That winter my crib overflowed with corn - - fat , healthy three - to - a - stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tip - - while my neighbors ' fields yielded only brown , empty husks 那年冬天，我的粮仓里堆满了玉米? ?饱满结实的玉米每株秆上结三个，每个玉米从底到顶端长满了玉米粒? ?而我的邻居们地里长出来的只是暗沉干瘪的壳。
It would have been difficult to find a happier child than i was as i lay in my crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought me , and for the first time longed for a new day to come 那是因为我正用一种刚刚获得的全新而奇特的视角来看待一切事物.进屋时,我想起了被我弄坏的那个娃娃.我摸索着来到壁炉前,拾起那些碎片,试图将它们拼接在一起,却没办到
No , bessie : she came to my crib last night when you were gone down to supper , and said i need not disturb her in the morning , or my cousins either ; and she told me to remember that she had always been my best friend , and to speak of her and be grateful to her accordingly “算啦，贝茜，昨天晚上你下楼去吃晚饭的时候，她走到我床边，说是早晨我不必打搅她或表妹们了，她让我记住，她永远是我最好的朋友，让我以后这么谈起她，对她感激万分。 ”
I had risen half an hour before her entrance , and had washed my face , and put on my clothes by the light of a half - moon just setting , whose rays streamed through the narrow window near my crib . i was to leave gateshead that day by a coach which passed the lodge gates at six a . m 一轮半月正在下沉月光从床边狭窄的窗户泻进房间，我借着月光洗了脸，穿好了衣服，那天我就要离开盖茨黑德，乘坐早晨六点钟经过院子门口的马车，只有贝茜己经起来了。
I then sat with my doll on my knee till the fire got low , glancing round occasionally to make sure that nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room ; and when the embers sank to a dull red , i undressed hastily , tugging at knots and strings as i best might , and sought shelter from cold and darkness in my crib . to this crib i always took my doll ; human beings must love something , and , in the dearth of worthier objects of affection , i contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image , shabby as a miniature scarecrow . it puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity i doated on this little toy , half fancying it alive and capable of sensation 随后，我把玩偶放在膝头枯坐着，直至炉火渐渐暗淡，还不时东张西望，弄清楚除了我没有更可怕的东西光顾这昏暗的房间，待到余烬褪为暗红色，我便急急忙忙拿出吃奶的劲来，宽衣解带，钻进小床，躲避寒冷与黑暗，我常把玩偶随身带到床上，人总得爱点什么，在缺乏更值得爱的东西的时候，我便设想以珍爱一个褪了色的布偶来获得愉快，尽管这个玩偶已经破烂不堪，活像个小小的稻草人，此刻忆起这件往事，也令我迷惑不解，当时，我是带着何等荒谬的虔诚来溺爱这小玩具的呀！
Not a hint , however , did she drop about sending me to school : still i felt an instinctive certainty that she would not long endure me under the same roof w with my doll on my knee till the fire got low , glancing round occasionally to make sure that nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room ; and when the embers sank to a dull red , i undressed hastily , tugging at knots and strings as i best might , and sought shelter from cold and darkness in my crib 自我生病以来，她已把我同她的孩子截然分开，指定我独自睡一个小房间，罚我单独用餐，整天呆在保育室里，而我的表兄妹们却经常在客厅玩耍。她没有丝毫暗示要送我上学，但我有一种很有把握的直觉，她不会长期容忍我与她同在一个屋檐下生活。因为她把目光投向我时，眼神里越来越表露出一种无法摆脱根深蒂固的厌恶。
Mrs . reed was rather a stout woman ; but , on hearing this strange and audacious declaration , she ran nimbly up the stair , swept me like a whirlwind into the nursery , and crushing me down on the edge of my crib , dared me in an emphatic voice to rise from that place , or utter one syllable during the remainder of the day 尽管里德太太的体态有些臃肿，但听见我这不可思议的大胆宣告，便利索地登登登跑上楼梯，一阵风似地把我拖进保育室，按倒在小床的床沿上，气势汹汹地说，谅我那天再也不敢从那里爬起来，或是再吭一声了。
