28.An Unfortunate Lily Maid不幸的百合姑娘-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《绿山墙的安妮Anne of Green Gables》下

Chapter XXVIII An Unfortunate Lily Maid “Of course you must be Elaine,Anne,”said Diana.“I could never have the courage to float down there." “NorI,”said Ruby Gillis.“Idon't mind floating down when there's two or three of us in the flat and we can sit up.It's fun then.But to lie down and pretend I was dead-I just couldn't.I'd die really of fright" “Of course it would be romantic,”conceded②Jane Andrews,“butI know I couldn't keep still.And you know,Anne,that would spoil the effect.” "But it's so ridiculous to have a redheaded Elaine,"mourned Anne. "Elaine had 'all her bright hair streaming down',you know.And Elaine was the lily maid.Now,a red-haired person cannot be a lily maid." "Your complexion is just as fair as Ruby's,said Diana earnestly, "and your hair is ever so much darker than it used to be before you cut it” "Oh,do you really think so?"exclaimed Anne,flushing sensitively with delight."I've sometimes thought it was myself-but I never dared ·290· 第二十八章 不幸的百合姑娘 “安妮，你理所当然是伊莱恩了，”戴安娜 说，“我根本不敢漂到那里去。” “我也不敢，”鲁比·吉利斯打了个寒战说， “如果我们两三个人一起坐在这只平底船上，我 就不怕漂流，挺好玩儿的。但是躺下来装死一 ④fright/frait/n.惊吓：恐怖 我不行。我会吓死的。” ②concede/kon'sid/v.让步 “肯定挺浪漫的，”简·安德鲁斯承认，“但 是我知道我保持不了镇静。安妮，你知道，这样 会破坏效果的。” “可是让红头发的人当伊莱恩也太可笑了，” 安妮叹着气，“你们知道伊莱恩‘那头金发漂在 水面上’。伊莱恩是百合姑娘。噢，长红头发的 ③eamestly∥3 nistl ad..认真 人不能当百合姑娘。” 地 “你的肤色像鲁比一样白，”戴安娜恳切地 说，“而且你的头发比剪掉之前黑了好多呀。” “噢，你真的这么想？”安妮敏感地叫了起 来，高兴得满脸通红，“我有时自己也这么 想一可我不敢问别人，因为害怕她告诉我不是 ·291· Anne of Green Gables to ask anyone for fear she would tell me it wasn't.Do you think it could be called auburn now,Diana?" "Yes,and I think it is real pretty,"said Diana. They were standing on the bank of the pond,below Orchard Slope. Anne and Diana had spent most of their playtime that summer on and about the pond. It was Anne's idea that they dramatize Elaine.They had studied Tennyson's poem in school the preceding winter.They had analyzed and parsed it and torn it to pieces in general until it was a wonder there was any meaning at all left in it for them,but at least the fair lily maid and Lancelot and Guinevere and King Arthur had become very real people to them,and Anne was devoured by secret regret that she had not been born in Camelot. Anne's plan was hailed with enthusiasm.The girls had discovered that if the flat were pushed off from the landing place it would drift down with the current under the bridge and finally strand itself on another headland lower down which ran out at a curve in the pond. “Well,I'll be Elaine,.”said Anne,yielding reluctantly.“Ruby,you must be King Arthur and Jane will be Guinevere and Diana must be Lancelot.But first you must be the brothers and the father.We can't have the old dumb servitor5 because there isn't room for two in the flat when one is lying down.We must pall the barge all its length in blackest samite.That old black shawl of your mother's will be just the thing,Diana.” The black shawl having been procured,Anne spread it over the flat and then lay down on the bottom,with closed eyes and hands folded over her breast. "Oh,she does look really dead,whispered Ruby Gillis nervously. "It makes me feel frightened,girls.Do you suppose it's really right to ·292· 绿山墙的安妮 这么回事。戴安娜，你觉得现在能把它说成茶赭 色吗？” “能，我觉得它真的很好看。”戴安娜说。 她们这时正站在果园坡下的池塘边上。这个 夏天，安妮和戴安娜把大部分娱乐时间都消磨在 池塘里和池塘附近了。 排演伊莱恩是安妮的主意。去年冬天他们在 学校里学了丁尼生的诗歌。他们分析了诗歌，研 ①parse /pa:z/g对句中的词或 句子做语法分析 究了语法，总之把诗掰开揉碎，致使他们怀疑起 ②tear/te/撕掉，扯下 这首诗对于他们究竟还有什么意义。但是至少美 丽的百合姑娘、兰斯洛特、格温纳维尔和亚瑟王 ③devour/d'vaua/g吞食，吞 没 活生生地出现在他们面前，安妮心中暗暗叫苦， 遗憾没有生在卡米洛。 大家为安妮的计划热情欢呼。姑娘们发现， 如果把小船从停泊处推开，船就会顺着水流漂到 桥下，最后在下游池塘拐弯处的另一块岬角搁 浅。 “好吧，我当伊莱恩，”安妮不情愿地让步 了，“鲁比，你得当亚瑟王，简当格温纳维尔， ④dumb/dam/a哑的，无言的 戴安娜当兰斯洛特。但是一开始你们必须是兄弟 servitor's3rvta/n仆人， 和父亲。我们不能要老哑巴仆人了，要是有一个 随从 pall /po:/覆盖 人躺着，船里就装不下两个人了。我们还得在整 ⑦barge /ba:ds/n驳船 个船上铺上漆黑的锦缎。戴安娜，你妈妈那块旧 ⑧samite/samait/n锦绣 @procure /pro'kjuo/获得， 的黑披巾正好能用。” 取得 黑披巾弄来了，安妮打开铺在船上，然后躺 在船底，闭上眼睛，两手交叉在胸前。 “哦，她看上去真像死了，”鲁比·吉利斯紧 张地低声说，“这样子让我觉得很可怕，姑娘 ·293· Anne of Green Gables act like this?Mrs.Lynde says that all play-acting is abominably wicked” "Ruby,you shouldn't talk about Mrs.Lynde,"said Anne severely. "It spoils the effect because this is hundreds of years before Mrs.Lynde was born.Jane,you arrange this.It's silly for Elaine to be talking when she's dead.” Jane rose to the occasion. “Now,she's all ready,”said Jane.“We must kiss her quiet brows and,Diana,you say,'Sister,farewell forever,'and Ruby,you say, Farewell,sweet sister,both of you as sorrowfully as you possibly can. Anne,for goodness'sake smile a little.You know Elaine 'lay as though she smiled.'That's better.Now push the flat off." The flat was accordingly pushed off.Diana and Jane and Ruby only waited long enough to see it caught in the current and headed for the bridge before scampering up through the woods,across the road,and down to the lower headland where,as Lancelot and Guinevere and the king,they were to be in readiness to recieve the lily maid. For a few minutes Anne,drifting slowly down,enjoyed the romance of her situation to the full.Then something happened not at all romantic.The flat began to leak.In a very few moments it was necessary for Elaine to scramble to her feet,pick up her cloth of gold coverlet and pall of blackest samite and gaze blankly at a big crack in the bottom of her barge.That sharp stake at the landing had torn off the strip of batting nailed on the flat.Anne did not know this,but it did not take her long to realize that she was in a dangerous plight Anne gave one gasping little scream which nobody ever heard;she was white to the lips,but she did not lose her self-possession.There was one chance-just one. ·294· 绿山墙的安妮 ①abominably /'bpminabl/ 们。你们觉得演这种玩意儿好吗？林德太太说演 ad可恶地，可恨地，恶劣地 什么戏都不好。” “鲁比，你不应当谈论林德太太，”安妮一脸 严肃地说，“把效果都破坏了，因为这可是林德 太太出生前几百年的事。简，你来负责这事。伊 莱恩死了还说话，真是荒唐。” 简真的负起责任来了。 “行了，一切都好了，”简说，“我们应当吻 她宁静的额头，戴安娜，你说‘妹妹，永别了， 鲁比，你说‘永别了，亲爱的妹妹’，你们两个人 要尽量做出悲痛欲绝的样子。安妮，看在上帝分 上，微笑一点儿。你知道伊莱恩‘躺着，仿佛在 微笑'。这样好些了。现在把船推开。” 于是船被推走了。戴安娜、简和鲁比等了一 ②scamper/'skaempa/以.奔跑， 小会儿，一看到小船顺流漂走了，就朝小桥奔 快跑 去，然后急匆匆地穿过树林，跨过小路，直奔下 游的岬角，在那里她们作为兰斯洛特、格温纳维 尔和亚瑟王，做好了迎接百合姑娘的准备。 有那么一会儿，船漂得很慢，安妮尽情享受 了这份浪漫。可后来发生的事就一点也不浪漫 ③coverlet"kAvolrt/n.床罩， 了。船开始漏水了。伊莱恩不得不匆忙爬起身 被单 来，抓起黄罩布和黑锦缎罩单，木然凝视着船底 的一条大裂缝。岸边的那根尖木桩划开了钉在船 底的带状毡层。安妮不知道这些，但是她很快就 ④nail /neil/v.钉，钉牢 ⑤plight /plant/n.困境，境况 意识到自己的处境十分危险。 安妮发出了一声没人能听到的轻微短促的惊 叫，嘴唇都吓白了，但是并没有失去理智。有一 个机会一只有一个。 ·295· Anne of Green Gables “I was horribly frightened,”she told Mrs..Allan the next day,“T prayed,Dear God,please take the flat close to a pile and I'll do the rest.'over and over again.Mine was answered,for the flat bumped right into a pile for a minute and I flung the scarf and the shawl over my shoulder and scrambled up on a big providential stub.And there I was, clinging to that slippery old pile with no way of getting up or down." Then,just as she thought she really could not endure the ache in her arms and wrists another moment,Gilbert Blythe came rowing under the bridge in Harmon Andrews's dory! Gilbert glanced up and,much to his amazement,beheld a little white scornful face looking down upon him with big,frightened but also scornful gray eyes. “Anne Shirley！How on earth did you get there?”he exclaimed.. Without waiting for an answer he pulled close to the pile and extended his hand.There was no help for it;Anne,clinging to Gilbert Blythe's hand,scrambled down into the dory,where she sat,drabbled and furious5,in the stern with her arms full of dripping shawl and wet crepe. "What has happened,Anne?"asked Gilbert,taking up his oars. "We were playing Elaine,"explained Anne frigidly,without even looking at her rescuer,"and I had to drift down to Camelot in the barge-I mean the flat.The flat began to leak and I climbed out on the pile.The girls went for help.Will you be kind enough to row me to the landing?" Gilbert obligingly rowed to the landing and Anne,disdaining assistance,sprang nimbly on shore. "I'm very much obliged to you,she said haughtily as she turned away.But Gilbert had also sprung from the boat and now laid a ·296· 绿山墙的安妮 “我被吓坏了，”第二天她告诉阿伦太太说， “我开始一遍又一遍地祈祷，‘亲爱的上帝，让 船靠到桥桩旁边吧，别的由我来做。’我的祷告 应验了。船真的撞到了桥桩，我把披巾搭到肩 上，开始往桩上爬。桩子很滑，我就趴在那里， ①scramble /skraembal/v.攀 登，爬行 上不去也下不来。” 然而，就在她的手臂和手腕疼痛难熬，再也 撑不下去的节骨眼，吉尔伯特·布莱思划着哈蒙· 安德鲁斯的平底小渔船从桥下过来了！ ②dory /do:r/n.小平底渔船 吉尔伯特朝上看了一眼，十分惊讶地发现一 张苍白的小脸上，满是鄙薄的表情，一双同样带 着鄙薄神情而惶恐的大眼睛正由上而下对着他。 ③scornful /sko:nful/a.轻蔑 的 “安妮·雪利！你怎么跑到那儿去了？”吉尔 伯特·布莱思叫道。 没等安妮回答，他就把船靠近了木桩，伸出 手。实在没办法了，安妮只好紧紧抓住吉尔伯 ④drabble /draebl.拖泥溅 特·布莱思的手，爬进了小船。她气哼哼地坐在 水行走 船上，衣服脏兮兮的，怀里揣着湿淋淋的披巾和 ⑤furious/fjuor3sa狂怒的， 猛烈的 罩布。 “安妮，出了什么事？”吉尔伯特边举起桨边 问。 ⑥frigidly /frid3dlad冷淡 “我们在演伊菜恩，”安妮冷冰冰地说，连看 地，呆板地 都没看救命恩人一眼，“我得乘船漂到卡米 洛—我是说那只平底船。船开始漏水了，我爬 到了桥桩上。姑娘们求救去了。你能发发善心把 我送到小木台吗？” obligingly /a'blard3il/ad. 吉尔伯特热心地把船划到了小木台，安妮不 亲切地，乐于助人地 ⑧nimbly /nimbl/ad.敏捷 屑理会吉尔伯特的帮助，敏捷地跳上了岸。 地，机敏地 “非常感谢你。”她傲慢地说着，转身走了， ⑨haughtily /hotad.傲慢 地，高傲地 可是吉尔伯特也从船上跳上了岸，一只手抓住安 ·297· Anne of Green Gables detaining hand on her arm. “Anne,”he said hurriedly,“look here.Can't we be good friends? I'm awfully sorry I made fun of your hair that time.I think your hair is awfully pretty now-honest I do.Let's be friends." For a moment Anne hesitated.She had an odd,newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity.Her heart gave a quick, queer little beat.But the bitterness of her old grievance promptly stiffened up her wavering determination. “No,”she said coldly,“I shall never be friends with you,Gilbert Blythe,and I don't want to be!" “All right!”Gilbert sprang into his skiff③with an angry color in his cheeks."I'll never ask you to be friends again,Anne Shirley.And I don't care either!" He pulled away with swift defiant strokes,and Anne went up the steep,ferny little path under the maples.She held her head very high, but she was conscious of an odd feeling of regret.She almost wished she had answered Gilbert differently. Halfway up the path she met Jane and Diana rushing back to the pond in a state narrowly removed from positive frenzy "Oh,Anne,"gasped Diana,fairly falling on the former's neck and weeping with relief and delight,"oh,Anne-we thought-you were- drowned-and we felt like murderers-because we had made-you be- Elaine.And Ruby is in hysterics-oh,Anne,how did you escape?" “I climbed up on one of the piles,”explained Anne wearily9,“and Gilbert Blythe came along in Mr.Andrews's dory and brought me to land.” “Oh,Anne,how splendid of him！Why,it's so romantic!”said Jane,finding breath enough for utterance at last."Of course you'll ·298· 绿山墙的安妮 ①detain /d'tenl.扣留，留 妮的胳膊。 住 “安妮，”他急促地说，“喂，我们就不能成 为好朋友吗？那次我拿你的头发开玩笑，真是太 对不起了。我觉得你的头发现在非常好看—我 说的是真心话。我们做朋友吧。” 安妮犹豫了片刻。她的尊严是受到过伤害， 2 outraged /'autreid3ad/a. 惊的，义愤填膺的 不过此刻她有一种奇异的感觉。她的心很快地奇 怪地动了一下。但是宿怨的苦涩立刻坚定了她开 始动摇的决心。 “不，”她冷冷地说，“我决不做你的朋友， 吉尔伯特·布莱思，我不想做！” ③skiff /skif.轻舟，小船 “好吧！”吉尔伯特跳进小船，满脸怒色， “我决不会再求你做朋友，安妮·雪利。我也不在 乎！” ④defiant/d'faiont/a.挑衅 他挑战般飞快地荡起船桨离开了，安妮踏上 的，目中无人 枫树林中陡峭蛸的长满蕨菜的小路。她的头昂得高 ③stroke/strauk/n划桨 高的，但是却有一种奇怪的后悔的感觉。她几乎 ⑥ferny /'f3nla.多蕨的 在想要是答应了吉尔伯特·布莱思的请求就好了。 走到半路，她碰上简和戴安娜，她们正飞跑 回池塘，情绪仍然极度激动。 ⑦frenzy /frenzl/n.狂暴，狂 “哦，安妮，”戴安娜喘着气，她不偏不倚地 怒 扑到了安妮的脖子上，宽慰而高兴地哭了， “哦，安妮—我们想—你—淹死了—我 们觉得自己像杀人犯一样—因为是我们让一 你当—伊莱恩的。鲁比被吓傻了—哦，安 ⑧hysteric/hrs'terik/n.歌斯 底里 妮，你是怎么逃命的？” ⑨wearily /wiaril/ad.疲倦 “我爬上了一根桥桩，”安妮有气无力地说， 地 “吉尔伯特·布莱思划着安德鲁斯先生的船经过那 儿，把我送上了岸。” “啊，安妮，他多好啊！啊，这太浪漫了！” utterance/'Atorons/i.说话 简终于攒足了气力说了起来，“打这以后，你当 ·299·