名著采擷《芒果街上的小屋》第二章

第一頁.精彩選段

第二頁.詞匯采集

第三頁.活學活用

第四頁.額外收獲
 

Chapter 2 Darius & The Clouds

You can never have ①too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it. 　

你永遠不能擁有太多的天空。你可以在天空下睡去，醒來又沉醉。在你憂傷的時候，天空會給你安慰?？墒菓n傷太多，天空不夠。蝴蝶也不夠，花兒也不夠。大多數美的東西都不夠。于是，我們取我們所能取，好好地享用。

Darius, who doesn't like school, who is sometimes ②stupid and mostly a fool, said something③ wise today, though most days he says nothing. Darius, who chases girls with firecrackers or a stick that touched a rat and thinks he's④ tough, today ⑤pointed up because the world was full of clouds, the kind like pillows.

大流士 ，不喜歡上學的他，有時很傻，幾乎是個笨人，今天卻說了一句聰明的話，雖然大多數日子他什么都不說。大流士，喜歡用爆竹，用碰過老鼠的小棍子去追逐女孩，還以為自己很了不起的他，今天卻指著天空，因為那里有滿天的云朵，像枕頭樣的云朵。

You all see that cloud, that fat one there? Darius said, See that? Where? That one ⑥next to the one that look like popcorn. That one there. See that. That's God, Darius said. God? Somebody little asked. God, he said, and made it simple.

你們都看到那朵云了，那朵胖乎乎的云了？大流士說，看到了？哪里？那朵看起來像爆米花的旁邊的那朵。那邊那朵。看，那是上帝。大流士說。上帝？有個小點的孩子問道。是的，上帝。他說，簡潔明了。