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They were so beautiful where they were! Neither did he pick the spikes of cardinal flowers,
它們就在這里才是最美的，他也沒有摘帶刺的紅衣主教玫瑰花，
brilliant against their background of black mud or green grass.
在黑色泥土或綠草的映襯下，紅衣主教顯得十分艷麗。
This small boy had but one purpose in mind. He was after gold, yes, yellow gold, the gold of the lotus,
小男孩心里只有一個(gè)念頭，他正在找尋金黃色的，沒錯(cuò)，金黃色的蓮花，
and his nose told him while yet a mile away that his favorite lilies were in bloom and awaiting his coming.
他的鼻子告訴他，在不到一英里的地方，他最喜歡的百合爭先盛開，等待著他的光臨。
He would get them, a big bunch of them, yellow lilies for his mother.
他會(huì)摘下百合，一大包黃色百合給媽媽。
He was tired now, yet knew it not. He had come a long, long trail since eight that morning;
他累了，但他自己沒有覺得，從早上八點(diǎn)就一直長途跋涉；
fully nine miles, seven of them lonely miles beyond the last house.
整整9英里，經(jīng)過最后一棟房屋后還走了7英里。
Anyone might have wondered what so small a boy was doing so far from home,
任何人都會(huì)想這個(gè)小男孩不遠(yuǎn)千里離家是為了做什么，
for he was undersized in spite of his twelve years. But he was a self-reliant lad, and he had a purpose.
盡管已經(jīng)12歲了，他看起來個(gè)頭不高，但他卻非常獨(dú)立，他有自己的目的。
What mattered that it had taken so much time for the journey; there had been so many interesting things to see.
重要的是這段路程花了太多時(shí)間，途中有許多好看的。
At noon he had rested and drunk at a cooling and refreshing spring under an overhanging cliff
中午，他在懸崖峭壁下的泉水旁休息，泉水沁人心脾，讓人十分涼爽，
where he had often been before with his older brothers. The rest of the way was strange to him;
他曾經(jīng)和哥哥們經(jīng)常來這里，剩余的路程對他是陌生的，
yet he had made no mistake when he left the railroad and the hills and struck out across the wide river bottom to the lily pond.
他的路線是正確的，當(dāng)時(shí)他離開鐵路，路過山嶺，從寬河底徑直來到了蓮花池。
He had been there before by boat and the river route;
他之前坐船或途徑水路時(shí)來過這里；
so he knew when he came to the winding slough that he had found the right place.
當(dāng)來到蜿蜒曲折的泥沼后，他就知道這條路是正確的。
He took off his clothes, tied them in a bundle, then held shoes and all upon his head and waded in.
他脫掉了衣服，把它們捆綁在一起，把鞋和衣服舉到頭頂后向前跋涉。
Halfway across, a sudden fright overtook him as the water weeds gripped about his legs, but only for a moment.
走到中間時(shí)，他突然嚇了一跳，水草纏住了他的腿，但只是一小會(huì)。
Quickly turning on his back he kicked loose, and thus swimming above the weeds,
他迅速用腳甩走了水草，之后在水草上方游泳，
though without the use of his hands, was soon on the other side. He then took up his march to where the lotus grew.
盡管沒有用手，他不一會(huì)就到了河對面，隨后往蓮花走去。
Soon he stopped to admire the beauty of the garden spider, whose web strung across his path.
不一會(huì)，他停下來欣賞美麗的園蛛，園蛛網(wǎng)纏繞了他的路。
He gently frightened her so that she started swinging like a pendulum, as these spiders do when disturbed.
他把園蛛嚇了一跳，隨后園蛛開始像鐘擺一樣晃動(dòng)，這是蜘蛛受到干擾后會(huì)做的事情。
