A Little Princess
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
In Part 11 of A Little Princess, Sara is ashamed to receive a sixpence from a member of the Large Family.
在"小公主"的第十一部分中,萨拉羞愧地从"大家族"成员那里得到一分六便士.
She also spies the Indian gentleman for the first time.
她还首次监视了印度绅士.
Part Twelve: Ram Dass here were fine sunsets even in the square, sometimes.
第十二部分:这里的拉姆·达斯(Ram Dass)甚至有时在广场上都是精美的日落.
One could only see parts of them, however, between the chimneys and over the roofs.
然而,人们只能看到烟囱和屋顶之间的部分。
From the kitchen windows one could not see them at all, and could only guess that they were going on because the bricks looked warm and the air rosy or yellow for a while, or perhaps one saw a blazing glow strike a particular pane of glass somewhere.
从厨房的窗户上,人们根本看不到它们,只能猜测它们正在发生,因为砖块看起来很温暖,空气有一阵子的玫瑰或黄色,或者也许有人看到一道发光在某个地方打出一副特定的玻璃相。
There was, however, one place from which one could see all the splendor of them: the piles of red or gold clouds in the west; or the purple ones edged with dazzling brightness; or the little fleecy, floating ones, tinged with rose color and looking like flights of pink doves scurrying across the blue if there was a wind.
然而,有一个地方,人们可以看到它们的所有辉煌:西部有红或金的云层;或者紫色的云层有闪闪发光的光;或者有小花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花
The place where one could see all this, and seem at the same time to breathe a purer air, was, of course, the attic window.
人们可以看到这一切的地方, 似乎同时呼吸出更纯洁的空气, 当然是阁楼的窗户。
When the square suddenly seemed to begin to glow in an enchanted way and look wonderful in spite of its sooty trees and railings, Sara knew something was going on in the sky; and when it was at all possible to leave the kitchen without being missed or called back, she invariably stole away and crept up the flights of stairs, and, climbing on the old table, got her head and body as far out of the window as possible.
当广场突然开始发光时,尽管它的多味的树木和栏杆,但看起来还是很奇妙;而莎拉知道天上有些事情正在发生;当离开厨房时,没有被错过或召回,她总是会偷走并爬上楼梯的航班,从旧桌子上爬出,把她的头和身体尽可能地从窗户外移出.
When she had accomplished this, she always drew a long breath and looked all round her.
当她完成这个任务时,她总是抽出一阵长气来,并环顾四周.
It used to seem as if she had all the sky and the world to herself.
以前她好像拥有了所有的天空和世界
No one else ever looked out of the other attics.
彼楼阁中无人相顾.
Generally the skylights were closed; but even if they were propped open to admit air, no one seemed to come near them.
一般天窗是封闭的;但即使它们露出露出气来,似乎没有人靠近它们。
And there Sara would stand, sometimes turning her face upward to the blue which seemed so friendly and near—just like a lovely vaulted ceiling— sometimes watching the west and all the wonderful things that happened there.
萨拉会站在那里,有时会把脸朝上翻到蓝色上,这看起来是那么友好和接近——就像一个可爱的保险天花板——有时会看着西部和那里发生的所有美好的事.
She watched the clouds melting or drifting or waiting softly to be changed pink or crimson or snow-white or purple or pale dove-gray.
她目睹了云层融化或漂流,或轻而易举地等待被改变为粉红色或克林松或雪白或紫色或苍白的鸽子灰色.
Sometimes they made islands or great mountains enclosing lakes of deep turquoise-blue, or liquid amber, or chrysoprase-green; sometimes dark headlands jutted into strange, lost seas; sometimes slender strips of wonderful lands joined other wonderful lands together.
有时他们造出岛屿或大山, 环绕着深色绿地的湖泊, 或液态琥珀地,或青地; 有时暗黑的头地会变成奇特的、迷茫的海; 有时细小的地带 将其他美妙的土地结合在一起。
There were places where it seemed that one could run or climb or stand and wait to see what next was coming— until, perhaps, as it all melted, one could float away.
有些地方,人们似乎可以跑来跑去,爬去或站起,等着看到接下来会发生什么——也许,当这一切融化时,人们就会飘去。
At least it seemed so to Sara, and nothing had ever been quite so beautiful to her as the things she saw as she stood on the table—her body half out of the skylight—the sparrows twittering with sunset softness on the slates.
至少对Sara来说如此, 没有什么比她站在桌子上时所看到的东西那么漂亮了——她的尸体从天窗外出来——麻雀们在推特上用日出柔软的语气在板子上呼唤。
The sparrows always seemed to her to twitter with a sort of subdued softness just when these marvels were going on.
在她眼里,麻雀们总是在推特上 轻而易举地轻而易举地说出这些奇迹。
There was such a sunset as this a few days after the Indian gentleman was brought to his new home; and, as it fortunately happened that the afternoon’s work was done in the kitchen and nobody had ordered her to go anywhere or perform any task, Sara found it easier than usual to slip away and go upstairs.
印度绅士被带到他的新家几天后,就出现了这样一日落;幸运的是,下午的工作在厨房里完成,没有人命令她去任何地方或执行任何任务,萨拉发现比平时更容易溜走并上楼去.
She mounted her table and stood looking out.
她把桌子挂了起来 站着看
It was a wonderful moment.
这是一个美妙的时刻。
There were floods of molten gold covering the west, as if a glorious tide was sweeping over the world.
西部有熔融出金子的洪水,好像一股光辉的潮流席卷了全世界。
A deep, rich yellow light filled the air; the birds flying across the tops of the houses showed quite black against it.
一片深厚的黄光笼罩了空气;飞过房屋顶部的鸟类表现出相当黑色的反面.
“It’s a splendid one,” said Sara, softly, to herself.
Sara温和地对自己说,
“It makes me feel almost afraid—as if something strange was just going to happen.
“这让我几乎感到害怕,
The splendid ones always make me feel like that.”
优秀的总是让我有这种感觉。 “
She suddenly turned her head because she heard a sound a few yards away from her.
她突然转出头来 因为她听到一个声音 离她几码远
It was an odd sound like a queer little squeaky chattering.
这听起来很奇怪 就像一个怪异的叫声
It came from the window of the next attic.
出自下座楼阁之窗.
Someone had come to look at the sunset as she had.
有人像她一样来看日落
There was a head and a part of a body emerging from the skylight, but it was not the head or body of a little girl or a housemaid; it was the picturesque white-swathed form and dark- faced, gleaming-eyed, white-turbaned head of a native Indian man-servant—“a Lascar,” Sara said to herself quickly—and the sound she had heard came from a small monkey he held in his arms as if he were fond of it, and which was snuggling and chattering against his breast.
当时有一个头和一个从天窗冒出来的身体的一部分,但并不是一个小女孩或女佣的头或身体;这是印地安人-仆人 -- -- " 一个Lascar, " -- -- -- 所听到的声音来自他怀抱的一只小猴子,好象他喜欢它一样,他的脸色很白,脸色很黑,眼睛闪闪发亮,头戴着白头巾。
As Sara looked toward him he looked toward her.
当莎拉看着他 他看着她。
The first thing she thought was that his dark face looked sorrowful and homesick.
她认为的第一件事是 他的黑暗相貌 悲伤并想家。
She felt absolutely sure he had come up to look at the sun, because he had seen it so seldom in England that he longed for a sight of it.
她觉得他绝对确定自己是来看太阳的,因为他在英国很少见到太阳,以至于他渴望看到太阳.
She looked at him interestedly for a second, and then smiled across the slates.
她很感兴趣地看着他一秒钟,然后笑了一下。
She had learned to know how comforting a smile, even from a stranger, may be.
她学会了如何安慰 微笑,即使是陌生人的微笑。
Hers was evidently a pleasure to him.
她的确是他的荣幸。
His whole expression altered, and he showed such gleaming white teeth as he smiled back that it was as if a light had been illuminated in his dusky face.
他的整个表情都变了,他展现出如此闪亮的白牙,一笑一笑,仿佛在杜斯基脸上被点出一盏光.
The friendly look in Sara’s eyes was always very effective when people felt tired or dull.
当人们感到疲惫或乏味时,萨拉眼中的友好相貌总是非常有效.
It was perhaps in making his salute to her that he loosened his hold on the monkey.
也许是为了向她致敬 他放松了对猴子的束缚
He was an impish monkey and always ready for adventure, and it is probable that the sight of a little girl excited him.
他是个无能的猴子 总是准备冒险 很有可能一个小女孩的出现让他兴奋
He suddenly broke loose, jumped on to the slates, ran across them chattering, and actually leaped on to Sara’s shoulder, and from there down into her attic room.
他突然松开,跳到板子上,跑过他们聊天,然后跳到Sara的肩膀上,然后从那里跳入她的阁楼房间。
It made her laugh and delighted her; but she knew he must be restored to his master—if the Lascar was his master—and she wondered how this was to be done.
这让她大笑而喜悦,但她知道,如果他的主人是他的主人,那他必须恢复他的主人,她很想知道如何做到这一点。
Would he let her catch him, or would he be naughty and refuse to be caught, and perhaps get away and run off over the roofs and be lost?
他会不会让她抓住他,还是他淘气并拒绝被抓住,也许逃跑并跑出屋顶而迷路?
That would not do at all.
这根本不可能。
Perhaps he belonged to the Indian gentleman, and the poor man was fond of him.
也许他属于印度绅士,而可怜的人也喜欢他.
She turned to the Lascar, feeling glad that she remembered still some of the Hindustani she had learned when she lived with her father.
她转向了拉斯卡尔,觉得很高兴她还记得她和父亲一起生活时所学的一些印度教.
She could make the man understand.
她能让他明白
She spoke to him in the language he knew.
她用他熟悉的语言和他交谈。
“Will he let me catch him?”
“他会让我抓住他吗? “
she asked.
她问。
She thought she had never seen more surprise and delight than the dark face expressed when she spoke in the familiar tongue.
她认为她从未见过比她用熟悉的舌头说话时所表现的黑暗相貌更出人意料和愉快.
The truth was that the poor fellow felt as if his gods had intervened, and the kind little voice came from heaven itself.
事实是,这可怜的家伙觉得好像他的神已经介入了,善良的小声音来自天堂本身.
At once Sara saw that he had been accustomed to European children.
萨拉一见已习惯了欧洲儿童.
He poured forth a flood of respectful thanks.
他倾出一阵恭敬的感谢.
He was the servant of Missee Sahib.
他是弥赛·萨希布的仆人.
The monkey was a good monkey and would not bite; but, unfortunately, he was difficult to catch.
这只猴子是个好猴子,不会被咬;但不幸的是,他很难被抓住。
He would flee from one spot to another, like the lightning.
他会从一个地方逃到另一个地方 就像闪电一样
He was disobedient, though not evil.
他不服从,虽然不邪恶。
Ram Dass knew him as if he were his child, and Ram Dass he would sometimes obey, but not always.
拉姆·达斯认识他就像他的孩子一样,而拉姆·达斯有时会服从,但并不总是服从.
If Missee Sahib would permit Ram Dass, he himself could cross the roof to her room, enter the windows, and regain the unworthy little animal.
如果Missee Sahib允许Ram Dass,他自己可以穿过屋顶到她的房间,进入窗户,并收复不值钱的小动物.
But he was evidently afraid Sara might think he was taking a great liberty and perhaps would not let him come.
但他显然害怕Sara会认为他获得了很大的自由,也许不会让他来.
But Sara gave him leave at once.
但莎拉马上让他离开
“Can you get across?”
" 你能过去吗? “
she inquired.
她问。
“In a moment,” he answered her.
他回答说:“在一瞬间,”
“Then come,” she said; “he is flying from side to side of the room as if he was frightened.”
她说,“你来吧”,“他正从一旁飞到一旁,好像他很害怕。 “
Ram Dass slipped through his attic window and crossed to hers as steadily and lightly as if he had walked on roofs all his life.
拉姆·达斯从他的阁楼窗户上滑倒,并像他一生在屋顶上行走一样稳步而轻而易举地穿过她.
He slipped through the skylight and dropped upon his feet without a sound.
他从天窗滑倒了,没有声音地倒在地上。
Then he turned to Sara and salaamed again.
然后他转向了萨拉,并再次被萨拉阿米德所杀害.
The monkey saw him and uttered a little scream.
这只猴子看见他,喊了一声。
Ram Dass hastily took the precaution of shutting the skylight, and then went in chase of him.
拉姆·达斯仓促采取了关闭天窗的防范措施,后去追赶他.
It was not a very long chase.
追逐时间不长。
The monkey prolonged it a few minutes evidently for the mere fun of it, but presently he sprang chattering on to Ram Dass’s shoulder and sat there chattering and clinging to his neck with a weird little skinny arm.
这只猴子显然为了取笑它而拖了几分钟,但目前他向拉姆·达斯的肩膀发抖并坐在那用一个奇怪的小瘦手臂缠住他的脖子。
Ram Dass thanked Sara profoundly.
拉姆·达斯深深地感谢了萨拉.
She had seen that his quick native eyes had taken in at a glance all the bare shabbiness of the room, but he spoke to her as if he were speaking to the little daughter of a rajah, and pretended that he observed nothing.
她看到,他迅速的当地眼睛一看就看穿了房间的赤裸裸,但他跟她说话,好像在和一个叫Rajah的小女儿说话一样,并假装他什么也没观察到。
He did not presume to remain more than a few moments after he had caught the monkey, and those moments were given to further deep and grateful obeisance to her in return for her indulgence.
在他抓住了这只猴子之后,他并没有冒昧地留下更多的时间,这些时间给了她更深厚和感激地向她叩头,以换取她的宽容。
This little evil one, he said, stroking the monkey, was, in truth, not so evil as he seemed, and his master, who was ill, was sometimes amused by him.
这个小恶人,他说: 捣弄这只猴子,其实不是他看起来那么恶;他病了的主人,有时被他取笑.
He would have been made sad if his favorite had run away and been lost.
如果他最爱的人跑出家门,却迷路了,他本会伤心的.
Then he salaamed once more and got through the skylight and across the slates again with as much agility as the monkey himself had displayed.
然后他再次用猴子自己展示的一样敏捷 穿过了天窗和石板
When he had gone Sara stood in the middle of her attic and thought of many things his face and his manner had brought back to her.
当他离开时,萨拉站在她阁楼中间,想到他的脸和行走方式带回了她的许多事.
The sight of his native costume and the profound reverence of his manner stirred all her past memories.
他的原生服装的外观和对他行为方式的深刻尊重激起她过去所有的记忆.
It seemed a strange thing to remember that she—the drudge whom the cook had said insulting things to an hour ago—had only a few years ago been surrounded by people who all treated her as Ram Dass had treated her; who salaamed when she went by, whose foreheads almost touched the ground when she spoke to them, who were her servants and her slaves.
记得她——厨师一小时前说过的污辱性的话——仅仅几年前就被一些人所包围,这些人都像Ram Dass对待她一样对待她;当她走过去时,她被骂了;当她与他们说话时,他的额头几乎被打倒了,他们是她的仆人和奴隶。
It was like a sort of dream.
就像梦一样
It was all over, and it could never come back.
这一切都结束了,它永远不会回来。
It certainly seemed that there was no way in which any change could take place.
当然,似乎不可能作出任何改变。
She knew what Miss Minchin intended that her future should be.
她知道Minchin小姐 想要她的未来是什么
So long as she was too young to be used as a regular teacher, she would be used as an errand girl and servant and yet expected to remember what she had learned and in some mysterious way to learn more.
只要她年纪太小,不能当普通教师,她就会被当做跑腿的女孩和仆人,然而却期望记得她学到了什么,并且以某种神秘的方式学到更多.
The greater number of her evenings she was supposed to spend at study, and at indefinite intervals she was examined and knew she would be severely admonished if she did not advance as was expected of her.
她本应在学习时度过的夜晚数量越多,她就会无限期地接受检查,并且知道如果她不如预期的那样进步,她就会受到严厉警告。
The truth was that Miss Minchin knew that Sara was too anxious to learn to require teachers.
事实是,明钦小姐知道萨拉太急于学习需要教师.
Give her books, and she would devour them and end by knowing them by heart.
给她的书, 她会吞噬它们,结束 通过了解他们的心。
She would be equal to teaching a good deal in a few years.
几年后她就等于教好东西了
This was what would happen: when she was older she would be expected to drudge in the schoolroom as she drudged now in various parts of the house; they would be obliged to give her more respectable clothes, but they would be sure to be plain and ugly and to make her look like a servant.
事情就是这样的:当她年长时,当她现在在房子的各个地方被拖走时,她会期望在教室里被拖走;她们必须给她更可敬的衣服,但她们肯定会变得平淡而丑陋并让她看起来像一个仆人。
That was all there seemed to be to look forward to, and Sara stood quite still and thought it over.
这一切似乎都期待着,而萨拉则站得相当平稳,深思熟虑.
Then a thought came back to her which made the color rise in her cheek and a spark light itself in her eyes.
然后一个想法回到她身上,使她的脸颊的颜色升起,她的眼睛有闪光。
She straightened her thin little body and lifted her head.
她整齐了自己瘦小的身体,抬起头来.
“Whatever comes,” she said, “cannot alter one thing.
她说,“无论发生什么,都改变不了一件事。
If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside.
如果我是穿着破布和纹饰的公主,我可以成为里面的公主.
It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.
如果我穿着一身金色的布衣,那么做个公主是很容易的,但是在没有人知道的时候做一个人,就更是一个伟大的胜利了.
There was Marie Antoinette when she was in prison and her throne was gone and she had only a black gown on, and her hair was white, and they insulted her and called her Widow Capet.
狱中有玛丽·安托瓦内特(Marie Antoinette)出狱,王位已去,她只穿了黑色长袍,头发是白色的,他们侮辱她并称她为"寡妇卡佩特".
She was a great deal more like a queen then than when she was so gay and everything was so grand.
那时她更像女王 而不是当她如此同性恋,一切都如此伟大。
I like her best then.
那我喜欢她
Those howling mobs of people did not frighten her.
那些叫喊的暴徒没有吓到她。
She was stronger than they were, even when they cut her head off.”
她比她们强壮 即使他们砍了她的头 “
This was not a new thought, but quite an old one.
这不是一个新想法,而是相当古老的想法。
It had consoled her through many a bitter day, and she had gone about the house with an expression in her face which Miss Minchin could not understand and which was a source of great annoyance to her, as it seemed as if the child were mentally living a life which held her above the rest of the world.
它安慰了她度过了许多痛苦的一天,她走遍了这所房子,脸上有Minchin小姐无法理解的表情,使她感到非常恼火,因为孩子似乎在精神上生活着一种使她凌驾于世界其他地方之上的生活。
It was as if she scarcely heard the rude and acid things said to her; or, if she heard them, did not care for them at all.
好像她很少听到她对她说的粗鲁而酸的东西;或者,如果她听到的话,根本不关心它们。
Sometimes, when she was in the midst of some harsh, domineering speech, Miss Minchin would find the still, unchildish eyes fixed upon her with something like a proud smile in them.
有时,当她身处一些严酷,迷人的演讲中时,明钦小姐会发现那些静静而无幼稚的双眼在她身上固定了起来,在他们身上摆出一副骄傲的笑容.
At such times she did not know that Sara was saying to herself: “You don’t know that you are saying these things to a princess, and that if I chose I could wave my hand and order you to execution.
在这个时候,她不知道Sara在对自己说: “你不知道你在对一位公主说这些话, 如果我选择的话, 我可以挥手命令你处决。
I only spare you because I am a princess, and you are a poor, stupid, unkind, vulgar old thing, and don’t know any better.”
我之所以饶恕你,是因为我是一位公主,而你却是一个贫穷、愚蠢、不善良、粗俗的老东西, “
This used to interest and amuse her more than anything else; and queer and fanciful as it was, she found comfort in it and it was a good thing for her.
这比其他一切更能引起她的兴趣和取笑她; 既古怪又有幻想,她从中得到安慰,这对她来说是件好事。
While the thought held possession of her, she could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.
虽然她的想法是占有的,但不能因为那些关于她的人的粗鲁和恶意而使她变得无礼和恶意.
“ A princess must be polite,” she said to herself.
她对自己说,“公主必须礼貌”。
And so when the servants, taking their tone from their mistress, were insolent and ordered her about, she would hold her head erect and reply to them with a quaint civility which often made them stare at her.
当仆人们从情妇口中取出他们的语气时,他们傲慢地命令她,她就会竖起头来,用一种奇特的礼貌回答他们,这常常使他们凝视她。
“She’s got more airs and graces than if she come from Buckingham Palace, that young one,” said the cook, chuckling a little sometimes.
她的气息和优雅比她来自白金汉宫还要多,
“I lose my temper with her often enough, but I will say she never forgets her manners.
“我经常对她发脾气,
‘If you please, cook’; ‘Will you be so kind, cook?’
:"请烹之";"请烹之";"请烹之"能如此仁义? " ; "
‘I beg your pardon, cook’; ‘May I trouble you, cook?’
曰:"臣请相从,烹之";曰:"我可烦汝乎? " ; "
She drops ’em about the kitchen as if they was nothing.”
她把厨房的东西丢掉, “
The morning after the interview with Ram Dass and his monkey, Sara was in the schoolroom with her small pupils.
采访了拉姆·达斯和他的猴子后,第二天早上,萨拉和她的小弟子一起在教室里.
Having finished giving them their lessons, she was putting the French exercise-books together and thinking, as she did it, of the various things royal personages in disguise were called upon to do: Alfred the Great, for instance, burning the cakes and getting his ears boxed by the wife of the neat-herd.
在给他们上课之后,她把法国的练习手册放在一起,并像她所做的那样,想着皇室人物被要求做的各种事情: 举个例子,阿尔弗雷德大帝 烧了蛋糕,把他的耳朵 由整洁的牧羊人的妻子打包.
How frightened she must have been when she found out what she had done.
当她发现自己的所作所为时 她一定很害怕
If Miss Minchin should find out that she— Sara, whose toes were almost sticking out of her boots—was a princess—a real one!
如果明钦小姐发现她——她的脚趾几乎伸出她的靴子的萨拉——是一个真正的公主!
The look in her eyes was exactly the look which Miss Minchin most disliked.
她的眼神正是敏钦小姐最讨厌的表情
She would not have it; she was quite near Sara and was so enraged that she actually flew at her and boxed her ears—exactly as the neat-herd’s wife had boxed King Alfred’s.
她不会拥有它;她离Sara相当近,非常愤怒,实际上她朝她飞去并用拳头打她的耳朵——就像整洁的牧人的妻子用拳头打倒了阿尔弗雷德国王的耳朵。
It made Sara start.
这让萨拉开始。
She wakened from her dream at the shock, and, catching her breath, stood still a second.
她在惊吓中从梦中醒来,在呼吸时站了一会儿。
Then, not knowing she was going to do it, she broke into a little laugh.
然后,不知道她会这样做, 她闯进一点点笑。
“What are you laughing at, you bold, impudent child?”
" 你笑什么,你这个大胆而无礼的孩子? “
Miss Minchin exclaimed.
敏钦小姐很激动
It took Sara a few seconds to control herself sufficiently to remember that she was a princess.
莎拉花了几秒钟才控制了自己,足以记住她是一个公主.
Her cheeks were red and smarting from the blows she had received.
她的脸颊被打得红而聪明
“I was thinking,” she answered.
她回答说:“我在想,”
“Beg my pardon immediately,” said Miss Minchin.
Minchin小姐说,
Sara hesitated a second before she replied.
莎拉在回答之前犹豫了一下
“I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude,” she said then; “but I won’t beg your pardon for thinking.”
她当时说,“如果笑得不礼貌,我请你原谅。” “
“What were you thinking?”
“你在想什么? “
demanded Miss Minchin.
要求敏钦小姐
“How dare you think?
“你怎么敢这样想?
What were you thinking?”
你当时在想什么? “
Jessie tittered, and she and Lavinia nudged each other in unison.
杰西大吃一顿 她和拉维妮娅一心一意
All the girls looked up from their books to listen.
所有女孩都从书上抬头听
Really, it always interested them a little when Miss Minchin attacked Sara.
当Minchin小姐攻击了Sara时 他们总是有点感兴趣
Sara always said something queer, and never seemed the least bit frightened.
莎拉总是说些怪事 从没那么害怕过
She was not in the least frightened now, though her boxed ears were scarlet and her eyes were as bright as stars.
她现在不是最害怕的,虽然她的拳头耳朵是红花,眼睛也和星星一样明亮.
“I was thinking,” she answered grandly and politely, “that you did not know what you were doing.”
“我在想,”她大而礼貌地回答:“你不知道自己在做什么。 “
“That I did not know what I was doing?”
“我不知道自己在做什么? “
Miss Minchin fairly gasped.
Minchin小姐很兴奋
“Yes,” said Sara, “and I was thinking what would happen if I were a princess and you boxed my ears—what I should do to you.
Sara说,“是的,”我在想,如果我是公主,你打耳光,我该怎么对待你。
And I was thinking that if I were one, you would never dare to do it, whatever I said or did.
我在想,如果我是一个人, 你永远不会敢这样做, 无论我说什么或做了什么。
And I was thinking how surprised and frightened you would be if you suddenly found out—” She had the imagined future so clearly before her eyes that she spoke in a manner which had an effect even upon Miss Minchin.
我在想如果你突然发现 你会有多惊讶和害怕... 她的想象中的未来在她眼前如此清晰 她说话的方式甚至对敏钦小姐产生影响
It almost seemed for the moment to her narrow, unimaginative mind that there must be some real power hidden behind this candid daring.
对她狭隘的、无法想象的头脑来说,现在似乎似乎 一定有一些真正的力量 隐藏在这个坦率的大胆背后。
“What?”
“什么情况? “
she exclaimed.
她叹为观止
“Found out what?”
“发现什么? “
“That I really was a princess,” said Sara, “and could do anything—anything I liked.”
Sara说,“我确实是一个公主,”他说,“可以做任何事情——我喜欢的一切。 “
Every pair of eyes in the room widened to its full limit.
房间里的每双眼睛都拓宽到极限.
Lavinia leaned forward on her seat to look.
拉维妮娅靠在她的座位上看
“Go to your room,” cried Miss Minchin, breathlessly, “this instant!
"回你的房间去" "Minchin小姐无声地喊道:"这一刻!
Leave the schoolroom!
离开教室!
Attend to your lessons, young ladies!”
注意你们的课,小姐们! “
Sara made a little bow.
萨拉做了个小鞠躬
“Excuse me for laughing if it was impolite,” she said, and walked out of the room, leaving Miss Minchin struggling with her rage, and the girls whispering over their books.
她说,“对不起,如果这是不礼貌的话,我笑了,”然后走出房间,留下了Minchin小姐的愤怒而挣扎,女孩们在书上低语。
“Did you see her?
“你看见她了吗?
Did you see how queer she looked?”
你看到她看起来有多古怪了吗? “
Jessie broke out.
杰西爆发了。
“I shouldn’t be at all surprised if she did turn out to be something.
我不应该感到惊讶,
Suppose she should!”
如果应该的话!”