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"that she will be given classes soon, and Miss Minchin knows she will have to work for nothing.
“因此不久就要让她讲课，而且铭钦女士知道她必须无报酬地干活儿。
It was rather nasty of you, Lavvy, to tell about her having fun in the garret. How did you find it out?"
你实在太恶劣了，拉维，去告发她在阁楼上寻开心。你是怎么发现的？”
"I got it out of Lottie. She's such a baby she didn't know she was telling me.
“我从洛蒂那儿听到的。她是这么个小娃娃，自己并不知道是在对我告发。
There was nothing nasty at all in speaking to Miss Minchin. I felt it my duty"—priggishly. "
对铭钦女士去讲，一点也谈不上恶劣。我觉得那是我的责任，”
She was being deceitful. And it's ridiculous that she should look so grand, and be made so much of, in her rags and tatters!"
拉维尼娅有点儿自命不凡地说。“是她在骗人。穿得破破烂烂的，却做出一副那么尊贵的样子，还被那么重视，实在太可笑了！”
"What were they doing when Miss Minchin caught them?"
“被铭钦女士逮住的时候，她们正在干什么？”
"Pretending some silly thing. Ermengarde had taken up her hamper to share with Sara and Becky.
“在假装干什么蠢事。埃芒加德把她的食品篮拿上去要和萨拉和贝基分享。
She never invites us to share things. Not that I care, but it's rather vulgar of her to share with servant girls in attics.
她从不请我们分享过什么东西。不是我计较，但在阁楼里同女仆分东西吃，实在有失体统。
I wonder Miss Minchin didn't turn Sara out—even if she does want her for a teacher."
我奇怪铭钦女士没把萨拉赶走——就算她确实想要萨拉当老师也罢。”
"If she was turned out where would she go?" inquired Jessie, a trifle anxiously.
“如果她被赶出去，她能去哪儿呢？”杰西有点儿焦急地问。
"How do I know?" snapped Lavinia. "She'll look rather queer when she comes into the schoolroom this morning, I should think—
“我怎么知道？”拉维尼娅厉声说。“依我看，她今早进教室的时候会显得很怪——
after what's happened. She had no dinner yesterday, and she's not to have any today."
在出了那事儿后。昨天她没吃饭，今天也不会让她吃。”
Jessie was not as ill-natured as she was silly. She picked up her book with a little jerk.
杰西虽然傻，心眼儿却并不那么坏。她猛地拿起她的一本书。
"Well, I think it's horrid," she said. "They've no right to starve her to death."
“哎呀，我想真是可怕，”她说。“她们没有权力让她饿死。”
When Sara went into the kitchen that morning the cook looked askance at her, and so did the housemaids;
那天早晨萨拉进厨房的时候，厨子斜眼瞧着她，那些女仆也是这样，
but she passed them hurriedly. She had, in fact, overslept herself a little, and as Becky had done the same,
但她匆匆地从她们身边走过。她实际上多睡了一会儿，而贝基也睡过了头，
neither had had time to see the other, and each had come downstairs in haste.
因此她们来不及相互探望，都急忙下了楼。
Sara went into the scullery. Becky was violently scrubbing a kettle, and was actually gurgling a little song in her throat.
萨拉走进洗碗间。贝基正在使劲地擦一把水壶，竟然在嗓子眼里哼着一支小曲。
She looked up with a wildly elated face.
她抬头望着，脸上带着狂喜的神色。
"It was there when I wakened, miss—the blanket," she whispered excitedly. "It was as real as it was last night."
“我醒来时它还在那儿，小姐——我是说那条毯子，”她兴奋地悄声说。“它同昨晚一样是真的。”
"So was mine," said Sara. "It is all there now—all of it. While I was dressing I ate some of the cold things we left."
“我的也在，”萨拉说。“现在全在那儿——那些东西全在。我边穿衣服边吃了一些我们剩下的冷东西。”
