To Kill a Mockingbird 杀死一只知更鸟 Chapter 5

My nagging ¹ got the better of Jem eventually, as I knew it would, and to my relief weslowed down the game for a while. He still maintained, however, that Atticus hadn't saidwe couldn't, therefore we could; and if Atticus ever said we couldn't, Jem had thought ofa way around it: he would simply change the names of the characters and then wecouldn't be accused of playing anything., ,Dill was in hearty ² agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of atrial anyway, following Jem about. He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him,then he promptly ³ forgot about it. He staked me out, marked as his property, said I wasthe only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. I beat him up twice but it did nogood, he only grew closer to Jem. They spent days together in the treehouse plottingand planning, calling me only when they needed a third party. But I kept aloof ⁴ from theirmore foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most ofthe remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her frontporch., ,Jem and I had always enjoyed the free run of Miss Maudie's yard if we kept out of herazaleas, but our contact with her was not clearly defined. Until Jem and Dill excludedme from their plans, she was only another lady in the neighborhood, but a relativelybenign presence., , ,Miss Maudie hated her house: time spent indoors was time wasted. She was a widow,a chameleon ⁷ lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men'scoveralls, but after her five o'clock bath she would appear on the porch and reign ⁸ overthe street in magisterial ⁹ beauty., ,She loved everything that grew in God's earth, even the weeds. With one exception. Ifshe found a blade of nut grass in her yard it was like the Second Battle of the Marne:, ,I've got a nagging pain in my lower back. 我后背下方老是疼。 来自《简明英汉词典》,After work they made a hearty meal in the worker's canteen.工作完了，他们在工人食堂饱餐了一顿 。