Anne of Green Gables — Page 7
瑞秋，尽管她们性格迥异——或许正因如此——两人却是好友。
Rachel, in spite of--or perhaps because of--their dissimilarity.
玛丽拉是个高挑消瘦的女人，身形棱角分明，毫无曲线；她的黑发已染上几缕银丝，总是在脑后盘成一个硬邦邦的小发髻，用两根铁丝发卡强硬地别住。
Marilla was a tall, thin woman, with angles and without curves; her dark hair showed some gray streaks and was always twisted up in a hard little knot behind with two wire hairpins stuck aggressively through it.
她看起来是个见识狭隘、固守原则的女人——事实也的确如此；但她的嘴角却隐约藏着一丝什么，若是稍加流露，或许便能令人觉察出几分幽默感。
She looked like a woman of narrow experience and rigid conscience, which she was; but there was a saving something about her mouth which, if it had been ever so slightly developed, might have been considered indicative of a sense of humor.
"我们都挺好的，"瑞秋太太说，"不过今天看见马修出门的样子，我还真有些担心你们出了什么事，以为他是去看大夫呢。"
"We're all pretty well," said Mrs. Rachel. "I was kind of afraid you weren't, though, when I saw Matthew starting off today. I thought maybe he was going to the doctor's."
玛丽拉的嘴角意味深长地抽动了一下。她早就料到瑞秋太太会来；她知道，看见马修莫名其妙地出了门，以邻居那种好奇心，是绝对忍不住的。
Marilla's lips twitched understandingly. She had expected Mrs. Rachel up; she had known that the sight of Matthew jaunting off so unaccountably would be too much for her neighbor's curiosity.
"哦，没有，我很好，虽然昨天头很疼，"她说，"马修去了布莱特河。我们要从新斯科舍省一家孤儿院领养一个小男孩，他今晚坐火车来。"
"Oh, no, I'm quite well although I had a bad headache yesterday," she said. "Matthew went to Bright River. We're getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia and he's coming on the train tonight."
就算玛丽拉说马修去布莱特河是为了迎接一只从澳大利亚来的袋鼠，瑞秋太太也不会比现在更震惊。她愣在那里，足足有五秒钟说不出话来。玛丽拉在取笑她，这是不可想象的，但瑞秋太太几乎不得不这么以为。
If Marilla had said that Matthew had gone to Bright River to meet a kangaroo from Australia Mrs. Rachel could not have been more astonished. She was actually stricken dumb for five seconds. It was unsupposable that Marilla was making fun of her, but Mrs. Rachel was almost forced to suppose it.
"你是认真的吗，玛丽拉？"
"Are you in earnest, Marilla?"
Vocabulary
- in
- 表示位置、状态或时间的介词
- spite
- 恶意、怨恨或故意伤害他人的行为
- of
- 表示所有、关系或来源的介词
- or
- 表示选择或替代的连词
- perhaps
- 也许、可能,表示不确定
- because
- 因为、由于,表示原因
- their
- 他们的、她们的,所有格代词
- dissimilarity
- 不相同、差异、两者之间的不同之处
- was
- 是,be动词的过去式
- tall
- 高的、身材高大的
- thin
- 瘦的、细的、薄的
- woman
- 女人、妇女
- with
- 与、用、有,表示伴随或方式
- angles
- 角、棱角,身体突出的骨骼部分
- and
- 和、与,连接词
- without
- 没有、缺少,表示缺失
- curves
- 曲线、圆润的线条
- her
- 她的,女性所有格代词
- dark
- 深色的、黑色的
- hair
- 头发、毛发
- showed
- 显示、表现、展现
- some
- 一些、若干个
- gray
- 灰色、灰白色
- streaks
- 条纹、条痕、一条条的
- always
- 总是、一直、始终
- twisted
- 扭转、缠绕、弯曲
- up
- 向上、上升、完成
- hard
- 硬的、坚硬的、困难的
- little
- 小的、少的、一点点
- knot
- 结、打成结
- behind
- 在后面、背后
- two
- 二、两个
- wire
- 电线、金属丝、导线
- hairpins
- 发夹、固定头发的金属夹子
- stuck
- 卡住、刺入、粘贴
- aggressively
- 咄咄逼人地、好斗地、攻击性地
- through
- 通过、穿过、贯穿
- it
- 它、这个、那个
- She
- 她、女性代词
- looked
- 看起来、显得
- like
- 像、喜欢、相似
- narrow
- 狭窄的、有限的、局限的
- experience
- 经验、经历、体验
- rigid
- 严格的、僵硬的、不灵活的
- conscience
- 良心、道德感、是非感
- which
- 哪一个、关系代词
- but
- 但是、然而、可是
- there
- 那里、存在
- saving
- 拯救、除外、节省
- something
- 某物、某事、有点
- about
- 关于、大约、在周围
- mouth
- 嘴、口腔
- if
- 如果、假如、是否
- had
- 有、过去完成时助动词
- been
- 是、存在,be的过去分词
- ever
- 曾经、任何时候、始终
- so
- 所以、如此、很
- slightly
- 轻微地、略微地
- developed
- 发展、成长、发达的
- might
- 可能、也许、力量
- have
- 有、拥有
- considered
- 认为、考虑、被视为
- indicative
- 显示的、表示的、特征性的
- sense
- 感觉、意识、理解
- humor
- 幽默、幽默感、玩笑
- We
- 我们、第一人称复数代词
- re
- 是,are的缩写形式
- all
- 全部、所有、都
- pretty
- 漂亮、相当、相当程度
- well
- 好的、很好、充分地
- said
- 说、讲,say的过去式
- Mrs
- 夫人、太太,已婚女性的敬称
- kind
- 善良的、种类、类型
- afraid
- 害怕的、恐惧的、担心
- you
- 你、你们
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