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I knew that no Indian knew of the name, as it was a little family secret;
印第安人肯定不知道这个名字，因为这是一个家庭小秘密。
so I sprang up, and caught my brother about the ankles.
我于是跳了起来，抓住哥哥的腿。
I hardly think that an Indian could have given a louder yell than he gave then;
他发出一声大叫，我想没有任何印第安人叫得比他的声音大，
and he jumped so that he fell off the log down by my side.
他从圆木上跳下来，正巧跌倒在我旁边。
But nobody was hurt; and, after kissing me till he had kissed away all my tears,
我俩都没伤着，他不断亲着我，把我的泪水都亲没了。
he hoisted me on to his shoulder, called my other brothers, who were hunting in different directions, and we all set out for home.
他把我举到肩膀上，叫着分头寻找我的其他哥哥的名字，一起出发往家走。
I had been gone nearly three hours, and had wandered a number of miles.
后来知道当我离家快三个小时，走了好几英里的时候，
My brother Joseph's coming and asking for me, had first set them to inquiring and searching me out.
我的哥哥约瑟夫刚好来家里，知道我的情况后，立即开始让人们分头寻找。
When I went into the room where my brother Rufus sat,
当我走进鲁弗斯房间的时候，
he said, Why, my poor little sister! I did not mean to send you off on such a wild-goose chase to the end of the rainbow.
他说：怎么了，可怜的小妹妹！我可没想让你没头没脑地找什么彩虹的尽头。
I thought you would know I was only quizzing you.
我以为你知道我在逗你玩呢。
Then my eldest brother took me on his knee, and told me what the rainbow really is:
然后大哥把我抱到膝盖上，告诉我什么是彩虹：
that it is only painted air, and does not rest on the earth, so nobody could ever find the end;
彩虹只是带有色彩的空气，也不是立在地上的，因此不会找到彩虹的尽头。
and that God has set it in the cloud to remind him and us of his promise never again to drown the world with a flood.
上帝在云里创造了彩虹，是为了提醒他和人们，他曾经发誓不再发洪水。
"Oh, I think God's Promise would be a beautiful name for the rainbow!" I said.
“噢，我想‘上帝的约定’这个名字更好！”我说。
"Yes," replied my mother, but it tells us something more than that he will not send great floods upon the earth,—it tells us of his beautiful love always bending over us from the skies.
“是的，”妈妈回答说，可是，彩虹告诉我们的比不再发洪水还要多。它告诉我们，他对人类美好的爱永远来自天上。
And I trust that when my little girl sets forth on a pilgrimage to find God's love,
我相信当我的小女孩启程寻找上帝之爱的时候，在上帝的彩虹的引导下，
she will be led by the rainbow of his promise through all the dark places of this world to "treasures laid up in heaven," better, far better, than silver or gold.
世界上任何黑暗的地方都挡不住，最终将找到“天上的财富”，这财富比任何金银都珍贵。
