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绿山墙的安妮:CHAPTER XI
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  • CHAPTER XI.

    Anne’s Impressions of Sunday-School

    WELL, how do you like them?” said Marilla.

    Anne was standing1 in the gable room, looking solemnly at three new dresses spread out on the bed. One was of snuffy colored gingham which Marilla had been tempted2 to buy from a peddler the preceding summer because it looked so serviceable; one was of black-and-white checkered3 sateen which she had picked up at a bargain counter in the winter; and one was a stiff print of an ugly blue shade which she had purchased that week at a Carmody store.

    She had made them up herself, and they were all made alike—plain skirts fulled tightly to plain waists, with sleeves as plain as waist and skirt and tight as sleeves could be.

    “I’ll imagine that I like them,” said Anne soberly.

    “I don’t want you to imagine it,” said Marilla, offended. “Oh, I can see you don’t like the dresses! What is the matter with them? Aren’t they neat and clean and new?”

    “Yes.”

    “Then why don’t you like them?”

    “They’re—they’re not—pretty,” said Anne reluctantly.

    “Pretty!” Marilla sniffed4. “I didn’t trouble my head about getting pretty dresses for you. I don’t believe in pampering5 vanity, Anne, I’ll tell you that right off. Those dresses are good, sensible, serviceable dresses, without any frills or furbelows about them, and they’re all you’ll get this summer. The brown gingham and the blue print will do you for school when you begin to go. The sateen is for church and Sunday school. I’ll expect you to keep them neat and clean and not to tear them. I should think you’d be grateful to get most anything after those skimpy wincey things you’ve been wearing.”

    “Oh, I am grateful,” protested Anne. “But I’d be ever so much gratefuller if—if you’d made just one of them with puffed6 sleeves. Puffed sleeves are so fashionable now. It would give me such a thrill, Marilla, just to wear a dress with puffed sleeves.”

    “Well, you’ll have to do without your thrill. I hadn’t any material to waste on puffed sleeves. I think they are ridiculous-looking things anyhow. I prefer the plain, sensible ones.”

    “But I’d rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself,” persisted Anne mournfully.

    “Trust you for that! Well, hang those dresses carefully up in your closet, and then sit down and learn the Sunday school lesson. I got a quarterly from Mr. Bell for you and you’ll go to Sunday school tomorrow,” said Marilla, disappearing downstairs in high dudgeon.

    Anne clasped her hands and looked at the dresses.

    “I did hope there would be a white one with puffed sleeves,” she whispered disconsolately7. “I prayed for one, but I didn’t much expect it on that account. I didn’t suppose God would have time to bother about a little orphan8 girl’s dress. I knew I’d just have to depend on Marilla for it. Well, fortunately I can imagine that one of them is of snow-white muslin with lovely lace frills and three-puffed sleeves.”

    The next morning warnings of a sick headache prevented Marilla from going to Sunday-school with Anne.

    “You’ll have to go down and call for Mrs. Lynde, Anne,” she said. “She’ll see that you get into the right class. Now, mind you behave yourself properly. Stay to preaching afterwards and ask Mrs. Lynde to show you our pew. Here’s a cent for collection. Don’t stare at people and don’t fidget. I shall expect you to tell me the text when you come home.”

    Anne started off irreproachable9, arrayed in the stiff black-and-white sateen, which, while decent as regards length and certainly not open to the charge of skimpiness, contrived10 to emphasize every corner and angle of her thin figure. Her hat was a little, flat, glossy11, new sailor, the extreme plainness of which had likewise much disappointed Anne, who had permitted herself secret visions of ribbon and flowers. The latter, however, were supplied before Anne reached the main road, for being confronted halfway12 down the lane with a golden frenzy13 of wind-stirred buttercups and a glory of wild roses, Anne promptly14 and liberally garlanded her hat with a heavy wreath of them. Whatever other people might have thought of the result it satisfied Anne, and she tripped gaily15 down the road, holding her ruddy head with its decoration of pink and yellow very proudly.

    When she had reached Mrs. Lynde’s house she found that lady gone. Nothing daunted16, Anne proceeded onward17 to the church alone. In the porch she found a crowd of little girls, all more or less gaily attired18 in whites and blues19 and pinks, and all staring with curious eyes at this stranger in their midst, with her extraordinary head adornment20. Avonlea little girls had already heard queer stories about Anne. Mrs. Lynde said she had an awful temper; Jerry Buote, the hired boy at Green Gables, said she talked all the time to herself or to the trees and flowers like a crazy girl. They looked at her and whispered to each other behind their quarterlies. Nobody made any friendly advances, then or later on when the opening exercises were over and Anne found herself in Miss Rogerson’s class.

    Miss Rogerson was a middle-aged21 lady who had taught a Sunday-school class for twenty years. Her method of teaching was to ask the printed questions from the quarterly and look sternly over its edge at the particular little girl she thought ought to answer the question. She looked very often at Anne, and Anne, thanks to Marilla’s drilling, answered promptly; but it may be questioned if she understood very much about either question or answer.

    She did not think she liked Miss Rogerson, and she felt very miserable22; every other little girl in the class had puffed sleeves. Anne felt that life was really not worth living without puffed sleeves.

    “Well, how did you like Sunday school?” Marilla wanted to know when Anne came home. Her wreath having faded, Anne had discarded it in the lane, so Marilla was spared the knowledge of that for a time.

    “I didn’t like it a bit. It was horrid23.”

    “Anne Shirley!” said Marilla rebukingly24.

    Anne sat down on the rocker with a long sigh, kissed one of Bonny’s leaves, and waved her hand to a blossoming fuchsia.

    “They might have been lonesome while I was away,” she explained. “And now about the Sunday school. I behaved well, just as you told me. Mrs. Lynde was gone, but I went right on myself. I went into the church, with a lot of other little girls, and I sat in the corner of a pew by the window while the opening exercises went on. Mr. Bell made an awfully25 long prayer. I would have been dreadfully tired before he got through if I hadn’t been sitting by that window. But it looked right out on the Lake of Shining Waters, so I just gazed at that and imagined all sorts of splendid things.”

    “You shouldn’t have done anything of the sort. You should have listened to Mr. Bell.”

    “But he wasn’t talking to me,” protested Anne. “He was talking to God and he didn’t seem to be very much inter-ested in it, either. I think he thought God was too far off though. There was a long row of white birches hanging over the lake and the sunshine fell down through them, ‘way, ‘way down, deep into the water. Oh, Marilla, it was like a beautiful dream! It gave me a thrill and I just said, ‘Thank you for it, God,’ two or three times.”

    “Not out loud, I hope,” said Marilla anxiously.

    “Oh, no, just under my breath. Well, Mr. Bell did get through at last and they told me to go into the classroom with Miss Rogerson’s class. There were nine other girls in it. They all had puffed sleeves. I tried to imagine mine were puffed, too, but I couldn’t. Why couldn’t I? It was as easy as could be to imagine they were puffed when I was alone in the east gable, but it was awfully hard there among the others who had really truly puffs26.”

    “You shouldn’t have been thinking about your sleeves in Sunday school. You should have been attending to the lesson. I hope you knew it.”

    “Oh, yes; and I answered a lot of questions. Miss Rogerson asked ever so many. I don’t think it was fair for her to do all the asking. There were lots I wanted to ask her, but I didn’t like to because I didn’t think she was a kindred spirit. Then all the other little girls recited a paraphrase27. She asked me if I knew any. I told her I didn’t, but I could recite, ‘The Dog at His Master’s Grave’ if she liked. That’s in the Third Royal Reader. It isn’t a really truly religious piece of poetry, but it’s so sad and melancholy28 that it might as well be. She said it wouldn’t do and she told me to learn the nineteenth paraphrase for next Sunday. I read it over in church afterwards and it’s splendid. There are two lines in particular that just thrill me.

    “‘Quick as the slaughtered29 squadrons fell

    In Midian’s evil day.’

    “I don’t know what ‘squadrons’ means nor ‘Midian,’ either, but it sounds so tragical30. I can hardly wait until next Sunday to recite it. I’ll practice it all the week. After Sunday school I asked Miss Rogerson—because Mrs. Lynde was too far away—to show me your pew. I sat just as still as I could and the text was Revelations, third chapter, second and third verses. It was a very long text. If I was a minister I’d pick the short, snappy ones. The sermon was awfully long, too. I suppose the minister had to match it to the text. I didn’t think he was a bit interesting. The trouble with him seems to be that he hasn’t enough imagination. I didn’t listen to him very much. I just let my thoughts run and I thought of the most surprising things.”

    Marilla felt helplessly that all this should be sternly reproved, but she was hampered31 by the undeniable fact that some of the things Anne had said, especially about the minister’s sermons and Mr. Bell’s prayers, were what she herself had really thought deep down in her heart for years, but had never given expression to. It almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken32 morsel33 of neglected humanity.



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    1 standing [ˈstændɪŋ] 2hCzgo   第8级
    n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
    参考例句:
    • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing. 地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
    • They're standing out against any change in the law. 他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
    2 tempted ['temptid] b0182e969d369add1b9ce2353d3c6ad6   第7级
    v.怂恿(某人)干不正当的事;冒…的险(tempt的过去分词)
    参考例句:
    • I was sorely tempted to complain, but I didn't. 我极想发牢骚,但还是没开口。
    • I was tempted by the dessert menu. 甜食菜单馋得我垂涎欲滴。
    3 checkered ['tʃekəd] twbzdA   第12级
    adj.有方格图案的
    参考例句:
    • The ground under the trees was checkered with sunlight and shade. 林地光影交错。
    • He has a checkered past in the government. 他过去在政界浮沉。
    4 sniffed [snift] ccb6bd83c4e9592715e6230a90f76b72   第7级
    v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的过去式和过去分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说
    参考例句:
    • When Jenney had stopped crying she sniffed and dried her eyes. 珍妮停止了哭泣,吸了吸鼻子,擦干了眼泪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • The dog sniffed suspiciously at the stranger. 狗疑惑地嗅着那个陌生人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    5 pampering [ˈpæmpərɪŋ] 02c53488e446442c68ed39d5e01ab5f1   第10级
    v.纵容,宠,娇养( pamper的现在分词 )
    参考例句:
    • But you need to make an appointment because these people are usually very busy pampering pets. 但是你需要先预约,因为这些人通常都在忙于照顾宠物们。 来自超越目标英语 第2册
    • He had been pampering, and coaxing, and indulging that individual all his life. 他一生都在姑息、迁就、纵容那家伙。 来自辞典例句
    6 puffed [pʌft] 72b91de7f5a5b3f6bdcac0d30e24f8ca   第7级
    adj.疏松的v.使喷出( puff的过去式和过去分词 );喷着汽(或烟)移动;吹嘘;吹捧
    参考例句:
    • He lit a cigarette and puffed at it furiously. 他点燃了一支香烟,狂吸了几口。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • He felt grown-up, puffed up with self-importance. 他觉得长大了,便自以为了不起。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    7 disconsolately [dɪs'kɒnsələtlɪ] f041141d86c7fb7a4a4b4c23954d68d8   第11级
    adv.悲伤地,愁闷地;哭丧着脸
    参考例句:
    • A dilapidated house stands disconsolately amid the rubbles. 一栋破旧的房子凄凉地耸立在断垣残壁中。 来自辞典例句
    • \"I suppose you have to have some friends before you can get in,'she added, disconsolately. “我看得先有些朋友才能进这一行,\"她闷闷不乐地加了一句。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
    8 orphan [ˈɔ:fn] QJExg   第7级
    n.孤儿;adj.无父母的
    参考例句:
    • He brought up the orphan and passed onto him his knowledge of medicine. 他把一个孤儿养大,并且把自己的医术传给了他。
    • The orphan had been reared in a convent by some good sisters. 这个孤儿在一所修道院里被几个好心的修女带大。
    9 irreproachable [ˌɪrɪˈprəʊtʃəbl] yaZzj   第12级
    adj.不可指责的,无过失的
    参考例句:
    • It emerged that his past behavior was far from irreproachable. 事实表明,他过去的行为绝非无可非议。
    • She welcomed her unexpected visitor with irreproachable politeness. 她以无可指责的礼仪接待了不速之客。
    10 contrived [kənˈtraɪvd] ivBzmO   第12级
    adj.不自然的,做作的;虚构的
    参考例句:
    • There was nothing contrived or calculated about what he said. 他说的话里没有任何蓄意捏造的成分。
    • The plot seems contrived. 情节看起来不真实。
    11 glossy [ˈglɒsi] nfvxx   第9级
    adj.平滑的;有光泽的
    参考例句:
    • I like these glossy spots. 我喜欢这些闪闪发光的花点。
    • She had glossy black hair. 她长着乌黑发亮的头发。
    12 halfway [ˌhɑ:fˈweɪ] Xrvzdq   第8级
    adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
    参考例句:
    • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark. 走到半路,天就黑了。
    • In study the worst danger is give up halfway. 在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
    13 frenzy [ˈfrenzi] jQbzs   第9级
    n.疯狂,狂热,极度的激动
    参考例句:
    • He was able to work the young students up into a frenzy. 他能激起青年学生的狂热。
    • They were singing in a frenzy of joy. 他们欣喜若狂地高声歌唱。
    14 promptly [ˈprɒmptli] LRMxm   第8级
    adv.及时地,敏捷地
    参考例句:
    • He paid the money back promptly. 他立即还了钱。
    • She promptly seized the opportunity his absence gave her. 她立即抓住了因他不在场给她创造的机会。
    15 gaily [ˈgeɪli] lfPzC   第11级
    adv.欢乐地,高兴地
    参考例句:
    • The children sing gaily. 孩子们欢唱着。
    • She waved goodbye very gaily. 她欢快地挥手告别。
    16 daunted [dɔ:ntid] 7ffb5e5ffb0aa17a7b2333d90b452257   第8级
    使(某人)气馁,威吓( daunt的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • She was a brave woman but she felt daunted by the task ahead. 她是一个勇敢的女人,但对面前的任务却感到信心不足。
    • He was daunted by the high quality of work they expected. 他被他们对工作的高品质的要求吓倒了。
    17 onward [ˈɒnwəd] 2ImxI   第9级
    adj.向前的,前进的;adv.向前,前进,在先
    参考例句:
    • The Yellow River surges onward like ten thousand horses galloping. 黄河以万马奔腾之势滚滚向前。
    • He followed in the steps of forerunners and marched onward. 他跟随着先辈的足迹前进。
    18 attired [əˈtaiəd] 1ba349e3c80620d3c58c9cc6c01a7305   第10级
    adj.穿着整齐的v.使穿上衣服,使穿上盛装( attire的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • The bride was attired in white. 新娘穿一身洁白的礼服。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • It is appropriate that everyone be suitably attired. 人人穿戴得体是恰当的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    19 blues [blu:z] blues   第9级
    n.抑郁,沮丧;布鲁斯音乐
    参考例句:
    • She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues. 她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
    • He was in the blues on account of his failure in business. 他因事业失败而意志消沉。
    20 adornment [ə'dɔ:nmənt] cxnzz   第8级
    n.装饰;装饰品
    参考例句:
    • Lucie was busy with the adornment of her room.露西正忙着布置她的房间。
    • Cosmetics are used for adornment.化妆品是用来打扮的。
    21 middle-aged ['mɪdl eɪdʒd] UopzSS   第8级
    adj.中年的
    参考例句:
    • I noticed two middle-aged passengers. 我注意到两个中年乘客。
    • The new skin balm was welcome by middle-aged women. 这种新护肤香膏受到了中年妇女的欢迎。
    22 miserable [ˈmɪzrəbl] g18yk   第7级
    adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
    参考例句:
    • It was miserable of you to make fun of him. 你取笑他,这是可耻的。
    • Her past life was miserable. 她过去的生活很苦。
    23 horrid [ˈhɒrɪd] arozZj   第10级
    adj.可怕的;令人惊恐的;恐怖的;极讨厌的
    参考例句:
    • I'm not going to the horrid dinner party. 我不打算去参加这次讨厌的宴会。
    • The medicine is horrid and she couldn't get it down. 这种药很难吃,她咽不下去。
    24 rebukingly [] 4895f4487f702128d7bd9649f105aec8   第9级
    参考例句:
    • The assassin, gazing over the wizard's head, did not answer. GARETH smote Hugh rebukingly. 刺客没有应声,眼睛望向巫师头顶上方。盖利斯狠狠的抽了他一下以示惩戒。
    25 awfully [ˈɔ:fli] MPkym   第8级
    adv.可怕地,非常地,极端地
    参考例句:
    • Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past. 过去农业遭到严重忽视。
    • I've been feeling awfully bad about it. 对这我一直感到很难受。
    26 puffs [pʌfs] cb3699ccb6e175dfc305ea6255d392d6   第7级
    n.吸( puff的名词复数 );(烟斗或香烟的)一吸;一缕(烟、蒸汽等);(呼吸或风的)呼v.使喷出( puff的第三人称单数 );喷着汽(或烟)移动;吹嘘;吹捧
    参考例句:
    • We sat exchanging puffs from that wild pipe of his. 我们坐在那里,轮番抽着他那支野里野气的烟斗。 来自辞典例句
    • Puffs of steam and smoke came from the engine. 一股股蒸汽和烟雾从那火车头里冒出来。 来自辞典例句
    27 paraphrase [ˈpærəfreɪz] SLSxy   第9级
    vt.将…释义,改写;n.释义,意义
    参考例句:
    • You may read the prose paraphrase of this poem. 你可以看一下这首诗的散文释义。
    • Paraphrase the following sentences or parts of sentences using your own words. 用你自己的话解释下面的句子或句子的一部分。
    28 melancholy [ˈmelənkəli] t7rz8   第8级
    n.忧郁,愁思;adj.令人感伤(沮丧)的,忧郁的
    参考例句:
    • All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy. 他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中。
    • He felt melancholy after he failed the exam. 这次考试没通过,他感到很郁闷。
    29 slaughtered [ˈslɔ:təd] 59ed88f0d23c16f58790fb11c4a5055d   第8级
    v.屠杀,杀戮,屠宰( slaughter的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • The invading army slaughtered a lot of people. 侵略军杀了许多人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered. 数百名无辜平民遭残杀。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    30 tragical ['trædʒɪkl] 661d0a4e0a69ba99a09486c46f0e4d24   第7级
    adj. 悲剧的, 悲剧性的
    参考例句:
    • One day she was pink and flawless; another pale and tragical. 有的时候,她就娇妍、完美;另有的时候,她就灰白戚楚。
    • Even Mr. Clare began to feel tragical at the dairyman's desperation. 连克莱先生看到牛奶商这样无计奈何的样子,都觉得凄惨起来。
    31 hampered [ˈhæmpəd] 3c5fb339e8465f0b89285ad0a790a834   第7级
    妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
    • So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。
    32 outspoken [aʊtˈspəʊkən] 3mIz7v   第8级
    adj.直言无讳的,坦率的,坦白无隐的
    参考例句:
    • He was outspoken in his criticism. 他在批评中直言不讳。
    • She is an outspoken critic of the school system in this city. 她是这座城市里学校制度的坦率的批评者。
    33 morsel [ˈmɔ:sl] Q14y4   第11级
    n.一口,一点点
    参考例句:
    • He refused to touch a morsel of the food they had brought. 他们拿来的东西他一口也不吃。
    • The patient has not had a morsel of food since the morning. 从早上起病人一直没有进食。

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