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星期一
这个长头发的新生物真碍事。它总是在我周围晃悠，跟着我走来走去。我不喜欢这样，也不习惯有谁陪在我身边。我希望它老老实实地和其他动物待在一起。今天阴天，刮东风，感觉我们要有雨了……我们？这个词，我是从哪儿学来的？对，想起来了——是新生物用的。
Monday
This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this；I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals. Cloudy today, wind in the east；think we shall have rain……Where did I get that word?……I remember now—the new creature uses it.
今天，我对距离有了更好的认识。我总是很心急，遇上令我眼花缭乱的漂亮事物，我就会很冒失地去抓。有时它离我太远，抓不到；有时它离我有六英寸，但看起来是一英尺——唉，那是因为中间还有荆棘！于是我得到了人生的第一次教训，还编了一句格言，是我自己想出来的：实验品被划到，遇到荆棘要躲开。我觉得这句格言编得特别好，毕竟我年龄很小。
Today I am getting better ideas about distances. I was so eager to get hold of every pretty thing that I giddily grabbed for it, sometimes when it was too far off, and sometimes when it was but six inches away but seemed a foot—alas, with thorns between！I learned a lesson；also I made an axiom, all out of my own head—my very first one；THE SCRATCHED EXPERIMENT SHUNS THE THORN. I think it is a very good one for one so young.
