是个丑陋的小女孩,
“I should be telling a story if I said she was beautiful,” she thought; “and I should know I was telling a story.
她认为:“如果我说她很漂亮,我应该讲一个故事,”我应该知道我在讲一个故事。
I believe I am as ugly as she is—in my way.
我相信我像她一样丑陋... 在我的方式。
What did she say that for?”
她为什么这么说? “
After she had known Miss Minchin longer she learned why she had said it.
在她认识了敏钦小姐以后 她才知道她为什么这么说
She discovered that she said the same thing to each papa and mama who brought a child to her school.
她发现,她对每个把孩子带到学校的爸爸妈妈都说了同样的话.
Sara stood near her father and listened while he and Miss Minchin talked.
莎拉站在她父亲身边,一边听他和敏钦小姐说话.
She had been brought to the seminary because Lady Meredith’s two little girls had been educated there, and Captain Crewe had a great respect for Lady Meredith’s experience.
她被带到神学院是因为梅雷迪丝夫人的两个小女孩在那里接受教育,克瑞船长非常尊重梅雷迪丝夫人的经历.
Sara was to be what was known as “a parlor boarder,” and she was to enjoy even greater privileges than parlor boarders usually did.
Sara将成为所谓的“客房客”,她比客房客通常享有更大的特权。
She was to have a pretty bedroom and sitting room of her own; she was to have a pony and a carriage, and a maid to take the place of the ayah who had been her nurse in India.
她要有一个漂亮的卧室和自己的起居室;她要有一个小马和马车,以及一个女佣来代替她在印度当过护士的阿亚.
“I am not in the least anxious about her education,” Captain Crewe said, with his gay laugh, as he held Sara’s hand and patted it.
Crewe上尉说, “我对她的教育并不感到最焦虑。 ”Crewe上尉说,他的同志笑了一下,当时他握住Sara的手并拍了一下。
“The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much.
“困难在于防止她学习太快和太过分。
She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books.
她总是坐在她的小鼻子 挖入书籍。
She doesn’t read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl.
Minchin小姐, 她不读; 她把她们当做一只小狼,
She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books—great, big, fat ones— French and German as well as English—history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things.
她总是渴望着新书被吞噬,她想要成熟的书——伟大的,大的,肥大的——法语和德语,以及英语的历史和传记,诗人,以及各种事情.
Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.
当她读得太多的时候 把她从书上拖走
Make her ride her pony in the Row or go out and buy a new doll.
让她骑她的小马 在行或出去买个新娃娃。
She ought to play more with dolls.”
她应该多玩玩娃娃。 “
“Papa,” said Sara, “you see, if I went out and bought a new doll every few days I should have more than I could be fond of.
“爸爸,”Sara说,“你瞧,如果我每几天出去买个新娃娃,我应该拥有比我更喜欢的东西。
Dolls ought to be intimate friends.
娃娃应该是亲密的朋友
Emily is going to be my intimate friend.”
艾米丽会是我的亲密朋友。 “
Captain Crewe looked at Miss Minchin and Miss Minchin looked at Captain Crewe.
克鲁上尉看着敏钦小姐,而敏钦小姐看着克鲁上尉.
“Who is Emily?”
“谁是艾米莉? “
she inquired.
她问。
“Tell her, Sara,” Captain Crewe said, smiling.
"告诉她,萨拉,"船长 克鲁说,微笑。
Sara’s green-gray eyes looked very solemn and quite soft as she answered.
Sara的绿眼看起来非常庄严和柔软,
“She is a doll I haven’t got yet,” she said.
她是一个我还没有找到的娃娃,
“She is a doll Papa is going to buy for me.
她是一个娃娃,爸爸会给我买。
We are going out together to find her.
我们一起出去找她
I have called her Emily.
我已经叫她艾米莉。
She is going to be my friend when Papa is gone.
爸爸不在的时候 她会成为我的朋友
I want her to talk to about him.”
我想让她谈谈他 “
Miss Minchin’s large, fishy smile became very flattering indeed.
Minchin小姐的大笑容确实变得非常受宠若惊。
“What an original child!”
“多么原始的孩子!”
she said.
她说。
“What a darling little creature!”
"多么可爱的小生物!"
“Yes,” said Captain Crewe, drawing Sara close.
Crewe上尉说,“是的”,使Sara接近。
“She is a darling little creature.
“她是一个可爱的小生物。
Take great care of her for me, Miss Minchin.”
替我好好照顾她,敏钦小姐 “
Sara stayed with her father at his hotel for several days; in fact, she remained with him until he sailed away again to India.
Sara与她父亲在旅馆呆了好几天;事实上,她和他在一起,直到他再次出海去印度.
They went out and visited many big shops together, and bought a great many things.
他们一起出门参观了多家大商店,买了很多东西.
They bought, indeed, a great many more things than Sara needed; but Captain Crewe was a rash, innocent young man and wanted his little girl to have everything she admired and everything he admired himself, so between them they collected a wardrobe much too grand for a child of seven.
他们确实买了比萨拉需要的多很多东西;但是克鲁船长是个草率的,无辜的年轻人,希望他的小女孩拥有她所崇拜的一切和他对自己所崇拜的一切,所以在他们之间,他们为7岁的孩子收集了一件太高的衣橱.
There were velvet dresses trimmed with costly furs, and lace dresses, and embroidered ones, and hats with great, soft ostrich feathers, and ermine coats and muffs, and boxes of tiny gloves and handkerchiefs and silk stockings in such abundant supplies that the polite young women behind the counters whispered to each other that the odd little girl with the big, solemn eyes must be at least some foreign princess—perhaps the little daughter of an Indian rajah.
有绒绒裙被昂贵的皮毛所修饰,有蕾丝裙,有绣花裙,有大而柔软的燕子羽毛的帽子,有棕色的外衣和毛发,还有装有小手套和手帕和丝袜的箱子,在如此丰富的用品中,柜台后面有礼貌的年轻女子互相悄悄地说出,那个有大而庄严的眼睛的古怪小女孩,至少应该是一些外国公主——可能是印度拉贾的小女儿.
And at last they found Emily, but they went to a number of toy shops and looked at a great many dolls before they discovered her.
最终他们找到了艾米丽,但他们去了一些玩具店,在发现她之前,看了一大批娃娃.
“I want her to look as if she wasn’t a doll really,” Sara said.
Sara说:「我希望她看起来像不是娃娃,
“I want her to look as if she listens when I talk to her.
“我希望她看起来像我和她说话时一样听话。
The trouble with dolls, Papa”—and she put her head on one side and reflected as she said it—“the trouble with dolls is that they never seem to hear.”
娃娃的麻烦,爸爸——她把头放在一边,并如她所说地反映了这一点——“娃娃的麻烦是他们似乎从未听到。 “
So they looked at big ones and little ones, at dolls with black eyes and dolls with blue, at dolls with brown curls and dolls with golden braids, dolls dressed and dolls undressed.
于是他们看大个子和小个子,看有黑眼睛的玩偶和有蓝色的玩偶,看有棕色卷发的玩偶和有金发辫的玩偶,穿花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花
“You see,” Sara said when they were examining one who had no clothes.
Sara说,
“If, when I find her, she has no frocks, we can take her to a dressmaker and have her things made to fit.
“如果当我找到她时,她没有衣物,我们可以带她去一个裁缝厂,给她做衣服。
They will fit better if they are tried on.”
他们如果被试穿会更好 “
After a number of disappointments they decided to walk and look in at the shop windows and let the cab follow them.
在多次失望后,他们决定走入商店窗户,让出租车跟着他们。
They had passed two or three places without even going in, when, as they were approaching yet one more, Sara suddenly started and clutched her father’s arm.
他们经过了两到三个地方,甚至没有进去,当他们又接近一个地方时,Sara突然开始并抓住她父亲的手臂。
“Oh, Papa!”
「哦,爸爸! 」
she cried.
她哭着
“There is Emily!”
"有艾米丽!"
A flush had risen to her face and there was an expression in her green-gray eyes as if she had just recognized someone she was intimate with and fond of.
她脸上冒出一股冲浪 在她绿眼中有一种表情 好像她刚刚认出了她亲近和喜欢的人
“She is actually waiting there for us!”
“她实际上在那里等着我们!”
she said.
她说。
“Let us go in to her.”
“让我们进去找她。 “
“Dear me,” said Captain Crewe, “I feel as if we ought to have someone to introduce us.”
克鲁船长说,“亲爱的我,”我认为我们应该有人介绍我们。 “
“You must introduce me and I will introduce you,” said Sara.
Sara说,“你必须介绍我,我将介绍你。”
“But I knew her the minute I saw her—so perhaps she knew me, too.”
“但我一见到她就认识她,也许她也认识我。 “
Perhaps she had known her.
也许她认识她
She had certainly a very intelligent expression in her eyes when Sara took her in her arms.
莎拉抱起她时 她的眼神很聪明
She was a large doll, but not too large to carry about easily; she had naturally curling golden-brown hair, which hung like a mantle about her, and her eyes were a deep, clear gray-blue, with soft, thick eyelashes which were real eyelashes and not mere painted lines.
她是一个大娃娃,但并不太大,不易携带;她有自然而然地卷起的金棕色头发,上面挂着一副地幔,上面挂着她;她的眼睛是深而清晰的灰色蓝色,有柔软而厚的睫毛,是真正的睫毛而不只是被涂上线条.
“Of course,” said Sara, looking into her face as she held her on her knee, “of course, Papa, this is Emily.”
“当然,”Sara说,“当然,这是Emily。 “
So Emily was bought and actually taken to a children’s outfitter’s shop and measured for a wardrobe as grand as Sara’s own.
Emily被买下并被带去儿童服装店,
She had lace frocks, too, and velvet and muslin ones, and hats and coats and beautiful lace-trimmed underclothes, and gloves and handkerchiefs and furs.
她有蕾丝花纹 还有花绒和木丝林花纹 帽子和外套 还有漂亮的花纹花纹下衣 手套和手帕和毛皮
“I should like her always to look as if she was a child with a good mother,” said Sara.
Sara说:“我希望她永远看起来像一个有好母亲的孩子。”
Captain Crewe would really have enjoyed the shopping tremendously, but that a sad thought kept tugging at his heart.
克鲁船长本来会非常喜欢购物的 但那个悲哀的想法一直拖着他
This all meant that he was going to be separated from his beloved, quaint little comrade.
这都意味着他要和他心爱的小同志分开
He got out of his bed in the middle of that night and went and stood looking down at Sara, who lay asleep with Emily in her arms.
当晚他从床上走出,并站了下来看着莎拉,她怀着艾米莉睡了.
Her black hair was spread out on the pillow and Emily’s golden-brown hair mingled with it, both of them had lace-ruffled nightgowns, and both had long eyelashes which lay and curled up on their cheeks.
她的黑发被放出枕头,艾米丽的金棕发也随之相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相去相
Emily looked so like a real child that Captain Crewe felt glad she was there.
艾米丽看起来就像一个真正的孩子 克鲁船长觉得很高兴她在那里。
He drew a big sigh and pulled his mustache with a boyish expression.
他画出一股巨大的叹息并用男孩般的表情拉出他的胡子.
“Heigh-ho, little Sara!”
"嘿,小萨拉!"
he said to himself.
他对自己说。
“I don’t believe you know how much your daddy will miss you.”
「我不相信你知道你爸爸会多么想念你。 “
The next day he took her to Miss Minchin’s and left her there.
第二天,他带她去Minchin小姐那里,把她留在了那里。
He was to sail away the next morning.
第二天早上他要启程
He explained to Miss Minchin that his solicitors, Messrs.
他向Minchin小姐解释 他的律师先生们
Barrow & Skipworth, had charge of his affairs in England and would give her any advice she wanted, and that they would pay the bills she sent in for Sara’s expenses.
Barrow & Skipworth在英国负责他的事务, 她愿意给她任何建议,
He would write to Sara twice a week, and she was to be given every pleasure she asked for.
他每周会给Sara写信两次 她会得到她想要的一切快乐
“She is a sensible little thing, and she never wants anything it isn’t safe to give her,” he said.
她从来不想要任何不安全的东西。
Then he went with Sara into her little sitting room and they bade each other good-bye.
然后他和Sara进了她的小客厅 他们互相告别
Sara sat on his knee and held the lapels of his coat in her small hands, and looked long and hard at his face.
莎拉坐在他的膝盖上,将他外衣的纹章握在了她的小手上,并长而硬地看着他的脸.
“ Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?”
“...... 莎拉,你是真心的吗? “
he said, stroking her hair.
他说,拖她的头发。
“No,” she answered.
" 不, " 她回答说。
“I know you by heart.
“我真心认识你。
You are inside my heart.”
你在我的心脏。 “
And they put their arms round each other and kissed as if they would never let each other go.
他们把双臂相绕相接相接 就像他们永远不会放过对方一样
When the cab drove away from the door, Sara was sitting on the floor of her sitting room, with her hands under her chin and her eyes following it until it had turned the corner of the square.
当出租车从门上开走时,萨拉正坐在她起居室的地上,手放在下巴下,她的眼睛紧跟在后,直到广场转角.
Emily was sitting by her, and she looked after it, too.
艾米丽坐在她身边 她也照顾它
When Miss Minchin sent her sister, Miss Amelia, to see what the child was doing, she found she could not open the door.
当明钦小姐派妹妹阿梅莉亚小姐去看孩子在做什么时,她发现自己无法打开门.
“I have locked it,” said a queer, polite little voice from inside.
“我锁了它,”从里面听到一个怪异而礼貌的小声音。
“I want to be quite by myself, if you please.”
“如果你愿意,我想一个人待着。 “
Miss Amelia was fat and dumpy, and stood very much in awe of her sister.
阿梅莉亚小姐又胖又笨,非常怕她妹妹
She was really the better-natured person of the two, but she never disobeyed Miss Minchin.
她其实是两人中比较成熟的人,但她从未违抗明钦小姐.
She went downstairs again, looking almost alarmed.
她又下楼了 几乎吓坏了
“I never saw such a funny, old-fashioned child, sister,” she said.
她说,“我从未见过这样一个滑稽、老式的孩子,姐妹”。
“She has locked herself in, and she is not making the least particle of noise.”
“她把自己锁在了里面,她并没有制造出最小的噪音。 “
“It is much better than if she kicked and screamed, as some of them do,” Miss Minchin answered.
Minchin小姐回答说,“比她像他们中有些人那样踢和叫要好得多。”
“I expected that a child as much spoiled as she is would set the whole house in an uproar.
“我期望一个像被宠坏一样被宠坏的孩子会把整个房子建在高地上。
If ever a child was given her own way in everything, she is.”
如果一个孩子得到了她自己的方式 在一切,她是。 “
“I’ve been opening her trunks and putting her things away,” said Miss Amelia.
Amelia小姐说,
“I never saw anything like them—sable and ermine on her coats, and real Valenciennes lace on her underclothing.
“我从未见过任何类似的东西——她的外衣上装有可装的和可装的,而她的下衣上装有真正的瓦伦西内斯花纹。
You have seen some of her clothes.
你见过她的一些衣服。
What do you think of them?”
你觉得他们怎么样? “
“I think they are perfectly ridiculous,” replied Miss Minchin, sharply; “but they will look very well at the head of the line when we take the schoolchildren to church on Sunday.
Minchin小姐直截了当地回答说,“我认为他们很荒谬,但星期天我们带学童去教堂时,他们会非常看好排头。
She has been provided for as if she were a little princess.”
她被养成一个小公主 “
And upstairs in the locked room Sara and Emily sat on the floor and stared at the corner round which the cab had disappeared, while Captain Crewe looked backward, waving and kissing his hand as if he could not bear to stop.
楼上锁好的房间Sara和Emily坐在地上,盯着出租车已经消失的转角圆圈,而Crewe船长则向后看,挥手接吻,仿佛无法忍受停下来.