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Chapter XXXII The Pass List Is Out With the end of June came the close of the term and the close of Miss Stacy's rule in Avonlea school.Anne and Diana walked home that evening feeling very sober indeed.Diana looked back at the schoolhouse from the foot of the spruce hill and sighed deeply. "It does seem as if it was the end of everything,doesn't it?"she said dismally③. "You oughtn't to feel half as badly as I do,"said Anne,hunting vainly for a dry spot on her handkerchief."You'll be back again next winter,but I suppose I've left the dear old school foreverif I have good luck,that is.” "It won't be a bit the same.Miss Stacy won't be there,nor you nor Jane nor Ruby probably.I shall have to sit all alone,for I couldn't bear to have another deskmate after you.Oh,we have had jolly times, haven't we,Anne?It's dreadful to think they're all over." Two big tears rolled down by Diana's nose. “If you would stop crying I could,.”said Anne imploringly..“After all,I dare say I'll be back next year.This is one of the times I KNOW I'm not going to pass.They're getting alarmingly frequent." ·342 第三十二章 录取名单公布了 六月底学期结束了，斯塔西小姐在埃文利学 校的任职也到了期。那天晚上安妮和戴安娜回家 ①sober/sauba/a.沉重的 时心情确实沉重。戴安娜从云杉山脚下回头遥望 ②spruce/spru:sn赤松，云杉 校舍，深深地叹了口气。 “真好像一切都结束了，是不是？”她说，语 ③dismally /dizmal/ad.阴暗 调很凄凉。 地，沉闷地，忧郁地 “我的感觉比你糟多了，”安妮一边说，一边 徒劳地在手绢上寻找一块干的地方，“明年冬天 你还会回来上课，我呢，我想我已经和亲爱的母 校永别了—要是我运气好的话。” “那可大不一样了。斯塔西小姐不在这儿了， 你、简，还有鲁比可能也走了。我只好一个人坐 了，你走了，我不愿意和别人同桌。啊，我们度 过了多么美好的时光呀，安妮。想到这一切全都 结束了真可怕呀。” 两滴大大的泪珠从戴安娜鼻子旁边滑落下 来。 “你不哭了，我才能不哭，”安妮哀求说， ④alarmingly/a:mol/ad让 “反正我敢说我明年还会回来上学的。我有很多次 人担忧地 ·343· Anne of Green Gables "Why,you came out splendidly in the exams Miss Stacy gave." "Yes,but those exams didn't make me nervous.When I think of the real thing you can't imagine what a horrid cold fluttery feeling comes round my heart.” "I suppose you'll have to cram in the evenings,"said Diana. "No;Miss Stacy has made us promise not to open a book at all.It's good advice,but I expect it will be hard to follow;good advice is apt to be,I think.It was so kind of your Aunt Josephine to ask me to stay at Beechwood while I'm in town." "You'll write to me while you're in,won't you?" "I'll write Tuesday night and tell you how the first day goes," promised Anne. “I'll be haunting①the post office Wednesday,”vowed Diana. Anne went to town the following Monday and on Wednesday Diana haunted the post office,as agreed,and got her letter. "Dearest Diana [wrote Anne], Here it is Tuesday night and I'm writing this in the library at Beechwood.Last night I was horribly lonesome all alone in my room and wished so much you were with me. This morning Miss Stacy came for me and we went to the Academy,calling for Jane and Ruby and Josie on our way.Ruby asked me to feel her hands and they were as cold as ice.Josie said I looked as if I hadn't slept a wink and she didn't believe I was strong enough to stand the grind of the teacher's course even if I did get through. When we reached the Academy there were scores of students there from all over the Island.The first person we saw was Moody Spurgeon sitting on the steps and muttering away to himself.Jane ·344· 绿山墙的安妮「 感觉到自己通不过考试，现在我又这么想了。这 种感觉越来越频繁了，真让人心惊胆战。” “可是，你在斯塔西小姐的模拟考试中成绩 很好呀。” “是啊，可是那些考试我不紧张。在我想起 真正的考试的时候，你想象不出我这心里有多慌 多怕。” “我猜你晚上又要开夜车了吧。”戴安娜说。 “不，斯塔西小姐要我们保证一本书都不看。 这个建议倒是很好，只是我看很难照办，我觉得 好的建议往往做起来不容易。约瑟芬姑婆真好， 等我进城，她就请我住在比奇伍德。” ①haunt /ho:nt/g常到 “你在城里会给我写信的，是吧？” “我星期二晚上给你写信，告诉你第一天的 情况。”安妮保证道。 “我星期三会去邮局看几趟。”戴安娜也发誓 说。 到了星期一，安妮进了城，星期三戴安娜信 守承诺跑了好几趟，收到了安妮的来信。 “最最亲爱的戴安娜：（安妮写道）》 现在是星期二晚上，我正在比奇伍德的 图书馆里写这封信。昨天晚上我独自一人待 在屋里，我多么希望你和我在一起呀。 今天早上斯塔西小姐找我去女王学校，路 上叫上了简、鲁比和乔西。鲁比让我摸她的 手，她的手凉得竟像冰一样。乔西说，我看上 去好像一分钟都没睡，就算我真的考过了，她 也认为我不够强壮，千不了教书这份苦差。 ·345· Anne of Green Gables asked him what on earth he was doing and he said he was repeating the multiplication table over and over to steady his nerves and for pity's sake not to interrupt him! When we were assigned to our rooms Miss Stacy had to leave us.Jane and I sat together and Jane was so composed that I envied her.I wondered if I looked as I felt and if they could hear my heart thumping clear across the room.Then a man came in and began distributing the English examination sheets.My hands grew cold then and my head fairly whirled around as I picked it up.Just one awful moment-Diana,I felt exactly as I did four years ago when I asked Marilla if I might stay at Green Gables-and then everything cleared up in my mind and my heart began beating again-I forgot to say that it had stopped altogether!-for I knew I could do something with THAT paper anyhow. At noon we went home for dinner and then back again for history in the afternoon.The history was a pretty hard paper and I got dreadfully mixed up in the dates.Still,I think I did fairly well today.But oh,Diana,tomorrow the geometry exam comes off and when I think of it,it takes every bit of determination I possess to keep from opening my Euclid.If I thought the multiplication table would help me any I would recite it from now till tomorrow morning. I went down to see the other girls this evening.Ruby was in hysterics when I reached their boardinghouse;she had just discovered a fearful mistake she had made in her English paper. When she recovered we went uptown and had an ice cream.How we wished you had been with us. Oh,Diana,if only the geometry examination were over!But there,as Mrs.Lynde would say,the sun will go on rising and ·346· 绿山墙的安妮 我们赶到学校的时候，那里聚集了几十 ①multiplication table乘法表 个来自全岛各地的学生。我们遇到的第一个 人是穆迪·斯珀吉翁，他正坐在台阶上喃喃自 语。简问他到底在搞什么名堂，他说他正反 复背诵九九表，为的是稳定情绪。他要我们 行行好，不要打扰他。 斯塔西小姐必须在我们分考场时离开。 我和简坐在一起，她非常沉着，我都嫉妒她 ②whirl /w3使…旋转， 了。我很想知道我看上去是不是和我的感觉 急转，回旋 一样，别人是不是在考场另一头就能听到我 的心怦怦直跳。接着一个男人走了进来开始 分发英语试卷。我接过卷子两手变得冰凉， 头晕目眩。那真是可怕的一瞬间—戴安娜， 我的感觉和四年前完全一样，当时我问玛丽 拉我可不可以留在绿山墙—接下来脑子又 清楚了，心又开始跳动—我忘了说我的心 刚才根本不跳了！—因为我知道我还是能 对付那张卷子的。 中午我们回去吃午饭，接着又去参加下 午的历史考试。历史题很难，我把日期都给 弄混了。尽管如此，我觉得我今天考得还不 错。可是啊，戴安娜，明天就考几何了，一 想到这儿，我本来今晚不看几何课本的决心 就全没了。如果我觉得九九表能对我有所帮 助，我情愿从现在一直背到明天早晨。 今天晚上我去看其他女生。我来到鲁比 她们宿舍的时候，鲁比在不停地懊恼，她刚 刚发现她英语犯了一个致命错误。等她平静 下来，我们到住宅区吃了一份冰淇淋。我们 多么希望你也在这儿啊。 ·347· Anne of Green Gables setting whether I fail in geometry or not.That is true but not especially comforting.I think I'd rather it didn't go on if I failed! Yours devotedly, Anne” The geometry examination and all the others were over in due time and Anne arrived home on Friday evening,rather tired but with an air of chastened triumph about her.Diana was over at Green Gables when she arrived and they met as if they had been parted for years. "You old darling,it's perfectly splendid to see you back again.It seems like an age since you went to town and oh,Anne,how did you get along?” "Pretty well,I think,in everything but the geometry." “How did the others do?” "The girls say they know they didn't pass,but I think they did pretty well.Josie says the geometry was so easy a child of ten could do it!Moody Spurgeon still thinks he failed in history and Charlie says he failed in algebra.But we don't really know anything about it and won't until the pass list is out.That won't be for a fortnight.Fancy living a fortnight in such suspense!I wish I could go to sleep and never wake up until it is over.” Diana knew it would be useless to ask how Gilbert Blythe had fared so she merely said:"Oh,you'll pass all right.Don't worry." "I'd rather not pass at all than not come out pretty well up on the list,”flashed Anne.. With this end in view Anne had strained every nerve during the examinations.She knew that Josie Pye had said there was no doubt in the world that Gilbert would be first;and she felt that her humiliation would ·348· 绿山墙的安妮 哎，戴安娜，要是几何考完了该有多好 呀！算了，不说了，因为林德太太会说，不管 我几何考得好不好，太阳都将继续升落。这是 真的，但是让人听着不太舒服。我想如果我考 坏了，我宁愿太阳不再升落！ 你忠实的 安妮” ①chastened/'tfeisnd/a精练 的，经磨炼的 几何考试和其他各门考试都如期结束了，安 妮星期五晚上回到了家，她筋疲力尽，但是隐隐 露出成功的喜悦。她一到家，戴安娜就跑到绿山 墙来了，她们见面时好像分离了多少年似的。 “我的老朋友，看到你又回来了真是太好了。 你进城好像都好久了，哎，安妮，你考得怎么样 啊？” “挺不错的，我想，除了几何，每门都很 好。” “其他人怎么样啊？” “姑娘们说她们觉得自己没考好，但是我觉 ②algebra /ld3 bra/n.代数 得她们考得不错。乔西说几何太容易了，连十岁 学 的小孩子都能做！穆迪·斯珀吉翁仍然认为他历 史考砸了，查利说他代数没考好。其实我们也不 知道到底考得怎么样，只有等录取名单公布了才 ③fare/fea/u进展 知道。用不了两个星期。想到要提心吊胆地熬两 个星期，我真希望能蒙头大睡，一觉睡到半个月 过去再醒。” 戴安娜知道问吉尔伯特·布莱思考得怎么样 ④strain /strein/v.劳累，拉紧， 等于白问，于是她只是说：“嗯，你会顺利通过 过分使用 的。不要担心。” “要是名次排得不太理想，还不如根本没考 ·349· Anne of Green Gables be unbearable if she failed. But she had another and nobler motive for wishing to do well.She wanted to "pass high"for the sake of Matthew and Marilla-especially Matthew.She did hope fervently that she would be among the first ten at least,so that she might see Matthew's kindly brown eyes gleam with pride in her achievement. At the end of the fortnight Anne took to "haunting"the post office also,in the distracted company of Jane,Ruby,and Josie,opening the Charlottetown dailies with shaking hands and cold,sinkaway feelings as bad as any experienced during the Entrance week. When three weeks had gone by without the pass list appearing, Anne began to feel that she really couldn't stand the strain much longer. But one evening the news came.Anne was sitting at her open window,when she saw Diana come with a fluttering newspaper in her hand. Anne sprang to her feet,knowing at once what that paper contained. The pass list was out!Her head whirled and her heart beat until it hurt her.She could not move a step.It seemed an hour to her before Diana came rushing along the hall and burst into the room without even knocking,so great was her excitement. “Anne,you've passed,”she cried,“passed the VERY FIRST-you and Gilbert both-you're ties-but your name is first.Oh,I'm so proud!" Diana flung the paper on the table and herself on Anne's bed.Anne lighted the lamp.Then she snatched up the paper.Yes,she had passed- there was her name at the very top of a list of two hundred! "You did just splendidly,Anne,"puffed Diana,recovering sufficiently to sit up and speak."You've all passed,every one of you, won't Miss Stacy be delighted?Oh,Anne,what does it feel like to see ·350· 绿山墙的安妮 上。”安妮突然说。 因为有这种想法，安妮在考试中每根神经都 绷得紧紧的。她知道乔西·派伊已经说了，吉尔 伯特得第一是天经地义的事。她觉得如果她败下 阵来，她将无法忍受那种耻辱。 但是她希望考得出色还出于另一个更为高尚 的动机。她希望为了马修和玛丽拉而“出类拔 萃”—特别是为了马修。她确实热切地希望她 至少能进入前十名，这样，她就可以看到马修和 善的棕色眼晴闪露出为她的成绩而骄傲的光芒。 到了两周快过完的时候，安妮也“常跑”邮 局了，她由心烦意乱的简、鲁比和乔西陪伴着， 用颤抖的手打开夏洛特敦日报，颓丧的心情就像 考试那周体验到的一样糟。 ①flutter/'flAto/v摆动 三个星期过去了，录取名单还是没有登出 来，安妮开始觉得她真的再也受不了这种压力 了。 但是一天晚上消息传来了。安妮正坐在敞开 的窗前，她看到戴安娜跑过来，手里挥动着一张 报纸。 安妮霍地立起身来，立刻就知道了报纸的内 容。录取名单公布了！她头晕目眩，心跳快得难 受。她一步都迈不开。她觉得似乎过了一个小时 之久戴安娜才穿过门厅，她门都没敲就冲进了安 妮的房间，激动得忘乎所以。 “安妮，你通过了，”她大叫着，“得了第一 名—你和吉尔伯特两个人一你们俩分数一 样一但你的名字排在前面。我太骄傲了！” 戴安娜把报纸扔到桌子上，一下子扑到安妮 的床上。安妮点上灯。接着她一把抓过了报纸。 ·351·