《小妇人》经典语录：英文原文与中文翻译
Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
从路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》中选出的15句经典语录，英文原文下附中文翻译。每一句都直接摘自原书。整本书可以免费阅读，配有翻译、朗读和词典。
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
没有礼物，圣诞节就不成其为圣诞节了。
出自“LITTLE WOMEN.”
"I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo; but I have learned not to show it; and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so."
「我花了四十年想改掉这个毛病，也只是做到了控制它。我几乎每天都在生气，乔；但我学会了不表现出来；我还希望能学会不生气，尽管这也许还要再花我四十年。」
出自“VIII. Jo Meets Apollyon.”
"You may try your experiment for a week, and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play."
「你可以试一个星期，看看你喜不喜欢。我想到了星期六晚上，你就会发现光玩不干活和光干活不玩一样糟糕。」
出自“X. The P. C. and P. O.”
"It's just what you need to bring out the tender, womanly half of your nature, Jo. You are like a chestnut-burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off."
「这正是你需要的，能让你天性中温柔、女性化的一半显露出来，乔。你就像一颗栗子，外面带刺，里面却柔滑细软，只要有人能弄开它，就是一颗甜美的果仁。爱情总有一天会让你敞开心扉，到那时粗糙的刺壳就会脱落。」
出自“XLI. Learning to Forget.”
"Never take advice! Can't keep still all day, and, not being a pussycat, I don't like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I'm going to find some."
「千万别听人劝！我可没法整天坐着不动，我又不是只小猫，不喜欢在炉火边打瞌睡。我喜欢冒险，我要去找些冒险的事做。」
出自“V. Being Neighborly.”
"It does seem pleasant to be quiet, and not have company manners on all the time. Home is a nice place, though it isn't splendid," said Meg, looking about her with a restful expression, as she sat with her mother and Jo on the Sunday evening.
「安安静静的确很惬意，不用时时刻刻端着做客的礼数。家是个好地方，虽说算不上富丽堂皇。」梅格说，她带着安适的神情环顾四周，星期天晚上她和母亲、乔坐在一起。
出自“X. The P. C. and P. O.”
"You've got me, anyhow. I'm not good for much, I know; but I'll stand by you, Jo, all the days of my life; upon my word I will!" and Laurie meant what he said.
「不管怎样，你还有我。我知道自己没什么大用；但我会陪着你，乔，一辈子都陪着你；我说话算话！」劳里说这话是认真的。
出自“XXIV. Gossip.”
"Jo, dear, don't hope any more; it won't do any good, I'm sure of that. We won't be miserable, but enjoy being together while we wait. We'll have happy times, for I don't suffer much, and I think the tide will go out easily, if you help me."
「乔，亲爱的，别再抱希望了；我肯定那不会有什么用。我们不要愁眉苦脸，趁等待的时候好好享受在一起的时光。我们会过得快快乐乐的，因为我并不太痛苦，我想只要你帮我，潮水会平平静静地退去。」
出自“XXXVI. Beth's Secret.”
Mrs. March knew that experience was an excellent teacher, and when it was possible she left her children to learn alone the lessons which she would gladly have made easier, if they had not objected to taking advice as much as they did salts and senna.
马奇太太知道经验是一位极好的老师，只要可能，她就让孩子们自己去吸取教训，本来她乐意让这些教训变得轻松些，可孩子们对听取劝告的厌恶，就像对吃泻盐和番泻叶一样。
出自“XXVII. Literary Lessons.”
"That is perfectly natural, and quite harmless, if the liking does not become a passion, and lead one to do foolish or unmaidenly things. Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty, Meg."
「这完全自然，也毫无害处，只要这种喜欢不变成痴迷，不让人做出愚蠢或有失体统的事。要学会认识和珍惜值得拥有的赞扬，靠既谦逊又漂亮来赢得优秀人士的赞赏，梅格。」
出自“X. The P. C. and P. O.”
"Why don't you say you'd have a splendid, wise, good husband, and some angelic little children? You know your castle wouldn't be perfect without," said blunt Jo, who had no tender fancies yet, and rather scorned romance, except in books.
「你为什么不说你想要一个出色、明智、善良的丈夫，还有几个天使般的小孩子呢？你知道你的城堡少了这些就不完美。」直率的乔说，她那时还没有温柔的幻想，除了在书里，对浪漫颇为不屑。
出自“XIII. Castles in the Air.”
To outsiders, the five energetic women seemed to rule the house, and so they did in many things; but the quiet scholar, sitting among his books, was still the head of the family, the household conscience, anchor, and comforter; for to him the busy, anxious women always turned in troublous times, finding him, in the truest sense of those sacred words, husband and father.
在外人看来，这五个精力充沛的女人似乎掌管着这个家，在许多事情上确实如此；但那位安静的学者坐在他的书堆中，仍然是全家的主心骨、家中的良心、锚和安慰者；因为忙碌焦虑的女人们遇到麻烦时总是转向他，发现他真正当得起那些神圣字眼的含义：丈夫和父亲。
出自“XXIV. Gossip.”
Ah, Jo, instead of wishing that, thank God that "father and mother were particular," and pity from your heart those who have no such guardians to hedge them round with principles which may seem like prison-walls to impatient youth, but which will prove sure foundations to build character upon in womanhood.
啊，乔，与其这样盼望，不如感谢上帝「父亲和母亲都很讲究」，并且从心底怜悯那些没有这样的守护者的人，他们不能用原则把子女围护起来，这些原则在急躁的年轻人看来也许像监狱的围墙，但将来会证明是塑造女性品格的坚实基础。
出自“XXXIV. A Friend.”
"Wait for me, my friend. I may be a little late, but I shall surely come."
「等等我，我的朋友。我也许会稍晚一点，但我一定会来。」
出自“XLI. Learning to Forget.”
"Why not? I'm neat and cool and comfortable; quite proper for a dusty walk on a warm day. If people care more for my clothes than they do for me, I don't wish to see them. You can dress for both, and be as elegant as you please: it pays for you to be fine; it doesn't for me, and furbelows only worry me."
「为什么不呢？我整洁、凉爽、舒服；在暖和的日子走一段尘土飞扬的路，这样穿很合适。如果人们看重我的衣服胜过看重我本人，那我就不想见他们。你可以替我们两个人都打扮好，想多优雅就多优雅：你讲究穿着是值得的；我可不值得，而且花边装饰只会让我心烦。」
出自“XXIX. Calls.”
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