010 糟糕的一天

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April 20

4月20日

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Dear Daddy Longlegs

亲爱的长腿叔叔，

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Sometimes I worry that I'm not a genius

有时我担心自己不是天才。

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This usually happens right after I've read a good book

这通常发生在我刚读完一本好书之后。

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Will you be disappointed if I don't become a great author?

如果我没有成为伟大的作家，你会失望吗？

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In the spring everything is so green and beautiful

春天里，一切都是那么翠绿而美丽。

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I feel like turning my back on school and playing outside

我真想抛开学校，到外面去玩。

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It's much more fun to live life than to write about it. I feel —

生活比描写生活要有趣得多。我觉得——

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" Eek!" This letter has been interrupted by someone screaming — me!

“啊！”这封信被一声尖叫打断了——那个人就是我！

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Sallie immediately banged on my door." Are you all right?"

萨莉立刻敲我的门。“你还好吗？”

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" What's going on?" Julia cried

“出什么事了？”朱莉娅喊道。

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" Why are you screaming?"

“你为什么尖叫？”

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I opened my door and pointed to a centipede on my chair

我打开门，指向我椅子上的一条蜈蚣。

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" That's why! It fell from the ceiling and landed next to me!"

“就因为它！它从天花板上掉下来，落在我旁边！”

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Julia took a quick look and shuddered." Ugh."

朱莉娅迅速看了一眼，打了个哆嗦。“呃。”

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Then she went back to her room

然后她就回自己房间去了。

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Thank goodness for Sallie, who stayed to help me

谢天谢地，莎莉留下来帮我。

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She looked around my room and then grabbed my hairbrush." Stand back!"

她环顾了一下我的房间，然后抓起我的发刷。“往后退！”

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Sallie whacked the centipede with the back of the brush

莎莉用刷子的背面猛拍了那条蜈蚣。

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( I'll never be able to use that brush again!)

（我再也无法用那把刷子了！）

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She killed the bug's front end, but its rear fifty feet ran under a chest of drawers

她打死了虫子的前半截，但它剩下的五十条腿却跑到了五斗柜底下。

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" It escaped!" Sallie sounded disappointed that we hadn't caught it

“让它跑了！”萨莉听起来很失望，因为我们没抓到它。

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" This dorm is so old and full of centipedes."

“这间宿舍太旧了，满是蜈蚣。”

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" You did your best."

“你尽力了。”

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I picked up my cup, which I'd dropped in my rush to escape

我捡起了我的杯子，那是我慌忙逃跑时掉落的。

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" I hate centipedes!

“我讨厌蜈蚣！

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They're disgusting creatures

它们真恶心的东西。

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I'd rather find a tiger under my bed!"

我宁愿发现床底下有只老虎！”

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The centipede was only one of the annoying things that happened today

蜈蚣只是今天发生的令人烦心的事之一。

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I woke up late because I didn't hear the morning bell

我起晚了，因为没听到晨铃。

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I broke a shoelace while getting dressed

穿衣服时，我弄断了一根鞋带。

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I was late for breakfast and my first class

我早餐和第一节课都迟到了。

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Then in math class, I had a little argument with the professor

然后数学课上，我和教授发生了一点小争论。

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" I don't understand why my answer is wrong," I said

“我不明白我的答案为什么是错的，”我说。

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" Because you've worked the problem incorrectly," she said

“因为你解题的过程不对，”她说。

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" But this is how the textbook said to do it!"

“可课本上就是这么教的呀！”

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I insisted that I was right

我坚持自己是对的。

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" Look it up again," she said

“再查查看，”她说。

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" Now, class, let's move on to the next problem."

“好了，同学们，我们来看下一道题。”

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When I looked in my textbook, I saw she was right. Of course

当我翻开课本查看时，发现她是对的。当然是。

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On and on went the annoying things

烦人的事一件接一件，没完没了。

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For lunch we had gray stew

午餐我们喝了灰乎乎的炖汤。

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It reminded me of orphanage food

这让我想起了孤儿院的伙食。

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In English the professor gave us an impossible poem to analyze

英语课上，教授给我们布置了一首根本没法分析的诗。

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No one knew what to write

没人知道该写些什么。

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So we sat there in silence for 45 minutes

于是我们就在那儿静静地坐了45分钟。

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Then it rained, and we couldn't play golf in gym class

后来下雨了，体育课的高尔夫球也打不成了。

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When I got home, my new spring dress had arrived

等我回到宿舍，我新买的春装已经到了。

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But it was so tight that I couldn't sit down

但它紧得要命，我连坐都坐不下。

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Oh, and the maid had cleaned my room while I was at classes

哦对了，我上课的时候，女佣把我的房间打扫了。

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She mixed up all my papers!

她把我的纸张全弄乱了！

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Supper was as delicious as lunch

晚餐和午餐一样美味。

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In other words, more orphanage food

换句话说，又是孤儿院的伙食。

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I was finally sitting down to read when someone knocked on my door

我刚坐下想看书，突然有人敲了我的门。

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It was a girl from Latin class

是拉丁语课上的一位女孩。

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" May I ask a quick question about the homework?" she said

“我可以问一个关于作业的小问题吗？”她说。

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She stayed for an hour, talking about the most boring things

她待了一个小时，聊的都是些最无聊的事。

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After she left, I decided to write to you

她走后，我决定给你写信。

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And that's when the centipede arrived

就在这时，蜈蚣出现了。

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So I've had a bad day

所以，我度过了糟糕的一天。

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Anybody can face a crisis

危机面前，人人都能应付。

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But I think it's harder to deal with life's little annoyances

但我觉得，应付人生的小烦恼才更不容易。

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That requires spirit

那需要精神力量。

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From now on, I'll try to be that kind of person

从现在开始，我会努力成为那种人。

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You'll never hear me complain about Julia wearing silk stockings

你再也不会听到我抱怨茱莉亚穿丝袜了。

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Or centipedes dropping in while I'm writing a letter

也不会抱怨写信时蜈蚣掉下来。

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Yours truly

你真诚的，

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Judy

朱迪

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May 5

5月5日

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Dear Daddy Longlegs

亲爱的长腿叔叔，

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I just received a most disturbing letter from Mrs. Lippett

我刚收到李皮特太太一封非常令人心烦意乱的来信。

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She hopes I am behaving myself and doing well in my studies

她希望我循规蹈矩，学业优良。

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( That's not the disturbing part.)

（这不是让人心烦的那部分。）

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She wants me to return to the orphanage this summer and work there

她想让我今年夏天回孤儿院去干活。

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( That's the disturbing part.)

（这才是让人心烦的那部分。）

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I can imagine what happened at this month's meeting of the trustees and ladies' committee

我能想象这个月的董事会和太太委员会会议上发生了什么。

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Mrs. Lippett stood up and said," Thank you all for coming today

李皮特太太站起来说：“感谢各位今天莅临。

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We must discuss Jerusha Abbott's future."

我们必须讨论一下洁露莎·阿伯特的未来。”

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Then one of the trustees ( maybe you?) said," I thought that was settled

然后一位董事（也许是您？）说：“我以为这件事已经定下来了。

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She's studying to be a writer."

她正在学习成为一名作家。”

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Mrs. Lippett looked very respectful

李皮特太太看上去毕恭毕敬。

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" Yes, we did settle that part of her future, sir

“是的，先生，她那部分未来的确是定下来了。

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But I'm talking about this summer

但我说的是今年夏天的事。

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I assume she has no place to go

我想她没地方可去。

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She is, of course, an orphan."

毕竟，她是个孤儿。”

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Several of the ladies nodded in agreement

几位太太赞同地点了点头。

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" So I respectfully suggest that Jerusha be allowed to return here," Mrs. Lippett went on

“所以我恳请允许洁露莎回到这里来，”李皮特太太接着说。

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" There's plenty of work for her to do."

“有好多活儿等着她干呢。”

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Did anyone speak up to defend me?

有人站出来为我说话吗？

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Did anyone ask what I thought of this idea?

有人问过我对这个想法怎么想吗？

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Obviously not

显然没有。

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So I'll tell you what I think of Mrs. Lippett's proposal

所以我来告诉您我对李皮特太太提议的看法。

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I HATE THE JOHN GRIER HOME

我讨厌约翰·格里尔之家。

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I would rather die than go back there!

我宁愿死也不要回到那里去！

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Even for just a summer

哪怕只是一个夏天也不行。

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Yours most truthfully

你最真诚的，

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Jerusha Abbott

洁露莎·阿伯特