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飘|Gone With The Wind

上卷 第九章|CHAPTER IX

属类： 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 玛格丽特·米切尔] 阅读：[52904]
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那年夏天的一个早晨，思嘉坐在卧室的窗前，满肚子不高兴地观看好些大车和马车载着姑娘们、大兵和他们的陪伴人，兴高采烈地驶离桃树街，到林地去采集松柏之类的装饰物，准备给当天晚上要为医院福利举办的义卖会使用。阳光在枝柯如拱的大树下闪烁，那条红土大道在树荫中光影斑驳，纷纷而过的马蹄扬起一阵阵云雾般的红色尘土。

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Scarlett sat in the window of her bedroom that midsummer morning and disconsolately watched the wagons and carriages full of girls, soldiers and chaperons ride gaily out Peachtree road in search of woodland decorations for the bazaar which was to be held that evening for the benefit of the hospitals. The red road lay checkered in shade and sun glare beneath the over-arching trees and the many hooves kicked up little red clouds of dust.

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有辆大车走在最前面，载着四个粗壮的黑人，他们携着斧子准备去砍常青树和把上面的藤蔓扯下来；大车背上高高地堆放着一些盖着餐巾的大篮子，橡树条编成的午餐盒和十几只西瓜。黑人中有两个带着班卓琴和口琴，他们正在热情奔放地演奏《骑士詹恩，如果你想过得快乐》。

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One wagon, ahead of the others, bore four stout negroes with axes to cut evergreens and drag down the vines, and the back of this wagon was piled high with napkin-covered hampers, split-oak baskets of lunch and a dozen watermelons. Two of the black bucks were equipped with banjo and harmonica and they were rendering a spirited version of ”If You Want to Have a Good Time, Jine the Cavalry.”

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他们后面滚滚而来的是大队人马，女孩子们穿着薄薄的花布衣裳，披着轻纱，戴着帽子和保护皮肤的长手套，头顶上还撑着小小的阳桑年纪大一些的太太们夹杂在那些笑声和马车与马车间的呼唤戏谑之中，显得心平气和，笑容满面。从医院来的康复病人挤在壮实的陪伴人和苗条的姑娘们中间，听凭姑娘们放肆的挑剔和嘲笑。军官们沿着马懒洋洋地在马车旁边慢慢移动——轮声辚辚，马刺丁当，金色的穗带闪闪发光，小阳伞前后碰撞，扇子纷纷挥舞，黑人们放声歌唱。人人都离开桃树街去采集青枝绿叶，举行野宴和吃西瓜去了。思嘉郁郁不乐地想。除了我，人人都去了。

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Behind them streamed the merry cavalcade, girls cool in flowered cotton dresses, with light shawls, bonnets and mitts to protect their skins and little parasols held over their heads; elderly ladies placid and smiling amid the laughter and carriage- to-carriage calls and jokes; convalescents from the hospitals wedged in between stout chaperons and slender girls who made great fuss and to-do over them; officers on horseback idling at snail’s pace beside the carriages—wheels creaking, spurs jingling, gold braid gleaming, parasols bobbing, fans swishing, negroes singing. Everybody was riding out Peachtree road to gather greenery and have a picnic and melon cutting. Everybody, thought Scarlett, morosely, except me.

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他们经过时都向她挥手致意，她也尽量装出高兴的样子来回答，但那是很困难的。她心里开始隐隐作痛，这疼痛慢慢向喉咙，并在那里结成一块，随即化为眼泪。除她以外，人人都去野餐了。除她以外，人人都要参加今晚的义卖和舞会。

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They all waved and called to her as they went by and she tried to respond with a good grace, but it was difficult. A hard little pain had started in her heart and was traveling slowly up toward her throat where it would become a lump and the lump would soon become tears. Everybody was going to the picnic except her. And everybody was going to the bazaar and the ball tonight except her.

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这就是说，除了她和皮蒂帕特和媚兰以及城里其他正中服丧的不幸者之外，所有的人都去啊！可是媚兰和皮蒂好像并不在意。她们甚至并不想参加，只有思嘉才想呢。她可真的非常想去呀。

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That is everybody except her and Pittypat and Melly and the other unfortunates in town who were in mourning. But Melly and Pittypat did not seem to mind. It had not even occurred to them to want to go. It had occurred to Scarlett. And she did want to go, tremendously.

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这简直太人公平了。她比城里的任何一个姑娘都加倍努力，为义卖做好了筹备工作。她编织了袜子、婴儿帽、毯子、围巾、织了不少的花边，画了许多瓷发缸和须杯，她还做了好几个上面绣有美国国旗的沙发枕套。（上面的星星确实偏了一点，有些几乎成了圆的，其余的有六个甚至七个尖头，但效果还是很好。）

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It simply wasn’t fair. She had worked twice as hard as any girl in town, getting things ready for the bazaar. She had knitted socks and baby caps and afghans and mufflers and tatted yards of lace and painted china hair receivers and mustache cups. And she had embroidered half a dozen sofa-pillow cases with the Confederate flag on them. (The stars were a bit lopsided, to be sure, some of them being almost round and others having six or even seven points, but the effect was good.)

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昨天她在到处是灰尘的旧军械库里，给排列在墙边的展品摊悬挂黄红绿三色帷布，直累得精疲力荆这是医院妇女委员会监督下的一桩几乎而艰苦的工作，决不是好玩的。要知道，在梅里韦里瑟太太、埃尔辛太太和惠廷太太左右，由她们这样的人主管，你简直就成人了黑人劳工队中的一员，一点也马虎不得。你还得听她们吹嘘自己的女儿有多少人在爱慕。而且，最糟糕的是，思嘉在帮皮蒂帕特和厨娘烙千层饼准备抽签售卖时，她的手指烫起了两个水泡呢。

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Yesterday she had worked until she was worn out in the dusty old barn of an Armory draping yellow and pink and green cheesecloth on the booths that lined the walls. Under the supervision of the Ladies’ Hospital Committee, this was plain hard work and no fun at all. It was never fun to be around Mrs. Merriwether and Mrs. Elsing and Mrs. Whiting and have them boss you like you were one of the darkies. And have to listen to them brag about how popular their daughters were. And, worst of all, she had burned two blisters on her fingers helping Pittypat and Cookie make layer cakes for raffling.

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现在，她已经像个大田劳工那样苦干了许久，好玩的时候看就要开始了，可是她却不得不乖乖地退下来。啊，这世界多不公道，她嬷嬷有一个死了的丈夫，一个婴儿在隔壁房间里哇哇大哭，以致被排除在一切娱乐之外。刚刚一年多一点以前她还在跳舞，还在穿鲜艳的衣裳（而不是这件黑色丧服），并且实际上同三个小伙子有恋爱关系。现在她才１７岁，还有许多的舞好跳呢。

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And now, having worked like a field hand, she had to retire decorously when the fun was just beginning. Oh, it wasn’t fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant. Just a little over a year ago, she was dancing and wearing bright clothes instead of this dark mourning and was practically engaged to three boys. She was only seventeen now and there was still a lot of dancing left in her feet.

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啊，这是不公道的！生活在她面前走过，沿着一条夏季的林荫大道；生活中有的是穿灰服制的人和丁当响的马刺，薄薄的花布衣裳和声调悠扬的五弦瑟。她想不要对自己最熟悉的些男人，那些她在医院里护理过的男人微笑挥手，可是又很难制止脸上的酒窝，很难装出自己的心已进入坟墓的样子——因为它并没有进去呀！

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Oh, it wasn’t fair! Life was going past her, down a hot shady summer road, life with gray uniforms and jingling spurs and flowered organdie dresses and banjos playing. She tried not to smile and wave too enthusiastically to the men she knew best, the ones she’d nursed in the hospital, but it was hard to subdue her dimples, hard to look as though her heart were in the grave—when it wasn’t.

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她突然停止点头和挥手了，因为皮蒂帕特已走进屋来她像平常那样因爬楼梯而气喘吁吁，并且很不礼貌地把她从窗口拉开。

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Her bowing and waving were abruptly halted when Pittypat entered the room, panting as usual from climbing the stairs, and jerked her away from the window unceremoniously.

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“居然向你卧窗外的男人挥起手了？难道你发疯了，宝贝，我说，思嘉，我简直给吓坏了！要是你母亲知道了会怎么说呢？”

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"Have you lost your mind, honey, waving at men out of your bedroom window? I declare, Scarlett, I’m shocked! What would your mother say?"

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“唔，他们不知道这是我的卧室呀。”

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"Well, they didn’t know it was my bedroom."

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“可是他们会猜想这是你的卧室，那不一样糟糕吗？宝贝，你千万不能做这种事。人人都会议论你，说你不规矩——而且无论如何梅里韦瑟太太知道这是你的卧室嘛？”

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"But they’d suspect it was your bedroom and that’s just as bad. Honey, you mustn’t do things like that. Everybody will be talking about you and saying you are fast—and anyway, Mrs. Merriwether knew it was your bedroom."

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“而且我想她会告诉所有的小伙子，这只老猫！”

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"And I suppose she’ll tell all the boys, the old cat."

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“宝贝，别说了！多丽·梅里韦瑟可是我最要好的朋友埃”

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"Honey, hush! Dolly Merriwether’s my best friend."

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“唔，老猫总归是老猫——啊，对不起，你不要哭！姑妈，我忘了这是我卧室的窗口了。我再也不这样了——我——我是想看看他们从这儿走过。我也想去呢。”

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"Well, she’s a cat just the same—oh, I’m sorry, Auntie, don’t cry! I forgot it was my bedroom window. I won’t do it again—I— I just wanted to see them go by. I wish I was going."

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“宝贝！”

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"Honey!"

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“唔，我真的想呀，我非常厌烦老坐在家里。”

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"Well, I do. I’m so tired of sitting at home."

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“思嘉，请答应我以后不说这样的话了。人们会议论的，他们会说你对查理缺乏应有的尊重——”

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"Scarlett, promise me you won’t say things like that. People would talk so. They’d say you didn’t have the proper respect for poor Charlie—"

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“啊，姑妈，你别哭了！”

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"Oh, Auntie, don’t cry!"

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“啊，我惹得你也哭起来了，”皮蒂帕特抽沿着说，稍稍有点高兴似的，一面伸手到裙兜里去掏手绢。

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"Oh, now I’ve made you cry, too," sobbed Pittypat, in a pleased way, fumbling in her skirt pocket for her handkerchief.

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思嘉心中那点隐隐的刺痛终于到了喉咙里，她放声痛哭起来——不，皮蒂帕特心想，这不是为可怜的查尔斯，而是因为那些车轮声和笑声最后渐渐消失了。这时媚兰从自己的房间里啊啊啊啊地走进来，她懊恼地蹙着眉头，手里拿着一把刷子，通常很整齐的那头黑发现在解开了发网，成了一大把波浪式的小小发卷披散在脸侧。

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The hard little pain had at last reached Scarlett’s throat and she wailed out loud—not, as Pittypat thought, for poor Charlie but because the last sounds of the wheels and the laughter were dying away. Melanie rustled in from her room, a worried frown puckering her forehead, a brush in her hands, her usually tidy black hair, freed of its net, fluffing about her face in a mass of tiny curls and waves.

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“亲爱的，怎么回事呀？”

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"Darlings! What is the matter?"

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“查理！”皮蒂帕特哽咽说着，好像乐于痛痛快快地悲伤一番似的，一面把头紧伏在媚兰的肩窝里。

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"Charlie!" sobbed Pittypat, surrendering utterly to the pleasure of her grief and burying her head on Melly’s shoulder.

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“唔，勇敢些，亲爱的！”媚兰一听到她哥哥的名字便嘴唇哆嗦起来，”别哭了。唔，思嘉！”

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"Oh," said Melly, her lip quivering at the mention of her brother’s name. "Be brave, dear. Don’t cry. Oh, Scarlett!"

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思嘉倒在床上扯开最大的嗓门哭着，哭的是她丧失了的青春和被剥夺了青春的欢乐，像一个孩子，她曾经一哭就能得到自己所要的东西，而如今知道哭已经不管用了，因此感到非常气愤和绝望。她把头埋在枕头里，一面哭一面用双脚乱踢着被子。

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Scarlett had thrown herself on the bed and was sobbing at the top of her voice, sobbing for her lost youth and the pleasures of youth that were denied her, sobbing with the indignation and despair of a child who once could get anything she wanted by sobbing and now knows that sobbing can no longer help her. She burrowed her head in the pillow and cried and kicked her feet at the tufted counterpane.

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“我还不如死了好！”她伤心地哭着说。面对这样悲痛的情景，皮蒂姑妈那想流即流的眼泪也不流了，这时媚兰赶紧跑到床边去安慰她的嫂子。

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"I might as well be dead!" she sobbed passionately. Before such an exhibition of grief, Pittypat’s easy tears ceased and Melly flew to the bedside to comfort her sister-in-law.

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“别哭了，亲爱的，只要想查理多么爱你，你也就会感到安慰了。还要想想你有那么个宝贝儿子呢。”

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"Dear, don’t cry! Try to think how much Charlie loved you and let that comfort you! Try to think of your darling baby."

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思嘉既因为自己被误解而感到愤慨，又因失去了一切而觉得孤单，这两种情绪混在一起，她便开不得口了。这真不幸，因为如果她能够开口，她就会用父亲那种爽直的口吻把一切隐蔽的真情都大声讲出来。媚兰拍着她的肩膀，皮蒂帕特踮着脚尖吃力地在房里走动，她想把窗帘放下来。

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Indignation at being misunderstood mingled with Scarlett’s forlorn feeling of being out of everything and strangled all utterance. That was fortunate, for if she could have spoken she would have cried out truths couched in Gerald’s forthright words. Melanie patted her shoulder and Pittypat tiptoed heavily about the room pulling down the shades.

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“别这样！”思嘉从枕头上抬起那张又红又肿的面孔喊道。“我还没断气呢，用不着把帘子放下来——尽管这也快了。啊，请离开这里，让我一个人等着吧！”

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"Don’t do that!" shouted Scarlett, raising a red and swollen face from the pillow. "I’m not dead enough for you to pull down the shades—though I might as well be. Oh, do go away and leave me alone!"

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她又把脸埋在枕头里。媚兰和皮蒂帕低声商量了一番，俯身看了看她，然后悄悄出去了。接着，她听见她们在楼下时媚兰轻轻对皮蒂说：“皮蒂姑妈，我希望你不要再对她谈起查尔斯了，你知道这总是叫她伤心的。可怜的人儿，每次一谈起，她的模样就那么古怪，我看是拼命忍着不要哭出声来。我们可不能再加重她的痛苦呀。”

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She sank her face into the pillow again and, after a whispered conference, the two standing over her tiptoed out. She heard Melanie say to Pittypat in a low voice as they went down the stairs:"Aunt Pitty, I wish you wouldn’t speak of Charles to her. You know how it always affects her. Poor thing, she gets that queer look and I know she’s trying not to cry. We mustn’t make it harder for her."

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思嘉气得一脚踢开被子，想找一句最难听的话来咒骂一声。

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Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.

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“真是见你妈的鬼！”她终于骂出这句话来，随即觉得舒服一点，媚兰才１８岁，怎么就能安心待在家里，什么乐趣也没有，还为她哥哥佩戴黑纱呀？媚兰好像并不知道，或者不关心，生活正马刺丁当地一路驶过去了呢。

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"God’s nightgown!" she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved. How could Melanie be content to stay at home and never have any fun and wear crepe for her brother when she was only eighteen years old? Melanie did not seem to know, or care, that life was riding by with jingling spurs.

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“可她就是这么个木头人嘛，”思嘉想，一面捶着枕头。“她从来也不像我有这么多人在捧着追着，所以并不怀念我心中所怀念着的那些东西。并且——并且她已经有了艾希礼，而我呢——我可一个也没搞到呀！”想起这段伤心事，她又放声痛哭起来。

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"But she’s such a stick," thought Scarlett, pounding the pillow. "And she never was popular like me, so she doesn’t miss the things I miss. And—and besides she’s got Ashley and I—I haven’t got anybody!" And at this fresh woe, she broke into renewed outcries.

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她闷闷不乐一个人关在房里，直到下午，看见那些出外野餐的人回来，大车上高高地堆放着松枝、藤萝和蕨类植物，她仍然不觉得高兴。人人都显得既疲乏又快活，再一次向她挥手致意，她只郁郁地回答。生活已经没有什么希望，而且肯定不值得过下去了。

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She remained gloomily in her room until afternoon and then the sight of the returning picnickers with wagons piled high with pine boughs, vines and ferns did not cheer her. Everyone looked happily tired as they waved to her again and she returned their greetings drearily. Life was a hopeless affair and certainly not worth living.

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在午睡时刻，梅里韦瑟太太和埃尔辛太太坐着马车登门拜访来了，她没有想到忧郁的心情竟这样得到了解脱。媚兰、思嘉和皮蒂帕特姑妈都对这种不适时的来访感到吃惊，于是赶快起来扣好胸衣，掠了掠头发，下楼迎接客人。

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Deliverance came in the form she least expected when, during the after-dinner-nap period, Mrs. Merriwether and Mrs. Elsing drove up. Startled at having callers at such an hour, Melanie, Scarlett and Aunt Pittypat roused themselves, hastily hooked their basques, smoothed their hair and descended to the parlor.

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“邦内尔太太的几个孩子出疹子了！”梅里韦瑟太太突如起来地说，明显地表示她觉得邦内尔太太本人对于发生这种事是有责任的。

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"Mrs. Bonnell’s children have the measles," said Mrs. Merriwether abruptly, showing plainly that she held Mrs. Bonnell personally responsible for permitting such a thing to happen.

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“而且麦克卢尔家的姑娘又被叫到费吉尼亚去了，仿佛诸如此类的事情都没有什么要紧似的。”埃尔辛太太用慢条理的口气补充说，一面懒懒地摇着扇子，”达拉斯·麦危尔也受伤了。”

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"And the McLure girls have been called to Virginia," said Mrs. Elsing in her die-away voice, fanning herself languidly as if neither this nor anything else mattered very much. "Dallas McLure is wounded."

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“多可怕呀！”几位女主人齐声喊道。”难道可怜的达拉斯——”

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"How dreadful!" chorused their hostesses. "Is poor Dallas—"

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“没有。只打穿了肩胛，”梅里韦瑟太太轻松地说。”不过在那样的时候发生，可再坏不过了。如今姑娘们正到北边去接他。不过，天晓得，我们实在没有时间在这里闲聊了。我们得赶快回到军械库去，把全部的布置工作完成。皮蒂，我们要你和媚兰今晚去顶替邦内尔太太和麦克卢尔家几位姑娘呢。”

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"No. Just through the shoulder," said Mrs. Merriwether briskly. "But it couldn’t possibly have happened at a worse time. The girls are going North to bring him home. But, skies above, we haven’t time to sit here talking. We must hurry back to the Armory and get the decorating done. Pitty, we need you and Melly tonight to take Mrs. Bonnell’s and the McLure girls’ places."

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“唔，不过，我们不能去，多丽。”

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"Oh, but, Dolly, we can’t go."

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“皮蒂帕特·汉密尔顿，别跟我说什么能不能，”梅里韦瑟太太认真地，”我们要你去照管那些弄点心的黑人。这本是邦内尔太太的事，至于媚兰，你得把麦克卢尔家姑娘们的那个摊位接过来。”

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"Don’t say ’can’t’ to me, Pittypat Hamilton," said Mrs. Merriwether vigorously. "We need you to watch the darkies with the refreshments. That was what Mrs. Bonnell was to do. And Melly, you must take the McLure girls’ booth."

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“唔，我们真的不能——可怜的查理去世还刚刚——”

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"Oh, we just couldn’t—with poor Charlie dead only a—"

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“我解理你的心情，不过，对我们的主义，无论作出什么样的牺牲都是应当的，”埃尔辛太太插嘴说，她那温和的声音仿佛就这样把事情定下来了。

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"I know how you feel but there isn’t any sacrifice too great for the Cause," broke in Mrs. Elsing in a soft voice that settled matters.

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“唔，我们是很乐意帮忙的，可是——你们怎么不找几个漂亮姑娘来管些摊位呢？”梅里韦瑟太太像吹喇叭似的用鼻子嗤了一声。

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"Oh, we’d love to help but—why can’t you get some sweet pretty girls to take the booths?"Mrs. Merriwether snorted a trumpeting snort.

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“我真不明白这些日子年轻人都中了什么邪，他们根本没有责任感。所有那些还没负责管摊位的姑娘都有许多的借口推诿，你也不好说了。哦，可她们休想愚弄我！一句话，她们只不过不让你妨碍她们去跟军官们调情罢了。她们生怕站在柜台后面没法炫耀自己的漂亮衣裳。我真巴不得那个跑封锁线的——他叫什么来着？”

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"I don’t know what’s come over the young people these days. They have no sense of responsibility. All the girls who haven’t already taken booths have more excuses than you could shake a stick at. Oh, they don’t fool me! They just don’t want to be hampered in making up to the officers, that’s all. And they’re afraid their new dresses won’t show off behind booth counters. I wish to goodness that blockade runner—what’s his name?"

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“巴特勒船长，”埃尔辛太太补充道。

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"Captain Butler," supplied Mrs. Elsing.

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“我巴不得他多运进一些医疗用品，少来一些裙子和花边之类的东西。要是我今天不得不去检查一件衣裳，那我就得检查他走私进来的２０件。巴特勒船长——这名字我一听就腻烦。现在，皮蒂，我没功夫谈这些了。你一定得来呀。人人都会理解的。谁也会瞧见，反正你是在后面屋里，就连媚兰也用不着抛着露面嘛。麦克卢尔家姑娘负责的摊位是在最远的那一头，摆的也不怎么好看，所以不会有人注意你。”

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"I wish he’d bring in more hospital supplies and less hoop skirts and lace. If I’ve had to look at one dress today I’ve had to look at twenty dresses that he ran in. Captain Butler—I’m sick of the name. Now, Pitty, I haven’t time to argue. You must come. Everybody will understand. Nobody will see you in the back room anyway, and Melly won’t be conspicuous. The poor McLure girls’ booth is way down at the end and not very pretty so nobody will notice you."

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“我想我们应当去，”思嘉说，一面努力克制自己的热情，尽量显得诚恳单纯一些。“这是我们能够替医院做的最微小的一点事。”

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"I think we should go," said Scarlett, trying to curb her eagerness and to keep her face earnest and simple. "It is the least we can do for the hospital."

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两位来访的太太本对她连名字也没提一下，这时才转过身来严峻地瞧着她。她们尽管极为宽容，可是还没有考虑到叫一位居丧刚刚一年的寡妇到社交场合去服务呢。思嘉像个孩子，瞪着两只眼睛承受着她们犀利的目光。

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Neither of the visiting ladies had even mentioned her name, and they turned and looked sharply at her. Even in their extremity, they had not considered asking a widow of scarcely a year to appear at a social function. Scarlett bore their gaze with a wide-eyed childlike expression.

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“我想我们大家都应当去帮助把义卖会办好。我看最好我同媚兰一起去管那个摊位，因为——嗯，我觉得我们两个人那里去比一个人显得更好一些。你不这样看吗？媚兰？”

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"I think we should go and help to make it a success, all of us. I think I should go in the booth with Melly because—well, I think it would look better for us both to be there instead of just one. Don’t you think so, Melly?"

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“好吧，”媚兰无可奈何地说。这样的想法简直是前所未闻，还在服丧期间就公然到一个公众集会上露面，因此她不知该怎么办好。

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"Well," began Melly helplessly. The idea of appearing publicly at a social gathering while in mourning was so unheard of she was bewildered.

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“思嘉是对的，”梅里韦瑟太太说，她注意到媚兰有点软下来了。她站起身来，整了整裙腰。”你们俩——你们大家，都得去。好，皮蒂，不要再解释了。你要想一想，医院多么需要钱来买床和药品。而且我觉得查理会高兴让你们为他所献身的主义出力的。”

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"Scarlett’s right," said Mrs. Merriwether, observing signs of weakening. She rose and jerked her hoops into place. "Both of you—all of you must come. Now, Pitty, don’t start your excuses again. Just think how much the hospital needs money for new beds and drugs. And I know Charlie would like you to help the Cause he died for."

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“好，”皮蒂帕特说，她像往常那样在一个比自己强硬的人面前毫无办法，”只要你觉得人们会理解，那就行了。”

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"Well," said Pittypat, helpless as always in the presence of a stronger personality, "if you think people will understand."

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“太好了！太好了！好得叫人难以相信！”思嘉在心中欢乐地唱着，谨慎地钻进那个用黄红两色帷布围着的摊位，这本来应该归麦克卢尔家的姑娘们管理。现在她真的来到一个集会上了！经过一年的蛰居，经过身漆黑纱，缄默不语和几乎苦恼得要发疯的一年之后，她现在真的又来到了一个集会，一个亚特兰大前所未有的最大规模的集会上。她在这里能够听到音乐，能够看到许多人和无数的灯光，并且自在地观赏由那位著名的巴特勒船长最近跑封锁线带进来的美丽的花边、绉边等装饰品。

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"Too good to be true! Too good to be true!" said Scarlett’s joyful heart as she slipped unobtrusively into the pink-and-yellow-draped booth that was to have been the McLure girls’. Actually she was at a party! After a year’s seclusion, after crepe and hushed voices and nearly going crazy with boredom, she was actually at a party, the biggest party Atlanta had ever seen. And she could see people and many lights and hear music and view for herself the lovely laces and frocks and frills that the famous Captain Butler had run through the blockade on his last trip.

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她坐在摊位柜台后面的一条小凳子上，前前后后地观看那个长长的展览厅，这地方直到今天下午以前还是个空空荡荡难看的教练厅呢。姑娘太太们今天花了很大力气才把它收拾得这样漂亮。它显得很可爱了。亚特兰大所有的蜡烛和烛台今天晚上都聚集到这里来了，银烛台伸出十几只弯弯的胳臂，瓷烛台底座密布着生动的人物雕像，古铜的烛台庄严而挺拔，它们都擎着大小不等、颜色不同的蜡烛散发着月桂树香味，立在直贯整个大厅的枪架上，在装饰着鲜花的桌子上，在摊位柜台上，甚至在敞开着的窗棂上，夏天的暖风不大不小，恰使微微摇摆的烛光分外明亮。

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She sank down on one of the little stools behind the counter of the booth and looked up and down the long hall which, until this afternoon, had been a bare and ugly drill room. How the ladies must have worked today to bring it to its present beauty. It looked lovely. Every candle and candlestick in Atlanta must be in this hall tonight, she thought, silver ones with a dozen sprangling arms, china ones with charming figurines clustering their bases, old brass stands, erect and dignified, laden with candles of all sizes and colors, smelling fragrantly of bayberries, standing on the gun racks that ran the length of the hall, on the long flower-decked tables, on booth counters, even on the sills of the open windows where the draughts of warm summer air were just strong enough to make them flare.

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大厅中央的那盏吊灯又大又难看，挂在一些从天花板垂下来的生锈的链条上，可是它已经用盘走的常春藤和野萄萄藤打扮得完全变样了，这些藤蔓尽管由于灯火熏烤已经在枯萎。四壁墙脚放着许多清香扑鼻的松枝，几个角落更装饰得如凉亭一般，那是老太太们和陪伴人爱坐的地方。到处垂挂着长串的常春藤、葡萄藤和牛尾藤，在墙壁上围成花环，在窗户上变为翠绿的流苏，在所有用色彩鲜艳的粗布围着的摊位上则盘成扇形的图案。在这万绿丛中，在国旗和各种旗帜上，处处都闪烁着南部联盟的以红蓝两色为背景的璀璨的星星。

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In the center of the hall the huge ugly lamp, hanging from the ceiling by rusty chains, was completely transformed by twining ivy and wild grapevines that were already withering from the heat. The walls were banked with pine branches that gave out a spicy smell, making the corners of the room into pretty bowers where the chaperons and old ladies would sit. Long graceful ropes of ivy and grapevine and smilax were hung everywhere, in looping festoons on the walls, draped above the windows, twined in scallops all over the brightly colored cheesecloth booths. And everywhere amid the greenery, on flags and bunting, blazed the bright stars of the Confederacy on their background of red and blue.

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为乐队布置的那个平台更富有艺术性。它完全隐蔽在周围的青枝绿叶和缀满星星的旗帜当中，人们几乎看不出来。思嘉知道，全城所有的盆栽花卉和桶栽植物，如锦紫苏、天竺葵、绣球花、夹竹桃、秋海棠，等等，都在这里了——连埃尔辛太太那四株珍贵的橡胶植物也被当作宝贝借来摆在平台的四个角上。

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The raised platform for the musicians was especially artistic. It was completely hidden from view by the banked greenery and starry bunting and Scarlett knew that every potted and tubbed plant in town was there, coleus, geranium, hydrangea, oleander, elephant ear—even Mrs. Elsing’s four treasured rubber plants, which were given posts of honor at the four corners.

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大厅里，平台对面的一端，妇女们人数很少，也很不惹人注意。这面墙上挂着戴维斯总统和佐治亚州自己的”小亚历”、南部联盟副总统斯蒂芬斯的巨幅肖像。他们上方是一面很大的国旗，而下面长桌上是从本城各花园搜集来的奇花异卉，如蕨类植物、成排的红黄白三色蔷薇、珍贵的金色剑兰、一丛丛的彩色金莲花、高标挺秀地扬着深茶色的乳酪色头颅卑视群芳的蜀葵，等等。

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At the other end of the hall from the platform, the ladies had eclipsed themselves. On this wall hung large pictures of President Davis and Georgia’s own "Little Alec" Stephens, Vice- President of the Confederacy. Above them was an enormous flag and, beneath, on long tables was the loot of the gardens of the town, ferns, banks of roses, crimson and yellow and white, proud sheaths of golden gladioli, masses of varicolored nasturtiums, tall stiff hollyhocks rearing deep maroon and creamy heads above the other flowers.

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蜡烛在它们当中像圣餐台上的灯火般宁静地燃着。那两张属于两个在如此严重关头掌握大权的人物的面孔，它们迥不相同，但同样俯视着眼前这个场面：戴维斯两颊扁平，眼光冷漠得像个苦行僧，两片薄薄的嘴唇矜持地紧闭着；斯蒂芬斯的脸上长着一双炽烈如火的黑眼睛，但是只看见疾病和痛苦，并且凭胆气和热情战胜了它们——这两张面孔都是人们所深爱的。

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Among them, candles burned serenely like altar fires. The two faces looked down on the scene, two faces as different as could be possible in two men at the helm of so momentous an undertaking: Davis with the flat cheeks and cold eyes of an ascetic, his thin proud lips set firmly; Stephens with dark burning eyes deep socketed in a face that had known nothing but sickness and pain and had triumphed over them with humor and with fire—two faces that were greatly loved.

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义卖委员会里几位全权负责的老太太拖着啊啊啊啊的衣裙，像几艘满帆的船威风凛凛地走了进来，他们催促那些晚到的少奶奶和吃吃笑着的姑娘们赶快进入自己的摊位，然后迅速穿过门道，走入正在那里安排点心的后屋。皮蒂姑妈喘着气跟在她们后面。

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The elderly ladies of the committee in whose hands rested the responsibility for the whole bazaar rustled in as importantly as full-rigged ships, hurried the belated young matrons and giggling girls into their booths, and then swept through the doors into the back rooms where the refreshments were being laid out. Aunt Pitty panted out after them.

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乐队穿一色的黑衣服，登上平台，咧着嘴，胖胖的脸颊上已经汗光闪闪了。他们开始调整丝弦，以预计成功的神气用乐弓拉着弹着。梅里韦瑟的马夫老利维，从亚特兰大还叫马撒维尔的时代起就一直领导着每次义卖会、跳舞会和结婚仪式上的管弦乐队，他现在用乐弓敲了敲，叫大家准备好。

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The musicians clambered upon their platform, black, grinning, their fat cheeks already shining with perspiration, and began tuning their fiddles and sawing and whanging with their bows in anticipatory importance. Old Levi, Mrs. Merriwether’s coachman, who had led the orchestras for every bazaar, ball and wedding since Atlanta was named Marthasville, rapped with his bow for attention.

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这时，除负责义卖会的那些老太太，到场的人还很少，可是大家的眼光都集中到他身上，接着便听见小提琴、大提琴、手风琴、班卓琴和骨片呱嗒板儿配合着奏起了一曲缓慢的《罗琳娜》——它慢到不能合着跳舞的程度，好在舞会要到所有摊位都卖掉了展品才开始。思嘉一听到那支忧郁而美妙的华尔兹舞曲，便觉得心脏已怦怦跳起来了：岁月缓缓流逝，罗琳娜！雪又落在草上。太阳远在天边，罗琳娜。……

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Few except the ladies who were conducting the bazaar had arrived yet, but all eyes turned toward him. Then the fiddles, bull fiddles, accordions, banjos and knuckle-bones broke into a slow rendition of ”Lorena”—too slow for dancing, the dancing would come later when the booths were emptied of their wares. Scarlett felt her heart beat faster as the sweet melancholy of the waltz came to her:”The years creep slowly by, Lorena! The snow is on the grass again. The sun’s far down the sky, Lorena...”

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一二三，一二三，低回旋——三，转身——二三。多么美妙的华尔兹！她微微伸出双手，闭上眼睛，身子随着那常常想起的悲伤的节奏而摇摆。哀婉的曲调和罗琳娜失落的爱情中，有一种东西同她自己情感上的骚动集合在一起，又结成一个硬块进入她的喉咙里了。

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One-two-three, one-two-three, dip-sway—three, turn—two-three. What a beautiful waltz! She extended her hands slightly, closed her eyes and swayed with the sad haunting rhythm. There was something about the tragic melody and Lorena’s lost love that mingled with her own excitement and brought a lump into her throat.

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接着，似是由华尔兹乐调所引发的，从下面月光朦胧的大街上起来的一些声响，一些得得的马蹄声和辚辚的车轮声，暖风中荡漾着的笑声，以及黑人们关于把马匹拴在什么地方的激烈的争吵声。楼梯上一起嘈吵，轻松的欢笑，女孩子们的清新活泼的声音和她们的陪护人的低声吩咐混杂在一起，还有相见时故作惊喜之态的叫喊，以及姑娘们认出朋友时高兴的尖叫，尽管她们就是当天下午才分手的。

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Then, as if brought into being by the waltz music, sounds floated in from the shadowy moonlit street below, the trample of horses’ hooves and the sound of carriage wheels, laughter on the warm sweet air and the soft acrimony of negro voices raised in argument over hitching places for the horses. There was confusion on the stairs and light-hearted merriment, the mingling of girls’ fresh voices with the bass notes of their escorts, airy cries of greeting and squeals of joy as girls recognized friends from whom they had parted only that afternoon.

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大厅突然活跃起来。那里到处都是女孩子，像一群蝴蝶纷纷飘进来，鲜艳的衣裙被裙箍撑得大大的，甚至露出了底下的花边内裤；圆圆的、雪白的小肩膀光裸在外面，小小的酥胸也在荷叶边的领口微露雪痕；花边披巾看似随意地搭在臂膀上；洒金描画的扇子，天鹅毛和孔雀毛的扇子，用细细的丝绦吊在手腕上晃荡着；有些姑娘的黑发从两鬓向后梳成光滑的髻儿，沉甸甸地坠在那里，使她们的头也骄傲地微微后仰；还有些将大堆的金色发卷披散在脖子周围，让金耳坠在里面地跟它们一起摇摆跳荡而忽隐忽现。花边，绸缎，辫绳，丝带，所有这些都是偷过封锁线进口的，因此显得更加珍贵，穿戴起来也更加自豪，何况炫耀这样的华丽装饰可以作为对北方佬的一种特殊侮辱，会更加使人感到骄傲。

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Suddenly the hall burst into life. It was full of girls, girls who floated in butterfly bright dresses, hooped out enormously, lace pantalets peeping from beneath; round little white shoulders bare, and faintest traces of soft little bosoms showing above lace flounces; lace shawls carelessly hanging from arms; fans spangled and painted, fans of swan’s-down and peacock feathers, dangling at wrists by tiny velvet ribbons; girls with masses of golden curls about their necks and fringed gold earbobs that tossed and danced with their dancing curls. Laces and silks and braid and ribbons, all blockade run, all the more precious and more proudly worn because of it, finery flaunted with an added pride as an extra affront to the Yankees.

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并非城里所有的花都是献给南部联盟两位领袖的。那些最小最香的花朵都装饰在姑娘们身上。茶花插在粉嫩的耳朵背后，茉莉花和蔷薇花蕾编成小小的花环佩戴在两侧如波涛翻滚的鬈发上；有的花朵端端正正地点缀着胸前的缎带，有的不等天亮就会作为珍贵纪念骑装进那些灰制服的胸袋中。

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Not all the flowers of the town were standing in tribute to the leaders of the Confederacy. The smallest, the most fragrant blossoms bedecked the girls. Tea roses tucked behind pink ears, cape jessamine and bud roses in round little garlands over cascades of side curls, blossoms thrust demurely into satin sashes, flowers that before the night was over would find their way into the breast pockets of gray uniforms as treasured souvenirs.

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在人群里许许多多穿制服的人中，不少是思嘉认识的，是她在医院的帆布床上、在大街上或者在训练场上初次见到的。

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There were so many uniforms in the crowd—so many uniforms on so many men whom Scarlett knew, men she had met on hospital cots, on the streets, at the drill ground.

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他们如此华丽的制服，胸前缀着亮晶晶的扣子，袖口和衣领上盘着闪闪发光的金色穗带，裤子上钉着红黄蓝三色条纹，这些因所属部类不同而互有区别的徽饰将那单调的灰色衬托得完美极了。大红和金色的绶带前后摆动，亮闪闪的军刀碰撞着雪亮的长统靴，马刺丁丁当当地响着。

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They were such resplendent uniforms, brave with shining buttons and dazzling with twined gold braid on cuffs and collars, the red and yellow and blue stripes on the trousers, for the different branches of the service, setting off the gray to perfection. Scarlet and gold sashes swung to and fro, sabers glittered and banged against shining boots, spurs rattled and jingled.

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思嘉满怀豪情暗暗赞赏，”多么漂亮的男人，”看着他们向朋友们挥手致意，躬身吻着老太太们的手。他们全都显得那么年轻，尽管大都蓄上了黄黄的一抹胡须或一把稠密的黑褐色胡，那么漂亮，洒脱，胳臂挂在吊带里，白得出奇的绷带裹着头部，把大半边晒得黑黑的脸遮住了。

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Such handsome men, thought Scarlett, with a swell of pride in her heart, as the men called greetings, waved to friends, bent low over the hands of elderly ladies. All of them were so young looking, even with their sweeping yellow mustaches and full black and brown beards, so handsome, so reckless, with their arms in slings, with head bandages startlingly white across sun-browned faces.

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他们有的拄着拐杖，像单足跳行似地跟在姑娘们后面，这使得姑娘们引为自豪，并十分注意地放慢脚步，以适应这些陪护人的步调。这些穿制服的人中他是穿得特别俗丽，颜色特别鲜艳，像只热带鸟立在鸦群中，连姑娘们的华丽服饰也黯然失色了——他是个路易斯安那义勇兵，一个肤色微黑、满脸奸笑、三分像人七分像猴儿的小个子，穿着肥大的蓝白裤子、淡黄色长统靴和窄小的红色上衣，一只胳臂挂在黑绸吊带里。他是梅贝尔·梅里韦瑟的昵友，名叫雷内·皮卡德。

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Some of them were on crutches and how proud were the girls who solicitously slowed their steps to their escorts’ hopping pace! There was one gaudy splash of color among the uniforms that put the girls’ bright finery to shame and stood out in the crowd like a tropical bird—a Louisiana Zouave, with baggy blue and white striped pants, cream gaiters and tight little red jacket, a dark, grinning little monkey of a man, with his arm in a black silk sling. He was Maybelle Merriwether’s especial beau, Rene Picard.

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整个医院的人，至少每个能行走的人，一定全都来了，还有全部休假和请病假的以及本市与梅肯之间所有的铁路、邮政、医疗、军需各个部门的职工也都来了。女士们会何等高兴啊！今晚医院要挖个银矿来了。

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The whole hospital must have turned out, at least everybody who could walk, and all the men on furlough and sick leave and all the railroad and mail service and hospital and commissary departments between here and Macon. How pleased the ladies would be! The hospital should make a mint of money tonight.

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下面大街上传来低沉的鼓声、脚步声和马夫们赞赏的喊叫声。接着便吹起喇叭，同时一个低调的声音发出解散队伍的命令。随后，身穿鲜艳制服的乡团和民兵部队拥上了窄窄的楼梯，涌进了大厅，鞠躬，敬礼，握手，好不热闹。

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There was a ruffle of drums from the street below, the tramp of feet, the admiring cries of coachmen. A bugle blared and a bass voice shouted the command to break ranks. In a moment, the Home Guard and the militia unit in their bright uniforms shook the narrow stairs and crowded into the room, bowing, saluting, shaking hands.

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乡团里有的是以打仗为光荣、相信明年只要战争不结束就一定能上前线的男孩子，也有但愿自己年轻一些会穿上军服并以儿子在前线而自豪的白胡子老头。民兵中有许多中年男子和一些年纪更大的人，也有少数正当服役的年龄可不如那些年纪更大或更小的人那样感兴趣的人。这时人们已经在开始议论和询问了：他们为什么没有到李将军的部队去呢？

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There were boys in the Home Guard, proud to be playing at war, promising themselves they would be in Virginia this time next year, if the war would just last that long; old men with white beards, wishing they were younger, proud to march in uniform in the reflected glory of sons at the front. In the militia, there were many middle-aged men and some older men but there was a fair sprinkling of men of military age who did not carry themselves quite so jauntily as their elders or their juniors. Already people were beginning to whisper, asking why they were not with Lee.

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他们怎么全都到这个大厅里来了！几分钟以前这里还显得是那么宽敞的，可现在挤得满满的，弥漫着香水、香粉、头油和月挂树蜡烛燃烧的气味，还有花的芳香，以及由于脚步杂沓在原教练场地板上擦起的一点点尘土味儿。一声嘈杂，一片喧闹，几乎什么也听不见了，这时老利维仿佛受到了现场的喜悦和兴奋之情，便暂时中止了《罗琳娜》的演奏，重重地击乐弓，然后拼命一拉，乐队奏起《美丽的蓝旗》来了。

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How would they all get into the hall! It had seemed such a large place a few minutes before, and now it was packed, warm with summer-night odors of sachet and cologne water and hair pomade and burning bayberry candles, fragrant with flowers, faintly dusty as many feet trod the old drill floors. The din and hubbub of voices made it almost impossible to hear anything and, as if feeling the joy and excitement of the occasion, old Levi choked off "Lorena" in mid-bar, rapped sharply with his bow and, sawing away for dear life, the orchestra burst into "Bonnie Blue Flag."

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几百个声音一起跟上，高唱着，叫喊着，变成了一起吹呼。这时乡团的号手爬上乐台，在合唱开始时用喇叭加入了乐队，那高亢而清脆的音调撼人心弦地凌越于群众合唱之上，使大家听得浑身起了一层鸡皮疙瘩，一股激情的寒意浸透脊髓：万岁！万岁！南部的权力万岁！万岁！美丽的蓝族，只有一颗星的蓝旗，万岁！

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A hundred voices took it up, sang it, shouted it like a cheer. The Home Guard bugler, climbing onto the platform, caught up with the music just as the chorus began, and the high silver notes soared out thrillingly above the massed singing, causing goose bumps to break out on bare arms and cold chills of deeply felt emotion to fly down spines:"Hurrah! Hurrah! For the Southern Rights, hurrah! Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star!"

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紧跟着人们唱第二段，这时跟大家一起唱着的思嘉忽然听见媚兰的美妙女高音在背后飞扬起来，像喇叭声那样清脆、真诚和撼人心魄。她转过身来，看见媚兰站在那里，两手交叠着放在胸前，眼睛闭着，小小的泪珠沿两颊簌簌而下。乐曲终了的时候，她轻轻用手绢拭了拭脸，同时奇怪地向思嘉微微一笑，好像要略表歉意而又不屑于这样做似的。

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They crashed into the second verse and Scarlett, singing with the rest, heard the high sweet soprano of Melanie mounting behind her, clear and true and thrilling as the bugle notes. Turning, she saw that Melly was standing with her hands clasped to her breast, her eyes closed, and tiny tears oozing from the corners. She smiled at Scarlett, whimsically, as the music ended, making a little moue of apology as she dabbed with her handkerchief.

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“我多高兴，”她低声说，”多么为这些士兵感到骄傲，所以禁不住哭起来了。”

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"I’m so happy," she whispered, "and so proud of the soldiers that I just can’t help crying about it."

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她的眼里闪耀着一种深情的近乎狂热的光辉，这便使她那张平淡的小脸神采焕发和十分美丽了。

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There was a deep, almost fanatic glow in her eyes that for a moment lit up her plain little face and made it beautiful.

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这种表情几乎浮现在所有妇女的脸上，她们唱完那支歌时，那些红喷喷的或皱巴巴的脸上都满是骄傲的泪水，嘴唇上浮出微笑，眼睛里闪着炽热的光芒，一起望着她们的男人，情人望着爱侣，母亲望着儿子，妻子望着丈夫。她们都很美丽，这种令人目眩的美使一个即使最平淡的女人也变得很出色了，因为她被她的男人全心全意地保护着和热爱着，而她则以千倍的爱在报答他。

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The same look was on the faces of all the women as the song ended, tears of pride on cheeks, pink or wrinkled, smiles on lips, a deep hot glow in eyes, as they turned to their men, sweetheart to lover, mother to son, wife to husband. They were all beautiful with the blinding beauty that transfigures even the plainest woman when she is utterly protected and utterly loved and is giving back that love a thousandfold.

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她们爱她们的男人，她们相信他们，她们始终不渝地信任他们。她们有这样一道顽强的灰色防线在保护她们不受北方佬的侵害，还怕什么灾祸会降临到她们头上来呢？自从世界诞生以来，几曾有过像他们这样的男人？！这样勇敢，这样不顾一切，这样英俊，这样温柔的男人！像他们为之战斗的这种正当公平的主义，除了绝对的胜利之外，还会有什么别的结局呢？这个主义她们像爱自己的男人那样爱护它，她们用自己的双手和心灵为它服务，她们整天谈它，想它，梦见它——必要时，她们愿意为它而牺牲自己的男人，并且像男人们高举着战旗那样骄傲地承担她们的损失。

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They loved their men, they believed in them, they trusted them to the last breaths of their bodies. How could disaster ever come to women such as they when their stalwart gray line stood between them and the Yankees? Had there ever been such men as these since the first dawn of the world, so heroic, so reckless, so gallant, so tender? How could anything but overwhelming victory come to a Cause as just and right as theirs? A Cause they loved as much as they loved their men, a Cause they served with their hands and their hearts, a Cause they talked about, thought about, dreamed about—a Cause to which they would sacrifice these men if need be, and bear their loss as proudly as the men bore their battle flags.

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这是她们心里的热爱和自豪之情的高潮，南部联盟事业的高潮，因为最后胜利就在眼前了。”石壁”将军杰克逊在谢南多亚河谷的几次胜仗和北方佬军队在里士满附近”七日战役”中的惨败，已清楚地说明了这一点。有像李将军和杰克逊这样的将领，还能不打赢这场战争吗？只待再来一次胜仗，北方佬就会跪下求和，男人们就会骑马归来，就会到处是亲吻和欢笑了。再打一次胜仗，战争就要结束了！

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It was high tide of devotion and pride in their hearts, high tide of the Confederacy, for final victory was at hand. Stonewall Jackson’s triumphs in the Valley and the defeat of the Yankees in the Seven Days’ Battle around Richmond showed that clearly. How could it be otherwise with such leaders as Lee and Jackson? One more victory and the Yankees would be on their knees yelling for peace and the men would be riding home and there would be kissing and laughter. One more victory and the war was over!

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当然，在屋子里有了空的椅子和永远见不到父亲的婴儿，在弗吉尼亚寂寞的小溪旁和田纳西静静的群山中有了许多未立墓碑的坟，但是为了这样一个主义，能说付出的代价太高了吗？妇女需要的丝绸，家庭需要的茶和糖，都很难得到，但这是可以一笑置之的事情。何况，那些冒险跑封锁线的人还在北方佬迟钝的鼻子底下不断运进这些东西，并且使你一旦有了这些东西就加倍高兴呢。

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Of course, there were empty chairs and babies who would never see their fathers’ faces and unmarked graves by lonely Virginia creeks and in the still mountains of Tennessee, but was that too great a price to pay for such a Cause? Silks for the ladies and tea and sugar were hard to get, but that was something to joke about. Besides, the dashing blockade runners were bringing in these very things under the Yankees’ disgruntled noses, and that made the possession of them many times more thrilling.

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不久拉斐尔·塞姆斯和南部联盟的海军就要来对付那些北方佬的炮艇，港口就会打开。同时英国正进来协助南部联盟取得胜利，因为英国纺织厂由于缺乏南方的棉花已经闲着没事干了。英国贵族自然是同情南部联盟的。同类相怜嘛，所以都反对北方佬那样一群拜金主义者。

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Soon Raphael Semmes and the Confederate Navy would tend to those Yankee gunboats and the ports would be wide open. And England was coming in to help the Confederacy win the war, because the English mills were standing idle for want of Southern cotton. And naturally the British aristocracy sympathized with the Confederacy, as one aristocrat with another, against a race of dollar lovers like the Yankees.

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妇女们就这样扭摆着丝绸衣服，笑着，满怀骄傲地望着她们的男人，她们感到在死亡面前夺得的爱是倍加珍贵的，因为从中可以感受到一种奇怪的刺激。

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So the women swished their silks and laughed and, looking on their men with hearts bursting with pride, they knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

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开始，思嘉观看这拥挤的人群时，由于自己参加了集会而感到的那种异常刺激，心脏禁不住怦怦直跳，不过当她似懂非懂地看见周围人们那兴高采烈的面容，她的喜悦便开始消失。在场的女人个个都焕发着一种她所没有的炽热激情。这使她感到迷茫和沮丧。不知怎的，大厅好像并不怎么漂亮，姑娘们也并不怎么时髦，而每个人脸上似乎仍然在闪耀的忠于主义的挚爱之情——怎么，只不过显得愚蠢可笑罢了！

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When first she looked at the crowd, Scarlett’s heart had thump- thumped with the unaccustomed excitement of being at a party, but as she half-comprehendingly saw the high-hearted look on the faces about her, her joy began to evaporate. Every woman present was blazing with an emotion she did not feel. It bewildered and depressed her. Somehow, the ball did not seem so pretty nor the girls so dashing, and the white heat of devotion to the Cause that was still shining on every face seemed—why, it just seemed silly!

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她心头突然划过一点自我意识的闪光，这使她惊异得张口结舌，原来她并没有分享这些女人的强烈自豪感，她们为主义牺牲自己和所有的一切渴望。她虽然还没有恐惧地想到：“不——不！我决不能这样看！这是错误的——有罪的，”但已认为主义这东西对她来说根本没有什么意思，她听旁人那么如醉似狂地谈论它已听得厌烦了。

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In a sudden flash of self-knowledge that made her mouth pop open with astonishment, she realized that she did not share with these women their fierce pride, their desire to sacrifice themselves and everything they had for the Cause. Before horror made her think: "No—no! I mustn’t think such things! They’re wrong—sinful," she knew the Cause meant nothing at all to her and that she was bored with hearing other people talk about it with that fanatic look in their eyes.

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在她看来，主义毫无神圣之处，战争也并非什么崇高的事，只不过是盲目地戕杀人类、耗费金钱、妨害人们享受的一种讨厌行为而已。她知道自己已厌倦于无穷无尽的编织，无穷无尽地卷绷带和刷整棉布，以致把手指都磨粗了。啊，她对医院已厌烦透了！对于那些令人作呕的坏疽臭味，那些无休止的呻吟，只有厌烦、恶心，实在无法忍受；对于那种两颊深陷、涉临死亡的脸部表情，实在恐惧得不敢再看了。

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The Cause didn’t seem sacred to her. The war didn’t seem to be a holy affair, but a nuisance that killed men senselessly and cost money and made luxuries hard to get. She saw that she was tired of the endless knitting and the endless bandage rolling and lint picking that roughened the cuticle of her nails. And oh, she was so tired of the hospital! Tired and bored and nauseated with the sickening gangrene smells and the endless moaning, frightened by the look that coming death gave to sunken faces.

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当这种叛逆性的亵渎思想在她心中出现时，她偷偷地向周围观察，生怕有人从她脸上清楚地看出来。啊，她怎么就不能跟这些女人有同样的感受呢！她们对主义的忠诚是全心全意的，是真挚的。她们所说所做的一切的确出于至诚。而且，如果有人要疑心她——不，决不能让人知道！她必须继续装出对主义热情和感到自豪的样子，假装在履行自己作为一个南部联盟军官的遗孀的义务，那就是勇敢地承受自己的悲哀，假装她的心已经进入坟墓，并认定她的丈夫既然为了主义的胜利而死，也就算不了什么似的。

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She looked furtively around her, as the treacherous, blasphemous thoughts rushed through her mind, fearful that someone might find them written clearly upon her face. Oh, why couldn’t she feel like those other women! They were whole hearted and sincere in their devotion to the Cause. They really meant everything they said and did. And if anyone should ever suspect that she— No, no one must ever know! She must go on making a pretense of enthusiasm and pride in the Cause which she could not feel, acting out her part of the widow of a Confederate officer who bears her grief bravely, whose heart is in the grave, who feels that her husband’s death meant nothing if it aided the Cause to triumph.

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啊，她为什么跟这些女人不一样呢？她永远不能像她们那样无私地爱什么事业或什么人。这是一种多么孤独的感受——而以前她无论在身心哪个方面都从没有感到孤独过。首先她企图扼杀这种思想，可是她生成的那个忠实于自己的本性不允许她这样做。因此，在义卖进行当中，当她和媚兰一起在她们的摊位上接待顾客时，她的思想仍在继续活动，并想方设法要相信自己是正确的——而这样的事，对她来说从来就并不怎么困难。

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Oh, why was she different, apart from these loving women? She could never love anything or anyone so selflessly as they did. What a lonely feeling it was—and she had never been lonely either in body or spirit before. At first she tried to stifle the thoughts, but the hard self-honesty that lay at the base of her nature would not permit it. And so, while the bazaar went on, while she and Melanie waited on the customers who came to their booth, her mind was busily working, trying to justify herself to herself—a task which she seldom found difficult.

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别的女人大谈什么爱国心和主义，只显得愚蠢可笑而已，而那些谈论什么严重争执和州权的男人也差不多是一样的货色。唯有她思嘉·奥哈拉·汉密尔顿一个人，才具有坚定正确的爱尔兰人头脑。但不会在主义问题上让自己做糊涂虫，但同样也不会做坦露自己真实感情的傻瓜。

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The other women were simply silly and hysterical with their talk of patriotism and the Cause, and the men were almost as bad with their talk of vital issues and States’ Rights. She, Scarlett O’Hara Hamilton, alone had good hard-headed Irish sense. She wasn’t going to make a fool out of herself about the Cause, but neither was she going to make a fool out of herself by admitting her true feelings.

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她头脑坚定，不会在估计形势时只讲实用，因此谁也不会了解她内心的感受。如果这些参加义卖会的人知道她此时在想些什么，他们一定会大吃一惊！要是她突然爬上乐台，大声宣布她认为战争应当停止，好让每一个人都回家去，去照管他们的棉花，让他们又像从前那样举办宴会，像从前那样有自己的情人和大量的浅绿色衣服，那会引起多大的轰动啊！

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She was hard-headed enough to be practical about the situation, and no one would ever know how she felt. How surprised the bazaar would be if they knew what she really was thinking! How shocked if she suddenly climbed on the bandstand and declared that she thought the war ought to stop, so everybody could go home and tend to their cotton and there could be parties and beaux again and plenty of pale green dresses.

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自我辩解使她暂时受到了鼓舞，不过她仍在厌恶地环顾着大厅。麦克卢尔家姑娘们的那个摊位，正如梅里韦瑟夫人所说的，并不怎么显眼，有时许久没有一个顾客光顾，所以思嘉无所事事，只嫉妒地望着快乐的人群。媚兰意识到她的阴郁情绪，但以为她是在怀念查理，便不准备去同她交谈。她自己忙着整理摊位上的义卖品，让它们显得更引人注目些，而思嘉却仍坐在那里怏怏不乐地四处张望。甚至连戴维斯先生和斯蒂芬斯先生肖像下面堆放的那些鲜花，也只能使她感到讨厌而已。

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For a moment, her self-justification buoyed her up but still she looked about the hall with distaste. The McLure girls’ booth was inconspicuous, as Mrs. Merriwether had said, and there were long intervals when no one came to their corner and Scarlett had nothing to do but look enviously on the happy throng. Melanie sensed her moodiness but, crediting it to longing for Charlie, did not try to engage her in conversation. She busied herself arranging the articles in the booth in more attractive display, while Scarlett sat and looked glumly around the room. Even the banked flowers below the pictures of Mr. Davis and Mr. Stephens displeased her.

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“这简直像个祭坛了，”她鼻子里哼了一声。”看他们对待这两个人的态度，简直就是父亲和儿子的关系啦！”这时，她突然感到这种大不敬是如此可怕，便赶快在胸前画了个十字表示认罪，并且及时克制住自己。

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"It looks like an altar," she sniffed. "And the way they all carry on about those two, they might as well be the Father and the Son!" Then smitten with sudden fright at her irreverence she began hastily to cross herself by way of apology but caught herself in time.

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“嗯，这是真的，”她向自己的良心辩解。”人人都在把他们当做神圣，可实际上他们只不过是凡人而已，而且还是很不好看的凡人呢。”

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"Well, it’s true," she argued with her conscience. "Everybody carries on like they were holy and they aren’t anything but men, and mighty unattractive looking ones at that."

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当然，斯蒂芬斯先生由于终生残废，他对于自己的长相是没有办法的，可是戴维斯先生呢——思嘉抬起头来望着那张浮雕般光净而骄傲的脸孔。让思嘉感到最讨厌的就是他那把山羊胡子。男人要么把脸刮光，只蓄八字须，要么蓄上全副的胡须，怎能这样不伦不类呢。

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Of course, Mr. Stephens couldn’t help how he looked for he had been an invalid all his life, but Mr. Davis— She looked up at the cameo clean, proud face. It was his goatee that annoyed her the most. Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards.

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“瞧那一小绺，好像还满得意哩！”她这样想，至于他脸上那种勇于挑起一个新国家的重任而冷静刚毅的表情，她却压根儿没有看见。

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"That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought, not seeing in his face the cold hard intelligence that was carrying the weight of a new nation.

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是的，现在她很不愉快，尽管开始时她曾为自己能参加这个盛会是高兴过。看来，仅仅人在这里还是不够的，她来到了义卖会上，她并不是其中的一部分。谁也不注意她，她又是会上唯一没有情人的年轻已婚妇女。可她以前总是占据舞台中心的位置。这真不公道呀！

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No, she was not happy now, and at first she had been radiant with the pleasure of being in a crowd. Now just being present was not enough. She was at the bazaar but not a part of it. No one paid her any attention and she was the only young unmarried woman present who did not have a beau. And all her life she had enjoyed the center of the stage. It wasn’t fair!

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她才１７岁，她的脚正在啪哒啪哒地敲着地板，准备上场跳舞呢。她才１７岁，可她的丈夫已躺在奥克兰公墓，她的婴儿睡在皮蒂帕特姑妈家的摇蓝里，所以人人都觉得她应当安分守已了。跟在场的任何一个女孩子相比，她的胸脯更白，腰肢更细，双脚更小巧，但是，不管这些多么重要，她仍然只配躺在查理身旁，墓碑早刻着”某某爱妻”的字样。

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She was seventeen years old and her feet were patting the floor, wanting to skip and dance. She was seventeen years old and she had a husband lying at Oakland Cemetery and a baby in his cradle at Aunt Pittypat’s and everyone thought she should be content with her lot. She had a whiter bosom and a smaller waist and a tinier foot than any girl present, but for all they mattered she might just as well be lying beside Charles with ”Beloved Wife of” carved over her.

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她已经不是一个姑娘，不能再跳舞和调情了，也不是一个妻子，不能同别的妻子坐在一起品评那些跳舞调情的姑娘了。而且，她的年纪还轻，还不该当寡妇呀！寡妇应当是老年人——老得不想跳舞，不想调情，也不想惹男人们爱慕。啊，她刚刚十七岁，就得端端正正坐在那里，作为寡妇尊严和规矩的标本，这多么不公道呀！当漂亮的男人到她们摊位来买东西时，她也必须低声说话，两眼谦卑地向下俯视，这多么不公道呀！

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She wasn’t a girl who could dance and flirt and she wasn’t a wife who could sit with other wives and criticize the dancing and flirting girls. And she wasn’t old enough to be a widow. Widows should be old—so terribly old they didn’t want to dance and flirt and be admired. Oh, it wasn’t fair that she should have to sit here primly and be the acme of widowed dignity and propriety when she was only seventeen. It wasn’t fair that she must keep her voice low and her eyes cast modestly down, when men, attractive ones, too, came to their booth.

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在亚特兰大，每个姑娘们身旁都站着三层男人，甚至最平淡的女孩子也神气得像个美人儿似的——而且，最糟糕的是，她们都穿着那么漂亮又漂亮的衣裳在活动呢！

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Every girl in Atlanta was three deep in men. Even the plainest girls were carrying on like belles—and, oh, worst of all, they were carrying on in such lovely, lovely dresses!

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思嘉像只乌鸦坐在那里，一身黑衣服的袖子长到手腕，钮扣一直扣到下巴底下，没有一点花边或饰带，除了母亲给她的那枚黑玛瑙胸针以外，没有任何珠宝之类的东西。她眼睁睁地看着那些俗不可耐的女孩子吊着漂亮男人的胳臂来来去去，这一切的一切，只不过因为查理出了一次疹子。可恨的是他并非光荣地死在战场上，连一点可以吹嘘的资本也没给她留下。

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Here she sat like a crow with hot black taffeta to her wrists and buttoned up to her chin, with not even a hint of lace or braid, not a jewel except Ellen’s onyx mourning brooch, watching tacky- looking girls hanging on the arms of good-looking men. All because Charles Hamilton had had the measles. He didn’t even die in a fine glow of gallantry in battle, so she could brag about him.

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她心怀敌意地撑着两肘倚立在柜台内观望人群，尽管嬷嬷经常告诫她这种姿势会把肘子磨皱和扭歪的。即使扭歪了又怎么样呢？反正她大概已没有机会再显露它们了。她如饥似渴地望着一群群穿着各种服色的姑娘们走过，其中有的穿奶油色波纹绸衣，戴蔷薇花蕾发箍，有的穿粉红缎子，上面打着十八道用黑天鹅绒带镶滚的荷叶边；有的穿浅蓝色绸衣，后面托着十码长带波浪形花边的裙裾；她们都袒露胸口，簪着诱人的鲜花。

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Rebelliously she leaned her elbows on the counter and looked at the crowd, flouting Mammy’s oft-repeated admonition against leaning on elbows and making them ugly and wrinkled. What did it matter if they did get ugly? She’d probably never get a chance to show them again. She looked hungrily at the frocks floating by, butter-yellow watered silks with garlands of rosebuds; pink satins with eighteen flounces edged with tiny black velvet ribbons; baby blue taffeta, ten yards in the skirt and foamy with cascading lace; exposed bosoms; seductive flowers.

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梅贝尔·梅里韦瑟吊在那个义勇兵的膀子上向隔壁那个摊位走来，她身上那件苹果绿薄纱衣裳那样宽松，把她的腰身衬托得纤细极了。衣服上镶着大量奶油色的上等花边，那是从查尔斯顿最后一艘封锁舰上弄来的，梅贝尔为此大肆炫耀，仿佛干这次偷越封锁线买卖的不是大名鼎鼎的巴特勒船长而是她自己呢。

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Maybelle Merriwether went toward the next booth on the arm of the Zouave, in an apple- green tarlatan so wide that it reduced her waist to nothingness. It was showered and flounced with cream-colored Chantilly lace that had come from Charleston on the last blockader, and Maybelle was flaunting it as saucily as if she and not the famous Captain Butler had run the blockade.

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“如果我穿上这件衣裳，会显得多好看呀！”思嘉心想，怀着满腔妒火。”她那腰粗得像头母牛。这种绿色对我很合适，它会使我的眼睛变得——像她这样的人怎配穿这种颜色呀？

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"How sweet I’d look in that dress," thought Scarlett, a savage envy in her heart. "Her waist is as big as a cow’s. That green is just my color and it would make my eyes look— Why will blondes try to wear that color?

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她那皮肤绿得像块干酪了。真可惜，我再也不能穿这种颜色了，即使服丧期满了也不能穿。不行，甚至我想法再嫁人也是不行的。那么，我就只能穿倒霉的老灰色，穿褐色和淡紫色了。

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Her skin looks as green as an old cheese. And to think I’ll never wear that color again, not even when I do get out of mourning. No, not even if I do manage to get married again. Then I’ll have to wear tacky old grays and tans and lilacs.”

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这一切不公平的事，她考虑了不一会儿也就过去了。本来嘛，人生在世，属于玩乐、穿漂亮衣裳、跳舞、调情的时间何等短促，只有很少很少几年呢！接着你就得结婚，穿颜色暗淡的衣服，生孩子，眼看苗条的腰身给糟践了，在跳舞会上跟其他已婚妇女坐到角落里，只偶尔出来同自己的丈夫或别的老先生跳几下，而这些老先生又是专门踩你脚的！

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For a brief moment she considered the unfairness of it all. How short was the time for fun, for pretty clothes, for dancing, for coquetting! Only a few, too few years! Then you married and wore dull-colored dresses and had babies that ruined your waist line and sat in corners at dances with other sober matrons and only emerged to dance with your husband or with old gentlemen who stepped on your feet.

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如果你不这样做，那些少奶奶就会议论你，你的名誉就毁了，你的家庭也就不光彩了。你做小姑娘的时候，把光阴全都花费在学习怎样打扮和怎样迷惑男人上，可后来这些本领只用了一两年就完了，这是多么可怕的浪费啊！于是，思嘉想起她在母亲和嬷嬷手下进行的训练，她知道这种训练是全面而优良的，因为它常常收到很好的效果。它有一整套规矩叫你遵循，只要你照着去做，你的努力便一定成功。

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If you didn’t do these things, the other matrons talked about you and then your reputation was ruined and your family disgraced. It seemed such a terrible waste to spend all your little girlhood learning how to be attractive and how to catch men and then only use the knowledge for a year or two. When she considered her training at the hands of Ellen and Mammy, she knew it had been thorough and good because it had always reaped results. There were set rules to be followed, and if you followed them success crowned your efforts.

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跟老太太们在一起时，你总得是可爱而无可指摘的，要装得尽可能头脑简单，老太太们往往既苛刻又妒忌，像老猫似的监视着年轻姑娘，随时准备着，只要你口头眉梢梢有不当之处就欺过来抓住你，至于对老先生们，一个姑娘最好是淘气和放肆一些，而且可以稍稍而不过分地来卖弄一点风情，把那些老傻瓜挑逗起来，这会使他们觉得自己又年轻了，无所顾忌了，便动手来拧你的脸皮，说你是个小妖精。当然喽，你在这种情况下总得红起脸来，否则他们会进一步来拧你，弄到无礼取乐的程度，甚至回头告诉他们的儿子，说你为人放荡。

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With old ladies you were sweet and guileless and appeared as simple minded as possible, for old ladies were sharp and they watched girls as jealously as cats, ready to pounce on any indiscretion of tongue or eye. With old gentlemen, a girl was pert and saucy and almost, but not quite, flirtatious, so that the old fools’ vanities would be tickled. It made them feel devilish and young and they pinched your cheek and declared you were a minx. And, of course, you always blushed on such occasions, otherwise they would pinch you with more pleasure than was proper and then tell their sons that you were fast.

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对于年轻姑娘和年轻的已婚妇女，你就得满嘴抹蜜，每次见面都要吻她们，即使一天见十次也罢。你得伸出胳臂搂住她们的腰，并让她们也搂着你，即使你很不喜欢这样。你得表示无所偏袒地欣赏她们的衣着，或者她们的婴儿，拿她们的情人开玩笑，恭维她们的丈夫，并且格格笑着谦逊地否认她们对你的称赞，说你自己没有一点可以与她们相比之处。最重要的是，你千万不要比她们更多地表示自己对什么事物的真正看法。

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With young girls and young married women, you slopped over with sugar and kissed them every time you met them, even if it was ten times a day. And you put your arms about their waists and suffered them to do the same to you, no matter how much you disliked it. You admired their frocks or their babies indiscriminately and teased about beaux and complimented husbands and giggled modestly and denied that you had any charms at all compared with theirs. And, above all, you never said what you really thought about anything, any more than they said what they really thought.

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至于别人的丈夫，你得严格地避免嫌疑，即使他们就是你已经抛弃的情人，也无论他们是多么富于诱惑力，如果你对年轻的丈夫们太殷勤，他们的太太便会说你轻浮，你就会落得个坏名声，从此永远得不到自己的情人了。

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Other women’s husbands you let severely alone, even if they were your own discarded beaux, and no matter how temptingly attractive they were. If you were too nice to young husbands, their wives said you were fast and you got a bad reputation and never caught any beaux of your own.

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但是，对于年轻的单身汉—-哦，那就是另一回事了！你不妨对他们温柔地微笑，而当他立即注意到你为何这样笑时，你可以拒不说明，并且笑得更欢一些，逗着他们一直在你周围琢磨其中的奥秘。你可以在眼角眉梢示意，应许他们多多少少带刺激性的东西，叫他们千方百计要跟你单独说话。于是，你单独跟他在一起了，他要吻你，这时你就得装出非常非常受委屈、非常非常生气的样子。

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But with young bachelors—ah, that was a different matter! You could laugh softly at them and when they came flying to see why you laughed, you could refuse to tell them and laugh harder and keep them around indefinitely trying to find out. You could promise, with your eyes, any number of exciting things that would make a man maneuver to get you alone. And, having gotten you alone, you could be very, very hurt or very, very angry when he tried to kiss you.

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你可以让他请求你饶恕这种卑鄙企图，并且用温柔的神态表示原谅，使他还会恋恋不舍地再一次想来吻你。有时，但并非常常，你让他吻了一下。（母亲和嬷嬷并没有教她这样做，可她自己发现这是很起作用的。）然后你哭起来，并且声明你不知怎的一时糊涂，从此他再也不会尊重你了。

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You could make him apologize for being a cur and forgive him so sweetly that he would hang around trying to kiss you a second time. Sometimes, but not often, you did let him kiss you. (Ellen and Mammy had not taught her that but she learned it was effective.) Then you cried and declared you didn’t know what had come over you and that he couldn’t ever respect you again.

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于是，他就得替你把眼泪拭干，往往还会作出求爱的表示，表明他的确是非常尊重你的。接着就会——唔，对于单身男人有那么多的事情好做，而且她全都知道，像暗送秋波啦，像用扇子半遮半露地微笑啦，像扭着臀部将裙子摆得像铃铛啦，流泪啦，痴笑啦，说恭维话啦，亲切地表示同情啦，等等，唔，所有这些手法都没有哪一次不成功的——惟独对艾希礼例外。

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Then he had to dry your eyes and usually he proposed, to show just how much he did respect you. And then there were— Oh, there were so many things to do to bachelors and she knew them all, the nuance of the sidelong glance, the half-smile behind the fan, the swaying of the hips so that skirts swung like a bell, the tears, the laughter, the flattery, the sweet sympathy. Oh, all the tricks that never failed to work—except with Ashley.

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不，学会这些巧妙的手法以后，只用了很短一个时期就被永远束之高阁，这好像太不应该了。要是一辈子不结婚，继续穿着可爱的淡绿色衣裳，永远受到漂亮男人们的追求，那该多好呀！但是，日子久了，你就会变成一个像英迪亚·威尔克斯那样的老处女，人人都会以那种自鸣得意的讨厌口气说：“可怜的家伙！”不，毕竟不如结了婚，保持着你的自尊为好，即使你从此不再有什么乐趣也罢。

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No, it didn’t seem right to learn all these smart tricks, use them so briefly and then put them away forever. How wonderful it would be never to marry but to go on being lovely in pale green dresses and forever courted by handsome men. But, if you went on too long, you got to be an old maid like India Wilkes and everyone said "poor thing" in that smug hateful way. No, after all it was better to marry and keep your self-respect even if you never had any more fun.

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啊，人生多么荒唐！她为什么会傻到这个程度，嬷嬷同查尔斯结了婚，１６岁时就断送了自己的一生呢？

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Oh, what a mess life was! Why had she been such an idiot as to marry Charles of all people and have her life end at sixteen?

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她的这种愤愤不平而又毫无希望的幻想忽然给打断了，因为人群开始向墙壁纷纷后退，女士们小心翼翼地扶着她们的裙圈，不让它们给挤碰得朝自己身上翻过来，将内裤露出得太多，有失体面。思嘉踮起脚尖从一群人头上望去，只见民团队长正登上乐队演奏台。

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Her indignant and hopeless reverie was broken when the crowd began pushing back against the walls, the ladies carefully holding their hoops so that no careless contact should turn them up against their bodies and show more pantalets than was proper. Scarlett tiptoed above the crowd and saw the captain of the militia mounting the orchestra platform.

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他一声口令，半个连的人便排成了一列。花了几分钟工夫，他们演习了一遍灵活的操练，直练得汗流满面，赢得观众的热烈喝彩，思嘉也跟着众人礼貌地鼓掌。接着，一声解散，士兵们纷纷向那几个卖糖拌酒和柠檬水的摊位拥去，思嘉也朝媚兰回过头来，觉得最好是赶快装出一副关心主义的神起来应付她一下。

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He shouted orders and half of the Company fell into line. For a few minutes they went through a brisk drill that brought perspiration to their foreheads and cheers and applause from the audience. Scarlett clapped her hands dutifully with the rest and, as the soldiers pushed forward toward the punch and lemonade booths after they were dismissed, she turned to Melanie, feeling that she had better begin her deception about the Cause as soon as possible.

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“她们显得真漂亮，不是吗？”她说。

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"They looked fine, didn’t they?" she said.

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媚兰正忙着整理柜台上的那些编织品。

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Melanie was fussing about with the knitted things on the counter.

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“他们中的大多数人，要是穿上灰制服出现在弗吉尼亚，还会漂亮得多呢，”媚兰这样说，并没有想到要把声音放低一点。

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"Most of them would look a lot finer in gray uniforms and in Virginia," she said, and she did not trouble to lower her voice.

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有几位民兵队员的自命不凡的母亲紧靠着站在旁边，听见了媚兰的这句评语。吉南太太气得脸色一阵红一阵白的，因为她那位２５岁的威利就在这个民团里呢。

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Several of the proud mothers of members of the militia were standing close by and overheard the remark. Mrs. Guinan turned scarlet and then white, for her twenty-five-year-old Willie was in the company.

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思嘉想不到媚兰竟说出这样的话来，觉得太可怕了。

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Scarlett was aghast at such words coming from Melly of all people.

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“媚兰。怎么了！”

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"Why, Melly!"

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“思嘉，这是真话呢，我这不是说那些小孩和老头。不过，有许多民兵是完全能够打起枪来，而眼下他们应该做的恰恰就是这样。”

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"You know it’s true, Scarlet. I don’t mean the little boys and the old gentlemen. But a lot of the militia are perfectly able to tote a rifle and that’s what they ought to be doing this minute."

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“可是——可是——”思嘉开始琢磨，因为她以前从未考虑过这件事。”有的人待在家里是要——”威利·吉南关于自己待在亚特兰大的理由是怎么跟她说的？”有的人待在家里是要保卫这个州不受侵略嘛！”

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"But—but—" began Scarlett, who had never considered the matter before. "Somebody’s got to stay home to—" What was it Willie Guinan had told her by way of excusing his presence in Atlanta? "Somebody’s got to stay home to protect the state from invasion."

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“现在没有人侵略我们，也没有人要来侵略我们，”媚兰冷冷地说，同时朝一群民兵望去。”要不让侵略者打进来，最好的办法是到弗吉尼亚前线去打击北方佬。至于说什么民兵留在这里是要防备黑人暴动，这是从未听说过的最愚蠢的话。我们的人民为什么要暴动呢？这只不过是懦夫们的最好借口而已。我敢担保，只要各州的全部民兵全都开到弗吉尼亚去，我们就能在一个月内干掉那些北方佬，我就是这个意思！”

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"Nobody’s invading us and nobody’s going to," said Melly coolly, looking toward a group of the militia. "And the best way to keep out invaders is to go to Virginia and beat the Yankees there. And as for all this talk about the militia staying here to keep the darkies from rising—why, it’s the silliest thing I ever heard of. Why should our people rise? It’s just a good excuse for cowards. I’ll bet we could lick the Yankees in a month if all the militia of all the states went to Virginia. So there!"

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“怎么，媚兰！”思嘉再一次喊起来，瞪着两只大眼睛。

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"Why, Melly!" cried Scarlett again, staring.

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媚兰那对本来很温和的黑眼睛现在冒出了怒火。”我的丈夫不害怕上了前线，你的丈夫也是这样。我宁愿他们两人死了也不要待在家里——啊，亲爱的，对不起。我这话太冒失、太残忍了！”

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Melly’s soft dark eyes were flashing angrily. "My husband wasn’t afraid to go and neither was yours. And I’d rather they’d both be dead than here at home— Oh, darling, I’m sorry. How thoughtless and cruel of me!"

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她安慰地拍拍思嘉的臂膀，思嘉凝视着她。不过，思嘉心里想的不是已故的查尔斯。她想的是艾希礼。要是艾希礼也会死呢？这时恰好米德大夫朝她们这个摊位走来，她就转过头去机械地对他笑了笑。

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She stroked Scarlett’s arm appealingly and Scarlett stared at her. But it was not of dead Charles she was thinking. It was of Ashley. Suppose he too were to die? She turned quickly and smiled automatically as Dr. Meade walked up to their booth.

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“好啊，姑娘们，”他招呼她们，”你们能来真太好了。我知道你们今晚出来是多么不容易。不过，这全是为了主义呀。我现在要告诉你们一个秘密。我想出了一个惊人的办法，能在今晚给医院弄到更多的钱，可是我恐怕有些女士们会给吓坏了。”说到这里他停了下来，捋着山羊胡子格格地笑着。

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"Well, girls," he greeted them, "it was nice of you to come. I know what a sacrifice it must have been for you to come out tonight. But it’s all for the Cause. And I’m going to tell you a secret. I’ve a surprise way for making some more money tonight for the hospital, but I’m afraid some of the ladies are going to be shocked about it."He stopped and chuckled as he tugged at his gray goatee.

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“唔，什么？快说吧！”

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"Oh, what? Do tell!"

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“我再一想，觉得还是让你们猜一猜好。不过，如果教徒们因此要把我赶出这个城市，你们女孩子可得站出来支持我呀。反正，这都是为了医院。你们等着瞧吧。这样的事，以前还从没干过呢。”

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"On second thought I believe I’ll keep you guessing, too. But you girls must stand up for me if the church members want to run me out of town for doing it. However, it’s for the hospital. You’ll see. Nothing like this has ever been done before."

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他大摇大摆地向坐在角落里的一群陪护走去了。这里思嘉和媚兰彼此转过头来正要猜测那个秘密究竟是怎么回事，却见有两位老先生已走近她们的摊位，大声宣布要买十英里长的梭织花边。好吧，有了两位老先生总比一位先生都没有要强，尽管思嘉在量花边时不得不假装正经地让人家在下巴上捏了一下。

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