The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete — Page 3
我知道我这是在给我们两个都积下罪孽和痛苦。
I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know.
他身上充满了魔鬼的劲头，但是天哪！
He's full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me!
他是我那可怜的已故姐姐的儿子，我实在狠不下心来揍他。
he's my own dead sister's boy, poor thing, and I ain't got the heart to lash him, somehow.
每次我放过他，我的良心就会深深地折磨我；每次我打他，我这颗老心又几乎要碎了。
Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks.
唉，正如圣经所说，女人所生的人，日子短暂，充满苦难，我想这话是真的。
Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it's so.
他今天下午会逃学，我就不得不让他明天干活来惩罚他。
He'll play hookey this evening, and I'll just be obleeged to make him work, tomorrow, to punish him.
当所有男孩都在放假的时候，让他在星期六干活实在是太难了，但他恨干活胜过恨任何事情，我总得尽到对他的一些责任，否则我就会害了这孩子。
It's mighty hard to make him work Saturdays, when all the boys is having holiday, but he hates work more than he hates anything else, and I've got to do some of my duty by him, or I'll be the ruination of the child.
汤姆果真逃学了，玩得非常开心。
Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time.
他回到家时，时间刚刚够帮那个年幼的黑人男孩吉姆锯好第二天用的木柴、在晚饭前劈好引火柴——至少他赶到的时候，正好可以在吉姆做了四分之三的活儿的同时，向吉姆讲述自己的历险经历。
He got back home barely in season to help Jim, the small colored boy, saw next-day's wood and split the kindlings before supper—at least he was there in time to tell his adventures to Jim while Jim did three-fourths of the work.
汤姆的弟弟（确切地说是同父异母的弟弟）希德早就干完了他那份活（捡木片），因为他是个安静的孩子，没有那些爱冒险、惹麻烦的习惯。
Tom's younger brother (or rather half-brother) Sid was already through with his part of the work (picking up chips), for he was a quiet boy, and had no adventurous, trouble-some ways.
Vocabulary
- laying
- 积累或储存某物以备将来使用
- sin
- 违背道德或宗教戒律的罪行
- suffering
- 承受痛苦或折磨的状态
- both
- 两者都，指两个人或事物
- Scratch
- 魔鬼的俗称，即撒旦
- laws-a-me
- 方言感叹词，表示惊讶或无奈
- ain
- 方言否定词，ain't即am/is/are not
- heart
- 内心；此处指勇气或狠心
- lash
- 用鞭子抽打或严厉惩罚某人
- somehow
- 以某种方式，不知为何地
- conscience
- 良知，判断是非对错的内心感知
- hurt
- 造成身体或心理上的痛苦
- hit
- 击打；方言中指"it"
- most
- 几乎，差不多（方言用法）
- breaks
- 使心碎或使人极度痛苦
- Well-a-well
- 方言感叹词，表示叹气或无奈
- trouble
- 麻烦、困难或苦恼
- Scripture
- 圣经，基督教的神圣经典
- reckon
- 认为，估计，推测（口语用法）
- hookey
- 逃学，不去学校而私自玩耍
- obleeged
- 方言，obliged的变体，表示被迫
- punish
- 对犯错者施以惩罚或处罚
- mighty
- 非常，十分（口语或方言中用法）
- holiday
- 假日，休息日，不上班上学的日子
- hates
- 非常厌恶或讨厌某人某事
- duty
- 责任，应尽的义务或本分
- ruination
- 毁灭或彻底损坏某人某事的状态
- barely
- 勉强，几乎不，刚刚好
- season
- 时间；此处in season指及时，恰好
- colored
- 有色人种的（旧时用语，指黑人）
- saw
- 锯，用锯子切割木材的工具
- next-day
- 第二天的，用于描述次日的工作
- split
- 劈开，将木材分裂成小块
- kindlings
- 引火柴，用于点火的小木片
- supper
- 晚饭，一天中最后一顿正餐
- adventures
- 冒险经历，刺激有趣的奇遇
- three-fourths
- 四分之三，表示大部分的比例
- rather
- 更确切地说，用于纠正或补充
- half-brother
- 同父异母或同母异父的兄弟
- already
- 已经，表示某事在此前已完成
- through
- 完成，结束；贯穿某段时间或空间
- picking
- 捡起，拾取细小的东西
- chips
- 木屑，劈柴时产生的小木片
- quiet
- 安静的，不吵闹的，性格温顺的
- adventurous
- 爱冒险的，喜欢尝试刺激事物的
- trouble-some
- 令人烦恼的，制造麻烦的
- ways
- 方式，行为习惯，处事风格
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