不要把我关进红房子

• 作 者: 夏洛蒂·勃朗特
• 出 处: 新语文学习(初中版)
• 发表日期: 2013年04期
• 关键词: 里德 迈尔斯 罗马皇帝 跑出去 夏洛蒂·勃朗特 杀猪 艾伯特

约翰·里德是个十四岁的小学生,比我大四岁,因为我才十岁。这阵子,他本该待在学校里,可是他妈把他领了回来,住上一两个月,说是因为“身体虚弱”。但他的老师迈尔斯先生却断言,要是家里少送些糕点糖果去,他会什么都很好的。做母亲的心里却讨厌这么刻薄的话,而倾向于一种更随和的想法,认为约翰是过于用功,或许还因为想家,才弄得那么面色蜡黄的。

John Reed is a 14-year-old primary school student, four years older than me, because I was ten years old. This time, he should have been in school, but his mother took him back and lived for a month or two, saying that because of “frailty.” But Mr. Myers, his teacher, asserted that he would do well if the family sent less confectionery. In my mother’s heart, I hate such mean words, preferring a more agreeable thought, thinking that John is too hardworking, or perhaps because of homesickness, he is so pale and waxy.