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MOTHER, I do want to leave off my lessons now. I have been at my book all the morning.
媽媽，我真想現在不做功課了。我整個早晨都在念書呢。
You say it is only twelve o'clock. Suppose it isn't any later; can't you ever think it is afternoon when it is only twelve o'clock?
你說，現在還不過是十二點鐘。假定不會晚過十二點罷；難道你不能把不過是十二點鐘想象成下午么？
I can easily imagine now that the sun has reached the edge of that rice-field, and the old fisher-woman is gathering herbs for her supper by the side of the pond.
我能夠容容易易地想象：現在太陽已經到了那片稻田的邊緣上了，老態龍鐘的漁婆正在池邊采擷香草作她的晚餐。
I can just shut my eyes and think that the shadows are growing darker under the madar tree, and the water in the pond looks shiny black.
我閉上了眼就能夠想到，馬塔爾樹下的陰影是更深黑了，池塘里的水看來黑得發亮。
If twelve o'clock can come in the night, why can't the night come when it is twelve o'clock?
假如十二點鐘能夠在黑夜里來到，為什么黑夜不能在十二點鐘的時候來到呢？
