Peter Pan — Page 6

温迪每一寸都是个真正的女人，尽管她的个子不高，她从被子里悄悄地探出头来。

Now Wendy was every inch a woman, though there were not very many inches, and she peeped out of the bed-clothes.

「你真的这么认为吗，彼得？」

"Do you really think so, Peter?"

「是的，我是这么认为的。」

"Yes, I do."

「我觉得你真的太体贴了，」她说道，「我要起床了，」于是她和他并排坐在床边。

"I think it's perfectly sweet of you," she declared, "and I'll get up again," and she sat with him on the side of the bed.

她还说，如果他愿意，她可以给他一个吻，但彼得不明白她的意思，他伸出手来满怀期待地等待着。

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

「你肯定知道吻是什么吧？」她吃惊地问道。

"Surely you know what a kiss is?" she asked, aghast.

「等你给了我，我就知道了，」他生硬地回答，为了不伤他的感情，她给了他一枚顶针。

"I shall know when you give it to me," he replied stiffly, and not to hurt his feeling she gave him a thimble.

「现在，」他说，「我可以给你一个吻吗？」她带着几分矜持地回答：「如果你愿意的话。」

"Now," said he, "shall I give you a kiss?" and she replied with a slight primness, "If you please."

她把脸朝他倾过去，显得有些轻率，但他只是把一颗橡果纽扣放进她的手里，于是她慢慢地把脸转回到原来的位置，温和地说她会把他的吻戴在脖子上的项链上。

She made herself rather cheap by inclining her face toward him, but he merely dropped an acorn button into her hand, so she slowly returned her face to where it had been before, and said nicely that she would wear his kiss on the chain around her neck.

幸好她把它戴在了那条项链上，因为它后来救了她的命。

It was lucky that she did put it on that chain, for it was afterwards to save her life.

在我们这个圈子里，人们相互介绍时，习惯上会互问年龄，因此温迪——她总是喜欢做合乎规矩的事——问彼得他多大了。

When people in our set are introduced, it is customary for them to ask each other's age, and so Wendy, who always liked to do the correct thing, asked Peter how old he was.