绿山墙的安妮 - 第二十五章

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第二十五章。

Chapter 25.

马修坚持要穿泡泡袖。

Matthew insists on puffed sleeves.

马修那十分钟过得可真不顺心。

Matthew was having a bad ten minutes of it.

那是一个寒冷灰暗的十二月傍晚，天色将暗，他走进厨房，坐在木箱角落脱沉重的靴子，完全没注意到安妮和一群同学正在客厅排练仙后剧。

He had come into the kitchen in the twilight of a cold, gray December evening and had sat down in the wood box corner to take off his heavy boots, unconscious of the fact that Anne and a bevy of her schoolmates were having a practice of the fairy queen in the sitting room.

不一会儿，她们说说笑笑地从走廊涌进厨房。

Presently, they came trooping through the hall and out into the kitchen, laughing and chattering gaily.

他们没注意到马修，他羞怯地缩在木箱后面的阴影里，一只手拿着靴子，另一只手握着靴拔，默默看着他们，一动不动地看了整整十分钟。他们一边戴帽子、披外套，一边聊着台词和音乐会。

They did not see Matthew, who shrank bashfully back into the shadows beyond the wood box with a boot in one hand and a boot jack in the other, And he watched them shyly for the aforesaid ten minutes as they put on caps and jackets and talked about the dialogue and the concert.

安妮站在他们中间，和大家一样眼神明亮、神采飞扬，但马修突然意识到，她和那些女孩有些不一样。

Anne stood among them, bright eyed and animated as they, but Matthew suddenly became conscious that there was something about her different from her mates.

让马修困扰的是，这种不同让他觉得，本不该存在。

And what worried Matthew was that the difference impressed him as being something that should not exist.

安妮的脸比其他人更明亮，眼睛更大、更闪亮，五官也更精致。

Anne had a brighter face and bigger, starry eyes and more delicate features than the others.

就连内向又粗心的马修，也早已注意到了这些细节。

Even shy, unobservant Matthew had learned to take note of these things.

但真正让他不安的，并不是这些外在的不同。

But the difference that disturbed him did not consist in any of these respects.

那到底是什么呢？

Then in what did it consist?

女孩们手挽着手，沿着那条漫长而坚硬的冰冻小路走远后，安妮也回房读书去了，可马修仍被这个问题纠缠着，久久挥之不去。

Matthew was haunted by this question long after the girls had gone, arm in arm down the long, hard frozen Lane, and Anne had betaken herself to her books.

他没法跟玛莉拉说，他知道她准会不屑地哼一声，说她看出来的唯一区别就是，别的女孩有时能闭嘴，而安妮从来不会。

He could not refer it to Marilla, who he felt would be quite sure to sniff scornfully and remark that the only difference she saw between Anne and the other girls was that they sometimes kept their tongues quiet while Anne never did.

马修觉得，这根本帮不上忙。

This, Matthew felt, would be no great help.

那天晚上，他只好靠抽烟来琢磨这事，把玛莉拉气得够呛。

He had recourse to his pipe that evening to help him study it out, much to Marilla's disgust.

抽了两个小时的烟，苦思冥想之后，马修终于想明白了。

After two hours of smoking and hard reflection, Matthew arrived at a solution of his problem.

安妮穿得跟别的女孩不一样。

Anne was not dressed like the other girls.

越想，马修越确定，安妮从没穿过像其他女孩那样的衣服，自从她来到绿山墙那天起就没穿过。

The more Matthew thought about the matter, the more he was convinced that Anne never had been dressed like the other girls, never since she had come to Green Gables.

玛莉拉给她穿的都是朴素的深色裙子，样式千篇一律，从不改变。

Marilla kept her clothed in plain dark dresses, all made after the same unvarying pattern.

要是马修还知道什么叫时尚、什么叫衣着，那已经是极限了。

If Matthew knew there was such a thing as fashion and dress, it is as much as he did.

但他很清楚，安妮的袖子跟其他女孩的完全不一样。

But he was quite sure that Anne's sleeves did not look at all like the sleeves the other girls wore.

他想起那天晚上围绕在她身边的那群小女孩，一个个穿着红的、蓝的、粉的、白的鲜艳衣服。

He recalled the cluster of little girls he had seen around her that evening, all gay and waists of red and blue and pink and white.

他不明白，为什么玛莉拉总给她穿得这么朴素单调。

And he wondered why Marilla always kept her so plainly and soberly gowned.

当然，这样应该也没错。

Of course, it must be alright.

玛莉拉最懂该怎么带孩子，而且她一直在照顾她。

Marilla knew best, and Marilla was bringing her up.

probably 有某种深意，只是我们看不出来罢了。

Probably some wise, inscrutable motive was to be served thereby.

但给孩子买一件漂亮点的裙子，像戴安娜·巴里常穿的那种，应该也不会有什么坏处。

But surely it would do no harm to let the child have one pretty dress, something like Diana Barry always wore.

马修决定，就给她买一件吧。

Matthew decided that he would give her one.

这总不至于算是多管闲事吧。

That surely could not be objected to as an unwarranted putting in of his oar.

圣诞节只剩两周了。

Christmas was only a fortnight off.

一件漂亮的新裙子，正好当礼物。

A nice new dress would be the very thing for a present.

马修心满意足地收起烟斗，上床休息了，而玛莉拉则把所有门窗都打开，通风散味。

Matthew, with a sigh of satisfaction, put away his pipe and went to bed, while Marilla opened all the doors and aired the house.

第二天晚上，马修就动身去卡莫迪买裙子，决心早点把这难事了结。

The very next evening, Matthew betook himself to Carmody to buy the dress, determined to get the worst over and have done with it.

他很清楚，这绝对不是件轻松的事。

It would be, he felt assured, no trifling ordeal.

有些东西马修买起来能精打细算，可一说到给女孩买裙子，他就完全没辙了。

There were some things Matthew could buy and prove himself no mean bargainer, but he knew he would be at the mercy of shopkeepers when it came to buying a girl's dress.

经过一番深思熟虑，马修决定去塞缪尔·劳森的店，而不是威廉·布莱尔的店。

After much cogitation, Matthew resolved to go to Samuel Lawson's store instead instead of of William William Blair's.

布莱尔家的店。

Blair's.

当然，卡斯伯特家一直都在威廉·布莱尔的店买东西。

To be sure, the Cuthbert's always had gone to William Blair's.

对他们来说，这几乎和去长老会教堂、投保守派选票一样是种原则。

It was almost as much a matter of conscience with them as to attend the Presbyterian church and vote conservative.

但威廉·布莱尔的两个女儿经常在店里招呼顾客，马修一见到她们就发怵。

But William Blair's two daughters frequently waited on customers there, and Matthew held them in absolute dread.

只要他知道自己要什么，能直接指出来，还能应付得了。

He could contrive to deal with them when he knew exactly what he wanted and could point it out.

可这次不一样，得商量、得解释，马修觉得，柜台后面必须是个男的才行。

But in such a matter as this, requiring explanation and consultation, Matthew felt that he must be sure of a man behind the counter.

所以他决定去劳森的店，那儿要么是塞缪尔，要么是他儿子接待顾客。

So he would go to Lawson's, where Samuel or his son would wait on him.

可惜马修不知道，塞缪尔最近扩大生意，也请了位女店员。

Alas, Matthew did not know that Samuel, in the recent expansion of his business, had set up a lady clerk also.

她是她妻子的侄女，年轻貌美，发型是那种浓密下垂的蓬巴杜式，一双大大的棕色眼睛骨碌碌转，笑容灿烂得让人眼花缭乱。

She was a niece of his wife's and a very dashing young person indeed, with a huge drooping pompadour, big rolling brown eyes, and a most extensive and bewildering smile.

她穿得极其时髦，手腕上戴了好几个手镯，每动一下手，就叮叮当当响个不停。

She was dressed with exceeding smartness and wore several bangle bracelets that glittered and rattled and tinkled with every movement of her hands.

马修一看到她出现在店里，顿时手足无措，那些手镯的声响更是一下子把他搞得晕头转向。

Matthew was covered with confusion at finding her there at all, and those bangles completely wrecked his wits in one fell swoop.

晚上好，库特伯特先生，需要点什么？

What can I do for you this evening, mister Cuthbert?

露西拉·哈里斯爽快又热情地问，一边用双手敲着柜台。

Miss Lucilla Harris inquired, briskly and ingratiatingly, tapping the counter with both hands.

你们这儿……有……那个……呃，园艺用的耙子吗？

Have you any any any, well, now, say, any garden rakes?

马修结结巴巴地问。

Stammered Matthew.

哈里斯小姐显得有点惊讶——这也难怪，毕竟大冬天的，谁会来买园艺耙子呢？

Miss Harris looked somewhat surprised, as well she might, to hear a man inquiring for garden rakes in the middle of December.

我想还剩一两把，她说道，不过都在楼上的杂物间里。

I believe we have one or two left over, she said, but they're upstairs in the lumber room.

我去看看。

I'll go and see.

她离开的这段时间，马修努力收拾好自己纷乱的思绪，准备再试一次。

During her absence, Matthew collected his scattered senses for another effort.

当露西拉·哈里斯拿着耙子回来，愉快地问：‘今晚还需要别的吗，卡瑟伯特先生？’

When miss Harris returned with the rake and cheerfully inquired, anything else tonight, mister Cuthbert?

马修鼓起全部勇气，答道：‘呃，既然你提了，那我干脆也买点草籽吧，就是……看看，买一点。’

Matthew took his courage in both hands and replied, well, now, since you suggest it, I might as well take, that is, look at, buy some some hayseed.

露西拉·哈里斯早就听人说过马修·卡瑟伯特有点怪。

Miss Harris had heard Matthew Cuthbert called odd.

现在她断定，这人完全疯了。

She now concluded that he was entirely crazy.

我们只在春天卖草籽，她高高在上地解释道。

We only keep hayseed in the spring, she explained loftily.

现在手头一点都没有。

We've none on hand just now.

当然，当然了。

Oh, certainly, certainly.

就照您说的吧，

Just as you say, stammered unhappy Matthew, seizing the rake and making for the door.

走到门口时，他忽然想起还没付钱，只好垂头丧气地转了回来。

At the threshold, he recollected that he had not paid for it, and he turned miserably back.

在哈里斯小姐给他找零的时候，他鼓起最后一点勇气，做最后一次尝试。

While miss Harris was counting out his change, he rallied his powers for a final desperate attempt.

呃，要是不麻烦的话，我想……看看那些糖。

Well, now, if it isn't too much trouble, I might as well that is, I, I'd like to look at at some sugar.

要白的还是棕的？

White or brown?

哈里斯小姐耐心地问。

Queried miss Harris patiently.

哦，那好吧，红糖？

Oh, well now, brown?

马修虚弱地说道。

Said Matthew feebly.

那边有个桶，哈里丝小姐一边说着，一边冲着那个方向晃了晃她手上的手镯。

There's a barrel of it over there, said miss Harris, shaking her bangles at it.

这是我们这儿唯一有的种类。

It's the only kind we have.

我要二十磅，马修说，额头上渗出了汗珠。

I'll I'll take 20 pounds of it, said Matthew, with beads of perspiration standing on his forehead.

马修开车回家，开了一半路程才缓过劲来。

Matthew had driven halfway home before he was his own man again.

这次经历太可怕了，但他心想，自己去陌生商店买东西，活该受这个罪。

It had been a gruesome experience, but it served him right, he thought, for committing the heresy of going to a strange store.

回到家后，他把耙子藏进了工具房，但把糖带进了玛丽拉的房间。

When he returned home, he hid the rake in the tool house, but the sugar he carried into Marilla.

红糖，玛丽拉惊呼道。

Brown sugar, exclaimed Marilla.

你到底是怎么想的，买这么多？

Whatever possessed you to get so much?

你知道我平时只用它给长工煮粥或者做黑水果蛋糕。

You know I never use it except for the hired man's porridge or black fruit cake.

杰瑞已经走了，而且我的蛋糕早就烤好了。

Jerry's gone, and I've made my cake long ago.

这糖质量也不咋样。

It's not good sugar either.

颗粒粗，颜色也深。

It's coarse and dark.

威廉·布莱尔平时可不卖这种糖。

William Blair doesn't usually keep sugar like that.

我想着说不定哪天能派上用场，马修边说边赶紧溜了。

I I thought it might come in handy sometime, said Matthew, making good his escape.

马修仔细一想，觉得这事非得有个女人来操持不可。

When Matthew came to think the matter over, he decided that a woman was required to cope with the situation.

玛莉拉是肯定不行的。

Marilla was out of the question.

马修很清楚，她一听说这事准得泼冷水。

Matthew felt sure she would throw cold water on his project at once.

眼下只剩林德太太了，因为亚芬里的其他女人，马修都不敢去请教。

Remained only missus Lind, for of no other woman in Avonlea would Matthew have dared to ask advice.

于是他去找了林德太太，这位好心的女士立刻就把这事儿接了过去。

To missus Lind, he went accordingly, and that good lady promptly took the matter out of the harassed man's hands.

挑件衣服给安妮穿，行吗？

Pick out a dress for you to give to Anne?

当然了，没问题。

To be sure, I will.

我明天去卡莫迪，顺手就办了。

I'm going to Carmody tomorrow and I'll attend to it.

你心里有特别想选的吗？

Have you something particular in mind?

没有？

No?

那我就自己拿主意了。

Well, I'll just go by my own judgment then.

我觉得深棕色挺适合安妮的，威廉·布莱尔店里新到的葛洛莉亚布料，颜色特别好看。

I believe a nice rich brown would just suit Anne, and William Blair has some new Gloria in that's real pretty.

要不我顺便帮她缝制出来？要是让玛莉拉来做，安妮说不定提前知道了，惊喜就没了。

Perhaps you'd like me to make it up for her too, seeing that if Marilla was to make it, Anne would probably get wind of it before the time and spoil the surprise?

行，我来弄。

Well, I'll do it.

一点都不麻烦。

No, it isn't a mite of trouble.

我挺喜欢缝缝补补的。

I like sewing.

我会按我侄女珍妮·吉里斯的尺寸做，她和安妮身材差不多，简直一模一样。

I'll make it to fit my niece, Jenny Gillis, for she and Anne are as like as two peas as far as figure goes.

马修说：那真是太感谢你了。

Well, now I'm much obliged, said Matthew.

我也不太确定，不过我觉得现在的袖子样式跟以前不太一样了。

And and I don't know, but I'd like I think they make the sleeves different nowadays to what they used to be.

如果不太麻烦的话，我想按现在的新款来做。

If it wouldn't be asking too much, I I'd like them to be made in the new way.

泡泡袖？

Puffs?

当然了。

Of course.

你完全不用再操心了，马修。

You needn't worry a speck more about it, Matthew.

林德太太说：我一定按最新的流行样式来做。

I'll make it up in the very latest fashion, said missus Lind.

马修走后，她自言自语道。

To herself, she added when Matthew had gone.

看到那个可怜的孩子终于穿上像样的衣服，真是让人心里踏实。

It'll be a real satisfaction to see that poor child wearing something decent for once.

玛莉拉给她穿成那样，简直荒唐透顶，我早就想直接告诉她了，不止一次。

The way Marilla dresses her is positively ridiculous, that's what, and I have ached to tell her so plainly a dozen times.

但我一直忍着没说，因为看得出来玛莉拉不乐意听建议，她觉得她带孩子比我会教，尽管她还是个没嫁人的老姑娘。

I've held my tongue though for I can see Marilla doesn't want advice, and she thinks she knows more about bringing children up than I do for all she's an old maid.

可这事儿向来都是这样。

But that's always the way.

凡是有过育儿经验的人都知道，世上根本不存在放之四海而皆准的育儿方法。

Folks that have brought up children know there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child.

可那些没带过孩子的人，总觉得只要照着规矩来，事儿就简单得像三段论一样。

But them as never have think it's all plain and easy as rule of three.

只要把条件列清楚，答案自然就出来了。

Just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum will work out correct.

但人不是数字，不能算，玛瑞拉·卡思伯特就是错在这儿。

But flesh and blood don't come under the head of arithmetic, and that's where Marilla Cuthbert makes her mistake.

我想她是想通过这么打扮安妮来培养她的谦逊，可实际上更可能激起嫉妒和不满。

I suppose she's trying to cultivate a spirit of humility in Anne by dressing her as she does, but it's more likely to cultivate envy and discontent.

我敢说这孩子一定感觉到自己和别的女孩穿得不一样，可没想到马修也会注意到。

I'm sure the child must feel the difference between her clothes and the other girls, but to think of Matthew taking notice of it.

这个人沉睡了六十多年，现在终于醒过来了。

That man is waking up after being asleep for over sixty years.

接下来插播一条广告。

Now for a quick ad break.

广告结束后，我们继续讲这个故事。

We'll be back with the rest of the story after this.

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接下来的两周，玛瑞拉都看得出来，马修心里有事。

Marilla knew all the following fortnight that Matthew had something on his mind.

但她一直猜不透，直到平安夜，林太太把新裙子拿上来，她才明白过来。

But what it was, she could not guess until Christmas Eve, when missus Lind brought up the new dress.

马丽拉整体上还算克制，不过她很可能根本不信林太太那套圆滑的说辞——说什么她做这件裙子，是因为马修怕安妮要是知道得太早，马丽拉自己做会露馅。

Marilla behaved pretty well on the whole, although it is very likely she distrusted missus Lind's diplomatic explanation that she had made the dress because Matthew was afraid Anne would find out about it too soon if Marilla made it.

所以，马修这两周神神秘秘、偷偷笑个不停，就是为了这个？

So this is what Matthew has been looking so mysterious over and grinning about to himself for two weeks, is it?

她语气有点僵硬，但还算宽容。

She said a little stiffly but tolerantly.

我就知道他准在打什么鬼主意。

I knew he was up to some foolishness.

说实话，我觉得安妮根本不需要更多裙子了。

Well, I must say I don't think Anne needed any more dresses.

今年秋天我已经给她做了三件结实、暖和、能穿很久的，再多就是纯粹浪费了。

I made her three good, warm, serviceable ones this fall, and anything more is sheer extravagance.

光是那两条袖子的料子，就够做一件多余的了，我敢说真的够了。

There's enough material in those sleeves alone to make a waste, I declare there is.

你这么惯着安妮，只会让她更自恋，她现在简直骄傲得像只孔雀。

You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now.

不过我希望她这下总算满意了，我知道她从这些袖子一出来就惦记着，只是后来一句都没提。

Well, I hope she'll be satisfied at last for I know she's been hankering after these silly sleeves ever since they came in, although she never said a word after the first.

那些泡泡袖越做越大，也越来越离谱了。

The puffs have been getting bigger and more ridiculous right along.

现在都跟气球一样大了。

They're as big as balloons now.

明年穿这种袖子的人，得侧着身子才能进门。

Next year, anybody who wears them will have to go through a door sideways.

圣诞节早上，眼前是一片洁白美丽的雪世界。

Christmas morning broke on a beautiful white world.

十二月一直很暖和，大家都盼着能有个绿意盎然的圣诞节。

It had been a very mild December, and people had looked forward to a green Christmas.

可就在夜里，轻轻飘下了一场雪，把整个艾凡里都变了模样。

But just enough snow fell softly in the night to transfigure Avonlea.

安妮兴奋地从结霜的阁楼窗边往外张望。

Anne peeped out from her frosted gable window with delighted eyes.

幽林里的冷杉树全都披上了羽毛般的白雪，美得不可思议。

The firs in the haunted wood were all feathery and wonderful.

白桦树和野樱桃树的枝条被勾勒得如珍珠般晶莹。

The birches and wild cherry trees were outlined in pearl.

耕过的田地像一片片雪窝，空气中带着清冽的寒意，令人神清气爽。

The plowed fields were stretches of snowy dimples, and there was a crisp tang in the air that was glorious.

安妮一路唱着歌跑下楼，歌声在绿山墙里回荡。

Anne ran downstairs singing until her voice reechoed through Green Gables.

圣诞快乐，玛莉拉。

Merry Christmas, Marilla.

圣诞快乐，马修。

Merry Christmas, Matthew.

这圣诞节是不是太美了？

Isn't it a lovely Christmas?

我真高兴雪是白色的。

I'm so glad it's white.

如果不是雪白的圣诞节，总觉得不像真的，对吧？

Any other kind of Christmas doesn't seem real, does it?

我不喜欢绿色的圣诞节。

I don't like green Christmases.

那些根本不是绿色。

They're not green.

就是难看的灰褐色罢了。

They're just nasty faded browns and grays.

人们干嘛管它叫绿色呢？

What makes people call them green?

为什么呀，马修？

Why why Matthew?

这是给我的吗？

Is that for me?

哦，马修。

Oh, Matthew.

马修怯生生地把裙子从包装纸里展开，拿在手里，略带不安地瞥了玛瑞拉一眼。玛瑞拉假装忙着倒茶，其实却用眼角偷偷盯着，神情里透着几分好奇。

Matthew had sheepishly unfolded the dress from its paper swathings and held it out with a deprecatory glance at Marilla, who feigned to be contemptuously filling the teapot, but nevertheless watched the scene out of the corner of her eye with a rather interested air.

安妮接过裙子，静静地凝视着，满是敬畏。

Anne took the dress and looked at it in reverent silence.

哦，真漂亮啊。

Oh, how pretty it was.

是一条柔美的深棕色葛罗丽亚裙，丝缎般闪亮，裙摆缀着精致的荷叶边，上衣用时兴的针褶工艺缝制，领口还有一圈薄如蝉翼的蕾丝花边。

A lovely soft brown Gloria with all the gloss of silk, a skirt with dainty frills and shearings, a waist elaborately pin tucked in the most fashionable way with a little ruffle of filmy lace at the neck.

但最出彩的，还是袖子。

But the sleeves, they were the crowning glory.

长及肘部的袖口，上面是两朵漂亮的蓬松褶饰，中间用细密的褶边和深棕色丝带蝴蝶结分隔。

Long elbow cuffs, and above them, two beautiful puffs divided by rows of shearing and bows of brown silk ribbon.

这是给你的圣诞礼物，安妮。

That's a Christmas present for you, Anne, said Matthew shyly.

为什么？

Why?

怎么了，安妮，你不喜欢吗？

Why, Anne, don't you like it?

哎呀。

Well now.

哎呀。

Well now.

因为安妮的眼里突然涌出了泪水。

For Anne's eyes had suddenly filled with tears.

喜欢？

Like it.

哦，安妮把裙子轻轻搭在椅子上，双手交握。

Oh, Anne laid the dress over a chair and clasped her hands.

马修，这简直太美了。

Matthew, it's perfectly exquisite.

天啊，我真不知道该怎么感谢你才好。

Oh, I can never thank you enough.

看看这些袖子。

Look at those sleeves.

我觉得这简直像一场美梦。

Oh, it seems to me this must be a happy dream.

好了好了，咱们吃早餐吧，玛莉拉打断了她。

Well, well, let us have breakfast, interrupted Marilla.

我说，安妮，其实你根本不需要这件衣服。

I must say, Anne, I don't think you needed the dress.

但既然马修给你买了，你可得好好珍惜。

But since Matthew has got it for you, see that you take good care of it.

林德太太给你留了一条发带。

There's a hair ribbon missus Lind left for you.

棕色的，正好配这件衣服。

It's brown to match the dress.

来吧。

Come now.

坐下吃吧。

Sit in.

安妮激动地说：‘我真不知道该怎么吃早餐了。’

I don't see how I'm going to eat breakfast, said Anne rapturously.

在这么激动的时刻，吃早餐简直太普通了。

Breakfast seems so commonplace at such an exciting moment.

我宁愿好好看看这件裙子。

I'd rather feast my eyes on that dress.

太好了，泡泡袖还没过时。

I'm so glad that puffed sleeves are still fashionable.

要是没赶上这裙子就流行过去了，我真觉得自己受不了。

It did seem to me that I'd never get over it if they went out before I had a dress with them.

你明白的，我不会真的心满意足。

I'd never have felt quite satisfied, you see.

林太太还送了我丝带，真贴心。

It was lovely of missus Lin to give me the ribbon too.

我觉得自己真得做个乖女孩才行。

I feel that I ought to be a very good girl indeed.

每次到这种时候，我就后悔自己不是个听话的小姑娘，总下定决心以后一定要改。

It's at times like this I'm sorry I'm not a model little girl, and I always resolve that I will be in the future.

可有时候，遇到实在挡不住的诱惑，真难坚持自己的决心。

But sometimes it's hard to carry out your resolutions when irresistible temptations come.

不过这次之后，我一定加倍努力。

Still, I really will make an extra effort after this.

吃完这顿平常的早餐，戴安娜出现了，她从谷地的木桥上走过来，穿着鲜红的斗篷，活泼又亮眼。

When the commonplace breakfast was over, Diana appeared, crossing the white log bridge in the hollow, a gay little figure in her crimson ulster.

安妮一路小跑下坡去迎她。

Anne flew down the slope to meet her.

圣诞快乐，戴安娜。

Merry Christmas, Diana.

而且，天啊，这个圣诞节真是太棒了。

And, oh, it's a wonderful Christmas.

我有件特别棒的东西要给你看。

I have something splendid to show you.

马修送了我一条超美的裙子，袖子设计简直绝了。

Matthew has given me the loveliest dress with such sleeves.

我根本想象不出还有比这更漂亮的。

I couldn't even imagine any nicer.

我还有个东西要给你，”戴安娜气喘吁吁地说。

I've got something more for you, said Diana breathlessly.

喏，这个盒子。

Here, this box.

约瑟芬姨妈给我们寄了个大盒子，里面好多东西，这个是给你的。

Aunt Josephine sent us a big box with ever so many things in it, and this is for you.

我昨晚就想给你送过来，但东西直到天黑才到，现在我一个人晚上穿过那片闹鬼的树林，心里总有点发毛。

I'd have brought it over last night, but it didn't come until after dark, and I never feel very comfortable coming through the haunted woods in the dark now.

安妮打开盒子，往里一看。

Anne opened the box and peeped in.

首先是一张卡片，上面写着‘致安妮姑娘，圣诞快乐’，接着是一双精致的小羊皮拖鞋，鞋尖缀着珠饰，系着缎带，扣子闪闪发亮。

First, a card with for the Anne girl and Merry Christmas written on it, and then a pair of the daintiest little kid slippers with beaded toes and satin bows and glistening buckles.

哦，安妮说。

Oh, said Anne.

黛安娜，这太隆重了。

Diana, this is too much.

我一定是在做梦。

I must be dreaming.

我觉得这是天意，黛安娜说。

I call it providential, said Diana.

这下你不用再借红宝石拖鞋了，那双鞋本来就大了两号，要是听见仙子拖着鞋走路，那可太尴尬了。

You won't have to borrow ruby slippers now, and that's a blessing for their two sizes too big for you, and it would be awful to hear a fairy shuffling.

乔西·派一定会很高兴。

Josie Pye would be delighted.

罗布·赖特前天排练完带走了那块格迪派。

Rob Wright went home with gurdy pie from the practice night before last.

你听说过比这更离谱的事吗？

Did you ever hear anything equal to that?

那天，所有艾凡里学校的学生都兴奋得不得了，因为礼堂得布置，还得来一场最后的彩排。

All the Avonlea scholars were in a fever of excitement that day, for the hall had to be decorated and a last grand rehearsal held.

晚上演出顺利举行，大获成功。

The concert came off in the evening and was a pronounced success.

小礼堂里挤得水泄不通。

The little hall was crowded.

所有表演者都表现得非常出色，但安妮无疑是当晚最耀眼的明星，连嫉妒成性的乔西·派也不敢否认。

All the performers did excellently well, but Anne was the bright particular star of the occasion, as even Envy, in the shape of Josie Pye, dared not deny.

这真是个精彩的夜晚啊！

Oh, hasn't it been a brilliant evening?

演出结束，安妮和戴安娜一起在星空下走回家时，安妮轻声叹了口气。

Sighed Anne when it was all over and she and Diana were walking home together under a dark, starry sky.

一切都很顺利，”戴安娜务实地说。

Everything went off very well, said Diana practically.

我猜咱们大概挣了十块钱左右。

I guess we must have made as much as $10.

别忘了，艾伦先生打算把这件事写成报道发到夏洛特敦的报纸上。

Mind you, mister Allen is going to send an account of it to the Charlottetown papers.

哦，戴安娜，我们真能看见自己的名字登在报纸上吗？

Oh, Diana, will we really see our names in print?

光是想想就让我激动得不行。

It makes me thrilled to think of it.

你的独奏简直优雅极了，戴安娜。

Your solo was perfectly elegant, Diana.

你演奏的时候，我比你还骄傲。

I felt prouder than you did when it was on chord.

我当时就在心里说，这受人称赞的可是我最要好的朋友啊。

I just said to myself, it is my dear bosom friend who is so honored.

安妮，你的朗诵简直太棒了，全场都炸了。

Well, your recitations just brought down the house, Anne.

那个悲伤的段子简直绝了。

That sad one was simply splendid.

哦，戴安娜，我紧张得要命。

Oh, I was so nervous, Diana.

艾伦先生叫到我名字的时候，我都不知道是怎么走上台的。

When mister Allen called out my name, I really cannot tell how I ever got up on that platform.

感觉有上万双眼睛在盯着我，看穿了我。

I felt as if a million eyes were looking at me and through me.

有那么一秒钟，我真觉得自己根本开不了口。

And for one dreadful moment, I was sure I couldn't begin at all.

后来我想到了我那漂亮的蓬松袖子，才鼓起勇气。

Then I thought of my lovely puffed sleeves and took courage.

我知道，我得对得起这双袖子，戴安娜。

I knew that I must live up to those sleeves, Diana.

于是我开始了，声音听起来像是从很远的地方传来的。

So I started in, and my voice seemed to be coming from ever so far away.

我当时感觉自己就像个鹦鹉。

I just felt like a parrot.

幸好我一直在加勒特那儿反复练习这些背诵，不然根本撑不下来。

It's providential that I practiced those recitations so often up in the Garrett, or I'd never have been able to get through.

我呻吟得还行吗？

Did I groan alright?

当然了，太棒了。

Yes, indeed.

你呻吟得特别动人，戴安娜说。

You groaned lovely, assured Diana.

我坐下来的时候，看见斯隆太太在擦眼泪。

I saw old missus Sloan wiping away tears when I sat down.

想到自己打动了别人的心，真让人欣慰。

It was splendid to think I had touched somebody's heart.

参加一场音乐会，是不是特别浪漫？

It's so romantic to take part in a concert, isn't it?

这真是一次难忘的经历。

Oh, it's been a very memorable occasion indeed.

那些男孩的对白是不是特别棒？

Wasn't the boys' dialogue fine?

黛安娜说。

Said Diana.

吉尔伯特·布莱斯表现得太出色了。

Gilbert Blythe was just splendid.

安，你对吉尔的态度真的太冷淡了。

Anne, I do think it's awful mean the way you treat Gil.

你先别急，听我说。

Wait till I tell you.

你演完仙子那段跑下台的时候，有一朵玫瑰从你头发里掉出来了。

When you ran off the platform after the fairy dialogue, one of your roses fell out of your hair.

我看见吉尔把它捡起来，放进了他的胸口袋里。

I saw Gil pick it up and put it in his breast pocket.

瞧，

There now.

你那么浪漫，我敢肯定你心里应该挺高兴的。

You're so romantic that I'm sure you ought to be pleased at that.

那个人怎么做，跟我没关系。安妮高傲地说。

It's nothing to me what that person does, said Anne loftily.

我压根儿就没把心思放在他身上，戴安娜。

I simply never waste a thought on him, Diana.

那天晚上，马修和玛丽拉二十年来头一回去听了音乐会，安妮睡下后，他们在厨房的火炉旁坐了一会儿。

That night, Marilla and Matthew, who had been out to a concert for the first time in twenty years, sat for a while by the kitchen fire after Anne had gone to bed.

嗯，我看咱们安妮表现得跟其他人一样好，马修得意地说。

Well, now, I guess our Anne did as well as any of them, said Matthew proudly.

是啊，她确实表现得不错，玛丽拉承认道。

Yes, she did, admitted Marilla.

她是个聪明的孩子，马修。

She's a bright child, Matthew.

而且她看起来也很漂亮。

And she looked real nice too.

我本来对办音乐会这事有点反对，但想来想去，其实也没什么坏处。

I've been kind of opposed to this concert scheme, but I suppose there's no real harm in it after all.

总之，今晚我为安妮感到骄傲，不过我不会当面告诉她。

Anyhow, I was proud of Anne tonight, although I'm not going to tell her so.

嗯，倒也不是。

Well, no.

我为她感到骄傲，在她上楼之前我还特意告诉过她，马修说。

I was proud of her and I did tell her so before she went upstairs, said Matthew.

咱们得找几天好好看看能帮她点什么忙，玛丽拉。

We must see what we can do for her some of these days, Marilla.

我想她往后肯定不能只靠阿冯利学校了。

I guess she'll need something more than Avonlea School by and by.

那事儿不急，现在还早着呢，”玛莉拉说。

There's time enough to think of that, said Marilla.

她三月才满十三岁。

She's only 13 in March.

不过今晚我注意到，她已经长成个大姑娘了。

Though tonight it struck me she was growing quite a big girl.

林德太太做的裙子有点太长，让安妮显得特别高。

Missus Lind made that dress a mite too long, and it makes Anne look so tall.

她学东西快，我想咱们最好过几年送她去女王学院。

She's quick to learn, and I guess the best thing we can do for her will be to send her to Queens after a spell.

不过这事至少一两年内先别提。

But nothing need be said about that for a year or two yet.

想想也没什么坏处，”马修说。

Well, now it'll do no harm to be thinking it over off and on, said Matthew.

这种事想得越久，越容易想明白。

Things like that are all the better for lots of thinking over.

今天的故事选自《绿山墙的安妮》，原著由露西·莫德·蒙哥马利创作，由安德鲁·马丁编辑制作，由我——阿曼达·韦尔丁为您朗读。

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