英语翻译Small Steps has a completely different tone than Holes.I

英语翻译
Small Steps has a completely different tone than Holes.It lacks the bizarre landscape,the magical realism,the tall-tale quality,and the heavy irony.Yet,there is still much humor,social commentary,and a great deal of poignancy.Armpit's relationship with Ginny,the first person to care for him,look up to him,and give his life meaning,is a compassionate one.Like Holes,Small Steps is a story of redemption,of the triumph of the human spirit,of self-sacrifice,and of doing the right thing.Sachar is a master storyteller who creates memorable characters.–Connie Tyrrell Burns,Mahoney Middle School,South Portland,ME From Booklist*Starred Review* Gr.5-8.In rougher days,Armpit,named for an ill-placed scorpion bite,bullied a new member of his work-camp team.That kid was Stanley Yelnats,whose travails in Holes earned Sachar a 1998 Newbery Medal and National Book Award.Though Armpit is now 17,the tone of his experiences remains squarely middle-grade,and like Stanley,he proves an appealing,hapless character buffeted by others' schemes and shouldering the burdens of personal history：in this case,the bruisingly real challenges facing an African American teenager with a criminal history.Armpit takes his counselor's suggestions seriously （"Just take small steps and keep moving forward"）,but he nonetheless becomes entangled in returning character X-Ray's concert ticket-scalping enterprise,resulting in a serendipitous meeting with a bubble-gum pop star and an awkward role in a police investigation.This is both less experimental and less streamlined than Holes;Armpit's bond with a girl with cerebral palsy,for instance,often seems too clearly intended to reveal his soft heart.Even so,Holes fans will be thrilled by the tightening of the plot elements to a single,suspenseful point,and they will eagerly follow the sometimes stumbling,sometimes sprinting progress of Sachar's fallible yet heroic protagonist.To learn more about the author's decision to mine Holes for new inspiration,see the adjacent "Story behind the Story" feature.

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不好懂,费了我大半个小时,以下是翻译.
《跬步》是一个与《洞》完全不同风格的故事.在这个故事中没有奇异的景色描写的魔幻主义,没有无稽之谈的味道,没有尖酸的讽刺.但是,其中仍然有令人捧腹的幽默,有对社会敏锐的洞察,还有不少的辛酸.在描写主人公Armpit和Ginny（第一个对SArmpit关怀备至照顾有加并给了他生活的意义的人）之间的关系时,表现出了和《洞》如出一辙的同情心.
《跬步》是一个关于救赎的故事,是关于人类精神胜利的故事,是描写自我牺牲精神和对于正义的坚持的一个故事.Sachar真是一位善于娓娓道来的大师.他为故事中的人物塑造了个性鲜明的形象.
Connie Tyrrell Burns,来自波特兰南部的Mahoney中学（点击这里回顾前情：书目列表Gr.5-8.）.在时间模糊的之前,Armpit （这个名字来源于某次处理不当的蝎咬事件）拉拢了一个孩子加入他的新阵营.那孩子就是Stanley Yelnats,关于他的故事的小说《洞》在1998年为作者Sachar赢得了Newbery传媒小说奖和国家小说奖.Armpit当时17岁,对于他的描写作者采用一种中规中矩的语调.和Stanley一样,作者的成功的塑造了一个令人哀怜的、无助的、经常遭到欺凌并且担负着个人背景（的一个有犯罪案底的美国黑人少年）带来的的压力的角色.Armpit认真的考虑了来自他的法律顾问的建议（“一步一步来,坚持下去”）.然而还是在交还一个叫“X-ray"的角色音乐会门票的时候被卷入了一个利益集团.追根究底还是源于一次与泡泡糖摇滚舞曲明星还在和一个来自警方警方的调查行动中的蹩脚的角色的偶遇.与《洞》相比这两点并没有在创新方面强出多少.在故事中Armpit和一位脑瘫的女孩产生了纠葛,Armpit多次显露出自己柔弱的内心世界的.
即便如此,《洞》的支持者们还是会随着由作者设计纷繁缜密的线索和紧张的情节的发展及其最终交织出的真相而激动不已.而作者设下的陷阱也会让读者身不由己陷入其中.读者们还会身临其境的体会到Sachar对于有些英雄主义而又莽撞的男主角的心理活动的描写.
想了解更多的关于作者对于从《洞》发掘出更多灵感的前因后果,请关注即将推出的“故事背后的故事”专题.
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