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A VISIT WITH THE HERDER FAMILY
拜訪赫爾德一家
They went at once to the store, where Father Hofer left a package of lace to be sent away and sold. There was nobody in the store but the man behind the counter, for in the winter all the people were busy carving and stayed all day long in their own houses. But Father Hofer and the shopkeeper had a long talk, while John looked about the store at the many things it contained, until he discovered a wooden frame filled with carver’s tools of many shapes and sizes. Before these tools he planted himself until his father was ready to go.
他們立刻去了商店，霍弗神父在那里留下了一包花邊，等著送去賣掉。商店里只有柜臺后面的那個人，因為冬天所有的人都忙著雕刻，整天呆在自己家里。但是霍弗神父和店主談了很長時間，約翰四處看了看店里的許多東西，最后他發現了一個木框，里面裝滿了卡弗的各種形狀和大小的工具。在這些工具出現之前，他一直堅持到他的父親準備離開。
John followed through the crooked street, so narrow now with banks of tumbled snow piled high above his head that he could not walk at his father’s side, but had to trot on behind. His father went so fast that he had no time to look at the gay paper toys pinned up in some of; the windows, although he knew the children who had put them there. And the broad window sills—how well I they were filled with green moss and bright berries — though none were prettier than their own at home. Still, he would have liked to stop and look at them and at the bright flowers growing in pots in the window where Dono and Peter lived.
約翰跟在后面穿過彎彎曲曲的街道，這條街現在已經很窄了，他的頭頂上堆積著成堆的積雪，他不能跟在父親身邊走，只能跟在父親后面小跑。他的父親走得太快了，以至于他沒有時間去看那些用別針別著的鮮艷的紙制玩具。寬闊的窗臺上長滿了綠色的苔蘚和鮮艷的漿果——雖然沒有一個比家里的更漂亮。盡管如此，他還是想停下來看看它們，看看多諾和彼得住的窗戶上花盆里盛開的鮮花。
