SUPERIOR

 MOTHER, your baby is silly! She is so absurdly¹ childish²!

 

She does not know the difference between the lights in the streets and the stars.

 

When we play at eating with pebbles³, she thinks they are real food, and tries to put them into her mouth.

 

When I open a book before her and ask her to learn her a, b, c, she tears the leaves with her hands and roars for joy at nothing; this is your baby's way of doing her lesson.

 

When I shake my head at her in anger and scold her and call her naughty, she laughs and thinks it great fun.

 

Everybody knows that father is away, but if in play I call aloud "Father," she looks about her in excitement and thinks that father is near.

 

When I hold my class with the donkeys that our washerman brings to carry away the clothes and I warn her that I am the schoolmaster, she will scream for no reason and call me dâdâ. [elder brother]

 

Your baby wants to catch the moon. She is so funny; she calls Ganesh Gânush. [Ganesh, a common name in India, also that of the god with the elephant's head.]

 

Mother, your baby is silly, she is so absurdly childish!

1 absurdly   

adv.荒谬地，荒唐地

参考例句：

• The paintings were sold for absurdly high prices. 那些画以高得出奇的价格售出。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I'm afraid you'll see him carrying on even more absurdly later. 将来只怕比这个更奇怪的笑话儿还有呢！ 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学

2 childish   

adj.孩子的，孩子气的，幼稚的

参考例句：

• The little girl spoke in a high childish voice.这个小女孩用尖尖的童声讲话。
• We eventually ran out of patience with his childish behaviour.我们终于对他幼稚的行为忍无可忍。

3 pebbles   

[复数]鹅卵石； 沙砾； 卵石，小圆石( pebble的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The pebbles of the drive crunched under his feet. 汽车道上的小石子在他脚底下喀嚓作响。
• Line the pots with pebbles to ensure good drainage. 在罐子里铺一层鹅卵石，以确保排水良好。