To Kill a Mockingbird 杀死一只知更鸟 Chapter 8

For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County,autumn turned to winter that year. We had two weeks of the coldest weather since 1885,Atticus said. Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when childrendisobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasonswould change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt ¹ of contributing to the aberrationsof nature, thereby ² causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort ³ to ourselves., ,Old Mrs. Radley died that winter, but her death caused hardly a ripple ⁴ -- theneighborhood seldom saw her, except when she watered her cannas. Jem and Idecided that Boo had got her at last, but when Atticus returned from the Radley househe said she died of natural causes, to our disappointment., ,"Ask him," Jem whispered., , ,"That's why you oughta ask him.", ,"Atticus," I said, "did you see Mr. Arthur?", ,Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.别因为功课责备孩子而使他觉得很内疚。,I have never been to that city,,ereby I don't know much about it.我从未去过那座城市，因此对它不怎么熟悉 。