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and beneath all the piety of the masque the oppressive sense of coming ill that made my heart heavy.
而在欢乐的气氛之下，我的胸中则积蓄着深深的愁苦。
The night before the celebration, one of the teachers of the Institution had asked me a question connected with "The Frost King," and I was telling her that Miss Sullivan had talked to me about Jack Frost and his wonderful works. Something I said made her think she detected in my words a confession that I did remember Miss Canby's story of "The Frost Fairies," and she laid her conclusions before Mr. Anagnos, although I had told her most emphatically that she was mistaken.
庆典活动的前一天晚上，学院里的一位老师问了我一个同《冰雪之王》有关的问题。我告诉她，苏立文小姐曾跟我介绍过杰克·弗罗斯特及其出色的诗作。我想我讲的某些事情让她产生了不切实际的想法，因为她从中觉察到了我对肯拜小姐的《冰雪仙子》记忆犹新，甚至认为我坦白交代了自己的过错。虽然我一再重申她的错误推断，但她还是把自己的结论提交给了阿纳戈诺斯先生。
Mr. Anagnos, who loved me tenderly, thinking that he had been deceived, turned a deaf ear to the pleadings of love and innocence. He believed, or at least suspected, that Miss Sullivan and I had deliberately stolen the bright thoughts of another and imposed them on him to win his admiration. I was brought before a court of investigation composed of the teachers and officers of the Institution, and Miss Sullivan was asked to leave me. Then I was questioned and cross-questioned with what seemed to me a determination on the part of my judges to force me to acknowledge that I remembered having had "The Frost Fairies" read to me. I felt in every question the doubt and suspicion that was in their minds, and I felt, too, that a loved friend was looking at me reproachfully, although I could not have put all this into words. The blood pressed about my thumping heart, and I could scarcely speak, except in monosyllables.
于是，对我和蔼友善的阿纳戈诺斯先生认为受到了欺骗，继而对我们为捍卫清白而做的辩解充耳不闻。他相信，或者至少是怀疑，我和苏立文小姐故意偷取了别人的思想精华，并且将其用作赢得他人赞赏的工具。我还受到了由学院教师和官员组成的调查法庭的质询，而苏立文小姐则被告知要暂时回避。随后，我被翻来覆去地问讯，调查团似乎下定决心要将我判定为曾读过《冰雪仙子》。我认为每一个引起怀疑的问题都是他们主观臆断的结果；同时，我也感觉到了一个亲密的朋友正在用责备的眼神看着我，只是我无法把这些感受用言语表达出来。我想一吐胸中的块垒，但是除了几个简单的音节，我一句话也说不出来。
