安格斯和托普茜 · 1

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Once there was a little cocker spaniel puppy named Topsy, and all the HOME she had was a shop window. When Topsy was a baby puppy she had belonged to her mother, but now that she was older Topsy did not belong especially to anybody. So Topsy was very lonesome.

Every day Topsy would watch OTHER DOGS out walking with the PEOPLE they belonged to, and every day Topsy would hope that SOMEBODY who needed a little dog would come into the shop and take her away to a real HOME to live in.

从前有一只可卡犬，名叫托普茜。她的整个家就是商店里的一个橱窗。托普茜幼小的时候，一直有妈妈照看，现在她长大了，不再专门属于谁了。于是托普茜有些孤独。

托普茜每天看着别的狗跟着主人一起溜弯，她盼望着有一天哪位需要小狗陪伴的人来到商店，给她一个真正生活的家。

One day Topsy saw a little girl and her mother walking by. Topsy heard the little girl say, “Look, Mother, look at the sweet little dog!” Topsy barked and wagged her little tail, and the little girl said, “PLEASE, Mother, PLEASE buy me the sweet little dog!” but the mother said, “No, Judy,” and they went away.

有一天，托普茜看到一个小女孩和妈妈正在散步。她听到小女孩说：“瞧，妈妈！看那只可爱的小狗！”托普茜叫了几声，摆动着她的小尾巴。小女孩又说道：“求求你，妈妈，求你给我买下那只可爱的小狗吧！”但妈妈说：“不要了，朱迪！”于是她们走开了。

Every day after that Topsy would see the little girl named Judy go by the shop window with her mother, and every day after that Topsy would hear the little girl say, “PLEASE, Mother, PLEASE buy me the sweet little dog,” and the mother always said, “No, Judy,” and they would go away.

打那以后，托普茜每天看着小女孩和妈妈散步时路过商店的这个橱窗，她每天都听到小女孩说：“求求你，妈妈，求你给我买下那只可爱的小狗吧！”可妈妈总是说：“不，朱迪！”后来她们又走了。

Then at last SOMEBODY did come into the shop and take Topsy away to a real HOME to live in.

But this SOMEBODY was not the little girl named Judy. This SOMEBODY was a little old lady named Miss Samantha Littlefield

终于有一天，真有人走进商店，将托普茜领走了，并给了她一个真的家。

但这个人不是那位名叫朱迪的小女孩，而是一位身材瘦小的老太太，名叫萨曼莎·利特菲尔德小姐。

Miss Samantha lived in a very large tidy house in the middle of a very large tidy garden, and Miss Samantha was very glad to have Topsy belong to her because she had no one else belonging to her such as children or grand-children or nephews or nieces or people like that.

萨曼莎小姐住在一个整洁宽敞的大房子里，房子位于一个整齐宽大的花园中间。萨曼莎小姐很高兴能有托普茜给她做伴，因为她没有别的人可以陪她，没有孩子，也没有孙子，或外甥、侄女等亲人。

Miss Samantha gave Topsy a new collar with Topsy written on it, and a new leash and a woolly blue sweater for cold days and some galoshes for wet days.

萨曼莎小姐给托普茜戴上了个围脖，上面写上了“TOPSY”的名字，还给她拴上了牵绳，冷天会给她穿上蓝色羊毛外套，雨天则给她穿上胶套鞋。

But Topsy hid her leash and tore her blue sweater and CHEWED her galoshes.

但托普茜把她的牵绳藏了起来，把那蓝色羊毛外套也撕碎了，还嚼着那胶鞋玩。

Miss Samantha gave Topsy a large blue dish to eat out of, but when Topsy tried to eat her supper, Splash! went Topsy’s long ears into the dish, and out spattered her supper all over the floor and all over Topsy, so MissSamantha tied up Topsy’s ears.

萨曼莎小姐给托普茜备了一个蓝色的大盘子，给她放吃的食物。当她想吃晚餐的时候，啪！她的长耳朵也伸到了盘子里，将晚餐的食物溅得到处都是——地板上、她自己身上。于是萨曼莎小姐将托普茜的耳朵缠了起来。

Miss Samantha tied up Topsy’s ears with a red ribbon, but then Topsy would not eat out of her new blue dish. Topsy liked the dust bin better.

萨曼莎用一根红丝带将托普茜的耳朵系在了一起。但托普茜还是不愿意用她的蓝色新餐盘吃东西。看起来她更喜欢那垃圾筒。

Miss Samantha gave Topsy a beautiful new bed with a green pillow to sleep on and a yellow blanket to sleep under,

萨曼莎小姐给托普茜准备了睡觉用的漂亮新床，还有绿色枕头、黄色毛毯。

But Topsy liked Miss Samantha’s bed better.

但托普茜好像更喜欢睡萨曼莎小姐的床。

Miss Samantha gave Topsy a rubber bone to play with, but Topsy found a real bone instead. Topsy hid the real bone, hid it away in Miss Samantha’s bed, and then Topsy found MANY THINGS to play with.

Topsy found RUGS to slide on and to crawl under.

萨曼莎小姐给托普茜弄了一个橡胶骨头让她玩，但托普茜自己找到了一个真的骨头。她把真骨头藏起来，放在萨曼莎小姐的床上，然后自己找到了很多好玩的东西。

她发现毯子上面可以溜着，下面还可以爬着钻进去。

Topsy found FEATHERS inside the sofa pillows, and Topsy found STRANGE WIRE THINGS inside the sofa,

她发现沙发靠垫里的羽毛，也发现了沙发里面的奇怪的线圈。

and soon Topsy found so MANY THINGS to play with that Miss Samantha’s large house was no longer tidy, and Miss Samantha was very sad.

Miss Samantha said, “Topsy, you are a very naughty little dog, you will have to live in the cellar.”

So Topsy was very sad because she had to live in the cellar.

不久托普茜又发现了很多好玩的东西，于是萨曼莎小姐宽敞的房子变得不再整洁，她因此十分沮丧。

萨曼莎小姐说：“托普茜，你真是个调皮捣蛋的小东西，那你只好住在地窑里了。”

于是托普茜也很伤心，因为她不得不住在地窑里。

But Topsy was not sad for long, because she climbed up the coal and out of a window and into the large tidy garden.

但她并没有难过很长时间，因为她爬上了煤堆，爬出了窗户，来到了整洁的大花园。