A Little Princess
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
In Part 2 of A Little Princess, the class discovers that Sara is fluent in French.
在"小公主"的第二部分中,班级发现萨拉能流利地讲法语.
This fact angers Miss Minchin, who is not.
这个事实令敏钦小姐很生气,她不是.
Part Three: Ermengarde n that first morning, when Sara sat at Miss Minchin’s side, aware that the whole schoolroom was devoting itself to observing her, she had noticed very soon one little girl, about her own age, who looked at her very hard with a pair of light, rather dull, blue eyes.
第三部分:Ermengarde n在第一早,当Sara坐在Minchin小姐一旁时,意识到整个教室都致力于观察她,她很快注意到了一位小女孩,即她自己的年龄,她用一双光线、相当沉闷而蓝色的眼睛看着她。
She was a fat child who did not look as if she were in the least clever, but she had a good- naturedly pouting mouth.
她是一个胖子,看起来不像她最不聪明, 但她有一个很好的自然出气口。
Her flaxen hair was braided in a tight pigtail, tied with a ribbon, and she had pulled this pigtail around her neck, and was biting the end of the ribbon, resting her elbows on the desk, as she stared wonderingly at the new pupil.
她的花纹发被一条紧紧的猪尾辫所缠绕,被丝带绑住,她已经把这条猪尾辫拉到脖子上,并正在咬去丝带的末端,将她的肘部放入桌子上,就像她对新学生的惊奇地注视.
When Monsieur Dufarge began to speak to Sara, the girl looked a little frightened; and when Sara stepped forward and, looking at him with the innocent, appealing eyes, answered him, without any warning, in French, the fat little girl gave a startled jump, and grew quite red in her awed amazement.
当杜法格先生开始和萨拉说话时,这个女孩看起来有点害怕;当萨拉站出前去,用无辜的人看着他,吸引人的眼睛,毫无警告地回答他,在法语中,胖小女孩跳了个出乎意料的跳出来,在她受宠的惊叹中变得相当红.
Having wept hopeless tears for weeks in her efforts to remember that “la mère” meant “the mother,” and “le père,” “the father,”— when one spoke sensible English—it was almost too much for her suddenly to find herself listening to a child her own age who seemed not only quite familiar with these words, but apparently knew any number of others, and could mix them up with verbs as if they were mere trifles.
在她努力记住“la mère”意为“母亲”和“le père”,“父亲”——当她说明智的英语时——这几个星期来流了无望的泪水,对她来说几乎太过分了,她突然发现自己听了一个孩子,她这个年龄的孩子似乎不仅非常熟悉这些话,而且显然知道其他几个话,而且可以把它们和动词混为一谈,好像这些话只是琐碎。
She stared so hard and bit the ribbon on her pigtail so fast that she attracted the attention of Miss Minchin, who, feeling extremely cross at the moment, immediately pounced upon her.
她凝视得如此之快,将丝带咬入了她的猪尾,以至于她吸引了敏钦小姐的注意,敏钦小姐当时感觉非常的交叉,立即扑向她.
“Miss St.
“圣塔克女士
John!”
约翰!”
she exclaimed severely.
她非常叹息
“What do you mean by such conduct?
“这种行为是什么意思?
Remove your elbows!
把你的手肘拿开!
Take your ribbon out of your mouth!
把你的丝带拿开!
Sit up at once!”
立刻坐起来!”
Upon which Miss St.
圣克丽丝小姐
John gave another jump, and when Lavinia and Jessie tittered she became redder than ever—so red, indeed, that she almost looked as if tears were coming into her poor, dull, childish eyes; and Sara saw her and was so sorry for her that she began rather to like her and want to be her friend.
约翰又给了她一跳,当拉维尼亚和杰西猛地咬她的时候,她变得比以往更红了——的确如此,她几乎看起来好像眼泪流入了她那可怜的,乏味的,幼稚的眼睛;而萨拉看到她并非常同情她,于是她开始喜欢她,想成为她的朋友.
It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.
她总是想陷入任何 让人不舒服或不快乐的混乱之中
“If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago,” her father used to say, “she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress.
“如果Sara是男孩,在几个世纪前生活的话,”她的父亲曾说,“她会带着她拔出剑来,拯救和保卫所有处于困境的人。
She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.”
她总是想当她看到人们遇到麻烦时战斗. “
So she took rather a fancy to fat, slow, little Miss St.
所以她对胖子很着迷 慢着 小圣小姐
John, and kept glancing toward her through the morning.
约翰,直到早上都盯着她
She saw that lessons were no easy matter to her, and that there was no danger of her ever being spoiled by being treated as a show pupil.
她认为,课程对她来说并非易事,而且她不会因为被当做表演学生而受到宠坏。
Miss St.
圣多伦小姐
John’s French lesson was a pathetic thing.
约翰的法语课是可悲的。
Her pronunciation made even Monsieur Dufarge smile in spite of himself, and Lavinia and Jessie and the more fortunate girls either giggled or looked at her in wondering disdain.
她的发音甚至让杜法奇先生不顾自己而微笑,而拉维尼亚和杰西以及比较幸运的女孩们要么笑了起来,要么看着她去想轻蔑.
But Sara did not laugh.
但萨拉没有笑。
She tried to look as if she did not hear when Miss St.
她试图看起来像没有听到 当圣斯小姐。
John called “le bon pain,” “lee bong pang.”
约翰称“Lee bong pang”为“le bon pain”,“Lee bong pang”。 “
She had a fine, hot little temper of her own, and it made her feel rather savage when she heard the titters and saw the poor, stupid, distressed child’s face.
当她听到奶子并看到那个可怜的、愚蠢的、痛苦的孩子的脸时,她感到相当野蛮。
“It isn’t funny, really,” she said between her teeth, as she bent over her book.
“这不好笑,
“They ought not to laugh.”
“他们不应该笑。 “
When lessons were over and the pupils gathered together in groups to talk, Sara looked for Miss St.
当课程结束,学生们聚集在一起进行分组谈话时,萨拉找了St.
John, and finding her bundled rather disconsolately in a window seat, she walked over to her and spoke.
约翰,发现她被捆绑在窗外的座位上很不愉快,她走到她面前说话.
She only said the kind of thing little girls always say to each other by way of beginning an acquaintance, but there was something friendly about Sara, and people always felt it.
她只是说那种小姑娘总是通过开始相识的方式对彼此说出的话,但萨拉有些友善的话,人们总是感觉到.
“What is your name?”
“你叫什么名字? “
she said.
她说。
To explain Miss St.
为了解释圣德小姐
John’s amazement one must recall that a new pupil is, for a short time, a somewhat uncertain thing; and of this new pupil the entire school had talked the night before until it fell asleep quite exhausted by excitement and contradictory stories.
约翰令人惊叹的是,一位新学生在很短的时间内是一件有些不确定的事情;在这位新学生中,整个学校在前一天晚上讲了话,直到被激动和自相矛盾的故事所耗尽。
A new pupil with a carriage and a pony and a maid, and a voyage from India to discuss, was not an ordinary acquaintance.
一个有马车、小马和女佣的新学生, 以及从印度来讨论的航行, 并不是普通的熟人。
“My name’s Ermengarde St.
“我的名字是Ermengarde St.
John,” she answered.
约翰,“她回答。
“Mine is Sara Crewe,” said Sara.
Sara说,“我是Sara Crewe”。
“Yours is very pretty.
“你的很漂亮。
It sounds like a story book.”
听起来像一本故事书 “
“Do you like it?”
“你喜欢吗? “
fluttered Ermengarde.
挥霍了埃尔门加德。
“I—I like yours.”
我喜欢你 “
Miss St.
圣多伦小姐
John’s chief trouble in life was that she had a clever father.
约翰一生的主要麻烦在于她有一个聪明的父亲.
Sometimes this seemed to her a dreadful calamity.
有时候这对她来说是可怕的灾难
If you have a father who knows everything, who speaks seven or eight languages, and has thousands of volumes which he has apparently learned by heart, he frequently expects you to be familiar with the contents of your lesson books at least; and it is not improbable that he will feel you ought to be able to remember a few incidents of history and to write a French exercise.
如果你有一个懂得一切,会讲七八种语言的父亲,并且有他显然从心底学到的上千卷,他经常期望你至少熟悉你的课本的内容;他觉得你应该能够记住一些历史事件并写出法语练习,这是不可能的.
Ermengarde was a severe trial to Mr.
对Ermengarde先生来说是一个严重的审判。
St.
圣会.
John.
约翰
He could not understand how a child of his could be a notably and unmistakably dull creature who never shone in anything.
他无法理解他的孩子怎么会是一个 明显和毫不含糊的无趣的生物 从未在任何东西中出现过
“Good heavens!”
"老天爷!"
he had said more than once, as he stared at her, “there are times when I think she is as stupid as her Aunt Eliza!”
他不止一次地说,当他盯着她看时,“有时我认为她像她姨妈伊丽莎一样愚蠢!”
If her Aunt Eliza had been slow to learn and quick to forget a thing entirely when she had learned it, Ermengarde was strikingly like her.
如果Eliza姨妈学得慢 也快忘了她学过的东西 Ermengarde和她很相似
She was the monumental dunce of the school, and it could not be denied.
她是学校的顶级人物,不可否认。
“She must be made to learn,” her father said to Miss Minchin.
她的父亲对Minchin小姐说,“她必须学习”。
Consequently Ermengarde spent the greater part of her life in disgrace or in tears.
因此,埃尔门加德一生中的大部分时间都是在耻辱中或眼泪中度过的.
She learned things and forgot them; or, if she remembered them, she did not understand them.
她学了些东西,却忘记了这些东西;或者,如果记得这些东西,她就不了解这些东西。
So it was natural that, having made Sara’s acquaintance, she should sit and stare at her with profound admiration.
因此,让Sara相识后,她自然应当以深切的钦佩而坐并凝视她.
“You can speak French, can’t you?”
「你会说法语, “
she said respectfully.
她说很恭敬
Sara got on to the window seat, which was a big, deep one, and, tucking up her feet, sat with her hands clasped round her knees.
Sara走到了窗外的座位上,那座位是大而深的一面,并用她的脚,用她的双手围住她的膝盖而坐.
“I can speak it because I have heard it all my life,” she answered.
她回答说:“我可以说,因为我一生都听到。”
“You could speak it if you had always heard it.”
“如果你一直听到,你可以说。 “
“Oh, no, I couldn’t,” said Ermengarde.
Ermengarde说,
“I never could speak it!”
“我永远不会说!”
“Why?”
“为什么?”
inquired Sara, curiously.
好奇地问了莎拉
Ermengarde shook her head so that the pigtail wobbled.
埃尔门加德摇起头来,使猪尾摇摆.
“You heard me just now,” she said.
她说,“刚才你听到我说的话了”。
“I’m always like that.
“我总是这样。
I can’t say the words.
我不能说这些话。
They’re so queer.”
他们是如此古怪。 “
She paused a moment, and then added with a touch of awe in her voice, “You are clever, aren’t you?”
她暂停了一会儿,然后在她的声音中加了一点敬畏:"你很聪明,不是吗? “
Sara looked out of the window into the dingy square, where the sparrows were hopping and twittering on the wet, iron railings and the sooty branches of the trees.
萨拉从窗户外望入丁基广场,在那里麻雀正在购物并用推特在湿润,铁栏杆上和树上高耸的树枝上.
She reflected a few moments.
她反映了一些时刻。
She had heard it said very often that she was “clever,” and she wondered if she was—and if she was, how it had happened.
她经常听到有人说她是“聪明的”,她想知道她是否是——如果是的话,情况是如何发生的。
“I don’t know,” she said.
她说:“我不知道,”
“I can’t tell.”
" 我看不出来。 “
Then, seeing a mournful look on the round, chubby face, she gave a little laugh and changed the subject.
后来,在圆上看到一副悲哀的外表,又胖又胖的相貌,她给人一点取笑并改变了话题.
“Would you like to see Emily?”
"你想见艾米丽吗? “
she inquired.
她问。
“Who is Emily?”
“谁是艾米莉? “
Ermengarde asked, just as Miss Minchin had done.
埃门加德问,就像敏钦小姐所做的。
“Come up to my room and see,” said Sara, holding out her hand.
Sara说,“来我房间看看,”她伸出了手。
They jumped down from the window seat together, and went upstairs.
他们一起从窗户上跳下来,然后上楼。
“Is it true,” Ermengarde whispered, as they went through the hall—“is it true that you have a playroom all to yourself?”
" 这是真的,"埃尔门加德悄悄地说,当他们穿过大厅时——"你是否真的拥有一个游戏室? “
“Yes,” Sara answered.
“是的”,萨拉回答。
“Papa asked Miss Minchin to let me have one, because—well, it was because when I play I make up stories and tell them to myself, and I don’t like people to hear me.
" 帕帕请明钦小姐给我一个,因为——嗯,是因为当我演奏的时候,我编造出故事并告诉自己,我不喜欢人们听到我的话。
It spoils it if I think people listen.”
如果有人听的话,那会毁了它 “
They had reached the passage leading to Sara’s room by this time, and Ermengarde stopped short, staring, and quite losing her breath.
他们已经到达了通往Sara房间的通道,Ermengarde停了下来,凝视了一下,而且完全失去了呼吸。
“You make up stories!”
“你编故事! “
she gasped.
她气喘吁吁的。 她喘不过气了。
“Can you do that—as well as speak French?
" 你能这样做吗?
Can you?”
你能吗? “
Sara looked at her in simple surprise.
莎拉很惊讶地看着她
“Why, anyone can make up things,” she said.
她说,“为什么任何人都可以编造东西。”
“Have you never tried?”
“你没有试过吗? “
She put her hand warningly on Ermengarde’s.
她用手警告Ermengarde。
“Let us go very quietly to the door,” she whispered, “and then I will open it quite suddenly; perhaps we may catch her.”
她悄悄地说,“让我们悄悄地走到门口,然后我突然打开门;也许我们可以抓住她。 “
She was half laughing, but there was a touch of mysterious hope in her eyes which fascinated Ermengarde, though she had not the remotest idea what it meant, or whom it was she wanted to “catch,” or why she wanted to catch her.
她笑了一半,但在她的眼睛里却有一种神秘的希望,这令埃尔门加德着迷,虽然她没有最遥远的主意,或者她想“抓住”谁,或者为什么她想抓住她。
Whatsoever Sara meant, Ermengarde was sure it was something delightfully exciting.
不管Sara的意思是什么,Ermengarde肯定 这是令人愉快的刺激。
So, quite thrilled with expectation, she followed her on tiptoe along the passage.
因此,非常兴奋的期待, 她跟着她 尖脚踏上通道。
They made not the least noise until they reached the door.
直到他们到达门口,他们才发出声音。
Then Sara suddenly turned the handle, and threw it wide open.
然后萨拉突然转动了手柄,并把它大开口.
Its opening revealed the room quite neat and quiet, a fire gently burning in the grate, and a wonderful doll sitting in a chair by it, apparently reading a book.
它的开放揭示了这个房间相当整洁而安静,一个火轻轻地烧在了壁炉里,和一个坐在旁边的椅子上,显然读了一本书的美妙娃娃.
“Oh, she got back to her seat before we could see her!”
"哦,她回到她的座位上,在我们能看到她之前!"
Sara explained.
莎拉解释。
“Of course they always do.
“当然,他们总是这样做。
They are as quick as lightning.”
他们和闪电一样快 “
Ermengarde looked from her to the doll and back again.
Ermengarde从她看 娃娃又回来了。
“Can she—walk?”
" 她能行走吗? “
she asked breathlessly.
她无气息地问。
“Yes,” answered Sara.
“是的,”回答萨拉。
“ At least I believe she can.
“...... 至少我相信她会的
At least I pretend I believe she can.
至少我假装我相信她可以
And that makes it seem as if it were true.
由此看来,这似乎是真的。
Have you never pretended things?”
你从没假装过什么? “
“No,” said Ermengarde.
Ermengarde说,“没有,”
“Never.
“绝不。
I—tell me about it.”
我... 告诉我 “
She was so bewitched by this odd, new companion that she actually stared at Sara instead of at Emily—notwithstanding that Emily was the most attractive doll person she had ever seen.
她被这个怪异的新伴侣所迷惑 她其实是盯着莎拉而不是艾蜜莉的 尽管艾蜜莉是她见过的最有魅力的娃娃
“Let us sit down,” said Sara, “and I will tell you.
萨拉说,“让我们坐下来,”我要告诉你。
It’s so easy that when you begin you can’t stop.
当你开始的时候,
You just go on and on doing it always.
你总是继续做下去
And it’s beautiful.
而且它很美丽。
Emily, you must listen.
艾米丽,你必须听。
This is Ermengarde St.
这是埃尔门加德圣.
John, Emily.
(原始内容存档于2018-10-22). John, Emily.
Ermengarde, this is Emily.
埃门加德,这是艾米莉。
Would you like to hold her?”
你想抱抱她吗? “
“Oh, may I?”
“我可以吗? “
said Ermengarde.
厄门加德说
“May I, really?
“我真的可以吗?
She is beautiful!”
她很美丽!”
And Emily was put into her arms.
而艾米丽被放入了怀中.
Never in her dull, short life had Miss St.
从来没有在她的无聊, 短暂的生活有圣小姐。
John dreamed of such an hour as the one she spent with the queer new pupil before they heard the lunch-bell ring and were obliged to go downstairs.
约翰梦见一个小时 就像她和那个怪胎新学生一起度过的那个小时 在他们听到午餐铃声之前
Sara sat upon the hearth-rug and told her strange things.
Sara坐在车道上 告诉她奇怪的事情
She sat rather huddled up, and her green eyes shone and her cheeks flushed.
她坐了起来 绿眼睛发光 脸颊被冲走
She told stories of the voyage, and stories of India; but what fascinated Ermengarde the most was her fancy about the dolls who walked and talked, and who could do anything they chose when the human beings were out of the room, but who must keep their powers a secret and so flew back to their places “like lightning” when people returned to the room.
她讲述了航行的故事和印度的故事;但最令埃尔门加德着迷的是她对行走和说话的玩偶的幻想,当人类出门时,她可以做他们选择的任何事,但必须保守他们的能力,因此当人们回到房间时,他飞回他们的地方“像闪电一样”。
“We couldn’t do it,” said Sara, seriously.
Sara说:“我们做不到,
“You see, it’s a kind of magic.”
“你看,这是一种魔法。 “
Once, when she was relating the story of the search for Emily, Ermengarde saw her face suddenly change.
有一次,当她涉及寻找艾米莉的故事时,埃尔门加德看到她的脸突然变了.
A cloud seemed to pass over it and put out the light in her shining eyes.
一朵云似乎穿过了它,将光照出她闪耀的眼睛.
She drew her breath in so sharply that it made a funny, sad little sound, and then she shut her lips and held them tightly closed, as if she was determined either to do or not to do something.
她的呼吸非常尖锐地画出一副搞笑而悲哀的小声音,然后她闭上了嘴唇,紧紧地紧紧地关住嘴,仿佛她决心要么做要么不做.
Ermengarde had an idea that she might suddenly burst out sobbing and crying.
Ermengarde有一个想法, 她可能突然爆出 哭泣和哭泣。
But she did not.
但她没有。
“Have you a—a pain?”
" 你感到痛苦吗? “
Ermengarde ventured.
埃尔门加德冒险。
“Yes,” Sara answered, after a moment’s silence.
“是的,”Sara回答说,
“But it is not in my body.”
“但这不是在我体内。 “
Then she added something in a low voice which she tried to keep quite steady, and it was this: “Do you love your father more than anything else in all the whole world?”
然后她用低音加了一些东西, 她试图保持相当稳定, “全世界你最爱你父亲了吗? “
Ermengarde’s mouth fell open a little.
Ermengarde的口角稍有张开。
She knew that it would be far from behaving like a respectable child at a select seminary to say that it had never occurred to you that you could love your father, that you would do anything desperate to avoid being left alone in his society for ten minutes.
她知道,在某所神学院里,要说,你从未想过你可以爱你的父亲,你会做任何绝望的事,以免被留在他家里10分钟。
She was, indeed, greatly embarrassed.
她确实非常尴尬
“I—I scarcely ever see him,” she stammered.
"我,我很少见到他,"她结巴了。
“He is always in the library—reading things.”
" 他总是在图书馆里阅读东西。 “
“I love mine more than all the world ten times over,” Sara said.
Sara说:“我比全世界更爱我十倍。”
“That is what my pain is.
“这就是我的痛苦。
He has gone away.”
他已经走了。 “
She put her head quietly down on her little, huddled-up knees, and sat very still for a few minutes.
她悄悄地把头放倒了她的小膝盖上,并非常静地地坐了几分钟.
“She’s going to cry out loud,” thought Ermengarde, fearfully.
Ermengarde认为“她会大叫起来,
But she did not.
但她没有。
Her short, black locks tumbled about her ears, and she sat still.
她的短而黑色的锁 在她的耳朵上起伏, 她坐了下来。
Then she spoke without lifting her head.
然后她不举起头就说话了
“I promised him I would bear it,” she said.
她说,“我答应过他,我会忍受的。”
“ And I will.
“...... 我会的
You have to bear things.
你必须承担一些事情。
Think what soldiers bear!
想想看,士兵们都承受着什么!
Papa is a soldier.
爸爸是个军人
If there was a war he would have to bear marching and thirstiness and, perhaps, deep wounds.
如果有战争,他必须忍受行军和口渴,也许还有深重的伤口。
And he would never say a word—not one word.”
他绝不说一句话,绝不说一句话。 “
Ermengarde could only gaze at her.
Ermengarde只能盯着她看
Sara was so wonderful and different from anyone else.
莎拉是如此的美妙 和任何其他人不同。
Presently, Sara lifted her face and shook back her black locks, with a queer little smile.
目前,萨拉抬起她的脸并摇回了她的黑锁,带着一个怪异的小微笑.
“If I go on talking and talking,” she said, “and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better.
她说,“如果我继续交谈和交谈,”她说,“告诉你关于假装的事情,我将更忍受。
You don’t forget, but you bear it better.”
你没有忘记, “
Ermengarde did not know why a lump came into her throat and her eyes felt as if tears were in them.
Ermengarde不知道为什么一个肿块 进入她的喉咙, 她的眼睛感觉好像泪水里有。
“Lavinia and Jessie are ‘best friends,’” she said rather huskily.
“拉维尼亚和杰西是`最好的朋友',”她说得相当粗鲁。
“I wish we could be ‘best friends.’
“我希望我们能成为最好的朋友。 " ; "
Would you have me for yours?
你会有我为你吗?
You’re clever, and I’m the stupidest child in the school, but I—oh, I do so like you!”
你是聪明的, 我是学校里最蠢的孩子, “
“I’m glad of that,” said Sara.
Sara说,
“Yes.
“对。
We will be friends.
我们会成为朋友的
And I’ll tell you what”—a sudden gleam lighting her face—“I can help you with your French lessons.”
我将告诉你,“突然闪光照亮她的脸,我可以帮助你上法语课。 “
Glossary bewitched (v.)
术语表被拼写(v.)
(adv.)
(编).