17.A New Interest in Life新的生活乐趣-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《绿山墙的安妮Anne of Green Gables》上

Chapter XVII A New Interest in Life The next afternoon Anne,bending over her patchwork at the kitchen window,happened to glance out and beheld Diana down by the Dryad's Bubble beckoning mysteriously.In a trice Anne was out of the house and flying down to the hollow,astonishment and hope struggling in her expressive eyes.But the hope faded when she saw Diana's dejected countenance③. “Your mother hasn't relented④？”she gasped.. Diana shook her head mournfully. "No;and oh,Anne,she says I'm never to play with you again. I've cried and cried and I told her it wasn't your fault,but it wasn't any use.I had ever such a time coaxing5 her to let me come down and say good-bye to you.She said I was only to stay ten minutes and she's timing me by the clock." “Ten minutes isn't very long to say an eternal farewell⑦in,”said Anne tearfully."Oh,Diana,will you promise faithfully never to forget me,the friend of your youth,no matter what dearer friends may caress thee?” “Indeed I will,”sobbed Diana,“andI'll never have another bosom ·172· 第十七章 新的生活乐趣 第二天下午，安妮坐在厨房窗前，埋头做着 针线活。她偶然向窗外瞥了一眼，发现戴安娜在 mysteriously /mis'tiarasl/ 树神泡泡泉边神秘兮兮地向她招手。眨眼间安妮 ad.神秘地，故弄玄虚地 就出了房子，飞快向山谷下跑去，表情丰富的脸 ②dejected/d'd3 ektid/a.沮 上交织着惊奇和希望。但是看到戴安娜一脸的忧 丧的，灰心的 伤，她的希望破灭了。 3 countenance /'kauntinans/n “你妈妈发善心了？”她气喘吁吁地问。 面容，面部表情 ④relent /r'lent/g变宽厚，动 戴安娜沮丧地摇摇头。 怜悯之心 “没有，唉，安妮，她说再也不许我和你一起 ⑤coax /kauks/..哄，诱骗 玩儿了。我哭呀，哭呀，告诉她那不是你的错， 可全都没用。我好不容易才说服她让我来跟你告 个别。她说只能待十分钟，还给我掐着表呢。” “用十分钟道永别太短了，”安妮眼泪汪汪地 ⑥eternal't3:nala.永久的， 永恒的 说，“哦，戴安娜，你愿意发誓永远不忘记我， ⑦farewell/fea'wel/n.告别 你儿时的朋友，不管你身边有多亲近的朋友对你 ⑧caress/ka'res/爱抚，抱， 好吗？” 怜爱 ⑨thee :pron.(古〉你，汝， “我当然愿意，”戴安娜抽泣着说，“我再也 你自己 不会有别的知心朋友了一我不想再有了。我不 ·173· Anne of Green Gables friend-I don't want to have.I couldn't love anybody as I love you." "And I will always love thee,Diana,"said Anne,solemnly extending①her hand.“In the years to come thy②memory will shine like a star over my lonely life,as that last story we read together says. Diana,wilt thou give me a lock of thy jet-black tresses in parting to treasure forevermore?" "Have you got anything to cut it with?"queried Diana,wiping away the tears which Anne's affecting accents had caused to flow afresh, and returning to practicalities. "Yes.I've got my patchwork scissors in my apron pocket fortunately,"said Anne.She solemnly clipped one of Diana's curls. "Fare thee well,my beloved friend.Henceforth we must be as strangers though living side by side.But my heart will ever be faithful to thee." Anne stood and watched Diana out of sight,mournfully waving her hand to the latter whenever she turned to look back.Then she returned to the house,not a little consoled for the time being by this romantic parting. “It is all over,”she informed Marilla..“I shall never have another friend.Diana and I had such an affecting farewell down by the spring.It will be sacred in my memory forever.I used the most pathetic language I could think of and said‘thou'and‘thee.'‘Thou'and‘thee' seem so much more romantic than 'you.'Diana gave me a lock of her hair and I'm going to sew it up in a little bag and wear it around my neck all my life.Please see that it is buried with me,for I don't believe I'll live very long.Perhaps when she sees me lying cold and dead before her Mrs.Barry may feel remorse for what she has done and will let Diana come to my funeral." "I don't think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long as you can talk,Anne."said Marilla unsympathetically. ·174· 绿山墙的安妮 能像爱你一样爱任何人了。” “戴安娜，我也会永远爱你，”安妮说，庄严 ①extend /ks'tend/v.延伸：给 地伸出手来，“就像我们刚一起读过的那个故事说 予 ②thya/a.(古)你的 的，未来的日子里，对汝的怀念会像星辰一样照 ③wit/wilt/ax(古〉=wil主 亮我孤寂的生活。戴安娜，在这分离的时刻，汝 语为thou时使用)，将：愿意 能否给我你的一绺黑发让我永远珍藏？” “你有剪头发的东西吗？”戴安娜问。刚才安 妮的一番话太感人了，戴安娜又泪流满面了，这 时她擦掉泪水，回到实际问题上来。 “有的，还好我围裙兜里有做针线用的剪 刀，”安妮说。她郑重其事地剪下了戴安娜的一 绺卷发。“永别了，我的好伙伴。从今以后我们 虽然彼此近在咫尺却要形同路人了，但是我的心 将永远忠于你。” 安妮站在那儿看着戴安娜渐渐走远，每次戴 ④console /konsaul/安慰， 安娜回过头来，安妮都伤感地向她挥手。然后安 慰藉 妮回到家里，没有从这次浪漫的分别中得到一丝 安慰。 “全完了，”她告诉玛丽拉，“我再也不交朋 sacred'seikrid/a神圣的， 友了。我和戴安娜在泉边道别的情景太感人了， 受尊重的 在我记忆里，它将永远是神圣的。我用了我能想 pathetic /pa'0 etik/a.悲哀 的，可怜的，感伤的 到的最富感情色彩的词，还说了‘汝'，这似乎 比直接说‘你’浪漫多了。戴安娜送给我一绺头 发，我要把它缝在一个小袋子里，一生一世挂在 脖子上。请您把它同我埋葬在一起，我想我活不 了太长。或许看到我死后冰冷地躺在那里，巴里 太太会为她所做的事后悔，让戴安娜来参加我的 葬礼。” “安妮，只要你还能讲话，我就认为你不太 ·175· Anne of Green Gables The following Monday Anne surprised Marilla by coming down from her room with her basket of books on her arm and hip and her lips primmed up into a line of determination. “T'm going back to school,.”she announced.“That is all there is left in life for me,now that my friend has been ruthlessly torn from me.In school I can look at her and muse over days departed." “You'd better muse over your lessons and sums③，”said Marilla, concealing her delight at this development of the situation."If you're going back to school I hope we'll hear no more of breaking slates over people's heads and such carryings on.Behave yourself and do just what your teacher tells you." “I'll try to be a model pupil,”agreed Anne dolefully.“There won't be much fun in it,I expect.Mr.Phillips said Minnie Andrews was a model pupil and there isn't a spark of imagination or life in her.She is just dull and poky and never seems to have a good time. Anne was welcomed back to school with open arms.Her imagination had been sorely missed in games,her voice in the singing and her dramatic ability in the perusal aloud of books at dinner hour. Yet the marked absence of any tribute or recognition from Diana Barry who was sitting with Gertie Pye embittered Anne's little triumph. Marilla pessimistically expected more trouble since Anne had again begun to go to school.But none developed.She flung herself into her studies heart and soul,determined not to be outdone in any class by Gilbert Blythe.The rivalry between them was soon apparent;now Gilbert was head of the spelling class;now Anne,with a toss of her long red braids,spelled him down.One morning Gilbert had all his sums done correctly and had his name written on the blackboard on the roll of honor;the next morning Anne,having wrestled wildly with decimals the entire evening before,would be first.One awful day they were ties ·176· 绿山墙的安妮 可能因悲痛而死。”玛丽拉无动于衷地说。 下一个星期一，玛丽拉吃惊地看到安妮从她 ①prim /prim/g使一本正经， 使整洁 房间下楼来，胳膊上挎着书篮子，嘴唇坚定地抿 成一条线。 ②ruthlessly'ru:0 sl ad.无 “我要回学校去上课，”她宣布，“既然我的朋 情地，残忍地，冷酷地 友被无情地拖走了，我的生活中只剩下这件事好做 ③sum/sAm/n.算术 了。在学校里我还可以看见她，重温以往的日子。” “你还是温温你的功课和算术吧！”玛丽拉说， 掩饰着她对这一事态进展的喜悦，“如果你回学校 上课，我可不希望再听到你用写字板砸人家脑袋之 类的事情。好好上学，听老师的话。” “我要争取做个模范生，”安妮无精打采地附 和着，“我想，做个好学生没多大意思。菲利普 ④dull /dal/a.呆滞的，迟纯 斯先生说明尼·安德鲁斯是模范生，可是她一点 的，无趣的 ⑤poky'pauki/a.慢吞吞的， 儿想象力和生气都没有。她枯燥无味，死气沉 迟钝的 沉，从来没痛痛快快玩儿过。” ⑥sorely'sol/ad.痛苦地 安妮回到学校受到了热烈的欢迎。孩子们在 ⑦perusal /pa'ru:za/n.熟读， 精速 做游戏的时候，非常怀念她的想象力；唱歌的时 ⑧tribute /trbjurt/n颂词，称 候，非常怀念她的嗓音；吃饭的时候，非常怀念 赞 ⑨pessimistically 她绘声绘色的朗诵。 /pesI'mistikoll/ad.悲观 安妮没有收到和格蒂·派伊同桌的戴安娜·巴 地 里的任何东西，她也没和安妮打招呼，这给安妮 0 rivalry /rarvolr/n.敌对， 小小的胜利添了几分苦涩。 竞争，对抗 安妮重回学校后，玛丽拉一直悲观地等着发 ①apparent'parant/a.明显 的，表面上的 生新的麻烦，可是什么事也没发生。安妮一心一 wrestle /'resl/斗争，努力 意投入学习，下决心不让吉尔伯特·布莱思在任 解决 何一门功课上超过自己。他们之间的竞争很快便 B decimal /'desimal/n.小数 公开了。有时吉尔伯特在拼写上领先，有时安妮 ·177· Anne of Green Gables and their names were written up together.It was almost as bad as a take- notice and Anne's mortification was as evident as Gilbert's satisfaction. When the written examinations at the end of each month were held the suspense was terrible.The first month Gilbert came out three marks ahead.The second Anne beat him by five.But her triumph was marred by the fact that Gilbert congratulated her heartily before the whole school.It would have been ever so much sweeter to her if he had felt the sting of his defeat. By the end of the term Anne and Gilbert were both promoted into the fifth class and allowed to begin studying the elements of "the branches”-by which Latin,geometry④，French,and algebra were meant.In geometry Anne met her Waterloo. “It's perfectly awful stuff,.Marilla,”she groaned.“T'm sure I'l never be able to make head or tail of it.Even Diana gets along better than I do.But I don't mind being beaten by Diana.Even although we meet as strangers now I still love her with an INEXTINGUISHABLE love.But really,Marilla,one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world,can one?" ·178· 绿山墙的安妮 又甩着两条红辫子赛过了他。有一天早上，吉尔 ①mortification 伯特做对了所有的算术题，名字上了黑板上的光 /mo:trfr'kerfan/n.耻辱，屈 辱 荣榜；第二天早上，安妮又夺得第一，头天她和 小数搏斗了整整一晚上。有一天他俩打了个平 ②mar /ma:/,.破坏，毁坏 手，两人的名字一起上了黑板。这看上去几乎像 “请注意”一样糟，安妮一脸屈辱，吉尔伯特则 扬扬得意。在每月末举行的写作考试中，竞争就 更加激烈了。头一个月吉尔伯特多得了三分，第 二个月安妮以五分之差击败了他。可是吉尔伯特 ③elements /elrmants/n.基 础，纲要，原理 在全校同学面前向她表示热烈祝贺，这有损于安 ④geometry/d3r'omItr/n.几 妮的胜利。要是他让失败弄得痛苦万分，她会高 何，几何学 兴得多。 学期末，安妮和吉尔伯特双双升入五年级， ⑤make head or tail of彻底了 开始学习“分科基础”了一就是拉丁语、几 解 何、法语和代数。几何可把安妮搞得焦头烂额。 “玛丽拉，这东西太难了，”安妮痛苦地说， “我敢说我永远也弄不明白了，就连戴安娜都比 我强。并不是她比我学得好，我就不高兴。虽然 现在我们已经形同路人了，我仍然爱着她，这种 爱是不会消失的。可是说真的，玛丽拉，世界这 么有趣，我们不会伤心很久的，是不是？” ·179·