Piccolissima — Page 3

她坚守着老派的观念，无法想象她的小宝贝不摇晃就能入睡。

She adhered to the old-fashioned notions, and could not suppose it possible that her little one could sleep without rocking.

这位善良的小母亲在照料新生玩偶宝宝时，最感到棘手的，是那四肢极其细小娇嫩，根本无法为她包裹和穿衣。

What the good little mother found the most trouble from, in the extreme smallness and delicacy of the limbs of her new-born doll baby, was the impossibility of swathing and dressing it.

于是她不得不顺其自然，像鸟儿一样，把小宝贝安置在一张苔藓和绒毛铺成的床上抚养。

So she was forced to resign herself to doing as the birds do, and bring up her little one on a bed of moss and down.

她几乎不敢为那只比自己小指还细的小手臂，套上一件用蛋壳内层细白薄皮缝制的小衬衣。

She hardly dared to put upon the little arm, smaller than her own little finger, a little shift made of the fine white skin of the inside of an eggshell.

小宝贝的靴子，鞋底是从玉米内层苞叶上裁剪下来的；一片罂粟花叶为她做成了一顶宽大的帽子。

The boots of the little one had soles cut out of the inside husks of the corn; a poppy leaf made her an ample bonnet.

露水染白、风儿团成球的蜘蛛网，织来当她的床单似乎都嫌太粗糙，而一只橡子杯对小不点儿来说已经足够宽敞了。

The spider's web which the dew whitens, and the wind winds up in balls, seemed too coarse to weave her sheets with, and the cup of an acorn was big enough for Piccolissima.

她的父母从那千千万万技艺精湛的劳动者那里，为她置办了全部衣物和所有小家具——那些灵巧的小生命，尽管我们几乎从不想起它们，却藏身于所有的墙壁之中、卷成角状的树叶之下、树皮之内；总之，存在于世间万物的每一个角落和缝隙之中。

Her parents obtained all her wardrobe, and all the small furniture for her use from those thousands of skilful laborers, so adroit, and yet of whom we think so little, who hide themselves in all the walls, in the leaves of the trees turned up like horns, under the bark of the trees; in short, that are found in all the corners and crevices of creation.

拇指先生和拇指太太可不是那种容易大惊小怪的人。

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb were not people who could be astonished.