Anne of Green Gables — Page 2
雷切尔有的是时间，可以坐在厨房的窗边一坐就是几个小时，一边织着棉经被子——她已经织了十六条，这在埃文利的家庭主妇们之间传为佳话，说起来无不肃然起敬——一边紧紧盯着那条穿越洼地、蜿蜒而上的主干道，那条路一直延伸到对面陡峭的红色山丘之上。
Rachel found abundant time to sit for hours at her kitchen window, knitting "cotton warp" quilts--she had knitted sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in awed voices--and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond.
由于埃文利占据着一个突入圣劳伦斯湾的小三角形半岛，三面之中有两面临水，任何人进出都必须经过那条山路，从而逃不过雷切尔太太那双无所不见的眼睛的暗中审视。
Since Avonlea occupied a little triangular peninsula jutting out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, with water on two sides of it, anybody who went out of it or into it had to pass over that hill road and so run the unseen gauntlet of Mrs. Rachel's all-seeing eye.
那是六月初的一个下午，她正坐在那里。
She was sitting there one afternoon in early June.
阳光透过窗户照进来，温暖而明媚；屋子下方山坡上的果园里，粉白色的花朵竞相绽放，宛如披上了一层婚纱，无数蜜蜂在其间嗡嗡飞舞。
The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
托马斯·林德——一个被埃文利人称为"雷切尔·林德的丈夫"的温顺小男人——正在谷仓那边山坡地里播种晚芜菁的种子；而马修·卡斯伯特本应在绿山墙那边的大片红色溪边田地里播种他的芜菁种子。
Thomas Lynde--a meek little man whom Avonlea people called "Rachel Lynde's husband"--was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
雷切尔太太知道他应该这样做，因为她听到他前一天晚上在卡莫迪的威廉·J·布莱尔杂货店里告诉彼得·莫里森，说他打算第二天下午播种芜菁。
Mrs. Rachel knew that he ought because she had heard him tell Peter Morrison the evening before in William J. Blair's store over at Carmody that he meant to sow his turnip seed the next afternoon.
当然是彼得先问他的，因为马修·卡斯伯特这辈子从来就不曾主动开口告诉别人任何事情。
Peter had asked him, of course, for Matthew Cuthbert had never been known to volunteer information about anything in his whole life.
Vocabulary
- found
- 发现；找到
- abundant
- 丰富的；充足的；大量的
- time
- 时间；时刻；季节
- to
- 到；向；朝着方向
- sit
- 坐；坐下；就座
- for
- 为了；对于；因为
- hours
- 小时；钟头；时间段
- at
- 在；向；对着
- her
- 她的；属于她的
- kitchen
- 厨房；烹饪场所
- window
- 窗户；窗口；透视孔
- knitting
- 编织；针织；织毛衣
- cotton
- 棉花；棉布；棉织品
- warp
- 扭曲；经线；变形
- quilts
- 被子；棉被；拼布被
- she
- 她；女性代词
- had
- 有；已有；拥有
- knitted
- 编织过的；用针织的
- sixteen
- 十六；数字16
- of
- 的；属于；关于
- them
- 他们；它们；她们
- as
- 作为；如同；当时候
- housekeepers
- 女管家；家务管理员；管理家务
- were
- 是；处于某状态
- wont
- 习惯；惯例；常例
- tell
- 告诉；说；讲述
- in
- 在；里面；内部
- awed
- 敬畏的；感到敬畏的
- voices
- 声音；嗓音；言语
- and
- 和；与；以及
- keeping
- 保持；维持；守着
- sharp
- 锐利的；敏锐的；尖锐
- eye
- 眼睛；眼睛；视线
- on
- 在上；打开；继续
- the
- 定冠词，特指某人或某物
- main
- 主要的；大的；主干
- road
- 道路；公路；路线
- that
- 那个；那；哪个
- crossed
- 穿过；越过；交叉
- hollow
- 空心的；山谷；凹陷
- wound
- 伤口；伤害；绕行
- up
- 向上；起来；完成
- steep
- 陡峭的；急剧的；陡立
- red
- 红色的；红色；血红
- hill
- 山丘；小山；丘陵
- beyond
- 超越；在那边；超过
- Since
- 由于；既然；自从
- occupied
- 占据的；已占用的；忙碌
- little
- 小的；少的；微小
- triangular
- 三角形的；三边的；三角
- peninsula
- 半岛；三面环水的陆地
- jutting
- 突出的；凸出的；伸出
- out
- 出去；外面；熄灭
- into
- 进入；到里面；变成
- Gulf
- 海湾；深湾；隔阂
- with
- 和；用；具有
- water
- 水；水域；喝水
- two
- 二；两个；数字2
- sides
- 侧面；边；旁边
- it
- 它；那个；这个
- anybody
- 任何人；谁；有人
- who
- 谁；哪个人；那个
- went
- 去；离开；行进
- or
- 或；或者；抑或
- pass
- 通过；经过；及格
- over
- 超过；在上面；越过
- so
- 所以；那样；如此
- run
- 跑；运行；进行
- unseen
- 看不见的；未被看到的
- gauntlet
- 铁手套；严峻考验；挑战
- Mrs
- 夫人；太太；女士缩写
- all-seeing
- 全知的；无所不见的；洞察一切
- sitting
- 坐着的；就座的；位置
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