The Silver Key

by Gayatri Roy 翻譯：Crazier

The Silver Key

銀鑰匙

by Gayatri Roy 翻譯：Crazier

干虧心事的人總會得到報應——那么，遇到這樣的人時，你能機智應對嗎？

It was a1)stormy night. A traveler reached an2)inn. It was very late. He found the door locked from within. He knocked at the door.

The gatekeeper came, saying, “I have lost the key and the door cannot be opened, unless you have a silver key with you.”

The traveler understood what he meant by the silver key. He immediately3)slippeda silver coin through the hole,and the door opened.

As soon as he got in, he said to the gatekeeper, “I have left my box outside,please bring it.” As the gatekeeper went out to bring the box, the traveler closed the door behind him.

The keeper asked him to open the door so that he may come in. Now the traveler replied from within, “I have lost the key and a silver key is needed to open the door.” Soon, the coin was pushed again through the hole and the4)dishonestman was let in.

參考譯文

在一個狂風暴雨的夜晚，一位旅行者來到了一個小旅館。時間已經很晚了，他發現門從里面上了鎖，于是他敲了敲門。

守門人走了過來，說：“我弄丟鑰匙了，開不了門，除非你有一把銀鑰匙。”

旅行者明白他所說的“銀鑰匙”指的是什么。于是他立馬從門孔里滑了一枚銀幣進去，接著門就開了。

一進到屋內，他便對守門人說：“我把我的箱子落在外面了，請幫我拿進來吧。”趁著守門人出去拿箱子的空檔，旅行者隨即在他身后把門關上了。

守門人讓旅行者把門打開讓他進去。這時旅行者在屋內說：“我弄丟了我的鑰匙，只有用銀鑰匙才能打開這道門。”很快，那枚銀幣又從門孔里塞了進去，而這位不誠實的守門人這才得以進來。

1) stormy ['st??mΙ] adj. 有暴風雨的

2) inn [Ιn] n. 小旅館，客棧

3) slip [slΙp] v. 滑

4) dishonest [dΙs'?nΙst] adj. 不誠實的，欺詐的

秘密花園（節選）

by Frances Hodgson Burnett翻譯：寒星

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

秘密花園綻放了又綻放，每天早上都有新的奇跡發生。

The sun shone down for nearly a week on the secret garden. The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name,and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in,no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some1)fairyplace. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no2)intentionof going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider-awake with every day that passed atMisselthwaite注.

She was beginning to like to be out of doors; she no longer hated the wind, but enjoyed it. She could run faster, and longer, and she could3)skip up to a hundred. The4)bulbs in the secret garden must have been much5)astonished. Such nice clear places were made round them that they had all the breathing space they wanted. And really, if6)Mistress Mary had known it,they began to cheer up under the dark earth and work7)tremendously. The sun could get at them and warm them,and when the rain came down it could reach them at once, so they began to feel very much alive.

詞組加油站

shut…in 把……關在里面

shut…out of… 把……關在……外面

1) fairy ['fe?rΙ] adj. 虛構的，仙女的

2) intention [Ιn'ten?n] n. 意圖，目的

3) skip [skΙp] v. 蹦跳

4) bulb [b?lb] n. 球莖

5) astonished [?'st?nΙ?t] adj. 吃驚的

6) mistress ['mΙstrΙs] n. 小姐

7) tremendously [trΙ'mend?slΙ] adv. 極快地，驚人地

參考譯文

將近一周以來，秘密花園里陽光普照。當瑪麗想到這個地方時，她就把它叫作“秘密花園”。她喜歡這個名字，更享受花園那美麗而古老的圍墻在她身后合上，沒有人知道她身在何處的感覺。那感覺就像誤入了仙境，已與塵世隔絕。她讀過并且喜歡的書籍不多，都是一些童話故事書。在某些故事里，她讀到過有關于秘密花園的描寫。故事里偶爾會有人在秘密花園里沉睡了上百年，她認為這樣的行為挺傻的。她可不想沉沉睡去，事實上，在米瑟斯韋特莊園里度過的每一天，她都越發精神。

她開始喜歡呆在戶外；她不再厭惡吹風，反而樂在其中。她可以跑得更快、更久，還能跳躍上百次。秘密花園里的球莖們一定很驚訝。這四周美好又空曠的地方均為它們而設，它們可以擁有足夠的空間盡情呼吸。確實，如果瑪麗小姐能夠知道的話，它們可正開始在黑色的泥土下歡呼雀躍，驚人地生長著呢。太陽可以照耀它們、溫暖它們，如果下雨了，雨水也能立刻滋潤它們，因此它們開始煥發生機了。

注：米瑟斯韋特莊園（Misselthwaite Manor），瑪麗的姨父克雷文勛爵（Archibald Craven）在蘇格蘭的莊園。