17 Growing Up and Good-Byes

CHAPTER 17 Growing Up and Good Byes The next morning, Mrs. Darling walked into

第十七章长大与再见第二天早晨，达林太太走进了一家小旅馆

her children's bedroom and there they were, her babies, sound asleep as though they had never left. For a moment she thought she must have imagined them leaving in the first place. If it were not for Mr. Darling asleep in his kennel, she wouldn't have been sure. Of course, the children were only pretending to sleep. Unable to stand the suspense any longer, they leaped from their beds, screaming, and ran to hug and kiss their mother.

她孩子们的卧室，他们在那里，她的孩子们，熟睡着，好像他们从来没有离开过。 有那么一会儿，她想她一定是想象他们一开始就离开了。 要不是达林先生在狗窝里睡觉，她是不会确定的。 当然，孩子们只是在假装睡觉。 他们再也不能忍受这种悬念了，他们从床上跳起来，尖叫着跑去拥抱和亲吻他们的母亲。

At the commotion, Mr. Darling crawled sleepily out of his kennel. Nana came running into the room as well. Outside, watching the Darling family reunion from a nearby tree, a little boy named Peter Pan shed a tear. He would never know such happiness, he thought. The other lost boys were a different story.

达林先生听了一阵骚动，困倦地从狗窝里爬了出来。 娜娜也跑进了房间。 在屋外，一个名叫彼得·潘的小男孩在附近的一棵树上看着达林一家团聚，流下了眼泪。 他想，他永远也体会不到这样的幸福。 其他失踪的男孩则是另一番景象。

Wendy had hidden them downstairs, but she summoned them now. She made them stand in a row in front of her mother. She wished they were not all still wearing their pirates' clothes. "Please take us in," the little pirates begged. "We don't eat a lot," Nibs said. "Of course we will have you!" Mrs. Darling cried at once, but Mr. Darling frowned. "It's an awful lot of boys," he said. Really, he just wished Mrs. Darling had not answered without asking him. "I just wish people wouldn't treat me like a nobody in my own house," he explained. "We don't think you are a nobody!" Tootles cried, and the others all agreed. "You are everything to me," Mrs. Darling whispered to him. Happy, Mr. Darling said he supposed they could make room, somehow. As for Peter, he was still outside, lingering. Wendy saw him and walked over to the window.

温迪本来把他们藏在楼下，现在她把他们叫来了。 她让他们在她母亲面前站成一排。 她真希望他们不要都还穿着海盗的衣服。 “请收留我们吧，”小海盗们恳求道。 “我们吃得不多，”尼布斯说。 “我们当然要你！”达林太太立刻哭了起来，达林先生却皱起了眉头。 “男孩太多了，”他说。 真的，他只希望达林太太没有不问他就回答。 他解释说：“我只希望在我自己的家里，人们不要把我当无名小卒。” “我们不认为你是个无名小卒！”图图叫了起来，其他人都同意了。 “你是我的一切，”达林太太低声对他说。 达林先生高兴地说，他想他们总能腾出地方来。 至于彼得，他还在外面徘徊。 温迪看见了他，走到窗前。

"Oh, hello," he said casually, as if running into Wendy were a mere coincidence. "Peter," Wendy said. "Please come inside. My parents will adopt you, too." Mrs. Darling came over and stood behind her daughter. "It's true," she said. "You would send me to school and expect me to grow up!" Peter accused. "Deny it!" But Mrs. Darling couldn't. "I knew it," Peter cried. "Keep back, madam. No one is going to catch me and make me be a man. I'm going back to Neverland." "But I'll miss you so much," Wendy said. "I brought back the boys. Perhaps that's enough. Maybe I should go back with you." Wendy turned to look at her mother. "Oh, no," Mrs. Darling said quickly. "But he needs a mother." "So do you, sweetheart." Mrs. Darling could see that her decision pained Wendy and Peter, and so she agreed that

“哦，你好。”他漫不经心地说，仿佛遇见温迪只是巧合。 “彼得。”温迪说。“请进来。 我父母也会收养你的。” 达林太太走过来，站在女儿身后。 “这是真的，”她说。“你送我去上学，希望我长大！”彼得指责。 “否认!”可是达林太太不能。 “我就知道。”彼得叫道。“退后，夫人。 没有人会抓住我，让我成为一个男人。 我要回梦幻岛去。” “可是我会非常想念你的。”温迪说。 “我把孩子们带回来了。也许这就够了。 也许我应该和你一起回去。” 温迪转过身来看着妈妈。 “哦，不，”达林太太赶紧说。 “但是他需要一个妈妈。”“你也是，亲爱的。” 达林太太看得出她的决定使温迪和彼得感到痛苦，所以她同意了

Wendy could return to Neverland for one week a year to help Peter with the spring cleaning. Peter was happy with this. He had no sense of time, anyway. He bade Wendy good -bye and said that he would be back in the spring. The boys went to school. They learned many things but, eventually, they forgot how to fly. They said it was because they were not practicing, but in truth it seemed that they no longer believed. And besides, they no longer had fairy dust to help them. Michael held on to his belief far longer than the others. And Peter did come back, as he'd promised, at the first sign of spring. Wendy had grown up since he'd seen her last, and she was worried he would notice. He didn't. As usual, he thought and talked mainly about himself. She had been looking forward to reliving old adventures, but Peter had had so many new ones since theirs, he didn't even remember them.

温蒂每年可以回梦幻庄园一周，帮彼得做春季大扫除。 彼得对此很高兴。 反正他没有时间观念。 他向温迪告别，说春天他会回来。 男孩们去上学了。他们学到了很多东西，但最终，他们忘记了如何飞行。 他们说这是因为他们没有练习，但事实上，他们似乎不再相信了。 而且，他们再也没有仙尘来帮助他们了。 迈克尔比其他人更坚持他的信仰。 彼得果然如他所承诺的，在初春的时候回来了。 自从他上次见到温迪以来，温迪已经长大了，她担心他会注意到。 他没有。像往常一样，他的思想和谈话主要是关于他自己的。 她一直期待着重温过去的冒险经历，但彼得经历了太多新的冒险，他甚至都不记得了。