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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.
他很少说话。也许是因为他不聪明，对这一点比较敏感，不希望别人知道。他竟会这样想，真是太可惜了。因为聪明根本算不了什么，一个人的价值在于心灵。真希望我能让他明白，一颗充满爱与善良的心灵才是财富，有这样一颗心，人生才是富足的，若没有，即便拥有智慧，人生也是贫乏的。
He talks very little. Perhaps it is because he is not bright, and is sensitive about it and wishes to conceal it. It is such a pity that he should feel so, for brightness is nothing；it is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
他虽然话少，词汇量却相当丰富。今天早上，他用了一个出人意料的好词。显然，他自己也意识到那是个好词，因为后来他又漫不经心地用了两次。他那漫不经心的样子，装得可不好，不过这仍旧说明，他拥有某种可进一步完善的品格。毫无疑问，这就像是种子一样，只要加以照料，就能生根发芽。
Although he talks so little, he has quite a considerable vocabulary. This morning he used a surprisingly good word. He evidently recognized, himself, that it was a good one, for he worked it in twice afterward, casually. It was good casual art, still it showed that he possesses a certain quality of perception. Without a doubt that seed can be made to grow, if cultivated.
