12.A Solemn Vow and Promise郑重的誓言-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《绿山墙的安妮Anne of Green Gables》上

Chapter XII A Solemn Vow and Promise It was not until the next Friday that Marilla heard the story of the flower-wreathed hat.She came home from Mrs.Lynde's and called Anne to account “Oh,I'm so sorry,”said Anne,tears welling②into her eyes.“T never thought you'd mind.The roses and buttercups were so sweet and pretty I thought they'd look lovely on my hat.Lots of the little girls had artificial flowers on their hats.I'm afraid I'm going to be a dreadful trial to you.Maybe you'd better send me back to the asylum. “Nonsense,”said Marilla,vexed④at herself for having made the child cry."I don't want to send you back to the asylum,I'm sure.Don't cry any more.I've got some news for you.Diana Barry came home this afternoon.I'm going up to see if I can borrow a skirt pattern from Mrs. Barry,and if you like you can come with me and get acquainted with Diana.” Anne rose to her feet,with clasped hands,the tears still glistening on her cheeks. "Oh,Marilla,I'm frightened-now that it has come I'm actually ·114· 第十二章 郑重的誓言 到了下一个礼拜五，玛丽拉才听说花环草帽 的事。从林德太太家回来后，她叫安妮说清楚。 ①call to account要求解释，斥 泪水涌上安妮的眼晴。她说：“噢，对不 责 起。我从没想过您会介意。玫瑰花和金凤花又香 ②well/wel/v.涌出 又漂亮，我想它们插在帽子上一定特别好看。好 多女孩儿都在帽子上插假花。恐怕我会是个特别 让您讨厌的人。也许您最好还是把我送回孤儿院 ③artificial/a:tr'fifal a人造 的 吧。” “胡说，”玛丽拉说，她恼火自己怎么把孩子 弄哭了，“我肯定不会送你回孤儿院的。别再哭 ④vex /veks/恼怒，使恼火 了！我给你带了点儿好消息：今天下午戴安娜 巴里回来了，一会儿我去巴里太太那儿看看能不 能借个裙样，要是你愿意，你可以跟我去认识一 下戴安娜。” 安妮一下子跳起来，双手握在一起，小脸儿 上还挂着晶莹的泪珠。 “噢，玛丽拉，我好怕一真的，这会儿我 真的害怕了。要是她不喜欢我怎么办？那将是我 ·115· Anne of Green Gables frightened.What if she shouldn't like me!It would be the most tragical disappointment of my life." "Now,don't get into a fluster.And I do wish you wouldn't use such long words.It sounds so funny in a little girl.I guess Diana'll like you well enough.It's her mother you've got to reckon with If she doesn't like you it won't matter how much Diana does. Anne WAS trembling.Her face was pale and tense. "Oh,Marilla,you'd be excited,too,if you were going to meet a little girl you hoped to be your bosom friend and whose mother mightn't like you."she said as she hastened to get her hat. They went over to Orchard Slope by the short cut across the brook and up the firry hill grove.Mrs.Barry came to the kitchen door in answer to Marilla's knock. Diana was sitting on the sofa,reading a book which she dropped when the callers entered.She was a very pretty little girl,with her mother's black eyes and hair,and rosy cheeks,and the merry expression which was her inheritance from her father. “This is my little girl Diana,.”said Mrs.Barry.“Diana,you might take Anne out into the garden and show her your flowers." Outside in the garden,which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it,stood Anne and Diana,gazing bashfully at each other over a clump of gorgeous tiger lilies. "Oh,Diana,"said Anne at last,clasping her hands and speaking almost in a whisper,"oh,do you think you can like me a little- enough to be my bosom friend?" Diana laughed.Diana always laughed before she spoke. “Why,I guess so,”she said frankly.“T'm awfully glad you've come to live at Green Gables.It will be jolly to have somebody to play ·116· 绿山墙的安妮 ①tragical /trad3k/a.悲剧 一生中最可悲的失望！” 的，悲剧性的 “唉，别太激动了。我真希望你别用这么严肃 ②uster自nsta/.慌乱，狼 的字眼，小孩子说这种词太滑稽了。我想戴安娜会 狈，混乱 很喜欢你的，你倒要当心她的妈妈。如果她妈妈不 喜欢你，那戴安娜再喜欢你也没用！” ③reckon with处理，对付 安妮是在发抖。她面色苍白，神情紧张。 “噢，玛丽拉，去见一个你希望成为你知心 朋友的姑娘，可她妈妈很可能不喜欢你，您要是 我，您也会激动的。”她边说边忙着去拿帽子。 她们抄近路过了小河，穿过山上的杉树林， 来到果园坡。玛丽拉上前敲门，巴里太太应声出 ④fyf3rla.多枞树的，枞 来打开厨房门。 树的 戴安娜正坐在沙发上看书，看到客人进来， 便放下了书。她是个非常漂亮的小女孩儿，有着 和她妈妈一样的黑眼睛、黑头发，脸蛋儿红扑扑 的，还有从她父亲那里继承的愉悦神情。 5 inheritance /in'heritans/n. 遗传，继承 “这是我女儿戴安娜，”巴里太太介绍说， “戴安娜，你可以带安妮去花园里看看你的花。” 夕阳柔和的余晖透过西面深色的老杉林酒遍 ⑥mellow /'melau a.成熟的， 整个花园，安妮和戴安娜站在那儿，中间隔着一 醇的 丛盛开的卷丹花，羞涩地瞧着对方。 bashfully /"baeffolli/ad. “噢，戴安娜，”安妮终于开口了，她双手紧握 怯地 ⑧clump /klAmp/n.丛，块 着，声音小得几乎听不到，“你觉得—嗯，你觉 得你能喜欢我，并且做我的知心朋友吗？” 戴安娜笑了，她总是不笑不开口的。 “噢，我想我会的，”她坦率地说，“你到绿 山墙来住，我太高兴了。能有人和我一块儿玩儿 真好。这附近没有可以与我玩儿的女孩儿，我又 没有跟我差不多大的姐妹。” ·117· Anne of Green Gables with.There isn't any other girl who lives near enough to play with,and I've no sisters big enough." "Will you swear to be my friend for ever and ever?"demanded Anne eagerly. “Well,Idon't mind doing that,.”agreed Diana..“How do you do it?” “We must join hands-so,”said Anne gravely..“It ought to be over running water.We'll just imagine this path is running water.I'll repeat the oath first.I solemnly swear to be faithful to my bosom friend,Diana Barry,as long as the sun and moon shall endure.Now you say it and put my name in." Diana repeated the“oath”with a laugh fore and aft③ "Well,did you find Diana a kindred spirit?"asked Marilla on their way home. “Oh yes,.”sighed Anne,.blissfully④unconscious of any sarcasm⑤ on Marilla's part."Oh Marilla,I'm the happiest girl on Prince Edward Island this very moment.Diana and I are going to build a playhouse in Mr.William Bell's birch grove tomorrow.Diana's birthday is in February and mine is in March.Don't you think that is a very strange coincidence?Diana is going to lend me a book to read.She says it's perfectly splendid and tremendously exciting.She's going to show me a place back in the woods where rice lilies grow.Don't you think Diana has got very soulful eyes?I wish I had soulful eyes.Diana is going to teach me to sing a song called 'Nelly in the Hazel Dell.'She's going to give me a picture to put up in my room.I'm an inch taller than Diana, but she is ever so much fatter;she says she'd like to be thin because it's so much more graceful,but I'm afraid she only said it to soothe my feelings.” "Well,all I hope is you won't talk Diana to death."said Marilla. ·118· 绿山墙的安妮 “你愿不愿发誓永远永远做我的知心朋友？” 安妮热切地问。 “噢，这样我倒不反对，”戴安娜赞同道， “怎么起誓呢？” “我们必须拉起手来一就这样，”安妮严肃 地说，“本来应该把手放在流水上面的，我们就 把这条小路当流水吧。我先发誓。我郑重起誓， 我对我的好朋友戴安娜·巴里的忠诚与日月同在。 ①oah/u0/n誓言，誓约 好了，你来说，换上我的名字。” ②endure/i'djua/y.持久，持 续 戴安娜重复了一遍“誓词”，笑个不停。 回家的路上，玛丽拉问道：“喂，你觉得戴 ③fore and aft一直 安娜是你的知音吗？” “噢，是的，”安妮感叹着，她沉浸在幸福 中，全然不觉玛丽拉话中有刺儿。“噢，玛丽 拉，我现在是爱德华王子岛上最幸福的女孩儿 ④blissfully /blrsfol/ad.幸福 地 了。明天我和戴安娜要到威廉·贝尔先生的小桦 ⑤sarcasm /sa:kaezom/n.挖 树林里盖座游戏室。戴安娜是二月出生的，我是 苦，讽刺 三月生的，您不觉得这是个很奇怪的巧合吗？戴 安娜要借给我一本书看，她说那书很精彩，特让 人激动。她还要带我去看树林深处长野百合花的 tremendously /tri'mendasli/ 地方。您不觉得戴安娜的眼睛很深情吗？我要是 ad.惊人地，非常，十分 也长着深情的眼睛该多好。戴安娜还要教我一首 歌，歌名叫《榛树谷中的奈丽》。她还要送我一 幅画挂在我的房间里。我比她高一英寸，可她却 比我胖得多，她说她想瘦些，因为那样更优雅， 可是她这么说恐怕只是为了安慰我。” “好了，我只希望你别说得太多，把戴安娜 ⑦soothe/sud/缓和，使 …安静，安慰 烦死。”玛丽拉说。 安妮心中本来就充满喜悦，马修的到来更让 ·119· Anne of Green Gables Anne's cup of happiness was full,and Matthew caused it to overflow.He had just got home from a trip to the store at Carmody, and he sheepishly produced a small parcel from his pocket and handed it to Anne,with a deprecatory2 look at Marilla. "I heard you say you liked chocolate sweeties,so I got you some." he said. “Humph,”sniffed Marilla.“It'll ruin her teeth and stomach.There, there,child,don't look so dismal You can eat those,since Matthew has gone and got them.He'd better have brought you peppermints. They're wholesomer 5.Don't sicken yourself eating all them at once now.” “Oh,no,indeed,Iwon't,”said Anne eagerly.“T''ll just eat one tonight,Marilla.And I can give Diana half of them,can't I?The other half will taste twice as sweet to me if I give some to her.It's delightful to think I have something to give her." "I will say it for the child,"said Marilla when Anne had gone to her gable,"she isn't stingy.I'm glad,for of all faults I detest stinginess in a child.Dear me,it's only three weeks since she came,and it seems as if she'd been here always. ·120· 绿山墙的安妮 安妮的喜悦从心中溢出来了。马修刚从卡莫迪的 ①overflow'auva'flau/.泛 商店回来，他不好意思地从衣兜里掏出个小纸包， 滥，溢出 2deprecatory /'deprikatar/ 递给安妮，还恳求地看了看玛丽拉。 a.不赞成的，自鹰的 “我听你说喜欢吃巧克力糖，我就买了一 些。”马修说。 “哼，”玛丽拉鼻子里哼了一声，“会把牙齿 ③dismal /dizmal a阴沉的， 和胃口吃坏的。行了，行了，孩子，别这么愁眉 凄凉的 peppermint /'pepomint/n. 苦脸的。既然马修给你买回来了，你就吃吧。他 薄荷，薄荷糖 应该给你买薄荷糖，薄荷糖对身体更有好处。别 ⑤wholesome/haulsam/a.有 把糖一下子都吃了，会腻住的。” 益健康的 “噢，我不会都吃的，真的不会的，”安妮急 忙说，“玛丽拉，今晚我就吃一块。我能给戴安 娜半包巧克力吗？要是分给她一些，我那半包会 更甜的。能送给戴安娜点儿东西我真高兴。” 安妮回到她的小屋后，玛丽拉说：“我得承 认，这个孩子并不小气，我最讨厌的就是吝啬的 小孩，她不这样我很高兴。天啊，她才来了三个 ⑥stingy/stnd3a.吝音的， 小气的 星期，可是我觉得她好像一直都住在这儿。” ·121·