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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.
当然，谁也不知道月亮去了哪里。而且，无论谁得到它，都会藏起来。我知道，因为我自己就会这样做。我相信在其他事情上我都会诚实，但我已经意识到，在我的天性里，在我灵魂的深处充满对美的热爱与渴求。我还意识到，如果月亮属于别人，那个人又不知道月亮在我手上，那么把月亮交给我是不安全的。
But of course there is no telling where it went to. And besides, whoever gets it will hide it；I know it because I would do it myself. I believe I can be honest in all other matters, but I already begin to realize that the core and center of my nature is love of the beautiful, a passion for the beautiful, and that it would not be safe to trust me with a moon that belonged to another person and that person didn't know I had it.
如果我在白天找到了月亮，我可以放弃，因为我会害怕有人也在看着它；但如果我在黑暗中找到了月亮，我肯定会找到某种借口，不透露任何消息。因为我真的爱月亮，它那么美丽，那么浪漫。我真希望有五六个月亮，这样我就永远不睡觉，而是一直躺在长着苔藓的河岸上，永不觉疲倦地仰望它们。
I could give up a moon that I found in the daytime, because I should be afraid someone was looking；but if I found it in the dark, I am sure I should find some kind of an excuse for not saying anything about it. For I do love moons, they are so pretty and so romantic. I wish we had five or six；I would never go to bed；I should never get tired lying on the moss-bank and looking up at them.
