斑点蛙是如何让自己变漂亮的？(5)

因此,小玛丽安为大玛丽穿上带蕾丝花边的蓝色丝绸,因为那是大玛丽最好的衣服,她还举起粉红色的遮阳伞,让它罩在大玛丽的头上,她还给将大玛丽带上白色的暖手套,因为这是最好最好的时刻.然后,她把大玛丽带到长满金莲花后院的一块灰色岩石边,让她能够整日呼吸到新鲜的空气.
Now little Miss Freckle Frog lived under the big rock. She was ugly, as all frogs are, but she loved pretty things, perhaps because she was not pretty herself. But although she was not pretty, she was a kind-hearted little body, and all her friends liked her.
现在,小斑点蛙小姐住在大石头下.她像所有青蛙一样丑陋,但是她喜欢漂亮的东西,也许是因为她自己不漂亮.但是尽管她不漂亮,但她是一个善良的小生命,她的所有朋友都喜欢她.

Every day when Big Mary sat in the sunshine, Freckle Frog crept out from under the rock, and hid in the grass, and watched her. She thought Big Mary was wonderful, but she thought that the blue silk dress and the pink parasol were more wonderful still, and the little soft muff,—that was the most wonderful of all! And poor little Freckle Frog wished that she had a blue silk dress with lace, and a pink parasol like Big Mary. But most of all she wished that she had a little soft muff.