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● noticing：注意。趁她不注意时，把鞋放在椅上。捡鞋子原来为的是游戏。参加“觅宝”游戏的人（即末句的You），一定要在指定时间（given time）之内，找到某些东西。
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“Such as shoes?” she said.
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“A shoe was one.”
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“And what else?”
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Perhaps because he was still kneeling on the grass, perhaps because both her feet were now shoeless, he seemed more embarrassed than ever. “Oh! a clothespin,” he said, and he hesitated so much before the next of his things that she had suddenly an idea he was making things up. “Then a collar stud. That was for the girls.”
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● both her feet：另外一只鞋也掉下来了。embarrassed：窘迫。
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● clothespin：晾晒衣服时用的木夹子。before the next of his things：说了木夹子，再说下一样东西之前，他吞吞吐吐（hesitated）了好久，才说得出来，以致她忽然有了一个印象：她以为他在编造（making up）了话来骗她。其实他是因为不好意思，才难于启齿的。
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● collar stud：衬衫领子上的活动钮扣（这种衬衫的领子大多不是缝在一起，而是临时装上的）。女孩子要觅的宝是男人衬衫上的钮扣，这种事情说出来不大雅观，无怪那人要格格不吐。
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“Oh! it was different for girls then, was it?”
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“It has to be,” he said. “It’s more fun.”
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“You look terribly hot,” she said. “It would do you much good to rest. How far had you got? What had you found?”
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● different：男女双方所觅的宝不同。
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● It has to be：非这么不可。had got，had found（过去完成式）：他来到这里以前，找到了些什么了？
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“I’d got the clothespin and the shoe… well, I thought I had,“he said, and again she saw the smile, perfect and handsome in the startling whiteness of its expanse between dark lips.
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Suddenly she drew her feet up towards her and said, “Wouldn’t you like to sit down on the canopy? You look so hot and uncomfortable down there.”
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“Oh! I don’t want to disturb you….”
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● I thought I had：我那时还以为找到了。那男子的牙齿洁白整齐，笑时尤为明显，此处不提牙齿，只说他的笑占地甚大（expanse：嘴咧得很开），在两片暗红色嘴唇之间，露出一片耀目的白色。
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● drew up：把脚缩进，好让那人来坐。
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“Not disturbing. Sit down and cool off a bit.”
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He sat down and began almost at once, unconsciously, with regular motions of one foot, to swing the canopy up and down.
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After some moments of that sensation, so delicious and soothing that she wanted to shut her eyes, she said, “You didn’t finish telling me what the girls had to find.”
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● began应该直连to swing（摇荡）的，作者又插了好几个形容的字眼进去。unconsciously：不知不觉中。regular motions of one foot：一只脚有规律地动，一推一撑之间，摇椅就上下摆动起来了。
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● that sensation：摇荡的感觉。delicious：引起酣美的快感的。soothing：使神经平静舒适的。摇椅轻轻摆动，她周身快慰舒适，把眼睛闭上了，好好地享受一下。她方才何等暴躁，现在变得如此平易近人，读者请注意其心理变迁过程。
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The swinging of the canopy made the top of the acacia tree rock with heady gentleness against the sky. The sensation it woke in her body reminded her of a swing on which she had played, under a big tree, as a child.
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“Oh! it was a bit silly.”
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