我正是十三岁的那一年秋天，考进了女子师范的一年级，在全级 同学的年龄中，我是倒数第一，身材呢，偏偏也是又矮又小，当我拖 着两条小辫发，跑进课堂时，同学们都惊奇地望着我，在她们的揣测 中，这仅仅是个小学四五年级的孩子，怎么会参加她们的集团呢，而 我就在她们的猜疑中，安然地坐在第一排的位子上了。
As I entered the classroom wearing my hair in two braids, my classmates all stared at me with amazement, wondering how a primary school kid of the 4th or Sth grade could have become one of their clique.
一个中年妇女，据说是学监曹先生，迈着那小脚放大的特有的八 字步，神乎其神的走进教室，登上讲台，我们恭敬的起立，鞠躬，坐 下，学监发给我们一份油印的学校规则，上面罗列着森严可怖的校 规，最使我刺心的心，是学生必须全体住堂，除星期六例假外，不许 外出，即使例假外出时，也必有家长盖章的证明书才行，星期日下午 五点以前一定要回学校，如果迟误，下星期就不准回家，其次O就是 不许穿制服以外的任何衣服，． -而制服偏偏又是那样难看，夏季 的是灰色布衫，灰色山东绸的裙子，新的时候还好，洗过几次之后， 颜色灰黯，活像一窝老鼠精。
The proctor then gave uS each a mimeographed sheet with a horrible list of strict regulations, of which the most detestable was that all students must be boarders forbidden to gO out of the campus except during weekends with a certificate sealed by parents and that they must return to the campus before 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoons and otherwise they would not be allowed to gO next weekend.
这虽然似乎是一件小事，而对于我这个还拖着两条 辫发的孩子，简直等于是一种滑稽的刑罚呢！
Though it was a trivial matter, yet to a little girl like me with two treasured short braids, it was as good as a ludicrous form of punishment!
自从学监曹先生颁布校规以后，一些天真活泼的女孩，霎时间都 变成了日本婆娘，--那时间日本的教育及其他，都正在中国走着极 时的红运，所有的教育当局，也大半是日本留学生，所以为了贯彻他 们的取法乎日本的主张，便连装饰也必使其逼似国。
Upon the announcement of the school regulations by Miss Cao the proctor, the innocent school girls immediately started to behave like Japanese women.
试想那样庞大笨 重的凉棚头，顶在一些尚未全成人形的孩子们身上，究竟类乎不类 呢？
Imagine how absurd it was to fix 2 huge cumbersome canopy-like hairpiece on the head of an under-age little girl!
第二天回学校时，也 是偷偷摸摸乘学监看不见的时候，逃到栉沐室，恢复了大棚头，再去 交通知书。
The next day when I returned to school, would, before handing in the certificate for leave, sneak into the women's bathroom without the knowledge of the proctor and furtively put On the unwieldy hairpiece again.
在这个中学时期中，本来是我的黄金时代，谁知我的活泼快乐的 童年，竟销灭于这如牢狱似的学校生活中，至今想来，对于当时那种 专门以压迫手段的学校教育0，犹觉不寒而栗了。
My high school days would have been my golden age had it not been for the prison-like school life.
在这枯燥阴暗的学校生活中，我有时仍然要自寻光明，那就是偷 看小说--那时候的学生，除了教科书以外，什么都不许看，小说尤 其在严禁之列，如被发觉，轻则学监叫去当面训斥一顿，把小说没收， 重则挂牌记大过一次，可是这也禁不断我们，仍然不断的偷看书，有 时我竟躲在讲堂最后一排的椅子上，把小说藏在国文讲义下面，趁先 生讲的唾沫乱溅的时候，我已一页一页的偷看下去，有时看到小说中 情节太滑稽的部分，我竟忘其所以的噗味一笑，这就惹下了大祸，先 生瞪起铜铃般的眼睛，恶狠狠地叫我到前排来，我连忙把小说往屉子 里一塞，垂头丧气的坐到前排位子上，但是心里更急切要想晓得那故 事的下文，于是我的精神贯注于那小说的想象中，虽是木然静坐，心 早不知飞越到第几世界去了。
Sometimes, while the teacher was lecturing, I would, seating myself in the last row of the classroom, absorbed in reading novel hidden under a copy of lecture notes on Chinese.
我这样装病过三四 次，是后一次这个秘密被学监发觉了，以欺骗和违法的罪名，记了我 一年复一年的我们这样生活着，混过四年华业书骗到手，我的中 学生活也就告了结束。
That was how managed to muddle through year after year until the diploma at the end of four years, thus concluding my high school life.
有人喜欢看猴子，看那些乖巧伶俐的动物，略具人形，而生活 究竟简陋，于是令人不由的生出优越之感，掏一把花生米掷进去。
Some people like to amuse themselves by watching the playfulness of clever monkeys which, though slightly manlike, are after all simple- minded animals.
有 人喜欢看狮子跳火圈，狗作算术，老虎翻筋斗，觉得有趣。
Some people enjoy seeing lions jumping through a fiery hoop, dogs doing easy sums, or tigers turning a somersault.
我之看 骆驼则是另外一种心情，骆驼扮演的是悲剧的角色。
But it was with a different state of mind for me watch the camels playing a tragic role.
它的槛外是冷清 清的，没有游人围绕，所谓槛也只是一根杉木横着拦在门口。
They had few onlookers and were separated by a fir log across the entrance instead of a fence.
它卧在那里，老远一看，真像是大块的毛姜。
Lying On muddy ground, they resembled huge pieces of ginger when looked at from afar.
一块块的毛都在脱落，斑驳的皮肤上隐隐的露着血迹。
Their hair was falling off in patches, faintly revealing blood-stains on the skin.
水汪汪的两只大眼睛好像是 眼泪扑簌的盼望着能见亲族一面似的。
They gasping for breath, with mouth wide open, chin drooping and watery big eyes seemingly brimming with tears of longing for their beloved oncs.
腰间的肋骨历历可数，颈子又 细又长，尾巴像是一条破扫帚。
They were so skinny that their ribs showed through distinctly, their necks thin and long, and their tails like a worn-out broom.
驼峰只剩下了干皮，像是一只麻袋搭 在背上。
Nothing remained their humps but the dried up skin resting On their backs like a gunnysack.
我心目中的骆驼不是这样的。
That, however, is not what a camel looks like in my mind's eye.
儿时在家乡，一听见大铜铃玎玎珰 珰就知道送煤的骆驼队来了，往往夺门出视。
In my childhood, the jingling of big bronze camel bells in my home town would always send me rushing outdoors to see a caravan arriving with a load of coal.
一根细绳穿系着好几只 骆驼，有时是十只八只的，一顺的立在路边。
The camels, sometimes numbering about ten, would stand roped up in a line, one after another, by the road.
满脸煤污的煤商一声吆 喝，骆驼便乖乖的跪下来给人卸货，嘴角往往流着白沫，口里不住地 嚼--反刍。
At the loud call of coal trader, whose face was smeared all over with coal dust, the camels would submissively kneel down, ready to be unloaded.
有时还跟着一只小骆驼，几乎用跑步在后面追随着。
Sometimes, close at their heels was a calf trying ever so hard to catch up at a quickened pace.
是亚热带的气候不适于骆驼居住。
Camels do not adapt to the climate of subtropical zones.