A Little Princess
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
In Part 8 of A Little Princess, Miss Minchin informs Sara that she is now a beggar who must work for her living.
在"小公主"第八部中,明钦小姐告诉萨拉,她现在是一个乞丐,必须为她的生活而工作.
Sara is banned from her cozy rooms and sent to sleep in the attic.
萨拉被禁入舒适的房间并被送到阁楼入睡.
Part Nine: In the Attic he first night she spent in her attic was a thing Sara never forgot.
第九编: 在阁楼里 她第一天晚上在阁楼里度过 是莎拉从未忘记的事
During its passing she lived through a wild, unchildlike woe of which she never spoke to anyone about her.
在经过期间,她经历了一个荒野的、不象孩子那样的不幸,她从未与任何人谈论过她。
There was no one who would have understood.
没有人会理解的。
As she lay awake in the darkness her mind was forcibly distracted, now and then, by the strangeness of her surroundings.
当她睡在黑暗中醒来时 她的心思时不时地 被周围的怪事所干扰
It was, perhaps, well for her that she was reminded by her small body of material things.
也许,对于她来说,她被她那小块物质所提醒。
If this had not been so, her anguish might have been too great for a child to bear.
如果不是这样的话,她的痛苦可能太大了,不能让孩子承受。
But, really, while the night was passing she scarcely knew that she had a body at all.
但是,真的,当夜晚经过 她几乎不知道 她有一个身体。
“My papa is dead!”
"我的爸爸已经死了!"
she kept whispering to herself.
她一直对自己低声说话
“My papa is dead!”
"我的爸爸已经死了!"
It was not until long afterward that she realized that her bed had been so hard that she turned over and over in it to find a place to rest, that the darkness seemed more intense than any she had ever known, and that the wind howled over the roof among the chimneys like something which wailed aloud.
直到不久后,她才意识到她的床一直很硬,她翻过身来找一个安息的地方,黑暗似乎比她所知道的任何事物都更强烈,风在烟囱中高呼起屋顶来,就像在高声呼喊一样.
Then there was something worse.
还有更糟糕的事
This was certain scufflings and scratchings and squeakings in the walls and behind the skirting boards.
这是在墙上和裙板后打出一定的扭打和划伤。
She knew they meant rats and mice, because Becky had described them.
她知道它们的意思是老鼠,因为贝琪已经描述了它们.
Once or twice she even heard sharp-toed feet scurrying across the floor, and she remembered in those after days, when she recalled things, that when first she heard them she started up in bed and sat trembling, and when she lay down again covered her head with the bedclothes.
她甚至有一两次听到尖尖的脚在地上跑来跑去,她在几天后回忆起事情时记得,她第一次听到这些事情时,她从床上起身颤抖地坐着,当她再次倒地时用被子遮住头部.
The change in her life did not come about gradually, but was made all at once.
她生活的变化不是逐渐发生的,而是一次又一次地发生了。
“She must begin as she is to go on,” Miss Minchin said to Miss Amelia.
Minchin小姐对Amelia小姐说,“她必须开始继续,”。
“She must be taught at once what she is to expect.”
“必须马上向她传授她期望的东西。 “
Mariette had left the house the next morning.
Mariette第二天早上离开了房子。
The glimpse Sara caught of her sitting room, as she passed its open door, showed her that everything had been changed.
她的客厅在经过其开放的大门时被Sara所抓住的一瞥向她表明,一切都已经改变了。
Her ornaments and luxuries had been removed, and a bed had been placed in a corner to transform it into a new pupil’s bedroom.
她的装饰品和奢侈品被取出,床被放入一角,以便改建成一个新的学生卧室。
When she went down to breakfast she saw that her seat at Miss Minchin’s side was occupied by Lavinia, and Miss Minchin spoke to her coldly.
当她去吃早餐时,她看到她在Minchin小姐一旁的座位被Lavinia占据,Minchin小姐和她冷淡地交谈。
“You will begin your new duties, Sara,” she said, “by taking your seat with the younger children at a smaller table.
她说,“萨拉,你将开始新的工作,你与年幼的孩子坐在一个更小的桌子上。
You must keep them quiet, and see that they behave well and do not waste their food.
你必须让他们安静,看到他们表现良好,不浪费食物.
You ought to have been down earlier.
你应该早点下来的
Lottie has already upset her tea.”
洛蒂已经惹恼了她的茶了 “
That was the beginning, and from day to day the duties given to her were added to.
这是开始,从一天到一天,赋予她的职责都增加了。
She taught the younger children French and heard their other lessons, and these were the least of her labors.
她教幼童法语并听了他们的其他课,这些是她劳动中最少的.
It was found that she could be made use of in numberless directions.
发现她可以在无数的方向被利用.
She could be sent on errands at any time and in all weathers.
她随时随地都会被派去出差
She could be told to do things other people neglected.
可以让她做别人忽略的事
The cook and the housemaids took their tone from Miss Minchin, and rather enjoyed ordering about the one who had been made so much fuss over for so long.
厨师和女仆们从明钦小姐那里取出他们的语气,更喜欢点名,指名道姓的那位久已惊慌失措了.
They had neither good manners nor good tempers, and it was convenient to have at hand someone on whom blame could be laid.
他们既无好礼节又无好脾气,而有人可以被责备,这是方便的。
During the first month or two, Sara thought that her willingness to do things as well as she could, and her silence under reproof, might soften those who drove her so hard.
在一两个月里,萨拉认为她愿意尽自己所能地做一些事情,以及她在再防下保持沉默,可能会软化那些驱使她如此艰难的人.
In her proud little heart she wanted them to see that she was trying to earn her living and not accepting charity.
在她骄傲的心事中,她想让他们看到,她试图挣取她的生活而不接受施舍.
But the time came when she saw that no one was softened at all; and the more willing she was to do as she was told, the more domineering and exacting careless housemaids became, and the more ready a scolding cook was to blame her.
但是,当她看到没有人被软化的时候到了;而且她越是愿意听从她的劝告,越是玩弄和苛刻的无所顾忌的女佣变得越多,一个骂她的厨师也越是准备好责备她.
If she had been older, Miss Minchin would have given her the bigger girls to teach and saved money by dismissing an instructress; but while she remained and looked like a child, she could be made more useful as a sort of little superior errand girl and maid of all work.
明钦小姐如果年纪大了,本来会通过辞退一位导师来给她更大的女孩去教书并省钱;但是虽然她留了下来,长得像个孩子,但可以让她成为更有用的一个小上等跑腿的女孩和所有工作的女佣.
An ordinary errand boy would not have been so clever and reliable.
一个普通的跑腿男孩不会这么聪明可靠
Sara could be trusted with difficult commissions and complicated messages.
萨拉可以被信任 困难的佣金和复杂的信息。
She could even go and pay bills, and she combined with this the ability to dust a room well and to set things in order.
她甚至可以去支付账单, 她结合了这个能力 粉碎一个房间井和 安排事情的秩序。
Her own lessons became things of the past.
她自己的课变成了过去
She was taught nothing, and only after long and busy days spent in running here and there at everybody’s orders was she grudgingly allowed to go into the deserted schoolroom, with a pile of old books, and study alone at night.
她一无所学,在忙碌地跑来跑去,听从每个人的命令之后,她才胆小地被允许去荒废的教室,用一堆旧书,晚上独自学习。
“If I do not remind myself of the things I have learned, perhaps I may forget them,” she said to herself.
“如果我不提醒自己所学到的东西,也许我可以忘记这些东西,”她对自己说。
“I am almost a scullery maid, and if I am a scullery maid who knows nothing, I shall be like poor Becky.
“我几乎是一个淫荡的女佣,如果我是一个无所不知的淫荡女佣,我就会像可怜的贝琪一样。
I wonder if I could quite forget and begin to drop my h’s and not remember that Henry the Eighth had six wives.”
并不记得亨利八世有六位妻子。 “
One of the most curious things in her new existence was her changed position among the pupils.
在她的新存在中,最令人好奇的一件事是她改变了在学生中的地位.
Instead of being a sort of small royal personage among them, she was no longer one of their number at all.
与其说是他们中间的某个小皇室人物,她已经不再是他们中的一员了.
She was kept so constantly at work that she scarcely had an opportunity of speaking to any of them, and she could not avoid seeing that Miss Minchin preferred it that way.
她一直忙于工作,几乎没有机会跟任何人说话,她也难免看到敏钦小姐喜欢这样.
“I will not have her forming intimacies and talking to the other children,” that lady said.
她说,“我不会让她形成精神并与其他孩子交谈。”
“Girls like a grievance, and if she begins to tell romantic stories about herself, she will become an ill-used heroine, and parents will be given a wrong impression.
“女孩喜欢抱怨,如果她开始讲述关于自己的浪漫故事,她就会成为一个被滥用的女主角,父母会得到错误的印象.
It is better that she should live a separate life—one suited to her circumstances.
她最好过着适合自己情况的单独生活。
I am giving her a home, and that is more than she has any right to expect from me.”
我给她一个家, 这比她有权利指望我。 “
Sara did not expect much, and was far too proud to try to continue to be intimate with girls who evidently felt rather awkward and uncertain about her.
Sara没有期望太多,而且非常骄傲地试图继续和那些显然对她感到相当尴尬和不确定的女孩亲密.
The fact was that Miss Minchin’s pupils were a set of dull, matter-of-fact young people.
事实上,Minchin小姐的瞳孔是一群乏味的、实事求是的年轻人。
They were accustomed to being rich and comfortable, and as Sara’s frocks grew shorter and shabbier and queerer-looking, and it became an established fact that she wore shoes with holes in them and was sent out to buy groceries, they felt rather as if, when they spoke to her, they were addressing an underservant.
他们习惯于富有和舒适,随着萨拉的花样变短、变胖和看起来更怪异,她穿有孔的鞋子并被派去购买杂货,他们觉得好像在和她说话时,他们正在向一个仆人说话。
“To think that she was the girl with the diamond mines,” Lavinia commented.
Lavinia评论说,
“She does look an object.
“她看起来确实有问题。
And she’s queerer than ever.
她比以往更变态。
I never liked her much, but I can’t bear that way she has now of looking at people without speaking— just as if she was finding them out.”
我从来没有喜欢过她, 但我无法忍受她现在不说话就看人的样子, “
“I am,” said Sara, promptly, when she heard of this.
Sara说,当她听到这个消息时,“我是,”迅速。
“That’s what I look at some people for.
“这就是我对一些人的看法。
I like to know about them.
我喜欢了解他们
I think them over later.”
我想他们以后再考虑。 “
The truth was that she had saved herself annoyance several times by keeping her eye on Lavinia, who was quite ready to make mischief, and would have been rather pleased to have made it for the ex-show pupil.
事实是,她多次通过关注Lavinia而省下烦恼,Lavinia准备捣乱,她本来会很高兴能为前秀学生做这些事。
Sara herself never made any mischief.
莎拉自己从来没有做过任何坏事。
She worked like a drudge; she tramped through the wet streets, carrying parcels and baskets; she labored with the childish inattention of the little ones’ French lessons; as she became shabbier and more forlorn-looking, she was told that she had better take her meals downstairs.
她像干活一样地干活;她踏入了潮湿的街道,携带了包裹和篮子;她与幼稚的幼稚的幼稚的幼稚的孩子一起工作。 法语课;随着她变得沙比埃和更多被遗忘的外表,她被告知她最好下楼吃饭.
She was treated as if she was nobody’s concern, and her heart grew proud and sore, but she never told anyone what she felt.
她被当成无人关心的人对待, 她的心变得骄傲而痛苦,
“Soldiers don’t complain,” she would say between her small, shut teeth.
“士兵不会抱怨,”她会说,
“I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.”
“我不会这样做;我将假装这是一场战争的一部分。 “
But there were hours when her child heart might almost have broken with loneliness but for three people.
但是有几个小时 她的孩子的心可能 几乎因孤独而破碎 但有三个人。
The first was Becky.
第一个是贝琪。
Throughout all that first night spent in the garret, Sara had felt a vague comfort in knowing that on the other side of the wall in which the rats scuffled and squeaked there was another young human creature.
在整个第一个晚上,萨拉在外衣中度过了,在知道老鼠被铐住并叫叫的墙的另一边还有另一个年轻的人类生物时,莎拉感到了模糊的安慰.
And during the nights that followed the sense of comfort grew.
在接下来的夜晚 舒适感逐渐增强
They had little chance to speak to each other during the day.
白天他们几乎没有机会互相交谈。
Each had her own tasks to perform, and any attempt at conversation would have been regarded as a tendency to loiter and lose time.
每个人都有自己的任务要完成,任何交谈尝试都会被看成是懒散和浪费时间的倾向.
“Don’t mind me, miss,” Becky whispered during the first morning, “if I don’t say nothin’ polite.
「别介意, 小姐, 」贝琪在第一天早上低声说道,
Some un’ d be down on us if I did.
也有人不支持我们。
I means ‘please’ an’ ‘thank you’ an’ ‘beg pardon,’ but I dassn’t to take time to say it.”
我意思是"请" "谢谢" "请原谅" 但我不想花时间说出来 “
But before daybreak she used to slip into Sara’s attic and button her dress and give her such help as she required before she went downstairs to light the kitchen fire.
她常滑入Sara的阁楼并按下她的衣服,
And when night came Sara always heard the humble knock at her door which meant that her handmaid was ready to help her again if she was needed.
当晚上莎拉总是听到 卑微地敲门 意味着她的女佣准备再次帮助她 如果需要她的话
During the first weeks of her grief Sara felt as if she were too stupefied to talk, so it happened that some time passed before they saw each other much or exchanged visits.
在她悲伤的前几周里,萨拉觉得自己太笨拙了,无法说话,所以发生了在他们经常见面或互访之前的一段时间过去了.
Becky’s heart told her that it was best that people in trouble should be left alone.
贝琪的心告诉她,最好让有麻烦的人独自一人.
The second of the trio of comforters was Ermengarde, but odd things happened before Ermengarde found her place.
慰藉者三人中的第二位是埃尔门加德,但在埃尔门加德找到她的位置之前发生了奇怪的事情.
When Sara’s mind seemed to awaken again to the life about her, she realized that she had forgotten that an Ermengarde lived in the world.
当Sara似乎再次醒悟到她的生活时,她意识到她已经忘记了一个埃尔门加尔德生活在世界上.
The two had always been friends, but Sara had felt as if she were years the older.
两人一直都是朋友,但莎拉觉得自己好像年纪越大了.
It could not be contested that Ermengarde was as dull as she was affectionate.
无可争议的是,埃尔门加德和她的感情一样沉闷。
She clung to Sara in a simple, helpless way; she brought her lessons to her that she might be helped; she listened to her every word and besieged her with requests for stories.
她以简单而无助的方式向Sara倾诉;她给她带去她的教训,以便她得到帮助;她听从她的每一句话,并用故事请求来包围她。
But she had nothing interesting to say herself, and she loathed books of every description.
但是她自己没什么好说的,她讨厌各种描述的书.
She was, in fact, not a person one would remember when one was caught in the storm of a great trouble, and Sara forgot her.
事实上,她不是一个人会记得 当一个人被卷入了大麻烦的风暴中, 萨拉忘记了她。
It had been all the easier to forget her because she had been suddenly called home for a few weeks.
忘记她很容易,因为她突然被叫回家几个星期。
When she came back she did not see Sara for a day or two, and when she met her for the first time she encountered her coming down a corridor with her arms full of garments which were to be taken downstairs to be mended.
当她回来时,她一两天没有见到Sara,当她第一次见到她时,她遇到她手持着被带下楼修补的衣服从走廊上走来。
Sara herself had already been taught to mend them.
萨拉自己已经学会了修补它们。
She looked pale and unlike herself, and she was attired in the queer, outgrown frock whose shortness showed so much thin black leg.
她脸色苍白,与自己不同,她穿在基佬外出出行走的花花公子上,她的短短显示出多细的黑腿.
Ermengarde was too slow a girl to be equal to such a situation.
Ermengarde 是一个太慢的女孩 与这种情况是平等的。
She could not think of anything to say.
她想不出要说什么
She knew what had happened, but, somehow, she had never imagined Sara could look like this—so odd and poor and almost like a servant.
她知道发生了什么 但不知怎的 她从未想象过Sara会变成这样 如此奇怪又可怜 几乎像个仆人
It made Ermengarde quite miserable, and she could do nothing but break into a short hysterical laugh and exclaim, aimlessly and as if without any meaning, “Oh, Sara, is that you?”
这让埃尔门加德相当悲惨,她只能无所事事地陷入短暂歇斯底里地大笑和叹息之中,无所作为,似乎没有任何意义,“哦,萨拉,是你吗? “
“Yes,” answered Sara.
“是的,”回答萨拉。
She held the pile of garments in her arms, and her chin rested upon the top of it to keep it steady.
她把一堆衣服放在怀里,下巴倒在上方以保持平稳.
Something in the look of her straight-gazing eyes made Ermengarde lose her wits still more.
她直视的眼神 让埃尔门加德失去了更多的智慧
She felt as if Sara had changed into a new kind of girl, and she had never known her before.
她觉得萨拉好像变了一个新的女孩,她以前从未认识她.
Perhaps it was because she had suddenly grown poor and had to mend things and work like Becky.
也许是因为她突然变得贫穷 不得不修补东西 像贝琪一样工作
“Oh,” she stammered.
" 哦,"她结巴了。
“How—how are you?”
" 你好吗? “
“I don’t know,” Sara replied.
Sara回答:「我不知道,
“How are you?”
" 你好吗? “
“I’m—I’m quite well,” said Ermengarde, overwhelmed with shyness.
Ermengarde表示:「我很好,
Then spasmodically she thought of something more intimate to ask.
然后她又想了个更亲密的问题
“ Are you—are you very unhappy?”
“...... 你很不开心吗? “
Then Sara was guilty of an injustice.
后来萨拉犯下了不公正的罪行.
Just at that moment her torn heart swelled within her, and she felt that if anyone was as stupid as that, one had better get away from her.
就在那一刻,她撕裂的心 在她体内膨胀, 她觉得,如果任何人 如此愚蠢,
“What do you think?”
“你认为呢? “
she said.
她说。
“Do you think I am very happy?”
“你认为我非常高兴吗? “
And she marched past her without another word.
她走过她身边,却又没一句话
In course of time she realized that if her wretchedness had not made her forget things, she would have known that poor, dull Ermengarde was not to be blamed for her unready, awkward ways.
在一段时间里,她意识到,如果她的不幸没有让她忘记一些事情,她就会知道,可怜的,沉闷的埃尔门加德不应该因为她不准备,尴尬的方式被责备.
She was always awkward, and the more she felt, the more stupid she was given to being.
她总是很尴尬 而且她越觉得自己越蠢
But the sudden thought which had flashed upon her had made her over-sensitive.
但突然间突然想到她 让她太敏感了
“She is like the others,” she had thought.
她曾想过“她和其他人一样”,
“She does not really want to talk to me.
“她不想和我说话。
She knows no one does.”
她知道没有人知道。 “
So for several weeks a barrier stood between them.
因此,几个星期来,他们之间有一道屏障。
When they met by chance Sara looked the other way, and Ermengarde felt too stiff and embarrassed to speak.
当他们偶然相遇后,萨拉视而不见,而厄尔门加德感到过于僵硬和尴尬而无法说话.
Sometimes they nodded to each other in passing, but there were times when they did not even exchange a greeting.
有时,他们互相点头,但有时,他们甚至没有交换问候。
“If she would rather not talk to me,” Sara thought, “I will keep out of her way.
Sara想,“如果她不想和我说话,我就让开。
Miss Minchin makes that easy enough.”
Minchin小姐已经足够容易了 “
Miss Minchin made it so easy that at last they scarcely saw each other at all.
Minchin小姐让事情变得那么容易 以至于他们终于很少见面了
At that time it was noticed that Ermengarde was more stupid than ever, and that she looked listless and unhappy.
当时人们注意到厄尔门加德比任何时候都更愚蠢,她看起来无名无姓而不高兴.
She used to sit in the window seat, huddled in a heap, and stare out of the window without speaking.
她经常坐在窗外的座位上,被抱在地上,从窗外看而不说话.
Once Jessie, who was passing, stopped to look at her curiously.
有一次经过的Jessie停下来好奇地看着她
“What are you crying for, Ermengarde?”
“你在哭什么,埃尔门加德? “
she asked.
她问。
“I’m not crying,” answered Ermengarde, in a muffled, unsteady voice.
Ermengarde回答说,
“You are,” said Jessie.
杰西说,“你是,”
“ A great big tear just rolled down the bridge of your nose and dropped off at the end of it.
“一个巨大的泪水刚刚从你的鼻子上滚下并掉到最后。
And there goes another.”
还有另一个 “
“Well,” said Ermengarde, “I’m miserable—and no one need interfere.”
Ermengarde说:“我很悲惨, “
And she turned her plump back and took out her handkerchief and boldly hid her face in it.
然后她把羽毛转回去,取出手帕并大胆地将她的脸藏在里面.
That night, when Sara went to her attic, she was later than usual.
当晚,莎拉去她阁楼时,她比平时晚.
She had been kept at work until after the hour at which the pupils went to bed, and after that she had gone to her lessons in the lonely schoolroom.
她一直工作,直到学生睡觉的一小时之后,然后她去孤独的教室上课。
When she reached the top of the stairs, she was surprised to see a glimmer of light coming from under the attic door.
当她到达楼梯上方时,她惊讶地看到一束光从阁楼门下来.
“Nobody goes there but myself,” she thought quickly, “but someone has lighted a candle.”
她很快想,“除了我自己,没有人去,”但有人点起蜡烛。 “
Someone had, indeed, lighted a candle, and the someone was sitting upon the battered footstool, dressed in her nightgown and wrapped up in a red shawl.
确实有人点起一盏蜡烛,有人坐在被打的脚凳上,穿着睡衣,用红披肩包裹.
It was Ermengarde.
是埃尔门加德
“Ermengarde!”
“埃尔门加德!”
cried Sara.
莎拉哭着
She was so startled that she was almost frightened.
她被吓坏了,差点被吓到
“You will get into trouble.”
“你会惹上麻烦。 “
Ermengarde stumbled up from her footstool.
埃门加德从脚凳上摔了下来
She shuffled across the attic in her bedroom slippers, which were too large for her.
她穿着她的卧室拖鞋在阁楼打扫,这对她来说太大了.
Her eyes and nose were pink with crying.
她的眼睛和鼻子是粉红色的 有哭。
“I know I shall—if I’m found out,” she said.
“我知道,如果我发现的话,”她说。
“But I don’t care—I don’t care a bit.
" 但我不关心... 我一点也不在乎。
Oh, Sara, please tell me.
哦,萨拉,请告诉我。
Why don’t you like me anymore?”
你为何不再喜欢我? “
Something in her voice made the familiar lump rise in Sara’s throat.
她的声音让人们所熟悉的Sara喉咙起出一团。
It was so affectionate and simple—so like the old Ermengarde who had asked her to be “best friends.”
它是如此的亲切和简单——就像老埃尔门加德曾要求她成为"最好的朋友"一样. “
It sounded as if she had not meant what she had seemed to mean during these past weeks.
这听起来好像她在过去几周里似乎没有意义。
“I do like you,” Sara answered.
Sara回答说:“我的确喜欢你。”
“I thought— you see, everything is different now.
“我想,现在一切都不同了。
I thought you—were different.”
我还以为你不一样呢 “
Ermengarde opened her wet eyes wide.
厄门加德打开了她的湿眼
“Why, it was you who were different!”
“为什么,是你与众不同! “
she cried.
她哭着
“You didn’t want to talk to me.
“你不想和我说话。
I didn’t know what to do.”
我不知道该怎么办。 “
Sara saw she had made a mistake.
Sara看到她犯了一个错误。
“I am different,” she explained, “though not in the way you think.
她解释说,“我与众不同,尽管你的看法并非如此。
Miss Minchin does not want me to talk to the girls.
Minchin小姐不想让我跟女孩们说话
Most of them don’t want to talk to me.
他们大多不想和我说话。
I thought—perhaps—you didn’t.
我想,也许,你没有。
So I tried to keep out of your way.”
所以我试着避开你 “
“Oh, Sara,” Ermengarde almost wailed in her reproachful dismay.
“哦,萨拉,”埃尔门加德几乎在她责备的沮丧中哭泣。
And then after one more look they rushed into each other’s arms.
再看一眼,他们就冲入对方的怀中。
Sara’s small black head lay for some minutes on the shoulder covered by the red shawl.
Sara的小黑头在被红色披肩覆盖的肩膀上躺了几分钟.
When Ermengarde had seemed to desert her, she had felt horribly lonely.
当埃尔门加德似乎抛弃她时,她感到十分孤独.
Afterward they sat down upon the floor together, Sara clasping her knees with her arms, and Ermengarde rolled up in her shawl.
之后他们一起坐在地上,萨拉用双臂将膝盖捏住,埃尔门加德也卷入了她的披肩.
She looked at the odd, big-eyed little face adoringly.
她看着奇怪的大眼睛小脸
“I couldn’t bear it anymore,” she said.
“我再也受不了了,”她说。
“I dare say you could live without me, Sara; but I couldn’t live without you.
“我敢说,没有我,你就能活;但没有你,我无法活。
I was nearly dead.
我差点死了。
So tonight, when I was crying under the bedclothes, I thought all at once of creeping up here and just begging you to let us be friends again.”
所以今晚,当我在睡衣下哭的时候,我想 一下子就爬上来,就求你让我们再次成为朋友。 “
“You are nicer than I am,” said Sara.
Sara说,“你比我好。”
“I was too proud to try and make friends.
“我太骄傲了,没有试着交朋友。
You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am not a nice child.
你看,现在审判已经到来,他们已经表明我不是一个好孩子。
I was afraid they would.”
我怕他们会的 “
“Perhaps”—Sara added, wrinkling her forehead wisely—“that is what they were sent for.”
" 也许 " ——Sara补充说,明智地扭动了她的额头—— " 这就是他们被派去的目的。 “
“I don’t see any good in them,” said Ermengarde stoutly.
Ermengarde说,
“Neither do I—to speak the truth,” admitted Sara, frankly.
" 坦白地说, " 我也不说真话, " 萨拉承认。
“But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don’t see it.
“但我想事情或许是好的,
There might”— doubtfully—“be good in Miss Minchin.”
可能 " -- -- 令人怀疑 -- -- " 对Minchin小姐好。 “
Ermengarde looked round the attic with a rather fearsome curiosity.
Ermengarde在阁楼四周看了一眼,他非常好奇。
“Sara,” she said, “do you think you can bear living here?”
她说,“萨拉,”“你认为你能忍受住在这里吗? “
Sara looked round also.
莎拉也看了一眼,她很厉害
“If I pretend it’s quite different, I can,” she answered; “or if I pretend it is a place in a story.”
她回答:「如果我假装这很不一样, “
She spoke slowly.
她说话很慢
Her imagination was beginning to work for her.
她的想象力开始为她工作了
It had not worked for her at all since her troubles had come upon her.
自从她惹上麻烦后,这对她根本没用。
She had felt as if it had been stunned.
她觉得好像被惊呆了
“Other people have lived in worse places.
“其他人生活在更恶劣的地方。
Think of the Count of Monte Cristo in the dungeons of the Chateau d’If.
想想Cristo伯爵,
And think of the people in the Bastille!”
想想巴士底里的人!”
“The Bastille,” half whispered Ermengarde, watching her.
“巴士底狱”,一半的人悄悄地看着她。
She remembered stories of the French Revolution which Sara had been able to fix in her mind by her dramatic relation of them.
她记得关于法国大革命的故事,萨拉通过这些故事的戏剧性关系,在她的脑海中得以平息.
No one but Sara could have done it.
只有莎拉才能做到这一点。
A well-known glow came into Sara’s eyes.
知名的发光出现在了萨拉的眼中.
“Yes,” she said, hugging her knees, “that will be a good place to pretend about.
她说,“是的,”抱起她的膝盖,“这将是假装的好地方。
I am a prisoner in the Bastille.
我是巴士底狱的囚犯
I have been here for years and years; and everybody has forgotten about me.
我在这里已经多年;每个人都忘记了我。
Miss Minchin is the jailer—and Becky”—a sudden light adding itself to the glow in her eyes—“Becky is the prisoner in the next cell.”
Minchin小姐是狱卒, “
She turned to Ermengarde, looking quite like the old Sara.
她转向了埃尔门加德,看起来很像老萨拉.
“I shall pretend that,” she said; “and it will be a great comfort.”
她说,“我将假装,”“这将是极大的安慰。 “
Ermengarde was at once enraptured and awed.
Ermengarde 一次被强奸 并被拖走。
“ And will you tell me all about it?”
“...... 你会告诉我一切吗? “
she said.
她说。
“May I creep up here at night and hear the things you have made up in the day?
“我可以晚上爬到这里,听到你在白天所编的东西吗?
It will seem as if we were more ‘best friends’ than ever.”
我们似乎比以往更加 " 最好的朋友 " 。 “
“Yes,” answered Sara, nodding.
“是的,”回答萨拉,点头。
“Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.”
“逆境考验人们,而我已考验你们,并证明你们是多么的好。 “