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2. Harriet the Spy《小間諜哈里特》1964年

作者：(美)路易斯·菲茲修

[梗概]

哈里特·M·韋爾什是個(gè)間諜。她在日記里寫下她所認(rèn)識(shí)的所有人的所有事，同學(xué)、好朋友也不例外。有一天，哈里特把日記弄丟了，日記落在了最不該看到它的人手中。她還沒來(lái)得及阻止，她的朋友們都讀到了那些關(guān)于他們每個(gè)人的真實(shí)的、甚至糟糕的過(guò)往。哈里特能否將她的生活拉回正軌并跟朋友們重修于好?

Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she's written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together?

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--哈里特討厭數(shù)學(xué)。她身體里的每根骨頭都討厭數(shù)學(xué)。她花這么多時(shí)間討厭數(shù)學(xué)以至于沒時(shí)間學(xué)數(shù)學(xué)。

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

--人有時(shí)不得不撒謊。但對(duì)自己，一定要永遠(yuǎn)實(shí)話實(shí)說(shuō)。

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.