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Indeed! Yes, sir, and I'd like to go to the University of Krakow. You would, would you?
確實，真的先生，我想去克拉科夫大學，你會的，不是嗎？
Yes, sir, I would. Ivor stabbed at an orange peel on the walk as though it were his greatest enemy.
當然先生，我會的，伊沃猛戳著路上的橘子皮，好似它是他最大的敵人。
Well, there's the new building of the University, said Grandfather. And while Ivor looked longingly at the new building set behind its iron fence,
爺爺說當然，這是大學的新建筑，伊沃期盼地望著那棟新建筑，建筑外邊是鐵柵欄。
Grandfather thought over a little sum of money he had been hoarding in the bank, and which was slowly growing.
爺爺想起了他在銀行存的一點錢，存的錢在慢慢增加。
With it he was intending to help either Lothar or Ivor to go to the University. It is true that Lothar was the older,
他希望這些錢可以幫助伊沃或是洛塔爾上大學，當然，洛塔爾是最年長的，
but Ivor was the more energetic and ambitious. Often he had tried to settle in his mind which boy it should be, but the question was still unsettled.
但伊沃是最有活力，最有抱負的，他經常思忖著到底是誰的問題，但問題依然沒有解決。
So, laughing and chatting, the three walked along. Twice every day Grandfather and his rake made a complete circuit of the Planty.
他們一邊走著一邊歡笑，一邊聊天，每天兩次，爺爺都會拿著靶子圍繞林蔭大道一圈。
At the going down of the sun he usually sat quietly for a while on a bench near the one old gate that remains,
當太陽快要下山時，他經常會在長凳上安靜地坐一會，長凳附近是一扇老門，
to smoke his pipe and think about his bank account before he went home.
他會抽一根煙，在他回家前想想他的銀行賬號。
On this particular morning the happy old man, with a grandchild at each elbow,
在這個特別的一天早上，老人特別高興，兩側站著兩名孫子，
turned off the Planty into Anna Street and hastened up the block to the Old University library.
他們離開了林蔭大道，進入了安娜街，加快腳步向老大學圖書館走去。
They looked into the beautiful cloister, in the midst of which stood a statue of Copernicus. This great astronomer,
他們看到了美麗的回廊，中間是哥白尼的雕像，這個偉大的天文學家，
born in the fifteenth century, was the son of a Krakow merchant. It was Copernicus that first taught the world that the earth revolves around the sun.
他出生在15世紀，是克拉科夫商人的兒子，是哥白尼首先告訴世界，地球是圍繞太陽旋轉的。
Here, greatly to Grandfather's pride, Ivor was able to read some of the Latin words upon the bronze tablet
在這里，讓爺爺驕傲的是，伊沃認識銅牌上的拉丁文，
that told how Copernicus was the most famous student who had ever graduated from the University.
上面寫著哥白尼是一名大學從未畢業的著名學生。
