Peter Pan — Page 4
我们像世界上最无情的生物一样蹦蹦跳跳地跑开了——孩子们就是这样,却又如此迷人;我们尽情享受着完全自私的时光,然后当我们需要特别关爱时,便高尚地回去索取,满心笃定地认为自己会得到奖赏,而不是挨打。
Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.
他们对母爱是如此深信不疑,以至于觉得自己还可以再冷漠一段时间。
So great indeed was their faith in a mother's love that they felt they could afford to be callous for a bit longer.
但在场有一个人心里清楚,当温迪说完后,他发出了一声沉闷的呻吟。
But there was one there who knew better, and when Wendy finished he uttered a hollow groan.
「彼得,你怎么了?」她喊道,跑向他,以为他生病了。她关切地摸了摸他,位置比胸口低一些。「哪里不舒服,彼得?」
"What is it, Peter?" she cried, running to him, thinking he was ill. She felt him solicitously, lower down than his chest. "Where is it, Peter?"
「不是那种痛,」彼得阴沉地回答。
"It isn't that kind of pain," Peter replied darkly.
「那是哪种痛?」
"Then what kind is it?"
「温迪,你对妈妈的看法是错的。」
"Wendy, you are wrong about mothers."
大家都因为惶恐而聚拢在他身边,他的激动神情令人不安;他坦率地告诉了他们他一直隐瞒着的事情。
They all gathered round him in affright, so alarming was his agitation; and with a fine candour he told them what he had hitherto concealed.
「很久以前,」他说,「我和你们一样,以为妈妈会一直为我开着窗户,所以我离开了一个月又一个月,然后飞了回来;但窗户已经被关上了,因为妈妈早就把我忘了,还有另一个小男孩睡在我的床上。」
"Long ago," he said, "I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me, so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and then flew back; but the window was barred, for mother had forgotten all about me, and there was another little boy sleeping in my bed."
我不敢确定这是否属实,但彼得信以为真;而这也吓坏了他们。
I am not sure that this was true, but Peter thought it was true; and it scared them.
「你确定妈妈们都是这样的吗?」
"Are you sure mothers are like that?"
「是的。」
"Yes."
Vocabulary
- Off
- 离开;表示分离或开始的方向
- we
- 我们,第一人称复数主格代词
- skip
- 跳过;轻快地蹦跳;略去不做
- like
- 喜欢;像;类似于
- most
- 最;大多数;程度最高的
- heartless
- 无情的,冷酷的,缺乏同情心的
- things
- 事物;东西;事情(thing的复数)
- world
- 世界;地球;宇宙
- which
- 哪个;引导定语从句的关系代词
- children
- 孩子们,child的复数形式
- attractive
- 有吸引力的,迷人的,令人喜爱的
- entirely
- 完全地,全然地,彻底地
- selfish
- 自私的,只顾自己利益的
- time
- 时间;时期;次数
- then
- 然后;那时;在那种情况下
- need
- 需要;必要;需求
- special
- 特别的,特殊的,与众不同的
- attention
- 注意;关注;照料
- nobly
- 高尚地,慷慨地,崇高地
- return
- 返回;归还;回报
- confident
- 自信的,确信的,有把握的
- shall
- 将;用于第一人称表示将来或意愿
- rewarded
- 被奖赏的,获得回报的
- instead
- 代替;反而;作为替代
- smacked
- 被打了一巴掌;拍打(过去式)
- great
- 伟大的;巨大的;极好的
- indeed
- 确实,真正地,的确如此
- faith
- 信念;信仰;信任;信心
- mother
- 母亲,妈妈
- love
- 爱;爱情;热爱
- felt
- 感觉到;feel的过去式
- afford
- 负担得起;有足够的资源做某事
- callous
- 冷酷无情的,麻木不仁的
- bit
- 一点儿;少量;小片
- longer
- 更长时间地;long的比较级
- knew
- 知道;了解;know的过去式
- better
- 更好地;更清楚地;good的比较级
- finished
- 完成了;结束了;finish的过去式
- uttered
- 发出(声音);说出;utter的过去式
- hollow
- 空洞的;中空的;无力的
- groan
- 呻吟声;发出痛苦或不满的声音
- cried
- 哭喊;大声叫;cry的过去式
- running
- 跑;奔跑;run的现在分词
- ill
- 生病的;不适的;有病
- solicitously
- 关切地,焦虑地,殷切地关心地
- lower
- 更低;降低;low的比较级
- down
- 向下;在下面;低处
- chest
- 胸部;胸腔;箱子
- kind
- 种类;善良的;亲切的
- pain
- 疼痛;痛苦;伤害
- replied
- 回答;答复;reply的过去式
- darkly
- 阴沉地,忧郁地,神秘地
- wrong
- 错误的;不对的;错了
- about
- 关于;大约;涉及
- mothers
- 母亲们,mother的复数形式
- gathered
- 聚集;集合;gather的过去式
- round
- 围绕;圆的;四周
- affright
- (古)使恐惧;惊吓;惊骇
- alarming
- 令人担忧的;令人惊恐的
- agitation
- 焦虑不安;激动;搅动
- fine
- 好的;精细的;出色的
- candour
- 坦率,直言不讳,公正坦诚
- told
- 告诉了;tell的过去式
- hitherto
- 迄今为止,到目前为止,此前
- concealed
- 隐藏的;隐瞒的;conceal过去式
- Long
- 长的;长久的;很久以前
- ago
- 以前;在……之前
- thought
- 想;认为;think的过去式
- always
- 总是;一直;永远
- keep
- 保持;保留;继续
- window
- 窗户;窗口
- open
- 打开的;开放的;开启
- stayed
- 待着;停留;stay的过去式
- away
- 离开;远离;在远处
- moons
- 月份;月亮(此处指月份时间)
- flew
- 飞;fly的过去式
- back
- 回来;返回;背部
- barred
- 被封闭的;被闩上的;bar过去式
- forgotten
- 被遗忘的;forget的过去分词
- another
- 另一个;再一个;不同的
- little
- 小的;很少的;幼小的
- boy
- 男孩;小男生
- sleeping
- 睡觉;正在睡眠的
- bed
- 床;床铺
- sure
- 确定的;肯定的;有把握的
- true
- 真实的;真的;正确的
- scared
- 害怕的;受惊的;感到恐惧
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