Peter Pan — Page 3
尽管如此，我们有证据表明他们暗中监视着这些闯入者，并且不耻于从他们身上借鉴想法；因为约翰发明了一种用头而不是用手击打泡泡的新方法，而美人鱼们也采纳了这个方法。
Nevertheless we have proof that they secretly watched the interlopers, and were not above taking an idea from them; for John introduced a new way of hitting the bubble, with the head instead of the hand, and the mermaids adopted it.
这是约翰在梦幻岛上留下的唯一印记。
This is the one mark that John has left on the Neverland.
看到孩子们在午饭后在岩石上休息半个小时，这景象想必也相当迷人。
It must also have been rather pretty to see the children resting on a rock for half an hour after their mid-day meal.
温迪坚持要他们这样做，而且必须是真正的休息，即使那顿饭是假装的。
Wendy insisted on their doing this, and it had to be a real rest even though the meal was make-believe.
于是他们躺在阳光下，身体在阳光中闪闪发光，而她坐在他们旁边，一副煞有介事的样子。
So they lay there in the sun, and their bodies glistened in it, while she sat beside them and looked important.
就在这样的一天，他们全都在海盗岩上。
It was one such day, and they were all on Marooners' Rock.
岩石比他们那张大床大不了多少，但他们当然都知道如何不占太多地方，他们正在打盹，或者至少闭着眼睛躺着，偶尔趁他们认为温迪没在看的时候互相掐一下。
The rock was not much larger than their great bed, but of course they all knew how not to take up much room, and they were dozing, or at least lying with their eyes shut, and pinching occasionally when they thought Wendy was not looking.
她非常忙碌，正在缝缝补补。
She was very busy, stitching.
当她缝着缝着，潟湖发生了变化。
While she stitched a change came to the lagoon.
一阵阵细小的颤栗掠过水面，太阳隐去了，阴影悄悄笼罩在水面上，使它变得冰冷。
Little shivers ran over it, and the sun went away and shadows stole across the water, turning it cold.
温迪再也看不清给针穿线了，当她抬起头，那个一向欢声笑语的潟湖此刻看起来令人生畏而又冷漠疏离。
Wendy could no longer see to thread her needle, and when she looked up, the lagoon that had always hitherto been such a laughing place seemed formidable and unfriendly.
Vocabulary
- Nevertheless
- 尽管如此，表示转折的连接词
- proof
- 证据，证明某事为真的事实
- secretly
- 秘密地，不让他人知道地行动
- interlopers
- 闯入者，未经许可干涉他人事务的人
- above
- 在……之上；不屑于做某事
- introduced
- 引进，首次带来或推广某种新事物
- bubble
- 气泡，充满空气的透明球形水膜
- instead
- 代替，用以替换另一事物
- mermaids
- 美人鱼，上半身为人下半身为鱼的神话生物
- adopted
- 采用，接受并开始使用某种方式
- mark
- 印记，某人留下的影响或痕迹
- must
- 必定，表示推测某事很可能为真
- rather
- 相当，程度副词，表示某种程度
- mid-day
- 正午，一天中间的时刻即中午
- insisted
- 坚持，强烈要求某事必须如此
- even
- 即使，强调某事在特殊情况下也成立
- though
- 虽然，尽管，引导让步从句
- make-believe
- 假装，虚构的假扮游戏或情境
- lay
- 躺，平卧于某处的动作或状态
- glistened
- 闪闪发光，表面湿润时反射光泽
- while
- 当……的时候，表示同时进行
- beside
- 在……旁边，靠近某人或某物
- Marooners'
- 遗弃者的，指被抛弃在荒岛者
- dozing
- 打盹，轻度短暂的睡眠状态
- pinching
- 掐，捏，用手指用力夹住皮肤
- occasionally
- 偶尔，有时候，不经常地
- stitching
- 缝纫，用针线缝合布料的动作
- stitched
- 缝合，用针线连接布料的过去式
- lagoon
- 礁湖，被沙洲或礁石围住的浅水湖
- shivers
- 颤抖，因冷或恐惧引起的轻微抖动
- shadows
- 阴影，阳光被遮挡后形成的暗区
- stole
- 悄悄移动，steal的过去式，偷偷蔓延
- across
- 横过，穿越某表面或区域
- thread
- 线，穿针引线；细长纤维
- needle
- 针，缝纫用的细长金属工具
- hitherto
- 迄今为止，直到此时之前
- seemed
- 似乎，看起来，给人某种印象
- formidable
- 令人生畏的，令人感到威胁和恐惧
- unfriendly
- 不友好的，冷漠或有敌意的
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