21.A New Departure in Flavorings一种新调料-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《绿山墙的安妮Anne of Green Gables》下

Chapter XXI A New Departure in Flavorings "Dear me,there is nothing but meetings and partings in this world, as Mrs..Lynde says,”remarked Anne plaintively①，putting her slate and books down on the kitchen table on the last day of June and wiping her red eyes with a very damp handkerchief."Wasn't it fortunate,Marilla, that I took an extra handkerchief to school today?I had a presentiment that it would be needed." "I never thought you were so fond of Mr.Phillips that you'd require two handkerchiefs to dry your tears just because he was going away, said Marilla. "I don't think I was crying because I was really so very fond of him,"reflected Anne."I just cried because all the others did.I tried to hold out,Marilla.I tried to remember all the times Mr.Phillips had been so horrid and sarcastic;but somehow I couldn't,Marilla,and I just had to cry too.Oh,Marilla,it was heartrending.Mr.Phillips made such a beautiful farewell speech beginning,'The time has come for us to part.'It was very affecting.And he had tears in his eyes too,Marilla. The girls cried all the way home from school.I do feel dreadfully sad, ·218· 第二十一章 一种新调料 “哎哟，这世上除了相聚和分离就没什么别 plaintively /pleintrvli/ad. 的事儿了，就像林德太太说的那样，”六月最后 可怜地，悲伤地 那天安妮悲哀地说，她边把石板和书放在厨房的 桌上，边用一块湿手绢擦着发红的双眼，“玛丽 ②presentiment 拉，您说是不是幸好我今天多带了一块手绢去学 /pr'Zentimont/n预感 校？我就预感到会用得着。” “我从来没想到你那么喜欢菲利普斯先生， 不就是他要走了嘛，你居然用两块手绢来擦眼 泪。”玛丽拉说。 “我觉得我并不是因为真的非常喜欢他才 哭，”安妮说，“只不过是别人都哭我也就哭了。 玛丽拉，我想忍住来着，我使劲去想菲利普斯先 ③sarcastic/sa:'kaestik/a.讽 生一向那么讨厌，那么好挖苦人；可是玛丽拉， 刺的 不知怎么搞的，我想不下去，只能也哭。噢，玛 丽拉，那场面真让人伤心。菲利普斯先生的告别 heartrending/hart,rendin/a 使人极度伤心的，令人悲痛 头开得那么动听，第一句是‘离别的时刻到了’。 的 真是太感人了。他自己也含着眼泪呢，玛丽拉。 ⑤farewell/fea'wel/a.告别的 我们女生从学校一路哭到家。玛丽拉，我真的觉 ·219· Anne of Green Gables Marilla.But one can't feel quite in the depths of despair with two months'vacation before them,can they,Marilla?And besides,we met the new minister and his wife coming from the station.His wife is very pretty.They are going to board with Mrs.Lynde until the manse is ready..” If Marilla,in going down to Mrs.Lynde's that evening,was actuated②by any motive⑧save her avowed④one of returning the quilting frames she had borrowed the preceding winter,it was an amiable5 weakness shared by most of the Avonlea people.Many a thing Mrs.Lynde had lent,sometimes never expecting to see it again,came home that night in charge of the borrowers thereof.A new minister, and moreover a minister with a wife,was a lawful object of curiosity in a quiet little country settlement where sensations were few and far between⑧ Old Mr.Bentley,the minister whom Anne had found lacking in imagination,had been pastor of Avonlea for eighteen years.In the preceding February he had resigned his charge and departed amid the regrets of his people,most of whom had the affection born of long intercourse for their good old minister in spite of his shortcomings as an orator.Since then the Avonlea church had enjoyed a variety of religious dissipation in listening to the many and various candidates and "supplies"who came Sunday after Sunday to preach on trial.Marilla always declining from principle to criticize ministers in any shape or form. "I don't think Mr.Smith would have done,Matthew,"was Anne's final summing up."Mrs.Lynde says his delivery was so poor,but I think his worst fault was just like Mr.Bentley's-he had no imagination. Besides,Mrs.Lynde says his theology3 wasn't sound.Mr.Gresham was a very good man and a very religious man,but he told too many funny ·220· 绿山墙的安妮 得很难过。不过要是一个人想到马上就有两个月 的假期，就不会觉得太绝望了，对不对，玛丽 拉？再说，我们见到了从车站过来的新牧师和他 ①manse/mens/n(基督教)】 的夫人。他的太太可漂亮了。他们先在林德太太 牧师住宅 家搭伙，等安排好住处再走。” ②actuate'ektfuert/g.促使 ③motive'moutiv/n.动机， 那天傍晚，玛丽拉到林德太太家去了，如果 动因，目的 不是像她自己说的那样，是去还去年冬天借的绣 ④avowed/h'vaud/a自认的， 架，那么不论她去那儿是出于什么动机，都可以 公开宣布的 ⑤amiable'ermrabl/a.和蔼 算作大多数埃文利人一个令人愉快的小毛病。林 可亲的，友善的 德太太从前借出去的很多东西，有时她根本不指 @borrower /bpraua/n.借用 人 望再见着了，那天晚上却全都被还回来了。新来 ⑦sensation/sen'seifan/n.轰 了个牧师，而且是个带着太太的牧师，对于这个 动 难得有新鲜事的僻静小乡村来说，可真是件让人 ⑧few and far between稀疏 的，稀少的 好奇心大发的事。 本特利老先生在埃文利做牧师已经有十八年 ⑨pastor'pa:stal n,牧师 了，安妮觉得他缺乏想象力。今年二月份他辞了 职，在人们的惋惜声中离开了。大多数人因为长 期相处，对这位和善的老牧师有了感情，虽说他 intercourse /'mntako:s/n. 往，交流 布道没什么吸引力。本特利先生走后，人们在埃 dissipation /dist'peifan/n. 文利的教堂里聆听许多牧师候选人和“代理牧 无益的消遣 candidate /kaendidert/n. 师”的试验性布道，获得了各种宗教消遣，这些 选人 候选人每个礼拜日都来这儿。玛丽拉原则上总是 避免以任何形式评论牧师。 “我想史密斯先生当不了牧师，马修，”安妮 最后总结道，“林德太太说他布道太差劲了，不 ⑧theology/0'olbd3/n神学 过我认为他最大的毛病恰恰和本特利先生一 样—也是没有想象力。还有，林德太太说特里 先生的神学理论不扎实。格雷沙姆先生是个好 ·221· Anne of Green Gables stories.I thought Mr.Marshall was decidedly attractive;but Mrs.Lynde says he isn't married,or even engaged,because she made special inquiries about him,and she says it would never do to have a young unmarried minister in Avonlea,because he might marry in the congregation and that would make trouble.Mrs.Lynde is a very farseeing woman,isn't she,Matthew?I'm very glad they've called Mr.Allan.I liked him because his sermon was interesting and he prayed as if he meant it and not just as if he did it because he was in the habit of it.Mrs.Lynde says that sound doctrine in the man and good housekeeping in his wife make an ideal combination for a minister's family.” The new minister and his wife were a young,pleasant-faced couple,still on their honeymoon,and full of all good and beautiful enthusiasms for their chosen lifework.Avonlea opened its heart to them from the start. "Mrs.Allan is perfectly lovely,"Anne announced one Sunday afternoon."She's taken our class and she's a splendid teacher.She said we could ask her any question we liked and I asked ever so many. "Nobody else asked any except Ruby Gillis,and she asked if there was to be a Sunday-school picnic this summer.Mrs.Allan said we ought always to try to influence other people for good.She talked so nice about everything.I never knew before that religion was such a cheerful thing.I always thought it was kind of melancholy,but Mrs.Allan's isn't,and I'd like to be a Christian if I could be one like her.I wouldn't want to be one like Mr.Superintendent Bell." "It's very naughty of you to speak so about Mr.Bell,"said Marilla severely.“Mr.Bell is a real good man..” “Oh,of course he's good,”agreed Anne,“but he doesn't seem to get any comfort out of it.I can just feel she's glad she's a Christian and ·222· 绿山墙的安妮 人，也很虔诚，可是他老爱在教堂说笑话逗大伙 儿。我觉得马歇尔先生确实有魅力，可林德太太 说他没结过婚，连订婚也没订过。林德太太专门 打听过，她说埃文利不能要个没结婚的年轻牧 ①congregation 师，因为他可能娶教区里的某个姑娘，那可会出 /koggr'geifan/n.〈宗)圣 会 乱子的。林德太太是个很有远见的人，是吧，马 ②farseeing/'fa:'sinn/a.目光 修？现在他们找来了阿伦先生，我挺高兴的。我 远大的，有远见的 喜欢他，因为他的布道很有意思，他祈祷像是发 ③doctrine /'doktrin/n.教义， 教条 自内心的，而不是出于习惯才祈祷的。林德太太 说，男人有坚定的宗教信仰，女人善于当家，这 两样加在一块儿就是理想的牧师之家了。” 新牧师和他的太太是一对端庄愉悦的年轻夫 妻，这会儿蜜月还没度完，他们对自己选择的终 身职业充满了非常令人钦佩的热情。埃文利的人 们一开头就对他们披心相见。 “阿伦太太真是太可爱了，”一个星期日下午 安妮这么说，“她教我们班，课讲得棒极了。她 说我们可以随便问她问题，我就问了很多很多。 “除了鲁比·吉利斯，别人都没问什么，鲁比 问的是今年夏天会不会搞一次主日学校野餐。阿 伦太太说我们应该对别人产生永久的影响，她把 一切都说得那么美好。以前我从来不知道宗教会 melancholy /'melankall/n. 那么让人精神振奋，我一向以为宗教就是愁眉苦 忧沉，悲哀 脸，可是阿伦太太不是这样。我愿意做个像她那 样的基督徒，我不想做贝尔学监那样的教徒。” “你这么说贝尔先生可不好，”玛丽拉严肃地 说，“贝尔先生确确实实是个好人。” “噢，他当然是好人，”安妮表示同意，“可 是他好像并没有从中得到任何快乐。不过我确实 ·223· Anne of Green Gables that she'd be one even if she could get to heaven without it." "I suppose we must have Mr.and Mrs.Allan up to tea someday soon,"said Marilla reflectively."They've been most everywhere but here.Let me see.Next Wednesday would be a good time to have them." "Oh,Marilla,will you let me make a cake for the occasion?" “You can make a layer cake,”promised Marilla. Monday and Tuesday great preparations went on at Green Gables. Anne was wild with excitement and delight.She talked it all over with Diana Tuesday night in the twilight. "Everything is ready,Diana,except my cake which I'm to make in the morning,and the baking-powder biscuits which Marilla will make just before teatime.I assure you,Diana,that Marilla and I have had a busy two days of it.I just grow cold when I think of my layer cake. Oh,Diana,what if it shouldn't be good!I dreamed last night that I was chased all around by a fearful goblin with a big layer cake for a head.” "It'll be good,all right,"assured Diana,who was a very comfortable sort of friend."I'm sure that piece of the one you made that we had for lunch in Idlewild two weeks ago was perfectly elegant" "Yes;but cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good,"sighed Anne,setting a particularly well--balsamed④twig⑤afloat..“Oh,look,Diana,what a lovely rainbow!Do you suppose the dryad will come out after we go away and take it for a scarf?" "You know there is no such thing as a dryad,"said Diana.Diana's mother had found out about the Haunted Wood and had been decidedly angry over it.As a result Diana had abstained from any further imitative flights of imagination and did not think it prudent to ·224· 绿山墙的安妮 能感觉到她很高兴当基督徒，即使她不是基督徒 也能进天堂，她也很乐意主动当个基督徒。” “我看咱们得赶快找个日子请阿伦先生和他 太太过来喝茶，”玛丽拉若有所思地说，“除了 咱家，他们差不多都转遍了。让我想想，下星期 三请他们来挺合适的。” “噢，玛丽拉，您能让我那天做块蛋糕吗？” “你可以做块夹心糕。”玛丽拉答应了。 星期一和星期二两天里，绿山墙进行着大量 的准备工作。安妮兴奋快乐得发狂。星期二黄昏 时分，她把这事全对戴安娜说了。 ①biscuit /biskit/n饼干 “戴安娜，我们什么都准备好了，就差我明 天早晨要做的蛋糕和玛丽拉要在下午茶前做的苏 打饼干了。我向你保证，这两天我和玛丽拉可忙 ②chase /tfers/.v.追逐，追捕 坏了。我一想到要做夹心糕，就浑身发抖。哎， 戴安娜，要是我没做好怎么办呀！我昨天晚上做 了个梦，梦见我被一个可怕的妖怪追得四处乱 跑，这妖怪的头就是一大块夹心糕。” “没什么，你会做好的，”戴安娜深信不疑地 elegant /eligant/a.优雅 的，精美的 说，她可真是个会体贴人的朋友，“我觉得两星 期前我们在旷野里吃的你做的那块蛋糕就实在好 极了。” ④balsam/b:lsam/n.香油 ⑤twig/twig/m细枝，嫩枝 “我知道，可是做蛋糕老是会出这种可怕的 ⑥dryad /drarad/n.森林的精 事：你越是希望它拿得出手，做出来的就越差 灵 劲，”安妮叹了口气，在水面上很平稳地放好了 一根小树枝。“噢，看哪，戴安娜，多可爱的七 ⑦abstain/ab'sten/.戒绝 彩圈圈呀！你看等我们走了以后，树神会出来拿 ⑧imitative /mmitativ/ 它当围巾吗？” a.仿制的，模仿的 ②prudent/pru:dant/a谨慎的 “你知道根本没有树神之类的东西。”戴安娜 ·225· Anne of Green Gables cultivate a spirit of belief even in harmless dryads. “But it's so easy to imagine there is,.”said Anne.“Every night before I go to bed,I look out of my window and wonder if the dryad is really sitting here,combing her locks with the spring for a mirror.Oh, Diana,don't give up your faith in the dryad!" Wednesday morning came.Anne got up at sunrise because she was too excited to sleep.After breakfast she proceeded to make her cake. When she finally shut the oven door upon it she drew a long breath. "I'm sure I haven't forgotten anything this time,Marilla.But do you think it will rise?What if that cake doesn't rise?" “We'll have plenty without it,”was Marilla's unimpassioned③way of looking at the subject. The cake did rise,however,and came out of the oven as light and feathery as golden foam.Anne,flushed with delight,clapped it together with layers of ruby jelly5 and,in imagination,saw Mrs.Allan eating it and possibly asking for another piece! "You'll be using the best tea set,of course,Marilla,"she said. "Can I fix the table with ferns and wild roses?" "I think that's all nonsense,"sniffed Marilla. “Mrs.Barry had HER table decorated,”said Anne,“and the minister paid her an elegant compliment." "Well,do as you like,"said Marilla,who was quite determined not to be surpassed by Mrs.Barry or anybody else."Only mind you leave enough room for the dishes and the food." Anne laid herself out to decorate in a manner and after a fashion that should leave Mrs.Barry's nowhere.Having abundance of roses and ferns and a very artistic taste of her own,she made that tea table such a thing of beauty that when the minister and his wife sat down to it they exclaimed in chorus over its loveliness. ·226· 绿山墙的安妮 ①cultivate /kAltrvert/v.培养， 说。她妈妈已经发现了魔鬼森林的事，气坏了。 教养 结果戴安娜不再跟安妮学去想象稀奇古怪的东西 了，她觉得相信这类东西很傻，即便是毫无害处 ②lock /Iok/n.(头发的一缕 的树神也是如此。 “可想象这世上有树神是很容易的事呀，”安 妮说，“每天晚上我上床前都要向窗外望望，我 真想知道树神是不是真坐在那里，照着泉水梳理 她的头发。噢，戴安娜，你可不能放弃对树神的 信仰！” 星期三早晨来到了。太阳刚一出来安妮就起 床了，她兴奋得根本睡不着。吃过早饭，她便动 ③unimpassioned 手做夹心糕了。在终于把夹心糕放进烤炉关上炉 /Anm'paefand/a.没有激 情的，不感情用事的，平静 盖时，她深深地吸了口气。 的 “我担保这次什么都没忘，玛丽拉，可是您 觉得它会发起来吗？要是夹心糕没发起来可怎么 ④ruby /'ru:b/a,红宝石色的 ⑤jelly /'d3el/t果冻，冻状 办呀？” 物 “除了夹心糕我们还有好多吃的呢。”玛丽拉 对这事倒挺沉得住气。 ⑥fem/f3n/n.蕨 不过夹心糕发得挺好，从烤炉里拿出来像金 色的泡沫一样松软。安妮高兴得满脸通红，一边 给它夹上一层层鲜红的果冻，一边想象着阿伦太 太吃着夹心糕，可能还再要一块呢！ “您当然要用那套最好的茶具，玛丽拉，”她 说，“我可以在桌子上摆上些蕨菜和野玫瑰吗？” “我看那全是胡闹。”玛丽拉嗤之以鼻。 “巴里太太就把她的桌子装饰起来了，”安妮 说，“牧师对她大加赞扬。” “好吧，你随便弄吧，”玛丽拉说，她下决心 不能比巴里太太或其他任何人落后，“不过要记 住留下足够的地方放盘子和吃的。” ·227·