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Y'oughta come, Piquette said. I never miss one. It's just about the on'y thing in this jerkwater town that's any fun. Boy, you couldn' catch me stayin' here. I don' give a shit about this place. It stinks.
你應該去的，皮格特說。我是每場必去。這偏僻小鎮上再也找不到別的什么樂趣了。伙計，我才不會在這兒呆下去呢，我一點兒也不喜歡這地方，這地方糟透了。
She sat down beside me, and I caught the harsh over-sweetness of her perfume.
她在我身邊坐下，我聞到她身上散發出來的過份濃烈的香水味。
Listen, you wanna know something, Vanessa? she confided , her voice only slightly blurred. Your dad was the only person in Manawaka that ever done anything good to me.
喂，凡乃莎，讓我告訴你吧?她聲音有點模糊不清地悄悄對我說，你爸爸是馬納卡瓦鎮上唯一對我好的人。
I nodded speechlessly. I was certain she was speaking the truth. I knew a little more than I had that summer at Diamond Lake, but I could not reach her now any more than I had then, I was ashamed, ashamed of my own timidity, the frightened tendency to look the other way.
我默默無言地點了點頭。我知道她講的是實話。這時我懂得的事兒比在鉆石湖避暑的那個夏天要多了一些，但跟當時一樣，無法跟她接近。我很慚愧，為自己的怯懦和知難而退的性格而感到慚愧。
Yet I felt no real warmth towards her-I only felt that I ought to, because of that distant summer and because my father had hoped she would be company for me, or perhaps that I would be for her, but it had not happened that way.
但我心里對她就是熱乎不起來--我只是覺得應該跟她接近，那也是因為多年前的那個夏天，也因為我父親希望她能成為我的好伙伴，或者也許我能成為她的好伙伴，可是后來事情卻沒有朝這個方向發展。
At this moment, meeting her again, I had to admit that she repelled and embarrassed me, and I could not help despising the self-pity in her voice. I wished she would go away. I did not want to see her did not know what to say to her. It seemed that we had nothing to say to one another.
此時和她再次相遇，說老實話，只能引起我的反感和不快，她說話中流露出的自卑自憐的口氣只能引起我的輕視。我盼望她立刻走開，我不想見到她，我也不知道同她說什么，我同她之間似乎無話可說。
I'll tell you something else, Piquette went on. All the old bitches an' biddies in this town will sure be surprised.
我還要告訴你一件事，皮格特接著說道，鎮上的那些老婊子臭婆娘們一定都會大吃一驚的。
I'm gettin' married this fall-my boy friend, he's an English fella, works in the stockyards in the city there, a very tall guy, got blond wavy hair.
今年秋天我就要結婚了--我的男朋友是一個英國小伙子，在那邊城里的畜牧場干活，個子高高的，還有著一頭金黃色的卷發。
Gee, is he ever handsome. Got this real Hiroshima name. Alvin Gerald Cummings-some handle, eh? They call him Al.
嗬，他可真是帥極了!連名字也很高貴，阿爾溫?杰拉德?卡明斯--這名字有多偉大，呃?人們都喊他阿爾。
