The Acquaintance of Charlotte and Wilbur---夏洛特与威尔伯的初相识

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A Brief Introduction of Chapter 5

第五章简介

Wilbur heard somebody call him and say that she would be his new friend. However, he could not see where his new friend was. And his new friend just said that Wilbur would see her in the morning of the next day. Wilbur was so excited that he was hard to fall asleep.
威尔伯听到有人叫他，并告诉他，她将成为他的新朋友。可是，威尔伯只听到这位新朋友的声音并没有看到她的身影。这位新朋友告诉威尔伯，第二天早上就能看见她了。这使得威尔伯极为兴奋，并难以入睡。

Finally, in the morning, Wilbur met with his new friend, a spider, whose name is Charlotte.
终于，威尔伯在早上与他的新朋友，一只名为夏洛特的蜘蛛见面了。

In the eyes of Wilbur, Charlotte is nice-looking, but because she ate flies, Wilbur thought he was bloodthirsty.
在威尔伯眼中，夏洛特很好看。但是，因为她以苍蝇为食，威尔伯又认为她很残忍。

My thinking:

我的思考：

In my opinion, Charlotte is honest, clever and hard-working. I would combine the content of the article to demonstrate my points.
在我看来,夏洛特是诚实，勤奋且聪明伶俐的。我将结合文章内容来证明我所说的这几点。

Firstly, Charlotte is honest.

首先，夏洛特是诚实的。

Charlotte was honest to her own beauty.

"I think you're beautiful," said Wilbur.
"Well, I am pretty," replied Charlotte. "There's no denying that. Almost all spiders are rather nice-looking. I'm not as flashy as some, but I'll do. I wish I could see you, Wilbur, as clearly as you can see me."
威尔伯说：“我想你应该很漂亮。”“是的，我很漂亮，”夏洛特回答道。“这一点无可否认。几乎所有的蜘蛛都很好看，我不如其他的华丽，但我会努力的。我多么希望我能看到你啊，威尔伯，就像你能那么清楚地看到我一样。”

Charlotte just said what was true.
夏洛特只说真话。

"Why not ? It's true, and I have to say what is true. I am not entirely happy about my diet of flies and bugs, but it's the way I'm made.
为什么不呢？这是真的，而且我也只说真话。对于以苍蝇和昆虫为食物我也不是很高兴，但这确实这样做了。

Secondly, Charlotte is hard-working.

第二，夏洛特是勤奋的。

Charlotte did what she could in case of starving to death.
夏洛特做了她所能做的一切以免被活活饿死。

"Well, you can't talk," said Charlotte. "You have your meals brought to you in a pail. Nobody feeds me. I have to get my own living. I live by my wits. I have to be sharp and clever, lest I go hungry. I have to think things out, catch what I can, take what comes.
“（对此）你不能多说什么”，夏洛特说道：“你的三餐都是别人放在桶里拿给你。（我呢？）没有人喂我，我必须自力更生。我靠自己的智慧活着。我不得不，否则我就得挨饿。我必须绞尽脑汁思考，抓住一切我能抓住的东西，不管来到我面前的是哪种昆虫，我都要设法去捕捉。

Thirdly, Charlotte is clever.

第三，夏洛特是聪明伶俐的。

There is no doubt that Charlotte is clever. The words she spoke to Wilbur，the answers she gave to Wilbur questions all of these shown her cleverness to us.
毫无疑问，夏洛特极为聪慧。她对威尔伯所说的话，她对威尔伯所提的问题给出的答案，所有的这些，无不向我们展示了她的聪慧。

“And furthermore," said Charlotte, shaking one of her legs, "do you realize that if I didn't catch bugs and eat them, bugs would increase and multiply and get so numerous that they'd destroy the earth, wipe out everything?"
“而且，”夏洛特晃着她的一条腿说道：“你没有意识到吗？如果我不抓昆虫，不吃昆虫，那么昆虫的数量将不断地成倍增加，最后会多到足以毁灭地球，摧毁一切的。”

Something that I learn from Chapter 5

我从第五章学到的一些东西

1. We can not judge someone just by their outwards appearances.

1. 我们不能只通过外在来判断一个人。

We all know that the more beautiful things they are, the more dangerous they will be. For example, roses are very beautiful, but they are always covered with thorns; and if mushrooms are very beautiful, then they may be poisonous.
众所周知，越漂亮的东西一般越危险。例如，玫瑰花很漂亮，但多刺; 漂亮的蘑菇，一般都有毒。

Charlotte was nice-looking, but she was bloodthirsty, just as Wilbur said.
就像威尔伯所说的，夏洛特很漂亮但她同时又嗜血如命。

That is to say, we can not judge someone by their outwards appearances. Charlotte's appearance was beautiful, but in Wilbur's opinion, she was cruel and bloodthirsty.
也就是说，我们不能通过外貌来判断一个人。夏洛特的外观很美，但在威尔伯看来，她很残忍。

Underneath her rather bold and cruel exterior, she had a kind heart, and she was to prove loyal and true to the very end.
在她那勇敢而残酷的外表下，是一颗善良的心，她的忠诚和正直最终都得到了证实。

2. We should not judge someone or something sidedly, but wholly.

2.我们应该全面而不是片面地判断一个人或一件事。

Wilbur thought that Charlotte was bloodthirsty just because she ate flies as her breakfast.
威尔伯仅凭夏洛特以苍蝇为早餐就认定她嗜血如命。

However, as Charlotte says, what she ate was not decided by herself but by her mother and her mother's mother.
然而，正如夏洛特所说，她吃什么并不是由她自己决定，而是她妈妈和她妈妈的妈妈也就是她的祖先决定的。

Thus we could not say that she was bloodthirsty just by what she ate. Actually, she was kind-hearted. And this would be shown in the following articles.
因此，我们不能仅凭她吃的食物就说她嗜血如命。实际上，她非常善良。她的善良将在接下来的文章中体现出来。