A Little Princess
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
In Part 4 of A Little Princess, Sara befriends little Lottie, who is prone to temper tantrums and has no mother.
在"小公主"的第四部中,萨拉是小洛蒂的朋友,她容易发脾气而没有母亲.
Sara offers to “adopt” Lottie and be her mother at school.
Sara提议“收养”Lottie,并在学校当她的母亲。
Part Five: Becky f course the greatest power Sara possessed and the one which gained her even more followers than her luxuries and the fact that she was “the show pupil,” the power that Lavinia and certain other girls were most envious of, and at the same time most fascinated by in spite of themselves, was her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story, whether it was one or not.
第五部分:Becky f course the greatest power Sara 拥有最大的权力, 以及比她奢华的追随者更多的权力,
Anyone who has been at school with a teller of stories knows how he or she is followed about and besought in a whisper to relate romances; how groups gather round and hang on the outskirts of the favored party in the hope of being allowed to join in and listen.
有故事讲员在学校的任何人都知道自己是如何被跟踪的,并被暗中寻找来讲述浪漫的;各团体如何聚集一堂并被吊在受优待的党的外围,希望被允许加入和倾听.
Sara not only could tell stories, but she adored telling them.
莎拉不仅能讲故事 而且喜欢讲故事
When Sara sat or stood in the midst of a circle and began to invent wonderful things, her green eyes grew big and shining, her cheeks flushed, and, without knowing that she was doing it, she began to act and made what she told lovely or alarming by the raising or dropping of her voice, the bend and sway of her slim body, and the dramatic movement of her hands.
当萨拉坐在一圈中或站入一圈并开始发明出奇妙的东西时,她绿色的眼睛会变得大而闪耀,脸颊会被冲出,而她却不知道自己正在这样做,便开始行动,并由于她的声音被抬起或掉下而使她所说的话变得可爱或令人震惊,她瘦弱的身体被弯曲和摇摆所左右,手被戏剧般地移动.
She forgot that she was talking to listening children; she saw and lived with the fairy folk, or the kings and queens and beautiful ladies, whose adventures she was narrating.
她忘记了自己在和听孩子说话;她看到并和仙人同住,或者国王和皇后以及美丽的女士们,她讲述了她们的冒险.
Sometimes when she had finished her story, she was quite out of breath with excitement, and would lay her hand on her thin, little, quick- rising chest, and half laugh as if at herself.
有时当她完成她的故事时,她很兴奋地喘不过气来,会把手放在她瘦小而快起的胸口上,半个笑得好像对自己一样.
“When I am telling it,” she would say, “it doesn’t seem as if it was only made up.
她会说, “当我说的时候,
It seems more real than you are—more real than the schoolroom.
它看起来比你真实 比你的教室更真实
I feel as if I were all the people in the story—one after the other.
我觉得我就像故事中的所有人——一个接一个。
It is queer.”
这是同性恋。 “
She had been at Miss Minchin’s school about two years when, one foggy winter’s afternoon, as she was getting out of her carriage, comfortably wrapped up in her warmest velvets and furs and looking very much grander than she knew, she caught sight, as she crossed the pavement, of a dingy little figure sitting on the area steps.
她曾经在明钦小姐的学校待了大约两年时间,一个雾起的冬天下午,当她走出马车时,她舒适地被她最温暖的天鹅绒和毛皮包裹了起来,而且看起来比她所知道的要高大得多,当她穿过人行道时,她看到一个坐在地上的小矮人。
The figure was stretching its neck so that its wide-open eyes might peer at her through the railings.
身体伸长了脖子 这样它宽放的眼睛就会从栏杆对着她看
Something in the eagerness and timidity of the smudgy face made Sara look at it, and when she looked she smiled because it was her way to smile at people.
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But the owner of the smudgy face and the wide-open eyes evidently was afraid that she ought not to have been caught looking at pupils of importance.
但是,这个臭脸的主人和大开眼界的目光显然害怕她不应该被抓住,看着重要的瞳孔。
She dodged out of sight like a jack-in-the-box and scurried back into the kitchen, disappearing so suddenly that if she had not been such a poor little forlorn thing, Sara would have laughed in spite of herself.
她躲出视线,像一个插箱 并匆匆回厨房, 突然消失, 以至于如果她没有 这么可怜的小 孤家寡人的事情,
That very evening, as Sara was sitting in the midst of a group of listeners in a corner of the schoolroom telling one of her stories, the very same figure timidly entered the room, carrying a coal box much too heavy for her, and knelt down upon the hearth-rug to replenish the fire and sweep up the ashes.
就在那个晚上,当萨拉坐在教室一角的一群听众中间,讲述她的一个故事时,同一个人胆小地走入了房间,带着一个对她来说太重了的煤箱,并跪倒在了灵车上以补充火力并扫出灰烬.
She was cleaner than she had been when she peeped through the area railings, but she looked just as frightened.
她比偷窥穿过区域栏杆时更干净,但看起来同样害怕.
She was evidently afraid to look at the children or seem to be listening.
她显然害怕看孩子,或者似乎在听。
She put on pieces of coal cautiously with her fingers so that she might make no disturbing noise, and she swept about the fire irons very softly.
她用手指小心地放入了煤块,这样她就不会出出任何令人不安的噪音,她还非常温柔地扫遍了火铁.
But Sara saw in two minutes that she was deeply interested in what was going on, and that she was doing her work slowly in the hope of catching a word here and there.
但萨拉在两分钟后看到,她对正在发生的事情产生了深刻的兴趣,她正在缓慢地工作,希望能在这里和那里得到一个词.
And realizing this, she raised her voice and spoke more clearly.
意识到这一点,她提高了自己的声音,并更清晰地说话.
“The mermaids swam softly about in the crystal-green water, and dragged after them a fishing-net woven of deep-sea pearls,” she said.
她说,“美人鱼在水晶绿色的水中轻轻地游来游去,然后拖去一圈深海珍珠织成的鱼网。”
“The princess sat on the white rock and watched them.”
“公主坐在白岩上,看着他们。 “
It was a wonderful story about a princess who was loved by a prince merman, and went to live with him in shining caves under the sea.
这是一个美妙的故事 一个公主 受到王子的爱 和他一起生活 在海下光辉的洞穴。
The small drudge before the grate swept the hearth once and then swept it again.
灰缸之前的小干道 扫过一次,然后又扫过一遍。
Having done it twice, she did it three times; and, as she was doing it the third time, the sound of the story so lured her to listen that she fell under the spell and actually forgot that she had no right to listen at all, and also forgot everything else.
做了两次之后,她做了三次;当她第三次这样做的时候,故事的音响引诱她听,使她掉入了咒语下,实际上忘记了自己完全没有权利听,也忘记了其他一切.
She sat down upon her heels as she knelt on the hearth-rug, and the brush hung idly in her fingers.
她坐在高跟鞋上 跪在地上 画笔被轻轻地挂在手指上
The voice of the storyteller went on and drew her with it into winding grottos under the sea, glowing with soft, clear blue light, and paved with pure golden sands.
讲故事者的声音继续并用它将她引入了海下起风的地沟中,以柔和而清晰的蓝色光芒发光,并用纯金的沙地铺平.
Strange sea flowers and grasses waved about her, and far away faint singing and music echoed.
陌生的海花和草地挥舞着她,相去甚远的晕倒了唱歌和音乐回响.
The hearth-brush fell from the work-roughened hand, and Lavinia Herbert looked round.
拉维妮娅·赫伯特看起圆形的外表,
“That girl has been listening,” she said.
她说,“那个女孩一直在听”。
The culprit snatched up her brush, and scrambled to her feet.
凶手抢走她的刷子并踩到她的脚上。
She caught at the coal box and simply scuttled out of the room like a frightened rabbit.
她抓住了煤箱 然后像只被吓坏的兔子一样从房间里切出
Sara felt rather hot-tempered.
莎拉觉得很热闹
“I knew she was listening,” she said.
她说:“我知道她在听,”
“Why shouldn’t she?”
“为什么她不应该? “
Lavinia tossed her head with great elegance.
拉维妮娅用优雅的姿势把她的头抛出.
“Well,” she remarked, “I do not know whether your mama would like you to tell stories to servant girls, but I know my mama wouldn’t like me to do it.”
“嗯,”她说:“我不知道你妈妈是否希望你向仆人女孩讲故事, “
“My mama!”
我妈妈!
said Sara, looking odd.
莎拉说,看起来很奇怪。
“I don’t believe she would mind in the least.
她至少不会介意。
She knows that stories belong to everybody.”
她知道故事属于每个人 “
“I thought,” retorted Lavinia, in severe recollection, “that your mama was dead.
“我想,”重温了拉维尼亚的回忆,“你妈妈死了。
How can she know things?”
她怎么会知道? “
“Do you think she doesn’t know things?”
“你觉得她不知道吗? “
said Sara, in her stern little voice.
莎拉说,用她那尖锐的声音。
Sometimes she had a rather stern little voice.
有时她的声音很严谨
“Sara’s mama knows everything,” piped in Lottie.
「莎拉的妈妈知道一切,
“So does my mama—’cept Sara is my mama at Miss Minchin’s—my other one knows everything.
我的妈妈Sara也是明钦小姐的妈妈,
The streets are shining, and there are fields and fields of lilies, and everybody gathers them.
街道一闪一闪,有百合花的田地和田地,人人都会聚集.
Sara tells me when she puts me to bed.”
莎拉告诉我,当她让我睡觉。 “
“You wicked thing,” said Lavinia, turning on Sara; “making fairy stories about heaven.”
拉维尼亚对萨拉说:“你这个恶人,你应当为天而造谣。 “
“There are much more splendid stories in Revelation,” returned Sara.
Sara回信说,
“Just look and see!
“看看吧!
How do you know mine are fairy stories?
你怎么知道我的是童话故事?
But I can tell you”—with a fine bit of unheavenly temper—“you will never find out whether they are or not if you’re not kinder to people than you are now.
但我可以告诉你,“用一种温和的脾气,如果你不比现在的人好,你永远不会知道他们是否是。
Come along, Lottie.”
来吧,洛蒂。 “
And she marched out of the room, rather hoping that she might see the little servant again somewhere, but she found no trace of her when she got into the hall.
她走出了房间,更希望她能再次见到那个小仆人到某地去,但她进入大厅时找不到她的踪迹.
“Who is that little girl who makes the fires?”
“那个放火的小女孩是谁? “
she asked Mariette that night.
她那晚问了玛丽埃特
Mariette broke forth into a flow of description.
马里埃特突入了一种描述流.
Ah, indeed, Mademoiselle Sara might well ask.
啊,的确,萨拉小姐也许可以问。
She was a forlorn little thing who had just taken the place of scullery maid—and was everything else besides.
她是一个忘恩负义的小人物,刚刚取代了淫荡的女仆——此外,她还是其他一切。
She blacked boots and grates, and carried heavy coal scuttles up and down stairs, and scrubbed floors and cleaned windows, and was ordered about by everybody.
她把靴子和栅栏都黑了, 上面和下面的楼梯上下搭载了沉重的煤屑, 洗刷了地板,清理了窗户, 被大家订购。
She was fourteen years old, but was so stunted in growth that she looked about twelve.
她当时才14岁,但发育发育迟缓,长相约12岁.
In truth, Mariette was sorry for her.
事实上 Mariette为她感到遗憾
She was so timid that if one chanced to speak to her it appeared as if her poor, frightened eyes would jump out of her head.
她太胆小了 如果有机会和她说话 似乎她可怜的被吓坏的眼睛会从她头上跳出
“What is her name?”
“她叫什么名字? “
asked Sara, who had sat by the table, with her chin on her hands, as she listened absorbedly to the recital.
问过坐在桌子旁的Sara, 她的下巴在她手上, 因为她吸收了对独奏。
Her name was Becky.
她叫贝琪
Mariette heard everyone below-stairs calling, “Becky, do this,” and “Becky, do that,” every five minutes in the day.
玛莉特听到楼下所有人打电话 “Becky,做到这一点”和“Becky,这样做”,每天每5分钟一次。
Sara sat and looked into the fire, reflecting on Becky for some time.
萨拉坐着并观察了这起火灾,反思了贝琪一段时间.
She made up a story of which Becky was the ill-used heroine.
她编了一个故事 贝琪是那个被滥用的女主角
She thought she looked as if she had never had quite enough to eat.
她觉得自己好像从来没有吃过足够的东西
Her very eyes were hungry.
她的眼睛很饿
Sara hoped she should see her again, but though she caught sight of her carrying things up or down stairs on several occasions, she always seemed in such a hurry and so afraid of being seen that it was impossible to speak to her.
萨拉希望她能再次见到她,但虽然她几次看到自己抬起东西上下楼梯,但她总是看起来如此匆忙,害怕被人看到,无法和她说话.
But a few weeks later, on another foggy afternoon, when she entered her sitting room she found herself confronting a rather pathetic picture.
但几周后,又一个雾霾的下午,当她进入起居室时,她发现自己面对着一张相当可悲的照片.
In her own special and pet easy-chair before the bright fire, Becky—with a coal smudge on her nose and several on her apron, with her poor little cap hanging half off her head, and an empty coal box on the floor near her—sat fast asleep, tired out beyond even the endurance of her hardworking young body.
在她自己的特别和宠物轻松的椅子上,贝琪——她的鼻子上被煤块打出,围裙上被几个,她可怜的小帽子被吊住半个头,地板上还有一个空煤箱在她身旁——在她敏捷地入睡后,疲倦地离开她辛勤工作的年轻身体的耐力。
She had been sent up to put the bedrooms in order for the evening.
她被派去把卧室放在晚上。
There were a great many of them, and she had been running about all day.
他们中有很多人 她一整天都在跑
Sara’s rooms she had saved until the last.
莎拉的房间,直到最后。
They were not like the other rooms, which were plain and bare.
他们不像其他房间, 这些都是平地和赤裸裸的。
Ordinary pupils were expected to be satisfied with mere necessaries.
人们期望普通学生满足于单纯的需要。
Sara’s comfortable sitting room seemed a bower of luxury to the scullery maid, though it was, in fact, merely a nice, bright little room.
Sara舒适的起居室对女仆来说似乎是奢侈品,
Still, there were pictures and books in it, and curious things from India; there was a sofa and the low, soft chair; Emily sat in a chair of her own, with the air of a presiding goddess, and there was always a glowing fire and a polished grate.
尽管如此,里面还是有图片和书籍,还有来自印度的好奇事;有一个沙发和低而柔软的椅子;艾米莉坐在她自己的椅子上,有一个主女神的空气,总是有发光的火焰和被打磨的栅栏.
Becky saved it until the end of her afternoon’s work, because it rested her to go into it, and she always hoped to snatch a few minutes to sit down in the soft chair and look about her, and think about the wonderful good fortune of the child who owned such surroundings and who went out on the cold days in beautiful hats and coats one tried to catch a glimpse of through the area railing.
贝琪将它保存到她下午的工作结束时,因为她沉浸在其中,她一直希望抓住几分钟的时间坐在软椅子上,看着她,想一想拥有这些环境的儿童的美好财富,他们穿着漂亮的帽子和外衣在寒冷的岁月出走。
On this afternoon, when she had sat down, the sensation of relief to her short, aching legs had been so wonderful and delightful that it had seemed to soothe her whole body, and the glow of warmth and comfort from the fire had crept over her like a spell, until, as she looked at the red coals, a tired, slow smile stole over her smudged face, her head nodded forward without her being aware of it, her eyes drooped, and she fell fast asleep.
今天下午,当她坐下来时,她短而痛快的腿被解脱的感觉是如此的美妙和愉快,似乎舒缓了整个身体,从火中取出温暖和舒适的光芒像咒语一样凝结了她,直到她看着红煤时,一个疲倦而缓慢的微笑从她被污秽的脸上偷走了,她的头朝前点着,没有意识到这一点,她的眼睛被淹没了,她很快就睡着了.
She had really been only about ten minutes in the room when Sara entered, but she was in as deep a sleep as if she had been, like the Sleeping Beauty, slumbering for a hundred years.
她进入房间时只有十分钟, 但是她睡得像睡美人一样深,睡了一百年。
But she did not look—poor Becky—like a Sleeping Beauty at all.
但她看起来一点也不可怜 Becky 像睡美人
She looked only like an ugly, stunted, worn-out little scullery drudge.
她看起来只像一个丑陋, 发育迟钝, 磨损了的小干草.
Sara seemed as much unlike her as if she were a creature from another world.
莎拉似乎和她不一样 就像她是来自另一个世界的生物
On this particular afternoon Sara had been taking her dancing lesson, and the afternoon on which the dancing master appeared was rather a grand occasion at the seminary, though it occurred every week.
在这个特别的下午,萨拉一直在上她的舞蹈课,而舞蹈大师出现的下午是神学院的一个盛会,尽管每周都这样.
The pupils were attired in their prettiest frocks, and as Sara danced particularly well, she was very much brought forward, and Mariette was requested to make her as diaphanous and fine as possible.
学生们穿了最漂亮的花纹而疲倦了,而随着莎拉舞得特别好,她被非常的向前看,马里埃特被要求尽可能地使她变得阴沉而细腻.
Today a frock the color of a rose had been put on her, and Mariette had bought some real buds and made her a wreath to wear on her black locks.
今天一朵玫瑰的花被放入她身上,玛丽埃特买了一些真正的花蕾并给她做了花圈来穿在她的黑锁上.
She had been learning a new, delightful dance in which she had been skimming and flying about the room, like a large rose-colored butterfly, and the enjoyment and exercise had brought a brilliant, happy glow into her face.
她已经学会了一种新的令人愉快的舞蹈, 在那里她滑行并飞来飞去, 像一只巨大的玫瑰色蝴蝶, 享受和锻炼 给她的脸带来了辉煌和快乐的光芒。
When she entered the room, she floated in with a few of the butterfly steps—and there sat Becky, nodding her cap sideways off her head.
当她进入房间时,她带着几只蝴蝶走来 -- -- 那儿坐着贝琪,从她头上点起她的花帽。
“Oh!”
「哦! 」(笑声)
cried Sara, softly, when she saw her.
轻轻地哭着莎拉,当她看到她。
“That poor thing!”
可怜的东西!
It did not occur to her to feel cross at finding her pet chair occupied by the small, dingy figure.
她没有觉得十字架 在寻找她的宠物椅子 被小的,丁基人物占据。
To tell the truth, she was quite glad to find it there.
说实话,她很高兴在那里找到它。
When the ill-used heroine of her story wakened, she could talk to her.
当她的故事中被滥用的女主角被唤醒后,她可以和她说话.
She crept toward her quietly, and stood looking at her.
她悄悄地朝她走去 站着看着她
Becky gave a little snore.
贝琪打个招呼
“I wish she’ d waken herself,” Sara said.
Sara说, " 我希望她能醒来 " 。
“I don’t like to waken her.
" 我不喜欢叫醒她。
But Miss Minchin would be cross if she found out.
但是明钦小姐如果发现的话 会很生气的
I’ll just wait a few minutes.”
我只要等几分钟。 “
She took a seat on the edge of the table, and sat swinging her slim, rose-colored legs, and wondering what it would be best to do.
她坐在桌子的边缘,坐在她瘦瘦的玫瑰色的腿上摇摆起身来,想着应该做什么。
Miss Amelia might come in at any moment, and if she did, Becky would be sure to be scolded.
艾米莉亚小姐随时可能来 如果她来了 Becky肯定会被骂的
“But she is so tired,” she thought.
她认为她很累。
“She is so tired!”
“她太累了!”
A piece of flaming coal ended her perplexity for her that very moment.
燃煤结束了她的困惑 那一刻。
It broke off from a large lump and fell on to the fender.
它从一个大块块断了下来 掉到挡板上
Becky started, and opened her eyes with a frightened gasp.
贝琪开始,用被吓到的喘息打开了眼睛.
She did not know she had fallen asleep.
她不知道自己睡着了。
She had only sat down for one moment and felt the beautiful glow—and here she found herself staring in wild alarm at the wonderful pupil, who sat perched quite near her, like a rose-colored fairy, with interested eyes.
她只坐了一会儿,感受到了美丽的光芒——在这里,她发现自己在野外的警铃中凝视着一个出色的瞳孔,他像一个玫瑰色的仙子一样,坐在她身边,她的眼睛很感兴趣。
She sprang up and clutched at her cap.
她突然起身并握住帽子
She felt it dangling over her ear, and tried wildly to put it straight.
她觉得它缠住她的耳朵, 并疯狂地尝试把它直。
Oh, she had got herself into trouble now with a vengeance!
哦,她已经惹上麻烦了 现在的复仇!
To have impudently fallen asleep on such a young lady’s chair!
如此年轻的女士坐在椅子上,
She would be turned out of doors without wages.
她会被赶出门 没有工资。
She made a sound like a big breathless sob.
她发出一个声音 像一个大的无气息的泣。
“Oh, miss!
“噢,小姐!
Oh, miss!”
瓳 ̅
she stuttered.
她口吃过。
“I arst yer pardon, miss!
“请原谅,小姐!
Oh, I do, miss!”
哦,我知道,小姐!”
Sara jumped down, and came quite close to her.
Sara跳下楼来 和她很亲近
“Don’t be frightened,” she said, quite as if she had been speaking to a little girl like herself.
她表示:「不要害怕,
“It doesn’t matter the least bit.”
“这不重要。 “
“I didn’t go to do it, miss,” protested Becky.
贝琪抗议,
“It was the warm fire—an’ me bein’ so tired.
" 这是温暖的火 -- -- 我实在太累了。
It—it wasn’t impertience!”
这并非无礼; “
Sara broke into a friendly little laugh, and put her hand on her shoulder.
萨拉冲入了友善的小笑,将手放在肩膀上.
“You were tired,” she said; “you could not help it.
她说,“你累了”,“你无能为力。
You are not really awake yet.”
你还没醒呢 “
How poor Becky stared at her!
可怜的贝琪盯着她看
In fact, she had never heard such a nice, friendly sound in anyone’s voice before.
事实上,她以前从未听到过任何人的声音中如此友好好的声音。
She was used to being ordered about and scolded, and having her ears boxed.
她习惯了被叫来骂来骂去,还被打入了耳朵.
And this one—in her rose-colored dancing afternoon splendor—was looking at her as if she were not a culprit at all—as if she had a right to be tired—even to fall asleep!
这个在她的玫瑰花朵的下午的舞蹈中,她看着她,好像她不是罪人一样,好像她有权利疲倦一样,即使她睡着了。
The touch of the soft, slim little paw on her shoulder was the most amazing thing she had ever known.
她肩膀上柔软而瘦小的爪子的触摸是她所知道的最神奇的事情.
“ Ain’t—ain’t yer angry, miss?”
“...... 小姐, “
she gasped.
她气喘吁吁的。 她喘不过气了。
“ Ain’t yer goin’ to tell the missus?”
“...... 你不打算告诉夫人吗? “
“No,” cried out Sara.
"不,"喊出萨拉。
“Of course I’m not.”
“当然不是。 “
The woeful fright in the coal-smutted face made her suddenly so sorry that she could scarcely bear it.
被烧焦的相貌吓坏了 她突然感到非常抱歉 她几乎受不了了
One of her queer thoughts rushed into her mind.
她的一个怪念头冲入了她的脑海
She put her hand against Becky’s cheek.
她把手对着贝琪的脸颊.
“Why,” she said, “we are just the same—I am only a little girl like you.
她说,“为什么,”我们同样—— 我只是一个小女孩喜欢你。
It’s just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!”
我不是你, “
Becky did not understand in the least.
贝琪根本不明白
Her mind could not grasp such amazing thoughts, and “an accident” meant to her a calamity in which someone was run over or fell off a ladder and was carried to “the ’orspital.”
她无法理解如此惊人的想法, " 事故 " 对她来说意味着一场灾难,有人被撞倒或从梯子上摔倒,被送到 " 医院 " 。 “
“ A ’ accident, miss,” she fluttered respectfully.
" 事故,小姐, " 她恭敬地挥舞。
“Is it?”
“是吗? “
“Yes,” Sara answered, and she looked at her dreamily for a moment.
“是的,”Sara回答说,她梦想着自己。
But the next she spoke in a different tone.
但接下来她用不同的语气说话.
She realized that Becky did not know what she meant.
她意识到贝琪并不知道自己的意思.
“Have you done your work?”
“你完成了你的工作吗? “
she asked.
她问。
“Dare you stay here a few minutes?”
" 你何必在这里呆几分钟? “
Becky lost her breath again.
贝琪又喘不过气来了
“Here, miss?
“这里,小姐?
Me?”
我?”
Sara ran to the door, opened it, and looked out and listened.
莎拉跑到门前,打开了门,看着,听了.
“No one is anywhere about,” she explained.
她解释说,“没有人在任何地方。”
“If your bedrooms are finished, perhaps you might stay a tiny while.
“如果你的卧室完工了,也许你可以呆一会儿。
I thought—perhaps— you might like a piece of cake.”
我想,也许,你可能会喜欢一块蛋糕。 “
The next ten minutes seemed to Becky like a sort of delirium.
接下来的10分钟对贝琪来说 像是某种精神错乱
Sara opened a cupboard, and gave her a thick slice of cake.
莎拉打开了个橱柜,给她一个厚厚的蛋糕.
She seemed to rejoice when it was devoured in hungry bites.
她似乎高兴 当它被饥饿的咬伤。
She talked and asked questions, and laughed until Becky’s fears actually began to calm themselves, and she once or twice gathered boldness enough to ask a question or so herself, daring as she felt it to be.
她交谈和提问,并取笑到贝琪的恐惧实际上开始平息了自己,她一次或两次聚集了足够大胆的胆量来提出一个问题或她自己,大胆地像她觉得的那样.
“Is that—” she ventured, looking longingly at the rose-colored frock.
她冒昧地看着玫瑰花花
And she asked it almost in a whisper.
她几乎在悄悄地问起
“Is that there your best?”
“这是你最好的吗? “
“It is one of my dancing-frocks,” answered Sara.
Sara回答说,
“I like it, don’t you?”
"我喜欢,不是吗? “
For a few seconds Becky was almost speechless with admiration.
贝琪几秒钟内几乎无言而语,满怀钦佩.
Then she said in an awed voice, “Onct I see a princess.
然后,她用呼唤的声音说,“我看见一个公主。
I was standin’ in the street with the crowd outside Covin’ Garden, watchin’ the swells go inter the operer.
我站在街上,
An’ there was one everyone stared at most.
人们最多只能看一眼。
They ses to each other, ‘That’s the princess.’
他们彼此说:"那是公主". " ; "
She was a growed-up young lady, but she was pink all over—gownd an’ cloak, an’ flowers an’ all.
她是个长大了的年轻女士,
I called her to mind the minnit I see you, sittin’ there on the table, miss.
我打电话给她 介意我看到你的小姑娘 坐在桌子上 小姐
You looked like her.”
你看起来像她。 “
“I’ve often thought,” said Sara, in her reflecting voice, “that I should like to be a princess; I wonder what it feels like.
“我经常想,”Sara用她反射出的声音说,“我想当个公主;我想知道是什么感觉。
I believe I will begin pretending I am one.”
我想我会开始假装自己是一个。 “
Becky stared at her admiringly, and, as before, did not understand her in the least.
贝琪一心仰慕着她 像以前一样 完全不懂她
She watched her with a sort of adoration.
她看着她做了点什么
Very soon Sara left her reflections and turned to her with a new question.
马上就 莎拉留下了她的反想,转而向她提出一个新问题.
“Becky,” she said, “weren’t you listening to that story?”
“Becky,”她说,“你不听这个故事吗? “
“Yes, miss,” confessed Becky, a little alarmed again.
“是的,小姐,”承认Becky,再次有点震惊。
“I knowed I hadn’t orter, but it was that beautiful I—I couldn’t help it.”
“我知道我没有, “
“I liked you to listen to it,” said Sara.
Sara说,“我喜欢你听。”
“If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen.
“如果你讲出故事,你就不会喜欢告诉那些想听的人。
I don’t know why it is.
我不知道为什么。
Would you like to hear the rest?”
你想听听其他的吗? “
Becky lost her breath again.
贝琪又喘不过气来了
“Me hear it?”
“我听见了吗? “
she cried.
她哭着
“Like as if I was a pupil, miss!
“就像我是学生一样,小姐!
All about the prince—and the little white mer-babies swimming about laughing— with stars in their hair?”
所有关于王子的事,还有那些小白兔在笑的时候游泳 头发里有星星? “
Sara nodded.
萨拉点头。
“You haven’t time to hear it now, I’m afraid,” she said, “but if you will tell me just what time you come to do my rooms, I will try to be here and tell you a bit of it every day until it is finished.
“恐怕你现在没有时间听,”她说,“但如果你告诉我什么时候来做我的房间,我将试着每天在这里告诉你一些事情,直到完成。
It’s a lovely long one—and I’m always putting new bits to it.”
这段很长, “
“Then,” breathed Becky, devoutly, “I wouldn’t mind how heavy the coal boxes was—or what the cook done to me, if—if I might have that to think of.”
我不介意煤箱有多重, 或是厨师对我做了什么, “
“You may,” said Sara.
萨拉说,“你可以,”
“I’ll tell it all to you.”
" 我会告诉你一切。 “
When Becky went downstairs, she was not the same Becky who had staggered up, loaded down by the weight of the coal scuttle.
贝琪下楼时,她不是那种错位相去的贝琪,被煤屑的重量所压倒.
She had an extra piece of cake in her pocket, and she had been fed and warmed, but not only by cake and fire.
她口袋里有一块额外的蛋糕,她已经被喂饱并被取暖了,但不仅是被蛋糕和火烧了.
Something else had warmed and fed her, and the something else was Sara.
其它东西已经暖和并喂养她, 而其他的东西是萨拉。
When she was gone Sara sat on her favorite perch on the end of her table.
当她离开时,萨拉坐在她最爱的平地上,坐在她桌子的一端.
Her feet were on a chair, her elbows on her knees, and her chin in her hands.
她的脚被放在椅子上,肘被放在膝盖上,下巴被放在手上.
“If I was a princess—a real princess,” she murmured, “I could scatter largess to the populace.
“如果我是一个公主——一个真正的公主,”她喃喃地说,“我可以向民众撒出大块。
But even if I am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for people.
但即使我只是一个假装的公主, 我可以发明一些小事情为人们做。
Things like this.
像这样的事情
She was just as happy as if it was largess.
她就像大块头一样快乐
I’ll pretend that to do things people like is scattering largess.
我将假装做人喜欢做的事是散开的。
I’ve scattered largess.”
我撒了大块。 “
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