Finally one of the managers bustled up to the stalwart darky .

后来终于有一个经理跑到这个健壮的黑人面前。

What on earth are you doing in a nasty place like shantytown you a respectable darky?

你到底在棚户区这个糟糕的地方干什么，你是个体面的黑人呀？

Well, never again will I let a darky on this place marry off it.

好了， 从此我再也不让这里的黑小子跟别处的女人结婚了。

Better that I'd learned to plow or chop cotton like a darky.

还不如当初象黑人那样学会犁田、摘棉花呢。

Darky heaved a sigh for him.

黑氏为他叹了一口气。

Darky was already down from the ladder. Her hair, after the rain shower on the wall, was dripping wet.

黑氏已经走下梯子，头上让雨淋湿了，滴滴答答顺着头发往下流水。

Stuart halted , too, and the darky boy pulled up a few paces behind them.

斯图尔特跟着停下来，黑小子也紧跑几步跟上了他们。

Whether it's wisest to fight this thing like the legislature has done, rouse the North against us and bring the whole Yankee Army on us to cram the darky vote down us, whether we want it or not.

最明智的做法究竟是像州议会这样对着干，刺激北方佬，迫使他们把全部军队开过来，不管我们接受不接受，就把黑人选举权强加到我们头上。

Darky did not feel the benefit of his being a cadre; on the contrary, she suffered more. In the darkness, he called out the name of the prettiest maiden in the town and forced her to answer his cry.

黑氏不知道干部的好处，她受的是更粗野的罪，不许点灯，他叫她是镇上最俏的一个女子的名字，要求叫一声，还让她应一声。

The old darky said that the spirit of a beautiful lady walked on the waters of the lake at night and that was why they called it spirit lake.

他说夜晚会有一个美丽姑娘的灵魂在水中漫步，这也是为什么大家管它叫幽灵湖的原因。

Panic-stricken, Darky stood for a while. With people eyeing her, She did not talk back, nor did she weep. Then she hugged the greasy pillow and gave it to Mu Du's dad.

黑氏怔怔地立了一会，旁边的人都看她。她没有顶撞丈夫，也不哭，后来抱了石枕，油污污的，过来给了木犊爹。

At first, Darky did not understand how her father-in-law, such a stingy person could become so generous, but now she understood.

黑氏不明白公公那么吝啬的人竟又那么大方，黑氏现在是明白了。

When outsiders heard of this, they joked about it. As Darky worked in the fields, someone would ask, "So, Darky, have you taught your man a lesson again?"

这消息被外人得知，全都扯笑，黑氏在地里干活了，有人就问：“黑，又教训你男人了吗?。