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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.
这真是完美的幸福。我之前也体会过幸福的滋味，但和这不一样，这是极乐。从那以后，我再也没有怀疑过她。有时候她会不在——也许一个小时，也许差不多整整一天——但我会等着，心中毫不怀疑。我说：“她或许很忙，或许是旅行去了，但她一定会回来的。”的确如此，她总会回来。
That was perfect happiness；I had known happiness before, but it was not like this, which was ecstasy. I never doubted her afterward. Sometimes she stayed away—maybe an hour, maybe almost the whole day, but I waited and did not doubt；I said，“She is busy, or she is gone on a journey, but she will come.”And it was so：she always did.
晚上，如果天黑，她就不来了，因为她很胆小；如果有月亮，她就会来。我不害怕黑暗，但她出生得比我晚，比我更小。我去她那儿看了她很多次，当我的生活异常艰难时——生活大多如此，她就是我的慰藉、我的避难所。
At night she would not come if it was dark, for she was a timid little thing；but if there was a moon she would come. I am not afraid of the dark, but she is younger than I am；she was born after I was. Many and many are the visits I have paid her；she is my comfort and my refuge when my life is hard—and it is mainly that.
