To Kill a Mockingbird 杀死一只知更鸟 Chapter 26

School started, and so did our daily trips past the Radley Place. Jem was in theseventh grade and went to high school, beyond the grammar-school building; I was nowin the third grade, and our routines were so different I only walked to school with Jem inthe mornings and saw him at mealtimes. He went out for football, but was too slenderand too young yet to do anything but carry the team water buckets. This he did withenthusiasm; most afternoons he was seldom home before dark., ,The Radley Place had ceased to terrify me, but it was no less gloomy, no less chillyunder its great oaks, and no less uninviting. Mr. Nathan Radley could still be seen on aclear day, walking to and from town; we knew Boo was there, for the same old reason -- nobody'd seen him carried out yet. I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse ¹, when passingby the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment ² toArthur Radley -- what reasonable recluse ³ wants children peeping through his shutters,delivering greetings on the end of a fishing-pole, wandering in his collards at night? Andyet I remembered. Two Indian-head pennies, chewing gum, soap dolls, a rusty ⁴ medal, abroken watch and chain. Jem must have put them away somewhere. I stopped andlooked at the tree one afternoon: the trunk was swelling ⁵ around its cement patch. Thepatch itself was turning yellow., ,We had almost seen him a couple of times, a good enough score for anybody., , ,It was only a fantasy. We would never see him. He probably did go out when themoon was down and gaze upon Miss Stephanie Crawford. I'd have picked somebodyelse to look at, but that was his business. He would never gaze at us., ,"You aren't starting that again, are you?" said Atticus one night, when I expressed astray desire just to have one good look at Boo Radley before I died. "If you are, I'll tellyou right now: stop it. I'm too old to go chasing you off the Radley property. Besides, it'sdangerous. You might get shot. You know Mr. Nathan shoots at every shadow he sees,even shadows that leave size-four bare footprints. You were lucky not to be killed.", ,He has shown no remorse for his actions.他对自己的行为没有任何悔恨之意。,He has never suffered the torment of rejection.他从未经受过遭人拒绝的痛苦 。