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At that moment I heard a burst of applause, and I glanced at the stage: a little chimney-sweep stood there, with a clean face, but in his working-clothes, and the mayor was holding him by the hand and talking to him. After the chimney-sweep came a cook; then came one of the city sweepers, from the Raineri School, to get a prize. I felt I know not what in my heart, something like a great affection and a great respect, at the thought of how much those prizes had cost all those workingmen, fathers of families, full of care; how much toil added to their labors, how many hours snatched from their sleep, of which they stand in such great need, and what efforts of intelligences not habituated to study, and of huge hands rendered clumsy with work!
忽然间喝彩声四起，急向舞台看时，见那小小的烟囱扫除人只洗净了面部，仍着了漆黑的工服出场了。市长携住他的手，和他说话。烟囱扫除人之后，又有一个清道夫来领奖品。我一想到此，有一种说不出的感动。他们劳动了一日以后，再分出必要的睡眠时间，使用那不曾用惯的头脑，用那粗笨的手指执笔，这是怎样辛苦的事啊。
A factory boy passed, and it was evident that his father had lent him his jacket for the occasion, for his sleeves hung down so that he was forced to turn them back on the stage, in order to receive his prize: and many laughed; but the laugh was speedily stifled by the applause. Next came an old man with a bald head and a white beard. Several artillery soldiers passed, from among those who attended evening school in our schoolhouse; then came custom-house guards and policemen, from among those who guard our schools. At the conclusion, the pupils of the evening schools again sang the hymn to the dead in the Crimea, but this time with so much dash, with a strength of affection which came so directly from the heart, that the audience hardly applauded at all, and all retired in deep emotion, slowly and noiselessly.
接着又来了一个工场的徒弟。他一定是穿了他父亲的上衣来的，只要看他上台受奖品时卷起了长长的袖口就可知道。大家都笑了起来，可是笑声终于立刻被喝彩声埋没了，其次，来了一个秃头白须的老人。还有许多的炮兵，这里有曾经在我校的夜学部的，此外还有税局的门房和警察，我校的门房也在其内。末了，夜校的学生又唱克里米亚战争歌。因为那歌声认真心流出，含着深情，听众不喝彩，只是感动地静静退出。
In a few moments the whole street was thronged. In front of the entrance to the theatre was the chimney-sweep, with his prize book bound in red, and all around were gentlemen talking to him. Many exchanged salutations from the opposite side of the street, workmen, boys, policemen, teachers. My master of the second grade came out in the midst of the crowd, between two artillery men. And there were workmen's wives with babies in their arms, who held in their tiny hands their father's diploma, and exhibited it to the crowd in their pride.
一霎时，街上充满了人。烟囱扫除者拿了领得的红色的书册站在剧场门口时，绅士都集在他的周围和他说话。街上的人彼此互相招呼，劳动者、小孩、警察、先生、我二年级时的先生和两个炮兵，从群众间出来。劳动者的妻抱了小孩，小孩用小手拿着父亲的文凭矜夸地给群众看。
