Chapter 4

CHAPTER FOUR To Ariana's relief, the rest of the day was less eventful. By bedtime, there'd only been one further sighting of an animal from the woods that had wandered into the school grounds, a timid three-antlered deer. From her bedroom window, Ariana saw one of the gardeners lead the deer away. Ariana closed the curtains and went to the bathroom. When she came back, everyone was crowded around Matilda's bed, their heads close together as they giggled over something. Seeing Ariana, Violet nudged the others and they all pulled

第四章让阿利安娜松了一口气的是，那天剩下的时间没有那么多事。 到睡觉前，我只看到过一只动物从树林里溜进了学校操场，那是一只胆小的三角鹿。 阿利安娜从卧室的窗户看到一个园丁牵着鹿走了。 阿利安娜拉上窗帘，走进浴室。 当她回来时，大家都挤在玛蒂尔达的床边，他们的头凑在一起，为什么东西咯咯地笑。 看到阿利安娜，维奥莉特用胳膊肘推了推其他人，他们都拉了拉

away, returning to their own beds. Ariana wondered what they'd been looking at. "Hi, Ariana," said Violet quickly. "We wondered where you'd got to. Would you like a piece of chocolate? It's got a strawberry filling." She held out an opened bar of chocolate. "No, thanks. I've just cleaned my teeth." "I'd better do mine," said Matilda. Her cheeks were pink and she was holding something behind her back, before quickly shoving it into a drawer. "Now, where did I put my washbag?" "Is this it?" Ariana picked up a flowery bag stuffed halfway inside a fluffy cat slipper that she'd just noticed was under her bed. "Yes, it is!" Matilda replied, not quite meeting Ariana's eye. "And that's my cat slipper! I've been hopping around all week without it. Thanks, Ariana." Matilda set off to the bathroom and the rest of Diamond dorm followed her, clutching

走了，回到自己的床上。 阿利安娜不知道他们在看什么。 “你好，阿利安娜。”维奥莱特赶紧说。 “我们想知道你去哪儿了。 你想要一块巧克力吗？ 里面有草莓馅儿。” 她拿出一块打开的巧克力。 “不,谢谢。我刚洗完牙。” “我还是做我的吧，”玛蒂尔达说。 她的脸颊通红，背后拿着什么东西，然后迅速地把它塞进抽屉里。 “现在，我把我的洗衣袋放在哪里了？”“是这个吗？”阿利安娜捡起了一只毛茸茸的猫拖鞋，里面塞着一个花包，她刚刚注意到它在床底下。 “是的，它是！”玛蒂尔达回答，没有直视阿利安娜的眼睛。 “那是我的猫拖鞋！”我这一周都没带它到处乱跳。 艾丽阿娜,谢谢了。”玛蒂尔达向浴室走去，戴蒙德宿舍的其他人也紧紧地抓着她

washbags and toothbrushes. Left on her own, Ariana stared at the pile of Matilda's clothes heaped on the floor. It was as much of a mess as it had been that morning. Carefully, shaking them out to check for spiders first, she picked the clothes up and put them on Matilda's bed. Matilda was so untidy. She hadn't even bothered to shut her drawer properly. But as Ariana leaned over to close it, she noticed something sticking out from the top, a drawing of a girl with braids. Ariana froze. Was that her? She pulled it out. It was her– there was no doubt about it. Matilda was a very good artist. Too good! Ariana's eyes smarted as she studied the way Matilda had captured her, arms waving wildly, her mouth a huge "O" of surprise. In the picture, Ariana looked truly terrified as she sat atop a winged unicorn while a butterfly flew around her head. Is that how the rest of Diamond dorm saw her– a scaredy-cat, frightened even of

盥洗袋和牙刷。 留下阿利安娜一个人，她盯着地板上那堆玛蒂尔达的衣服。 这里和那天早上一样一团糟。 她小心翼翼地把衣服抖出来看看有没有蜘蛛，然后把它们捡起来放在玛蒂尔达的床上。 玛蒂尔达太邋遢了。她甚至懒得把抽屉关好。 但是，当阿利安娜俯下身去合上它时，她注意到有什么东西从上面伸出来，那是一个扎着辫子的女孩的画。 阿愣住了。是她吗？ 她把它拔了出来。那是她——这是毫无疑问的。 玛蒂尔达是一位非常优秀的艺术家。 太好了!阿利安娜看着玛蒂尔达抓住她的样子，眼睛一阵刺痛。玛蒂尔达疯狂地挥舞着双臂，嘴角露出一个大大的“O”字，表示惊讶。 照片中，阿利安娜坐在一只长着翅膀的独角兽上，一只蝴蝶在她的头顶飞舞，她看起来真的很害怕。 这就是戴蒙德宿舍的其他人对她的看法吗——一只害怕的猫，甚至害怕

butterflies? Ariana shoved the picture into the drawer and slammed it shut. She got into bed, pulled the duvet up to her chin and shut her eyes tight. When the rest of Diamond dorm came back from the bathroom, Ariana pretended to be fast asleep. The following morning, Ariana came in from the bathroom to find Rosa sitting on Matilda's bed, giggling over a picture in her sketchbook. Ariana stiffened. Was it another drawing of her? She was beginning to really wish she was in another dorm. "Look at this!" Rosa said, holding the picture up. It was a picture of Matilda after she'd been stuck in the bog on the cross-country ride. Her hair was hanging in mucky straggles and she had mud dripping off her nose. "And there's one of Freya." She held up a picture of Freya looking like a mad inventor, blonde plaits

蝴蝶?阿利安娜把画塞进抽屉，砰地一声关上。 她上了床，把羽绒被拉到下巴，紧紧地闭上了眼睛。 当戴蒙德宿舍的其他人从浴室回来时，阿利安娜假装睡着了。 第二天早上，阿利安娜从浴室回来，发现罗莎坐在玛蒂尔达的床上，对着速写本里的一幅画咯咯地笑。 阿加筋。这是她的另一幅画吗？ 她开始真希望自己住在另一个宿舍。 “看这个！”罗莎举起画像说。 这是玛蒂尔达在越野骑行时被困在沼泽里的照片。 她的头发乱成一团，泥从鼻子上滴下来。 “还有一张弗雷娅的照片。” 她举起一张弗雷娅的照片，照片上她梳着金色的辫子，看起来像个疯狂的发明家

sticking out wildly as she tinkered with a machine. "And she did one of me too!" She held up another picture. It showed Rosa with her hands on her hips, nose in the air, bossing everyone about. It was a very good likeness. "You are so brilliant at drawing," Rosa told Matilda. She posed like her picture. "It's just like me when I'm in a bossy mood. Isn't it, Ariana?" Ariana didn't say anything, feeling it would

她在摆弄机器时疯狂地伸出手。 “她也给我画了一张！”她举起另一幅画。 照片上的罗莎双手叉腰，鼻子朝天，对每个人都颐指气使。 画得很像。 “你在绘画方面很有才华，”罗莎对玛蒂尔达说。 她像她的画一样摆姿势。 “这就像我在发号施令的时候一样。 是不是，阿利安娜？”阿利安娜什么也没说，她觉得会这样

be rude to agree. She sat down on her bed, her thoughts racing. Last night she'd thought Matilda had been mean to draw that picture of her, but she'd actually been doing pictures of everyone in the dorm and no one else seemed to mind. In fact, judging by their grins, they all thought it was funny. "I've got one of you too, Ariana," said Matilda slightly sheepishly. "Do you want to see it?" Ariana nodded and Matilda pulled the drawing from her bedside chest of drawers. Ariana tensed, waiting to feel hurt like she had the night before, but to her surprise she didn't feel upset. Now she knew Matilda was drawing everyone, she was actually able to see how funny the picture was. "It's good," she admitted. "Really good." Matilda looked pleased. "But I'm not actually scared of butterflies, you know," Ariana added. "Duh! I know that!" said Matilda, rolling her

同意是不礼貌的。她坐在床上，思绪万千。 昨晚她还以为玛蒂尔达故意画她，但实际上她一直在画宿舍里的每个人，其他人似乎都不介意。 事实上，从他们的笑容来看，他们都认为这很有趣。 “我也有一张你的，阿利安娜。”玛蒂尔达有点不好意思地说。 “你想看看吗？”阿利安娜点了点头，玛蒂尔达从她床边的五斗橱里拿出那幅画。 阿利安娜紧张起来，等着像前一天晚上那样受到伤害，但令她惊讶的是，她并没有感到不安。 现在她知道玛蒂尔达画的是每个人，她真的能看出这幅画有多有趣。 “很好，”她承认。 “很好。”玛蒂尔达看上去很高兴。 “但你知道，我其实并不害怕蝴蝶，”阿利安娜补充道。 “咄!我知道！”玛蒂尔达说着，把她揉了揉身子