《长腿叔叔》第二章（上）_美文_双语阅读-查字典英语网

《长腿叔叔》第二章（上）

I. You are tall.

一、您长得很高。

II. You are rich.

二、您很有钱。

III. You hate girls.

三、您讨厌女孩子。

I suppose I might call you Dear Mr. Girl-Hater. Only that's rather insulting to me. Or Dear Mr. Rich-Man, but that's insulting to you, as though money were the only important thing about you. Besides, being rich is such a very external quality. Maybe you won't stay rich all your life; lots of very clever men get smashed up in Wall Street. But at least you will stay tall all your life! So I've decided to call you Dear Daddy-Long-Legs. I hope you won't mind. It's just a private pet name we won't tell Mrs. Lippett.

我想我可以称您为“亲爱的恨女人先生”，不过这有伤我的自尊。或许我可以称您为“亲爱的有钱人”，不过这样又侮辱您的人格，好像您惟一值得提的就是钱。此外，“富有”是一种很肤浅的特征。您也许不会一辈子都有钱，有很多聪明人也都在华尔街惨遭滑铁卢。不过您的身高是改变不了的，所以我决定称您为亲爱的长腿叔叔。希望您别介意。这只是个私底下的称呼，不必要告诉李皮太太。

The ten o'clock bell is going to ring in two minutes. Our day is divided into sections by bells. We eat and sleep and study by bells. It's very enlivening; I feel like a fire horse all of the time. There it goes！Lights out. Good night.