Flipped(怦然心动)：Chapter06

Chapter06 The eggs

第六章  鸡蛋

After they cut down the sycamore tree, it seemed like everything else fell apart, too. Champ

died. And then I found out about the eggs. It was Champ's time to go, and even though I still miss him, I think it's been easier for me to deal with his death than it has been for me to deal with the truth about the eggs. I still cannot believe it about the eggs.

无花果树被砍倒以后，似乎一切都分崩离析了。冠军死了。然后我发现了关于鸡蛋的真相。冠军到了该离开的时候，虽然我很想它，但是对我来说，接受冠军的离去比接受鸡蛋的真相还要来得更容易些。我仍然不敢相信鸡蛋的事。

The eggs came before the chickens in our case, but the dog came before them both. One

night when I was about six years old, Dad came home from work with a full-grown dog tied down in the back of his truck. Someone had hit it in the middle of an intersection, and Dad had stopped to see how badly it was hurt. Then he noticed that the poor thing was skinny as a rail and didn't have any tags. “Starving and completely disoriented,” he told my mother. “Can you imagine someone abandoning their dog like that?”

在这个事件当中，鸡蛋比鸡来得更早，而狗要比它们两个都早。我六岁的一天晚上，爸爸下班回来，卡车车厢里拴着一只已经完全长大的狗。有人在十字路口中间打它，爸爸停下来查看它的伤势。他发现这个可怜的小东西瘦得像根铁轨，没带任何证明身份的东西。“它饿极了，完全迷了路。”他告诉我妈妈，“你能想象有人这样抛弃他们的狗吗？”

The whole family had converged on the front porch, and I could hardly contain myself. A dog!

全家人都聚在门廊上，我几乎挤不进去。一只小狗！

A wonderful, happy, panty dog! I realize now that Champ was never much of a looker, but when you're six, any dog—no matter how mangy—is a glorious, huggable creature.

一只美妙的、快乐的、棒透了的狗狗！现在我明白了，冠军长得一点儿也不漂亮，但在

你六岁的时候，任何一条狗——不管它有多脏——都是漂亮的、讨人喜欢的。

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