Aunt Alexandra got up and reached for the mantelpiece. Mr. Tate rose, but she declined assistance. For once in his life Atticus’s instinctive courtesy failed him: he sat where he was.
Somehow, I could think of nothing but Mr. Bob Ewell saying he’d get Atticus if it took him the rest of his life. Mr. Ewell almost got him, and it was the last thing he did.
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“你敢肯定他死了吗?”阿迪克斯的声音显得凄凉。
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"Are you sure?" Atticus said bleakly.
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“肯定死了,”塔特先生说,“完全死了,再不会伤害这些孩子了。”
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"He’s dead all right," said Mr. Tate. "He’s good and dead. He won’t hurt these children again."
"I didn’t mean that." Atticus seemed to be talking in his sleep. His age was beginning to show, his one sign of inner turmoil: the strong line of his jaw melted a little, one became aware of telltale creases forming under his ears, one noticed not his jet-black hair but the gray patches growing at his temples.
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“咱们到客厅去谈不是好些吗?”亚历山德拉姑妈最后建议道。
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"Hadn’t we better go to the livingroom?" Aunt Alexandra said at last.
"If you don’t mind," said Mr. Tate, "I’d rather us stay in here if it won’t hurt Jem any. I want to have a look at his injuries while Scout . . . tells us about it."
"Is it all right if I leave?" she asked. "I’m just one person too many in here. I’ll be in my room if you want me, Atticus." Aunt Alexandra went to the door, but she stopped and turned. "Atticus, I had a feeling about this tonight-I-this is my fault," she began. "I should have-"
Mr. Tate held up his hand. "You go ahead, Miss Alexandra, I know it’s been a shock to you. And don’t you fret yourself about anything-why, if we followed our feelings all the time we’d be like cats chasin’ their tails. Miss Scout, see if you can tell us what happened, while it’s still fresh in your mind. You think you can? Did you see him following you?"
I went to Atticus and felt his arms go around me. I buried my head in his lap. "We started home. I said Jem, I’ve forgot m’shoes. Soon’s we started back for ’em the lights went out. Jem said I could get ’em tomorrow. . . ."
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“斯各特,抬起头好让塔特先生听清楚。”阿迪克斯说。我爬到他的膝上。
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"Scout, raise up so Mr. Tate can hear you," Atticus said. I crawled into his lap.
"Then Jem said hush a minute. I thought he was thinkin’-he always wants you to hush so he can think-then he said he heard somethin’. We thought it was Cecil."
"Cecil Jacobs. He scared us once tonight, an’ we thought it was him again. He had on a sheet. They gave a quarter for the best costume, I don’t know who won it-"
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“你们以为后面是塞西尔时,到了什么地方?”
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"Where were you when you thought it was Cecil?"
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“离学校不远。我对他高叫了一声……”
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"Just a little piece from the schoolhouse. I yelled somethin’ at him-"
Atticus said he didn’t. He had the radio on. Aunt Alexandra had hers going in her bedroom. He remembered because she told him to turn his down a bit so she could hear hers. Atticus smiled. "I always play a radio too loud."
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。不知道周围的邻居是不是听见了什么……”塔特先生说。
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"I wonder if the neighbors heard anything. . . ." said Mr. Tate.
"Well, after Jem yelled we walked on. Mr. Tate, I was shut up in my costume but I could hear it myself, then. Footsteps I mean. They walked when we walked and stopped when we stopped. Jem said he could see me because Mrs. Crenshaw put some kind of shiny paint on my costume. I was a ham."
Atticus described my role to Mr. Tate, plus the construction of my garment. "You should have seen her when she came in," he said, "it was crushed to a pulp."
Mr. Tate rubbed his chin. "I wondered why he had those marks on him. His sleeves were perforated with little holes. There were one or two little puncture marks on his arms to match the holes. Let me see that thing if you will, sir."
Atticus fetched the remains of my costume. Mr. Tate turned it over and bent it around to get an idea of its former shape. "This thing probably saved her life," he said. "Look."
"Don’t like to contradict you, Mr. Finch-wasn’t crazy-mean as hell. Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. He’d never have met you face to face."
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阿迪克斯摇摇头说:“我不能设想有人竟会……”
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Atticus shook his head. "I can’t conceive of a man who’d-"
"Mr. Finch, there’s just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to ’em. Even then, they ain’t worth the bullet it takes to shoot ’em. Ewell ’as one of ’em."
"He had guts enough to pester a poor colored woman, he had guts enough to pester Judge Taylor when he thought the house was empty, so do you think he’da met you to your face in daylight?" Mr. Tate sighed. "We’d better get on. Scout, you heard him behind you-"
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“是的,先生,我们到了树下……”
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"Yes sir. When we got under the tree-"
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“你怎么知道你们到了树下呢,你们什么也看不见啊?”
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"How’d you know you were under the tree, you couldn’t see thunder out there."
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“我赤着脚;杰姆说,树底下总是凉一些。”
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"I was barefooted, and Jem says the ground’s always cooler under a tree."
"Then all of a sudden somethin’ grabbed me an’ mashed my costume . . . think I ducked on the ground . . . heard a tusslin’ under the tree sort of . . . they were bammin’ against the trunk, sounded like. Jem found me and started pullin’ me toward the road. Some-Mr. Ewell yanked him down, I reckon. They tussled some more and then there was this funny noise-Jem hollered . . ." I stopped. That was Jem’s arm.