作者简介：

　　（美）伊迪丝·M. 派奇（1876–1954），美国著名的昆虫学家和作家，康奈尔大学博士，缅因大学昆虫系主任，有美国法布尔之称。1930年被选为美国自然研究协会会长，成为该协会首位女性会长。出版作品有《昆虫的故事》《鸟的故事》《森林邻居》《四季轮回》等。

　　译者简介：

　　亢海宏，毕业于西安外国语学院，英语语言文学硕士。现为天津军事交通学院外语教研室副教授。长期从事翻译教学和翻译审校工作，英译汉和汉译英经验丰富，译文通顺流畅，清新自然。翻译出版有《幽默的艺术》等。

　　李鲁闽，毕业于天津外国语大学，英语语言文学硕士。现为天津军事交通学院外语教研室讲师。编译出版《100名美国杰出运动员》等。

　　The Five Worlds of Larie

　　海鸥拉瑞的五个世界

　　Larie was all alone in a little world. He had lived there many days, and had spent the time, minute by minute and hour by hour, doing nothing at all but growing. That one thing he had done well. There is no doubt about that; for he had grown from a one-celled little beginning of life into a creature so big that he filled the whole of his world crammed full. It was smooth, and it was hard, and its sides were curved around and about him so tightly that he could not even stretch his legs. There was no door. Larie was a prisoner. The prison-walls of his world held him so fast that he could not budge. That is, he could not budge anything but his head. He could move that a little.

　　在一个小小的世界里，躺着孤零零的拉瑞。他已经在那里住了好多天了。时间一分一分、一小时一小时地过去了，他只做了一件事情：发育。这件事情他做得不错，这一点无可置疑，因为他已经从单细胞的萌芽状态发育成了一个全新的生命，把他的小世界塞了个满满当当。他的小世界又滑又硬，四面穹顶，把他裹得紧紧的，连腿都没法伸一下；连门都没有，简直就是囚禁他的牢房。牢房的墙壁紧紧地贴着他，让他除了脑袋之外，无法动弹。也就是说，他只能稍稍动下脑袋。

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