A Little Princess
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
In Part 10 of A Little Princess, Sara helps Lottie see the attic through the lens of imagination.
在"小公主"第十部中,萨拉帮助 洛蒂通过想象的镜头看阁楼.
Sara also befriends an attic rat, whom she names Melchisedec.
Sara也是阁楼老鼠的朋友 她叫Melchisedec
Part Eleven: The Indian Gentleman ut it was a perilous thing for Ermengarde and Lottie to make pilgrimages to the attic.
第十一部分 印度绅士 厄门加德和洛蒂去阁楼朝圣是很危险的
They could never be quite sure when Sara would be there, and they could scarcely ever be certain that Miss Amelia would not make a tour of inspection through the bedrooms after the pupils were supposed to be asleep.
他们永远不能相当确定莎拉何时会在那里,他们几乎不能确定艾米莉亚小姐在学生们应该入睡后不会在卧室里巡视.
So their visits were rare ones, and Sara lived a strange and lonely life.
所以他们的探访是罕见的,而萨拉过着奇怪而孤独的生活.
It was a lonelier life when she was downstairs than when she was in her attic.
楼下比楼下更孤独
She had no one to talk to; and when she was sent out on errands and walked through the streets, a forlorn little figure carrying a basket or a parcel, trying to hold her hat on when the wind was blowing, and feeling the water soak through her shoes when it was raining, she felt as if the crowds hurrying past her made her loneliness greater.
她无人可言;当她被送出外出跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑跑
When she had been the Princess Sara, being driven through the streets, or walking, attended by Mariette, the sight of her bright, eager little face and picturesque coats and hats had often caused people to look after her.
当她曾经是"萨拉公主"时,被从街上驱走,或者行走而去,由玛丽埃特出席,她的明亮,渴望的小相貌和相片相貌外衣和帽子的外观常常会使人们照顾她.
A happy, beautifully cared for little girl naturally attracts attention.
一个快乐,美丽地照顾着小女孩,自然吸引了人们的注意.
Shabby, poorly dressed children are not rare enough and pretty enough to make people turn around to look at them and smile.
沙比,穿得很差的孩子并不多见又漂亮,让人转过身去看着他们并微笑.
No one looked at Sara in these days, and no one seemed to see her as she hurried along the crowded pavements.
这些天没有人看着Sara, 似乎没有人看到她匆忙地走在拥挤的人行道上。
She had begun to grow very fast, and, as she was dressed only in such clothes as the plainer remnants of her wardrobe would supply, she knew she looked very queer, indeed.
她开始长得很快,由于她只穿得像衣橱上更平庸的残片一样,她知道她看起来很怪异,的确如此。
All her valuable garments had been disposed of, and such as had been left for her use she was expected to wear so long as she could put them on at all.
她所有珍贵的衣物都已经处理完毕,如留下给她使用,只要她能穿上,她就会穿上。
Sometimes, when she passed a shop window with a mirror in it, she almost laughed outright on catching a glimpse of herself, and sometimes her face went red and she bit her lip and turned away.
有时,当她从一面有一面镜子的商店窗户走过时,她几乎直面自己一眼就笑了起来,有时她的脸会红了,咬了她的嘴唇而转身离去.
In the evening, when she passed houses whose windows were lighted up, she used to look into the warm rooms and amuse herself by imagining things about the people she saw sitting there.
晚上,当她穿过窗户被照亮的房屋时,她经常去温暖的房间取笑自己,幻想着她所看见的坐在那里的人的事情.
It always interested her to catch glimpses of rooms before the shutters were closed.
在百叶窗被关闭之前,她总是对看到房间感兴趣。
There were several families in the square in which Miss Minchin lived, with which she had become quite familiar in a way of her own.
明钦小姐所住的广场上有几个家庭,她以某种方式变得相当熟悉.
The one she liked best she called the Large Family, not because the members of it were big—for, indeed, most of them were little—but because there were so many of them.
她最喜欢的那个叫"大家族"的 不是因为大家族的成员都很大 因为他们大多是小家族 而是因为很多家族
There were eight children in the Large Family, and a stout, rosy mother, and a stout, rosy father, and a stout, rosy grandmother, and any number of servants.
大族有子八人,并有司徒克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克克
The eight children were always either being taken out to walk or to ride in perambulators by comfortable nurses, or they were going to drive with their mama, or they were flying to the door in the evening to meet their papa and kiss him and dance around him and drag off his overcoat and look in the pockets for packages, or they were crowding about the nursery windows and looking out and pushing each other and laughing—in fact, they were always doing something enjoyable and suited to the tastes of a large family.
这八个孩子总是被舒适的护士带出去走走或骑上穿梭车,或者和妈妈一起开车,或者他们晚上飞到门口去见爸爸并亲吻他并围绕他跳舞,并拖起他穿的外衣到口袋里找包裹,或者他们挤出托儿所窗户,互相推倒并取笑——事实上,他们总是在做一些令人愉快和适合一个大家庭口味的事情.
Sara was quite fond of them, and had given them names out of books—quite romantic names.
莎拉很喜欢他们, 并给他们的名字出自书籍 - 相当浪漫的名字。
She called them the Montmorencys when she did not call them the Large Family.
她称他们为蒙莫伦人,当时她没有称他们为"大家族".
The fat, fair baby with the lace cap was Ethelberta Beauchamp Montmorency; the next baby was Violet Cholmondeley Montmorency; the little boy who could just stagger and who had such round legs was Sydney Cecil Vivian Montmorency; and then came Lilian Evangeline Maud Marion, Rosalind Gladys, Guy Clarence, Veronica Eustacia, and Claude Harold Hector.
戴有蕾丝帽的肥胖而公平的婴儿是埃瑟尔贝塔·博尚普·蒙莫伦蒂;下个婴儿是维奥莱特·乔蒙德利·蒙莫伦蒂;小男孩可以只是交错而有如此圆腿的是悉尼·塞西尔·维维安·蒙莫伦蒂;后来来的是莉莉安·伊万杰琳·莫德·马里恩;罗莎琳德·格拉迪斯;盖伊·克拉伦斯;维罗妮卡·尤斯塔西亚;克洛德·哈罗德·赫克特.
One evening, several of the Montmorencys were evidently going to a children’s party, and just as Sara was about to pass the door, they were crossing the pavement to get into the carriage which was waiting for them.
一天晚上,一些蒙莫伦西人显然正在去参加一个儿童聚会,正如萨拉即将通过门一样,他们正穿过人行道进入等待他们的马车。
Veronica Eustacia and Rosalind Gladys, in white-lace frocks and lovely sashes, had just got in, and Guy Clarence, aged five, was following them.
Veronica Eustacia和Rosalind Gladys 穿着白领花纹和可爱的花纹 刚进来 5岁的Guy Clarence也在跟着他们
He was such a pretty fellow and had such rosy cheeks and blue eyes, and such a darling little round head covered with curls, that Sara forgot her basket and shabby cloak altogether—in fact, forgot everything but that she wanted to look at him for a moment.
他是一个这么漂亮的人, 有着如此的玫瑰花脸和蓝眼睛, 和如此可爱的小圆头被卷发, 萨拉忘记了她的篮子 和肥胖的外衣 完全——事实上,忘记了一切,但 她想看着他一会儿。
So she paused and looked.
所以她停下来看
It was Christmas time, and the Large Family had been hearing many stories about children who were poor and had no mamas and papas to fill their stockings and take them to the pantomime—children who were, in fact, cold and thinly clad and hungry.
当时是圣诞节, " 大家族 " 已经听到许多关于儿童的故事,他们贫穷,没有妈妈和爸爸来补袜子,带他们去乡下——事实上,他们冷酷而薄薄而饥饿。
In the stories, kind people—sometimes little boys and girls with tender hearts—invariably saw the poor children and gave them money or rich gifts, or took them home to beautiful dinners.
在故事中,善良的人——有时是心地温和的小男孩和女孩——总是看到贫穷的孩子,给他们钱财和丰富的礼物,或者带他们回家吃美食。
Guy Clarence had been affected to tears that very afternoon by the reading of such a story, and he had burned with a desire to find such a poor child and give her a certain sixpence he possessed, and thus provide for her for life.
盖伊·克拉伦斯在那天下午读到这样一出故事时,就一直流泪而死,他渴望找到这样一个可怜的孩子并给她某种他拥有的六便士,从而为她提供终身的供养.
An entire sixpence, he was sure, would mean affluence for evermore.
整整六便士,他肯定, 将意味着富裕永远。
As he crossed the strip of red carpet laid across the pavement from the door to the carriage, he had this very sixpence in the pocket of his very short man-o’-war trousers.
他穿过从门到马车上铺起的红地毯,
Just as Rosalind Gladys got into the vehicle and jumped on the seat in order to feel the cushions spring under her, he saw Sara standing on the wet pavement in her shabby frock and hat, with her old basket on her arm, looking at him hungrily.
正如罗莎琳德·格拉迪斯上车并跳上座位来感受她下方的自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自自来自来自来自来自来自自来自来所所所想道:
He thought that her eyes looked hungry because she had perhaps had nothing to eat for a long time.
他认为她的眼睛看起来饿了,因为她可能已经很久没吃东西了.
He did not know that they looked so because she was hungry for the warm, merry life his home held and his rosy face spoke of, and that she had a hungry wish to snatch him in her arms and kiss him.
他不知道他们看起来如此,因为她对温暖而快乐的生活感到饥渴,他的家和他华丽的相貌都说了些什么,而且她怀有怀抱他并亲吻他的愿望。
He only knew that she had big eyes and a thin face and thin legs and a common basket and poor clothes.
他只知道她有大眼睛和瘦脸和瘦腿,还有普通的篮子和贫乏的衣服.
So he put his hand in his pocket and found his sixpence and walked up to her benignly.
于是他把手放口袋里,找到了六便士并温和地走到她身边.
“Here, poor little girl,” he said.
他说,“这里,可怜的小女孩,”
“Here is a sixpence.
“这里是六便士。
I will give it to you.”
我会把它给你。 “
Sara started, and all at once realized that she looked exactly like poor children she had seen, in her better days, waiting on the pavement to watch her as she got out of her brougham.
Sara开始,她突然意识到 她看起来就像她见过的穷孩子, 在她更好的日子里, 在人行道上等待着看着她, 当她走出她的生活。
And she had given them pennies many a time.
她给了他们很多钱。
Her face went red and then it went pale, and for a second she felt as if she could not take the dear little sixpence.
她的脸红了,然后脸色苍白了 她觉得自己不能吃那小六便士
“Oh, no!”
"哦,不!" (英语)
she said.
她说。
“Oh, no, thank you; I mustn’t take it, indeed!”
“哦,不,谢谢,我确实不能接受!”
Her voice was so unlike an ordinary street child’s voice and her manner was so like the manner of a well-bred little person that Veronica Eustacia (whose real name was Janet) and Rosalind Gladys (who was really called Nora) leaned forward to listen.
她的声音与普通的街头流浪儿童的声音不同, 她的作风就像一个成熟的小人物一样, 维罗妮卡·尤斯塔西亚(她的真名叫珍妮特)和罗莎琳德·格拉迪斯(她被真正叫作"诺拉")倾斜,
But Guy Clarence was not to be thwarted in his benevolence.
但盖伊·克拉伦斯的仁慈不会被挫败
He thrust the sixpence into her hand.
他把六便士塞进她手上
“Yes, you must take it!”
“是的,你必须接受!”
he insisted.
他坚持
“You can buy things to eat with it.
“你可以用它买东西吃。
It is a whole sixpence!”
这是整个六便士! “
There was something so honest and kind in his face, and he looked so likely to be heartbrokenly disappointed if she did not take it, that Sara knew she must not refuse him.
他脸上有那么诚实和善良的东西,他看起来很可能会心碎地失望,如果她不接受,莎拉知道她绝不能拒绝他.
To be as proud as that would be a cruel thing.
以此为荣是件残酷的事
So she actually put her pride in her pocket, though her cheeks burned.
所以她把自尊心放在口袋里 虽然脸颊被烧了
“Thank you,” she said.
她说,“谢谢你,”
“You are a kind, kind little darling thing.”
“你是一个善良、善良的小可爱。 “
And as he scrambled joyfully into the carriage she went away, trying to smile, though she caught her breath quickly and her eyes were shining through a mist.
当他欢快地走入马车时,她走开,试图微笑,虽然她很快地抓住了呼吸,眼睛被一雾所照.
She had known that she looked odd and shabby, but until now she had not known that she might be taken for a beggar.
她知道她看起来很古怪又很丑陋,但直到现在,她还不知道她可能被当成乞丐。
As the Large Family’s carriage drove away, the children inside it were talking with excitement.
当大家族的马车开走时,车厢里的孩子激动地说话。
“Oh, Donald,” (this was Guy Clarence’s name), Janet exclaimed, “why did you offer that little girl your sixpence?
“哦,唐纳德(这是盖伊·克拉伦斯的名字),珍妮特说,“你为什么给那个小女孩六便士?”
I’m sure she is not a beggar!”
我相信她不是乞丐。
“She didn’t speak like a beggar!”
”她没有像乞丐那样说话。
cried Nora.
哭着诺拉。
“ And her face didn’t look like a beggar’s face!”
“...... 她的脸看起来不像乞丐。
“Besides, she didn’t beg,” said Janet.
Janet说,“此外,她没有乞求,”
“You know, it makes people angry to be taken for beggars when they are not beggars.”
“当乞丐不是乞丐的时候,这让人愤怒。 “
“She wasn’t angry,” said Donald, dismayed.
Donald说:“她没有生气,
“She said I was a kind, darling thing.
“她说我是个好人,亲爱的。
And I was!”
我曾经是!”
he said stoutly.
他说的很稳
“It was my whole sixpence.”
“这是我的全部六便士。 “
Janet and Nora exchanged glances.
珍妮特和诺拉互换了相貌.
“ A beggar girl would never have said that,” decided Janet.
“一个乞丐女孩绝不会说,”决定珍妮特。
“She would have said, ‘Thank yer kindly, little gentleman—thank yer, sir ’; and perhaps she would have bobbed a curtsy.”
" 她会说:`谢谢您,小绅士,谢谢您,先生 ' ;也许她会骂人。 “
Sara knew nothing about the fact, but from that time the Large Family was as profoundly interested in her as she was in it.
莎拉对这个事实一无所知,但从那时起"大家族"对她和她一样深感兴趣.
Faces used to appear at the nursery windows when she passed, and many discussions concerning her were held round the fire.
她过去时经常出现在苗圃窗户上,许多有关她的讨论被围在了大火中.
“She is a kind of servant at the seminary,” Janet said.
Janet说:“她是神学院的仆人。”
“I don’t believe she belongs to anybody.
" 我不相信她属于任何人。
I believe she is an orphan.
我相信她是个孤儿
But she is not a beggar, however shabby she looks.”
但她不是乞丐,不管她看起来多么差劲。 “
And afterward she was called by all of them, “The-little-girl-who-is-not-a-beggar,” which was, of course, rather a long name, and sounded very funny when the youngest ones said it in a hurry.
之后,她被所有人都叫来“小姑娘,谁不是乞丐”,这当然是一个很长的名字,在最小的人匆忙地说的时候听起来很有趣。
Sara managed to bore a hole in the sixpence and hung it on an old bit of narrow ribbon round her neck.
Sara设法在六便士身上打出个洞,并把它挂在她脖子上被一丝狭长的丝带上.
Her affection for the Large Family increased—as, indeed, her affection for everything she could love increased.
她对大家庭的热爱增加,因为她对所爱的一切的热爱增加。
She grew fonder and fonder of Becky, and she looked forward to the two mornings a week when she gave the little ones their French lesson.
她渐渐喜欢和喜欢贝琪,她期待着每周两个早晨,当她给孩子们上法语课的时候.
Her small pupils loved her, and strove with each other for the privilege of standing close to her and insinuating their small hands into hers.
她的瞳孔爱她, 并努力彼此的特权 站在她身边, 并暗示他们的小手进入她的。
It fed her hungry heart to feel them nestling up to her.
它喂养了饥饿的心 以感受它们缠绕着她
She made such friends with the sparrows that when she stood upon the table, put her head and shoulders out of the attic window, and chirped, she heard almost immediately a flutter of wings and answering twitters, and a little flock of dingy town birds appeared and alighted on the slates to talk to her and make much of the crumbs she scattered.
她与麻雀结为好友,当她站在桌子上,把头和肩膀从阁楼窗外放出并鸣叫时,她几乎立刻听到一股飞腾的翅膀并答了twitters,一阵丁基镇的小鸟出现并点燃了花板上与她交谈并制造出她所散去的许多碎屑.
With Melchisedec she had become so intimate that he actually brought Mrs.
和梅尔希泽德在一起 她变得很亲密 他居然带了夫人来
Melchisedec with him sometimes, and now and then one or two of his children.
梅尔希泽克有时和他在一起 偶尔和他一两个孩子在一起
She used to talk to him, and, somehow, he looked as if he understood.
她经常和他说话,不知怎的,他看起来好像明白了。
There had grown in her mind rather a strange feeling about Emily, who always sat and looked on at everything.
她的脑海里对艾米莉有一种奇怪的感觉 她总是坐视不管
It arose in one of her moments of great desolateness.
这是在她极度荒凉的时刻产生的
She would have liked to believe or pretend to believe that Emily understood and sympathized with her.
她本想相信或假装相信艾米莉理解并同情她.
She did not like to own to herself that her only companion could feel and hear nothing.
她不喜欢自己拥有 她唯一的伴侣能感觉到和听到什么。
She used to put her in a chair sometimes and sit opposite to her on the old red footstool, and stare and pretend about her until her own eyes would grow large with something which was almost like fear—particularly at night when everything was so still, when the only sound in the attic was the occasional sudden scurry and squeak of Melchisedec’s family in the wall.
她经常把她放在椅子上, 坐在她对面的红脚凳上, 凝视并假装她, 直到她的眼睛变大,
One of her “pretends” was that Emily was a kind of good witch who could protect her.
她的"前所未有"之一是艾米莉是种能保护她的良好女巫.
Sometimes, after Sara had stared at her until she was wrought up to the highest pitch of fancifulness, she would ask Emily questions and find herself almost feeling as if she would presently answer.
有时,在Sara一直盯着她 直到她被塑造成 最高的幻想, 她会问艾米莉的问题 并发现自己几乎感觉 仿佛她现在会回答。
But she never did.
但她从来没有
“ As to answering, though,” said Sara, trying to console herself, “I never answer when I can help it.
“...... 至于回答,“萨拉说,他试图安慰自己,“当我能够帮助的时候,我从来没有回答。
When people are insulting you, silence is best— just to look at them and think.
当人们在侮辱你时,沉默是最好的——只是看着他们思考。
Miss Minchin turns pale with rage when I do it, Miss Amelia looks frightened, and so do the girls.
Minchin小姐在我这样做的时候 脸色变苍白了 Amelia小姐看起来很害怕 女孩们也一样
When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn’t said afterward.
当你不会飞入激情中时,人们知道你比他们更强大,因为你足够强大,可以忍受你的愤怒,而他们却不然,他们说出他们希望自己之后没有说过的蠢话。
There’s nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that’s stronger.
没有什么比愤怒更强烈,
It’s a good thing not to answer your enemies.
不回答敌人是件好事。
Perhaps Emily is more like me than I am like myself.
也许艾米丽更像我 比我像我自己。
Perhaps she would rather not answer her friends, even.
也许她宁愿不回答她的朋友,甚至。
She keeps it all in her heart.”
她把一切都记在心里 “
But though she tried to satisfy herself with these arguments, she did not find it easy.
虽然她试图用这些论点满足自己,但她并不觉得容易.
When, after a long, hard day, in which she had been sent here and there, sometimes on long errands through wind and cold and rain, she came in wet and hungry, and was sent out again because nobody chose to remember that she was only a child, and that her slim legs might be tired and her small body might be chilled; when she had been given only harsh words and cold, slighting looks for thanks; when the cook had been vulgar and insolent; when Miss Minchin had been in her worst mood, and when she had seen the girls sneering among themselves at her shabbiness— then she was not always able to comfort her sore, proud, desolate heart with fancies when Emily merely sat upright in her old chair and stared.
在漫长而艰难的一天里,她被派到这里和那里,有时在风和寒冷和雨中长途出行后,她又被送出去,因为没有人选择记得她只是个孩子,而且她的瘦腿可能很疲惫,她的小身体可能变冷;当她只得到严酷的言语和寒冷,轻而易举地寻找感谢的时候;当厨师粗俗而无礼的时候;当明钦小姐心情最差的时候,当她看到女孩们在自己身上流鼻涕的时候——然后,她并不总是能够用幻想来安慰她的痛苦、骄傲和荒凉的心,当艾米丽仅仅坐在她老椅子上并凝视她时。
One of these nights, when she came up to the attic cold and hungry, with a tempest raging in her young breast, Emily’s stare seemed so vacant, her sawdust legs and arms so inexpressive, that Sara lost all control over herself.
其中一天晚上,当她来到阁楼寒冷而饥饿,年轻时的乳房里暴发了暴风雨,艾米丽的眼神看起来好平平平,她的锯屑腿和手臂那么不显眼,使莎拉失去了对自己的一切控制.
“I shall die presently,” she said at first.
她说,“我将立即死去”。
Emily simply stared.
艾米丽只是看。
“I can’t bear this,” said the poor child, trembling.
我无法忍受,
“I’m cold; I’m wet; I’m starving to death.
“我冷;我湿;我饿死。
I’ve walked a thousand miles today, and they have done nothing but scold me from morning until night.
今天我走过一千多英里,
And because I could not find that last thing the cook sent me for, they would not give me any supper.
因为我找不到厨师送我的最后一件事 他们不会给我任何晚餐
Some men laughed at me because my old shoes made me slip down in the mud.
有人笑我 因为我的旧鞋让我滑倒在泥地上
I’m covered with mud now.
现在,
Do you hear?”
你听到了吗? “
She looked at the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her.
她看着凝视的玻璃眼睛和自满的相貌,突然一种心碎的愤怒抓住了她.
She lifted her hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing—Sara who never cried.
她举起手来把艾米丽从椅子上打倒,冲入了泣诉的热情——从未哭泣的萨拉.
“You are nothing but a doll!”
你只是一个玩偶!
she cried.
她哭着
“You care for nothing.
“你什么也不关心。
You are stuffed with sawdust.
你塞满了灰尘
You never had a heart.
你从没有心
Nothing could ever make you feel.
没有什么能让你感觉到的。
You are a doll!”
你是个娃娃!”
Emily lay on the floor, with her legs ignominiously doubled up over her head, and a new flat place on the end of her nose; but she was calm, even dignified.
艾米丽躺在地上,双腿无耻地双出双头,鼻子末端有一处新的平地;但她很冷静,甚至有尊严.
Sara hid her face in her arms.
Sara把她的脸藏在怀里了
The rats in the wall began to fight and bite each other and squeak and scramble.
墙上老鼠开始相打相咬相打相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相叫相相叫相相相相相相相叫相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相相
Melchisedec was chastising some of his family.
Melchisedec正在惩罚他的一些家人。
Sara’s sobs gradually quieted themselves.
萨拉的泣声逐渐平息.
It was so unlike her to break down that she was surprised at herself.
分手与她不同,她对自己感到惊讶.
After awhile she raised her face and looked at Emily, who seemed to be gazing at her round the side of one angle, and, somehow, by this time actually with a kind of glassy-eyed sympathy.
过了一段时间,她抬起她的脸,看着艾米丽,她似乎在看着她圆形的一角,不知怎么的,这个时候,她实际上带着一种玻璃眼的同情.
Sara bent and picked her up.
莎拉弯腰接她
Remorse overtook her.
悔恨压倒了她。
She even smiled at herself a very little smile.
她甚至对自己微笑了一点
“You can’t help being a doll,” she said with a resigned sigh, “any more than Lavinia and Jessie can help not having any sense.
她叹息地说, “除了拉维尼亚和杰西之外,
We are not all made alike.
我们并非都一样。
Perhaps you do your sawdust best.”
或许你最好把锯末弄好 “
And she kissed her and shook her clothes straight, and put her back upon her chair.
她亲吻了自己,把衣服摇直了,然后把她放回椅子上。
She had wished very much that someone would take the empty house next door.
她非常希望有人把隔壁的空房子拿走。
She wished it because of the attic window which was so near hers.
她希望如此,因为 阁楼窗 如此接近她的。
It seemed as if it would be so nice to see it propped open someday and a head and shoulders rising out of the square aperture.
似乎看到它有一天会打开 并且从平方孔径中起出一头和一肩
“If it looked a nice head,” she thought, “I might begin by saying, ‘Good morning,’ and all sorts of things might happen.”
她认为“如果它看起来不错,” “我不妨首先说:`早安', “
One morning, on turning the corner of the square after a visit to the grocer’s, the butcher’s, and the baker’s, she saw, to her great delight, that during her rather prolonged absence, a van full of furniture had stopped before the next house, the front doors were thrown open, and men in shirt sleeves were going in and out carrying heavy packages and pieces of furniture.
一天早上,在参观了杂货店、屠夫店和面包店之后,她非常高兴地看到,在她相当长时间的缺席期间,一辆装满家具的面包车在隔壁房子前被拦住,前门被打开,穿衬衫袖子的男子正在进出,执行沉重的包裹和家具碎片。
“It’s taken!”
" 被抢了! "
she said.
她说。
“Oh, I do hope a nice head will look out of the attic window!”
“哦,我的确希望一个漂亮的头从阁楼的窗外望出!”
She would almost have liked to join the group of loiterers who had stopped on the pavement to watch the things carried in.
她几乎愿意加入那些在人行道上停下来看东西的游走者。
She had an idea that if she could see some of the furniture she could guess something about the people it belonged to.
她有一个想法,如果她能看到一些家具... ...她可以猜到它属于什么人。
“Miss Minchin’s tables and chairs are just like her,” she thought; “I remember thinking that the first minute I saw her, even though I was so little.
" Minchin小姐的桌子和椅子都像她一样, " 她想道: " 我记得我看到她的那一刻,虽然我很小。
I told Papa afterward, and he laughed and said it was true.
之后我告诉了爸爸,他笑着说这是真的。
I am sure the Large Family have fat, comfortable armchairs and sofas, and I can see that their red-flowery wallpaper is exactly like them.
我敢肯定,大家族有肥胖,舒适的扶手椅和沙发,我可以看到他们的红花壁纸和他们完全一样.
It’s warm and cheerful and kind-looking and happy.”
温和快乐, “
She was sent out for parsley to the greengrocer’s later in the day, and when she came up the area steps her heart gave quite a quick beat of recognition.
她被派到绿地农家去, 当她上来时, 她的心跳很快。
Several pieces of furniture had been set out of the van upon the pavement.
在人行道上从面包车上放出多块家具。
There was a beautiful table of elaborately wrought teakwood, and some chairs, and a screen covered with rich Oriental embroidery.
有一张漂亮的桌子 精心制作的茶木, 和一些椅子, 和屏幕上覆盖着丰富的东方刺绣。
The sight of them gave her a weird, homesick feeling.
他们的目光给她一种怪异的想家的感觉.
She had seen things so like them in India.
她在印度见过这样的东西
One of the things Miss Minchin had taken from her was a carved teakwood desk her father had sent her.
Minchin小姐从她身上拿走的一件东西 是她父亲寄给她的木制茶木桌子
“They are beautiful things,” she said; “they look as if they ought to belong to a nice person.
她说,“它们是美丽的事物”,“它们看起来应该属于一个好人。
All the things look rather grand.
所有的东西看起来都很好
I suppose it is a rich family.”
我想这是一个富有的家庭。 “
The vans of furniture came and were unloaded and gave place to others all the day.
家具的面包车来了,被卸下,一天到头都交给别人。
Several times it so happened that Sara had an opportunity of seeing things carried in.
有好几次,Sara有机会看到事情的发生。
It became plain that she had been right in guessing that the newcomers were people of large means.
很明显她猜对了 新来的人是有钱人
All the furniture was rich and beautiful, and a great deal of it was Oriental.
所有的家具都丰富而美丽,大量的家具都是东方的.
Wonderful rugs and draperies and ornaments were taken from the vans, many pictures, and books enough for a library.
从货车上取走了漂亮的地毯、窗帘和装饰品,许多照片和书籍,足以用作图书馆。
Among other things there was a superb god Buddha in a splendid shrine.
除其他外,有一个超大的神佛 在一个伟大的神殿。
“Someone in the family must have been in India,” Sara thought.
Sara认为“家里一定有人在印度。”
“They have got used to Indian things and like them.
“他们习惯了印度的东西,喜欢它们。
I am glad.
我很高兴。
I shall feel as if they were friends, even if a head never looks out of the attic window.”
我将觉得他们就像朋友, 即使一个头从来没有从阁楼窗外看。 “
When she was taking in the evening’s milk for the cook (there was really no odd job she was not called upon to do), she saw something occur which made the situation more interesting than ever.
当她用晚上的牛奶做厨师时(实际上没有奇怪的工作,她没有被要求做),她看到一些事情的发生使情况比以往任何时候都更有趣。
The handsome, rosy man who was the father of the Large Family walked across the square in the most matter-of-fact manner, and ran up the steps of the next-door house.
身为"大家族"之父的英俊而华丽的人以最真实的方式走过广场,跑起隔壁房子的台阶.
He ran up them as if he felt quite at home and expected to run up and down them many a time in the future.
他跑到他们身上 好像他觉得很在家 并且希望将来能跑上跑下跑下跑下跑下跑下跑
He stayed inside quite a long time, and several times came out and gave directions to the workmen, as if he had a right to do so.
他在里面呆了很长时间,好几次出来给工人指示,好像他有权这样做。
He was in some intimate way connected with the newcomers and was acting for them.
他与新来者有某种亲密的联系,并代他们行事。
“If the new people have children,” Sara speculated, “the Large Family children will be sure to come and play with them, and they might come up into the attic just for fun.”
Sara推测“如果新人有孩子, “
At night, after her work was done, Becky came in to see her fellow prisoner and bring her news.
晚上,她的工作完成后,贝琪进来看望同狱囚犯并带去她的消息.
“It’s a’ Nindian gentleman that’s movin’ next door, miss,” she said.
「是一位印度绅士在隔壁出走,
“I don’t know whether he’s a black gentleman or not, but he’s a Nindian one.
我不知道他是不是黑人绅士,
He’s very rich, an’ he’s ill, an’ the gentleman of the Large Family is his lawyer.
他非常富有,一个生病了,一个大家庭的绅士是他的律师。
He’s had a lot of trouble, an’ it’s made him ill an’ low in his mind.
这让他的心智低落。
He worships idols, miss.
他崇拜偶像,小姐。
He’s an ’eat hen an’ bows down to wood an’ stone.
他是一个吃母鸡的人,
I seen a’ idol bein’ carried in for him to worship.
我看见一个偶像为他而来崇拜。
Somebody had oughter send him a trac’.
有人应该送他一程。
You can get a trac’ for a penny.”
你只要一分钱就能买到一分钱 “
Sara laughed a little.
萨拉笑了一下。
“I don’t believe he worships that idol,” she said; “some people like to keep them to look at because they are interesting.
她表示:「我不相信他崇拜那个偶像,
My papa had a beautiful one, and he did not worship it.”
我爸爸有一个美丽的, 他没有崇拜它。 “
But Becky was rather inclined to prefer to believe that the new neighbor was “an ’eathen.”
但Becky更倾向于相信新邻居是"当时". “
It sounded so much more romantic than merely an ordinary kind of gentleman who went to church with a prayer book.
听起来比普通的绅士 带着一本祷告书去教堂更浪漫
She sat and talked long that night of what he would be like, of what his wife would be like if he had one, and of what his children would be like if they had children.
当晚她坐着长话短说 他的长相,他妻子的长相 如果他有一个,他的孩子的长相
Sara saw that privately Becky could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans, and, above all, that—like their parent—they would all be “’eathens.”
萨拉私下看到的 Becky不禁希望他们都是黑人,佩戴头巾,而且最重要的是,这就像他们的父母一样,他们都是 " 救世主 " 。 “
“I never lived next door to no ’eathens, miss,” she said; “I should like to see what sort o’ ways t hey ’d h ave.”
“我从未住在隔壁,
It was several weeks before her curiosity was satisfied, and then it was revealed that the new occupant had neither wife nor children.
在她的好奇心得到满足之前几个星期,后来透露出新占领者既没有妻子也没有孩子.
He was a solitary man with no family at all, and it was evident that he was shattered in health and unhappy in mind.
他是个孤立无援的人,完全没有家人,显然他在健康上被打碎,在思想上感到不快.
A carriage drove up one day and stopped before the house.
一天,一辆马车开过来,在房子前停车。
When the footman dismounted from the box and opened the door the gentleman who was the father of the Large Family got out first.
当男足从盒子上卸下并打开门时,作为"大家族"之父的绅士先出道.
After him there descended a nurse; then came down the steps two men-servants.
后来,他降下一位护士,然后,他降下两个仆人。
They came to assist their master, who, when he was helped out of the carriage, proved to be a man with a haggard, distressed face, and a skeleton body wrapped in furs.
他们前来协助他们的主人,当他被帮助出马车时,被证明是一个有着被花花公子,痛苦相貌,被皮毛包裹的骨架身体的人.
He was carried up the steps, and the head of the Large Family went with him, looking very anxious.
他被抬上台阶,"大家族"的首领也跟着他去,看起来非常焦虑.
Shortly afterward a doctor’s carriage arrived, and the doctor went in.
不久,医生的马车赶到,医生就进去了。
“There is such a yellow gentleman next door, Sara,” Lottie whispered at the French class afterward.
“隔壁有这么个黄色的绅士,Sara”,Lottie后来在法国班上低语了。
“Do you think he is a Chinee?
“你认为他是奇尼人吗?
The geography says the Chinee men are yellow.”
地理学说:"奇尼人"为"黄". “
“No, he is not Chinese,” Sara whispered back; “he is very ill.
“不,他不是中国人,”萨拉低声回话,“他病得很重。
Go on with your exercise, Lottie.
继续练习,洛蒂
That was the beginning of the story of the Indian gentleman.
这是印度绅士故事的开始。
Glossary affected (v.)
受影响的词汇(五.)
caused to have an emotional response (p.
引起情绪反应(p.
7) affluence (n.)
7) 富裕 (n.
the state of having a lot of money and possessions; wealth (p.
拥有大量金钱和财物的状态; 财富 (p.
7) aperture (n.)
7) 孔径(n.)
a small opening or gap (p.
a 小开口或间隙(p.
16) benevolence (n.)
16) 仁义 (n.
generosity or kindness (p.
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9) Buddha (n.)
9) 菩萨 (n.
a statue or other representation of Siddhartha Gautama, the person who started the Buddhist religion (p.
发起佛教的人Siddhartha Gautama的雕像或其他代表(p.
18) complacent (adj.)
18)自满(adj.)
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