百年孤独这本书怎么样 世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第13章Part9

世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第13章Part9  

It was necessary to borrow beds and hammocks from the neighbors
to set up nine shifts at the table
to fix hours for bathing
and to borrow forty stools so that the girls in blue uniforms with masculine buttons would not spend the whole day running from one place to another. The visit was a failure because the noisy schoolgirls would scarcely finish breakfast before they had to start taking turns for lunch and then for dinner
and for the whole week they were able to take only one walk through the plantations. At nightfall the nuns were exhausted
unable to move
give another order
and still the troop of tireless adolescents was in the courtyard singing school songs out of tune. One day they were on the point of trampling úrsula
who made an effort to be useful precisely where she was most in the way. On another day the nuns got all excited because Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía had urinated under the chestnut tree without being concerned that the schoolgirls were in the courtyard. Amaranta was on the point of causing panic because one of the nuns went into the kitchen as she was salting the soup and the only thing that occurred to her to say was to ask what those handfuls of white powder were.
"Arsenic
" Amaranta answered.
The night of their arrival the students carried on in such a way
trying to go to the bathroom before they went to bed
that at one o'clock in the morning the last ones were still going in. Fernanda then bought seventy--o chamberpots but she only managed to change the nocturnal problem into a morning one
because from dawn on there was a long line of girls
each with her pot in her hand
waiting for her turn to wash it. Although some of them suffered fevers and several of them were infected by mosquito bites
most of them showed an unbreakable resistance as they faced the most troublesome difficulties
and even at the time of the greatest heat they would scamper through the garden. When they finally left
the flowers were destroyed
the furniture broken
and the walls covered with drawings and writing
but Fernanda pardoned them for all of the damage because of her relief at their leaving. She returned the borrowed beds and stools and kept the seventy-o chamberpots in Melquíades' room. The locked room
about which the spiritual life of the house revolved in former times
was known from that time on as the "chamberpot room." For Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía it was the most appropriate name
because while the rest of the family was still amazed by the fact that Melquíades' room was immune to dust and destruction
he saw it turned into a dunghill. In any case
it did not seem to bother him who was correct
and if he found out about the fate of the room it was because Fernanda kept passing by and disturbing his work for a whole afternoon as she put away the chamberpots.