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四月
SPRING.
春
Saturday, 1st.
周六，一日
THE first of April! Only three months more! This has been one of the most beautiful mornings of the year. I was happy in school because Coretti told me to come day after to-morrow to see the king make his entrance with his father, _who knows him_, and because my mother had promised to take me the same day to visit the Infant Asylum in the Corso Valdocco. I was pleased, too, because the little mason is better, and because the teacher said to my father yesterday evening as he was passing, "He is doing well; he is doing well."
今天四月一日了！像今天這樣的好時節，一年中沒有多少，不過三個月罷了。可萊諦后天要和父親去迎接國王，叫我也去，這是我所喜歡的。聽說可萊諦的父親和國王相識哩。又，就在那一天，母親說要領我到幼兒園去，這也是我所喜歡的。并且，“小石匠”病已好了許多了。還有，昨晚先生走過我家門口，聽見他和父親這樣說：“他功課很好，他功課很好。”
And then it was a beautiful spring morning. From the school windows we could see the blue sky, the trees of the garden all covered with buds, and the wide-open windows of the houses, with their boxes and vases already growing green. The master did not laugh, because he never laughs; but he was in a good humor, so that that perpendicular wrinkle hardly ever appeared on his brow; and he explained a problem on the blackboard, and jested. And it was plain that he felt a pleasure in breathing the air of the gardens which entered through the open window, redolent with the fresh odor of earth and leaves, which suggested thoughts of country rambles.
加上今天是個很爽快溫暖的春日，從學校窗口看見青的天，含蕊的樹木，和家家敞開的窗檻上擺著的新綠的盆花等。先生雖是一向沒有笑容的人，可是今天也很高興，額上的皺紋幾乎已經看不出了，他就黑板上說明算術的時候，還講著笑話呢。一吸著窗外來的新鮮空氣，就聞得出泥土和木葉的氣息，好像身已在鄉間了。先生當然也快活的。
While he was explaining, we could hear in a neighboring street a blacksmith hammering on his anvil, and in the house opposite, a woman singing to lull her baby to sleep; far away, in the Cernaia barracks, the trumpets were sounding. Every one appeared pleased, even Stardi. At a certain moment the blacksmith began to hammer more vigorously, the woman to sing more loudly. The master paused and lent an ear. Then he said, slowly, as he gazed out of the window:--
在先生接著課的時候，我們耳中聽見近處街上鐵匠打鐵聲，對門婦人安撫嬰孩睡熟的兒歌聲，以及兵營里的喇叭聲。連斯帶地也高興了。忽然間，鐵匠打得更響亮，婦人也更大聲地唱了起來。先生停止授課，側了耳看著窗外，靜靜地說：
"The smiling sky, a singing mother, an honest man at work, boys at study,--these are beautiful things."
“天晴，母親唱著歌，正直的男子都勞動著，孩子們學習著，——好一幅美麗的圖畫啊！”
