Peter Pan — Page 12
「约翰，」温蒂迟疑地说，「也许我们对以前生活的记忆，并没有我们以为的那么清晰。」
"John," Wendy said falteringly, "perhaps we don't remember the old life as well as we thought we did."
一阵寒意笼罩了他们；这也是他们应得的。
A chill fell upon them; and serve them right.
「妈妈真是太粗心了，」那个小坏蛋约翰说，「我们回来的时候她居然不在这里。」
"It is very careless of mother," said that young scoundrel John, "not to be here when we come back."
就在这时，达林太太又开始弹琴了。
It was then that Mrs. Darling began playing again.
「是妈妈！」温蒂偷偷往里瞧，喊道。
"It's mother!" cried Wendy, peeping.
「果然是她！」约翰说。
"So it is!" said John.
「那你其实不是我们真正的妈妈，温蒂？」迈克尔问道，他看起来困极了。
"Then are you not really our mother, Wendy?" asked Michael, who was surely sleepy.
「哎呀！」温蒂惊呼道，第一次真切地感到一阵悔意，「我们确实早该回来了。」
"Oh dear!" exclaimed Wendy, with her first real twinge of remorse, "it was quite time we came back."
「我们悄悄溜进去，」约翰提议，「用手蒙住她的眼睛。」
"Let us creep in," John suggested, "and put our hands over her eyes."
但温蒂觉得他们必须更温和地传递这个喜讯，她有一个更好的主意。
But Wendy, who saw that they must break the joyous news more gently, had a better plan.
「我们都悄悄躺回各自的床上，等她进来时就好像我们从未离开过一样。」
"Let us all slip into our beds, and be there when she comes in, just as if we had never been away."
于是，当达林太太回到夜间育儿室查看丈夫是否入睡时，所有的床上都已有人了。
And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied.
孩子们等待着她欣喜的叫声，但那声音始终没有传来。
The children waited for her cry of joy, but it did not come.
她看见了他们，却不相信他们真的在那里。
She saw them, but she did not believe they were there.
你看，她在梦里太常见到他们躺在床上了，以至于以为这不过是那个梦还未散去。
You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still.
她在壁炉旁的椅子上坐了下来，就是当年她在那里哄他们入睡的那把椅子。
She sat down in the chair by the fire, where in the old days she had nursed them.
Vocabulary
- said
- 过去式，表示说话或陈述
- falteringly
- 副词，表示犹豫不决或支吾其词地
- perhaps
- 副词，表示可能或也许
- we
- 代词，我们
- don
- 动词，穿上或戴上衣物
- remember
- 动词，回忆或记得某事
- the
- 定冠词，表示特定的人或物
- old
- 形容词，年老的或旧的
- life
- 名词，生命或生活
- as
- 连词或介词，如同或作为
- well
- 副词，很好地或井
- thought
- 名词或动词，思想或过去式思考
- did
- 助动词过去式，做
- chill
- 名词或动词，寒冷或使感到冷
- fell
- 动词过去式，掉落
- upon
- 介词，在...之上
- them
- 代词，他们或它们
- and
- 连词，表示并且
- serve
- 动词，服侍或端上
- right
- 形容词或名词，正确的或权利
- It
- 代词，它
- is
- 动词，是
- very
- 副词，非常
- careless
- 形容词，粗心的或不谨慎的
- of
- 介词，属于或来自
- mother
- 名词，母亲
- that
- 代词或连词，那个
- young
- 形容词，年轻的
- scoundrel
- 名词，坏蛋或恶棍
- not
- 副词，不或否定
- to
- 介词或不定式标记
- be
- 动词，是或存在
- here
- 副词，这里或此处
- when
- 连词或副词，当...时候
- come
- 动词，来或到达
- back
- 副词或名词，回来或背部
- was
- 动词过去式，是
- then
- 副词，那时或然后
- Mrs
- 女性敬语，女士或太太
- began
- 动词过去式，开始
- playing
- 动词现在分词，玩耍或演奏
- again
- 副词，再次或又
- cried
- 动词过去式，哭或大声喊
- peeping
- 动词现在分词，窥视或探头
- So
- 副词或连词，所以
- it
- 代词，它
- Then
- 副词，那时或然后
- are
- 动词，是
- you
- 代词，你
- really
- 副词，真的或确实
- our
- 代词，我们的
- asked
- 动词过去式，问
- who
- 代词，谁
- surely
- 副词，当然或肯定
- sleepy
- 形容词，困倦的或想睡的
- Oh
- 感叹词，哦
- dear
- 形容词或感叹词，亲爱的
- exclaimed
- 动词过去式，惊呼或大声说
- with
- 介词，和或用
- her
- 代词，她的
- first
- 形容词或副词，第一个
- real
- 形容词，真实的或真正的
- twinge
- 名词，突然的疼痛或刺痛
- remorse
- 名词，悔恨或内疚
- quite
- 副词，相当或很
- time
- 名词，时间
- came
- 动词过去式，来或到达
- Let
- 动词，让或允许
- us
- 代词，我们
- creep
- 动词，蹑手蹑脚地走
- in
- 副词或介词，进入
- suggested
- 动词过去式，建议
- put
- 动词，放置或摆放
- hands
- 名词复数，手
- over
- 介词或副词，在...上方
- eyes
- 名词复数，眼睛
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