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印度爆发的一场霍乱让脾气乖戾、娇生惯养的玛丽·伦诺克斯成了孤儿，她被送到英国，住进姨父偏僻的庄园。这部经典儿童小说讲述了这个小女孩如何适应孤单的新环境，并开始揭开庄园围墙内隐藏的秘密，而这又给她自己冷漠自私的性格带来了意想不到的变化。
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CHAPTER I. THERE IS NO ONE LEFT
第一章 一个人也不剩了
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor
当玛丽·伦诺克斯被送到米塞尔思韦特庄园
to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
去和她的姑父一起生活时，每个人都说她是人们见过的长相最讨人嫌的孩子。
It was true, too.
这也是真的。
She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression.
她有一张瘦小的脸和一个瘦小的身体，稀疏的浅色头发和一副酸溜溜的表情。
Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India
她的头发是黄的，她的脸也是黄的，因为她出生在印度，
and had always been ill in one way or another.
而且总是这样或那样地生病。
Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself,
她的父亲在英国政府手下担任职务，自己也总是又忙又病，
and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people.
她的母亲是一个大美人，只喜欢去参加宴会，和快活的人一起寻欢作乐。
She had not wanted a little girl at all,
她根本就不想要一个小女孩，
and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand
玛丽一出生，她就把她交给一个印度奶妈照管，奶妈被告知，
that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible.
如果她想讨太太老爷的欢心，就必须尽可能让这孩子不出现在人眼前。
So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way,
所以，当她是一个病恹恹、爱哭闹、难看的小婴儿时，她被放在一边不让碍事，
and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also.
当她成了一个病恹恹、爱哭闹、蹒跚学步的小东西时，她也被放在一边不让碍事。
She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants,
她从来不记得熟悉地见过什么，除了她奶妈和其他本地仆人的黝黑面孔，
and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything,
而由于他们总是服从她，在每件事上都由着她，
because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying,
因为如果太太被她的哭声打扰，就会生气，
by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.
所以到她六岁的时候，她已经成了一只有史以来最专横、最自私的小猪。
The young English governess who came to teach her to read
来教她读书
and write disliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months,
写字的那位年轻的英国家庭女教师非常不喜欢她，三个月就辞去了职位，