Chapter 32

CHAPTER XXXII The Pass List Is Out With the end of June came the close of the term and the close of Miss Stacy's rule in Avonlea school. Anne and Diana walked home that evening feeling very sober indeed. Red eyes and damp handkerchiefs bore convincing testimony to the fact that Miss Stacy's farewell words must have been quite as touching as Mr. Phillips's had been under similar circumstances three years before. Diana looked back at the schoolhouse from the foot of the spruce hill and sighed deeply. "It does seem as if it was the end of everything, doesn't it?" she said dismally. "You oughtn't to feel half as badly as I do," said Anne, hunting vainly for a dry spot on her handkerchief. "You'll be back again next winter, but I suppose I've left the dear old school forever-if I have good luck, that is." "It won't be a bit the same. Miss Stacy won't be there, nor you nor Jane nor Ruby probably. I

第三十二章 录取名单公布了 六月底，学期结束了，斯塔西小姐在埃文利学校的任教也告一段落。 那天傍晚，安妮和黛安娜结伴走回家，两个人心情都十分沉重。 红红的眼睛和浸湿的手帕足以证明，斯塔西小姐的告别辞，和三年前菲利普斯先生在同样场合的告别一样动人。 黛安娜站在云杉山脚下，回头望着校舍，深深叹了口气。 “好像一切都结束了，对不对？” 她闷闷不乐地说道。 “你哪有我这么难过，”安妮一边说，一边徒劳地找手帕上没湿的地方。 明年冬天你还会回来，可我要是运气好考上的话，应该就永远离开这所亲爱的老学校了。 一切都不会和从前一样了。 斯塔西小姐不在那儿了，你、简还有露比大概也都不在了。 我

shall have to sit all alone, for I couldn't bear to have another deskmate after you. Oh, we have had jolly times, haven't we, Anne? It's dreadful to think they're all over." Two big tears rolled down by Diana's nose. "If you would stop crying I could," said Anne imploringly. "Just as soon as I put away my hanky I see you brimming up and that starts me off again. As Mrs. Lynde says, `If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can." After all, I dare say I'll be back next year. This is one of the times I KNOW I'm not going to pass. They're getting alarmingly frequent." "Why, you came out splendidly in the exams Miss Stacy gave." "Yes, but those exams didn't make me nervous. When I think of the real thing you can't imagine what a horrid cold fluttery feeling comes round my heart. And then my number is thirteen and Josie Pye says it's so unlucky. I am NOT superstitious and I know it can make no difference. But still I wish it wasn't thirteen." "I do wish I was going in with you," said Diana. "Wouldn't we have a perfectly elegant

只能一个人孤零零坐着了，因为有过你当同桌，我根本受不了换别人。 我们曾经度过那么多欢乐时光，对不对呀，安妮？ 一想到一切都结束了，真让人难受。 两大滴泪珠顺着黛安娜的脸颊滚了下来。 “你要是不哭，我就能不哭呀，”安妮恳求道。 “我刚收好我的手帕，就看见你眼泪汪汪，我又忍不住哭了。 就像林德太太说的：‘没法开心的话，就尽量开心点儿。’ 不过话说回来，我猜我明年说不定还会回来的。 这一次我就知道 我肯定考不上。 这种不好的预感越来越频繁，真吓人。 哎呀，之前斯塔西小姐出题考你的时候你答得可出色了。 是啊，可那些考试我不紧张呀。 一想到真正的大考，你都想象不到，我心里慌得厉害，发凉发颤。 而且我的考号是十三，乔西·派伊说这个数字特别不吉利。 我才不迷信呢，我也知道它根本不会有影响。 可我还是希望我的号不是十三呀。 “我真希望能和你一起去考试，”黛安娜说。 我们一起去的话，该有多棒

time? But I suppose you'll have to cram in the evenings." "No; Miss Stacy has made us promise not to open a book at all. She says it would only tire and confuse us and we are to go out walking and not think about the exams at all and go to bed early. It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think. Prissy Andrews told me that she sat up half the night every night of her Entrance week and crammed for dear life; and I had determined to sit up AT LEAST as long as she did. It was so kind of your Aunt Josephine to ask me to stay at Beechwood while I'm in town." "You'll write to me while you're in, won't you?" "I'll write Tuesday night and tell you how the first day goes," promised Anne. "I'll be haunting the post office Wednesday," vowed Diana. Anne went to town the following Monday and on Wednesday Diana haunted the post office, as agreed, and got her letter.

呀？ 不过我猜你晚上得留下来死记硬背备考吧。 才不呢，斯塔西小姐让我们保证，一本书都不碰。 她说硬背只会让我们疲惫、脑子混乱，我们就出去散步，完全别想考试，早点睡觉就好。 这建议不错，可我觉得很难做到，好建议本来就容易难做到呀，我想。 普里茜·安德鲁斯告诉我，她考入学试那周，每天都熬到半夜拼命复习； 我已经下定决心，至少要和她熬一样久。 你约瑟芬姑妈真好，还请我进城考试的时候住在比奇伍德。 你在那儿的时候会给我写信的，对不对？ “我周二晚上就写，告诉你第一天的情况，”安妮答应道。 “我周三就守在邮局等，”黛安娜说道。 安妮下周一进了城，周三黛安娜如约守在邮局，拿到了安妮的信。

"Dearest Diana" [wrote Anne], "Here it is Tuesday night and I'm writing this in the library at Beechwood. Last night I was horribly lonesome all alone in my room and wished so much you were with me. I couldn't "cram" because I'd promised Miss Stacy not to, but it was as hard to keep from opening my history as it used to be to keep from reading a story before my lessons were learned. "This morning Miss Stacy came for me and we went to the Academy, calling for Jane and Ruby and Josie on our way. Ruby asked me to feel her hands and they were as cold as ice. Josie said I looked as if I hadn't slept a wink and she didn't believe I was strong enough to stand the grind of the teacher's course even if I did get through. There are times and seasons even yet when I don't feel that I've made any great headway in learning to like Josie Pye! "When we reached the Academy there were scores of students there from all over the Island. The first person we saw was Moody Spurgeon sitting on the steps and muttering away to himself. Jane asked him what on earth he was doing and he said he was repeating the multiplication

“最亲爱的黛安娜”[安妮写道]，“现在是周二晚上，我在比奇伍德的图书馆给你写这封信。 昨天晚上我一个人待在房间，孤单极了，特别希望你在我身边。 我没法“复习”，因为我答应了斯塔西小姐不碰书，可我忍住不打开历史书，就跟以前没做完功课忍不住不看故事书一样难。 今天早上斯塔西小姐来找我，我们一起去学院，路上叫上了简、露比和乔西。 露比让我摸她的手，冰得像块冰。 乔西说我看起来一眼没睡，她还说就算我考上了，也扛不住师范课程的苦。 就算到了现在，有时候我还是觉得，我根本没法喜欢乔西·派伊！ 我们到学院的时候，已经有好多来自全岛的学生在那儿了。 我们第一个看见的就是穆迪·斯珀吉翁，他坐在台阶上，自顾自念叨个不停。 简问他到底在做什么，他说他在反复背乘法

table over and over to steady his nerves and for pity's sake not to interrupt him, because if he stopped for a moment he got frightened and forgot everything he ever knew, but the multiplication table kept all his facts firmly in their proper place! "When we were assigned to our rooms Miss Stacy had to leave us. Jane and I sat together and Jane was so composed that I envied her. No need of the multiplication table for good, steady, sensible Jane! I wondered if I looked as I felt and if they could hear my heart thumping clear across the room. Then a man came in and began distributing the English examination sheets. My hands grew cold then and my head fairly whirled around as I picked it up. Just one awful moment-Diana, I felt exactly as I did four years ago when I asked Marilla if I might stay at Green Gables-and then everything cleared up in my mind and my heart began beating again-I forgot to say that it had stopped altogether!-for I knew I could do something with THAT paper anyhow. "At noon we went home for dinner and then back again for history in the afternoon. The

翻来覆去地背乘法表平复心情，求求大家别打断我，因为只要我一停下来，就会慌得把所有知识都忘光，可乘法表能把所有知识点牢牢固定在该待的地方！ “我们分到考场房间后，斯塔西小姐就得离开了。 我和简坐在一起，简镇定得都让我羡慕了。 沉稳靠谱的简根本不需要靠乘法表壮胆呀！ 我忍不住想，我脸上是不是写满了慌张，房间另一头的人会不会都听见我砰砰的心跳声。 接着进来一位男老师，开始发英语试卷。 我拿起试卷的时候，手都冰了，脑袋天旋地转的。 就那么可怕一瞬间——戴安娜，我和四年前问玛丽拉能不能留在绿山墙的时候感受一模一样——接着我的脑子一下子清醒了，心脏又开始跳动了——我刚才都忘了它吓得停跳了呢——反正我知道，这份卷子我肯定能答。 “中午我们回家吃饭，下午又回来考历史。 这

history was a pretty hard paper and I got dreadfully mixed up in the dates. Still, I think I did fairly well today. But oh, Diana, tomorrow the geometry exam comes off and when I think of it it takes every bit of determination I possess to keep from opening my Euclid. If I thought the multiplication table would help me any I would recite it from now till tomorrow morning. "I went down to see the other girls this evening. On my way I met Moody Spurgeon wandering distractedly around. He said he knew he had failed in history and he was born to be a disappointment to his parents and he was going home on the morning train; and it would be easier to be a carpenter than a minister, anyhow. I cheered him up and persuaded him to stay to the end because it would be unfair to Miss Stacy if he didn't. Sometimes I have wished I was born a boy, but when I see Moody Spurgeon I'm always glad I'm a girl and not his sister. "Ruby was in hysterics when I reached their boardinghouse; she had just discovered a fearful mistake she had made in her English paper. When she recovered we went uptown and had an ice cream.

史卷子很难，我把日期搞得一团糟。 不过我觉得我今天整体答得还不错。 可是哦，戴安娜，明天就要考几何了，我一想到这件事，就要攒足全身的力气才能忍住不打开我的几何书。 要是我觉得乘法表能帮上忙，我从现在一直背到明天早上都愿意。 “今晚我出门去找其他姑娘们。 路上我碰到穆迪·斯珀吉翁正心神不宁地到处晃。 他说他知道自己历史肯定考砸了，他生来就是让父母失望的孩子，明天一早就要坐火车回家了； 再说了，当木匠本来就比当牧师轻松呀。 我给他打气，劝他坚持考完，不然对不起斯塔西小姐。 有时候我也希望自己生来是男孩子，可看到穆迪·斯珀吉翁，我就庆幸自己是女孩子，不是他姐姐。 “我到寄宿公寓的时候，露比正情绪失控； 她刚发现自己英语卷子上犯了个可怕的错误。 等她平复下来，我们去镇上吃了冰淇淋。