(单词翻译:单击)
It would be an easy map if that were all, but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needle-work, murders, hangings,
若是只有这些，这张图倒也不难画。但是还有别的呢，第一天上学、宗教、父亲、圆水池、针线活、谋杀案、绞刑、
verbs that take the dative, chocolate pudding day, getting into braces, say ninety-nine, three-pence for pulling out your tooth yourself, and so on,
格动词，吃巧克力布丁的日子，穿背带裤，数到九十九，自己拔牙奖励三便士，等等。
and either these are part of the island or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still.
这些若不是岛上的一部分，那就是画在另一张画上的了；总之，全都是杂乱无章的，因为没有一件东西是静止不动的。
Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting,
当然，每个人的永无乡又大不一样，例如，约翰的永无乡里有一个湖泊，湖上飞着许多火烈鸟，约翰拿箭射它们。
while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam,
迈克尔呢，年纪很小，他的火烈鸟上面飞着湖泊。约翰住在一只翻扣在沙滩上的船里，迈克尔住在一个印第安人的皮棚里，
Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents,
温迪住在一间用树叶巧妙地缝成的屋子里。约翰没有朋友，迈克尔在夜晚有朋友，温迪有一只被父母遗弃的小狼宝宝。
but on the whole the Neverlands have a family resemblance, and if they stood still in a row you could say of them that they have each other's nose, and so forth.
不过总的说来，他们的永无乡都像一家人似的彼此相像。要是摆成一排，你会看到它们大同小异。
On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles.
在这些神奇的海滩上，游戏的孩子们总是驾着小圆舟靠岸登陆。
We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
那地方，我们其实也到过，我们如今还能听到浪涛拍岸的声音，虽然我们不再上岸。
Of all delectable islands, the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know,
在所有叫人开心的小岛里，永无乡要算是最安逸、最紧凑的了。就是说，不太大，不太散，
with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed.
从一个奇遇到另一个奇遇，距离有点远，但距离十分得当。
When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very real.
白天你玩椅子和桌布时，它一点也不吓人；可是，在你睡着前的两分钟，它就几乎变得像真的一样了，
That is why there are night-lights.
所以，夜里要点灯。
Occasionally in her travels through her children's minds, Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter.
达林太太偶尔漫步在孩子们的心思里时，发现那里有些东西她不能理解，最叫她莫名其妙的，要属彼得这个名字。
