Ch4-Baboon Babysitters

CHAPTER FOUR Baboon Babysitters Everyone was silent for a moment after Florence left. The Bickersons were the first to speak. "Well!" said Lady Bickerson. "How utterly rude!" said Lord Bickerson.

第四章狒狒保姆弗洛伦斯离开后，大家沉默了一会儿。 比克森一家首先发言。 “嗯！”比克森夫人说。 “太粗鲁了！”比克森勋爵说。

"Excuse me for a moment while I check on Flo," said Selina, a worried look on her face. "Perhaps the heat was too much for her today." And with that, Selina left the sitting room, too. "Well!" said Lady Bickerson again. "I hope I did not offend Miss Nightingale by complaining about the rat," said the countess. "I like her very much. Miss Nightingale, I mean, not the rat." "You do not know Florence as we do," said Lord Bickerson. "You have no idea of the trouble she has caused her family." "It's shocking," said Lady Bickerson. "She refuses to behave like a lady. She is full of her own thoughts and opinions. She tells her poor mother she has dreams to leave home so she can work!" "What's wrong with that?" asked Annie. Uh-oh, thought Jack. Annie sounded angry. "No proper lady works out in the world!" Lord Bickerson snapped. "Why not?" asked Annie. "I mean, if you wanted to follow your dreams and people wouldn't let you, wouldn't you feel bad, too? And

“对不起，我要去看看弗洛，”塞琳娜说，一脸担心。 “也许她今天太热了。” 说着，塞琳娜也离开了客厅。 “唔！”比克森夫人又说。 “我希望我对老鼠的抱怨没有冒犯南丁格尔小姐，”伯爵夫人说。 “我非常喜欢她。我是说南丁格尔小姐，不是那只老鼠。” “你不像我们那样了解佛罗伦萨，”比克森勋爵说。 “你根本不知道她给她的家庭带来了多大的麻烦。” “太令人震惊了，”比克森夫人说。 “她拒绝表现得像个淑女。 她有自己的想法和见解。 她告诉她可怜的妈妈，她梦想离开家去工作！”“那有什么不对吗？”安妮问。 哦哦，杰克想。安妮听起来很生气。 “世界上没有一个真正的女人能健身！”比克森勋爵厉声说。 “为什么不呢？”安妮问。“我的意思是，如果你想追随自己的梦想，而人们不让你这么做，你不会也感到难过吗？” 和

what's wrong with having thoughts and opinions? I have thoughts and opinions all the time!" "What a rude child you are!" said Lady Bickerson. "Is that how your parents taught you to speak to your superiors?" Jack was starting to get angry, too. "We don't have superiors at home," he said. Lord Bickerson glared at Jack and Annie. "It is high time you children left this boat," he said. "Miss Nightingale does not even know who you are. None of us know who you are, or who your parents are!" "Excuse me, sir, but this is not your boat, is it?" Annie said. "I thought it belonged to Selina and Charles." "Oooh!" the aristocrats both gasped. Lord Bickerson strode to the door. "Be gone!" he said. "You children are the very definition of the word impolite. Leave before I send for the local governor! He'd know what to do with you!" "Seriously? What does that mean?" said Jack. "It means go," said Annie, "which I'm happy to do." "Me too," said Jack.

有想法和观点有什么不好？ 我一直都有自己的想法和观点！”“你真是个粗鲁的孩子！”比克森夫人说。 “你父母就是这么教你跟上司说话的吗？”杰克也开始生气了。 “我们在国内没有上级，”他说。 比克森勋爵怒视着杰克和安妮。 “你们这些孩子是时候离开这艘船了，”他说。 “南丁格尔小姐甚至不知道你是谁。 我们都不知道你是谁，也不知道你的父母是谁！”“对不起，先生，这不是你的船，对吗？”安妮说。 “我以为它是塞琳娜和查尔斯的。” “噢！”两位贵族都喘着气说。 比克森勋爵大步走向门口。 “走开！”他说。“你们这些孩子真是太没礼貌了。 在我叫地方长官来之前离开！他知道该拿你怎么办！”“严重? 这是什么意思？”杰克说。 “意思是走，”安妮说，“我很乐意这么做。” “我也是，”杰克说。

Jack and Annie stood up. As they headed for the door, Annie looked back at the countess and her baby baboon. "Good-bye, Countess. Good-bye, Koku. It was great meeting you." Jack nodded in agreement. "Must you leave?" said the countess. "I fear we must," said Annie, echoing Florence. She curtsied, and Jack bowed. Then they both headed out the door. Outside, the sun was brighter and hotter than ever. Flies buzzed everywhere. Jack put his hat back on. "Come on, let's get away from these beasts," he said. "The flies or the aristocrats?" asked Annie. "Both!" said Jack. Jack and Annie headed over the gangplank to the riverbank, then walked toward some shade trees at the edge of the Nile. "Send for the local governor? Seriously?" said Jack. "Their behavior was unthinkable!" said Annie. "The very definition of impolite!" Jack laughed, but then he sighed. "We blew it," he said. "We got sidetracked. How can we complete our mission now?"

杰克和安妮站了起来。当他们朝门口走去时，安妮回头看了看伯爵夫人和她的小狒狒。 “再见了,伯爵夫人。再见,Koku。 很高兴见到你。” 杰克点头表示同意。“您一定要走吗？”伯爵夫人说。 “恐怕我们必须这样做，”安妮附和弗洛伦斯说。 她行了个屈膝礼，杰克也鞠了个躬。 然后他们俩都出门了。 外面，太阳比以往任何时候都更亮、更热。 苍蝇到处嗡嗡叫。杰克把帽子戴上了。 “来吧，让我们离开这些野兽，”他说。 “苍蝇还是贵族？”安妮问。 “都有！”杰克说。杰克和安妮跨过跳板来到河岸，然后向尼罗河边的树荫走去。 “请地方长官来？” 真的？”杰克说。“他们的行为简直不可思议！”安妮说。 “这就是不礼貌的定义！”杰克笑了，但接着叹了口气。 “我们搞砸了，”他说。“我们偏离了方向。 我们现在怎样才能完成我们的使命呢？”

"Don't worry, we'll wait for the Bickersons to leave," said Annie. "Then we'll try to get back on board and visit with Florence." "Okay, sounds like a plan. Sort of," said Jack. "C'mon. Let's wait on that big rock under the trees," said Annie. Jack and Annie headed toward the shady rock. Not far away, Mustafa was sitting next to his rowboat, reading a book. The guide looked up, gave them a nod, then went back to his reading. Across the river, Ali was resting with his donkeys. "Could you believe the way those two talked about Florence?" said Annie. "She can't be a nurse. She can't work outside her house. She can't even have her own opinions! How do you become great if people make you feel so bad about yourself? And did you notice how they tried to make us afraid of everything? That was crazy." "Yeah… crazy," said Jack. But the aristocrats' warnings had gotten to him. Now he was on alert for all the beasts of the Nile. What do black mambas look like? he wondered. Do jackals ever come out during the day? When he heard the

“别担心，我们会等比克森一家走的，”安妮说。 “那我们就设法回到船上去拜访弗洛伦斯。” “好吧，听起来是个计划。 差不多吧。”杰克说。“来吧。 我们在树下的那块大石头上等着吧，”安妮说。 杰克和安妮朝阴凉的岩石走去。 不远处，穆斯塔法正坐在他的划艇旁看书。 向导抬起头，向他们点了点头，然后又继续看书。 河对岸，阿里正在和他的驴子一起休息。 “你能相信那两个人谈论弗洛伦斯的方式吗？”安妮说。 “她不可能是护士。她不能在房子外面工作。 她连自己的想法都没有！如果人们让你对自己感觉如此糟糕，你怎么能变得伟大呢？ 你注意到他们是如何试图让我们害怕一切吗？ 这太疯狂了。”“是啊……疯了。”杰克说。 但是贵族们的警告已经影响到了他。 他为尼罗河的一切走兽警醒。 黑曼巴长什么样？ 他想知道。豺狼白天出来过吗？ 当他听到

whine of a mosquito, he shook his head as if his hair were on fire. "What's wrong with you?" said Annie. Before Jack could answer, he heard a loud call. WAHOO! Jack and Annie jumped up and whirled around. "Koku!" cried Annie. The baby baboon was scrambling toward them on all fours. Countess von Kensky hurried after her. "Koku! Wait!" she called. Koku leapt into Annie's arms. "Well, hello!" cried Annie, hugging the baby baboon.

他摇了摇头，好像他的头发着火了。 “你怎么了？”安妮说。 杰克还没来得及回答，就听到一声响亮的喊叫。 卫矛!杰克和安妮跳起来，转过身来。 “哎呀！”安妮叫道。那只小狒狒正四脚朝天地朝他们爬过来。 冯·肯斯基伯爵夫人急忙跟在她后面。 “Koku !等等！”她喊道。郭扑进安妮的怀里。 “嗨，你好！”安妮抱着小狒狒叫道。