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My Friend Garrone.
好友卡隆
Friday, 4th.
星期五，4日。
THERE had been but two days of vacation, yet it seemed to me as though I had been a long time without seeing Garrone. The more I know him, the better I like him; and so it is with all the rest, except with the overbearing, who have nothing to say to him, because he does not permit them to exhibit their oppression. Every time that a big boy raises his hand against a little one, the little one shouts, "Garrone!" and the big one stops striking him. His father is an engine-driver on the railway; he has begun school late, because he was ill for two years.
雖只兩天的休假，我好像已有許多日子不見卡隆了。我愈和卡隆熟悉，愈覺得他可愛。不但我如此，大家都是這樣。只有幾個高傲的人嫌惡卡隆，不和他講話，因為卡隆一向不受他們的壓制。那大的孩子舉起手來正要打幼小的孩子的時候，幼小的只要一叫“卡隆”，那大的就會縮回手去的。卡隆的父親是鐵道的司機。卡隆小時有過病，所以入學(xué)已遲。
He is the tallest and the strongest of the class; he lifts a bench with one hand; he is always eating; and he is good. Whatever he is asked for,--a pencil, rubber, paper, or penknife,--he lends or gives it; and he neither talks nor laughs in school: he always sits perfectly motionless on a bench that is too narrow for him, with his spine curved forward, and his big head between his shoulders; and when I look at him, he smiles at me with his eyes half closed, as much as to say, "Well, Enrico, are we friends?" He makes me laugh, because, tall and broad as he is, he has a jacket, trousers, and sleeves which are too small for him, and too short; a cap which will not stay on his head; a threadbare cloak; coarse shoes; and a necktie which is always twisted into a cord. Dear Garrone! it needs but one glance in thy face to inspire love for thee. All the little boys would like to be near his bench.
在我們一級里身材最高，氣力也最大。他能用一手舉起椅子來；常常吃著東西；為人很好，人有請求他，不論鉛筆、橡皮、紙、小刀，都肯借給或贈予。上課時，不言不笑不動，石頭般地安坐在狹小的課椅上，兩肩上裝著大大的頭，把背脊向前屈著。我看他的時候，他總半閉了眼給笑臉我看。好像在那里說：“喂，安利柯，我們大家做好朋友啊！”我一見卡隆總是要笑起來。他身子又長，肩膀又闊，上衣、褲子、袖子都太小太短；至于帽子，小得差不多要從頭上落下來；外套露出綻縫，皮靴是破了的，領(lǐng)帶時常搓扭得成一條線。他的相貌，一見都使人喜歡，全級中誰都歡喜和他并座。
