Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Page 3

晚饭后，她拿出书来，给我讲摩西和芦苇丛的故事，我急切地想了解他的一切；

After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him;

但后来她说漏了嘴，说摩西已经死了很长时间了；于是我就不再关心他了，因为我对死人没什么兴趣。

but by-and-by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.

没过多久我想抽烟，就请求寡妇让我抽。但她不肯。

Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn't.

她说抽烟是个坏习惯，不干净，我必须努力戒掉。

She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more.

有些人就是这样。他们对一件事情指手画脚，自己却对那件事一无所知。

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

你瞧，她在这里为摩西操心，摩西跟她又没有半点亲戚关系，对任何人也毫无用处，早就不在人世了，可她却对我做一件有好处的事情百般挑剔。

Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it.

而且她自己还吸鼻烟；那当然没什么问题，因为那是她自己做的事。

And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself.

她的姐妹，沃森小姐，是个身材还算苗条的老姑娘，戴着一副眼镜，刚搬来和她同住，这会儿拿着一本拼写书向我发起进攻。

Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book.

她让我辛苦地学了大约一个小时，后来寡妇叫她停下来。我真的撑不了多久了。

She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up. I couldn't stood it much longer.

之后有一个小时，无聊透顶，我坐立不安。

Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety.