(单词翻译:单击)
It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to school, walking sedately by their side when they were well behaved, and butting them back into line if they strayed.
你若是看到她护送孩子上学时那种合乎礼仪的情景，真会大长见识。当孩子们规规矩矩时，她就安详地走在他们身边；要是他们乱跑乱动，她就把他们推进行列。
On John's soccer days she never once forgot his sweater, and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain.
在约翰踢足球的日子，她从不忘带着他的毛衣；天要下雨的时候，她总是把伞衔在嘴里。
There is a room in the basement of Miss Fulsom's school where the nurses wait. They sat on forms, while Nana lay on the floor, but that was the only difference.
福尔萨姆的幼儿园里，有一间地下室，保姆们就在那里等候。她们坐在长凳上，而娜娜伏卧在地板上，不过这是唯一的不同之处。
They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk.
她们认为娜娜的社会地位比她们低贱，装作没把她放在眼里的样子；其实，娜娜才瞧不起她们那种无聊的闲聊呢。
She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs. Darling's friends,
她很不喜欢达林太太的朋友们来育儿室看望，
but if they did come she first whipped off Michael's pinafore and put him into the one with blue braiding, and smoothed out Wendy and made a dash on John's hair.
可要是她们真的来了，她就先扯下迈克尔的围裙，给他换上那件带蓝穗子的，把温迪的衣裙抚平，再匆匆梳理一下约翰的头发。
No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, and Mr. Darling knew it, yet he sometimes wondered uneasily whether the neighbours talked.
没有一个育儿室管理得比这个更井井有条了，这一点达林先生不是不知道，不过他有时还是不免心里嘀咕，生怕街坊邻居们会背地里笑话他。
He had his position in the city to consider.
他不能不考虑他在城里的职位。
Nana also troubled him in another way. He had sometimes a feeling that she did not admire him.
娜娜还在另一个方面使达林先生不安，他有时觉得娜娜不大佩服他。
"I know she admires you tremendously, George," Mrs. Darling would assure him, and then she would sign to the children to be specially nice to father.
“我知道，她可佩服你啦，乔治。”达林太太向他担保说，然后就示意孩子们要特别敬重父亲。
Lovely dances followed, in which the only other servant, Liza, was sometimes allowed to join.
接着，就跳起了欢快的舞。他们唯一的另一位女仆莉莎，有时也被允许参与进来。
Such a midget she looked in her long skirt and maid's cap, though she had sworn, when engaged, that she would never see ten again.
莉莎穿着长裙，戴着女佣人的布帽，显得十分矮小，虽说一开始雇用她的时候，她一口咬定自己早就过十岁了。
The gaiety of those romps!
小家伙们多快活呀！
And gayest of all was Mrs. Darling, who would pirouette so wildly that all you could see of her was the kiss, and then if you had dashed at her you might have got it.
最快活的是达林太太，她踮起脚尖飞速旋转，你能看到的只有她的那个吻。这时要是你扑过去，定能得到那个吻。
There never was a simpler happier family until the coming of Peter Pan.
再也没有比他们更单纯、更快乐的家庭了，直到彼得·潘来临。
