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Adventures in the second grade
二年級時的冒險
At high school, mike's homespun humour was the cause of much laughter.
高中時，邁克樸素的幽默引起了很多笑聲。
If truth be known, though, many of his oft repeated stories soon began to ring a little hollow.
然而，要是天機泄露，那么很多他經常重復的故事很快聽起來就有點空洞了。
Still, the lack of respect shown by his classmates did not hinder mike from persisting with telling his woeful tales.
但是，他的同學對他不夠尊重這個事實并沒有阻止邁克堅持講他悲哀的故事。
He was one of those people who simply cannot take a hint and would often go on talking until he was hoarse.
他是那種不會接受暗示的人。經常一直講到聲音嘶啞為止。
What the rest of us found quite boring, mike thought hilariously funny.
我們認為很無聊的東西。邁克覺得非常有趣。
Mike was different from the rest of our fairly homogeneous group in more ways than one.
邁克和我們這組大致相同的人在很多方面有所區別。
Born to a poor family, he would turn up to school in a suit of homespun cloth and consume his lunch of homemade pretzels, washed down with a bottle of homogenized milk.
他生在一個貧困的家庭，到學校來會穿著用家里紡織的布做的衣服，吃的午飯是自制的松脆椒鹽餅干，就著喝一瓶均質牛奶。
Rumour said that his father had died in the holocaust —as so many other victims of mass homicide, this was probably true, as mike was fond of paying homage to his ancestors in a little town in central europe.
有謠言說，他的爸爸和其他許多大屠殺的受害者一樣死于那場浩劫。這可能是真的，因為邁克喜歡向中歐的一個小鎮的祖先表示敬意。
One day in the second grade, our class went on a weekend ramble in the countryside.
讀二年級時，有一天，我們班到鄉村進行周末漫步。
Hitherto, we had never been on such a long excursion, and we were all very much excited as we set out for the hilly expanse of the hinterland behind the river, up and down we walked all day, from hill to hollow.
那之前，我們從來沒有進行過如此長距離的遠足，我們向河后面的內陸多山的廣袤地域出發時，都非常激動。一整天，我們在山峰和山谷之間上上下下。
Pleasant as the scenery was, the area was economically backward, with nothing more than little homesteads, where small-time farmers would still be doing things like mend the hinges on their barn doors, hoe the soil, hollow out some piece of wood to make a simple tool or hoist the hay onto their carts by hand.
雖然這個地區景色宜人，但經濟落后，除了小農舍外沒有別的，那里面，尚未脫貧的農民可能還在做著修畜棚上的鉸鏈、鋤地、挖空木頭做簡易的工具或徒手把干草吊到馬車上之類的事情。
