In stillness she made one think of a graceful flower reflected in the water; In motion she called to mind tender willow shoots caressed by the wind. She had more chambers in her heart than the martyred Bi Gan; And suffered a tithe more pain in it than the beautiful Xi Shi

宝玉看罢，笑道：“这个妹妹我曾见过的。”贾母笑道：“又胡说了，你何曾见过？”

宝玉笑道：“虽没见过，却看着面善，心里倒像是远别重逢的一般。”贾母笑道：

“好，好!这么更相和睦了。”

Having completed his survey, Bao-yu gave a laugh. ‘I have seen this cousin before.’

‘Nonsense!’ said Grandmother Jia. ‘How could you possibly have done?’

‘Well, perhaps not,’ said Bao-yu, ‘but her face seems 80 familiar that I have the impression of meeting her again after a long separation.’

‘All the better,’ said Grandmother Jia. ‘That means that you should get on well together.’

宝玉便走向黛玉身边坐下，又细细打量一番，因问：“妹妹可曾读书？”黛玉

道：“不曾读书，只上了一年学，些须认得几个字。”宝玉又道：“妹妹尊名？”黛玉便说了名，宝玉又道：“表字？”黛玉道：“无字。”宝玉笑道：“我送妹妹一字：莫若‘颦颦’二字极妙。”探春便道：“何处出典？”宝玉道：“《古今人物通考》上说：‘西方有石名黛，可代画眉之墨。’况这妹妹眉尖若蹙，取这个字岂不美？”探春笑道：“只怕又是杜撰。”宝玉笑道：“除了《四书》，杜撰的也太多呢。”因又问黛玉：“可有玉没有？”众人都不解。黛玉便忖度着：“因他有玉，所以才问我的。”便答道：“我没有玉。你那玉也是件稀罕物儿，岂能人人皆有？”宝玉听了，登时发作起狂病来，摘下那玉就狠命摔去，骂道：“什么罕物!人的高下不识，还说灵不灵呢!我也不要这劳什子！”吓的地下众人一拥争去拾玉。贾母急的搂了宝玉道“孽障!你生气要打骂人容易，何苦摔那命根子！”宝玉满面泪痕哭道：“家里姐姐妹妹都没有，单我有，我说没趣儿；如今来了这个神仙似的妹妹也没有，可知这不是个好东西。”贾母忙哄他道：“你这妹妹原有玉来着。因你姑妈去世时，舍不得你妹妹，无法可处，遂将他的玉带了去，一则全殉葬之礼，尽你妹妹的孝心；二则你姑妈的阴灵儿也可权作见了你妹妹了。因此他说没有，也是不便自己夸张的意思啊。你还不好生带上，仔细你娘知道！”说着便向丫鬟手中接来亲与他带上。宝玉听如此说，想了一想，也就不生别论。

Bao-yu moved over again and, drawing a chair up beside Dai-yu, recommenced his scrutiny.

Presently: ‘Do you study books yet, cousin?’

‘No,’ said Dai-yu. ‘I have only been taking lessons for a year or so. I can barely read and write.’‘What’s your name?’

Dai-yu told him.

‘What’s your school-name?’

‘I haven’t got one.’

Bao-yu laughed. ‘I’ll give you one, cousin. I think “Frowner” would suit you perfectly.’

‘Where’s your reference?’ said Tan-chun.

‘In the Encyclopedia of Men and Objects Ancient and Modern it says that somewhere in the West there is a mineral called “dai” which can be used instead of eye-black for painting the eyebrows with. She has this “dai” in her name and she knits her brows together in a little frown. I think it’s a splendid name for her!’

‘I expect you made it up,’ said Tan-chun scornfully.

‘What if I did?’ said Bao-yu. ‘There are lots of made-up things in books—apart from the Four Books, of course.’

He returned to his interrogation of Dai-yu.‘Have you got a jade?’

The test of the company were puzzled, hut Dai-yu at once divined that he was asking her if she too had a jade like the one he was born with.

‘No,’ said Dal-yu. ‘That jade of yours is a very rare object. You can’t expect everybody to have one.’

This sent Bao-yu off instantly into one of his mad fits. Snatching the jade from his neck he hurled it violently on the floor as if to smash it and began abusing it passionately.

‘Rare object! Rare object! What’s so lucky about a stone that can’t even tell which people are better than others? Beastly thing! I don’t want it!’

The maids all seemed terrified and rushed forward to pick it up, while Grandmother Jia clung to Bao-yu in alarm.

‘Naughty, naughty boy! Shout at someone or strike them if you like when you are in a nasty temper, but why go smashing that precious thing that your very life depends on?’

‘None of the girls has got one,’ said Bao-yu, his face streaming with tears and sobbing hysterically. ‘Only I have got one. It always upsets me. And now this new cousin comes here who is as beautiful as an angel and she hasn’t got one either; so I know it can’t be any good.’

‘Your cousin did have a jade once,’ said Grandmother Jia, coaxing him like a little child, ‘but because when Auntie died she couldn’t bear to leave her little girl behind, they had to let her take the jade with her instead. In that way your cousin could show her mamma how much she loved her by letting the jade be buried with her; and at the same time, whenever Auntie’s spirit looked at the jade, it would be just like looking at her own little girl again.

‘So when your cousin said she hadn’t got one, it was only because she didn’t want to boast about the good, kind thing she did when she gave it to her mamma. Now you put yours on again like a good boy, and mind your mother doesn’t find Out how naughty you have been.’

So saying, she took the jade from the hands of one of the maids and hung it round his neck for him. And Bao-yu, after reflecting for a moment or two on what she had said, offered no further resistance.返回搜狐，查看更多