評論
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Is Miss Temple as severe to you as Miss Scatcherd?
坦普爾小姐跟斯卡查德小姐對你一樣嚴(yán)厲嗎？
At the utterance of Miss Temple's name, a soft smile flitted over her grave face.
一提到坦普爾小姐的名字，她陰沉的臉上便掠過了一絲溫柔的微笑。
Miss Temple is full of goodness. It pains her to be severe to any one, even the worst in the school.
坦普爾小姐非常善良，不忍心對任何人嚴(yán)厲，即使是校里最差的學(xué)生。
She sees my errors, and tells me of them gently.
她看到我的錯誤，便和顏悅色地向我指出。
And, if I do anything worthy of praise, she gives me my meed liberally.
要是我做了值得稱贊的事情，她就慷慨地贊揚(yáng)我。
One strong proof of my wretchedly defective nature is,
我的本性有嚴(yán)重缺陷，一個(gè)有力的證據(jù)是，
that even her expostulations, so mild, so rational, have not influence to cure me of my faults.
盡管她的規(guī)勸那么恰到好處，那么合情合理，卻依舊治不了我那些毛病。
And even her praise, though I value it most highly, cannot stimulate me to continued care and foresight.
甚至她的贊揚(yáng)，雖然我非常看重，卻無法激勵我始終小心謹(jǐn)慎，高瞻遠(yuǎn)矚。
“That is curious,” said I, “it is so easy to be careful.”
“那倒是奇怪的，”我說，“要做到小心還不容易。”
For you I have no doubt it is.
對你說來無疑是這樣。
I observed you in your class this morning, and saw you were closely attentive.
早上我仔細(xì)觀察了你上課時(shí)的情形，發(fā)現(xiàn)你非常專心。
Your thoughts never seemed to wander while Miss Miller explained the lesson and questioned you.
米勒小姐講解功課，問你問題時(shí)，你思想從不開小差。
Now, mine continually rove away.
而我的思緒卻總是飄忽不定。
When I should be listening to Miss Scatcherd, and collecting all she says with assiduity, often I lose the very sound of her voice.
當(dāng)我應(yīng)該聽斯卡查德小姐講課，應(yīng)該用心把她講的記住時(shí)，我常常連她說話的聲音都聽不見了。
I fall into a sort of dream.
我進(jìn)入了一種夢境。
Sometimes I think I am in Northumberland,
有時(shí)我以為自己到了諾森伯蘭郡，
and that the noises I hear round me are the bubbling of a little brook which runs through Deepden, near our house.
以為周圍的耳語聲，是我家附近流過深谷那條小溪源源的水聲。
Then, when it comes to my turn to reply, I have to be awakened.
于是輪到我回答時(shí)，我得從夢境中被喚醒。
And having heard nothing of what was read for listening to the visionary brook, I have no answer ready.
而因?yàn)閮A聽著想象中的溪流聲，現(xiàn)實(shí)中便什么也沒有聽到，我也就回答不上來了。
Yet how well you replied this afternoon.
可是你今天，下午回答得多好！
It was mere chance.
那只是碰巧。
The subject on which we had been reading had interested me.
因?yàn)槲覍ξ覀冏x的內(nèi)容很感興趣。
This afternoon, instead of dreaming of Deepden,
今天下午我沒有夢游深谷，我在納悶，
I was wondering how a man who wished to do right could act so unjustly and unwisely as Charles the First sometimes did.
一個(gè)像查理一世那樣希望做好事的人，怎么有時(shí)會干出那么不義的蠢事來。
And I thought what a pity it was that, with his integrity and conscientiousness, he could see no farther than the prerogatives of the crown.
我想這多可惜，那么正直真誠的人竟看不到皇權(quán)以外的東西。
If he had but been able to look to a distance, and see how what they call the spirit of the age was tending!
要是他能看得遠(yuǎn)些，看清了所謂時(shí)代精神的走向該多好！
Still, I like Charles. I respect him. I pity him, poor murdered king!
雖然這樣，我還是喜歡查理一世，我尊敬他，我憐惜他，這位可憐的被謀殺的皇帝。
