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I see her standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look at concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house tall in toward the red-hot brick chimney.
我遠遠看見她站在她經(jīng)常從其中挖樹膠的那棵香楓膠樹底下，望著屋上最后一塊燒成灰黑色的木板朝著燒紅了的滾燙的磚砌煙囪方向塌下來時，她臉上呈現(xiàn)出一幅非常專注的神色。
Why don't you do a dance around the ashes?
你干嗎不在那堆廢墟上跳個舞？
I'd wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.
我當(dāng)時像這樣問她。她對那所房屋恨得要命。
I used to think she hated Maggie, too.
過去我以為她也討厭麥姬。
But that was before we raised the money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school.
但是那是在教堂和我籌錢送她到奧古斯塔上學(xué)之前的事。
She used to read to us without pity, forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice.
那時她常給我們讀點什么，讀時毫無同情之心，將文字、謊言、別人的習(xí)慣以及整個生活強加于我倆。
She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know.
我和麥姬毫無辦法，一無所知地困坐在那里，她的聲音凌駕于我們之上。
Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.
她對我們灌輸一大堆編造出來的事物以及我們不需要掌握的知識。她嚴肅地強迫我們聽她讀書，把我們兩人看成傻瓜一樣，剛有點似懂非懂的時候又把我們揮之而去。
Deewanted nice things.
迪伊好打扮。
A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made from an old suit somebody gave me.
中學(xué)畢業(yè)時她要一件黃色玻璃紗連衣裙穿著去參加畢業(yè)典禮；為了與她用別人送我的一套舊衣服改制的綠色套服配著穿，她又要了一雙黑色淺口皮鞋。
She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts.
她要什么東西時總是不顧一切地拼命地要，不達目的不罷休，
Her eyelids would not flicker for minutes at a time.
她可以一連好幾分鐘不眨眼地死瞪著你。
Often I fought off the temptation to shake her.
我常常是費了好大的勁才克制住自己沒把她抓著使勁搖抖。
At sixteen she had a style of her own' and knew what style was.
到十六歲時她的言談舉止開始形成自己的風(fēng)格，她也知道什么叫時髦。
