《长腿叔叔》第一章[1]_美文_双语阅读-查字典英语网

《长腿叔叔》第一章[1]

'Who wants me?' she cut into Tommy's chant with a note of sharp anxiety.

“谁在叫我？”她打断汤米的哼唱，急切地问道。

Mrs. Lippett in the office,

And I think she's mad.

Ah-a-men!

“办公室的李皮太太，

我觉得她的火气很大，

阿……门！”

Tommy piously intoned, but his accent was not entirely malicious. Even the most hardened little orphan felt sympathy for an erring sister who was summoned to the office to face an annoyed matron; and Tommy liked Jerusha even if she did sometimes jerk him by the arm and nearly scrub his nose off.

汤米依然拉长腔调，他的语气并没有幸灾乐祸的意思。即便是心肠最硬的小孤儿也会同情这个做了错事的姐姐，因为她将要去见那个讨厌的院长。更何况，汤米还挺喜欢乔若莎，虽然她偶尔会使劲地扯他的胳膊，给他洗脸时几乎擦掉他的鼻子！

Jerusha went without comment, but with two parallel lines on her brow. What could have gone wrong, she wondered. Were the sandwiches not thin enough? Were there shells in the nut cakes? Had a lady visitor seen the hole in Susie Hawthorn's stocking? Had--O horrorsand the impression consisted entirely of tallness. He was waving his arm towards an automobile waiting in the curved drive. As it sprang into motion and approached, head on for an instant, the glaring headlights threw his shadow sharply against the wall inside. The shadow pictured grotesquely elongated legs and arms that ran along the floor and up the wall of the corridor. It looked, for all the world, like a huge, wavering daddy-long-legs.