Gargi Pant

杨舟选译

The sun shone through Gayatri's winclow. Itteasedl her eyelids open. She yawned2， stretchedand got out of bed-things she had done athousand times before. For Gayatri， today beganlike any other day.

Gayatri Verma was a bright， 12-year-old girlwith sparkling3 eyes and dimpled4 smile. She wasan eighth grade student in a local school. foreverpraying5 to God for a new bicycle. She hatedtravelling in a school bus. After all she was bigenough to ride the bike on busy streets. But whowould make her mother understand？

She had just finished tying her striped 6 tieover her blue and white uniform when hermother called. "Guddu！

Guddu Verma. clon ' tforget to keep your shorts. Remember， you havegymnastics7 after school."

Gayatri hated it when her mother called herthat！ Guddu was such an awful name.

陽光透过加亚特里的窗户照进来，撩开了她的眼皮。她打了个哈欠，伸了个懒腰，然后从床上爬起来——这是她以前做过无数次的事情。对加亚特里来说，今天和其他任何一天没什么两样。

加亚特里·维尔玛是一个聪明的12岁女孩，她的眼睛闪闪发光，笑容带着酒窝。她是当地一所学校八年级的学生，一直在向上帝祈祷能有一辆新的自行车。她讨厌坐校车，毕竟她到了可以在繁忙的街道上骑自行车的年龄。但谁能让她妈妈明白这一点呢？

她刚把条纹领带系在蓝白相间的校服上，妈妈就叫道：“古杜！古杜·维尔玛，别忘了带上你的短裤。记住，放学后你有体操课。”

加亚特里讨厌她妈妈那样叫她！古杜真是个讨厌的名字。

As she ate breakfast， Gayatri's thoughtsturned to her two best friends， Nitya and Mitu.They both loved to call her CJudu. Her parentstoo liked the sound of Guddu. The Verma couplethought the name very affectionate 8 andcharming. It was beyond Gayatri's understandinghow anyone could find the name Guddu charming.

Gathering her school bag and lunch. shekissed her mother and left for school. On her wayout， Gayatri looked down and found a small pinkenvelope lying on the porch 9. There was no nameon it. She picked it up， admiring the design on theenvelope. Thinking she would like to copy thedesign in her art class， Gayatri put the envelope inher pocket.

At lunch time Gayatri hurried to meet herfriends in the canteen. Mitu was there. She hadwild curly hair and an equally wild sense ofhumour！ She could always make Gayatri laugh.They had known each other since kindergarten.

Nitya was new to the school. She was new intown. Gayatri and Mitu had met her on the firstday of school. Most kids thought Nitya was verysnobbishm， but they both knew it was shyness onNitya's part that made her keep away from mostof her classmates.

"Hey， Gayatri！ " caalled Mitu. "I have eggparatha today. Wanna trade？"

吃早餐时，加亚特里的思绪转向了她的两个最好的朋友，尼蒂娅和米图。她们都喜欢叫她古杜。她的父母也喜欢古杜的发音。维尔玛夫妇觉得这个名字非常亲切迷人。加亚特里无法理解为什么有人会觉得古杜这个名字很迷人。

收拾好書包和午饭，吻了吻妈妈，她就去上学了。在出去的途中，加亚特里低头发现门廊上放着一个粉红色的小信封，上面没有名字。她拿起信封，欣赏着信封上的图案。考虑到想在美术课上模仿这个图案，加亚特里就把信封放进了口袋。

午饭时间，加亚特里急匆匆去食堂见她的朋友。米图在那里。她有一头狂野的卷发和同样狂野的幽默感！她总能让加亚特里发笑。他们从幼儿园的时候就认识了。……