Diving Under
第一章：下潜
All I've ever wanted is for July Baker to leave me alone. For her to back off — you know, just give me some space.
我只有一个愿望：让朱莉安娜?贝克别来烦我。快点给我走开！——我只想让她离我远点。It all started the summer before second grade when our moving van pulled into her neighborhood. And since we're now about done with the eighth grade that, my friend, makes more than half a decade of strategic avoidance and social discomfort.
这一切都起源于一年级暑假，从我家的卡车停在她家隔壁开始。眼下，我们都快上完八年级了，也就是说，整整五年，我不得不忍受着社交上的不便，对她实行“战略性回避”。She didn't just barge into my life. She barged and shoved and wedged her way into my life. Did we invite her to get into our moving van and start climbing all over boxes? No! But that's exactly what she did, taking over and showing off like only Juli Baker can.
她可不只是闯入了我的生活，她是千方百计非要在我的生活里占领一席之地不可。难道是我们邀请她爬进搬家的卡车里，在箱子上爬来爬去的吗？才没有！可她就是不请自来，好像这是她的家，是她朱莉安娜?贝克的特权似的。
My dad tried to stop her. “Hey!” he says as she's catapulting herself on board. “What are you doing? You're getting mud everywhere!” So true, too. Her shoes were, like, caked with the stuff.
爸爸试图阻止她，“嘿！”她在车里跳来跳去的时候，爸爸喊道，“你在干什么？你把烂泥弄得到处都是！”没错，她的鞋上糊满了泥巴。
She didn't hop out, though. Instead, she planted her rear end on the floor and started pushing a big box with her feet. “Don't you want some help?”She glanced my way. “It sure looks like you need it.”
可她根本没想从车上下来。正相反，她一屁股坐在车厢里，开始用脚推起一个大箱子。“你难道不需要帮忙吗？”她朝我这边瞥了一眼，“我觉得你真的需要别人帮忙呢。”
I didn't like the implication. And even though my dad had been tossing me the same sort of look all week, I could tell — he didn't like this girl either. “Hey! Don't do that,” he warned her. “There are some really valuable things in that box.”
我一点儿也不喜欢她的暗示。虽然我爸也整天用这种眼神看我，可我敢说，他也不喜欢这丫头。“嘿，别推了，”他提醒道，“箱子里有贵重物品。”
“Oh. Well, how about this one?” She scoots over to a box labeled LENOX and looks my way again. “We should push it together!”
“哦，好吧。那我搬这个吧？”她挪到另一个贴着“LENOX（餐具）”标志的箱子旁边，又看了我一眼，“我们可以一起推！”
“No, no, no!” my dad says, then pulls her up by the arm. “Why don't you run along home? Y our mother's probably wondering where you are.”
“不，不，不用！”爸爸把她抱起来，“你是不是应该回家看看？你妈妈也许正在担心你跑到哪儿去了。”
This was the beginning of my soon-to-become-acute awareness that the girl cannot take a hint. Of any kind. Does she zip on home like a kid should when they've been invited to leave? No. She says, “Oh, my mom knows where I am.She said it was fine.” Then she points across the street and says, “We just live right over there.”
这是我头一次见识到这姑娘到底有多么不识趣，毫无自知之明。作为一个孩子，当别人礼貌地请她离开的时候，难道不是应该立刻乖乖地回家吗？她才不会。她说：“哦，妈妈知道我在哪儿，她说没关系。”然后她指着街对面说，“我家就住在那儿。”
My father looks to where she's pointing and mutters, “Oh boy.” Then he looks at me and winks as he says, “Bryce, isn't it time for you to go inside and help your mother?”爸爸看着她所指的方向，念叨着：“唉，上帝啊。”然后他看着我，边眨眼边说，“布莱斯，你是不是该回家给妈妈帮忙了？”
I knew right off that this was a ditch play. And I didn't think about it until later, but ditch wasn't a play I'd run with my dad before. Face it, pulling a ditch is not something discussed with dads. It's like, against parental law to tell your kid it's okay to ditch someone, no matter how annoying or muddy they might be.
我马上明白过来，这是个甩掉她的小花招。可我从来没跟爸爸排练过这出戏。拜托，怎样甩掉盯梢可不是你平时能和爸妈讨论的话题。想想看，告诉孩子可以甩掉别人，这可是违背了做父母的原则，不管这个人有多讨厌或是身上沾了多少泥巴。
But there he was, putting the play in motion, and man, he didn't have to wink twice. I smiled and said, “Sure thing!” then jumped off the lift gate and headed for my new front door.
但是爸爸情急之下还是这么做了，而且，他真的不用一直冲我使眼色吧！我笑了，答道：“没错！”然后跳出车门，冲向我们的新家。
I heard her coming after me but I couldn't believe it. Maybe it just sounded like she was chasing me; maybe she was really going the other way. But before I got up the nerve to look, she blasted right past me, grabbing my arm and yanking me along.
我听见她跟了上来，但我不敢相信。也许只是听上去很像她追上来了，也许她只是走向另一个方向。但是，在我鼓足勇气回头之前，她已经赶上来，猛地抓住我的胳膊。
This was too much. I planted myself and was about to tell her to get lost when the weirdest thing happened. I was making this big windmill motion to break away from her, but somehow on the downswing my hand wound up tangling into hers. I couldn't believe it. There I was, holding the mud monkey's hand!
这太过分了。我停下脚步，想告诉她快滚开，这时却发生了最最诡异的事情。我抡起胳膊想摆脱她，可是手臂落下来的时候却变成了挽着她的姿势。我简直不敢相信，我竟然挽了这只“泥猴”的手！
I tried to shake her off, but she just clamped on tight and yanked me along, saying, “C'mon!”
我想甩开她，但她把我的手攥得紧紧的，拉着我说：“来吧！”
My mom came out of the house and immediately got the world's sappiest look on her face. “Well, hello,” she says to Juli.
我妈妈从屋里走出来，立刻摆出了一副最糟糕的傻笑着的表情，“嗨，你好！”她跟朱莉打招呼。
“Hi!”
“你好！”
I'm still trying to pull free, but the girl's got me in a death grip. My mom's grinning, looking at o ur hands and my fiery red face. “And what's your name, honey?”
我还在挣扎着想摆脱她，但她死死地拽着我。看到我们握在一起的手，还有我又红又热的脸，妈妈笑了，“你叫什么名字，亲爱的？”
“Julianna Baker. I live right over there,” she says, pointing with her unoccupied hand.“朱莉安娜?贝克。我家就住在那儿。”她用那只空着的手指点着。
“Well, I see you've met my son,” she says, still grinning away.
“哦，我想你已经认识我儿子了。”妈妈还在笑着。
“Uh-huh!”
“是的！”
Finally I break free and do the only manly thing available when you're seven years old — I dive behind my mother.
我终于挣脱出来，做了一件七岁男孩唯一能做的充满男子汉气概的事——我躲到了妈妈身后。Mom puts h er arm around me and says, “Bryce, honey, why don't you show Julianna around the house?”
妈妈用手臂环着我，“布莱斯，亲爱的，你是不是应该请朱莉安娜参观一下我们的新家？”
I flash her help and warning signals with every part of my body, but she's not receiving. Then she shakes me off and says, “Go on.”
我用尽全身的力气向妈妈发出警告，可是她完全没有察觉。她推着我说：“去吧。”
Juli would've tramped right in if my mother hadn't noticed her shoes and told her to take them off. And after those were off, my mom told her that her dirty socks had to go, too. Juli wasn't embarrassed. Not a bit. She just peeled them off and left them in a crusty heap on our porch.
朱莉没有马上被允许进入房间，因为妈妈注意到那双脏鞋并且要求她脱下来。等她脱下鞋子，妈妈又说她的脏袜子也不许穿进屋里。朱莉全然没觉得尴尬，一点儿也不。她只是拽下袜子，随手扔在我家门廊里。
I didn't exactly give her a tour. I locked myself in the bathroom instead. And after about ten minutes of yelling back at her that no, I wasn't coming out anytime soon, things got quiet out in the hall. Another ten minutes went by before I got the nerve to peek out the door.
我没有认真地带她参观，而是把自己反锁在厕所里。我冲她叫喊了将近十分钟的“不，我决不出来”之后，客厅里终于安静下来。又过了十分钟，我鼓足勇气从门缝里往外看去。
No Juli.
没看到朱莉。
I snuck out and looked around, and yes! She was gone.
我蹑手蹑脚地走出来，看了一圈，没错，她走了！
Not a very sophisticated ditch, but hey, I was only seven.
这一手不算太高明，但我毕竟才七岁嘛。
My troubles were far from over, though. Every day she came back, over and over again. “Can Bryce play?” I could hear her asking from my hiding place behind the couch. “Is he ready yet?” One time she even cut across the yard and looked
through my window. I spotted her in the nick of time and dove under my bed, but man, that right there tells you something about Juli Baker. She's got no concept of personal space. No respect for privacy. The world is her playground, and watch out below —
Juli's on the slide!
不过，我的麻烦还远远没有结束。她一次又一次地来找我，每天都来。“布莱斯能出来玩吗？”我藏在沙发背后，听见她这样问道。“他准备好了吗？”有一次她甚至穿过院子从窗户往里看。我恰好观察到她的动向，马上潜伏到床底下。不过朋友，我得告诉你一些关于朱莉安娜?贝克的事。她完全不知道“私人空间”为何物，不尊重别人的隐私。全世界都是朱莉的地盘，当心——她只会越来越过分！
Lucky for me, my dad was willing to run block. And he did it over and over again. He told her I was busy or sleeping or just plain gone. He was a lifesaver.
幸运的是，我爸爸希望保护我。他徒劳地试了一次又一次，他告诉朱莉说我很忙，说我在睡觉，或者说我不在家。他真是我的大救星。
My sister, on the other hand, tried to sabotage me any chance she got. Lynetta's like that. She's four years older than me, and buddy, I've learned from watching her how not to run your life. She's got ANTAGONIZE written all over her. Just look at her — not cross-eyed or with your tongue sticking out or anything — just look at her and you've started an argument.
作为对立面，我的姐姐却逮住一切机会陷害我。利奈特就喜欢这样。她比我大四岁，从她身上我学会了不去和命运抗争。她是个浑身上下写满了“抗议”两个字的家伙。只要谁看了她一眼——不用斜着眼睛，或是吐着舌头看——仅仅是看她一眼，就能让她跟你吵起来。
I used to knock-down-drag-out with her, but it's just not worth it. Girls don't fight fair. They pull your hair and gouge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time-out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don't snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they'll give up and try to lure someone else.
跟她在一起，我一向采取消极抵抗的态度，但是这也没有用。女孩子从来不搞公平竞争。她们拽你的头发、抠你、掐你，明明是你挨了打，她们却率先跑到妈妈面前告状。然后你被关了禁闭，凭什么？不，我的朋友，诀窍在于千万不能上当，不要跟她们正面交锋。你得不慌不忙地四处迂回，对她们的挑衅一笑置之。过不了多久她们就会放弃了，把注意力转移到别人身上。
At least that's the way it is with Lynetta. And the bonus of having her as a
in-in-the-rear sister was figuring out that this method works on everyone. Teachers, jerks at school, even Mom and Dad. Seriously. There's no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.
起码这套伎俩在利奈特面前行得通。有这么一个让你如芒在背的姐姐，唯一的好处就是，在她身上试验成功的方法，多半对于别人也适用。比如老师、学校里的怪胎，甚至是爸爸妈妈。真的。你永远吵不赢父母，为什么不能学着放松点呢？与其时不时被父母修理一通，不如下潜到自己的世界里，别在他们眼前出现。
The funny thing is, Lynetta's still clueless when it comes to dealing with Mom and Dad. She goes straight into thrash mode and is too busy drowning in the argument to take a deep breath and dive for calmer water.
好笑的是，利奈特在对待父母的态度上依然很幼稚。她总是直接进入战斗状态，把精力全放在争执上，却来不及深吸一口气，潜入冷静的水中。
And she thinks I'm stupid.
而她还认为我是个傻瓜。
Anyway, true to form, Lynetta tried to bait me with Juli those first few days. She even snuck her past Dad once and marched her all around the house, hunting me down. I wedged myself up on the top shelf of my closet, and lucky for me, neither of them looked up. A few minutes later I heard Dad yell at Juli to get off the antique furniture, and once again, she got booted.
不管怎么说，和往常一样，起初利奈特想用朱莉引我上钩。有一次她甚至背着爸爸带朱莉进入我家，到处搜捕我。我蜷成一团躲在壁柜最上面一层，幸好她们谁也没想起往上看一眼。没过几分钟，我就听见爸爸大喊着让朱莉离那些古董家具远一点儿，她又一次被赶走了。
I don't think I went outside that whole first week. I helped unpack stuff and watched TV and just kind of hung around while my mom and dad arranged and rearranged the furniture, debating whether Empire settees and French Rococo tables should even be put in the same room.
头一个星期，我记得自己根本没出过家门。我帮忙拆箱，看电视，在爸爸妈妈摆放家具、争论着帝国风格的靠背椅和法式洛可可餐桌是否能放在一个房间里的时候四处闲逛。
So believe me, I was dying to go outside. But every time I checked through the window, I could see Juli showing off in her yard. She'd be heading a soccer ball or doing high kicks with it or dribbling it up and down their driveway. And when
she wasn't busy showing off, she'd just sit on the curb with the ball between her feet, staring at our house.
所以，请相信，我那时候疯了似的想出去。但每次把目光投向窗户，我都看到朱莉出现在她家院子里。她要么在练习头球，要么是在高抬腿跑，或是在车道上盘球。假如她没有在那里卖弄，就是坐在路边，把足球夹在两脚中间，望着我们家的房子。
My mom didn't understand why it was so awful that “that cute little girl” had held my hand. She thought I should make friends with her. “I thought you liked soccer, honey. Why don't you go out there and kick the ball around?”
妈妈完全不理解为什么被“那个可爱的小姑娘”拉了手，是件糟透了的事。她认为我应该跟朱莉交朋友。“我以为你也喜欢足球呢，亲爱的。为什么不出去在附近踢一会儿呢？”Because I didn't want to be kicked around, that's why. And although I couldn't say it like that at the time, I still had enough sense at age seven and a half to know that Juli Baker was dangerous.
因为我可不想被人当球踢。在七岁半这个年纪，我也许嘴上说不出来，却已经本能地意识到，朱莉?贝克是个危险的家伙。
Unavoidably dangerous, as it turns out. The minute I walked into Mrs. Yelson's second-grade classroom, I was dead meat. “Bryce!” Juli squeals.“You'r e here.” Then she charges across the room and tackles me.
而且她一旦出现，就是个躲不掉的危险。当我走进叶尔逊夫人的二年级教室，我就开始任人宰割了。“布莱斯！”朱莉尖叫着，“你也在这儿。”接着，她冲过整间教室按住了我。Mrs. Yelson tried to explain this attack away as a “welcome hug,” but man, that was no hug. That was a front-line, take-'em-down tackle. And even though I shook her off, it was too late. I was branded for life. Everyone jeered, “Where's your girl friend, Bryce?” “Are you married yet, Bryce?” And then when she chased me around at recess and tried to lay kisses on me, the whole school started singing, “Bryce and Juli sitting in a tree, K-I-S-SIN-G…”
叶尔逊夫人想把这次袭击解释成“用拥抱欢迎你”，可是，那根本不是什么拥抱，明明是个
真刀真枪、硬碰硬的抢断动作。虽然我把她挣开，但已经晚了，我就此打上了一生的烙印。人人都嘲笑我，“布莱斯，你的女朋友呢？”“你结婚了吗，布莱斯？”课间休息，当她追着我、试图亲吻我的时候，全校学生都唱起了拉拉歌，“布莱斯和朱莉坐在树梢上，
K-I-S-S-I-N-G……（kissing,接吻）”
My first year in town was a disaster.
我搬到这里的第一年，简直是一场灾难。
Third grade wasn't much better. She was still hot on my trail every time I turned around. Same with fourth. But then in fifth grade I took action.
三年级也好不到哪儿去，她坚持到处堵着我。四年级也是一样。到了五年级，我终于决定反击。
It started out slow — one of those Nah-that's-not-right ideas you get and forget. But the more I played with the idea, the more I thought, What better way to ward Juli off? What better way to say to her, “Juli, you are not my type”?
这个主意来得并不突然——有些想法，你明知道它不对，却总是盘旋在你脑海里。不过，它出现的次数越多，我就越觉得，要想摆脱朱莉、明确地告诉她“你不是我喜欢的类型”，没有更好的办法了。
And so, my friend, I hatched the plan.
于是，我策划了一个方案。
I asked Shelly Stalls out.
我和雪莉?斯道尔斯约会了。
To fully appreciate the brilliance of this, you have to understand that Juli hates Shelly Stalls. She always has, though it beats me why. Shelly's nice and she's friendly and she's got a lot of hair. What's not to like? But Juli hated her, and I was going to make this little gem of knowledge the solution to my problem.
要知道，朱莉和雪莉有不共戴天之仇，所以你明白这个办法有多聪明了吧。朱莉一直看雪莉不爽，我始终想不通这是为什么。雪莉是个好姑娘，待人亲切，头发又长又密。她有什么缺点呢？但朱莉就是不喜欢她，而我要用这件事解决我的问题。
What I was thinking was that Shelly would eat lunch at our table and maybe walk around a little with me. That way, anytime Juli was around, all I'd have to do was hang a little closer to Shelly and things would just naturally take care of themselves. What happened, though, is that Shelly took things way too seriously. She went around telling everybody — including Juli — that we were in love.
我本来指望，雪莉只需要跟我一起吃个午饭，也许还可以散散步。顺利的话，只要朱莉出现，我要做的只不过是和雪莉表现得更亲近一点儿，剩下的事情就会顺其自然地发生。可惜，现实毕竟是现实，雪莉太认真了。她跑去告诉每一个人——包括朱莉在内——说我们在恋爱。In no time Juli and Shelly got into some kind of catfight, and while Shelly was recovering from that, my supposed friend Garrett — who had been totally behind this plan — told her what I was up to. He's always denied it, but I've since learned that his code of honor is easily corrupted by weepy females.
结果，朱莉和雪莉立刻上演了一场女孩子之间的火拼。一架打完，雪莉还在喘息的时候，我所谓的挚友加利特——这个主意的幕后策划者——却把实情跟她交了底。他从来不肯承认，可我从此明白了他就是个重色轻友的家伙。
That afternoon the principal tried cross-examining me, but I wouldn't cop to anything. I just kept telling her that I was sorry and that I really didn't understand what had
happened. Finally she let me go.
那天下午，我受到了双重考验，可我没那么容易被击败。我不断地向她道歉，说自己根本不知道事情会闹成这样。最后，她终于放过我了。
Shelly cried for days and followed me around school sniffling and making me feel like a real jerk, which was even worse than having Juli as a shadow.
雪莉哭了好几天，在学校里追着我，搞得我像个真正的怪胎，比身后有朱莉这个盯梢还要糟糕。
Everything blew over at the one-week mark, though, when Shelly officially dumped me and started going out with Kyle Larsen. Then Juli started up with the goo-goo eyes again, and I was back to square one.
整出闹剧在一个星期后渐渐烟消云散，雪莉正式宣布抛弃我，开始和凯尔?拉森出双入对。朱莉又朝我抛开了媚眼，而我又回到了原点。
Now, in sixth grade things changed, though whether they improved is hard to say. I don't remember Juli actually chasing me in the sixth grade. But I do remember her sniffing me.
进入六年级，状况又变本加厉了，这很难用语言描述。我记得六年级里朱莉并没有再追着我，而是变成嗅我。
Yes, my friend, I said sniffing.
没错，我说的就是嗅我。
And you can blame that on our teacher, Mr. Mertins. He stuck Juli to me like glue. Mr. Mertins has got some kind of doctorate in seating arrangements or something, because he analyzed and scrutinized and practically baptized the seats we had to sit in. And of course he decided to seat Juli right next to me.
一切都得归罪于我的老师，马丁斯先生。是他促使朱莉黏上我的。马丁斯先生对于安排座位很有些心得，他翻来覆去地研究我们应该各自坐在哪里，然后顺理成章地把朱莉安排在我的邻座。
Juli Baker is the kind of annoying person who makes a point of letting you know she's smart. Her hand is the first one up; her answers are usually complete dissertations; her projects are always turned in early and used as weapons against the rest of the class. Teachers always have to hold her project up and say, “This is what I'm looking for, class. This is an example of A-plus work.” Add all the extra credi t she does to an already perfect score, and I swear she's never gotten less than 120 percent in any subject.
朱莉?贝克是那种一心要展示自己聪明才智的人，因此特别惹人讨厌。她总是第一个举手；她回答起问题总是长篇大论；她的作业永远交得最早，永远被老师拿来打击其他人。老师们经常举着她的作业说：“同学们，这才是我想要的。这是篇A+的模板。”她做了这么多，生怕自己还不完美，我敢说她门门功课都没有低过120分。
But after Mr. Mertins stuck Juli right next to me, her annoying knowledge of all subjects far and wide came in handy. See, suddenly Juli's perfect answers, written in perfect cursive, were right across the aisle, just an eye-shot away. You wouldn't believe the number of answers I snagged from her. I started getting A's and B's on everything! It was great!
但是，自从马丁斯先生安排朱莉坐在我旁边，她的各项知识就变得有用了。忽然间，朱莉把课堂提问的完美答案，都写成一张潦草的小纸条，转瞬之间经由过道转移到我手里。这件事
我们不知道干过多少次。我开始门门功课不是得A就是得B了！这太棒了！
But then Mr. Mertins pulled the shift. He had some new idea for “optimizing positional latitude and longitude,” and when the dust finally settled, I was sitting right in front of Juli Baker.
不过，马丁斯先生又开始换座位了。他的“优化定位学”又有了新的理论。当一切尘埃落定，我被安排坐在朱莉?贝克的前座。
This is where the sniffing comes in. That maniac started leaning forward and sniffing my hair. She'd edge her nose practically up to my scalp and sniff-sniff-sniff.
她就是从这时开始嗅我的。这个疯姑娘向前靠过来，闻我的头发。她把鼻子架在我的头皮上，就那么嗅——嗅——嗅。
I tried elbowing and back-kicking. I tried scooting my chair way forward or putting my backpack between me and the seat. Nothing helped. She'd just scoot up, too, or lean over a little farther and sniff-sniff-sniff.
我试过用手肘撞她，回身踢她。我试过把椅子往前拽，把书包夹在后背和座位之间。不管用。她还是会凑上来，或者离得稍微远一点儿，然后嗅——嗅——嗅。
I finally asked Mr. Mertins to move me, but he wouldn't do it. Something about not wanting to disturb the delicate balance of educational energies.
终于，我忍不住去找马丁斯先生换座位，但他说什么也不肯。理由似乎是“不希望打破教育能量的微妙平衡”之类的话。
Whatever. I was stuck with her sniffing. And since I couldn't see her perfectly penned answers anymore, my grades took a dive. Especially in spelling.
不管怎么说，我被她闻定了。并且，由于再也看不到她完美的小抄，我的成绩急转直下，尤其是拼写课。
Then one time, during a test, Juli's in the middle of sniffing my hair when she notices that I've blown a spelling word. A lot of words. Suddenly the sniffing stops and the whispering starts. At first I couldn't believe it. Juli Baker cheating? But sure enough, she was spelling words for me, right in my ear.
有一次听写的时候，她正在闻我的头发，忽然发现我拼错了一个词。不止一个，是很多词。忽然，她不再闻我，而是跟我说起悄悄话。起初我不敢相信自己的耳朵。朱莉?贝克作弊？没错，她真的帮我拼出了那些词，就在我耳边。
Juli'd always been sly about sniffing, which really bugged me because no one ever noticed her doing it, but she was just as sly about giving me answers, which was okay by me. The bad thing about it was that I started counting on her spelling in my ear. I mean, why study when you don't have to, right? But after a while, taking all those answers made me feel sort of indebted to her. How can you tell someone to bug off or quit sniffing you when you owe them? It's, you know, wrong.
朱莉嗅我的时候确实很隐蔽，从来没被人发现过，这让我非常困扰。不过她帮我作弊的时候也同样隐蔽，关于这一点我倒是很满意。不过它的坏处在于，我开始依赖她在我耳边的提示。说实话，当你不用学习就能拿到好成绩，干吗还要努力呢？不过，她帮了我那么多次，我总有种受惠于她的内疚感。当我还欠着人情的时候，怎么能把对方赶走或是让她别再嗅我呢？你想想就知道，这是不对的。
So I spent the sixth grade somewhere between uncomfortable and unhappy, but I kept thinking that next year, next year, things would be different.
于是，在别扭与难受当中，我度过了整个六年级。我总是忍不住想，明年，只要到了明年，
事情就有转机了。
We'd be in junior high — a big school — in different classes. It would be a world with too many people to worry about ever seeing Juli Baker again.
明年我们将升入初中——那是个大学校——我们会进入不同班级。那是个全新的世界，有太多的人和事等着我去探索，再也不用担心遇到朱莉?贝克。
It was finally, finally going to be over.
我们之间终于，终于要画上句号了。
Flipped
第二章：心动
The first day I met Bryce Loski, I flipped. Honestly, one look at him and I became a lunatic. It's his eyes. Something in his eyes. They're blue, and framed in the blackness of his lashes, they're dazzling. Absolutely breathtaking.
遇见布莱斯?罗斯基的第一天，我就对他怦然心动。呃，好吧，实际上我对他完全是一见钟情。是因为他的眼睛。他的眼神里有某种东西。他有一双蓝色的眼睛，在黑色睫毛的勾勒下一闪一闪的，让我忍不住屏住了呼吸。
It's been over six years now, and I learned long ago to hide my feelings, but oh, those first days. Those first years! I thought I would die for wanting to be with him.
六年了，我早就学会隐藏自己的感觉了。不过想想最初的日子，还是让人哭笑不得。最初的那几年，我想我大概是太执著地想跟他在一起了。
Two days before the second grade is when it started, although the anticipation began weeks before—ever since my mother had told me that there was a family with a boy my age moving into the new house right across the street.
事情起源于二年级开学前两天，虽然几周之前就有了先兆——妈妈告诉我，有一家人要搬到对街的新房子，带着一个跟我同龄的男孩。
Soccer camp had ended, and I'd been so bored because there was nobody, absolutely nobody, in the neighborhood to play with. Oh, there were kids, but every one of them was older. That was dandy for my brothers, but what it left me was home alone.
足球夏令营已经结束了，街坊邻居没有一个人陪我玩，真是无聊死了。附近也有几个孩子，可他们全都是大孩子。对我哥哥们来说当然不错，可我却只好一个人孤零零地留在家里。My mother was there, but she had better things to do than kick a soccer ball around. So she said, anyway. At the time I didn't think there was anything better than kicking a soccer ball around, especially not the likes of laundry or dishes or vacuuming, but my mother didn't agree. And the danger of being home alone with her was that she'd recruit me to help her wash or dust or vacuum, and she wouldn't tolerate the dribbling of a soccer ball around the house as I moved from chore to chore.
妈妈也在家，不过她有的是比踢球更重要的事情要做。反正她是这么说的。对于当年的我来说，没有什么比踢球更好的了，尤其是跟洗衣服、刷盘子、拖地板比起来。但我妈妈不同意。单独跟妈妈待在家里就有这个危险，她会抓住我帮她洗衣服、刷盘子、拖地板。而且她绝对不能容忍我在做家务的间隙踢两脚球。
To play it safe, I waited outside for weeks, just in case the new neighbors moved in early. Literally, it was weeks. I entertained myself by playing soccer with our dog, Champ. Mostly he'd just block because a dog can't exactly kick and score, but once in
a while he'd dribble with his nose. The scent of a ball must overwhelm a dog, though, because Champ would eventually try to chomp it, then lose the ball to me.
保险起见，我在屋子外边晃荡了几个星期，生怕邻居来早了。真的，足有几个星期。为了自娱自乐，我开始跟我的狗“冠军”踢球。大多数时间它只能把球扑住，毕竟狗不是真的会“踢”球。但它有时会用鼻子去捅。不过，球的气味对狗来说一定是难以抵挡的诱惑，因为到最后“冠军”总会试图把它吃下去，然后输球给我。
When the Loskis' moving van finally arrived, eve ryone in my family was happy. “Little Julianna” was finally going to have a playmate.
当罗斯基家的卡车终于到来的那一天，我家里每个人都欢欣鼓舞。“小朱莉安娜”终于有个玩伴了。
My mother, being the truly sensible adult that she is, made me wait more than an hour before going over to meet him. “Give th em a chance to stretch their legs, Julianna,” she said. “They'll want some time to adjust.” She wouldn't even let me watch from the yard. “I know you, sweetheart. Somehow that ball will wind up in their yard and you'll just have to go retrieve it.”
作为一个极度敏感体贴的成年人，妈妈硬是让我在家里待了足足一个小时才出门见邻居。“给他们留点时间伸个懒腰，朱莉安娜，”她说，“他们需要一些时间休整。”她甚至不允许我从院子里往外看。“我很了解你，宝贝。没准儿最后你的球不知怎么就掉到人家的院子里，而你不得不过去捡回来。”
So I watched from the window, and every few minutes I'd ask, “Now?” and she'd say, “Give them a little while longer, would you?”
所以，我只好趴在窗户旁边，隔几分钟就问“现在能去了吗”，她每次都回答：“再给他们一点儿时间，好吗？”
Then the phone rang. And the minute I was sure she was good and preoccupied, I tugged on her sleeve and asked, “Now?”
这时电话响了。当我能肯定她正心情愉悦并且全神贯注在电话上时，我就拽着她的袖子问：“现在好了吗？”
She nodded and whispered, “Okay, but take it easy! I'll be over there in a minute.”
她点点头，轻声说：“好吧，但是放松一点儿！我马上就过去。”
I was too excited not to charge across the street, but I did try very hard to be civilized once I got to the moving van. I stood outside looking in for a record-breaking length of time, which was hard because there he was! About halfway back! My new sure-to-be best friend, Bryce Loski.
我太兴奋了，忍不住横穿了马路，但我努力在接近卡车的时候保持了礼貌。我站在车外朝里望去，破纪录地保持这个姿态挺长时间，但是这太有难度了，因为差不多等到一半的时候，我看到了他！我坚信即将成为我新的最佳死党的人，布莱斯?罗斯基！
Bryce wasn't really doing much of anything. He was more hanging back, watching his father move boxes onto the lift-gate. I remember feeling sorry for Mr. Loski because he looked worn out, moving boxes all by himself. I also remember that he and Bryce were wearing matching turquoise polo shirts, which I thought was really cute. Really nice.
其实布莱斯并没有做什么。他只是在那边晃荡着，看他爸爸把箱子搬到汽车尾板上。记得当时我真的很同情罗斯基先生，因为他看上去疲惫不堪，全靠他一个人在那里搬。我还记得他和布莱斯穿着相同款式的蓝绿色Polo衫（一种休闲服装），非常可爱。真是太好看了。
When I couldn't stand it any longer, I called, “Hi!” into the van, which made Bryce jump, and then quick as a cricket, he started pushing a box like he'd been working all along. 我不好意思再呆呆地站在那儿，于是朝车里喊道：“你们好！”布莱斯惊得跳了起来，然后像只蟋蟀似的迅速开始推起一只箱子，假装他一直在工作。
I could tell from the way Bryce was acting so guilty that he was supposed to be moving boxes, but he was sick of it. He'd probably been moving things for days! It was easy to see that he needed a rest. He needed some juice! Something. It was also easy to see that Mr. Loski wasn't about to let him quit. He was going to keep on moving boxes around until he collapsed, and by then Bryce might be dead. Dead before he'd had the chance to move in!
布莱斯的内疚感让我猜到，他本来应该乖乖地帮忙搬箱子，但他却烦透了这活儿。没准儿他已经干了好几天了！很明显，他需要休息。他需要喝点什么，比如果汁！同样很明显，罗斯基先生不可能放他走。他大概预备干到自己累倒为止，那时候布莱斯估计已经累死了——他大概都没机会走进新家！
The tragedy of it catapulted me into the moving van. I had to help! I had to save him! 眼前的这一幕惨剧推动我走进了卡车。我必须去帮忙！我必须救他！
When I got to his side to help him shove a box forward, the poor boy was so exhausted that he just moved aside and let me take over. Mr. Loski didn't want me to help, but at least I saved Bryce. I'd been in the moving van all of three minutes when his dad sent him off to help his mother unpack things inside the house.
我走到他身边，准备帮他一起推箱子，这个可怜的孩子实在太累了，他只是让出位置，把活儿交给了我。罗斯基先生不想让我帮忙，但我至少救出了布莱斯。我在卡车里最多只待了三分钟，他就被他爸爸发配去屋子里帮妈妈整理行李。
I chased Bryce up the walkway, and that's when everything changed. You see, I caught up to him and grabbed his arm, trying to stop him so maybe we could play a little before he got trapped inside, and the next thing I know he's holding my hand, looking right into my eyes.
我追着他上了人行道，从这一刻起，一切都变了。这么说吧，我追上他，抓住他的胳膊，只想在他被困在屋里之前截住他，跟我玩一会儿。然后突然之间，他牵起我的手，直直地看着我的眼睛。
My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes.
毫无原因地，我心脏就那么漏跳了一拍。我的人生中第一次有了那样的感觉。就像整个世界在你四周，从你身体由内而外地翻滚，而你飘浮在半空中。唯一能绑住你不会飘走的，就是那双眼睛。
They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.
你们两个人的眼睛被一种看不见的力量连接在一起，在外面的世界旋转、翻腾并彻底分崩离析的时候，一把抓住了你。
I almost got my first kiss that day. I'm sure of it. But then his mother came out the front door and he was so embarrassed that his cheeks turned completely red, and the next thing you know he's hiding in the bathroom.
那天，我差一点儿就得到了我的初吻。我十分肯定。但是紧接着他妈妈就从屋子里走出来，他尴尬的脸都红透了，接下来他就躲进了洗手间。
I was waiting for him to come out when his sister, Lynetta, saw me in the hallway. She seemed big and mature to me, and since she wanted to know what was going on, I told her a little bit about it. I shouldn't have, though, because she wiggled the bathroom doorknob and started teasing Bryce somet hing fierce. “Hey, baby brother!” she called through the door. “There's a hot chick out here waiting for you! Whatsa matter? Afraid she's got cooties?”
我在门厅里等他出来，这时他姐姐利奈特发现了我。她看上去比我大，更成熟一些。她问我怎么回事，我就简单地说了一点儿。不过，我不该告诉她的，因为她摇晃着洗手间的门把手，疯狂地嘲笑起布莱斯。“嘿，小弟弟！”她朝门的那一边大声喊着，“外面有个漂亮小姑娘在等你！你怎么不敢出来？怕她身上有虱子吗？”
It was so embarrassing! I yanked on her arm and told her to stop it, but she wouldn't, so finally I just left.
这太尴尬了！我拽着她的胳膊想让她停下来，但她不肯，最后我只好走开了。
I found my mother outside talking to Mrs. Loski. Mom had given her the beautiful lemon Bundt cake that was supposed to be our dessert that night. The powdered sugar looked soft and white, and the cake was still warm, sending sweet lemon smells into the air.
我看见妈妈正在门口和罗斯基太太说话。妈妈送给她一个漂亮的烘烤柠檬蛋糕，那恐怕应该是我家今晚的甜点。上面的糖霜看起来又白又软，蛋糕还热着，散发着甜甜的柠檬香气。My mouth was watering just looking at it! But it was in Mrs. Loski's hands, and I knew there was no getting it back. All I could do was try to eat up the smells while I listened to the two of them discuss grocery stores and the weather forecast.
看到它我的口水就流出来了！但它现在属于罗斯基太太，再也回不来了。我只能在她们讨论杂货店和天气预报的时候狠狠地吞咽着空气中的香味。
After that Mom and I went home. It was very strange. I hadn't gotten to play with Bryce at all. All I knew was that his eyes were a dizzying blue, that he had a sister who was not to be trusted, and that he'd almost kissed me.
然后我就和妈妈回家了。这太奇怪了。我根本没能和布莱斯一起玩。我只记得他那双闪闪发亮的蓝眼睛，他有个不靠谱的姐姐，以及，他差点亲了我。
I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet—only science would put them on the same tree.
晚上，我想着那个本该发生的初吻睡着了。被人亲吻到底是什么感觉？不知怎的，我知道它一定和爸爸妈妈的晚安吻不一样。毫无疑问，虽然它们看起来差不多，却有本质上的不同。就像狼和狗——只有科学家才会认为它们同属一个科目。
Looking back on the second grade, I like to think it was at least partly scientific curiosity that made me chase after that kiss, but to be honest, it was probably more those blue eyes. All through the second and third grades I couldn't seem to stop myself from following him, from sitting by him, from just wanting to be near him.
回首二年级，我总是希望自己至少有一部分是出于对科学的好奇，才如此执著于我的初吻。但诚实地说，恐怕更重要的原因是那双蓝眼睛。从那一刻起，直到三年级结束，我无法自拔
地追随着他，坐在他旁边，希望自己至少能离他近一点儿。
By the fourth grade I'd learned to control myself. The sight of him—the thought of him—still sent my heart humming, but my legs didn't actually chase after him anymore.
I just watched and thought and dreamed.
到了四年级，我学会控制自己。看到他——想到他——仍然让我的心怦怦直跳，但我已经不再真的追着他跑。我只是在那里望着，想着，盼望着。
Then in the fifth grade Shelly Stalls came into the picture. Shelly Stalls is a ninny. A whiny, gossipy, backstabbing ninny who says one thing to one person and the opposite to another. Now that we're in junior high, she's the undisputed diva
of drama, but even back in elementary school she knew how to put on a performance. Especially when it came to P.E. I never once saw her run laps or do calisthenics. Instead, she would go into her “delicate” act, claiming her body would absolutely collapse from the strain if she ran or jumped or stretched.
五年级的时候，忽然冒出了一个雪莉?斯道尔斯。她是个傻瓜，一个爱发牢骚、爱传八卦、爱背后中伤别人的家伙。她总是把一件事对一个人说成黑的，对另一个人说成是白的。现在我们都升上了初中，她是个无可争议的演技派天后，就算回到小学时代，她也知道该怎么装样子。尤其是体育课上。我既没见过她跑圈也没见过她做操。相反，她会奉上一出“完美”的表演，声明她的身体在跑步、跳高和伸展运动的折磨下，一定会晕倒。
It worked. Every year. She'd bring in some note and be sure to swoon a little for the teacher the first few days of the year, after which she'd be excused from anything that required muscles. She never even put up her own chair at the end of the day. The only muscles she exercised regularly were the ones around her mouth, and those she worked out nonstop. If there was an Olympic contest for talking, Shelly Stalls would sweep the event. Well, she'd at least win the gold and silver— one medal for each side of her mouth.
这很管用。每年都很管用。她带来医生的证明，并在学年开始的那几天小小地晕倒几次，然后逃过一年当中任何需要力量的事情。甚至放学的时候都不搬自己的椅子。唯一经常得到锻炼的肌肉是她的嘴唇，而且动起来几乎一刻不停。假如奥运会增加一个比赛说话的项目，雪莉?斯道尔斯一定能横扫一切奖项。好吧，至少是金牌和银牌——上下嘴唇各得一项。What bugged me about it was not the fact that she got out of P.E.—who'd want her on their team, anyway? What bugged me about it was that anyone who bothered to look would know that it wasn't asthma or weak ankles or her being “delicate” that was stopping her. It was her hair. She had mountains of it, twisted this way or that, clipped or beaded, braided or swirled. Her ponytails rivaled the ones on carousel horses. And on the days she let it all hang down, she'd sort of shimmy and cuddle inside it like it was a blanket, so that practically all you saw of her face was her nose.
其实，我烦恼的倒不是她不用上体育课这件事——说实话，又有谁愿意跟雪莉分在一组呢？我烦恼的是，只要谁有心，就一定能看出妨碍她上课的根本不是哮喘、脚踝有伤或是她表现出的那种“娇弱”，而是她的头发。她有那么多头发，一会儿卷成这样一会儿卷成那样，一会儿剪短一会儿缀上珠花，一会儿编辫子一会儿盘成发髻。她的马尾辫就跟旋转木马的尾巴差不多。那段时间她总是披散着头发，把它们当成毯子似的把自己的脑袋裹在里面，所以别人只能看到她的鼻子。
Good luck playing four-square with a blanket over your head.
在脑袋上裹着一床毯子玩抛球游戏？还是算了吧。
My solution to Shelly Stalls was to ignore her, which worked just dandy until about halfway through the fifth grade when I saw her holding hands with Bryce.
我对待雪莉?斯道尔斯的方式是无视她，这一直都很奏效，直到五年级的时候我看到她握着布莱斯的手。
My Bryce. The one who was still embarrassed over holding my hand two days before the second grade. The one who was still too shy to say much more than hello to me. 那是我的布莱斯，是那个始终为了二年级开学前两天握了我的手而害羞的家伙。是那个因为太害羞，除了“你好”以外不敢跟我多说一句话的家伙。
The one who was still walking around with my first kiss.
是那个一直还欠我一个初吻的家伙。
How could Shelly have wormed her hand into his? That pushy little princess had no business hanging on to him like that!
雪莉怎么敢把她的手塞进他的手心里？这个爱出风头的娇气小公主根本没理由和他混在一起！
Bryce looked over his shoulder from time to time as they walked along, and he was looking at me. My first thought was that he was telling me he was sorry. Then it dawned on me— he needed my help. Absolutely, that's what it had to be!
当他们经过的时候，布莱斯时不时小心翼翼地回头看，他看的是我。我首先想到的是，他是在向我表示抱歉。然后我忽然领悟了——他是想让我帮忙。没错，只能是这个意思！Shelly Stalls was too delicate to shake off, too swirly to be pushed away. She'd unravel and start sniffling and oh, how embarrassing that would be for him! No, this wasn't a job a boy could do gracefully.
雪莉?斯道尔斯太娇弱了，让布莱斯不好意思甩掉她，而且她太缠人了，让他挣脱不掉。她一定会心碎的，然后开始抽搐，这对布莱斯来说得有多尴尬！这件事男生做起来姿态绝对不好看。
This was a job for a girl.
只能由女生来代为完成。
I didn't even bother checking around for other candidates—I had her off of him in two seconds flat. Bryce ran away the minute he was free, but not Shelly. Oh, no-no-no! She came at me, scratching and pulling and twisting anything she could get her hands on, telling me that Bryce was hers and there was no way she was letting him go.
我根本没有考虑过是否还有其他人选——两秒钟之内我就把她从他身边拽开。一挣开，布莱斯立刻跑掉了，但是雪莉没跑。哦，不——不——不！她冲我过来了，对着她能够到的地方又抓又扯又拧，说布莱斯是属于她的，她绝不放手。
How delicate.
真是太娇弱了。
I was hoping for herds of teachers to appear so they could see the real Shelly Stalls in action, but it was too late by the time anyone arrived on the scene. I had Fluffy in a headlock and her arm twisted back in a hammerlock, and no amount of her squawking or scratching was going to get me to un lock her until a teacher arrived.
我满心希望这时候冒出一大群老师，看看真实生活中的雪莉?斯道尔斯到底是什么样子，可惜等人们来到这里已经太晚了。我蓬头垢面地被她夹住脑袋，而她的双手被我反剪到背后，不管她怎样尖叫、抓人，都不可能让我在老师到达之前放开她。
In the end, Shelly went home early with a bad case of mussed-up hair, while I told my side of things to the principal. Mrs. Shultz is a sturdy lady who probably secretly appreciates the value of a swift kick well placed, and although she told me that it would be better if I let other people work out their own dilemmas, she definitely understood about Shelly Stalls and her hair and told me she was glad I'd had the
self-control to do nothing more than restrain her.
最后，雪莉带着一头乱发提前回家了，而我则留下跟校长复述情况。舒尔茨夫人是个健硕的女人，也许私下里会欣赏一记正确的飞踢，但是她告诉我最好还是让别人去解决他们自己的困境，她完全明白雪莉?斯道尔斯和她的头发是怎么回事，还说她很高兴看到我能够控制住自己，没有做出除了制止她以外更离谱的事。
Shelly was back the next day with a head full of braids. And of course she got everybody whispering about me, but I just ignored them. The facts spoke for themselves. Bryce didn't go anywhere near her for the rest of the year.
第二天，雪莉带着满头的辫子回来了。当然，她成功地让所有人都在私下议论我，但我根本不理他们。事实是不言自明的。在这个学年剩下的时间里，布莱斯从来不走近她。
That's not to say that Bryce held my hand after that, but he did start being a little friendlier to me. Especially in the sixth grade, after Mr. Mertins sat us right next to each other in the third row back.
这倒不是说布莱斯从此跟我走在一起了，但他开始变得友善一些。尤其是六年级马丁斯先生把我们安排在倒数第三排成了同桌之后。
Sitting next to Bryce was nice. He was nice. He'd say Hi, Juli to me every morning, and once in a while I'd catch him looking my way. He'd always blush and go back to his own work, and I couldn't help but smile. He was so shy. And so cute!
坐在布莱斯旁边感觉很好。每天早上他对我说“朱莉，你好”，偶尔我会发现他在看我。他总会脸红，转回去做他的事，然后我就不由自主地笑了。他太害羞了。而且那么可爱！We talked to each other more, too. Especially after Mr. Mertins moved me behind him. Mr. Mertins had a detention policy about spelling, where if you missed more than seven out of twenty-five words, you had to spend lunch inside with him, writing your words over and over and over again.
我们聊天的机会也更多了。尤其是马丁斯先生安排我坐在他后面以后。马丁斯先生会让拼写不合格的人留堂，比如25个词里写错7个的人午饭时分必须跟着他，一遍又一遍地抄写自己的名字。
The pressure of detention made Bryce panic. And even though it bothered my conscience, I'd lean in and whisper answers to him, hoping that maybe I could spend lunch with him instead. His hair smelled like watermelon, and his earlobes had fuzz. Soft, blond fuzz. And I wondered about that. How does a boy with such black hair wind up with blond ear fuzz? What's it doing there, anyway? I checked my own
ear-lobes in the mirror but couldn't find much of anything on them, and I didn't spot any on other people's either.
留堂的阴影把布莱斯变成了惊弓之鸟。虽然良心上有点过意不去，我还是会靠向他悄悄说出答案，希望自己也许有机会和他一起吃午饭。他的头发闻起来有股西瓜味，耳垂上长着绒毛。柔软的金色绒毛。我十分好奇，为什么一个长着黑头发的男孩耳朵上的绒毛却是金色的？它们为什么会长在那里？我在镜子里研究自己的耳垂，但上面什么也没有，我注意到没有一个人像他这样。
I thought about asking Mr. Mertins about earlobe fuzz when we were discussing evolution in science, but I didn't. Instead, I spent the year whispering spelling words, sniffing watermelon, and wondering if I was ever going to get my kiss.
我想过在马丁斯先生跟我们讨论科学史的时候，提出耳垂绒毛的问题，但我没问过。相反，整整一年时间我都趴在他耳边拼着单词，闻着西瓜味道，想着自己是不是和初吻无缘了。
Buddy, Beware!
第三章：哥们儿，小心点！
Seventh grade brought changes, all right, but the biggest one didn't happen at school — it happened at home. Granddad Duncan came to live with us.
好吧，七年级是充满变化的一年，但是最大的变化并非发生在学校，而是在家里。邓肯外公搬来和我们一起住了。
At first it was kind of weird because none of us really knew him. Except for Mom, of course. And even though she's spent the past year and a half trying to convince us he's a great guy, from what I can tell, the thing he likes to do best is stare out the front-room window. There's not much to see out there except the Bakers' front yard, but you can find him there day or night, sitting in the big easy chair they moved in with him, staring out the window.
最开始的时候是有点奇怪，因为我们中间没有谁真正认识他。当然，除了妈妈。虽然她用了一年半的时间告诉我们他是个多么伟大的人，但在我看来，他最喜欢做的事就是从临街的窗户朝外望。除了贝克家的前院，那里没什么好看的，但他不管白天黑夜都待在那儿，坐在和他一起搬进家门的大号安乐椅上，望着窗外。
Okay, so he also reads Tom Clancy novels and the newspapers and does crossword puzzles and tracks his stocks, but those things are all distractions. Given no one to justify it to, the man would stare out the window until he fell asleep. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It just seems so … boring.
好吧，他也读汤姆?克兰西的惊悚小说，看报纸，做填字游戏，看看股票行情，但这些不过是对他看街景这件事的插花。没人提出反对意见，这人总是看着窗外直到睡着为止。虽然也说不上有什么不对，但这样真的……挺无聊的。
Mom says he stares like that because he misses Grandma, but that's not something Granddad had ever discussed with me. As a matter of fact, he never discussed much of anything with me until a few months ago when he read about Juli in the newspaper. 妈妈说，他眺望窗外是因为想念外婆，但外公是不会和我讨论这件事的。实际上，他从来不跟我讨论什么事，直到几个月前，他在报纸上看到了朱莉。
Now, Juli Baker did not wind up on the front page of the Mayfield Times for being an eighthgrade Einstein, like you might suspect. No, my friend, she got front-page coverage because she refused to climb out of a sycamore tree.
不像你想的那样，朱莉?贝克并不是作为八年级的未来的爱因斯坦登上了《梅菲尔德时报》头版。不，伙计，她能登上头版是因为，她不愿意从一棵无花果树上下来。
Not that I could tell a sycamore from a maple or a birch for that matter, but Juli, of course, knew what kind of tree it was and passed that knowledge along to every creature in her wake.
虽然我分不清无花果树、枫树和桦树，但朱莉显然知道那是什么树，并且守在那里把这个常识分享给她遇见的每一个人。
So this tree, this sycamore tree, was up the hill on a vacant lot on Collier Street, and it was massive. Massive and ugly. It was twisted and gnarled and bent, and I kept expecting the thing to blow over in the wind.
所以，这棵树，这棵无花果树，长在山坡上克里尔街的一片空地里，很大很大。而且又大又丑。它的树干扭曲，长满节疤，弯弯曲曲，我总觉得一阵风就能把它吹倒。
One day last year I'd finally had enough of her yakking about that stupid tree. I came right out and told her that it was not a magnificent sycamore, it was, in reality, the ugliest tree known to man. And you know what she said? She said I was visually challenged. Visually challenged! This from the girl who lives in a house that's the scourge of the neighborhood. They've got bushes growing over windows, weeds sticking out all over the place, and a barnyard's worth of animals running wild. I'm talking dogs, cats, chickens, even snakes. I swear to God, her brothers have a boa constrictor in their room. They dragged me in there when I was about ten and made me watch it eat a rat. A live, beady-eyed rat. They held that rodent up by its tail and gulp, the boa swallowed it whole. That snake gave me nightmares for a month.
去年的某一天，我终于听够了她关于这棵蠢树的唠叨。我径直走到她面前，告诉她那棵无花果树一点儿也不美，实际上，那是有史以来最难看的一棵树。你猜她怎么回答？她说我的眼睛大概有毛病。眼睛有毛病！这就是那个邻里环境破坏之王家的姑娘说出来的话。她家的灌木长得比窗户还高，到处杂草丛生，谷仓前面的空场快变成野生动物园了。我是说，她家有狗、猫、鸡，甚至养了几条蛇。对天发誓，她哥哥在卧室里养了条大王蟒蛇。十岁那年，他们把我拽进屋子，强迫我看着那条大蟒蛇吞下一只耗子。一只活蹦乱跳的、眼睛滴溜溜转的耗子。他们提着那只啮齿动物的尾巴，大蟒一下子就整只吞下去了。这条蛇让我做了一个月的噩梦。
Anyway, normally I wouldn't care about someone's yard, but the Bakers' mess bugged my dad big-time, and he channeled his frustration into our yard. He said it was our neighborly duty to show them what a yard's supposed to look like.
不管怎么说，我平时很少关心别人家的院子，但贝克家一团混乱的院子是我爸爸最大的心病，而他则把这种挫折的情绪倾泻在我家院子里。他说，我们有义务让邻居看看一个正常的院子该有的模样。
So while Mike and Matt are busy plumping up their boa, I'm having to mow and edge our yard, then sweep the walkways and gutter, which is going a little overboard, if you ask me.
所以，当麦克和马特忙于投喂蟒蛇的时候，我只好忙着给院子除草、修建草坪，打扫车道和水沟，而且依我看，我好像还真干得越来越投入了。
And you'd think Juli's dad—who's a big, strong, bricklaying dude — would fix the place up, but no. According to my mom, he spends all his free time painting. His landscapes don't seem like anything special to me, but judging by his price tags, he thinks quite a lot of them. We see them every year at the Mayfield County Fair, and my parents always say the same thing: “The world would have more beauty in it if he'd fix up the yard instead.”
如果你以为朱莉的爸爸——一位又高又壮的砖瓦工——会打理院子，那就错了。据我妈妈透露，他把全部业余时间都用来画画了。他的风景画对我来说没什么特别的，但是从价签上看，他很看重这些画。每年梅菲尔德县交易会上都能看到它们，我爸妈从来只说一句话：“如果他肯把花在画画上的时间拿来打理院子，世界会变得更美好。”
Mom and Juli's mom do talk some. I think my mom feels sorry for Mrs. Baker — she says she married a dreamer, and because of that, one of the two of them will always be unhappy.
我妈妈和朱莉的妈妈有时聊天。我猜想妈妈比较同情贝克夫人——她说她嫁了一个梦想家，所以，他们俩当中总有一个人过得不快乐。
Whatever. Maybe Juli's aesthetic sensibilities have been permanently screwed up by her father and none of this is her fault, but Juli has always thought that that sycamore tree was God's gift to our little corner of the universe.
那又怎样。也许朱莉对美的敏感正是遗传自她爸爸，并不是她的错。但朱莉总觉得那棵无花果树是上帝送给我们宇宙中这个小小角落的一份礼物。
Back in the third and fourth grades she used to clown around with her brothers in the branches or peel big chunks of bark off so they could slide down the crook in its trunk. It seemed like they were playing in it whenever my mom took us somewhere in the car. Juli'd be swinging from the branches, ready to fall and break every bone in her body, while we were waiting at the stoplight, and my mom would shake her head and say, “Don't you ever climb that tree like that, do you hear me, Bryce? I never want to see you doing that! You either, Lynetta. That is much too dangerous.”
三年级和四年级的时候，她经常和哥哥们一起坐在树杈上，或者剥下大块的树皮以便沿着树干滑到杈弯。无论什么时候妈妈开车带我们出门去，总能看见他们在那里玩。我们等红灯的时候，朱莉就在树杈间荡来荡去，总是快要摔下来跌断每一根骨头的样子，于是妈妈就会摇着头说：“你永远也不许像这个样子爬树，听见没有，布莱斯？我永远也不想看到你这样！你也是，利奈特。实在太危险了！”
My sister would roll her eyes and say, “As if,” while I'd slump beneath the window and pray for the light to change before Juli squealed my name for the world to hear.
姐姐一般会翻个白眼，说“废话”；而我则把头躲到车窗下面，祈祷在朱莉还没把我的名字喊得震天响之前赶紧变灯。
I did try to climb it once in the fifth grade. It was the day after Juli had rescued my kite from its mutant toy-eating foliage. She climbed miles up to get my kite, and when she came down, she was actually very cool about it. She didn't hold my kite hostage and stick her lips out like I was afraid she might. She just handed it over and then backed away.
我确实试着爬过那棵树，只有一次，在五年级。在那之前一天，朱莉帮我把风筝从树上那些会“吃玩具的叶子”里取了下来。为了取我的风筝，她爬到特别高的地方，下来之后一脸淡定。她没有扣下风筝作为“人质”，也没像我担心的那样撅起嘴巴不理我。她只是把风筝递给我，然后转身走了。
I was relieved, but I also felt like a weenie. When I'd seen where my kite was trapped, I was sure it was a goner. Not Juli. She scrambled up and got it down in no time. Man, it was embarrassing.
我松了口气，同时觉得自己太逊了。当时我看到风筝挂住的位置，马上认定它已经回不来了。但朱莉不这么想。她二话不说就爬上树帮我拿下来。嘿，这真让人尴尬。
So I made a mental picture of how high she'd climbed, and the next day I set off to outdo her by at least two branches. I made it past the crook, up a few limbs, and then — just to see how I was doing — I looked down.
我默默地计算了一下她到底爬了多高，然后第二天计划至少爬到比她高出两根树枝的位置。
我攀上了第一个大的杈弯，向上爬了两三根枝杈，然后——只是想看看自己进展如何——我向下看去。
Mis-take! It felt like I was on top of the Empire State Building without a bungee. I tried looking up to where my kite had been, but it was hopeless. I was indeed a
tree-climbing weenie.
大——错——特——错！我仿佛站在帝国大厦的顶层，没系安全带。我试着抬头寻找昨天风筝挂住的位置，但是根本看不见。我是个不折不扣的爬树白痴。
Then junior high started and my dream of a Juli-free existence shattered. I had to take the bus, and you-know-who did, too. There were about eight kids altogether at our bus stop, which created a buffer zone, but it was no comfort zone.
上了初中，我以为朱莉会从此消失的梦想也破灭了。我需要坐校车，而那个名字也不能提的人也是。我们这一站大概有八个学生一起等车，总是吵吵嚷嚷的，算是缓冲地带，但绝不是个安全地带。
Juli always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.
朱莉总想站在我身边，跟我说话，或者用别的什么方法来折磨我。
And then she started climbing. The girl is in the seventh grade, and she's climbing a tree —way, way up in a tree. And why does she do it? So she can yell down at us that the bus is five! four! three blocks away! Blow-by-blow traffic watch from a tree — what every kid in junior high feels like hearing first thing in the morning.
最后她选择了爬树。一个七年级的女孩，开始爬树——爬得高高的。为什么？因为这样她就能居高临下地冲我们喊：校车离这儿还有五……四……三条街！一个挂在树上的流水账式交通岗哨！每个初中同学每天早上听到的第一句话就是她说的。
She tried to get me to come up there wit h her, too. “Bryce, come on! You won't believe the colors! It's absolutely magnificent! Bryce, you've got to come up here!”
她想叫我爬上去跟她待在一起，“布莱斯，上来呀！你绝对无法想象这儿的景色有多美！太神奇了！布莱斯，你一定要上来看看！”
Yeah, I could just hear it: “Bryce and Juli sitting in a tree…” Was I eve r going to leave the second grade behind?
是啊，我都能想象出来：“布莱斯和朱莉坐在树上……”二年级的往事，难道还阴魂不散吗？One morning I was specifically not looking up when out of nowhere she swings down from a branch and practically knocks me over. Heart attack!
一天早晨，我刻意地没有向树上看去，她忽然从树杈上从天而降，生生地撞到了我。心脏病都要犯了！
I dropped my backpack and wrenched my neck, and that did it. I refused to wait under that tree with that maniac monkey on the loose anymore. I started leaving the house at the very last minute. I made up my own waiting spot, and when I'd see the bus pull up, I'd truck up the hill and get on board.
我的背包掉在地上，还扭到了脖子，都赖她。我再也不愿意跟这只从精神病院跑出来的发疯的猴子一起在树下等车了。从此以后，我总是拖到最后一分钟才从家里出来。我设置了属于自己的校车站，看到校车快到了，就冲到山坡上去登车。
No Juli, no problem.
没有朱莉，就没有麻烦。
And that, my friend, took care of the rest of seventh grade and almost all of eighth, too, until one day a few months ago. That's when I heard a commotion up the hill and
could see some big trucks parked up on Collier Street where the bus pulls in. There were some men shouting stuff up at Juli, who was, of course, five stories up in the tree.
这种状况贯穿了七年级和八年级的大多数时间，一直延续到几个月前的一天。那天，我听到山坡上一阵骚动，几辆卡车停在克里尔街平时的校车站。一些人仰着头冲朱莉喊着什么，而她当然是在五层楼高的树顶上。
All the other kids started to gather under the tree, too, and I could hear them telling her she had to come down. She was fine — that was obvious to anyone with a pair of ears — but I couldn't figure out what they were all arguing about.
孩子们也慢慢朝树下聚拢过来，我听见他们说她必须从树上下来。她很好——对于任何一个耳朵没有问题的人来说都听得出来——但我不明白他们在吵什么。
I trucked up the hill, and as I got closer and saw what the men were holding, I figured out in a hurry what was making Juli refuse to come out of the tree.
我冲上山坡，当我离得近一点儿、看清那些人手里拿的是什么，我立刻明白了为什么朱莉拒绝从树上下来。
Chain saws.
那是一台链锯。
Don't get me wrong here, okay? The tree was an ugly mutant tangle of gnarly ranches. The girl arguing with those men was Juli — the world's peskiest, bossiest, most
know-it-all female. But all of a sudden my stomach completely bailed on me. Juli loved that tree. Stupid as it was, she loved that tree, and cutting it down would be like cutting out her heart.
千万别误解。这棵树长满了多瘤的树脂，纠结成难看的一团。和那些人吵架的人是朱莉——全世界最麻烦、最霸道、永远全知全能的女人。但是一瞬间我的胃就抽搐起来。朱莉爱这棵树。虽然听起来很蠢，可她就是爱这棵树，砍树就等于在她的心里砍上一刀。
Everyone tried to talk her down. Even me. But she said she wasn't coming down, not ever, and then she tried to talk us up. “Bryce, please! Come up here with me. They won't cut it down if we're all up here!”
每个人都劝她下来，包括我在内。但她说绝不下树，永远也不，然后她试图说服我们。“布莱斯，求你了！上来跟我一起。如果我们在这儿，他们就不敢砍树了！”
For a second I considered it. But then the bus arrived and I talked myself out of it. It wasn't my tree, and even though she acted like it was, it wasn't Juli's, either.
我思考了一秒钟。但这时校车来了，我告诉自己不要卷进去。这不是我的树，而这也不是朱莉的树，虽然她表现得好像是她的。
We boarded the bus and left her behind, but school was pretty much a waste. I couldn't seem to stop thinking about Juli. Was she still up in the tree? Were they going to arrest her?
我们登上校车，把她一个人留在那里，但这些都没有用。我忍不住一直在想朱莉。她还在树顶上吗？他们会不会把她抓起来？
When the bus dropped us off that afternoon, Juli was gone and so was half the tree. The top branches, the place my kite had been stuck, her favorite perch — they were all gone.
放学后，当校车把我们送回来的时候，朱莉已经不见了，一起消失的还有上半棵树。顶部的树枝，我的风筝曾经卡住的地方，她最最心爱的栖身之地——统统消失了。
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五四制英语七年级上 册英语课文及翻译Revised on November 25, 2020
Birthdayfoodaroundtheworld WhatwouldpeopleliketoeatontheirbirthdaysTheanswerwouldbedifferentindifferentcountries. Inmanycountries,peoplehavebirthdaycakeswithcandles,thenumberofcandlesistheperson’Brazil 世界各地的生日食品 人们在生日时愿意吃什么在不同的国家，答案会是不同的。 在许多国家，人们吃带有蜡烛的。蜡烛的数量是这个人的年龄。过生日的人要许个愿望并吹灭蜡烛。如果他或她一口气吹灭所有的蜡烛，愿望将会实现。在英国，人们有时在生日蛋糕里放一块糖果。得到糖果的孩子是幸运的。 在中国，在生日时吃蛋糕正变得流行。但是，许多人仍吃。他们从不切断面条，因为长面条是长寿的象征。在一些地方，中国人也在生日的时候吃，它们是生命和好运的一个象征。 所有这些生日食品可能是不同的，但是想法是相同的。它们带给过生日的人好运。 第一个： 第二个：Ithinktoday’IndiaIndia一个令人记忆忧心的周末 我的姐姐前中学毕业了。作为一个特殊的礼物，我们的父母带我们去了印度。上个周末是有趣但是可怕。我们在印度的一个小村庄宿营。首先，我们搭乘一辆长途公共汽车来到乡下的一个湖，在那里我们搭起帐篷，生活来取暖并上上面煮食物。在第一个晚上，我们就坐在月亮下，互相。但是我是如此疲倦，以至于我很早就睡着了。第二天早上，我和我的姐姐大吃一惊。当我们向我们的帐篷外看时，我们看到一条蛇正在火堆附近睡觉，我是如此惊慌以至于不能动。我们呼喊我的父母，以便让他们知道险情。开始在他们的帐篷内上下跳动。这样弄醒了蛇并且蛇移进湖附近的森林里，我的爸爸后来告诉我蛇没有耳朵，但能感觉到东西在移动，他还告诉我不要靠近蛇非常重要，对我来说，这是很有用的一次教训。
英语翻译常考句型详解 1.It is not that…but that… 这不是说…，而是说… 「例文」It is not that the scales in the one case, and the balance in the other, differ in the principles of their construction or manner of working; but that the latter is much finer apparatus and of couse much more accurate in its measurement than the former. 「译文」这并不是说在一种情况下所使用的磅秤和在另一种情况下所使用的天平在构造原理上或工作方式上存在差别，而是说与前者相比，后者是一种更精密得多的装置，因而在计量上必然更加准确。 2.nothing else than 完全是，实在是 「例文」What the man said was nothing else than nonsense. 「译文」那个人讲的话完全是一派胡言。 3.as引导的特殊状语从句，翻译时做定语从句处理。 「例文」We hope the measures to control prices, as they have been taken by the government, will succeed. 「译文」我们希望，政府已经采取的控制物价的措施将取得成功。 4.名词+or+名词结构中，or后的名词是同位语，应译为即…；或者称…. 「例文」Moreover， technology includes techniques , or ways to do things , as well as the manchines that may or may not be necessary to apply them. 「译文」再者，除机器外技术还包括技艺，即制作方法，而运用这些记忆并不一定都需要机器。 5.more…than…结构有三种译法：than连接肯定形式的从句时，该从句译为否定句；在比较的基础上表示选择关系时，可译为与其说…不如说；进行同类比较时，译成比…更. 「例文」The complexity of the human situation and injustice of the social order demand far more fundamental changes in the basic structure of society itself than some politicians are willing to admit in their speeches. 「译文」人类社会形势的复杂性和社会制度的不公正性要求对社会基本结构进行彻底变革，而一些政客口头上是很不愿意承认这一点的。 「分析」这是一个主从复合句，连词than前为主句，than后为从句。虽然本句是进行程度上的比较，但从句意义是否定的， 故译成否定句。 6.no more …than 与not… any more than no more …than 与not… any more than同义，不可简单地看成是more …than的否定形式。具体地说，这一结构可能是带有一定的感情色彩的否定形式，也可能是一种较特殊的类比形式。其翻译方法有二；表示同类否定比较时，可译为不比…更或都…同样不；表示比喻关系时，可译为正如…不，…也不. 「例文」The food on the ship was no better than on any other ship on which Billy had sailed. 「译文」这条船上(供应的)食品并不如比利工作过的其他船上的(食品)好。(括号里的词是可以省略的。) 「分析」这是一个主从复合句、主句是The food …no better , than on any other ship 是省略了比较对象的比较状语从句，从句on which引导的定语从句修饰先行词ship.本句中no more… than用于同类否定的比较，可译为不如…. 7.not so much as与其说…不如说… 「例文」Science moves forward, they say, not so much through the insights of great men of genius as because of more ordinary things like improved techniques and tools. 「译文」新学派科学家说，科学的发展与其说源于天才伟人的真知灼见，不如说源于改进了的技术和工具等等更为普遍的东西。 「分析」这是一个主从复合句。插入语they say是主句，Science moves forward,……and tools是宾语从句。not so much……as 连接的是状语，as引导的状语从句中，由于上下文清楚，主谓语都省略了，即as(sciencemoves forward.)because of……not so much……as也可译为与其说……不如说……，它所表达的逻辑关系和more than有相似之处，也是在比较的基础上进行判断和选择，被比较的事物也同属一个范畴。所不同的是，more……than表示前重后轻的逻辑关系，而not so much… as和less than表示前轻后重的逻辑关系，这两个结构中信息重心落在句尾，因此不必倒过来译，只须按原文的词序顺译即可。
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玲玲：这是她的丈夫吗？ 托尼：不，那是她的兄弟，我的叔叔保罗。 玲玲：在保罗前面的男孩和女孩是谁？ 托尼：那是保罗的儿子和女儿，我的堂兄妹迈克和海伦。 M2U2 我叫贝蒂·金。这是我的父母。我们是美国人。我爸爸是一名男演员，我妈妈是一家剧院的经理 我叫李大明这是我的父母。我们是中国人。我爸爸在警察局工作。他是一名警察，我妈妈是一名护士 我叫托尼·史密斯，是英国人。这是我的妈妈，她是一所学校的英语老师。这是我的父亲，他是一家饭店的经理。 我叫王玲玲。我是中国人。我妈妈是一名护士，她和大明的妈妈在同一家医院。我爸爸是北京的一名公共汽车司机。 M3U1 大明：琳达，你在英国的教室是什么样子的？它大吗？ 琳达：是的，特别大。在我们班有三十名学生，在北京你们班有多少名学生？ 大明：有四十名学生，二十名女生，二十名男生。你们教室里有什么？有许多家具吗？ 琳达：是的，有许多。 大明：在每个人的书桌上都有电脑吗？ 琳达：不，没有。但在教师的讲桌上有一台电脑。 大明：哦，在教室的墙上有一些图画吗？ 琳达：是的，有，在教室的前面。 大明：有世界地图吗？ 琳达：不，没有，有一幅英国地图。 大明：在我们教室里有一幅世界地图，但墙上没有图画。 M3U2 这是我们学校的地图。我们学校有六座建筑物：一个图书馆，一座办公楼，一座教学楼，一个餐厅，一个体育馆和一座科学楼。在学校中央是一个大操场。图书馆在学校大门附近，操场的左边。里面有很多图书、地图和电脑。在图使馆后面的左侧是学校的办公室。在这栋楼和餐厅之间是拥有二十四个教室的教学楼。在教学楼右边的建筑物是餐厅。在餐厅前面是体育馆，在体育馆前面的那座建筑物是用于科学课的。在科学楼里有六个科学实验室和五个微机室
?高中英语常用50句句型翻译 1、你没有必要提前预定音乐会的票（need n.） There is no need for you to book the ticket for the concert in advance. 2、在专家面前班门弄斧是没有好处的(good n. show) It is no good showing off in the presence of so many experts. 3、如果你不能集中精神学习，熬夜是没有用的(use) It is no use staying up late if you can’t focus your attention on your study. 4、抱怨交通状况是浪费时间(waste) It’s a waste of time making complaints about the transportation system. 5、我觉得你有必要在应聘之前接受一些训练(it) I find it necessary for you to have some training before you apply for a new job. 6、我突然想起来我忘记提醒班长集合的时间了(occur) It suddenly occurred to me that i forgot to remind the monitor of the gathering time. 7、似乎John对於赢得胜利没有什麽信心，你最好对他说些鼓励的话 It seems that John is not very’d better say a few encouraging words to him. 8、第一眼见到她，我就忍不住爱上她了(the first time) The first time i saw her, i couldn’t help falling in love with her. 9、你在阅读上花时间越多，取得进步越大 The more time you spend in reading, the more rapid progress you will make. 10、他获得成功的原因是他从不丧失信心，从不半途而废(halfway) The reason why he achieved success was that he never lost heart and gave up halfway. 11、重要的不是你说些什麽而是你如何演讲(matter) What matters is not what’s in your speech but how you deliver your speech. 12、再努力一下，你就能成功(effort) Make another effort, and you’ll succeed. 13、尽管教学经验不足，他总是全力以赴的满足学生的需求(spare) In spite of the fact that he lacks teaching experience, he spares no effort to meet the demand of his student. 14、不可否认，他的勇气和坚持为他赢得了很高的声誉(deny)
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六级翻译常用句型归纳汇总 1. During the meeting,hardly had he begun to speak when the audience interrupted him.(他一开始说话,就被听众打断了 2. Surrounded by the police, the kidnappers had no choices but to surrender on the spot.(没有选择,只能投降 3. The concerned mother thrilled at the news of her son having been admitted to the university.(她的儿子被大学入取了 4. The lecture was so boring that the students couldn’t help yawning.(学生忍不住打起哈欠 5. I will be very grateful if you could be kind enough to give me a ride to school.(好心载我一程去学校 6. Unless you sign a contract with the insurance company for your goods, you are not entitled to a repayment for the goods damaged in delivery. (除非你和保险公司签订了货物保险合同 7. It is reported that local health organization was established 25 years ago(据说当地的卫生组织 25年前就成立了 8. Mr s.Smith shut the window lest the noise outside (should interfere with her son’s sleep(外面的噪声会影响她儿子睡觉 9. The new mayor was charged with failure to fulfill his promise to decrease the inflation rate(未能履行他降低通货膨胀率的承诺 10. When confronted with such question, my mind goes blank(每当我遇到这类问题,我脑袋一片空白 , and I can hardly remember my won date of birth.
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