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我想这对温迪来说尤其令人着迷，因为她那些淘气的男孩们给了她太多事情要做。

I suppose it was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those rampagious boys of hers gave her so much to do.

确实，有好几个星期，除了晚上也许织织袜子，她几乎从没有在地面上待过。

Really there were whole weeks when, except perhaps with a stocking in the evening, she was never above ground.

烹饪，我可以告诉你，让她的鼻子一直对着锅，就算锅里什么都没有，就算根本没有锅，她也得盯着看它是否烧开。

The cooking, I can tell you, kept her nose to the pot, and even if there was nothing in it, even if there was no pot, she had to keep watching that it came aboil just the same.

你从来都不确定是会有一顿真正的饭还是只是假装吃饭，这完全取决于彼得的心血来潮。

You never exactly knew whether there would be a real meal or just a make-believe, it all depended upon Peter's whim:

如果是游戏的一部分，他可以吃东西，真正地吃，但他不能为了吃撑而吃撑，而这恰恰是大多数孩子最喜欢的事情。

he could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game, but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy, which is what most children like better than anything else;

其次最好的事情就是谈论吃饭。

the next best thing being to talk about it.

假装对他来说是如此真实，以至于在一顿假装的饭食中，你可以看到他变得越来越圆。

Make-believe was so real to him that during a meal of it you could see him getting rounder.

当然这很让人烦恼，但你只能跟着他的思路走，如果你能向他证明你已经撑得钻不进你的树洞了，他就会让你真正地吃个饱。

Of course it was trying, but you simply had to follow his lead, and if you could prove to him that you were getting loose for your tree he let you stodge.

温迪最喜欢缝纫和织补的时间是在他们都上床睡觉之后。

Wendy's favourite time for sewing and darning was after they had all gone to bed.

那时，正如她所说，她有了一段属于自己的喘息时间，她用这段时间为他们缝制新东西，并在膝盖处缝上双层布料，因为他们对膝盖处的磨损都非常厉害。

Then, as she expressed it, she had a breathing time for herself; and she occupied it in making new things for them, and putting double pieces on the knees, for they were all most frightfully hard on their knees.