9 Home Again

CHAPTER 9 Home Again Now that it was summer, the boys' classes were shorter, and they spent a lot of time outside. The garden came along nicely, and they helped with the weeding. Plumfield stood open from morning until night to welcome all home at a moment's notice. One balmy night as Jo was putting Teddy to

现在是夏天，男孩们的课缩短了，他们在户外度过了很多时间。 花园长得很好，他们还帮忙除草。 普卢姆菲尔德从早到晚敞开大门，随时欢迎所有人回家。 一个温暖的夜晚，乔正哄特迪入睡

bed, he said in his baby voice, "Oh, my Danny!" and pointed to the window. Jo said, "No my dear, he is not there. It's just the moon." "No, no, my Danny at the window, at the window," Teddy shouted as he bounced up and down. Jo scooped up her little boy and raced to the front door, hoping to see Dan. She even called out to him, but there was no one there. It was almost ten o'clock when Jo went to lock up the house for the night. As she looked around, something caught her eye—a dash of white out in the front yard. The children had been playing out there this afternoon, and Jo thought that Nan must have left her hat outside. But when she went out to retrieve it, she found Dan, fast asleep on the lawn. One of his feet was bare, and the other was tied up in an old gingham jacket. "He must not lie here," Jo said, and she shook him softly as she called out his name.

他躺在床上，用婴儿的声音说：“哦，我的丹尼！”并指着窗户。 琼说：“不，亲爱的，他不在那儿。 这只是月亮。”“不，不，我的丹尼在窗边，在窗边。”泰迪一边蹦上跳下一边喊着。 琼抱起她的小男孩跑到前门，希望能见到丹。 她甚至喊他，但没有人在那里。 琼去锁房门过夜时，已经快十点钟了。 当她环顾四周时，有什么东西引起了她的注意——前院的一片白色。 今天下午孩子们一直在外面玩，琼想南一定是把帽子忘在外面了。 但是当她出去拿的时候，她发现丹在草坪上睡得很熟。 他的一只脚光着，另一只脚裹着一件旧格子布夹克。 “他不能躺在这里，”琼说，她轻轻地摇了摇他，喊出他的名字。

"Mother Jo," Dan mumbled, "I've come home." Jo smiled and said, "We are very glad to see you." Dan stirred. "I had planned just to stop by and be on my way in the morning," he said. "Why don't you come in? Everyone would love to see you, especially Teddy. Didn't you hear him calling you?" Dan hung his head. "I didn't suppose you'd let me in." Jo held out her hand to help him up, for he had hurt his foot badly. As he leaned on an old stick, Dan said, "Father Bhaer will not be pleased with me. I've run away from Mr. Page." "He knows," Jo said. "He was sorry to hear it, but he'll still be happy you are home. Now, what happened to your foot?" "As I was climbing over a stone wall, one large rock came loose and fell on me," Dan replied. "It's not that bad, and I don't mind."

“乔妈妈，”丹喃喃地说，“我回家了。” 琼笑着说：“我们很高兴见到你。” 丹了。他说：“我本来打算只是顺道过来看看，明天早上就走。” “你为什么不进来？”大家都想见你，尤其是泰迪。 你没听见他在叫你吗？”丹低下了头。 “我没想到你会让我进去。” 琼伸出手扶他起来，因为他的脚伤得很重。 丹靠在一根旧棍子上说：“巴尔神父不会喜欢我的。 我已经逃离了佩奇先生。” “他知道，”琼说。“他听到这个消息很难过，但他还是会很高兴你回来了。 你的脚怎么了？”“我正爬过一堵石墙，忽然有一块大石头松动掉在我身上，”但回答说。 “没那么糟，我也不介意。”

But Jo could see that he was in an awful lot of pain. She helped him into her parlor and gave him something to eat and drink. Once he was settled in, Dan told her about all of his unhappy adventures. When she left the room for more bandages, Jo found Father Bhaer and told him of Dan's hard times since leaving them. Father Bhaer said at once that the boy should stay. Dan overheard everything and allowed just two tears to fall down his face. All his anger was now behind him. He had never been so happy to be home. "But do go and tend to his foot, my dear," Jo said. "I am afraid it is badly hurt. And be kind to him. He's had a hard time of it." Father Bhaer smiled at his wife and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. Then he went in to see Dan. "So you like Plumfield better than Page's farm?" he said kindly. "Let's make sure we get along better this time around." "Thank you, sir," Dan said without a hint of

但琼看得出他非常痛苦。 她扶他进了客厅，给他吃的喝的。 安顿下来后，丹向她讲述了他所有不愉快的冒险经历。 当她离开房间去拿更多的绷带时，乔找到了巴尔神父，告诉他丹离开他们后的艰难时光。 巴尔神父马上说男孩应该留下来。 丹无意中听到了这一切，只让两滴眼泪掉了下来。 他所有的愤怒现在都已过去了。 回到家，他从来没有这么高兴过。 “亲爱的，一定要去照料一下他的脚，”乔说。 “恐怕它伤得很重。 对他好一点。他经历了一段艰难的时光。” 巴尔神父对妻子笑了笑，在她的脸颊上轻轻吻了一下。 于是他进去见但。 “这么说，你更喜欢普朗菲尔德而不是佩奇的农场？”他和蔼地说。 “让我们确保这一次我们相处得更好。” “谢谢你，先生。”丹毫不犹豫地说

the old gruffness in his voice. Father Bhaer took a good look at Dan's foot and said they must call for the doctor in the morning, and then he bandaged it up tightly. The next morning, Teddy found Dan and ran toward him with a huge smile on his little face. The doctor came that afternoon to set the bones in his foot right, which Dan bore with great bravery. The doctor was pleased because it wasn't a bad break and should heal well. Soon the boys were allowed in to see Dan, and he told them all about his adventures, careful not to make them sound too grand, for nothing was better than life at Plumfield. The boys were so happy to have Dan back, for they all had missed him very much. But no one was happier than Jo. She saw a great change in the boy, and he made Teddy so happy that her heart soared just to think of it. On her way upstairs after settling Dan in for a night's sleep in the parlor, she thought, He's

他的声音里又带着往日的粗哑。 巴尔神父仔细地看了看丹的脚，说明天早上一定要请医生来，然后他把脚包扎得紧紧的。 第二天早上，泰迪找到了丹，小脸上带着灿烂的笑容向他跑去。 那天下午医生来把他脚上的骨头接好，丹以极大的勇气忍受着。 医生很高兴，因为骨折不严重，应该会好起来的。 不久孩子们被允许进去看丹，他给他们讲了他所有的冒险经历，小心翼翼地不让它们听起来太夸张，因为没有什么比在普卢姆菲尔德的生活更好的了。 孩子们很高兴丹回来了，因为他们都非常想念他。 但没有人比琼更快乐。 她看到这个男孩发生了很大的变化，他让特迪如此开心，一想到这一点，她的心就怦怦直跳。 她安顿好丹在客厅里睡了一晚，上楼的路上，她想，他

finally made a turn for the better—although I suspect it will be hard for him to be entirely good all the time.

他终于开始好转了——尽管我怀疑他很难一直都是好人。