16.Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results下午茶风波-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《绿山墙的安妮Anne of Green Gables》上

Chapter XVI Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results October was a beautiful month at Green Gables,when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green,while the fields sunned themselves in aftermaths Anne reveled5 in the world of color about her. “Oh,Marilla,”she exclaimed⑥one Saturday morning,coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs,"Look at these maple branches.Don't they give you a thrill-several thrills?I'm going to decorate my room with them." "Mind you don't drop leaves all over the stairs then.I'm going on a meeting of the Aid Society at Carmody this afternoon,Anne,and I won't likely be home before dark.And-I don't really know if I'm doing right-it may make you more addlepated than everbut you can ask Diana to come over and spend the afternoon with you and have tea here.” “Oh,Marilla！“Anne clasped her hands.."How perfectly lovely！It ·160· 第十六章 下午茶风波 绿山墙的十月美丽动人，山谷中的桦树变得 灿如黄金，果园后的枫林则深红似火。小路边的 ①royal /'rDiol/a.皇家的，堂 野樱桃树换上了它们最迷人的深红色和铜绿色相 皇的，高贵的 间的秋装，割过青草的牧场沐浴在灿烂的阳光下。 ②crimson/krimzn/n.深红色 安妮陶醉在这五彩的世界中。 ③bronzy /bronzi/a.青铜 样的，似青铜的，青铜色的 “嘿，玛丽拉，”一个星期六的早晨，她抱了 ④aftermath'a:ftoma0/n后 一大把美丽的树枝欢叫着跑进屋，“看这些枫树 果 枝吧，它们难道不让您怦然心动—激动好几次 ⑤revel'rev/y.狂欢作乐，陶 醉 吗？我要用它们来装点我的房间。” ⑥exclaim /iks'klerm/v.大 “那你得小心别把叶子掉得满楼梯都是，我 叫，呼喊，大声叫 今天下午要去卡莫迪参加劝助会的一个会，安 妮，可能天黑了才会回来。还有一我真不知道 我做的是不是对—这样你可能会更昏头了— 你可以请戴安娜过来跟你玩一下午，在这儿吃下 午茶。” addlepated /dlpeitid/a. “噢，玛丽拉！”安妮两手握在一起，“妙极 头脑糊涂的，愚赛的，怪僻 了！我可以当回大人了。我现在就能想象得出我 的 坐在桌子上倒茶的样子。噢，玛丽拉，想想就已 经美妙极了。她来了我能带她到客房挂帽子，然 ·161· Anne of Green Gables will seem so nice and grown-uppish.I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea.Oh,Marilla,it's a wonderful sensation just to think of it.Can I take her into the spare room to lay off her hat when she comes?And then into the parlor to sit?" "No.The sitting room will do for you and your company.But there's a bottle half full of raspberry cordial that was left over from the church social the other night.It's on the second shelf of the sitting- room closet and you and Diana can have it if you like,and a cookie to eat with it along in the afternoon." Anne flew down to the hollow,past the Dryad's Bubble and up the spruce path to Orchard Slope,to ask Diana to tea.As a result,just after Marilla had driven off to Carmody,Diana came over,dressed in HER second-best dress and looking exactly as it is proper to look when asked out to tea.At other times she was wont to run into the kitchen without knocking;but now she knocked primly at the front door.And when Anne,dressed in her second best,as primly opened it,both little girls shook hands as gravely as if they had never met before. “How is your mother?”inquired⑦Anne politely,just as if she had not seen Mrs.Barry picking apples that morning in excellent health and spirits. "She is very well,thank you.I suppose Mr.Cuthbert is hauling potatoes to the LILY SANDS this afternoon,is he?"said Diana,who had ridden down to Mr.Harmon Andrews's that morning in Matthew's cart. "Yes.Our potato crop is very good this year.I hope your father's crop is good too.” "It is fairly good,thank you.Have you picked many of your apples yet?” ·162· 绿山墙的安妮 ①grown-uppish成人样子的 后再到客厅坐会儿吗？” “不行。你和你的客人去起居室就行了。对 ②sensation/sen'seifon/n感 了，还有那天晚上教堂联欢会剩下的半瓶木莓甜 党 酒，在起居室柜橱的第二格上。你和戴安娜如果 喜欢，下午可以喝点儿，还可以就着饼干。” ③raspberry"ra:zbar/n.覆盆 安妮飞跑着穿过山谷和树神泡泡泉，上了长 子 着云杉的小路，来到果园坡，邀请戴安娜去吃下 ④cordial"ko:djol/n.补品 午茶。于是，在玛丽拉刚赶着车去了卡莫迪后， 戴安娜就来了。她穿着她第二漂亮的衣服，看上 去很得体，很像应邀去喝茶的样子。平时，她总 ⑤spruce/spruis/a干净的 是直接跑进厨房，连门也不敲，可这次她规规矩 矩地敲了敲大门。安妮也一本正经地打开门，她 也穿着她第二漂亮的那套衣服，两个小姑娘像模 像样地握手寒暄，好像是初次见面。 ⑥wont/waunt/a.惯于，常常 “你母亲还好吧？”安妮礼貌地问道，就好像 那天早晨她没看见巴里太太蛮健康蛮精神地摘苹 ⑦inquire/'kwaa/g询问， 果似的。 查究 “她很好，谢谢你。我想卡斯伯特先生今天 下午拉土豆去百合沙滩了，是吧？”戴安娜问道， ⑧haul /hot/.拖，拉 实际上那天早晨她就是搭马修的马车去的哈蒙· 安德鲁斯先生家。 “是的。我们今年土豆收成不错，我希望你 父亲的土豆收成也很好。” “还好，谢谢。你们已经摘了很多苹果吗？” “噢，摘了不少，”安妮答道，她这会儿忘了 要注意风度，一下子跳了起来，“咱们去果园摘 点儿红香甜苹果吧，戴安娜。玛丽拉说我们可以 把树上剩下的全吃光。” ·163· Anne of Green Gables “Oh,ever so many,”said Anne,forgetting to be dignified①and jumping up quickly."Let's go out to the orchard and get some of the Red Sweetings,Diana.Marilla says we can have all that are left on the tree.” The orchard,with its great sweeping boughs that bent to the ground with fruit,proved so delightful that the little girls spent most of the afternoon in it,sitting in a grassy corner where the frost had spared the green and the mellow autumn sunshine lingered warmly,eating apples and talking as hard as they could.Diana had much to tell Anne of what went on in school.Everybody missed Anne so and wished she's come to school again;and Gilbert Blythe- But Anne didn't want to hear about Gilbert Blythe.She jumped up hurriedly and said suppose they go in and have some raspberry cordial. Anne looked on the second shelf of the room pantry but there was no bottle of raspberry cordial there.Search revealed it away back on the top shelf.Anne put it on a tray and set it on the table with a tumbler. "Now,please help yourself,Diana,"she said politely. Diana poured herself out a tumblerful,looked at its bright-red hue admiringly,and then sipped it daintily "That's awfully nice raspberry cordial,Anne,"she said."I didn't know raspberry cordial was so nice." "I'm real glad you like it.Take as much as you want.I'm going to run out and stir the fire up.There are so many responsibilities on a person's mind when they're keeping house,isn't there?" When Anne came back from the kitchen Diana was drinking her second glassful of cordial;and,being entreated thereto by Anne,she offered no particular objection to the drinking of a third. “The nicest I ever drank,”said Diana.“It's ever so much nicer than Mrs.Lynde's,although she brags of hers so much.It doesn't taste a bit ·164· 绿山墙的安妮 ①dignified /dignifard/a.体 果园里好玩儿极了，树枝沉甸甸的，被果子 面的，有品格的 压得快弯到了地上。两个小姑娘大半个下午都泡 在园子里。她们坐在一个杂草丛生的角落里，那 里的绿色没有受到霜降的影响，秋日柔和的阳光 暖融融地照在她们身上，她们尽情吃着苹果，聊 着天。戴安娜要告诉安妮学校里的好多事。大家 都很想念安妮，希望她能回到学校来，还有吉尔 ②mellow /'melow/a.柔和的， 伯特·布莱思一 成熟的 可是安妮不想知道吉尔伯特·布莱思的事儿， ③linger093/逗留，消毫， 徘徊 她一下子蹦起来说她们该进屋去喝点儿木莓甜酒 了。 安妮看了看食品室的第二层架子，可是上面 根本没有木莓甜酒。她在最顶层架子的里头找到 了它。安妮把酒放在托盘里端到桌子上，还带了 个平底酒杯过来。 ④tumbler /tAmbla/n平底无 “好了，请随便用吧，戴安娜。”她斯斯文文 脚酒杯 地说。 ⑤hue /hju:/n.色，色彩 戴安娜给自己倒了一满杯，欢喜地看着那明 admiringly /ad'mairil/ ad.钦佩地，羡慕地 亮的红色，文雅地轻轻咂了一口。 ⑦s即/sp小口地喝，抿，呷 “这木莓甜酒实在棒极了，安妮，”她说， ⑧daintily /'demntil/ad.优美 “我以前从来不知道木莓甜酒这么好喝。” 地，爽口地，讲究地 “你喜欢我真高兴，你随便喝吧。我得赶紧 出去拨拨火。当家人就是有好多事要做，你不觉 得吗？” 安妮从厨房回来，戴安娜正在喝第二满杯木 莓甜酒，在安妮的恳请之下，她没怎么推辞就又 ⑨entreat/m'tri:t/%恳求，乞 喝了第三杯。 求 “这是我喝过的最好的酒，”戴安娜说，“比 林德太太的酒好喝多了，她还吹牛她的酒如何如 ①brag /braeg/v.吹牛，炫耀 何好呢。这酒的味道跟她的一点儿不像。” ·165· Anne of Green Gables like hers.” "I should think Marilla's raspberry cordial would prob'ly be much nicer than Mrs.Lynde's,"said Anne loyally."Marilla is a famous cook. She is trying to teach me to cook but I assure you,Diana,it is uphill work.There's so little scope for imagination in cookery.You just have to go by rules.The last time I made a cake I forgot to put the flour in.I was thinking the loveliest story about you and me,Diana.I thought you were desperately ill with smallpox and everybody deserted you,but I went boldly to your bedside and nursed you back to life;and then I took the smallpox and died and I was buried under those poplar trees in the graveyard and you planted a rosebush by my grave and watered it with your tears;and you never,never forgot the friend of your youth who sacrificed her life for you.Why,Diana,what is the matter? Diana had stood up very unsteadily;then she sat down again, putting her hands to her head. "I'm-I'm awful sick,"she said,a little thickly."I-I-must go right home.” "Oh,you mustn't dream of going home without your tea,"cried Anne in distress."I'll get it right off-I'll go and put the tea down this very minute.” “I must go home,"”repeated Diana,stupidly but determinedly.“T'm awful dizzy.” And indeed,she walked very dizzily.Anne,with tears of disappointment in her eyes,got Diana's hat and went with her as far as the Barry yard fence. The next day was Sunday and as the rain poured down in torrents from dawn till dusk Anne did not stir abroad from Green Gables. Monday afternoon Marilla sent her down to Mrs.Lynde's on an errand. In a very short space of time Anne came flying back up the lane with ·166· 绿山墙的安妮 “我觉得玛丽拉的木莓甜酒可能比林德太太 的强得多，”安妮忠心耿耿地说，“玛丽拉做吃 的是出了名的。她试图教会我做饭，可是我向你 ①phill /'Ap'hVa.上坡的， 保证，戴安娜，这活儿太难了。做饭这活儿一点 向上的，费力的 想象空间都没有，你只能照规矩去做。上次我做 蛋糕忘记了放面粉，我在编关于咱们俩的最最有 趣的故事，戴安娜。我想象你得了天花，病入膏 肓，所有人都不要你了。只有我挺身而出，照顾 2 smallpox /'smo:lpoks/n. [医]天花 护理你，使你重新恢复了健康，然后我又染上了 天花死去了，被埋在墓地里的白杨树下，你在我 的墓边种了丛玫瑰，用你的泪水来浇灌它；你永 远永远不会忘记你儿时的这位为你牺牲了生命的 朋友。喂，戴安娜，你怎么了？” 戴安娜晃晃悠悠地站了起来，然后又坐下 3 unsteadily /An'stedili/ad. 了，把手支在头上。 不平稳地 “我—我难受极了，”她说，有点儿口齿不 清，“我—我—得马上回家。” “噢，你可不能没吃茶点就想回家呀，”安妮 失望地说，“我马上就端上来—我这就摆上 茶。” “我得回家，”戴安娜重复道，她昏昏沉沉但 很坚决，“我头晕得很。” 确实，她走路都摇摇晃晃的。安妮眼里转着 失望的泪珠，拿来戴安娜的帽子，一直把她送到 巴里家院子的栅栏外面。 第二天是星期天，从早到晚大雨倾盆，安妮 在家待了一天。星期一下午玛丽拉有点儿事让她 去林德太太家一趟，她没多大一会儿就从小路跑 ④errand /erand/m差使，差 回来了，满脸是泪。她冲进厨房，痛不欲生地一 头栽到沙发上。 ·167· Anne of Green Gables tears rolling down her cheeks.Into the kitchen she dashed and flung herself face downward on the sofa in an agony. “Whatever has gone wrong now,Anne?”queried③Marilla in doubt and dismay."I do hope you haven't gone and been saucy5 to Mrs.Lynde again.” No answer from Anne save more tears and stormier sobs! "Anne Shirley,when I ask you a question I want to be answered. Sit right up this very minute and tell me what you are crying about." Anne sat up,tragedy personified "Mrs.Lynde was up to see Mrs.Barry today and Mrs.Barry was in an awful state,"she wailed 4."She says that I set Diana DRUNK Saturday and sent her home in a disgraceful condition.And she says I must be a thoroughly bad,wicked little girl and she's never,never going to let Diana play with me again.Oh,Marilla,I'm just overcome with woe.” Marilla stared in blank amazement. “Drunk fiddlesticks！”said Marilla,marching to the sitting room pantry.There on the shelf was a bottle which she at once recognized as one containing some of her three-year-old homemade currant wine for which she was celebrated in Avonlea.And at the same time Marilla recollected that she had put the bottle of raspberry cordial down in the cellar instead of in the pantry as she had told Anne. She went back to the kitchen with the wine bottle in her hand.Her face was twitching in spite of herself. "Anne,you certainly have a genius for getting into trouble.You went and gave Diana currant wine instead of raspberry cordial.Didn't you know the difference yourself?" “I never tasted it,”said Anne.“I thought it was the cordial.I meant to be so-so-hospitable.My heart is broken.The stars in their courses ·168· 绿山墙的安妮 ①dash /daef/v.猛冲，飞奔 “又出什么娄子了，安妮？”玛丽拉满腹狐疑 ②ing/o/,用力扔 地问，“我真希望你没又对林德太太无礼。” ③query /kwior/v.质问 ④dismay /dis'me/n.惊恐 安妮没有答话，只是号陶大哭。 ③8 aucy /'s3s/a无礼的，莽 “安妮·雪利，我问你话，你就该回答。马上 撞的 坐起来告诉我你哭什么。” ⑥save/servl prep.除了 之外 安妮坐了起来，悲痛欲绝。 ⑦stormy'stom/a.激烈的 “林德太太今天去巴里太太家了，巴里太太正 ⑧sob/sb/n呜咽（声），啜泣 在大发雷霆，”她哭着说，“她说我星期六把戴安 (声) ②personify/p3r'sonrfar/.拟 娜灌醉了，她回家时很不像样子。她说我肯定是 人，使人格化，表现 一个坏透顶了的孩子，她永远永远也不让戴安娜 0 wail /wetl/痛哭，悲叹 跟我一起玩儿了。唉，玛丽拉，我真难过死了。” 玛丽拉惊愕地瞪大眼睛。 “什么灌醉不灌醉的！”玛丽拉说着，大步走 去看食品室。架子上有一瓶酒，她一眼就认出来 那是她存放了三年的自制无核小葡萄干酒，她还 因为这酒在埃文利受到过赞美。这时玛丽拉想起 来她把那瓶木莓甜酒放在地窖里了，而不是像她 告诉安妮的那样放在食品室里了。 她手里拿着那瓶酒回到厨房，脸不由自主地 抽搐着。 “安妮，你可真能捅娄子。你给戴安娜喝的 @cellar /'sela/n地密，地下 是葡萄干酒，不是木莓甜酒。你不知道它们不一 室 样吗？” 2 pantry'paentr/n.食品储 “我一点儿没尝，”安妮说，“我以为是甜酒 藏室 呢。我想表现得特别—特别一好客。我的心 B twitch /twit/g(使)抽搐， 抽动，痉事 都碎了。命运总跟我作对，玛丽拉。我和戴安娜 永远也不能相见了。噢，玛丽拉，当我们第一次 为我们的友谊发誓的时候，我做梦也想不到会发 生这种事。” “别犯傻了，安妮。巴里太太知道了实际上 ·169·