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When their men were not working at odd jobs or as section hands on the C.P. R. they lived on relief.
他們的生計(jì)全靠家里的壯丁外出打零工或是在加拿大太平洋鐵路上當(dāng)養(yǎng)路工來(lái)維持;沒(méi)有這種打工機(jī)會(huì)時(shí)，他們一家便靠吃救濟(jì)糧過(guò)日子。
In the summers, one of the Tonnerre youngsters, with a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter, would knock at the doors of the town's brick houses and offer for sale a lard -pail full of bruised wild strawberries, and if he got as much as a quarter he would grab the coin and run before the customer had time to change her mind.
到了夏天，坦納瑞家的一個(gè)長(zhǎng)著一張從來(lái)不會(huì)笑的臉的小孩就會(huì)用一個(gè)豬油桶提一桶碰得傷痕累累的野草莓，挨家挨戶地敲開(kāi)鎮(zhèn)上那些磚砌房屋的門(mén)叫賣(mài)。只要賣(mài)得一枚二角五分的硬幣，他就會(huì)迫不及待地將那硬幣抓到手中，然后立即轉(zhuǎn)身跑開(kāi)，生怕顧客會(huì)有時(shí)間反悔。
Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl,and would hit out at whoever was nearest or howl drunkenly among the offended shoppers on Main Street, and then the Mountie would put them for the night in the barred cell underneath the Court House, and the next morning they would be quiet again.
有時(shí)候，在星期六晚上，老儒勒或是他的兒子拉扎魯會(huì)酗酒鬧事，不是發(fā)瘋似地見(jiàn)人就打，就是擠到大街上購(gòu)物逛街的行人之中狂呼亂叫，讓人惱怒，于是騎警隊(duì)就會(huì)將他們抓去，關(guān)進(jìn)法院樓下的鐵牢里，到第二天早上，他們便會(huì)恢復(fù)常態(tài)。
Piquette Tonnerre, the daughter of Lazarus, was in my class at school.
拉扎魯?shù)呐畠浩じ裉?坦納瑞在學(xué)校讀書(shū)時(shí)與我同班。
She was older than I, but she had failed several grades, perhaps because her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible.
她年紀(jì)比我大幾歲，但由于成績(jī)不好留了幾級(jí)，這也許怪她經(jīng)常曠課而且學(xué)習(xí)勁頭不大。
Part of the reason she had missed a lot of school was that she had had tuberculosis of the bone, and had once spent many months in hospital. I knew this because my father was the doctor who had looked after her.
她掉課次數(shù)多的部分原因是她患有骨節(jié)炎，有一次一連住了好幾個(gè)月的醫(yī)院。我之所以知道這一情況是因?yàn)槲腋赣H正好是為她治過(guò)病的醫(yī)生。
Her sickness was almost the only thing I knew about her, however.
不過(guò)，我對(duì)她的了解幾乎只限于她的病情。
Otherwise, she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence, with her hoarse voice and her clumsy limping walk and her grimy cotton dresses that were always miles too long. I was neither friendly nor unfriendly towards her.
除此之外，我就只知道她是一個(gè)讓人一見(jiàn)就覺(jué)得不舒服的人：說(shuō)話時(shí)聲音沙啞，走起路來(lái)踉踉蹌蹌，身上穿著的棉布衣裙總是臟兮兮的，而且總是長(zhǎng)大得極不合體。
She dwelt and moved somewhere within my scope of vision, but I did not actually notice her very much until that peculiar summer when I was eleven.
我對(duì)她的態(tài)度談不上友好，也談不上不友好。她的住處和活動(dòng)范圍都在我的眼前，但直到我十一歲那年的夏季到來(lái)之前，我還從來(lái)沒(méi)有太多地注意到她的存在。
