Chapter 35

CHAPTER XXXV The Winter at Queen's Anne's homesickness wore off, greatly helped in the wearing by her weekend visits home. As long as the open weather lasted the Avonlea students went out to Carmody on the new branch railway every Friday night. Diana and several other Avonlea young folks were generally on hand to meet them and they all walked over to Avonlea in a merry party. Anne thought those Friday evening gypsyings over the autumnal hills in the crisp golden air, with the homelights of Avonlea twinkling beyond, were the best and dearest hours in the whole week. Gilbert Blythe nearly always walked with Ruby Gillis and carried her satchel for her. Ruby was a very handsome young lady, now thinking herself quite as grown up as she really was; she wore her skirts as long as her mother would let her and did her hair up in town, though she had to take it down when she went home. She had large,

第三十五章 在女王学院，安妮的思乡之情渐渐消散了，这多亏了她每个周末都能回家。 只要天气还暖和晴朗，阿冯利的学生每个周五晚上都会坐新开通的支线火车去卡莫迪。 戴安娜和其他几个阿冯利的年轻人通常都会去接他们，然后大伙热热闹闹地一起走回阿冯利。 安妮觉得，周五傍晚走在秋日山间，空气清爽凛冽，远处阿冯利家里的灯火闪烁，这段时光是一周里最美好最珍贵的。 吉尔伯特·布莱思几乎总是和鲁比·吉利斯一起走，还帮她拎书包。 鲁比是个非常漂亮的年轻姑娘，现在她觉得自己已经完全长大啦，事实上也确实如此； 她按照妈妈允许的长度把裙子留得长长的，在镇上的时候会把头发盘起来，不过回家的时候就得放下来。 她长着大大的

bright-blue eyes, a brilliant complexion, and a plump showy figure. She laughed a great deal, was cheerful and good-tempered, and enjoyed the pleasant things of life frankly. "But I shouldn't think she was the sort of girl Gilbert would like," whispered Jane to Anne. Anne did not think so either, but she would not have said so for the Avery scholarship. She could not help thinking, too, that it would be very pleasant to have such a friend as Gilbert to jest and chatter with and exchange ideas about books and studies and ambitions. Gilbert had ambitions, she knew, and Ruby Gillis did not seem the sort of person with whom such could be profitably discussed. There was no silly sentiment in Anne's ideas concerning Gilbert. Boys were to her, when she thought about them at all, merely possible good comrades. If she and Gilbert had been friends she would not have cared how many other friends he had nor with whom he walked. She had a genius for friendship; girl friends she had in plenty; but she had a vague consciousness that masculine friendship might also be a good thing to round out one's

蓝眼睛，气色红润透亮，身材丰满匀称。 她特别爱笑，性格开朗脾气好，直率地享受着生活里一切美好的事物。 “可我不觉得吉尔伯特会喜欢她这种类型的女孩，”简悄悄对安妮说。 安妮也这么觉得，但她为了艾弗里奖学金也不会把这话讲出来。 她忍不住也会想，要是能有吉尔伯特这样的朋友一起说笑聊天，聊聊书、学习还有志向，该多开心啊。 她知道吉尔伯特有自己的志向，而鲁比·吉利斯看起来不像是能和他好好聊这些事的人。 安妮对吉尔伯特没有任何傻乎乎的儿女私情。 在安妮眼里，男孩子，如果她真的会想到他们的话，也只是可能成为好伙伴而已。 如果她和吉尔伯特成了朋友，她根本不会在意他有多少其他朋友，也不会在意他和谁一起走。 安妮很擅长交朋友； 她已经有了一大堆女性朋友； 不过她隐约觉得，男性友谊其实也不错，能帮人完善对

conceptions of companionship and furnish broader standpoints of judgment and comparison. Not that Anne could have put her feelings on the matter into just such clear definition. But she thought that if Gilbert had ever walked home with her from the train, over the crisp fields and along the ferny byways, they might have had many and merry and interesting conversations about the new world that was opening around them and their hopes and ambitions therein. Gilbert was a clever young fellow, with his own thoughts about things and a determination to get the best out of life and put the best into it. Ruby Gillis told Jane Andrews that she didn't understand half the things Gilbert Blythe said; he talked just like Anne Shirley did when she had a thoughtful fit on and for her part she didn't think it any fun to be bothering about books and that sort of thing when you didn't have to. Frank Stockley had lots more dash and go, but then he wasn't half as good-looking as Gilbert and she really couldn't decide which she liked best! In the Academy Anne gradually drew a little circle of friends about her, thoughtful, imaginative, ambitious students like herself. With

友谊的认知，还能提供更开阔的判断和比较视角。 不过安妮自己也没法把这种感受说的这么清楚明白。 但她想，如果吉尔伯特曾经和她一起从火车站走回家，走过清爽的田野，沿着长着蕨类植物的小路，他们一定能聊好多开心有趣的事，聊聊他们周围打开的新世界，聊聊他们各自在那里的希望和志向。 吉尔伯特是个聪明的小伙子，对事情有自己的看法，决心好好打拼，活出精彩的人生。 鲁比·吉利斯告诉简·安德鲁斯，她说吉尔伯特说的话她一半都听不懂； 他说话就和安妮·雪莉认真思考的时候一模一样，对她来说，没必要的时候干嘛要折腾书啊这类东西，一点意思都没有。 弗兰克·斯托克利更有闯劲，可他长得远不如吉尔伯特好看，所以她真的没法决定自己最喜欢哪一个！ 在学院里，安妮身边渐渐聚集了一小圈和她志同道合的朋友，都是像她一样爱思考、有想象力、有志向的学生。 和

the "rose-red" girl, Stella Maynard, and the "dream girl," Priscilla Grant, she soon became intimate, finding the latter pale spiritual-looking maiden to be full to the brim of mischief and pranks and fun, while the vivid, black-eyed Stella had a heartful of wistful dreams and fancies, as aerial and rainbow-like as Anne's own. After the Christmas holidays the Avonlea students gave up going home on Fridays and settled down to hard work. By this time all the Queen's scholars had gravitated into their own places in the ranks and the various classes had assumed distinct and settled shadings of individuality. Certain facts had become generally accepted. It was admitted that the medal contestants had practically narrowed down to three-Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley, and Lewis Wilson; the Avery scholarship was more doubtful, any one of a certain six being a possible winner. The bronze medal for mathematics was considered as good as won by a fat, funny little up-country boy with a bumpy forehead and a patched coat. Ruby Gillis was the handsomest girl of the year at the Academy; in the Second Year classes

有着“玫瑰红”之称的斯特拉·梅纳德，还有“梦幻女孩”普里西拉·格兰特，安妮很快就和她们成了密友。她发现这个看起来苍白文静的姑娘其实满肚子鬼点子，爱闹爱玩；而活泼的黑眼睛斯特拉心里满是温柔的梦想和幻想，和安妮的一样，轻盈得像彩虹一样美好。 圣诞假期过后，阿冯利的学生们就不再周五回家了，开始沉下心来努力学习。 到这个时候，女王学院的所有学生都已经找准了自己的位置，各个班级也都形成了各自独特鲜明的风格。 有些事实已经得到了大家的普遍认可。 大家公认，金牌候选人实际上已经缩小到三个人了——吉尔伯特·布莱思、安妮·雪莉还有刘易斯·威尔逊； 艾弗里奖学金的归属还不确定，六个候选人都有可能夺冠。 数学铜牌大家都认为肯定是那个来自乡下、胖胖的乐呵呵的小个子男生，他额头宽宽，穿着打补丁的外套。 鲁比·吉利斯是学院这一年最漂亮的姑娘；进入二年级之后，

Stella Maynard carried off the palm for beauty, with small but critical minority in favor of Anne Shirley. Ethel Marr was admitted by all competent judges to have the most stylish modes of hair-dressing, and Jane Andrews-plain, plodding, conscientious Jane-carried off the honors in the domestic science course. Even Josie Pye attained a certain preeminence as the sharpest-tongued young lady in attendance at Queen's. So it may be fairly stated that Miss Stacy's old pupil's held their own in the wider arena of the academical course. Anne worked hard and steadily. Her rivalry with Gilbert was as intense as it had ever been in Avonlea school, although it was not known in the class at large, but somehow the bitterness had gone out of it. Anne no longer wished to win for the sake of defeating Gilbert; rather, for the proud consciousness of a well-won victory over a worthy foeman. It would be worth while to win, but she no longer thought life would be insupportable if she did not.

斯特拉·梅纳德拿下了最美头衔，不过也有一小撮挑剔的人支持安妮·雪莉。 所有评委都公认埃塞尔·马尔的发型最时髦，而简·安德鲁斯——朴素踏实、认真负责的简——拿下了家政课的第一名。 就连乔西·派伊也出了名，是女王学院里说话最尖刻的姑娘。 所以可以说，斯泰西小姐的老学生们在大学更广阔的舞台上都表现得相当不错。 安妮学习用功又踏实。 她和吉尔伯特的竞争还和从前在阿冯利学校时一样激烈，虽然班里大部分人都不知道这件事，但不知为何，过去的怨怼已经消散了。 安妮不再只是为了打败吉尔伯特才想要赢； 她更享受战胜可敬对手的那份堂堂正正获胜的自豪感。 赢当然很好，但就算赢不了，她也不再觉得生活过不下去了。

In spite of lessons the students found opportunities for pleasant times. Anne spent many of her spare hours at Beechwood and generally ate her Sunday dinners there and went to church with Miss Barry. The latter was, as she admitted, growing old, but her black eyes were not dim nor the vigor of her tongue in the least abated. But she never sharpened the latter on Anne, who continued to be a prime favorite with the critical old lady. "That Anne-girl improves all the time," she said. "I get tired of other girls-there is such a provoking and eternal sameness about them. Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts. I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them." Then, almost before anybody realized it, spring had come; out in Avonlea the Mayflowers were peeping pinkly out on the sere barrens where snow-wreaths lingered; and the "mist of green" was on the woods and in the valleys.

尽管课业繁重，学生们还是找得到机会享受欢乐时光。 安妮很多空闲时间都待在比奇伍德，周日晚饭一般都在那儿吃，还会和巴里小姐一起去教堂。 就像她自己承认的，她年纪越来越大了，但她的黑眼睛依旧明亮，说话的劲儿也一点没减退。 但她从来不会对安妮尖酸刻薄，这位挑剔的老太太一直都特别偏爱安妮。 "那个安妮丫头越来越好了，"她说。 "我看别的姑娘都烦了——她们全都千篇一律，真叫人受不了。 "安妮就像彩虹一样有万般变化，每一种样子都是当下最好看的。 "我不知道她是不是还像小时候那么有趣，但我就是爱她，我喜欢能让我忍不住去爱的人。 "这可省了我好多麻烦，不用逼着自己去喜欢别人啦。" 之后，几乎所有人都还没反应过来，春天就来了； 在阿冯利，残雪还未消融的枯荒原上，淡粉色的五月花已经悄悄探出了头； 树林和山谷都蒙上了一层"朦胧的绿意"。