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Eph Todd, she said, you needn't look so flusterated. It's nothing more than you deserve and not half so much either.
托德，她說，你不必看起來那么慌張。這不比你應得的多，連一半都不到。
Aren't you the kindest man yourself that ever lived? Aren't you always doing something for everybody, and helping every one of these neighbors in all sorts of ways?
你難道不是世界上最善良的人嗎？你不是一直都在為每個人做點什么，用各種方式幫助每一個鄰居嗎？
I'd like to know what the whole place would do without you! And now, just because they remember you on Thanksgiving Day, you look like...
我想知道沒有你整個地方會怎么樣！現在，就因為他們在感恩節記得你，你看起來....
The steam had got into Aunt Tildy's eyes now, and she sat down again just as there came another knock at the door,
蒂爾迪姨媽的眼睛里冒出了蒸汽，她又坐下了，這時又有人敲門，
a timid sort of knock this time. The inventor's face widened in smiles at this, but Eph looked him sternly in the eye,
這次有點膽小。發明家對這件事笑得滿臉通紅，但伊芙嚴肅地看著他的眼睛，
Jeddediah Jodkins! he said; if that is any more people bringing things to eat to this house, they'll have to go away.
杰迪迪亞·喬金斯！他說，如果再有人帶東西來這房子吃，他們就得走了。
We can't have it. We've got enough here now to feed a...a boarding school. The inventor sprang eagerly to his feet.
我們不能再拿了。我們現在有足夠的錢養活一所寄宿學校。發明家急切地跳起來。
Don't you do it, Eph, he said, don't you do it. I've just thought of a way to can it.
別這樣，伊芙，他說，別這樣。我剛想到一個辦法。
A thinly clad man and woman stood at the door which Eph opened. Both looked pale and tired, and the woman shivered.
一對衣衫襤褸的男女站在伊芙打開的門前。兩人都面色蒼白，疲憊不堪，女人打了個寒戰。
Can you tell me where I can get work, asked the man, so that I can earn something to eat? We are not beggars,
你能告訴我在哪里能找到工作嗎？那人問，這樣我就能掙點吃的嗎？我們不是乞丐，
he flushed a little, but I have had no work lately, and we have eaten nothing since yesterday. We are looking...
他臉紅了一點，但我最近沒有工作，從昨天起我們什么也沒吃。我們正在尋找...
The man stopped, and well he might, for Eph was dancing wildly about the two, and hustling them into the house.
那人停了下來，很可能，因為伊芙在那兩個人周圍狂舞，推搡著讓他們進屋。
Come in! he shouted. Come in! Come in! You're the folks we are waiting for! Eat? Why, goodness gracious!
進來！他喊道。進來！進來！你就是我們等待的人！吃？為什么，仁慈的上帝！
We've got so much to eat we don't know what to do with it. He had them in chairs in a moment and was piling steaming roast turkey on their plates.
我們有很多東西要吃，不知道該怎么辦。他馬上讓他們坐下，把熱氣騰騰的烤火雞堆在盤子里。
There! he said, don't you say another word till you have filled up on that. Folks and he turned to the others,
看！他說，在你吃飽之前不要說一個字。伙計們，他轉向其他人，
these two friends have come to stay a week with us and help eat turkey. Fall to! This is going to be the pleasantest Thanksgiving we've had yet.
這兩個朋友來和我們住一個星期，幫助我們吃火雞。開始吧！這將是我們度過的最愉快的感恩節。
And thus two new inmates were added to Todd's asylum.
因此，托德的庇護所增加了兩名新囚犯。
