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七、篇章翻译 A green caterpillar was slowly crawling out from under the lettuce. It was huge, fat, and apparently well-fed. It paused in its travels to survey the scene. Purple with fury, Henry could barely find his voice. 一条绿虫子正慢吞吞地从生菜底下爬出来。那虫子又大又肥，显然吃得很好，在途中还停下来审视周围的环境。亨利此时气得脸色发青，话都差点说不出来了。 My friend looked somewhat ill at ease when he told me this: At the time when he bought this big house, his children had all been at school. Now they had their own homes and jobs. 朋友有点不好意思地解释说，买这座房子时，孩子们还上着学，如今都成家立业了。 Yang Zhi thus journeyed on for many days and he went toward the eastern capital and he came into the city and found an inn and there settled himself to rest. 杨志取路，不数日，来到东京。入得城来，选个客店，安歇下。 A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little. 人有时囊中羞涩反而比腰缠万贯时显得大方，或许是怕人家笑话自己没钱吧。 Though a brother, I was his apprentice and he considered himself my master. He expected the same services from me as he would from another; while I thought he asked too much of a brother. (Three Great Rolls, Benjamin Franklin) 虽是兄弟，我却成了哥哥的学徒，而他也把自己看作是我的老板，要求我像其他人一样给他卖力；可是我觉得这样对兄弟也太不讲情分了。 I never met a more interesting man than Mayhew. He was a lawyer in Detroit. He was an able and successful one. By the time he was thirty-five he had a large and a lucrative practice, he had amassed a competence, and he stood on the threshold of a distinguished career. 我从未见过比梅休更有意思的人了。梅休是底特律的一名律师，他精明能干，事业有成，35岁时就拥有一份收入不菲的工作。如今累累胜诉的他真可谓前程似锦。 After the play, I took home the flower (the dandelion blossom) I had stuffed in the apron of my costume. My mother pressed it between two sheets of paper toweling in a dictionary, laughing as she did it that we were perhaps the only people who would press such a sorry-looking seed. 演出结束后，我把那朵塞在表演服围裙里的蒲公英带回家中。妈妈用两张纸巾把花压平，然后夹在字典里。她一边夹花一边笑，似乎只有我们俩才会珍藏这样一朵打了蔫的野花 When my brother finally found out, he was not exactly pleased. Perhaps this might be one cause for the arguments that we began