人什么时候长大是很难决定的,”安妮笑道。“这是真的,亲爱的。有些人一出生就长大了,有些人到了八十岁还没有长大,相信我。我所说的罗德里克夫人从未长大。她一百岁时和十岁时一样愚蠢。“也许这就是她活得这么久的原因,”安妮建议道。
(It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne.'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up when they're born, and others ain't grown up when they're eighty, believe me. That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up. She was as foolish when she was hundred as when she was ten.''Perhaps that was why she lived so long,' suggested Anne.)