《秘密花園》之小王爺的駝背

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Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

——弗朗西絲·霍奇森·伯內特《秘密花園》

英音起始於00:22，美音起始於02:41

背景音樂：井內舞子 - 花蕾

今日生詞

lad 英&美音 /l?d/

n. 男孩；男青年；浪蕩子；馬夫；哥們兒（常見於複數lads）

thistle 英&美音 /?θ?sl/

n. 薊，雜草

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

弗朗西絲·霍奇森·伯內特

書籍簡介

美國女作家弗朗西絲·霍奇森·伯內特的《秘密花園》（The Secret Garden），是一百年來暢銷不衰的經典兒童小說，它被一代代孩子不斷重複閱讀，是很多人童年時代記憶最深刻的一本書，並在中國有多個圖書版本。在美國的歷史上，很少有一本書能像《秘密花園》這樣成功，近百年來，為它拍攝各種各樣的電影、話劇。可以說，為了最大可能地體現這本書的力量，美國好幾代文化精英都在為此而工作。這說明，美好的心靈是人類永遠捨不得丟棄的，《秘密花園》正好講的是一個關於大自然的魔法和美好心靈的故事。

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So she walked to the door and pushed it open, and there she was standing in the room! It was a big room with ancient, handsome furniture in it. There was a low fire glowing faintly on the hearth and a night light burning by the side of a carved four-posted bed hung with brocade, and on the bed was lying a boy,crying fretfully. Mary wondered if she was in a real place or if she had fallen asleep again and was dreaming without knowing it. The boy had a sharp, delicate face the color of ivory and he seemed to have eyes too big for it. He had also a lot of hair which tumbled over his forehead in heavy locks and made his thin face seem smaller. He looked like a boy who had been ill, but he was crying more as if he were tired and cross than as if he were in pain.

於是她走到門前，推開門，她站到了房間里！寬敞的房間里有古老、堂皇的傢具。暗火微弱的紅光染在火爐前的磚地上，一盞燈點在一架四角帶柱、掛著錦緞的雕花床旁邊，床上躺著一個男孩，焦躁地哭著。瑪麗驚疑不定，不知自己是不是在一個真實的地方，還是她不知不覺又睡著了在夢中。男孩的臉尖瘦、細緻，色如象牙，他的眼睛襯著臉顯得太大了。他也有很多頭髮，大卷大卷跌在額上，讓他的瘦臉顯得更小了。男孩看上去病了很久，但是他哭似乎更是覺得疲憊彆扭，而非疼痛。

"You see--you see," she panted, "if no one knows but ourselves--if there was a door, hidden somewhere under the ivy--if there was--and we could find it; and if wecould slip through it together and shut it behind us,and no one knew any one was inside and we called it ourgarden and pretended that--that we were missel thrushes and it was our nest, and if we played there almost everyday and dug and planted seeds and made it all come alive--""Is it dead?" he interrupted her."It soon will be if no one cares for it," she went on."The bulbs will live but the roses--"He stopped her again as excited as she was herself."What are bulbs?" he put in quickly."They are daffodils and lilies and snowdrops. They are working in the earth now--pushing up pale green points because the spring is coming."

「你看——你看，」她斷斷續續地說，「假設除了我們沒人知道——假設有一道門，藏在常春藤下什麼地方——假設有門——假設我們找到它；假設我們能一起從門那裡溜進去，在身後關上，沒有人知道裡面有人，我們叫它我們的秘密花園，假裝——假裝我們是米瑟原的畫眉鳥，它是我們的巢，假設我們可以幾乎每天在那裡玩，挖土種種子，讓它全部活過來——」「它死了嗎？」他打斷她。「很快就會死了，要是沒有人關心它的話，」她說下去，「球根還活著，可是玫瑰——」他又止住她，和她一樣興奮。「什麼是球根？」他迅速插話。「是水仙、百合和雪花蓮。它們現在正在土裡長——冒出灰綠的點點，因為春天要來了。」

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