The use of force(5)

The use of force

来吧，抓住她，我说道。

Come on now, hold her, I said.

接着我用左手掰住女孩的头，并试图将木制的压舌板伸进她的嘴里。

Then I grasped the child’s head with my left hand and tried to get the wooden tongue depressor between her teeth.

她紧咬着牙绝望地反抗着！

She fought, with clenched teeth, desperately!

而此时我也变得狂怒了——对一个孩子。

But now I also had grown furious-at a child.

我试图让自己不要发脾气，但却做不到，我知道怎样去检查她的嗓子。

I tried to hold myself down but I couldn’t. I know how to expose a throat for inspection.

我尽了最大的努力。当我终于把木制的压舌板伸到最后一排牙齿的后面时，她张开了嘴，然而只是一瞬间，我还来不及看她又把嘴闭上了，没等我把它取出来，她的臼齿已经紧紧咬住了压舌板，并把压舌板咬成了碎片。

And I did my best. When finally I got the wooden spatula behind the last teeth and just the point of it into the mouth cavity, she opened up for an instant but before I could see anything she came down again and gripped the wooden blade between her molars. She reduces it to splinters before I could get it out again.

你不害臊吗？妈妈朝她大声训斥道。你在大夫面前这样不觉得害臊吗？

Aren’t you ashamed, the mother yelled at her. Aren’t you ashamed to act like that in front of the doctor?

给我拿一把平柄的勺子什么的，我对母亲说。

Get me a smooth-handled spoon of some sort, I told the mother.

我们还要接着做下去。

We’re going through with this.