我刚将椅子拉近一点,突然,她像猫一样双手本能地朝我的两眼抓去,我差一点被她抓到。 As I moved my chair a little nearer suddenly with one catlike movement both her hands clawed instinctively for my eyes and she almost reached them too.
好在她只是打掉了我的眼镜,虽然眼镜没有碎,但已落到了离我几英尺远的厨房地板上。 In fact she knocked my glasses flying and they fell, though unbroken, several feet away from me on the kitchen floor.
父母两人都非常尴尬,充满歉意,你这个坏孩子,母亲一边说,一边抓着她,并摇晃着她的一只手,你看看你做的事。这么一个好人。
Both the mother and father almost turned themselves inside out in embarrassment and apology. You bad girl, said the mother, taking her and shaking here by one arm. Look what you‘ve done. The nice man…
看在上帝的份上,我打断了她的话,请不要再在她面前说我是一个好人。
For heaven‘s sake, I broke in. Don‘t call me a nice man to her.
我来是看看她的嗓子,也许她患了白喉,而且很可能会死于这种病。
I‘m here to look at her throat on the chance that she might have diphtheria and possibly die of it. 但这一切她都不在乎,看这儿,我对女孩说,我们想看看你的嗓子,你不小了,应该明白我说的话,你是自己张开嘴呢,还是我们帮你张开?
But that‘s nothing to her. Look here, I said to the child, we‘re going to look at your throat. You‘re old enough to understand what I‘m saying. Will you open it now by yourself or shall we have to open it for you?
她仍然一动不动,甚至连表情都没有任何变化。
Not a move. Even her expression hadn‘t changed.
但是她的呼吸却越来越急促。
Her breaths, however, were coming faster and faster.
接着一场战役开始了,我不得不这样做。
Then the battle began. I had to do it.
由于她的自我保护,我必须检查一下她的嗓子。
I had to have a throat culture for her own protection.
可是我首先告诉家长这完全取决于他们。
But first I told the parents that it was entirely up to them.
我说明了其危险性,但同时提出只要他们承担责任我就不会坚持做这次喉咙检查。
I explained the danger but said that I would not insist on a throat examination so long as they would take the responsibility.
如果你不按大夫说的去做,你就要去医院了,母亲严厉地警告她。
If you don‘t do what the doctor says you‘ll have to go to the hospital, the mother admonished her severely.
是吗?我只好暗自笑了笑。毕竟我已经喜欢上了这个野蛮的小东西,但却看不起这对父母。 Oh yeah? I had to smile to myself. After all, I had already fallen in love with the savage brat, the parents were contemptible to me.
在接下来的―战斗‖中他们越来越难堪,被摧垮了,直至精疲力竭。而这个女孩由于恐惧,她对我的抗拒达到了惊人的地步。
In the ensuing struggle they grew more and more abject, crushed, exhausted while she surely rose to magnificent heights of insane fury of effort bred of her terror of me.
父亲尽了最大的努力,他块头很大,然而事实上他面对着的是他的女儿,由于对她的所作所

