SUMMER.
夏
Wednesday, 24th.
二十四日,星期三
Marco, the Genoese, is the last little hero but one whose acquaintance we shall make this year; only one remains for the month of June. There are only two more monthly examinations, twenty six days of lessons, six Thursdays, and five Sundays. The air of the end of the year is already perceptible. The trees of the garden, leafy and in blossom, cast a fine shade on the gymnastic apparatus. The scholars are already dressed in summer clothes. And it is beautiful, at the close of school and the exit of the classes, to see how different everything is from what it was in the months that are past.
熱那亞少年瑪爾可的故事已完,這學年只剩六月份的一次每月例話,兩次試驗了,還要上課二十六日,六個星期四和五個星期日。學年將終了時,熏風照例拂沸地吹著。庭樹長滿了葉和花,在體操器械上投射著涼蔭。學生都改穿了夏農了,放學的時候,覺得他們一切都已和從前不同,這是很有趣的事。
The long locks which touched the shoulders have disappeared; all heads are closely shorn; bare legs and throats are to be seen; little straw hats of every shape, with ribbons that descend even on the backs of the wearers; shirts and neckties of every hue; all the little children with something red or blue about them, a facing, a border, a tassel, a scrap of some vivid color tacked on somewhere by the mother, so that even the poorest may make a good figure; and many come to school without any hats, as though they had run away from home. Some wear the white gymnasium suit.
垂在肩上的發已剪得短短的,腳部和項部完全露出。各種各樣的麥稈帽子,背后長長地垂著絲帶;各色的襯衣和領結上都綴有紅紅綠綠的東西,或是領章,或是袖口,或是流蘇、這種好看的裝飾,都是做母親的替他兒子綴上的,就是貧家的母親,也想把自己的小孩打扮得像個樣子。其中,也有許多不戴帽子到學校里來的,好像由田家逃出來的,也有著白制服的。
There is one of Schoolmistress Delcati's boys who is red from head to foot, like aboiled crab. Several are dressed like sailors. But the finest of all is the little mason, who has donned a big straw hat, which gives him theappearance of a half-candle with a shade over it; and it is ridiculous to see him make his hare's face beneath it. Coretti, too, has abandoned his catskin cap, and wears an old travelling-cap of gray silk.
在代爾卡諦先生那級的學生中,有一個從頭到腳著得紅紅的像熟蟹似的人,又有許多著水兵服的。最有趣的是“小石匠”,他戴著大大的麥稈帽,樣子像在半截蠟燭上加了一個笠罩。再在這下面露出兔臉,真可笑極了。可萊諦也已把那貓皮帽改換了鼠色綢制的旅行帽。