11.Anne's Impressions of Sunday-School安妮对主日学校的印象-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《绿山墙的安妮Anne of Green Gables》上

Chapter XI Anne's Impressions of Sunday-School “Well,how do you like them?”said Marilla. Anne was standing in the gable room,looking solemnly at three new dresses spread out on the bed. Marilla had made them up herself,and they were all made alike- plain skirts fulled tightly to plain waists,with sleeves as plain as waist and skirt and tight as sleeves could be. "I'll imagine that I like them."said Anne soberly. “Idon't want you to imagine it,”said Marilla,offended.“oh,I can see you don't like the dresses!What is the matter with them? Aren't they neat and clean and new?" “Yes.” "Then why don't you like them?" "They're-they're not-pretty."said Anne reluctantly. “Pretty！”Marilla sniffed.“I didn't trouble my head about getting pretty dresses for you.The brown gingham2 and the blue print will do you for school when you begin to go.The sateen 3 is for church and Sunday-school.I should think you'd be grateful to get most anything after those skimpy wincey things you've been wearing." ·106· 第十一章 安妮对主日学校的印象 “哎，你觉得怎么样？”玛丽拉说。 安妮站在东侧房里，神情严肃地看着摊在床 上的三件新连衣裙。 这些都是玛丽拉自己裁制的，式样都差不 多—裙摆和裙腰都很一般，两者紧紧缝在一 起，袖子也一样平常，而且瘦得不能再瘦了。 “我会想象着喜欢这些衣服。”安妮平静地说。 “我不要你去想象，”玛丽拉生气了，“哼 我看得出你不喜欢！这些衣服有什么不好？不都 是干净整齐、崭新崭新的？” “是。” “那你为什么不喜欢？” “这些衣服都—都不—漂亮。”安妮不情 D reluctantly /ri'lAktontli/ad. 愿地说。 不情愿地，勉强地 ②gingham/"g10/n.方格花 “漂亮！”玛丽拉嗤之以鼻，“我可没费神给 布，条格平布 你做什么漂亮衣服。到时候你就穿这件烟色方格 ③sateen/se'ti:nln.棉锻 裙和这件蓝色印花裙去上学。棉缎的这件你去教 堂和上主日学校穿。我以为你穿过那些紧绷绷的 棉绒衣服，差不多有件衣服你都会很感激的。” ·107· Anne of Green Gables “Oh,I AM grateful,.”protested Anne..“But puffed"sleeves are so fashionable now.It would give me such a thrill,Marilla,just to wear a dress with puffed sleeves." "Well,you'll have to do without your thrill.I think they are ridiculous-looking things anyhow. "But I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does."persisted Anne mournfully. "Trust you for that!Well,hang those dresses carefully up in your closet,and then sit down and learn the Sunday-school lesson.I got a quarterly from Mr.Bell for you and you'll go to Sunday-school tomorrow."said Marilla,disappearing downstairs in high dudgeon. The next morning warnings of a sick headache prevented Marilla from going to Sunday-school with Anne. "You'll have to go down and call for Mrs.Lynde,Anne."she said. "She'll see that you get into the right class.Now,mind you behave yourself3 properly.Stay to preaching afterwards and ask Mrs.Lynde to show you our pew④.” Anne started off irreproachable,arrayed 5 in the stiff black-and- white sateen.Her hat was a little,flat,glossy,new sailor,the extreme plainness of which had likewise much disappointed Anne.Being confronted halfway down the lane with a golden frenzy of wind-stirred buttercups and a glory of wild roses,Anne promptly and liberally garlanded her hat with a heavy wreath of them and tripped gaily down the road,holding her ruddy head with its decoration of pink and yellow very proudly. When she had reached Mrs.Lynde's house she found that lady gone. Nothing daunted,Anne proceeded onward to the church alone.In the porch she found a crowd of little girls,all more or less gaily attired in whites and blues and pinks,and all staring with curious eyes at this ·108· 绿山墙的安妮 ①puffed/pAft/a.膨胀的（动 “噢，我是很感激的，”安妮辩解道，“可是 词pur的过去式和过去分 现在灯笼袖最时髦了。要是能穿上一件有灯笼袖 词) 的裙子，我会非常激动的，玛丽拉。” “嗯，那你只好别激动了。不管怎么说，我 觉得灯笼袖看起来很可笑。” “如果别人都穿灯笼袖，我宁可模样可笑。” 安妮悲哀地坚持道。 “就知道你会这么说！好了，把这些衣服好好 挂进你的衣橱，然后坐下来看看主日学校的功课。 2quarterly/"kwo:tal/n.季刊 我替你向贝尔先生要了份季刊读本，你明天就去 主日学校。”玛丽拉边说边怒气冲冲地下楼去了。 第二天早晨，玛丽拉觉得头又要剧痛了，她 不能跟安妮一起去主日学校了。 “你只能自己去找林德太太了，安妮，”她 3 behave yourself行为规矩些 说，“她会关照你进合适的班级的。嗯，记住要 ④pew /pjut/n.教堂长凳，座 规规矩矩的，一定要听完布道，请林德太太带你 位 5 array're/打扮 到咱们的座位去。” 安妮穿戴整齐地出发了，她穿着那件死板的 黑白格棉缎裙子。她戴着簇新的平顶小草帽，草 6wind-stimed被风搅的 promptly /promptl/ad. 帽看上去很光滑，式样也极平常，这也让安妮很 捷地，迅速地 失望。她沿着小路走到半道，忽然看见一片怒放 liberally/Iib3rl/ad.不受 的金凤花和野玫瑰在风中摇曳，便立即采了一大 限制地，大方地 gaily /geil/ad..欢乐地 把编成一个大花环装饰在帽子上。她快活地跑上 ①daunted/db:ntd/a.毫不气 大路，骄傲地昂着她那满是粉红金黄饰品的脑袋。 馁 onward3nwad/ad.向前， 安妮到林德太太家时，发现这位太太已经 前进 走了，于是她毫不畏惧地独自向教堂走去。在 D attired/'taiod/a.装扮的 教堂的门廊里她看到一群小姑娘，几乎都穿着 (动词air的过去式和过 去分词形式) 白色、蓝色或者粉红色裙子，打扮得漂漂亮亮 ·109· Anne of Green Gables stranger in their midst,with her extraordinary head adornment. Nobody made any friendly advances,then or later on when the opening exercises were over and Anne found herself in Miss Rogerson's class. Miss Rogerson was a middle-aged lady who had taught a Sunday- school class for twenty years.Her method of teaching was to ask the printed questions from the quarterly and look sternly over its edge at the particular little girl she thought ought to answer the question. Anne did not think she liked Miss Rogerson,and she felt very miserable;every other little girl in the class had puffed sleeves.Anne felt that life was really not worth living without puffed sleeves. "Well,how did you like Sunday-school?"Marilla wanted to know when Anne came home.Her wreath having faded,Anne had discarded it in the lane,so Marilla was spared the knowledge of that for a time. “I didn't like it a bit..It was horrid.” “Anne Shirley！”said Marilla rebukingly2. Anne sat down on the rocker with a long sigh. "Mr.Bell made an awfully long prayer.I would have been dreadfully tired before he got through if I hadn't been sitting by that window.But it looked right out on the Lake of Shining Waters,so I just gazed at that and imagined all sorts of splendid things." "You shouldn't have done anything of the sort.You should have listened to Mr..Bell.” “But he wasn't talking to me,”protested Anne.“He was talking to God and he didn't seem to be very much interested in it,either.Well, Mr.Bell did get through at last and they told me to go into the classroom with Miss Rogerson's class.There were nine other girls in it.They all had puffed sleeves.I tried to imagine mine were puffed,too,but I couldn't." ·110· 绿山墙的安妮 adomment /o'do:nmant/n. 的。她们都好奇地盯着这个头饰特别的陌生孩 装饰，装饰品 子，始终没人上前表示友好。开学典礼结束后， 安妮发现她编在罗杰森小姐的班上。 罗杰森小姐人到中年，在主日学校教了二十 年课了。她的教学法就是按季刊读本上的问题提 问，然后越过书页严厉地看着她认为该回答问题 的女孩儿 安妮觉得她不喜欢罗杰森小姐，感到很难 受。班里别的女孩子都穿灯笼袖的裙子，她觉得 没有灯笼袖的日子真没意思。 “哎，你觉得主日学校怎么样？”安妮回家的 时候玛丽拉很想知道。安妮的花环已经枯萎了， 被她扔在了小道上，所以玛丽拉一点儿都不知道 花环的事。 2 rebukingly /r'bju:kinli/ “我一点儿也不喜欢，太可怕了。” ad.指责地 “安妮雪利！”玛丽拉责备道。 安妮长叹一声坐在摇椅上。 “贝尔先生祈祷了很久，要不是我靠窗坐， 不等他说完我就得烦死了。不过这窗子正好对 着波光湖，我就盯着湖水想象各种壮丽的景 物。” “你不该那样，应该听着贝尔先生祈祷。” “可他又不是对我说话，”安妮不服气地说， “他是对上帝说话，而且他好像对此也不大感兴 趣。最后贝尔先生总算说完了，他们让我去罗杰 森小姐的班上，班里还有九个女孩儿，她们的衣 服都是灯笼袖的。我努力想象我的也是灯笼袖， 可我想象不出来。” ·111· Anne of Green Gables "You shouldn't have been thinking about your sleeves in Sunday school.You should have been attending to the lesson.I hope you knew it.” "Oh,yes:and I answered a lot of questions.Miss Rogerson asked ever so many.I don't think it was fair for her to do all the asking.There were lots I wanted to ask her,but I didn't like to because I didn't think she was a kindred spirit. Marilla felt helplessly that all this should be sternly reproved,but she was hampered by the undeniable fact that some of the things Anne had said,especially about Mr.Bell's prayers,were what she herself had really thought deep down in her heart for years,but had never given expression to. ·112· 绿山墙的安妮 “你不该在主日学校里想你的袖子，你该注 意听课。我希望你把功课都弄懂了。” “噢，我懂，我回答了好多问题呢。罗杰森 小姐问了我一大堆问题。我觉得只有她一个人提 问不公平，我有好多问题想问她，可我又不想 问，因为我想她不是我的知音。” 玛丽拉无奈地觉得这些话都该遭到严厉谴 责，可她又很犹豫，因为安妮有些话是不可否认 ①hamper /haempa/,.妨碍， 的事实。特别是关于贝尔先生的祈祷的那些话， 束缚，限制 其实也是她自己多年来深埋心底的想法，只是从 2 undeniable /AndI'natobl/ a.不可否认的，无可辩驳的 没说出来。 ·113·