2 Showing Off in Sunday School

CHAPTER 2 Showing Off in Sunday School At breakfast the next day, Tom was still in a happy mood. With his belly full of ample portions of Aunt Polly's delicious hotcakes, he couldn't help but reflect on his success with Ben Rogers the day before. Suddenly, Tom remembered that it was Sunday, and Sunday meant much more than a great breakfast. As Aunt Polly got out her gold leaf Bible and announced that it was time for family worship, Tom let out a mournful groan. An agonizing half an hour later, the boy was excused to memorize his verses for

第二章在主日学校炫耀第二天吃早饭时，汤姆仍然心情愉快。 他肚子里塞满了波莉姨妈做的美味的热饼，不禁回想起前一天他和本·罗杰斯的成功。 突然，汤姆想起今天是星期天，而星期天不仅仅意味着一顿丰盛的早餐。 当波莉姨妈拿出她的金箔《圣经》，宣布全家做礼拜的时间到了时，汤姆发出了一声悲伤的呻吟。 痛苦的半小时后，男孩被允许背诵他的诗句

Sunday school. "I done mine yesterday," his brother Sid said. Grinning from ear to ear, Sid then raced out the front door to go play. "Quit fooling around, Tom!" Aunt Polly called. "Your cousin Mary will be here any minute now." Tom trudged off to his room and blew the dust off his tiny Bible. He had five Bible verses to memorize. Tom picked the Sermon on the Mount on account of those being the five shortest verses he could find. An hour later he woke up, facedown in the holy book, with his cousin Mary's voice ringing in his ear. "Hard at work I see." Mary's eyes danced brightly as she took the book from her cousin. "Let me hear you recite." Tom bent all his energies to remembering what he hadn't read.

主日学校。“我昨天做了我的，”他的弟弟希德说。 希德笑得合不拢嘴，然后跑出前门去玩了。 “别胡闹了，汤姆！”波莉姨妈叫道。 “你的表姐玛丽马上就到。” 汤姆拖着沉重的脚步回到自己的房间，吹掉他那本小小的《圣经》上的灰尘。 他有五节圣经经文要背。 汤姆选择了《登山宝训》，因为这是他能找到的最短的五节经文。 一个小时后，他醒来了，脸朝下躺在圣书里，他的表姐玛丽的声音在他耳边回响。 “我看是在努力工作。”玛丽从表姐手中接过书时，眼睛闪闪发光。 “让我听你背诵。”汤姆竭尽全力去回忆他没有读过的东西。

"Blessed are the a—a—" "Poor," Mary prompted. "Yes—poor. Blessed are the poor—i—i" "In spirit." And on it went, with Tom stuttering through the verses and Mary reminding him gently. After a slow and painful hour, Mary announced it was now time for Tom to get dressed for Sunday school. After another groan from the boy—this one even louder than the one before—Mary helped Tom into his Sunday suit, buttoning his shirt to the top and fastening his necktie tightly. Tom made a face, feeling every bit as uncomfortable as he looked, as Mary brushed him off and crowned him with a speckled straw hat. He growled at Sid, who had come in from playing and was laughing at his brother from the doorway. Although he tried, Tom couldn't think of anything he

“有福的是——”“可怜的，”玛丽提示道。 “Yes-poor。穷人有福了——我——”“在精神上。” 汤姆结结巴巴地念着诗，玛丽轻轻地提醒他。 过了一个缓慢而痛苦的小时后，玛丽宣布汤姆该穿衣服去主日学校了。 男孩又呻吟了一声——这一声比上一声更响了——玛丽帮汤姆穿上他的礼拜日套装，把衬衫从头到尾都扣好，把领带系紧。 汤姆做了个鬼脸，玛丽给他拂去身上的毛，给他戴上了一顶有斑点的草帽，他觉得自己和看上去一样不舒服。 他对玩完游戏回来的希德咆哮着，希德正站在门口嘲笑他的哥哥。 尽管汤姆努力了，但他想不出任何他想要的东西

hated more than Sunday school. Unlike Tom, his cousin Mary loved going to Sunday school, and she had even won some prizes there. If you could recite two verses from the Bible, you got a blue ticket from the Sunday school teacher, a tall, slim man with blond hair and a deep booming voice named Walters. Ten blue tickets were equal to a red ticket, and ten red tickets were equal to a yellow one. For ten yellow tickets, you could become the proud owner of a plainly bound Bible. Two thousand verses seemed to Tom a heavy price to pay for such a prize. But Mary had won two of the Bibles, and a German-born boy had laid claim to four or five! Although Tom had no use for such a prize, he still longed for the glory that came with earning it. After all, the delivery of the Bibles was a rare and noteworthy event.

比主日学校更讨厌 不像汤姆，他的表妹玛丽喜欢去主日学校，她甚至在那里赢过一些奖。 如果你能背诵《圣经》中的两节经文，你就能从主日学校的老师那里得到一张蓝色的票。他是一个身材修长、金发碧眼、嗓音洪亮的男人，名叫沃尔特斯。 十张蓝票等于一张红票，十张红票等于一张黄票。 只要十张黄票，你就可以自豪地拥有一本平装本的《圣经》。 在汤姆看来，为这样一个奖品付出两千诗是一个沉重的代价。 但是玛丽赢得了两本圣经，一个德国出生的男孩声称拥有四五本圣经！虽然汤姆不需要这样的奖赏，但他仍然渴望赢得它所带来的荣耀。 毕竟，圣经的传递是一件罕见而值得注意的事件。

The sun shone brightly as Tom slowly walked behind Mary and Sid down the dusty road to Sunday school. At the door of the church, Tom saw Billy, another friend of his who had also been dragged kicking and screaming into his Sunday best. Suddenly, Tom got an idea. "Say, Billy, you got a yeller ticket?" "Yes." "What'll you take for her?" "What'll you give?" "Piece of lickerish and a fishhook." "Let's see 'em." The goods were examined, and the deal was done. Tom had a pile of such treasure in his pockets, and before too long, he had traded all of it for tickets: yellow, red, even blue tickets. When the bell finally rang for church, Tom's pockets were stuffed with

阳光明媚，汤姆跟在玛丽和希德后面，沿着尘土飞扬的路慢慢走向主日学校。 在教堂门口，汤姆看到了他的另一个朋友比利，他也被拖着，穿着他最好的衣服，又踢又叫。 突然，汤姆有了一个主意。 “喂，比利，你收到吼叫罚单了吗？”“是的。” “你拿什么来换她？”“你给我什么？”“一块咸鱼和一个鱼钩。” “让我们看看。”货物检查过了，交易就成交了。 汤姆的口袋里有一大堆这样的财宝，没过多久，他就把所有的财宝都换成了车票：黄票、红票，甚至蓝票。 当去教堂的铃声终于响起时，汤姆的口袋里塞满了钱

tickets. Mr.Walters' Sunday school class was a restless, noisy, troublesome bunch of children, and Tom was the worst of them all. He couldn't resist pulling the hair of the first boy he saw even though Mr.Walters immediately scolded him. But as soon as Mr.Walters turned his back, Tom poked the boy in front of him with a pin. "Ouch!" yelped the boy, and Mr.Walters was yelling at Tom again. Eventually, both Tom and the class settled down, and Mr.Walters listened patiently as the children stumbled through their verses. Finally, after everyone had finished reciting, Mr.Walters spoke. "Now children," he announced, "I want you all to sit up as straight and pretty as you can and give me all of your attention." As much as he tried to listen to what his

门票。沃尔特斯先生的主日学校班级是一群不安分、吵闹、麻烦的孩子，汤姆是其中最坏的一个。 他见到第一个男孩就忍不住揪他的头发，尽管沃尔特斯先生立即斥责了他。 但是沃尔特斯先生刚一转身，汤姆就用大头针戳了一下他前面的男孩。 “哎哟！”男孩叫了一声，沃尔特斯先生又对汤姆大叫起来。 最后，汤姆和全班同学都安静下来了，沃尔特斯先生耐心地听着孩子们结结巴巴地念着诗。 最后，在大家都背诵完之后，沃尔特斯先生开口了。 “现在，孩子们，”他宣布，“我希望你们都尽可能坐得笔直漂亮，集中注意力听我说话。” 尽管他尽力去听他的