Peter Pan — Page 6

这些事情让她有点害怕，她急切地想尽到自己的责任，便试图通过出考卷的方式让他们记住以前的生活——那些考卷尽可能地模仿她在学校时做过的题目。

These things scared her a little, and nobly anxious to do her duty, she tried to fix the old life in their minds by setting them examination papers on it, as like as possible to the ones she used to do at school.

其他男孩们觉得这极为有趣，坚持要加入，他们自己做了石板，围坐在桌旁，认真地书写和思考着她写在另一块石板上并传递给大家的题目。

The other boys thought this awfully interesting, and insisted on joining, and they made slates for themselves, and sat round the table, writing and thinking hard about the questions she had written on another slate and passed round.

题目都是最普通不过的——"妈妈的眼睛是什么颜色？爸爸和妈妈谁更高？妈妈是金发还是深发？如有可能，三题全部作答。"

They were the most ordinary questions—"What was the colour of Mother's eyes? Which was taller, Father or Mother? Was Mother blonde or brunette? Answer all three questions if possible."

"（甲）写一篇不少于四十个字的作文，题目为《我的上次假期》或《父亲与母亲的性格比较》，两题只选其一作答。"

"(A) Write an essay of not less than 40 words on How I spent my last Holidays, or The Characters of Father and Mother compared. Only one of these to be attempted."

或者"（一）描述妈妈的笑声；（二）描述爸爸的笑声；（三）描述妈妈的晚礼服；（四）描述狗窝及其居住者。"

Or "(1) Describe Mother's laugh; (2) Describe Father's laugh; (3) Describe Mother's Party Dress; (4) Describe the Kennel and its Inmate."

都不过是这样的日常题目，如果你答不出来就要打个叉；令人惊讶的是，就连约翰也打了许多叉。

They were just everyday questions like these, and when you could not answer them you were told to make a cross; and it was really dreadful what a number of crosses even John made.

当然，唯一回答了所有问题的男孩是斯莱特利，没有人比他更满怀信心地期待得第一，然而他的答案荒唐透顶，结果他真的排名垫底——真是令人惋惜。

Of course the only boy who replied to every question was Slightly, and no one could have been more hopeful of coming out first, but his answers were perfectly ridiculous, and he really came out last: a melancholy thing.

彼得没有参加。

Peter did not compete.