Chapter 3

Chapter 3 You Don't See That Every Day The plan had been to go get Grandma in the morning. She was getting discharged from the hospital first thing, which meant she could finally come home. Mrs. Treski decided they would stay through New Year's Day to make sure Grandma was settled. Jessie couldn't wait for Grandma to walk in the door. Maybe then things would go back to normal. But the plan had to change, thanks to the storm. Overnight the snow had turned the whole world into a scene from the book that Jessie was reading— The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—all winter white and silent. The driveway had disappeared under the heavy, fresh snow, and the local news reported that road conditions were "challenging." On top of that,

原计划是早上去接奶奶。 她马上就要出院了，这意味着她终于可以回家了。 特雷斯基太太决定，他们将在这里度过新年，以确保奶奶安顿下来。 杰西迫不及待地等着奶奶进门。 也许到那时一切都会恢复正常。 但由于风暴，计划不得不改变。 一夜之间，雪把整个世界变成了杰西正在读的《狮子、女巫和衣橱》里的场景——整个冬天都是白色的，寂静无声。 车道在新下的大雪下消失了，当地新闻报道说道路状况“很有挑战性”。 除此之外，

the battery in the car was dead (because Jessie had left one of the interior lights on overnight), and it was going to be a while before the guy from AAA could come out to the house. Apparently, a lot of people were having car trouble because of the weather. Jessie spent part of the morning curled up in front of the wood stove reading her book and eating from the box of store-bought powdered doughnuts that Pete had brought with him. Pete and Evan were down in the basement now, checking out the furnace. There was a lot of banging, and every once in a while she heard them laughing. Jessie didn't get it. What was so funny about a broken furnace? After that, Jessie climbed the stairs to see what her mother was doing. She found Mrs. Treski in the room with the hole in the floor, going through boxes of papers that had gotten wet after the fire. She was looking for Grandma's homeowner's insurance policy. The woven rug

车里的电池没电了（因为杰西让一盏车内灯开了一夜），汽车协会的人还得等一会儿才能出来。 显然，很多人的车都因为天气出了问题。 杰西早上花了一部分时间蜷缩在柴炉前看书，吃着皮特带来的从商店买来的甜甜圈粉。 皮特和埃文现在正在地下室检查炉子。 有很多砰砰声，每隔一段时间，她听到他们的笑声。 杰西不明白。坏了的炉子有什么好笑的？ 在那之后，杰西爬上楼梯去看看她妈妈在做什么。 她发现特雷斯基太太在地板上有个洞的房间里，正在翻看火灾后被弄湿的几箱文件。 她在找奶奶的房主保险。 编织地毯

with swirls of maroon and deepest blue was pulled back and folded over on itself, revealing the bare wooden floor beneath it. "Ruined," said Mrs. Treski, as she worked her way through the box. "I don't think any of this can be saved." But she kept plucking through the papers. Jessie started to wander over to the built-in bookcase that ran along one wall of the room. Grandma had bookcases in every room in the house, each one stuffed to overflowing, but the books in her office were the ones that were most important to her. "Jessie, stop," said Mrs. Treski. "I'm not sure I got all the glass off the floor." "I'm wearing shoes. I'll be careful," said Jessie, walking delicately across the floor. "Are Grandma's books ruined, too?" "Some, probably. I hope not her favorites." "They're all her favorites," said Jessie, staring at the bookcase.

带着栗色和深蓝漩涡的箱子被拉开，折叠起来，露出下面光秃秃的木地板。 “毁了，”特雷斯基太太一边说，一边在盒子里翻找。 “我认为这一切都无法挽回了。” 但她一直在翻那些文件。 杰西开始向房间一面墙上的嵌壁式书柜走去。 奶奶在家里的每个房间都有书架，每一个都塞得满满的，但她办公室里的书对她来说是最重要的。 “杰西，停下，”特雷斯基太太说。 “我不确定我把地板上的玻璃都弄干净了。” “我穿着鞋子。我会小心的。”杰西说着，小心翼翼地走过地板。 “奶奶的书也毁了吗？”“一些,可能。 我希望不是她的宠儿。” “这些都是她的最爱，”杰西盯着书柜说。

These books were like old friends to Jessie. She'd known them since she was old enough to crawl into her grandmother's lap and sit patiently while Grandma turned the pages. Books on birds, books on meditation, books on string instruments and baseball and antique quilts. Aesop's fables and Greek mythology. She looked quickly for her favorite and found it exactly where she had left it the last time she visited. It was called The Big Book of Bells, and it was more than one hundred years old. Jessie loved this book for a lot of reasons: the red tooled leather cover with gold lettering on the spine, the thick pages that made a whispery sound when you turned them, the photographs of men in bowler hats and ladies in long skirts. But mostly Jessie loved this book because it had a photograph of Grandma's bell in it, the very same bell that hung on Lovell's Hill. Jessie tipped the book off the shelf and into

这些书对杰西来说就像老朋友一样。 她从小就认识他们了，因为她可以爬到祖母的腿上，耐心地坐着，让祖母翻页。 关于鸟类的书，关于冥想的书，关于弦乐器、棒球和古董被子的书。 伊索寓言和希腊神话。 她迅速找了找她最喜欢的东西，发现它就在她上次去的地方。 这本书名叫《钟大书》，已有一百多年的历史了。 杰西喜欢这本书的原因有很多：红色的皮革封面，书脊上印着金字，书页很厚，翻动起来发出耳语般的声音，照片上有戴圆顶礼帽的男人和穿长裙的女人。 但杰西最喜欢这本书是因为里面有一张奶奶的铃铛的照片，就是挂在洛弗尔山上的那只铃铛。 杰西把书从书架上摔了下来

her hand, relieved to see that it wasn't wet or burned. She carried it downstairs, settled herself on the couch, and turned first to the photo of Grandma's bell, feeling proud that it was so famous and important that it appeared in a book. Then she turned to the diagram that showed all the different parts of a bell. The parts were named for parts of the human body, and most of them went in the order you would expect: the crown, the shoulder, the waist, the hip. But then came the lip! That always made Jessie laugh, to think of having lips on your hips. She was still poring over the book two hours later, reading about the largest bell in the world, which was in Russia, when the guy from AAA

她的手，松了一口气，看到它没有湿或烧伤。 她把它搬到楼下，在沙发上坐了下来，首先看了看奶奶的铃铛的照片，感到很自豪，因为它如此有名，如此重要，以至于出现在了一本书里。 然后她看了看钟所有不同部分的图表。 这些部位都是以人体部位命名的，而且大部分都是按照你能想到的顺序排列的：王冠、肩膀、腰部、臀部。 但接着是嘴唇！想到你的嘴唇贴在屁股上，杰西总觉得好笑。 两个小时后，她还在看那本书，读到世界上最大的钟，在俄罗斯，这时AAA的那个家伙

showed up and told Mrs. Treski that she needed an entirely new battery—which he didn't have on his truck. She would have to wait until later this afternoon when he could come back. "No, no!" said Mrs. Treski. "You don't understand. I have to go pick up my mother this morning. She's getting discharged from the hospital." Then she explained how her mother had put the kettle on the stove but accidentally turned on the wrong burner and then forgotten all about it and gone for a long walk, and when she came back from her walk, she found her house on fire and tried to rush inside, but the fire department blocked her way, and she fell and broke her wrist. The AAA guy listened very quietly and even nodded his head as if he was agreeing with her, but then he said what he'd already said. "I'm sorry, but I can't get back out this way until the afternoon. Probably after four." Mrs. Treski threw up her hands and said something under

他告诉特雷斯基太太，她需要一个全新的电池，而他的卡车上没有。 她得等到今天下午晚些时候，他才会回来。 “不，不！”特雷斯基太太说。 “你不明白。今天早上我得去接我妈妈。 她就要出院了。” 然后她解释说，她妈妈把水壶放在炉子上，但不小心开错了炉子，然后就把这件事忘了，出去走了很长一段路，当她走完回来时，发现自己的房子着火了，她想冲进去，但消防人员挡住了她的路，她摔倒了，摔断了手腕。 AAA的家伙静静地听着，甚至点了点头，好像他同意她的观点，但接着他又说了他已经说过的话。 “对不起，我要到下午才能从这条路出来。 大概四点以后吧。”特雷斯基太太举起双手，在下面说了些什么