暮光之城第一章 10

and then his dark eyes flickered to mine.

He looked away quickly, more quickly than Icould, though in a flushof embarrassment I droppedmy eyes at once. Inthat brief flash of a glance, his face held nothing of interest — it was as if she hadcalled his name, and he'd looked up in involuntary response, already having decided not to answer.

My neighbor giggled in embarrassment, looking at the tablelike I did.

"That's Edward and Emmett Cullen, andRosalie and Jasper Hale. The one who left was Alice Cullen; they all livetogether with Dr. Cullen and his wife." She said this under her breath.

I glanced sideways at thebeautiful boy, who was looking at his tray now, picking a bagel to pieces with long, pale fingers.His mouth was moving very quickly, his perfect lips barely opening. The otherthree still looked away, and yet I felt he was speaking quietly to them.

然后他的黑眼睛就闪向了我。

　　他迅速把视线移开了，比我还要快，虽然我窘得立即低下了头。那匆匆的一瞥，他脸上没有任何感兴趣的表情——就仿佛她叫了他的名字，他本能地抬了一下头，心里早就决定了不理睬一样。

　　我旁边的女孩不好意思得咯咯直笑，和我一样看着桌子。

　　"那是爱德华·卡伦和埃美特·卡伦兄弟俩跟罗莎莉·黑尔和贾斯帕·黑尔姐弟俩。走了的那个是爱丽丝·卡伦；他们全都跟卡伦大夫夫妇住在一起。"她低声地说到。

　　我用眼角匆匆瞥了那个漂亮的男孩子一眼，只见他正看着盘子，用他白皙而修长的手指把面包圈撕成小块扔进嘴里。他的嘴动得非常快，两片完美的嘴唇基本上没有张开过。其他的的三个依然望着一边，不过我感觉到他在悄悄地跟他们说着什么。

Strange, unpopular names, I thought. The kinds of namesgrandparents had. But maybe that was in vogue here — small town names? I finally remembered that myneighbor was

called Jessica, a perfectly common name. There were two girlsnamed Jessica in my History class back home. "They are… very nice-looking." I struggled with the conspicuous understatement.

"Yes!" Jessica agreed with another giggle."They're all togetherthough — Emmett and Rosalie, and Jasper andAlice, I mean. And they live together."Her voice held all theshock and condemnation of the small town, I thought critically. But, if I was being honest, I had to admit that even inPhoenix, itwould cause gossip.

"Which ones are the Cullens?" Iasked. "They don't lookrelated…"

"Oh, they're not. Dr. Cullen is reallyyoung, in his twenties orearly thirties. They'reall adopted. The Hales are brother and sister, twins — the blondes — and they're foster children."

"They look a little old for fosterchildren."

"They are now, Jasper and Rosalie areboth eighteen, but they've been with Mrs. Cullen since they were eight. She'stheir aunt or something like that."

"That's really kind of nice — for them to take care of all those kidslike that, when they're so young and everything."

"I guess so," Jessica admitted reluctantly, andI got the impressionthat she didn't like the doctor and his wife for some reason. With the glances she was throwing at their adoptedchildren, I would presumethe reason was

古怪的，少见的名字，我寻思着。爷爷奶奶们才用这种名字呀。不过，也许是这儿时兴呢——小镇上的名字？我终于想起来了，我旁边的女孩叫杰西卡，一个非常普通的名字。我家那边，历史课班上就有两个叫杰西卡的女孩。"他们……长得很好看呢。"我努力用明显轻描淡写的语气掩饰自己心中的惊叹。

"对！"杰西卡又咯咯地笑起来表示认同，"只是，他们全都在一起——我是指，埃美特和罗莎莉，还有贾斯帕和爱丽丝。而且，他们还住在一起。"我苛刻地想，她的语调包含了小镇上所有人对此表示震惊和指责的心声。不过实话实说，我不得不承认，这样的事，就是放到凤凰城，也会引起风言风语的。

"哪几个是卡伦家的孩子？"我问，"他们看上去不像有血缘关系……"

"噢，他们不是卡伦家的孩子。卡伦大夫其实很年轻，才二十几岁或者三十出头。他们都是收养的。姓黑尔的两个是姐弟俩，双胞胎——金发的那两个——他们是领养的孩子。"

"作为领养的孩子，他们年龄偏大了一点吧。"

"他俩现在，贾斯帕和罗莎莉都是十八，可他俩八岁就跟卡伦太太在一起了。她是他俩的姑姑之类的。"

　"他们真是心地善良的好人，这么年轻，就照看这么多的孩子。"

"我想也是，"杰西卡的回答有些勉强，而且我得出了这么个印象，觉得她出于某种原因，不太喜欢那个大夫和他妻子。从她看他们收养的那些孩子的眼神中，我推测这个原因就是嫉妒。"不过，我认为卡伦太太生

jealousy. "I think that Mrs. Cullencan't have any kids, though," she added, as if that lessened their kindness.

Throughout all this conversation, my eyes flickered again and again tothe table where the strange family sat. They continued to look at the walls andnot eat.

"Have they always lived in Forks?" I asked.Surely I would have noticed them on one of my summers here.

不了孩子。"她补了一句，仿佛这样可以让他们的善良打点儿折扣似的。

整个交谈过程中，我不止一次地把目光移向那素昧平生的一家人坐的那张桌子。他们依然望着四壁，没有吃东西。

他们一直住在福克斯吗？"我问。无疑当我在这里度过某个夏天的时候，我就应该注意到他们了。