006 头发的烦恼

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December 19

12月19日

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Dear Daddy Longlegs

亲爱的长腿爸爸，

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You never answered my question — are you bald?

你从没回答我的问题——你是秃头吗？

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It's a very important question because I'm trying to draw a picture of you

这很重要，因为我在试着画你的肖像。

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While I was drawing last night, Sallie came into my room

昨晚我在画画时，萨莉走进了我的房间。

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" Who's that?" she asked

“那是谁？”她问。

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" The kind old man who's sending me to college

“那位送我上大学的好心老先生。

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It's difficult to draw him because I've never met him."

画他很难，因为我从没见过他。”

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" You've never met him, but he's sending you to college?

“你从没见过他，他却送你上大学？

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That's very generous of him."

他可真慷慨。”

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" Yes, it is."

是的，是他。

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I didn't look up because I didn't want her to ask any more questions about you — or me

我没抬头，因为不想她再问我或你的任何问题。

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So I concentrated on drawing your eyes

所以我专心画你的眼睛。

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I decided to color them gray

我决定把它们涂成灰色。

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" How do you know what color his eyes are?"

你怎么知道他眼睛是什么颜色？

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Sallie stood behind me, watching

萨莉站在我身后看着。

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" I'm just guessing."

我只是猜的。

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I scribbled in your eyebrows

我随手画上了你的眉毛。

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They stuck out like a porch roof

它们像门廊屋顶一样突出来。

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Sallie laughed." Those are some eyebrows!"

萨莉笑了：“这眉毛可真够特别的！”

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I laughed too." I think they call them ' beetle brows' in novels."

我也笑了。“我想小说里管这叫‘浓眉’呢。”

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" I think they do." Sallie laughed again

“我想是的。”萨莉又笑了。

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But there was no laughter on your face

但你的脸上没有笑容。

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For your mouth, I drew a straight line that turned down at the corners

至于你的嘴，我画了一条在嘴角处下垂的直线。

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" He looks like a crabby old thing!" Sallie said

“他看起来像个脾气古怪的老家伙！”萨莉说。

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" Well, maybe he is. He never answers my letters."

“嗯，也许他就是那样。他从不回我的信。”

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" That's rude!" Sallie said

“那可真没礼貌！”萨莉说。

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" He's a kind but rude old man."

“他是个善良但粗鲁的老头。”

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Until this point I'd been drawing quickly

在这之前，我画得很快。

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But when I reached the top of your head, I got stuck

但画到你的头顶时，我卡住了。

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" I can't decide whether he has white or black hair

“我拿不定主意，不知道他是白头发还是黑头发。

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Or maybe he has gray hair mixed with dark hair

也许他是灰白头发混着一些黑发。

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What's that called? Oh, I know. Salt and pepper."

那叫什么来着？哦，我知道了。花白头发。”

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" Or maybe he's bald!" Sallie said

“也许他是秃头呢！”萨莉说。

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" That's another possibility." I put down my pencil

“这也是一种可能。”我放下了铅笔。

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" I have to stop drawing until I figure out what kind of hair he has."

“我得先停下不画了，等弄清楚他到底是什么头发再说。”

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" How are you going to find that out?" Sallie asked

“那你怎么弄清楚呢？”萨莉问。

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" I'll write him a letter, of course."

“当然是写信问他啦。”

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So here I am writing you another letter about your hair

所以，我现在又给您写信了，还是关于您头发的事。

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And now, it's not only me who wants to know its color; Sallie wants to know too

而且现在，不光我想知道您头发的颜色，萨莉也想知道。

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There was something else Sallie wanted to know

萨莉还想知道另一件事。

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But it was about me, not you

但这是关于我的，不是关于你的。

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" Every night you put a Do Not Disturb sign on your door," she said

“你每晚都在门上挂一个‘请勿打扰’的牌子，”她说。

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" I'm lucky you were free tonight

“今晚你有空，算我走运。

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What are you so busy doing in here?"

你都在里面忙些什么呢？”

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" Oh, just studying."

“哦，只不过是在学习。”

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I rolled up my drawing and tucked it in a desk drawer

我把我的画卷起来，塞进书桌抽屉里。

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" You must really like to study!" Sallie said

“你一定很喜欢学习！”萨莉说。

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The truth is, I'm not studying

事实上，我并没有在学习。

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I never study at night, no matter how many essays are due the next day

我晚上从不学习，不管第二天有多少篇论文要交。

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Instead I just read

相反，我只是在读书。

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There are so many novels that I've never read, and so many things that I don't know

有太多我没读过的小说，太多我不知道的事情。

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The other girls seem to know everything while I have 18 blank years behind me

其他女孩似乎什么都知道，而我身后只有18年的空白。

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I'd never read Oliver Twist or Jane Eyre

我从没读过《雾都孤儿》或《简·爱》。

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I didn't know that King Henry VIII was married more than once or that Shelley was a poet

我不知道亨利八世结过不止一次婚，也不知道雪莱是诗人。

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I didn't know that R. L. S. stood for Robert Louis Stevenson or that he wrote Treasure Island

我不知道R.L.S.代表罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森，也不知道他写了《金银岛》。

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I'd never seen a picture of the Mona Lisa

我从没见过《蒙娜丽莎》的画像。

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And you probably won't believe this, but I'd never heard of Sherlock Holmes either!

而且你可能不会相信，我甚至从没听说过夏洛克·福尔摩斯！

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Now I know all these things and a lot more

现在我知道所有这些事情，还有更多。

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But you can see how I needed to catch up. And it's fun!

但你能看出来我需要迎头赶上。而且这很有趣！

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All day I look forward to the evening

我整天都盼着晚上到来。

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Then I put on my red bathrobe, sit on my couch, and read

然后我穿上我的红色浴袍，坐在沙发上读书。

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One book isn't enough

一本书是不够的。

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I usually have four going at once

我通常同时读四本。

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Right now I'm reading Little Women

现在我正在读《小妇人》。

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When I discovered I was the only girl in the dorm who didn't know that book, I said nothing

当我发现自己是宿舍里唯一不知道那本书的女孩时，我什么也没说。

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I just went and bought it with $1.12 of my allowance

我只是用我一块一毛二的零花钱去买了它。

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The Christmas holidays begin next week

圣诞假期下周就开始了。

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Most of the girls are starting to pack their trunks to go home

大多数女孩都开始收拾箱子准备回家了。

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The dormitory hallways are so full of trunks that you can hardly get past them

宿舍的走廊里堆满了箱子，你几乎没法从它们中间穿过去。

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Everyone is bubbling over with excitement

每个人都兴奋得冒泡。

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Nobody is studying very much

没人在很用功地学习了。

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I'm going to have a wonderful time, even though I'll be staying here

即使我要待在这里，我也会过得很开心的。

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There's another freshman who isn't going home

还有另一个新生也不回家。

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She's from Texas, so it's too far to travel

她来自德克萨斯，所以回去太远了。

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We're planning to take long walks

我们计划去远足。

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And if there's any ice, we want to learn to skate

如果有冰的话，我们想去学滑冰。

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Then there's the whole library full of books — and three weeks with nothing to do but read!

然后还有一整个图书馆的书——还有整整三周，除了读书无事可做！

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Good-bye, Daddy

再见，爸爸。

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I hope that you're feeling as happy as I am

我希望您也和我一样感到快乐。

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Yours truly

您真诚的，

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Judy

朱迪

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P. S. Don't forget to answer my question

附言：别忘了回答我的问题。

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If you don't want to answer, have your secretary send me a telegram

如果您不想回答，就让您的秘书给我发封电报。

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He can just say Mr. Smith is quite bald

他只要说史密斯先生相当秃就行。

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Or Mr. Smith is not bald

或者史密斯先生不秃。

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Or Mr. Smith has white hair

或者史密斯先生长着白发。

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And you can deduct the 25 cents for the telegram from my allowance

您可以从我的零花钱里扣掉那二十五美分的电报费。

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Good-bye until January — and have a merry Christmas!

一月份再见——祝您圣诞快乐！