34.A Queen’s Girl女王学校的姑娘-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《绿山墙的安妮Anne of Green Gables》下

Anne of Green Gables frilly and clinging.The muslin is stiff,and makes you look too dressed up.But the organdy seems as if it grew on you." Anne sighed and yielded.Diana was beginning to have a reputation for notable taste in dressing,and her advice on such subjects was much sought after. "Pull out that frill a little more-so;here,let me tie your sash; now for your slippers.I'm going to braid your hair in two thick braids, and tie them halfway up with big white bows-no,don't pull out a single curl over your forehead-just have the soft part." “Shall I put my pearl beads on?”asked Anne..“Matthew brought me a string from town last week,and I know he'd like to see them on me.” Diana pursed up her lips,put her black head on one side critically,and finally pronounced in favor of the beads,which were thereupon tied around Anne's slim milk-white throat. “There's something so stylish③about you,Anne,”said Diana,with unenvious admiration."You hold your head with such an air.I suppose it's your figure.” “But you have such dimples④，”said Anne,smiling affectionately into the pretty,vivacious face so near her own."Lovely dimples,like little dents in cream.Am I all ready now?" "All ready,"assured Diana,as Marilla appeared in the doorway. "Come right in and look at our elocutionist,Marilla.Doesn't she look lovely?" Marilla emitted a sound between a sniff and a grunt "She looks neat and proper.I like that way of fixing her hair.But I expect she'll ruin that dress driving over there in the dust and dew with it,and it looks most too thin for these damp nights.Mind you keep your skirt clear of the wheel,Anne,and put your warm jacket on." ·356· 绿山墙的安妮 ①clinging/'khom/a.依附的 显得花枝招展的。白纱好像就是长在你身上似 的。” 安妮叹了口气让了步。戴安娜已经因梳妆打 扮品位高雅而享有美名，她对穿戴的建议是十分 受重视的。 “把褶边再拉长一点一就这样；嘿，我来 给你系腰带；现在穿上拖鞋。我要用两根粗发带 扎你的头发，中间打几个大蝴蝶结一别，一绺鬈 发都别拉到额头上来一头发得梳得自然舒展。” “我戴上我的珍珠项链好吗？”安妮问，“马 修上星期从城里给我买了一串儿，我知道他喜欢 看见我戴它。” ②purse /p3:s/v.撅起 戴安娜撅起嘴唇，将长着黑发的头歪向一边 审视着，最后宣布她喜欢这串珠子，于是这串珍 珠项链就系在了安妮纤细洁白的脖子上。 ③stylish /'starlf/a.现代风格 的，流行的 “安妮，你身上有种特殊的气质，”戴安娜用 毫无妒意的羡慕口吻说，“你昂着头，可真神 气。我想你就是这种身材。” ④dimple /drmpl/n酒窝 “但是你长着这么好看的酒窝呀，”安妮说， vivacious /I'veifas/a.活泼 的 对着这张和她挨得很近的美丽活泼的面庞深情地 微笑着，“多可爱呀，像奶油上的两个小窝窝。 现在都好了吗？” elocutionist /elo'kju:fonist/ 雄辩家，演说家 “好了，”戴安娜很有把握地说，这时玛丽拉 ⑦emit /'mit/,.发出，吐露 在门口出现了。“快来看看我们的朗诵家，玛丽 ⑧gunt/grAnt/n咕哝 拉。她看上去很漂亮吧！” 玛丽拉应了一声，既像是对此嗤之以鼻，又 像是在咕哝什么。 “她看上去整洁得体。我喜欢这种发式。但 是我想这套衣服非毁了不可，路上会沾上灰尘和 露水的，而且这衣服也显得太单薄了，这些天晚 ·357· Anne of Green Gables Then Marilla stalked downs tairs,thinking proudly how sweet Anne looked and regretting that she could not go to the concert herself to hear her girl recite. "I wonder if it is too damp for my dress,"said Anne anxiously. “Not a bit of it,.”said Diana,pulling up the window blind.“t'sa perfect night,and there won't be any dew.Look at the moonlight." "I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising,said Anne, going over to Diana."It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops.Oh,Diana,I love this little room so dearly.I don't know how I'll get along without it when I go to town next month." “Don't speak of your going away tonight,”begged Diana..“Idon't want to think of it,it makes me so miserable,and I do want to have a good time this evening.What are you going to recite,Anne?And are you nervous?” "Not a bit.I've recited so often in public I don't mind at all now. I've decided to give 'The Maiden's Vow'.It's so pathetic." “What will you recite if they encore you?” “They won't dream of encoring me,”scoffed②Anne,who was not without her own secret hopes that they would."There are Billy and Jane now-I hear the wheels.Come on." Billy Andrews insisted that Anne should ride on the front seat with him,so she unwillingly climbed up.There was not much of either laughter or chatter in Billy.He was a big,fat,stolid youth of twenty, with a round,expressionless face,and a painful lack of conversational gifts.But he admired Anne immensely,and was puffed up with pride over the prospect of driving to White Sands with that slim,upright figure beside him. Anne contrived 5 to enjoy the drive in spite of all.It was a night for ·358· 绿山墙的安妮 ①stalk/stok/k.高视阔步地 上很潮湿呢。你一定要当心裙子别被轮子弄脏 走 了，安妮，套上件厚夹克吧。” 然后玛丽拉大步走下楼梯，心里得意地想安 妮看上去有多么可爱啊，后悔不能去音乐会亲耳 聆听这孩子的朗诵了。 “天气对我的衣服来说是不是太潮了呀。”安 妮焦急地问。 “一点儿不潮，”戴安娜边说边拉起了窗帘， “夜色多美呀，一滴露水也不会有的。看看那月 光吧。” “我很高兴我的窗户朝东，能看到日出，”安 妮说着朝戴安娜走去，“太阳爬上逶迤的山冈， 光芒穿过锋利的杉林尖顶，真是太美了。噢，戴 安娜，我真是太爱这个小房间了，不知道下个月 进城不住这间房子了我该怎么活。” “今天晚上不准提你要走的事，”戴安娜乞求 说，“我不愿意想这件事，想起它我就感到很难 过，我特别想开开心心地玩儿一晚上。你要朗诵 ②scoff/sko:f/k嘲笑，嘲弄 什么，安妮？你紧张吗？” “一点儿不紧张。我在公开场合朗诵了那么 多次了，现在根本不在乎了。我打算朗诵《少女 的誓言。这首诗非常富有感情色彩。” “如果大家要你再来一个，你朗诵什么？” “他们不会要我再来一个的，”安妮嘲笑地说， ③stolid'stplid/a.迟纯的 ④immensely/'menslr/ad.极 她暗地里并不是不希望观众请她加演。“啊，比 大地，无限地 利和简来了—我听到车轮声了。走吧。” 比利·安德鲁斯坚持安妮应当和他坐在前排 座位上，她只得很不情愿地爬了上去。和比利坐 ⑤contrive /kon'trarv/k.设法 在一起既不能笑也没什么话说。比利是个二十岁 做到 的小伙子，又高又胖，木呆呆的，长着一张圆圆 ·359· Anne of Green Gables enjoyment.When they reached the hotel it was a blaze of light from top to bottom.They were met by the ladies of the concert committee,one of whom took Anne off to the performers'dressing room.Her dress, which,in the east gable,had seemed so dainty and pretty,now seemed simple and plain among all the silks and laces that glistened and rustled around her.Anne laid her hat and jacket away,and shrank miserably into a corner.She wished herself back in the white room at Green Gables. It was still worse on the platform of the big concert hall of the hotel,where she presently found herself.The electric lights dazzled her eyes,the perfume and hum bewildered her.She wished she were sitting down in the audience with Diana and Jane,who seemed to be having a splendid time away at the back. Unfortunately for Anne,a professional elocutionist was staying at the hotel and had consented to recite.She had a marvelously flexible voice and wonderful power of expression;the audience went wild over her selection.Anne,forgetting all about herself and her troubles for the time,listened with rapt and shining eyes;but when the recitation ended she suddenly put her hands over her face.She could never get up and recite after that！ At this unpropitious moment her name was called.Somehow Anne got on her feet,and moved dizzily out to the front.She was so pale that Diana and Jane clasped each other's hands in nervous sympathy. Anne was the victim of an overwhelming attack of stage fright. Often as she had recited in public,she had never before faced such an audience as this,and the sight of it paralyzed her energies completely. Very different this from the plain benches at the Debating Club filled with the homely,sympathetic faces of friends and neighbors.She felt ·360· 绿山墙的安妮 的毫无表情的脸，他极不善辞令。但是他很饮佩安 妮，想到在前往白沙滩的路上有这位苗条挺拔的美 人儿坐在旁边，心中得意极了。 安妮努力享受着旅途的愉快。这是一个欢乐 ①rustle/'rAsl/,.发出沙沙声， 的夜晚。他们到达饭店的时候，到处灯火通明。 飒飒作响 音乐会组委会的女士们迎接了他们，其中一个人 把安妮带到演员化妆室去。她的衣服在东侧房看 上去那么精美，这会儿却显得简朴了，她的周围 都是闪闪发光、沙沙作响的丝绸衣裙啊。安妮把 ②dazzle /daez/.使眼花，目 她的帽子和夹克收起来，痛苦地缩在角落里。她 眩，耀眼 多希望自己马上回到绿山墙的白房间里去。 ③bewilder/bI'w1lda/.使迷 等安妮上了饭店大音乐厅的舞台，情况就更 惑 不妙了。电灯使她目眩，香水味和哼唱声弄得她 晕头转向。她真希望自己正同戴安娜和简坐在观 marvelously /ma:vlosl/ 众当中，她们可能正在后排享受呢。 ad.奇迹般地，奇异地 安妮不走运，一位专业朗诵演员正住在这家 饭店，答应朗诵诗歌。她有惊倒四座的柔美嗓音 和非凡的表现力，观众对她的节目都发了狂。安 妮一时完全忘记了自己的存在和烦恼，瞪着明亮 的眼睛凝神倾听着。朗诵结束的时候，她突然用 手捂住了脸。她根本不可能在她后面朗诵了！ unpropitious /'Anpra'pifos/ 在这个倒霉的时候，她的名字被报出了。安 a.不吉利的，恶运的 妮晕头晕脑地站了起来，糊里糊涂地走到了台 前。她是那么苍白，戴安娜和简由于紧张和同情 紧紧抓住了对方的手。 恐惧劈头盖脸地袭来，安妮怯了场。尽管她 6 paralyze /parolarz/v. 斑痪，使目瞪口呆 常常当众朗诵，但她以前从未面对过今天这样的 听众，这种场面令她浑身瘫软。这与辩论社团的 简易长凳大不相同，那里全是朋友和邻居们朴实 ·361· Anne of Green Gables hopelessly,helplessly ashamed and miserable.Her knees trembled,her heart fluttered,a horrible faintness came over her;not a word could she utter,and the next moment she would have fled from the platform. But suddenly,as her dilated,frightened eyes gazed out over the audience,she saw Gilbert Blythe away at the back of the room.She drew a long breath and flung her head up proudly,courage and determination tingling over her like an electric shock.Her fright and nervousness vanished;and she began her recitation,her clear,sweet voice reaching to the farthest corner of the room without a tremor or a break.When she finished there were bursts of honest applause. Smiling,blushing,limpid eyed,Anne tripped back and gave a quaint,funny little selection that captivated her audience still further. The rest of the evening was quite a little triumph for her. When the concert was over,the professional elocutionist,Mrs. Evans,came and chatted with her,telling her that she had a charming voice and "interpreted"her selections beautifully.They had supper in the big,beautifully decorated dining room;Diana and Jane were invited to partake5 of this.When it was all over,the three girls came merrily out into the calm,white moonshine radiance.Anne breathed deeply,and looked into the clear sky beyond the dark boughs of the firs. "Hasn't it been a perfectly splendid time?"sighed Jane,as they drove away."Anne,your recitation was simply great,although I thought at first you were never going to begin.I think it was better than Mrs. Evans's.” "Oh,no,don't say things like that,Jane,"said Anne quickly, "because it sounds silly.It couldn't be better than Mrs.Evans's.I'm quite satisfied if the people just liked mine pretty well." "DID you see all the diamonds those ladies wore?"sighed Jane. ·362· 绿山墙的安妮 可爱的面孔。她十分痛苦，感到绝望、无助和羞 ①flutter/lata/.摆动 愧。她的膝盖在颤抖，心在狂跳。一阵可怕的眩 晕袭了上来，她一个字也说不出来，马上就要从 ②dilated/dar'lertid/a.膨胀 台上逃跑了。 的 但是，当她瞪大受惊的双眼凝视观众的时候， 她突然看到吉尔伯特·布莱思站在大厅的后面。她 深深吸了一口气，骄傲地把头一扬，勇气和决心 像一阵电击使她浑身一震。她的恐惧和紧张消失 了，开口朗诵起来，清脆甜美的声音传到了大厅 最远的角落，声音没有颤抖，十分流畅。话音刚 落，场上就爆发出热烈的掌声。 ③quaint /kweint/a.古雅的 安妮轻盈地返回了舞台，红红的脸上挂着笑 captivate /kaptrveit/ 意，眼睛清澈明亮，她朗诵了一个奇特有趣的选 以迷住，迷惑 段，进一步征服了听众。在晚上余下的时间里安 妮颇为春风得意。 晚会结束的时候，那位专业朗诵家埃文斯夫 人走过来和她聊天，对她说她有一副迷人的嗓 子，完美地“体现”了诗歌的内容。她们在一个 装潢精美的大餐厅里吃了晚饭，戴安娜和简也被 ⑤partake /pa:'terk/.参与， 分享 邀请共进晚餐。吃完了饭，三个姑娘快活地来到 ⑥radiance /reidjans/n光辉， 静谧的银色月光下，却发现比利正站在马车旁等 辐射 候她们。安妮深深吸了口气，穿过黑压压的杉树 枝望着晴朗的夜空。 “今晚多么美好啊！”他们上路的时候简感叹 道，“安妮，你朗诵得真是太棒了，虽然我开始 时想你根本张不开嘴了。我觉得你比埃文斯夫人 朗诵得都好。” “噢，不，不要这样说，简，”安妮赶快说， “这听起来很荒唐。我不可能比埃文斯夫人朗诵得 好。如果人们还喜欢我的朗诵，我就很知足了。” ·363· Anne of Green Gables "They were simply dazzling.Wouldn't you just love to be rich,girls?" “We ARE rich,”said Anne staunchly.“Why,we have sixteen years to our credit,and we're happy as queens,and we've all got imaginations,more or less.You wouldn't change into any of those women if you could.You KNOW you wouldn't,Jane Andrews!" “TDON'T know-exactly,”said Jane unconvinced.“I think diamonds would comfort a person for a good deal." "Well,I don't want to be anyone but myself,even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life,"declared Anne."I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables,with my string of pearl beads." ·364· 绿山墙的安妮「 “你看见那些太太小姐们戴的各种各样的钻 石首饰了吗？”简叹息着说，“真是令人眼花缭 乱。你们就不喜欢变成富翁吗，姑娘们？” “我们很富有啊，”安妮不让她说下去， “喏，我们年方十六，令人羡慕，我们像女王一 样快乐，我们多多少少都具备了想象力。就算变 富，也不要变成那些女人中的任何一个。你知道 你不会愿意的，简·安德鲁斯！” “我不太知道，”简不相信地说，“我觉得钻 ①pearl /p3n珍珠 石首饰会让人非常开心的。” “噢，我只想当自已不想当别人，即使我会 因为没有钻石首饰一辈子不舒服，”安妮断然道， “成为绿山墙的安妮，戴着这串珍珠项链，我就 非常满意了。” ·365·