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They followed a path across some meadows, quite I across the valley to a little stone house under the shadow of the opposite mountain. In this house lived Father Hofer’s old friend Ampezzang.
他們沿著一條小路穿過草地，穿過山谷，來到對面大山陰影下的一座小石屋。赫爾德爸爸的老朋友安培祥就住在這所房子里。
Ampezzang and his wife and son were at work in the inner room. Herr Ampezzang sat alone at a little table on which was a lathe turned swiftly by the rushing brook outside, and by means of which Herr Ampezzang was cutting out toy wagon wheels at a great rate.
安培祥和他的妻子和兒子在里面的房間里工作。安培祥先生一個人坐在一張小桌旁，桌上有一架車床，車床在外面湍急的小溪旁飛快地轉動著，安培祥先生正借助這張小桌子飛快地切著玩具車輪。
The wife and son were fitting little spokes into the wheels, a task that looked very easy, indeed. But when Frau Ampezzang put a wheel rim and some spokes into John’s hand and told him to try, he could not do it at all. First the rim flew across the room; then he broke the spoke that he was trying to force into place. Young Ampezzang laughed, but Frau Ampezzang, seeing how red John’s face became, looked kindly at him and said it didn’t matter, as they had plenty of the little spokes, and some of them often were broken.
妻子和兒子正在把小輻條裝進輪子里，這看起來確實很容易。但是當安培祥太太把一個輪輞和一些輻條塞到約翰的手里，讓他試一試時，他根本做不到。首先，輪子飛過房間;然后，他弄壞了試圖強行插入的輪輻。年輕的安培祥笑了，但是安培祥太太看到約翰的臉漲得通紅，就和藹地看著他，說沒關系，因為他們有很多小輻條，其中一些經常斷了。
