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LESSON 69
第69課
visit
參觀
soaked
侵泡
obedient
聽話
ruined
破敗
BESSIE(CONCLUDED)
貝 希（結束篇）
She was back at the house in a few minutes, calling, "Mother! mother! auntie! Who wants me?"
她在幾分鐘內回到了家，喊道：“媽媽！媽媽！阿姨！誰在找我？”
"I, dear," said her mother.
是我，親愛的?！彼膵寢屨f。
I am going away for a long visit, and if you had not come at once, I could not have said good-by to my little girl.
我打算離家做個長期訪問。如果你不馬上回來的話，我可能就不能和我的小姑娘說再見了。
Then Bessie's mother kissed her, and told her to obey her kind aunt while she was gone.
然后，貝希的媽媽親了親她，告訴她在媽媽不在的日子里要聽阿姨的話。
The next morning, Bessie waked to find it raining hard.
轉天早晨，貝希起床之后發現外面的雨下得很大。
She went into her aunt's room with a very sad face. "O auntie! This old rain!"
她嘟著臉走進阿姨的房間，說：“噢，阿姨，這雨真討厭！”
This new, fresh, beautiful rain, Bessie! How it will make our flowers grow, and what a good time we can have together in the house!
這是一場新鮮而美麗的雨，貝希！它會令我們的花朵長大。我們一起在房里子會度過多么美好的一段時光啊！
I know it, auntie; but you will think me so careless!
我知道，阿姨。但你根本沒聽懂我在說什么！
To let it rain?
你是說我想讓它下雨這件事？
No; don't laugh, Aunt Annie; to leave your nice basket out of doors all night;
不是，別笑了，安妮阿姨。昨天我把你漂亮的籃子在門外丟了一整夜；
and now it will be soaked and ruined in this — this — beautiful rain.
現在它該被淋壞了，被這場——這場美麗的雨。
Bessie did not look as if the beautiful rain made her very happy.
貝希并不認為這場美麗的雨讓她有多開心。
"You must be more careful, dear, another time," said her aunt, gently. "But come, tell me all about it."
"親愛的，下次你必須更加小心一些?！彼陌⒁虦厝岬卣f，“來，告訴我昨天都發生了什么。”
So Bessie crept very close to her auntie's side, and told her of her happy time the day before;
于是貝希慢慢地靠近阿姨，告訴了她昨天自己有多么高興。
of the squirrel, and the toad, and how the basket rolled away down the hill;
她說到了松鼠，說到了蛤蟆，也說到了籃子是怎樣滾下了山坡，
and then how the bell rang, and she could not stop to find the basket.
接著為什么鈴聲響了，以至于她不能停下來找籃子。
"And you did quite right," said her aunt.
“你做得很對。”她的阿姨說，
If you had stopped, your mother must have waited a whole day, or else gone without seeing you.
如果你停下來去找籃子了，你媽媽肯定會等一整天，或沒見到你就走了。
When I write, I will tell her how obedient you were, and that will please her more than anything else I can say.
當我給她寫信時，我會告訴她你有多么聽話，這會讓她比聽到任何事都更高興的。
