美國語文第五冊 第27期：脫鉤的狗魚（02）
I made a strong pull, and brought up a tangle of weeds.
我猛地提起魚竿，拽出的卻是纏成一團的水草。
Again and again I cast out my line with aching arms, and drew it back empty.
再來一次，我總是滿懷希望地拋出釣線，卻還是一無所獲，胳膊亦隱約疼痛起來。
I looked at my uncle appealingly. "Try once more," he said; "we fishermen must have patience."
我求救地看了看叔叔，“再試試，”他對我說，“釣魚的人需要格外耐心。”
Suddenly something tugged at my line, and swept off with it into deep water.
忽然，什么東西扯住了魚線，猛地往下一拽，
Jerking it up, I saw a fine pickerel wriggling in the sun.
我扯住魚竿拉起一看，一條漂亮的狗魚在陽光下掙扎扭動，
"Uncle!" I CRIed, looking back in uncontrollable excitement, "I've got a fish!" "Not yet," said my uncle.
“叔叔！”我回頭大聲叫道，抑制不住滿心激動。“我釣到了一條大魚！”“哎，”
As he spoke there was a plash in the water; I caught the arrowy gleam of a scared fish shooting into the middle of the stream, my hook hung empty from the line.
叔叔的話未說完，剎那間，水面濺起浪花，只見一道箭矢般銀光劃過，那條大魚躍入水中，我手握的那柄釣竿上，只留下空空的餌鉤，嗚呼！
I had lost my prize.
到手的大狗魚就這樣在我的眼皮下溜走了。
We are apt to speak of the sorrows of childhood as trifles in comparison with those of grown-up people;
我們極易談及孩提時代的懊惱，與成人那些痛苦比較，
but we may depend upon it the young folks don't agree with us.
盡管雞毛蒜皮，不值一提，但總會耿耿于懷。
Our griefs, modified and restrained by reason, experience,and self-respect, keep the proprieties, and, if possible, avoid a scene;
當然，年輕人看來每每不以為然。因理性、經驗、甚至自尊改變并抑制,可能的話，我們或許不再百般糾結悶悶不樂。
but the sorrow of childhood, unreasoning and all-absorbing, is a complete abandonment to the passion.
童年痛苦，將會演變成一種安之若素的面對，然而，孩提時代缺乏理性、沉湎痛苦難以自拔，卻是任由性情恣意放縱。
The doll's nose is broken, and the world breaks up with it;
洋娃娃鼻子破了，整個世界隨之打碎；
the marble rolls out of sight, and the solid globe rolls off with the marble.
彈子球滾不見了，整個天地接著地陷天塌。
