A Little Princess
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
In Part 3 of A Little Princess, Sara befriends lonely Ermengarde, a girl poor in intelligence and imagination but rich in admiration.
在"小公主"的第三部分中,萨拉是孤独的埃门加德(Ermengarde)的好友,这个女孩在智力和想象力上都比较贫乏,但很受人钦佩.
Part Four: Lottie f Sara had been a different kind of child, the life she led at Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for the next few years would not have been at all good for her.
第四部分:Lottie f Sara曾经是另一种孩子,她接下来几年在Minchin小姐的"精选神学院"中度过的生活对她完全不好。
She was treated more as if she were a distinguished guest at the establishment than as if she were a mere little girl.
她受到的待遇更像是她是一个杰出的来宾 而不是她只是一个小女孩。
If she had been a self-opinionated, domineering child, she might have become disagreeable enough to be unbearable through being so much indulged and flattered.
如果她是个自恋自恋的 迷人的孩子 她可能会变得很不自在
If she had been an indolent child, she would have learned nothing.
如果她是个无礼的孩子 她就不会学到什么
Privately Miss Minchin disliked her, but she was far too worldly a woman to do or say anything which might make such a desirable pupil wish to leave her school.
私人的敏钦小姐不喜欢她,但她是个太过天下的女人,不能做或说出任何可能让这样一个理想的学生希望离开学校的事情.
She knew quite well that if Sara wrote to her papa to tell him she was uncomfortable or unhappy, Captain Crewe would remove her at once.
她很清楚 如果Sara写信给她爸爸 告诉他她不舒服或者不开心 Crewe上尉会马上把她带走
Miss Minchin’s opinion was that if a child were continually praised and never forbidden to do what she liked, she would be sure to be fond of the place where she was so treated.
Minchin小姐的看法是,如果一个孩子不断受到赞扬,从不被禁止做她喜欢的事,她肯定会喜欢她受到如此待遇的地方。
Accordingly, Sara was praised for her quickness at her lessons, for her good manners, for her amiability to her fellow pupils, for her generosity if she gave sixpence to a beggar out of her full little purse; the simplest thing she did was treated as if it were a virtue, and if she had not had a clever little brain, she might have been a very self-satisfied young person.
因此,萨拉被称赞为在上课时的快活,良好的礼仪,对同学的友好,如果她从满满的小包里给一个乞丐六便士,那么她的慷慨;她做的最简单的事情被当做是美德,如果她没有聪明的小脑筋,她可能是一个非常自满的年轻人.
But the clever little brain told her a great many sensible and true things about herself and her circumstances, and now and then she talked these things over with Ermengarde.
但是聪明的小大脑 告诉她很多关于她自己和她的 真实的明智的事情 然后她和埃尔门加德谈过了
“Things happen to people by accident,” she used to say.
她常说:“事情是偶然发生的。”
“ A lot of nice accidents have happened to me.
“我发生了许多美好的事故。
It just happened that I always liked lessons and books, and could remember things when I learned them.”
我总是喜欢上课和书, 并且可以记得我学到的东西。 “
“It just happened that I was born with a father who was beautiful and nice and clever, and could give me everything I liked.
“只是我出生时有一个父亲,他美丽而聪明,可以给我我喜欢的一切。
Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered?
也许 我没有真正的好脾气,但是如果你有你想要的一切,每个人都对你好,你怎么能帮助,但要是有好脾气呢?
I don’t know”—looking quite serious—“how I shall ever find out whether I am really a nice child or a horrid one.
我不知道“看来相当严肃”,“我怎样才能知道自己是否真的是个好孩子,
Perhaps I’m a hideous child, and no one will ever know, just because I never have any trials.”
或许我是一个可怕的孩子, “
“Lavinia has no trials,” said Ermengarde, stolidly, “and she is horrid enough.”
Ermengarde说:“拉维尼亚没有审判, “
Sara rubbed the end of her little nose reflectively, as she thought the matter over.
Sara反省地擦了下她小鼻子的一端 当她想清楚这件事情时
“Well,” she said at last, “perhaps—perhaps that is because Lavinia is growing.”
" 嗯, " 她最后说, " 也许 -- 也许是因为拉维尼亚正在增长。 “
This was the result of a charitable recollection of having heard Miss Amelia say that Lavinia was growing so fast that she believed it affected her health and temper.
这是一次慈善回忆的结果,她听到阿梅莉亚小姐说拉维尼亚生长得如此快,以至于她相信这影响了她的健康与脾气.
Lavinia, in fact, was spiteful.
拉维尼亚,事实上,是充满了怨恨。
She was inordinately jealous of Sara.
她太嫉妒了萨拉。
Until the new pupil’s arrival, she had felt herself the leader in the school.
在新学生到来之前,她感到自己是学校的领导者。
She had led because she was capable of making herself extremely disagreeable if the others did not follow her.
她之所以领导是因为如果其他人不跟随她,她能够使自己极不满意。
She domineered over the little children, and assumed grand airs with those big enough to be her companions.
她迷恋了孩子们, 和那些大到足以成为她同伴的空气。
She was rather pretty, and had been the best-dressed pupil in the procession when the Select Seminary walked out two by two, until Sara’s velvet coats and sable muffs appeared, combined with drooping ostrich feathers, and were led by Miss Minchin at the head of the line.
她相当漂亮,在"精选神学院"出道时,她一直是游行中穿得最好的学生,直到莎拉所穿的天鹅绒外衣和可口可乐出场后,与被打倒的燕子羽毛结合,由明钦小姐领衔主演.
This, at the beginning, had been bitter enough; but as time went on it became apparent that Sara was a leader, too, and not because she could make herself disagreeable, but because she never did.
这在开始的时候已经够苦了;但是随着时间的流逝,莎拉显然也是一个领袖,而不是因为她可以让自己不满意,而是因为她从来没有这样做过.
“There’s one thing about Sara Crewe,” Jessie had enraged her “best friend” by saying honestly, “she’s never ‘grand’ about herself the least bit, and you know she might be, Lavvie.
Jessie激怒了她的“好友 ” , 诚实地说, “她从不对自己感到忧郁,
I believe I couldn’t help being—just a little—if I had so many fine things and was made such a fuss over.
我相信如果我有这么多好东西,
It’s disgusting, the way Miss Minchin shows her off when parents come.”
Minchin小姐在父母来的时候, “
“She didn’t learn her French at the Seminary, at any rate.
" 她根本没有在神学院学习法语。
And there’s nothing so clever in her knowing it.
也没什么聪明的。
She says herself she didn’t learn it at all.
她表示自己根本没学过。
She just picked it up, because she always heard her papa speak it.
她只是捡起它, 因为她总是听到她的父亲说它。
And, as to her papa, there is nothing so grand in being an Indian officer.”
至于她爸爸 做印度军官没什么大不了的 “
“Well,” said Jessie, slowly, “he’s killed tigers.
Jessie慢地说,“他杀死了老虎。
He killed the one in the skin Sara has in her room.
他杀了Sara房间里那个皮肤上的人
That’s why she likes it so.
所以她喜欢这样。
She lies on it and strokes its head, and talks to it as if it was a cat.”
她躺在那里并打出它的头, 和它说话就像一只猫。 “
“She’s always doing something silly,” snapped Lavinia.
她总是做傻事,
“My mama says that way of hers of pretending things is silly.
“我妈妈说,她假装事情是愚蠢的。
She says she will grow up eccentric.”
她说她长大后会很古怪 “
It was quite true that Sara was never “grand.”
萨拉确实从未“曾”出过名。 “
She was a friendly little soul, and shared her privileges and belongings with a free hand.
她是一个友好的小灵魂,并以自由之手分享她的特权和财物.
The little ones, who were accustomed to being disdained and ordered out of the way by mature ladies aged ten and twelve, were never made to cry by this most envied of them all.
小姑娘们习惯被十到十二岁成熟的女士们鄙视和命令出道,他们从未被这群最羡慕的人逼得哭泣.
She was a motherly young person, and when people fell down and scraped their knees, she ran and helped them up and patted them, or found in her pocket a bonbon or some other soothing article.
她是一个母亲般的年轻人,当人们倒下并刮出膝盖时,她跑起来帮他们拍拍,或者在口袋里发现了一首邦本或其他舒缓的文章.
She never pushed them out of her way or alluded to their years as a blot upon their small characters.
她从未将他们推开 也从未暗示过他们的岁月是小人物的污点
“If you are four you are four,” she said severely to Lavinia on an occasion of Lavinia having—it must be confessed—slapped Lottie and called her “a brat”; “but you will be five next year, and six the year after that.
" 如果你四岁,你四岁, " 她对Lavinia说,在Lavinia必须供认的情况下,她被打倒了Lottie,并称她为 " 臭小子 " ; " 但你明年要5岁,此后一年要6岁。
And,” opening large, accusing eyes, “it takes sixteen years to make you twenty.”
并且,”张开大眼睛,指责你,“要花十六年时间,才能让你二十岁。 “
“Dear me,” said Lavinia, “how we can calculate!”
拉维尼亚说:“亲爱的,我们怎么计算呢?”
In fact, it was not to be denied that sixteen and four made twenty—and twenty was an age the most daring were scarcely bold enough to dream of.
事实上,不能否认的是,16个和4个是20个,20个是最大胆的时代,很少敢于梦想。
So the younger children adored Sara.
所以年轻的孩子们喜欢萨拉。
More than once she had been known to have a tea party, made up of these despised ones, in her own room.
她不止一次在自己的房间里举行茶会, 由这些被鄙视的茶会组成。
And Emily had been played with, and Emily’s own tea service used—the one with cups which held quite a lot of much-sweetened weak tea and had blue flowers on them.
Emily被玩弄了, Emily自己的茶服务也用上了—— 一杯茶, 上面拿着许多温和的弱茶, 上面有蓝色花。
No one had seen such a very real doll’s tea set before.
没有人见过这样一个非常真实的娃娃的茶。
From that afternoon Sara was regarded as a goddess and a queen by the entire alphabet class.
从那个下午开始 萨拉被整个字母分类视为女神和王后.
Lottie Legh worshipped her to such an extent that if Sara had not been a motherly person, she would have found her tiresome.
洛蒂·勒格崇拜她的程度如此之高,以至于如果萨拉不是母亲般的人,她会觉得自己很厌倦.
Lottie had been sent to school by a rather flighty young papa who could not imagine what else to do with her.
Lottie是被一个相当狡猾的年轻爸爸送去上学的,他无法想象对她还能做什么。
Her young mother had died, and as the child had been treated like a favorite doll or a very spoiled pet monkey or lap dog ever since the first hour of her life, she was a very appalling little creature.
她的年轻母亲已经去世,由于孩子从生命的第一个小时起就被当成一个最受宠爱的娃娃或被宠坏的宠物猴子或大腿狗来对待,她是一个非常骇人听闻的小生物.
When she wanted anything or did not want anything she wept and howled; and, as she always wanted the things she could not have, and did not want the things that were best for her, her shrill little voice was usually to be heard uplifted in wails in one part of the house or another.
当她想要什么,或者不想要什么,她哭泣和叫喊;而且,由于她总是想要那些她无法拥有的东西,并且不想要那些对她最有利的东西,她微弱的声音通常会被听到在房子的一地或一地的哀号中被提起来.
Her strongest weapon was that in some mysterious way she had found out that a very small girl who had lost her mother was a person who ought to be pitied.
她最强的武器是,她以某种神秘的方式发现,一个失去她母亲的非常小的女孩是一个应该被怜悯的人。
She had probably heard some grown-ups talking her over in the early days, after her mother’s death.
她可能听到一些成年人在她母亲死后,在早期说起她。
So it became her habit to make great use of this knowledge.
于是她习惯于充分利用这种知识.
The first time Sara took her in charge was one morning when, on passing a sitting room, she heard both Miss Minchin and Miss Amelia trying to suppress the angry wails of some child who, evidently, refused to be silenced.
Sara第一次带她负责是一天早晨,在经过一个会场时,她听到Minchin小姐和Amelia小姐都试图压制一些孩子的愤怒的哀号,显然他们拒绝沉默。
The child refused so strenuously indeed that Miss Minchin was obliged to almost shout—in a stately and severe manner—to make herself heard.
那孩子如此强烈地拒绝,以至于Minchin小姐不得不几乎——以一种严肃和严肃的方式——大声地叫喊,让自己听到。
“What is she crying for?”
“她在哭什么? “
she almost yelled.
她差点大叫
“Oh—oh—oh!”
"呜呜呜呜呜"
Sara heard.
莎拉听说了
“I haven’t got any mam—ma—a!”
" 我没有妈妈! "
“Oh, Lottie!”
"哦,罗蒂!"
screamed Miss Amelia.
尖叫着艾米莉亚小姐。
“Do stop, darling!
“亲爱的,停下来!
Don’t cry!
别哭!
Please don’t!”
请不要!
“Oh!
“哦!
Oh!
瓳
Oh!
瓳
Oh!
瓳
Oh!”
瓳
Lottie howled tempestuously.
洛蒂暴风雨
“Haven’t—got—any—mam—ma—a!”
" 没有 - 没有任何 - mam - ma - a! "
“She ought to be whipped,” Miss Minchin proclaimed.
Minchin小姐宣称,“她应该被鞭打”。
“You shall be whipped, you naughty child!”
你将被鞭打,你这个淘气的孩子!
Lottie wailed more loudly than ever.
洛蒂哭得比以前大声多了
Miss Amelia began to cry.
艾米莉亚小姐开始哭了
Miss Minchin’s voice rose until it almost thundered, then suddenly she sprang up from her chair in impotent indignation and flounced out of the room, leaving Miss Amelia to arrange the matter.
Minchin小姐的声音升起,直到雷声几乎响起,然后她突然从椅子上冒出无能的愤慨并跳出房间,让Amelia小姐来安排此事。
Sara had paused in the hall, wondering if she ought to go into the room, because she had recently begun a friendly acquaintance with Lottie and might be able to quiet her.
Sara在大厅里停了下来,想着她是否应该进入房间,因为她最近开始和Lottie友好相识,也许能够让她安静下来.
When Miss Minchin came out and saw her, she looked rather annoyed.
当明钦小姐出来看见她时,她看起来相当生气.
She realized that her voice, as heard from inside the room, could not have sounded either dignified or amiable.
她意识到,她的声音,正如从房间内部听到的那样,听起来既不能有尊严,也不能令人愉快。
“Oh, Sara!”
"哦,萨拉!"
she exclaimed, endeavoring to produce a suitable smile.
她赞叹,努力产生一个合适的微笑。
“I stopped,” explained Sara, “because I knew it was Lottie—and I thought, just perhaps, I could make her be quiet.
“我停下来了,”Sara解释说,“因为我知道是Lottie——我想,也许我可以让她安静下来。
May I try, Miss Minchin?”
我可以试试吗,敏钦小姐? “
“If you can, you are a clever child,” answered Miss Minchin, drawing in her mouth sharply.
Minchin小姐回答说,“如果你可以的话,你是一个聪明的孩子。”
Then, seeing that Sara looked slightly chilled by her asperity, she changed her manner.
后来,看到萨拉看起来被她的厌倦所略感冷淡,她改变了她的态度.
“But you are clever in everything,” Miss Minchin said in her approving way.
Minchin小姐以认可的方式说,
“I dare say you can manage her.
“我敢说,你可以管理她。
Go in.”
进去吧 “
And she left her.
她离开了她。
When Sara entered the room, Lottie was lying upon the floor, screaming and kicking her small fat legs violently, and Miss Amelia was bending over her in consternation and despair, looking quite red and damp with heat.
莎拉入室后,洛蒂躺在地上,尖叫并猛烈地踢她小肥腿,阿梅莉亚小姐在惊恐和绝望中弯曲地俯视她,外表相当红和潮湿而热.
Lottie had always found, when in her own nursery at home, that kicking and screaming would always be quieted by any means she insisted on.
洛蒂总是发现, 当她在家里的托儿所里, 踢和尖叫总是会安静的 任何手段,她坚持。
Poor plump Miss Amelia was trying first one method, and then another.
可怜的猪头 Amelia小姐首先尝试一种方法,然后是另一种方法。
“Poor darling,” she said one moment, “I know you haven’t any mama, poor—” Then in quite another tone, “If you don’t stop, Lottie, I will shake you.
“可怜的亲爱的,”她说,“我知道你没有妈妈,可怜的,” 以另一种语气, “如果你不停止,
Poor little angel!
可怜的小天使们!
There—!
这里!
You wicked, bad, detestable child, I will smack you!
你这个坏孩子 我要揍你
I will!”
我会的!”
Sara went to them quietly.
莎拉悄悄地去找他们
She did not know at all what she was going to do, but she had a vague inward conviction that it would be better not to say such different kinds of things quite so helplessly and excitedly.
她根本不知道自己要做什么,但是她内心的信念很模糊,认为最好不要如此无助和激动地说出这种不同的事情来.
“Miss Amelia,” she said in a low voice, “Miss Minchin says I may try to make her stop—may I?”
" Amelia小姐, " 她低调地说, " Minchin小姐说,我可以阻止她吗? “
Miss Amelia turned and looked at her.
艾米莉亚小姐转身看着她
“Oh, do you think you can?”
"哦,你认为你可以吗? “
she gasped.
她气喘吁吁的。 她喘不过气了。
“I don’t know whether I can,” answered Sara, still in her half whisper, “but I will try.”
“我不知道我能不能,” Sara回答说, “
Miss Amelia stumbled up from her knees with a heavy sigh, and Lottie’s fat little legs kicked as hard as ever.
Amelia小姐从膝盖上摔了下来,
“If you will steal out of the room,” said Sara, “I will stay with her.”
Sara说,“如果你要偷出房间,我会陪着她。 “
“Oh, Sara!”
"哦,萨拉!"
almost whimpered Miss Amelia.
差点给阿米莉亚小姐呜咽了
“We never had such a dreadful child before.
“我们以前从未有过这样可怕的孩子。
I don’t believe we can keep her.”
我们无法留住她。 “
But she crept out of the room, and was very much relieved to find an excuse for doing it.
但是她从房间里溜出,非常轻松地找到了这样做的借口.
Sara stood by the howling, furious child for a few moments, and looked down at her without saying anything.
Sara站在那个愤怒的小孩边上 看着她却什么也没说
Then she sat down flat on the floor beside her and waited.
然后她平地地地坐在她旁边等待着。
Except for Lottie’s angry screams, the room was quite quiet.
除了Lottie愤怒地叫喊,
This was a new state of affairs for little Miss Legh, who was accustomed, when she screamed, to hear other people protest and implore and command and coax by turns.
这是小雷格小姐的新状态,她习惯了,当她尖叫时,听到别人的抗议,恳求和指挥,并转弯而凝聚.
To lie and kick and shriek, and find the only person near you not seeming to mind in the least, attracted her attention.
撒谎,踢打和尖叫 发现你身边唯一一个 似乎不在意的人 引起了她的注意
She opened her tight-shut streaming eyes to see who this person was.
她睁开她紧闭的双眼 看这个人是谁
And it was only another little girl.
而这只是另一个小女孩。
But it was the one who owned Emily and all the nice things.
但它拥有艾米丽和所有美好的事物。
And she was looking at her steadily and as if she was merely thinking.
她一直看着她 好像她只是在思考
Having paused for a few seconds to find this out, Lottie thought she must begin again, but the quiet of the room and of Sara’s odd, interested face made her first howl rather halfhearted.
在暂停了几秒钟才发现这一点之后,洛蒂认为她必须重新开始,但房间的安静和Sara的奇特而感兴趣的相貌使她第一次发出半心半意的叫声。
“I—haven’t—any—ma—ma—ma—a!”
" 我没有... 马... 马... 马...a! "
she announced; but her voice was not so strong.
她宣布,但她的声音不是那么强烈。
Sara looked at her still more steadily, but with a sort of understanding in her eyes.
莎拉看她还是比较平稳,但她的眼睛有某种理解.
“Neither have I,” she said.
她说:“我也没有,”
This was so unexpected that it was astounding.
这太出乎意料了,令人吃惊。
Lottie actually dropped her legs, gave a wriggle, and lay and stared.
洛蒂真的摔倒了双腿 扭了一扭 躺下盯着看
A new idea will stop a crying child when nothing else will.
新的想法会阻止一个哭着的孩子 在别无他法的时候
Also it was true that while Lottie disliked Miss Minchin, who was cross, and Miss Amelia, who was foolishly indulgent, she rather liked Sara, little as she knew her.
另外,虽然洛蒂不喜欢过份的明钦小姐和愚蠢放纵的阿梅莉亚小姐,但她更喜欢萨拉,尽管她认识她,却很少.
She did not want to give up her grievance, but her thoughts were distracted from it, so she wriggled again, and, after a sulky sob, said, “Where is she?”
她不想放弃她的怨恨,但她的思想被分心了,于是她又扭了一扭,经过一阵闷闷的悲泣后说道:"她在哪里? “
Sara paused a moment.
莎拉暂停了一会儿。
Because she had been told that her mama was in heaven, she had thought a great deal about the matter, and her thoughts had not been quite like those of other people.
因为有人告诉她,她的母亲在天堂,所以她对这件事有很深的思考,她的想法也不像其他人的想法那样.
“She went to heaven,” she said.
她说:“她上天堂了。”
“But I am sure she comes out sometimes to see me— though I don’t see her.
但我相信她有时会来找我,
So does yours.
你的也一样
Perhaps they can both see us now.
也许他们现在都能看到我们
Perhaps they are both in this room.”
也许他们都在这间屋子里 “
Lottie sat bolt upright, and looked about her.
洛蒂坐立不安地看着她
She was a pretty, little, curly-headed creature, and her round eyes were like wet forget-me-nots.
她是一个漂亮的,小的,卷发的生物, 她的圆眼就像湿的忘了我。
If her mama had seen her during the last half hour, however, she might not have thought her the kind of child who ought to be related to an angel.
但是,如果她妈妈在过去半小时里见到她,她可能不认为她应该与天使有亲缘关系。
Sara went on talking.
莎拉继续说话。
Perhaps some people might think that what she said was rather like a fairy story, but it was all so real to her own imagination that Lottie began to listen in spite of herself.
也许有些人可能认为她说的话相当像一个童话故事,但对于她自己的想象,这一切都是真实的,洛蒂不顾自己开始聆听.
She had been told that her mama had wings and a crown, and she had been shown pictures of ladies in beautiful white nightgowns, who were said to be angels.
她被告知,她的母亲有翅膀和一顶花冠,她还被展示出美女穿美丽的白睡衣的照片,据说她们是天使.
But Sara seemed to be telling a real story about a lovely country where real people were.
但萨拉似乎在讲述一个真实人所在的可爱国家的真实故事.
“There are fields and fields of flowers,” she said, forgetting herself, as usual, when she began, and talking rather as if she were in a dream, “fields and fields of lilies—and when the soft wind blows over them it wafts the scent of them into the air—and everybody always breathes it, because the soft wind is always blowing.
她说,“有花地和花地,”她开始时总是忘记自己,说话时好像在梦中一样,“花地和花地——当柔软的风吹到花地上时,花地和花地的气味会吹入空气——每个人都会呼吸,因为柔软的风总是吹起。
And little children run about in the lily fields and gather armfuls of them, and laugh and make little wreaths.
小孩子跑来跑去 在百合地上, 收集手臂, 笑出小花圈。
And the streets are shining.
而道相辉.
And people are never tired, however far they walk.
人们从不疲倦,不管走多远
They can float anywhere they like.
他们可以随心所欲地漂浮
And there are walls made of pearl and gold all round the city, but they are low enough for the people to go and lean on them, and look down on to the earth and smile, and send beautiful messages.”
并有由珍珠和黄金所成的城墙,都围城而出,但城墙已下,使百姓能去而倚之;俯视地而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出之而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而出而 “
Whatsoever story she had begun to tell, Lottie would no doubt have stopped crying, and been fascinated into listening; but there was no denying that this story was prettier than most others.
不管她开始讲什么故事,洛蒂无疑会停止哭泣,并被迷入了听觉;但无可否认,这个故事比其他大部分故事都更美丽.
She dragged herself close to Sara, and drank in every word until the end came—far too soon.
她把自己拖到Sara的身边,每句话都喝到最后,结果太快了。
When it did come, she was so sorry that she put up her lip ominously.
当事情到来时,她非常抱歉,她把嘴唇不祥地竖起来。
“I want to go there,” she cried.
“我想去那里”,她哭了。
“I—haven’t any mama in this school.”
学校里没有妈妈。 “
Sara saw the danger signal, and came out of her dream.
萨拉看到了危险信号,从她梦中走出.
She took hold of the chubby hand and pulled her close to her side with a coaxing little laugh.
她抓住了胖子的手,用一笑来拉她靠近她身边.
“I will be your mama,” she said.
“我会成为你的妈妈,”她说。
“We will play that you are my little girl.
“我们将演奏你是我的女儿。
And Emily shall be your sister.”
艾米丽将成为你的妹妹 “
Lottie’s dimples all began to show themselves.
洛蒂的酒窝都开始露出头来。
“Shall she?”
“她会吗? “
she said.
她说。
“Yes,” answered Sara, jumping to her feet.
“是的”,”Sara回答说,“跳起脚来。”
“Let us go and tell her.
“让我们去告诉她。
And then I will wash your face and brush your hair.”
然后我会洗你的脸和梳你的头发。 “
To which Lottie agreed quite cheerfully, and trotted out of the room and upstairs with her, without seeming even to remember that the whole of the last hour’s tragedy had been caused by the fact that she had refused to be washed and brushed for lunch and Miss Minchin had been called in to use her majestic authority.
洛蒂很欣喜地表示同意,并和她一起走出了房间和楼上,似乎甚至不记得最后一小时的悲剧是她拒绝被冲洗并被刷去吃午饭,Minchin小姐被叫来使用她最伟大的权威造成的。
And from that time Sara was an adopted mother.
从那时起,Sara是一位养母.
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