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下载后可任意编辑《喜乐与我》——爱是最纯真的坚持《喜乐与我》——爱是最纯真的坚持 菲琳丝·雷诺兹·那勒(Phyllis Reynolds Naylor，1933～)，美国著名女作家，以擅长写作儿童小说和青少年小说而闻名。到目前为止，她已出版了七十余本书。《喜乐与我》(Shiloh) 是那勒最出名的儿童小说，讲述了小男孩马提(Marty)如何救出一只受虐待的小狗喜乐(Shiloh)的故事。小狗喜乐的原型是那勒在西弗吉尼亚参观时遇到的一只小狗，小狗可怜的模样令她无法忘却，于是她便创作了这本脍炙人口的小说。该小说荣获了 1992 年“纽伯瑞儿童文学奖”金奖，与之后的《喜乐季节》(Shiloh Season)以及《挽救喜乐》(Saving Shiloh)组成了“喜乐”三部曲，广受好评和喜爱，还被搬上了银幕。 下文节选自该书最后一章，讲述的是马提根据约定为贾德(Judd)干活并最终留住了喜乐的故事。 精彩片段 I just look straight through him. "You and me made a bargain," I say, "and I aim to keep my part of it. What you want me to do today?" Judd just points to the sledgehammer1) again and doubles over2) laughing, like it"s the biggest joke he ever played on somebody in his life. I can feel the sweat trickle3) down my back and I ain"t even started yet. Four o"clock comes, and I finally finished all that wood, but Judd pretends he"s asleep. Got his head laid back, mouth half open, but I know it"s just another way he"s got to trick me. Wants me to sneak4) on home; then he"ll say I never kept to my part of the bargain. So I go in his shed5), put the sledgehammer back, take out the sickle6), and go tackle the weeds down by his mailbox. "Sickle"s getting dull, Judd. You got a whetstone7) around, I 1下载后可任意编辑could sharpen it for you." He studies me a good long while. "In the shed," he says. I go get it, sit out on a stump8), running the whetstone over the blade. "Past five o"clock," says Judd. "I know," I say. "I ain"t going to pay you one cent more," he ...