Jerusha had an imagination--an imagination, Mrs. Lippett told her, that would get her into trouble if she didn't take care--but keen as it was, it could not carry her beyond the front porch of the houses she would enter. Poor, eager, adventurous little Jerusha, in all her seventeen years, had never stepped inside an ordinary house; she could not picture the daily routine of those other human beings who carried on their lives undiscommoded by orphans.

乔若莎喜欢幻想——李皮太太说，如果不小心，幻想就会让她惹上麻烦。但是，不管她的想象力多么丰富，都无法带领她走进那些渴望进入的大门，她只能待在门廊上。可怜的充满冒险精神的小乔若莎，在她17年的岁月里，从未进入任何一个家庭。她完全无法想象，其他没有孤儿干扰的人们会有怎样的日常生活。

Je-ru-sha Ab-bott

You are wan-ted

In the of-fice,

And I think you'd

Better hurry up!

“乔……若……莎……艾……伯……特

有人找……你

去办公室，

而我想啊，

你最好动作快一点！”

Tommy Dillon, who had joined the choir, came singing up the stairs and down the corridor, his chant growing louder as he approached room F. Jerusha wrenched herself from the window and refaced the troubles of life.

汤米·狄伦刚加入了唱诗班，他唱着歌经过楼梯和走廊，当他走向第6室时，声音越来越响。乔若莎将思绪从窗外收回来，再次面对生活中的麻烦。

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