Chapter 15

CHAPTER XV A Tempest in the School Teapot "What a splendid day!" said Anne, drawing a long breath. "Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one. And it's splendider still to have such a lovely way to go to school by, isn't it?" "It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have. The little girls of Avonlea school always pooled their lunches, and to eat three raspberry tarts all alone or even to share them only with one's best chum would have forever and ever branded as "awful mean" the girl who did it. And

第十五章 校园茶罐风波 “天气多棒啊！”安妮深吸一口气说道。 “这样的好日子里能活着，难道不是太美好了吗？ 我真可怜那些还没出生的人，错过这么棒的一天。 他们当然也会有好日子，但永远不会拥有这一天呀。 何况我们上学走的这条路还这么美，对不对？” “可比走大路舒服多了； 大路又灰又热。”戴安娜实事求是地说，一边偷偷瞄向自己的餐篮，心里默默算着：篮里那三块饱满美味的树莓馅饼分给十个女孩，每人能分到几口。 阿冯利学校的小姑娘们总是合吃午餐，要是谁独吃三块树莓馅饼，哪怕只分给最好的朋友，都会永远被大家扣上“小气鬼”的帽子。 而且

yet, when the tarts were divided among ten girls you just got enough to tantalize you. The way Anne and Diana went to school WAS a pretty one. Anne thought those walks to and from school with Diana couldn't be improved upon even by imagination. Going around by the main road would have been so unromantic; but to go by Lover's Lane and Willowmere and Violet Vale and the Birch Path was romantic, if ever anything was. Lover's Lane opened out below the orchard at Green Gables and stretched far up into the woods to the end of the Cuthbert farm. It was the way by which the cows were taken to the back pasture and the wood hauled home in winter. Anne had named it Lover's Lane before she had been a month at Green Gables. "Not that lovers ever really walk there," she explained to Marilla, "but Diana and I are reading a perfectly magnificent book and there's a Lover's Lane in it. So we want to have one, too. And it's a very pretty name, don't you think? So romantic! We can't imagine the lovers into it, you know. I like that

不过，馅饼分给十个女孩之后，份量刚够勾得人嘴馋罢了。 安妮和戴安娜上学走的这条路，真的美极了。 安妮觉得，哪怕再怎么畅想，也找不到比和戴安娜一起上下学更棒的路了。 走大马路一点都不浪漫； 但走情人小径、柳沼、紫罗兰谷和白桦小径就太浪漫了，没有比这更浪漫的路了。 情人小径从绿山墙果园的下方延伸开去，一直伸进森林，直到卡斯伯特农场的尽头。 这条路本来是赶奶牛去后山牧场、冬天运木材回家走的。 安妮到绿山墙还没满一个月，就给它起了这个名字。 “倒不是真的有情侣在这儿散步啦，”她跟玛丽拉解释，“我和戴安娜正在读一本超级好看的书，书里就有一条情人小径。 所以我们也想有一条自己的情人小径呀。 这个名字很好听对不对？ 多浪漫啊！ 我们才不会真的在这儿脑补情侣呢，你懂的。 我喜欢这条

lane because you can think out loud there without people calling you crazy." Anne, starting out alone in the morning, went down Lover's Lane as far as the brook. Here Diana met her, and the two little girls went on up the lane under the leafy arch of maples-"maples are such sociable trees," said Anne; "they're always rustling and whispering to you"-until they came to a rustic bridge. Then they left the lane and walked through Mr. Barry's back field and past Willowmere. Beyond Willowmere came Violet Vale-a little green dimple in the shadow of Mr. Andrew Bell's big woods. "Of course there are no violets there now," Anne told Marilla, "but Diana says there are millions of them in spring. Oh, Marilla, can't you just imagine you see them? It actually takes away my breath. I named it Violet Vale. Diana says she never saw the beat of me for hitting on fancy names for places. It's nice to be clever at something, isn't it? But Diana named the Birch Path. She wanted to, so I let her; but I'm sure I could have found something more poetical than plain Birch Path. Anybody can think of a name like that. But the Birch Path is one of the prettiest places in the world, Marilla."

小路呀，因为你在这里大声想心事都没关系，没人会说你疯疯癫癫。” 安妮早上独自出门，沿着情人小径一直走到小溪边。 戴安娜就在这儿等她，两个小姑娘一起沿着小径往前走，路两旁枫树枝叶茂密，搭成了绿荫拱顶——“枫树可太热情啦，”安妮说； “它们总沙沙晃着对你轻声说话”——走着走着就到了一座朴素的木桥边。 之后她们离开小径，穿过巴里先生的后田，经过柳沼。 柳沼过去就是紫罗兰谷——安德鲁·贝尔先生大森林树荫下，一块小小的绿色凹地。 “当然啦，现在这儿没有紫罗兰，”安妮告诉玛丽拉，“但戴安娜说春天的时候，这儿开满了成千上万朵紫罗兰。 哦玛丽拉，你难道没法想象出它们的样子吗？ 我一想到都激动得喘不上气。 我给它起名叫紫罗兰谷。 戴安娜说，给地方起新奇名字这事儿，她从来没见过比我更厉害的。 能有一件擅长的事真不错，对不对？ 不过白桦小径是戴安娜起的名字。 她想起名，所以我就让给她了； 但我肯定我能想出比平平淡淡的“白桦小径”更有诗意的名字。 这种名字谁都想得出来呀。 不过白桦小径确实是世界上最美的地方之一，玛丽拉。”

It was. Other people besides Anne thought so when they stumbled on it. It was a little narrow, twisting path, winding down over a long hill straight through Mr. Bell's woods, where the light came down sifted through so many emerald screens that it was as flawless as the heart of a diamond. It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches, white stemmed and lissom boughed; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it; and always there was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead. Now and then you might see a rabbit skipping across the road if you were quiet-which, with Anne and Diana, happened about once in a blue moon. Down in the valley the path came out to the main road and then it was just up the spruce hill to the school. The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building, low in the eaves and wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of

确实是啊。 除了安妮，其他无意中走到这儿的人也这么觉得。 那是一条窄窄弯弯的小路，顺着长坡蜿蜒而下，直穿过贝尔先生的树林，阳光透过层层翡翠般的树叶筛落下来，纯净无瑕得就像钻石的核心。 小路全程两旁都长着亭亭的小桦树，树干雪白，枝条柔软； 蕨类、星花、野生铃兰，还有一丛丛鲜红色的鸽子果，密密地长在路边； 空气里总飘着怡人的芬芳，耳边是鸟儿的鸣唱，还有林风吹过树梢的低语轻笑。 如果你安安静静的，偶尔还能看到兔子蹦过马路——不过安妮和戴安娜太闹腾，这种事对她们来说百年难遇。 小路走到山谷就接上了大路，再爬上云杉坡就到学校了。 阿冯利学校是一栋刷了白墙的房子，屋檐低矮，窗户宽敞，屋里摆着结实舒适的老式课桌，这些桌子可以开合，桌面上刻满了整整三代学生的名字首字母和五花八门的刻痕

school children. The schoolhouse was set back from the road and behind it was a dusky fir wood and a brook where all the children put their bottles of milk in the morning to keep cool and sweet until dinner hour. Marilla had seen Anne start off to school on the first day of September with many secret misgivings. Anne was such an odd girl. How would she get on with the other children? And how on earth would she ever manage to hold her tongue during school hours? Things went better than Marilla feared, however. Anne came home that evening in high spirits. "I think I'm going to like school here," she announced. "I don't think much of the master, through. He's all the time curling his mustache and making eyes at Prissy Andrews. Prissy is grown up, you know. She's sixteen and she's studying for the entrance examination into Queen's Academy at Charlottetown next year. Tillie Boulter says the master is DEAD GONE on her. She's got a beautiful complexion and curly brown hair and she does it up so elegantly. She sits

上学的孩子们。 校舍离马路有一段距离，屋后是一片幽暗的冷杉林，还有一条小溪。每天早上孩子们都会把装牛奶的瓶子放在这儿，让牛奶一直保持冰凉清甜，等到午饭时间再喝。 九月开学第一天，玛丽拉看着安妮出门上学，心里暗暗揣了满肚子担心。 安妮这孩子实在太古怪了。 她能和别的孩子好好相处吗？ 上课的时候她到底能不能管住自己的嘴不瞎说话呢？ 不过事情的进展比玛丽拉担心的要好得多。 那天晚上安妮回家的时候，兴致高得不得了。 “我觉得我会喜欢上这儿的学校的。”她大声宣布。 不过我可不太喜欢咱们老师。 他总在捻自己的小胡子，还对着普丽西·安德鲁斯抛媚眼。 你知道的，普丽西已经长大成人了。 她今年十六岁，正在备考明年夏洛特敦女王学院的入学考试。 蒂莉·博尔特说老师彻底迷上她了。 她肤色好看，还有一头棕色卷发，挽得特别精致优雅。 她坐在

in the long seat at the back and he sits there, too, most of the time-to explain her lessons, he says. But Ruby Gillis says she saw him writing something on her slate and when Prissy read it she blushed as red as a beet and giggled; and Ruby Gillis says she doesn't believe it had anything to do with the lesson." "Anne Shirley, don't let me hear you talking about your teacher in that way again," said Marilla sharply. "You don't go to school to criticize the master. I guess he can teach YOU something, and it's your business to learn. And I want you to understand right off that you are not to come home telling tales about him. That is something I won't encourage. I hope you were a good girl." "Indeed I was," said Anne comfortably. "It wasn't so hard as you might imagine, either. I sit with Diana. Our seat is right by the window and we can look down to the Lake of Shining Waters. There are a lot of nice girls in school and we had scrumptious fun playing at dinnertime. It's so nice to have a lot of little girls to play with. But of course I like Diana best and always will. I

后排的长座位上，老师大部分时间也坐在那儿——他说要给普丽西辅导功课。 可鲁比·吉利斯说，她看见老师在普丽西的石板上写了东西，普丽西看完脸红得像甜菜根，还一个劲儿咯咯笑。 鲁比·吉利斯说，她才不信那玩意儿和功课有关系呢。” “安妮·雪莉，我不许你再这么议论你的老师。”玛丽拉严厉地说。 你去上学不是为了批评老师的。 我看他肯定能教给你知识，好好学习才是你该做的事。 我现在就把话讲清楚，你不许回家来乱讲老师的闲话。 这种风气我可不会支持。 我希望你一直做个乖女孩。” “我当然很乖呀。”安妮满不在乎地说。 上课也没有你想的那么难啦。 我和戴安娜坐同桌。 我们的座位正好靠窗，往下就能看见闪亮之湖。 学校里有好多好姑娘，午饭休息的时候我们玩得可开心了。 能有这么多小姐妹一起玩真的太好啦。 不过我当然最喜欢戴安娜，永远都最喜欢她。 我