1 Famous Last Words

CLASSIC STNWSS Peter Pan Retold from the J. M. Barrie original

经典STNWSS《彼得潘》改编自J。 巴里先生原创

CHAPTER 1 Famous Last Words All children grow up. All except one. Wendy learned this when she was playing in

所有的孩子都会长大。 除了一个。温迪在家里玩的时候学会了这一点

the garden one day at the age of two. She brought her mother a flower, and Mrs. Darling hugged her and said, "Oh, why can't you stay like this forever and ever?" Before that day, Wendy didn't realize she wouldn't stay the same. Wendy had two younger brothers, John and Michael. They were growing, too. Mrs. Darling stayed home with the children while Mr. Darling went to work in stocks. His stocks didn't always work for him, however, and so the family had to scrimp and save. They still had a nanny, of course, because all the other families in the neighborhood had one, and Mr. Darling cared very much about keeping up with the neighbors. But the Darlings were poor, and so their nanny was actually just a giant Newfoundland dog named Nana. Nana was an interesting nanny, to say the least. She didn't believe in all this newfangled talk about germs. Sometimes she would lovingly

两岁的时候有一天在花园里。 她给母亲带来一朵花，达林太太抱住她说：“哦，你为什么不能永远保持这样呢？”在那天之前，温蒂没有意识到她不会一成不变。 温迪有两个弟弟，约翰和迈克尔。 他们也在成长。达林先生去炒股，达林先生在家照看孩子。 然而，他的股票并不总是对他有用，所以全家不得不省吃俭用。 当然，他们还是请了保姆，因为邻近的其他家庭都请了保姆，而达林先生非常关心与邻居们保持联系。 但是达林一家很穷，所以他们的保姆实际上只是一只名叫娜娜的巨大的纽芬兰狗。 至少可以这么说，娜娜是个有趣的保姆。 她不相信这些关于细菌的新奇说法。 有时，她会亲切地说

lick the children right after she licked her own foot. Mr. Darling was ashamed of Nana, and sometimes he was cold to her as a result. He shouldn't have been. She was actually quite a treasure. If the children wandered or dillydallied on their way to school, she would bump them with her big head to get them back on track. She never once forgot John's soccer uniform, and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth, instead of a bone, in case of rain. And it did rain quite often in England.

在她舔完自己的脚后马上舔孩子们。 达林先生为娜娜感到羞耻，因此有时对她很冷淡。 他不应该这么做。她其实是个宝贝。 如果孩子们在上学的路上徘徊或磨磨蹭蹭，她就会用她的大头撞他们，让他们回到正轨。 她从来没有忘记过约翰的足球服，而且她通常嘴里含着一把伞，而不是一根骨头，以防下雨。 英国确实经常下雨。

All in all, the Darlings were a normal, happy English family. Until, that is, the arrival of a boy named Peter Pan. Mrs. Darling had never heard of Peter Pan until one day when she was tidying up her children's minds. Most good mothers do this after their children are asleep—as if minds are drawers and children's memories are underwear and socks that need to be neatly folded and put away. Oh, how Mrs. Darling would wrinkle her forehead sometimes at the sweet things she found in her children's minds, wondering where on earth they had picked them up. These things, she would lay out and lovingly smooth on the bed for the children to slip on first thing in the morning. Other times, however, she found mean or ugly thoughts in her children's sleepy heads. These she would shake out and quickly hide, like something pushed under the bed.

总而言之，达林一家是一个正常、幸福的英国家庭。 直到一个叫彼得·潘的男孩到来。 达林太太从来没有听说过彼得·潘，直到有一天她在整理孩子们的思想。 大多数好妈妈都是在孩子睡着后这样做的——好像大脑是抽屉，孩子的记忆是内衣和袜子，需要整齐地叠好放好。 啊，达林太太有时一看到孩子们心中的甜蜜的东西，就皱起眉头，纳闷他们究竟是从哪儿弄来的。 她会把这些东西铺好，亲切地铺在床上，让孩子们早上起床后的第一件事就是穿上。 然而，其他时候，她发现孩子们昏昏欲睡的脑袋里有卑鄙或丑陋的想法。 她会抖掉这些，然后迅速藏起来，就像把什么东西塞到床底下一样。