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When I was Young in the Mountains
By Cynthia Rylant
Illustrated by Diane Goode
我很喜欢这本书，看这本书让我想起了小时候住在外婆家的美好时光，现在还是很怀念。因为没找到林海音的译文，以前自己动手翻过一次，今天修改了一下。
When I was young in the mountains, Grandfather came home in the evening covered with the black dust of a coal mine. Only his lips were clean, and he used them to kiss the top of my head.
小时候住在山里，祖父每天晚上回到家，浑身都落满了黑煤灰，只有嘴唇是干净的。他就用它们在我的头上亲一下。
When I was young in the mountains, Grandmother spread the table with hot corn bread, pinto beans and fried okra.
小时候住在山里，祖母会为我们张罗一桌子好吃的，有热乎乎的玉米面包、油煎秋葵和斑豆。
Later, in the middle of the night, she walked through the grass with me to johnny-house and held my hand in the dark. I promise never to eat more than one serving of okra again.
后来，半夜的时候，祖母牵着我的手，带我穿过草地到户外厕所。我保证我以后最多就只吃一份秋葵。
When I was young in the mountains, we walked across the cow pasture and through the woods, carried our towels. The swimming hole was dark and muddy, and we sometimes saw snakes, but we jumped in anyway.
小时候住在山里，我们挎着毛巾，越过牧场，穿过森林，来到游泳洞。游泳洞又暗又滑。有时候还会有蛇出没，但我们还是义无返顾地跳入水中。
On our way home, we stopped at Mr. Crawford’s for a mound of white butter. Mr. Crawford and Mrs. Crawford looked alike and always smelled of sweet milk.
回家的路上，路过在克劳福德的店铺，我们就停下来买一大堆的白色奶油。克劳福德先生和克劳福德太太长得真像，而且在他们身上总能闻到一股甜甜的牛奶香味。
When I was young in the mountains, we pumped pails of water from the well at the bottom of the hill, and heated the water to fill round tin tubs for our baths.
小时候住在山里，我们从山顶的水井里抽起一桶桶水，然后把水加热，倒入圆形的锡制澡盆里，这样就可以舒舒服服地洗个澡了。
Afterwards, we stood in front of the old black stove, shivering and giggling, while Grandmother heated cocoa on top.
洗完后，我们就站在早已被熏黑的火炉前取暖，虽然冷得直打哆嗦，可还是一个劲地咯咯笑。祖母站在一旁，在炉子上煮可可豆。
When I was young in the mountains, we went to church in the schoolhouse on Sundays, and sometimes walked with the congregation through the cow pasture to the dark swimming pole, for baptisms.
小时候住在山里，每周日我们都会到校舍做礼拜。有时候会跟着会众穿过牧场到那黑乎乎的游泳洞去，观看洗礼。
My cousin Peter was laid back into the water, and his white shirt stuck to him, and my Grandmother cried.
人们将表弟彼特背靠后放入水中。他的白衬衫紧贴在身上。祖母哭了。
When I was young in the mountains, we listened to frogs sing at dusk and awoke to cowbells outside our windows. Sometimes a black snake came in the yard, and my Grandmother would threaten it with a hoe.
小时候住在山里，我们听青蛙在薄暮中呱呱叫，听牛铃在窗外叮当响。有时还会有黑蛇溜进小院里，祖母就会拿锄子把它吓跑。
If it did not leave, she used the hoe to kill it. Four of us once draped a very long snake, dead of course, across our necks for a photograph.
如果它执意不走的话，祖母就不得不用锄子把它打死了。我们四个小孩儿有次就把一条很长的蛇，当然是死的，绕在脖子上，拍了张照片。
When I was young in the mountains, we sat on the porch swing in the evenings, and Grandfather sharpened my pencils with his pocketknife. Grandmother sometimes shelled beans and sometimes braided my hairs. The dogs lay around us, and the stars sparkled in the sky. A bobwhite whistled in the forest.
Bob-bob-bobwhite!
小时候住在山里，晚上我们坐在门廊的秋千上。祖父用他的小折刀帮我削铅笔。祖母有时候剥豆荚，有时候给我编麻花辫。小狗趴在我们身边，星星在天上闪耀，鹑在森林里鸣叫。
When I was young in the mountains, I never wanted to go to the ocean, and I never wanted to go to the desert. I never wanted to go anywhere else in the world, for I was in the mountains. And that was always enough.
小时候住在山里，我没憧憬过大海，也没向往过沙漠。我从没想过到世界的任何其他地方去，因为我住在山里，一切都已足矣。