(单词翻译:单击)
The opportunity came a week later, on that never-to-be-forgotten Friday. Of course it was a Friday.
一个星期后,机会果然来了。那是一个永远无法忘记的星期五,当然得是一个星期五。
"I ought to have been specially careful on a Friday," she used to say afterwards to her husband,
“遇到星期五,我应该格外小心才对。”她老是对丈夫说这些事后诸葛亮的话。
while perhaps Nana was on the other side of her, holding her hand.
这时候娜娜也许就在她身边,握着她的手。
"No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it."
“不,不。”达林先生总是说,“我应该负全部责任。这都是我乔治·达林干的。”
"Mea culpa, mea culpa." He had had a classical education.
“Meaculpa,meaculpa(吾之过也,吾之过也)。”他受过古典文学的教育。
They sat thus night after night recalling that fatal Friday,
就这样,他们一夜夜坐着,回忆着那个不祥的星期五,
till every detail of it was stamped on their brains and came through on the other side like the faces on a bad coinage.
直到所有的细节都印进他们的脑子,从另一面透过来,就像劣质的钱币一样。
"If only I had not accepted that invitation to dine at 27," Mrs. Darling said.
“要是那天我不去赴二十七号的晚会就好了。”达林太太说。
"If only I had not poured my medicine into Nana's bowl," said Mr. Darling.
“要是那天我没把我的药倒在娜娜的碗里就好了。”达林先生说。
"If only I had pretended to like the medicine," was what Nana's wet eyes said.
“要是那天我假装爱喝那药水就好了。”娜娜的泪眼这样表示。
"My liking for parties, George."
“都怪我太爱参加晚会了,乔治。”
"My fatal gift of humour, dearest."
“都怪我与生俱来的那倒霉的幽默感,亲爱的。”
"My touchiness about trifles, dear master and mistress."
“都怪我太爱计较小事了,亲爱的主人们。”
Then one or more of them would break down altogether; Nana at the thought, "It's true, it's true, they ought not to have had a dog for a nurse."
于是他们当中的一个或几个就放声痛哭起来。娜娜心想:“是啊,是啊,他们不该用一只狗当保姆。”
Many a time it was Mr. Darling who put the handkerchief to Nana's eyes.
好几次都是达林先生用手帕给娜娜擦眼泪。
"That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter;
“那个魔鬼!”达林先生叫道。娜娜吠着应和他,不过达林太太从来没有责怪过彼得。
there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.
她的右嘴角上有那么点什么不让她骂彼得。
