小说体英汉互译40篇

1.Eastward from Ashkhabad my train lumbered across a region of oases where rivers dropped out of Iran to die in the Turcoman desert. In one window the Kopet Dagh mountains lurched darkly out of haze, and repeated themselves in thinning colours far into the sky. Beyond the other rolled a grey-green savannah, gashed with poppies. Over this immensity the sky curved like a frescoed ceiling, where flotillas of white and grey clouds floated on separate winds.

我乘坐的列车由阿什哈巴德驶出，一路向东，在土库曼沙漠中的绿洲地区中缓慢行驶，源自伊朗的数条河流便在这里汇集。透过一扇车窗，可以看到考匹特塔克山脉在黑色的迷雾中蜿蜒前行，若隐若现，其颜色随着山势的增高而变得模糊起来。另一扇车窗中，灰绿色草原绵延不绝，四处是凌乱的罂粟。天空在无垠的大地上盘旋曲折，仿佛是一个刻有壁画的天花板，密集的白云和灰云在空中随着阵风飘移。

2. Once or twice under the foothills I glimpsed the mound of a kurgan, broken open like the lips of a volcano –the burial-place of a tribal chief, perhaps, or the milestone of some lost nomad advance. Along this narrow littoral, a century ago, the Tekke Turcomans had grazed their camels and tough Argamak horses, and tilled the soil around forty-three earthen fortresses. Now the Karakum canal ran down from the Oxus through villages with old, despairing names such as 'Dead-End' and 'Cursed-by-God', and fed collective farms of wheat and cotton.

在山麓小丘之下，我瞥见了一两个坟头，坟头已经裂开，样子与火山口相仿——也许，它是部落首领的埋葬之地，或者就是某个迷失的游牧开拓者的一座里程碑。一个世纪之前，在这个滨海地区的沿岸，提基亚土库曼人用泥土建立起43个堡垒，他们在周围放牧骆驼和凶悍的阿葛马克马，并耕种土地。如今，卡拉库姆运河自阿姆河顺流而下，穿过那些以―死角‖和―天谴‖等古老、绝望的名字来命名的村子，灌溉着那些种有小麦与棉花的集体农场。

3.The train was like a town on the move. In its cubicles the close-tiered bunks were stacked with Russian factory workers and gangs of gossiping Turcomans. Grimy windows soured the world outside with their own fog, and a stench of urine rose from the washrooms. But a boisterous freedom was in the air. Everyone was in passage, lightly uprooted. They gobbled salads and tore at scraggy chicken, played cards raucously together and pampered each other's children, until the afternoon lunch-break lulled them into sleep. Then the stained railway mattresses were deployed over the bunks, and the corridor became a tangle of arms and projecting feet in frayed socks. From a tundra of sheets poked the beards of Turcoman farmers, and the weathered heads of soldiers resting on their caps. Matriarchs on their way to visit relatives in the next oasis lay mounded under blankets or quilted coats, and young women curled up with their children in their arms and their scarves swept over their faces.

这列火车就像一个移动的城镇。车厢单间内，上下铺位间的空间狭窄，上面全都挤满了俄罗斯工人和成群唧喳不停的土库曼人。污秽的车窗布满了雾气，使外面的景色模糊不清，洗手间更是飘来了小便后的恶臭。但空气中弥漫着放纵喧闹的气氛。人们全都是在旅行，似乎有点漂泊在外的味道。他们大口吞咽着沙拉，撕啃着骨多肉少的鸡，一起大声吆喝着玩着扑克，互相哄弄着彼此的小孩，直到下午，午休时间才使他们安静下来，开始睡觉。之后，铺位上纷纷铺起污迹斑斑

的列车床垫，走廊里顿时到处都是胳膊和露在外面、穿着破袜子的脚丫子。所有被单仿佛就是一片苔原，土库曼农民把他们的胡子露在了被单外面，而枕着帽子的士兵则把他们那饱受风霜之苦的脑袋露了出来。去下一个绿洲地区看亲戚的老妇人们躺在毛毯里或棉大衣中，好似一座座小山丘，而年轻的妇人则蜷着身子，怀里抱着孩子，并用她们的头巾盖住了自己的脸。

4.Two hundred miles east of Ashkhabad, where the soil shelved into ridges of scrub-speckled sand, a harsh wind sprang up. It whined against our windows and liquefied the plain and sky to a single, yellowed light. Suddenly ploughed tracts and irrigation channels appeared, and the glisten of flooded rice-fields; and cranes preceded the suburbs of Mari. I had time for a spy's glimpse into backyards – a view of cherished private plots and straggling geese – before we jolted to a halt.

在阿什哈巴德以东200英里处，土地变成了长有稀松灌木的梯形沙地，狂风即时而起。风沙击打着车窗，把平原和天空融合成一道昏黄的光线。刹那间，犁耕田和灌溉渠出现了，水稻田也在闪闪发亮；到达马雷市郊区之前还看到了一些起重机。在我们的列车摇晃着停下来之前，我还来得及迅速瞥一眼居民的后院——看到的是妥善照料的自耕地和乱窜的鹅。

5.Mari was a scrawl over the oasis, built piecemeal in a pallid, dead brick. Between flat-blocks and bungalows I tramped towards a heart which was not there. I found a bleak hotel. Towards evening, sitting in its hall before a black-and-white-television, I heard that Najibullah had been deposed in Afghanistan. But there was nobody in the lobby with whom to share this; and the news went on. With a dim dissociation, as if I were receiving reports from a distant planet, I heard that the Danes had rejected the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and that there was to be a memorial concert for Freddie Mercury at Wembley.

马雷市是绿洲地区中一座凌乱的城市，是用白色的、死气沉沉的砖块一块块堆垒起来的。我在居民楼和平房中大步行走，寻找一个原本不存在的市中心。我找到了一家景象凄凉的旅馆。快入夜的时候，坐在大厅中黑白电视机前的我听到了纳吉布拉（原阿富汗总统）在阿富汗被免职的消息。但是，大厅中空无一人，无法与人分享这个消息；新闻还在继续播送。我有点迷失，仿佛我正在一个遥远的星球接收报告，我听到丹麦人否决了欧洲汇率机制，以及要为弗雷迪?摩克瑞（―皇后乐队‖主唱）在温布利举行纪念演唱会的消息。

6.But nothing from the outlandish present seemed real that night. It was the past which impinged. Somewhere on the fringe of this unlovely town lay the ruined caravan-city of Merv, lodestar of the Silk Road for two thousand years, and capital of the gifted and tragic Seljuk Turks: a rich city, sometimes cultivated and benignly powerful, which had nurtured its heterogeneous citizens in a common passion for trade.

但是那晚，在那个奇异的现实中似乎没有一点是真实的。回荡着的只是过去。在这个丑陋的城镇边缘的某个地方，坐落着已沦为废墟的驿站城市——莫夫城，它作为丝绸之路的一颗明珠已有2000年的历史了，而且是拥有天赋、命运悲惨的塞尔柱突厥人的都城：一座富裕的城市，在某段时间里曾拥有过文明并且恃强而不凌弱，城中生活着对贸易有着同样激情的各族居民。

7.I wandered out into the warm night of Mari. The few street-lamps shed down squalor. The only open restaurant served coarse vegetable soups, with lumps of

mutton and goat in sticky rice. I padded down unlit alleys towards a thread of music, and emerged beneath flat-blocks to see a floodlit wedding feast. The guests were sitting at long trestle tables under a ceiling of vines, or dancing in a clearing of beaten earth. I watched them from the darkness. They seemed to be celebrating with an isolated fragility. They danced all together with their arms dangled above their heads. They might have been actors on a faraway stage. Nothing seemed solid. Distance muted the gorging and tippling at the table to an elfin conviviality. The speeches and the clash of toasts dwindled to murmuring and tinkling. The women shimmered in claret-coloured velvets and harlequin headscarves, and the young men flaunted black bomber-jackets and flared jeans.

我出了门，在马雷市温暖的夜晚中漫步。大街上为数不多的路灯投下了昏暗的灯光。唯一一家尚在营业的餐馆提供的是做工很差的羊肉块蔬菜汤，以及拌有羊肉的粘米饭。我跟随着隐约听到的音乐走进了漆黑的巷子，突然在居民楼之下出现了灯火通明的婚宴。宾客们要不围坐在有藤顶遮盖的长折叠桌旁，要不就在一块土质夯实的空地上跳舞。我在黑暗处观察着他们。他们似乎是在一个尘世之外、虚无的世界中庆祝着。他们跳舞时全部都在头上挥舞着手臂。仿佛就是在远处舞台上表演的演员。一切都看似虚幻。由于距离远，所以餐桌上的大吃大喝变成了无声的精灵欢宴。而致辞声和觥筹交错的祝酒声也变小了，成了嘟囔和叮当作响之声。女人们穿着深红色天鹅绒，头戴花格头巾，神采奕奕，而穿着松紧口夹克和阔摆牛仔裤的小伙子们也很招摇。

8.I wanted to believe in this unity. The material divide between conqueror and conquered had always been slim here, so that the poorer people, I thought, might painlessly integrate. But the Russian's conviction of their cultural superiority, and the Turcomans' deep conservatism, ①played havoc with this hope. Safar had told me that it was almost unknown for a Turcoman family to yield its daughter to a Russian man. So, as I watched, the feasting and dancing assumed the make-believe of an advertisement, and I was not surprised when the Russian guests departed early, their presence a fleeting token, while the Turcomans danced on into the night.

我想相信这种团结是真的。征服者与被征服者之间在物质上的差异在这里总是显得渺小的，所以我认为，更加贫困的人们可能会愉快地团结到一起。但俄罗斯人认定，他们的文化是优越的，而土库曼人是非常保守的，这极大地破坏了这一意愿。萨法（作者在土库曼斯坦认识的一位朋友）曾告诉我，土库曼家庭中几乎很少有人把女儿嫁给俄罗斯人。所以，正如我所看到的，这里的晚宴和舞会好似广告一样是虚假的，当俄罗斯宾客早早地离去——他们的存在转瞬即逝，而土库曼人则一直跳到深夜时，我并没有感到吃惊。

9.Colin Thubron is a highly praised travel writer whose works are admired for their originality and depth of knowledge. In The Lost Heart of Asia he explores Central Asia at a time of transition and uncertainty. With the dazzling glories of its past seemingly abandoned and its future in doubt, the region is a fasc inating destination which Thubron not only deeply understands, but also manages to capture so masterfully in words.

科林?萨布伦是一名受人推崇的游记作家，其作品的新意和知识深度备受赞誉。在《亚细亚失落的心》中，他描述了在中亚的过渡和动荡期中游历此地的见

闻。虽然过去那令人眩目的荣耀似乎已经消逝，而未来也尚不明朗，但这一地区仍是一个令人着迷的目的地，萨布伦不仅对此深有体会，而且还设法用文字极其巧妙地表达了出来。

10.Thubron has an impeccable grasp of the history of the region and its relevance to the present day. More importantly, he has the uncanny skill of being able to convey this knowledge to the reader in a way that is so casual that it does not disrupt the fluidity of the prose and, somehow, this history doesn't lose its sense of mystery and romance in the process.

萨布伦毫无偏差地抓住了这个地区的历史脉络以及它与今天的联系。更重要的是，他的手法高超，能用一种极其随意但又不会破坏散文流畅性的方式来向读者传递这一认知，并巧妙地使这段历史在叙述过程中保留了其神秘和传奇的色彩。

11.Thubron is a true traveler. He is detached from the environment he is voyaging in and relates it to the reader in a way that makes reading his words more akin to watching these scenes in front of our own eyes. On the train, we observe the other passengers as if through a camera. The wedding feast is a perfect example of this. Standing afar and in the dark, Thubron observes the scene and presents it to us so vividly that long after reading it the image stays fresh in the mind.

萨布伦是一名真正的旅行家。他超然于他正在游历的环境，并通过一种阅读其文字就更像亲眼见证这些场景的方式把它与读者联系到一起。在列车上时，我们仿佛就是通过摄像机观察到了其他乘客。而婚宴就是这种方式的一个完美示例。萨布伦远远地站在暗处观察着，并把这一场景呈现给我们，如此传神，以至于读过良久之后这一场景仍然记忆犹新。

12.It was the silliest incident that brought Nannette into my life. I had been in my

local supermarket and spent more than I should. When I reached the checkout girl I remarked, jokingly, that my money was all gone after I had paid for all the articles. On my way out through the main doors a girl suddenly appeared and asked me, that if I was really short of cash, she was willing to lend me some, in order for me to get home. I was very surprised and she was a rather attractive looking girl. Now, as it was hardly an everyday experience, having a gorgeous girl appear out of thin air and offer me money.

一次极傻的意外让兰丽缇闯进了我的生活。那天我在附近的一家超市里大肆采购，不知不觉超出了预算。结账时我开玩笑地和售货员小姐说，付完款后我可是一分钱都不剩了。在我往超市大门走去的时候，一个女孩突然拦住我，说如果我真的没有钱的话，她可以借钱给我回家。我当时很惊讶，而她也长得很好看。一个迷人的小姐从天而降要借钱给我，我想这种好事我可不能天天都撞上。

13.My words stumbled out something like that in my attempt to answer her confused questioning. There was indeed a small establishment a little way off, a couple of paces down a side street. It was more like one of those numerous little refreshment places that one tends to see in small seaside towns; that are generally run by two spinster sisters. Gothic white script above the premises proclaimed: Black and White Tea Room.

回答她那一连串的问题令我有点结结巴巴。附近横街上的那家餐厅，有点像那种海边小镇上提供小吃和饮料的小店，走几步就到了。餐厅由一对未婚的老姐妹经营，墙上有一行哥德式的字体写着：―黑白茶室‖。

14.As I sat there for those first few moments with Nannette, I had a chance to really

observe her. Her face was pale and her eyes were largish and a sort of amber colour. I would have said she was wearing little makeup if any at all. I could not help thinking that her face indicated some suffering or adversity. There was something else, I was puzzled for a while, and then I recalled those words of Edgar Allen Poe: "There is nothing of Beauty that does not have some strangeness about it".

坐下来后，我有片刻的时间仔细打量兰丽缇。她脸色苍白，眼睛挺大的，琥珀色，几乎完全没有化妆。我总觉得她的脸掩藏着某种痛苦或者不幸，还有其他东西。一刹那间我觉得有点迷惑，想起了艾德加·艾伦坡的那句诗：―没有一种美丽的事物是不带点陌生感的。‖

15.A small, elderly woman appeared and we placed an order for a pot of tea and a

plate of cream and chocolate cakes. She bustled off and the conversation resumed.

She listened to me running on about books and authors, valuable and rare editions

I had found and sold. Nannette's replies surprised and delighted me, she seemed so

knowledgeable, although this seemed rather precocious in one so apparently young. She seemed to possess a detailed understanding of the causes and development of the English Civil War. Her comprehension of 17th. Century England and the life of Charles the First was somewhat astonishing, not to say a little uncanny. There was no doubt that she knew her subject inside out, as my questions concerning some of the major battles of the era and dates drew out.

Several times during our conversation she would suddenly say, "What is the time, Ed.? I don't have much time."

这时一位身材瘦小、上了年纪的女人走了过来，我们点了壶茶，一碟奶油和巧克力蛋糕。女人走开后，我们继续谈话。兰丽缇听着我滔滔不绝地评论各种书、作家，和找到过或出售过的珍稀版书籍。兰丽缇的回应令我又惊又喜，以她的年纪，她出人意料外地知书达理。她似乎对英国内战的来龙去脉尤其熟识，对十七世纪英格兰和查里一世之了解更加令我惊叹，甚至觉得有点不可思议。我的问题涉及到那些时代的部分主要战争和具体日期，可见她对那段历史了解得十分透彻。好几次在我们的谈话过程中，她突然问：―艾德，几点了？我没多少时间了。‖

16.Moments later we were on the pavement outside. I touched her hand, she smiled,

and then she was gone. So for several months we met at two outside the library, went to the quaint old tea-room, had tea and cakes and talked into the late afternoon. However, sooner or later the topic came around to the 17th. Century, The English Civil War, and of then, always Charles the First. On every occasion she always mentioned that she had not much time, more than once during the course of an afternoon. Apart from her seemingly obsession about time and my curiosity as to what she actually did; when she would always reply that she;

looked after people, or she cared for people: I believe that a genuine affection grew between us.

后来我们走出茶室，在人行道上告别。我握住她的手，她笑了笑，走了。在接下来的几个月里，我们总在图书馆外碰头，然后还是去那家茶室喝茶、聊天，直至傍晚。可是，每次谈着谈着，话题总会绕回到十七世纪、英国内战和查理一世。每次她都会重复几次说她没有多少时间了。除了她对时间的执著，以及我对她的职业的好奇（每次她总说自己从事照顾别人的工作）之外，我相信我们之间有一种真挚的感情在滋长。

17.And so it was every Thursday, or sometimes Tuesday, until my accident and my

four months in hospital and the complications after surgery. I knew of course that

I would never see Nannette again—in this life at any rate. Many months later

when I was well on in my recovery, I noticed in a second-hand bookshop, a paperback book in a box of cheap, discarded historical romances. The title on the cover was "Nannette". The book was mostly rot, I knew that, but it was founded on historical fact. It was a tale of how a delicate, but strikingly beautiful and intelligent girl, from an apparently quite good family, was brought up in poverty, became a mistress to a king, and how at last she was cruelly rejected in turbulent times after gaining great wealth. She died in poverty in Paris after using what wealth and influence she had in saving the children of Loyalists from the wroth of Cornwall. There was also a description in the novel of Nannette, the heroine. As I read it, I recalled my first afternoon sitting in the tea-room with my Nannette: there could be no mistake—it was she. I hurled the book from me and never opened it again.

于是我们在每个星期四，有时是星期二见面，直到我出了一次意外，花了四个月的时间入院动手术和治疗并发症。我知道我和兰丽缇此生不会再见了。又过了许多个月，我已经逐渐康复，一次偶尔在一家二手书店一个装满廉价古老爱情小说的箱子里，看到一本名为《兰丽缇》的平装书。我可以看出书的内容并不怎么样，但却是根据史实撰写的。故事讲述一个纤细但是异常美丽和智慧的女孩，来自一个有教养的家庭，在贫穷中被抚养成人，后来成为国王的情妇，获得巨额财富，却在那动荡的年代残酷地不容于世。为了从盛怒的康华里候爵手中救出效忠派的后代，她耗尽了自己的财富和权势，最后贫困交加死在巴黎。书中还有一段对女主角兰丽缇的说明。在我阅读说明的时候，我想起了和我的兰丽缇第一次在茶室里见面的情景：不会错了，一定是她。我把书丢掉，再没有翻开。

18.Many months later I returned to the library and made my way slowly back to that

side street where the tea-room was. I don't know what I expected to see, but the place was all boarded-up and there were shutters over the windows. I never went back. Now, whenever I see a book concerning anything to do with the last half of 17th Century England, I feel nothing but a sense of repulsion. The period never had any great appeal to me anyway. I sometimes recall my afternoons with Nannette, and go over in my mind our conversations. But it is all a mystery to me.

But then, what do I know? What does anyone know? I only know there are some things we can never understand—and, perhaps that is the best for us.

又过了许多个月，我重新来到图书馆，慢慢地步行至那家茶室。我也不知道自己希望看到什么，但是那个地方已经全部装上了挡板，窗户也挂起百叶窗帘。从此以后我再没回去了。现在，每当看到任何有关十七世纪英格兰的书，我都会很抵触，反正我对那段历史一向不大感兴趣。有时候我也会想起那些和兰丽缇一起度过的下午，回忆我们的谈话。但一切都成了一个谜。我知道多少？我们每个人又知道多少？我只知道有些事情是我们永远无法理解的，但这对我们可能是最好的。

19.For a while they just hung there to each other laughing and crying and saying

things without meaning. She'd say a few words like, "It was the bus station I meant" and he'd kiss her speechless and tell her the many things he had done to find her. What apparently had happened three years before was that May had come by bus, not by train, and in her telegram she meant "bus station," not "railroad station." She had waited at the bus station for days and had spent all her money trying to find Harry. Finally she got a job typing.

好一会儿的时间他们就那么呆着，相对着笑呀，哭呀，讲些没什么意义的话。她好像说“我指的是汽车站——”而他则把她吻得说不出话来，告诉她自己为找她所做的许多事情。显然，3年前梅是乘汽车而不是火车来的。她电报里指的是“汽车站”而不是“火车站”。她在汽车站等了好几天，为找哈里花掉了所有的钱。最后，她找了一份打字的工作。

20.He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day - even the day he had a

103-degree fever. I was worried, so I went to look for him after school. I found him running all alone. I asked him how he felt. "Okay," he said. He had two more miles to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever.

Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn't run four miles with a 103-degree fever. So he didn't know.

他坚持每天跑4~5英里。我永远不会忘记有一次，他发着高烧，但仍坚持训练。我为他担心，于是去学校看他，发现他正在一个人沿着长长的林荫道跑步呢。我问他感觉怎么样，"很好。"他说。还剩下最后两英里。他满脸是汗，眼睛因为发烧失去了光彩。然而他目不斜视，坚持着跑下来。我们从没有告诉他不能发着高烧去跑4英里的路，我们从没有这样对他说，所以他不知道。

21.The windows of the room in which Princess Marya lay looked to the west. She lay

on the sofa facing the wall, and fingering the buttons on the leather bolster, she saw nothing but that bolster, and her thoughts were concentrated obscurely on one subject. She thought of the finality of death and of her spiritual baseness, of which she had had no idea till it showed itself during her father's illness. She longed to pray, but dared not; dared not, in the spiritual state she was in, turn to God. For a long while she lay in that position.

玛丽亚小姐卧室的窗户是朝西开的。她面对墙壁躺着，手指来回地抚摩皮靠枕的扣子，眼睛死盯着这个皮靠枕，她那模糊的思绪集中到一点上：她在想父亲不可挽回的死以及在这之前她还不知道，只是父亲患病期间才表现出来的内心的卑鄙。她想祈祷，但又不敢祈祷，不敢在她现在的心境中向上帝求援。她就这样躺了很久。

22.He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, keeping close to

the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of the Cross of Colbas standing on his threshold, surrounded by all the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town.

他沿着那条大街走去。好象一个受了侮辱、满腔委屈的人，他紧靠着墙壁，信步往前走。他的头一次也没有回转过。假使他回转头来，他就会看见那柯耳巴十字架的旅舍主人正立在他门口，旅舍里的旅客和路上的行人都围着他，在那里指手画脚，说长论短；并且从那一堆人的惊疑的目光里，他还可以猜想到他的出现不久就要搞得满城风雨。

23.It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was

the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so. far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

那是最美好的时代，那是最糟糕的时代；那是智慧的年头，那是愚昧的年头；那是信仰的时期，那是怀疑的时期；那是光明的季节，那是黑暗的季节；那是希望的春天，那是失望的冬天；我们全都在直奔天堂，我们全都在直奔相反的方向--简而言之，那时跟现在非常相象，某些最喧嚣的权威坚持要用形容词的最高级来形容它。说它好，是最高级的；说它不好，也是最高级的。

23. During these eight years my life was uniform: but not unhappy, because it was not inactive. I had the means of an excellent education placed within my reach; a fondness for some of my studies, and a desire to excel in all, together with a great delight in pleasing my teachers, especially such as I loved, urged me on: I availed myself fully of the advantages offered me. In time I rose to be the first girl of the first class; then I was invested with the office of teacher; which I discharged with zeal for two years: but at the end of that time I altered.

在这八年中，我的生活十分单一，但并无不快，因为日子没有成为一潭死水。这里具备接受良好教育的条件。我喜爱某些课程；我希望超过所有人；我很乐意使教师尤其是我所爱的教师高兴，这一切都激励我奋进。我充分利用所提供的有利条件，终于一跃而成为第一班的第一名，后来又被授予教师职务，满腔热情地干了两年，但两年之后我改变了主意。

24. A long dispute followed this declaration, but Mr. Bennet was firm; it soon led to another, and Mrs. Bennet found, with amazement and horror, that her husband would not advance a guinea to buy clothes for his daughter. He protested that she should receive from him no mark of affection whatever on the occasion. Mrs. Bennet could hardly comprehend it. That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable resentment, as to refuse his daughter a privilege without which her marriage would scarcely seem valid, exceeded all that she could believe possible. She was more alive

to the disgrace which the want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter's nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they took place.

Elizabeth was now most heartily sorry that she had, from the distress of the moment, been led to make Mr. Darcy acquainted with their fears for her sister; for since her marriage would so shortly give the proper termination to the elopement, they might hope to conceal its unfavourable beginning from all those who were not immediately on the spot.

这话一出口，两人便争吵不休；可是班纳特先生说一不二，于是又吵了起来；后来班纳特太太又发觉丈夫不肯拿出一文钱来给女儿添置一些衣服，不禁大为惊骇。班纳特先生坚决声明，丽迪雅这一次休想得到他半点疼爱，这实在叫他太太弄不懂。他竟会气愤到这样深恶痛绝的地步，连女儿出嫁都不肯优待她一番，简直要把婚礼弄得不成体统，这确实太出乎她的意料。她只知道女儿出嫁而没有嫁妆是件丢脸的事情，至于她的私奔，她没有结婚以前就跟韦翰同居了两个星期，她倒丝毫不放在心上。

伊丽莎白目前非常后悔，当初实在不应该因为一时痛苦，竟让达西先生知道了她自己家里为她妹妹担忧的经过，因为妹妹既然马上就可以名正言顺地结婚，了却那一段私奔的风流孽债，那么，开头那一段不体面的事情，她们当然希望最好不要让局外人知道。

25. Jane looked at Elizabeth with surprise and concern. She knew but little of their meeting in Derbyshire, and therefore felt for the awkwardness which must attend her sister, in seeing him almost for the first time after receiving his explanatory letter. Both sisters were uncomfortable enough. Each felt for the other, and of course for themselves; and their mother talked on, of her dislike of Mr. Darcy, and her resolution to be civil to him only as Mr. Bingley's friend, without being heard by either of them. But Elizabeth had sources of uneasiness which could not be suspected by Jane, to whom she had never yet had courage to shew Mrs. Gardiner's letter, or to relate her own change of sentiment towards him. To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was the person to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just as what Jane felt for Bingley. Her astonishment at his coming -- at his coming to Netherfield, to Longbourn, and voluntarily seeking her again, was almost equal to what she had known on first witnessing his altered behaviour in Derbyshire.

吉英极其惊奇、极其关心地望着伊丽莎白。她完全不知道妹妹在德比郡跟达西会面的事，因此觉得妹妹自从收到他那封解释的信以后，这回第一次跟他见面，一定会觉得很窘。姐妹俩都不十分好受。她们彼此体贴，各有隐衷。母亲依旧在唠叨不休，说她颇不喜欢达西先生，只因为看他究竟还是彬格莱先生的朋友，所以才客客气气地接待他一番。这些话姐妹俩都没有听见。其实伊丽莎白心神不安，的确还另有原因，这是吉英所不知道的。伊丽莎白始终没有勇气把嘉丁纳太太那封信拿给吉英看，也没有勇气向吉英叙述她对他感情变化的经过。吉英只知道他向她求婚，被她拒绝过，她还低估过他的长处，殊不知伊丽莎白的隐衷绝不仅如此而已，她认为他对她们全家都有莫大的恩典，她因此对他另眼看待。她对他的

情意即使抵不上吉英对彬格莱那样深切，至少也象吉英对待彬格莱一样地合情合理，恰到好处。达西这次回到尼日斐花园，并且自动到浪搏恩来重新找她，确实使她感到惊奇，几乎象她上次在德比郡见他作风大变时一样地感到惊奇。

26. You may as well call it impertinence at once. It was very little less. The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them. Had you not been really amiable, you would have hated me for it; but in spite of the pains you took to disguise yourself, your feelings were always noble and just; and in your heart, you thoroughly despised the persons who so assiduously courted you. There -- I have saved you the trouble of accounting for it; and really, all things considered, I begin to think it perfectly reasonable. To be sure, you knew no actual good of me -- but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

你还不如说是唐突，十足唐突。事实上是因为，你对于殷勤多礼的客套，已经感到腻烦。天下有种女人，她们无论是说话、思想、表情，都只是为了博得你称赞一声，你对这种女人已经觉得讨厌。我所以会引起你的注目，打动了你的心，就因为我不象她们。如果你不是一个真正可爱的人，你一定会恨我这种地方；可是，尽管你想尽办法来遮掩你自己，你的情感毕竟是高贵的、正确的、你心目中根本看不起那些拚命向你献媚的人。我这样一说，你就可以不必费神去解释了；我通盘考虑了一下，觉得你的爱完全合情合理。老实说，你完全没有想到我有什么实在的长处；不过，随便什么人，在恋爱的时候，也都不会想到这种事情。‖

27. Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia; and, removed from the influence of Lydia's example, she became, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less ignorant, and less insipid. From the farther disadvantage of Lydia's society she was of course carefully kept, and though Mrs. Wickham frequently invited her to come and stay with her, with the promise of balls and young men, her father would never consent to her going.

Mary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was necessarily drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs. Bennet's being quite unable to sit alone. Mary was obliged to mix more with the world, but she could still moralize over every morning visit; and as she was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters' beauty and her own, it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance.

吉蒂最受实惠，大部分时间都消磨在两位姐姐那儿。从此她所交的人物都比往常高尚，她本身当然也就大有长进。她本来不象丽迪雅那样放纵，现在既没有丽迪雅来影响她，又有人对她加以妥善的注意和照管，她便不象以前那样轻狂无知和麻木不仁了。当然家里少不了要小心地管教她，不让她和丽迪雅来往，免得再受到她的坏影响；韦翰太太常常要接她去住，说是有多少跳舞会，有多少美少年，她父亲总是不让她去。

后来只剩下曼丽还没有出嫁；班纳特太太因为不甘寂寞，自然弄得她这个女儿无从探求学问。曼丽不得不多多和外界应酬，可是她仍然能够用道德的眼光去看待

每一次的出外作客。她现在再也不用为了和姐妹们争妍比美而操心了，因此她父亲不禁怀疑到，她这种改变是否出于心甘情愿。

28. The effects of this decisive debate were not long in showing themselves. He spent years and years in desultory studies, undertakings, and meditations; he began to evince considerable indifference to social forms and observances. The material distinctions of rank and wealth he increasingly despised. Even the `good old family' (to use a favourite phrase of a late local worthy) had no aroma for him unless there were good new resolutions in its representatives. As a balance to these austerities, when he went to live in London to see what the world was like, and with a view to practising a profession or business there, he was carried off his head, and nearly entrapped by a woman much older than himself, though luckily he escaped not greatly the worse for the experience.

Early association with country solitudes had bred in him an unconquerable, and almost unreasonable, aversion to modern life, and shut him out from such success as he might have aspired to by following a mundane calling in the impracticability of the spiritual one. But something had to be done; he had wasted many valuable years; and having an acquaintance who was starting on a thriving life as a Colonial farmer, it occurred to Angel that this might be a lead in the right direction. Farming, either in the Colonies, America, or at home - farming, at any rate, after becoming well qualified for the business by a careful apprenticeship - that was a vocation which would probably afford an independence without the sacrifice of what he valued even more than a competency - intellectual liberty.

这场关键性的辩论结束了，它的影响不久也显现出来。多少年来，他进行了许多漫无边际的研究，尝试过多次杂乱无章的计划，进行过无数毫无系统的思考；开始对社会习俗和礼仪明显表现出满不在乎的态度。他越来越鄙夷地位、财富这种物质上的差别。在他看来，即使―古老世家‖（使用近来故去的一个本地名人的字眼儿）也没有了香味，除非它的后人能有新的良好变化。为了使这种严酷单调的生活得到平衡，他就到伦敦去住，要看看伦敦的世界是什么样子，同时也为了从事一种职业或者生意在那儿进行锻炼，他在那儿遇上了一个年纪比他大得多的女人，被她迷昏头脑，差一点儿掉进她的陷阱，幸好他摆脱开了，没有因为这番经历吃了大亏。

他的幼年生活同乡村幽静生活的联系，使他对现代城市生活生出一种不可抑制的几乎是非理性的厌恶来，因此也使他同另一种成功隔离开来，使他既不愿从事精神方面的工作，也不愿立志追求一种世俗的职业。但是他不能不做一件工作；他已经虚度了许多年的宝贵光阴；后来认识了一个在殖民地务农而发达起来的朋友，因此他想到这也许是一条正确的途径。在殖民地，在美国，或者在国内务农——通过认真地学习务农，无论如何，在学会了这件事之后——也许务农是使他得到独立的一种职业，而不用牺牲他看得比可观的财产更为宝贵的东西，即精神自由。

29. Having mounted beside her, Alec d'Urberville drove rapidly along the crest of the first hill, chatting compliments to Tess as they went, the cart with her box being left far behind. Rising still, an immense landscape stretched around them on every side;

behind, the green valley of her birth, before, a gray country of which she knew nothing except from her first brief visit to Trantridge. Thus they reached the verge of an incline down which the road stretched in a long straight descent of nearly a mile. Ever since the accident with her father's horse Tess Durbeyfield, courageous as she naturally was, had been exceedingly timid on wheels; the least irregularity of motion startled her. She began to get uneasy at a certain recklessness in her conductor's driving.

阿历克·德贝维尔上车在苔丝身边坐下，就赶马沿着第一座山的山脊快速向前驶去，一路上不住口地把苔丝恭维赞扬，而给苔丝运送箱子的大车远远地落在后面。他们越走越高，一大片风景在他们四周伸展开来，一望无垠；在他们身后，是她出生的绿色山谷，在他们前面，是一片灰色的田野，除了她在第一次到特兰里奇的短暂旅行中知道的地方而外，其它的地方她一无所知。他们就这样走到了一个山坡的顶上，再往前就是从山坡上通向下面的一条笔直大道，差不多有一英里长。

尽管苔丝·德北菲尔德生来胆子就大，但是自从她父亲的马被撞死以后，苔丝一坐车就感到非常害怕；马车的行驶稍微有点儿摇晃，她就感到心惊肉跳。阿历克赶着马车横冲直撞，苔丝心里就开始感到不安了。

30. The waggon had drawn up under the churchyard wall, in a spot screened from view, and the driver, nothing loth, soon hauled down the poor heap of household goods. This done she paid him, reducing herself to almost her last shilling thereby, and he moved off and left them, only too glad to get out of further dealings with such a family. It was a dry night, and he guessed that they would come to no harm.

Tess gazed desperately at the pile of furniture. The cold sunlight of this spring evening peered invidiously upon the crocks and kettles, upon the bunches of dried herbs shivering in the breeze, upon the brass handles of the dresser, upon the wicker-cradle they had all been rocked in, and upon the well-rubbed clock-case all of which gave out the reproachful gleam of indoor articles abandoned to the vicissitudes of a roofless exposure for which they were never made. Round about were deparked hills and slopes - now cut up into little paddocks - and the green foundations that showed where the d'Urberville mansion once had stood; also an outlying stretch of Egdon Heath that had always belonged to the estate. Hard by, the aisle of the church called the d'Urberville Aisle looked on imperturbably.

马车已经拉到了教堂墓地的墙角下，停在一个别人看不见的地方，车夫把车上装的可怜东西卸下来，堆在地上。卸完车，琼付了车钱，这样她差不多把她最后的一个先令都花光了。车夫离开他们走了，再也用不着继续同他们打交道，因此车夫心里非常高兴。这是一个干燥的夜晚，车夫猜想他们晚上冻不着。

苔丝绝望地看着那一堆家具。春天傍晚清冷的太阳，好像含有恶意似地照射着那些坛坛罐罐，照射着一丛丛在微风中索索发抖的枯草，照射着碗柜的铜把手，照射到他们所有的孩子都睡过的那个摇篮上，照射在那座被擦得发亮的钟面上，太阳照射着所有这一切，这一切闪现着责备的亮光，好像在说，这些室内的物品，怎么会被扔到露天里来了。周围是当年的德北菲尔德家的园林，现在变成了山丘斜坡，被分割成一小块一块的围场，那块绿草菁菁的地基，表明当年那儿建造过德北菲尔德家的府邸；从这儿向外延伸出去的爱敦荒原一片苍茫，从前它一直属于德北菲尔德家的产业。紧靠身边的是教堂的一条走道，也叫做德北菲尔德走道，在一旁冷冷地看着他们。

31. A panting ache ran through the rick. The man who fed was weary, and Tess could see that the red nape of his neck was encrusted with dirt and husks. She still stood at her post, her flushed and perspiring face coated with the corn-dust, and her white bonnet embrowned by it. She was the only woman whose place was upon the machine so as to be shaken bodily by its spinning, and the decrease of the stack now separated her from Marian and Izz, and prevented their changing duties with her as they had done. The incessant quivering, in which every fibre of her frame participated, had thrown her into a stupefied reverie in which her arms worked on independently of her consciousness. She hardy knew where she was, and did not hear Izz Huett tell her from below that her hair was tumbling down.

By degrees the freshest among them began to grow cadaverous and saucer-eyed. Whenever Tess lifted her head she beheld always the great upgrown straw-stack, with the men in shirt-sleeves upon it, against the gray north sky; in front of it the long red elevator like a Jacob's ladder, on which a perpetual stream of threshed straw ascended, a yellow river running up-hill, and spouting out on the top of the rick.

打麦的人一个个都累得气喘吁吁、腰酸背痛了。喂料的男工人已经疲惫不堪，苔丝看见他红色的后颈上沾满了灰土和麦糠。苔丝仍然站在她的位置上，累得通红和满是汗水的脸上落了一层麦灰，白色的帽子也被麦灰染成了黄褐色。她是唯一一个还在机器旁边干活的女人，机器不停地转动，振动着她的身体，麦垛变矮了，从而把她同玛丽安和伊茨隔开了，因此她们也不能像从前那样互相替换一阵了。机器不停地颤抖着，她身体里的每一块肌肉也一起颤抖着，这使她麻木了，恍惚了，连胳膊的动作也好像感觉不到了。她几乎连自己在什么地方也不知道了，伊茨·休特在下面告诉她，说她的头发散开了，她也没有听见。

他们中间最有力气的人，也慢慢地变得面如土色，眼睛发黑了。苔丝每次抬头看见的，都是那个越堆越高的麦秆垛，看见站在垛顶上的那个只穿衬衣的男工，突现在北方的灰色天空里。麦垛的前面有一架长长的红色卷扬机，好像雅各梦见的梯子①一样，麦粒被脱掉了的麦草像流水一样顺着卷扬机源源而上，就像是一条黄色河流，流到了山上，喷洒在麦秆垛的顶上。

32. The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it WOULD twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed.

The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting `Off with his head!' or `Off with her head!' about once in a minute.

起初，爱丽丝很难摆弄红鹤，后来总算很成功地把红鹤的身子舒服地夹在胳膊底下，红鹤的腿垂在下面。可是，当她好不容易把红鹤的脖子弄直，准备用它的头去打那个刺猬时，红鹤却把脖子扭上来，用奇怪的表情看着爱丽丝的脸，惹得爱丽丝大声笑了。她只得把红鹤的头按下去，当她准备再一次打球的时候，恼火地发现刺猬已经展开了身子爬走了。此外，把刺猬球打过去的路上总有一些土坎或小沟，躬腰做球门的士兵常常站起来走到球场的其它地方去。爱丽丝不久就得出结论：这确实是一个非常困难的游戏。

参加游戏的人没等轮到自己，就一起打起球来了，不时地为了刺猬争吵和打架。不一会，王后就大发雷霆，跺着脚来回地走，大约一分钟叫喊一次：―砍掉他的头！‖―砍掉她的头！‖

33. I went to the circus and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it, because there ain't no telling how soon you are going to need it, away from home and amongst strangers that way. You can't be too careful. I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in WASTING it on them.

It was a real bully circus. It was the splendidest sight that ever was when they all come riding in, two and two, a gentleman and lady, side by side, the men just in their drawers and undershirts, and no shoes nor stirrups, and resting their hands on their thighs easy and comfortable -- there must a been twenty of them -- and every lady with a lovely complexion, and perfectly beautiful, and looking just like a gang of real sure-enough queens, and dressed in clothes that cost millions of dollars, and just littered with diamonds. It was a powerful fine sight; I never see anything so lovely. And then one by one they got up and stood, and went a-weaving around the ring so gentle and wavy and graceful, the men looking ever so tall and airy and straight, with their heads bobbing and skimming along, away up there under the tent-roof, and every lady's rose-leafy dress flapping soft and silky around her hips, and she looking like the most loveliest parasol.

我去了马戏团那边。我在场子后边逛荡了一会儿，等着警卫的人走过去了，然后钻进篷帐下面。我身边还有二十块大洋的金币，还有其它的钱，不过我思量着最好还是把这钱省下来为是。因为说不定哪一天会用得着的，既然如此这般远离了家，又人地生疏。你不能不多留一点心眼嘛。如果没有别的办法，在马戏团上面花点儿钱，这我并不反对，不过也不必为了这一些，把钱浪费掉啊。

那可是货真价实顶呱呱的马戏团。那个场面真是最辉煌不过了。只见他们全体骑着马进场，两个一对，两个一对，一位男士，一位女士，一左一右，男的只穿短裤和衬衫，脚上不穿鞋子，也不蹬鞋，双手叉在大腿上，那神气又潇洒，又舒坦，——一共至少有二十个男的——女士呢，一个个脸色很好看，长得挺娇美，看起来仿佛是一群地地道道的皇后，身上穿的服饰价值几百万元以上，金钢钻一闪一闪发着光亮。这是叫人为之倾倒的场面，这般可爱，可是我平生没有见到过的。随后他们一个个挺直身子，在马上站立了起来，围着那个圆圈兜圈子，那么轻盈，那么微波荡漾般地起起伏伏，又极其典雅。男子显得又高又挺又灵巧，他们的脑袋在篷帐顶下飘逸地浮动。那些女士，一个个穿着玫瑰花瓣似的衣裳，裹

住了她们的下身，正轻盈地、丝光闪闪地飘动，看上去象一把一把最可爱的小阳伞。

34. So in they come, but couldn't see us in the dark, and most trod on us whilst we was hustling to get under the bed. But we got under all right, and out through the hole, swift but soft -- Jim first, me next, and Tom last, which was according to Tom's orders. Now we was in the lean-to, and heard trampings close by outside. So we crept to the door, and Tom stopped us there and put his eye to the crack, but couldn't make out nothing, it was so dark; and whispered and said he would listen for the steps to get further, and when he nudged us Jim must glide out first, and him last. So he set his ear to the crack and listened, and listened, and listened, and the steps a-scraping around out there all the time; and at last he nudged us, and we slid out, and stooped down, not breathing, and not making the least noise, and slipped stealthy towards the fence in Injun file, and got to it all right, and me and Jim over it; but Tom's britches catched fast on a splinter on the top rail, and then he hear the steps coming, so he had to pull loose, which snapped the splinter and made a noise; and as he dropped in our tracks and started somebody sings out:

"Who's that? Answer, or I'll shoot!"

But we didn't answer; we just unfurled our heels and shoved.

有些人便进了小屋，只是黑漆漆的看不见我们，差点儿踩着了我们。我们这时急忙往床底下钻。我们顺顺当当钻到了床底下，从洞中钻了出来，行动迅速，轻手轻脚——杰姆在前，其次是我，汤姆最后，这都是按照了汤姆的命令的。如今我们已经爬到了那间披间，只听得外面不远的脚步声。我们便爬到了门口。汤姆要我们就地停下来，他往门缝里张望，可是什么也望不见，实在天太黑了。他低声说，他会听着，看脚步声有没有走远。要是他用胳膊后捅我们一下，杰姆就必须先走，由他压阵最后走。随后他把耳朵贴在门缝上，听啊，听啊，听啊，可是四下里一直有脚步声。到最后，他用胳膊后捅了捅我们，我们便溜了出来，弓着腰，屏住了呼吸，不发任何一点点儿声音，一跟着一个，轻手轻脚，朝栅栏走去，平平安安地走到了栅栏边，我和杰姆跨过了栅栏，可是汤姆的裤子给栅栏顶上一根横木裂开的木片给绊住了，他听到脚步声在走拢来，他使劲扯，啪地一声把木片扯断了。他跟在我们后面跑。有人叫了起来：

―是谁？答话，不然我要开枪了。‖

不过我们并没有答话，只是拔腿飞奔。

35. Dear Clifford, I am afraid what you foresaw has happened. I am really in love with another man, and do hope you will divorce me. I am staying at present with Duncan its his flat. I told you he was at Venice with us. I'm awfully unhappy for your sake: but do try to take it quietly. You don't really need me any more, and I can't bear to come back to Wragby. I'm awfully sorry. But do try to forgive me, and divorce me and find someone better. I'm not really the right person for you, I am too impatient and selfish, I suppose. But I can't ever come back to live with you again. And I feel so frightfully sorry about it all, for your sake. But if you don't let yourself get worked up, you'll see you won't mind so frightfully. You didn't really care about me personally. So do forgive me and get rid of me.

Clifford was not inwardly surprised to get this letter. Inwardly, he had known for a long time she was leaving him. But he had absolutely refused any outward admission of it. Therefore, outwardly, it came as the most terrible blow and shock to him, He had kept the surface of his confidence in her quite serene.

―亲爱的克利福，我恐怕你预料的事情是实现了。是的，我爱上了另一个人。我很希望你将提出离婚。---我住在旦肯的家里。我告诉过你，我们在威尼斯时曾在一块。我很替你抱憾，但是请你把这事情平心静气的看吧。你实在是不再需要我了。而我呢，回勒格贝去是件难堪的事，我是十分抱歉的，但是请你原恕我吧，请你提出离婚，而另找个比我更好的人吧、我实在不是你所需要的人，我认为我是太无忍耐性，太自私了，我决不能回去和你同居了。一切我是替你觉得非常抱歉的，但是如果你平心静气地看这事情，你当知道这并不是那么可怖的事，对我个人来说，你实在并不真正在乎我，那么，请你原谅我而抛弃我吧。‖

在克利福的内心里，其实是不惊讶这么一封信的来到的。他的心中老早就知道她要离开他。但是外表上，他是绝对不愿承认的。所以，在外表上看来，这封信给了他一个最可怖的打击，因为他对于她的信任的外层是一向平静的。

36. The world was so complicated and weird and gruesome! The common people were so many, and really so terrible. So she bought as she was going home, and saw the colliers trailing from the pits, grey-black, distorted, one shoulder higher than the other, slurring their heavy ironshod boots. Underground grey faces, whites of eyes rolling, necks cringing from the pit roof, shoulders Out of shape. Men! Men! Alas, in some ways patient and good men. In other ways, non-existent. Something that men should have was bred and killed out of them. Yet they were men. They begot children. One might bear a child to them. Terrible, terrible thought! They were good and kindly. But they were only half, Only the grey half of a human being. As yet, they were `good'. But even that was the goodness of their halfness. Supposing the dead in them ever rose up! But no, it was too terrible to think of. Connie was absolutely afraid of the industrial masses. They seemed so weird to her. A life with utterly no beauty in it, no intuition, always `in the pit'.

Children from such men! Oh God, oh God!

世界是这样的错杂，这样的奇怪，这样的丑恶！普通的人是这样多，而又这样可怕，真的！她回家去时，心里这样想着，望着矿工们缓慢地离开矿坑，又炭又黑，一身歪着，一边肩耸着，一边肩低着，响着他们的沉重的镶铁的长靴。脸色苍白得鬼似的，眼睛闪着自，预项缩着，肩膊失了望膊的模样。这是人，这是人，唉。在某种说法上，他们是些忍耐的好人；在其他的说法上，他们只是鬼。他们的人类所应具有的某种东西被戮杀了。然而，他们却是人，他们却能生孩子，人是可以由他们而生孩子，可怕的，可怕的思索呵：他们是温和的好人。但是他们只是一种半人，灰色的半人，直至现在，他们是―好‖的，但这也不过是他们的一半是好的，呵！假如他们死了的部分苏醒过来！晤！去想象这个，真是太可怕了！康妮是深怕工人群众的，她觉得他们是这样的不可思议。他们的生命是绝对没有美的，绝对没有直觉的，老是―在矿坑里‖。

这样的人所生的孩子！呵，天哟天！

37. Phileas Fogg rightly suspected that his departure from London would create a lively sensation at the West End. The news of the bet spread through the Reform Club, and afforded an exciting topic of conversation to its members. From the Club it soon

got into the papers throughout England. The boasted `tour of the world' was talked about, disputed, argued with as much warmth as if the subject were another Alabama claim. Some took sides with Phileas Fogg, but the large majority shook their heads and declared against him; it was absurd, impossible, they declared, that the tour of the world could be made, except theoretically and on paper, in this minimum of time, and with the existing means of travelling. The Times, Standard, Morning Post, and Daily New, and twenty other highly respectable newspapers scouted Mr Fogg's project as madness; the Daily Telegraph alone hesitatingly supported him. People in general thought him a lunatic, and blamed his Reform Club friends for having accepted a wager which betrayed the mental aberration of its proposer.

当福克先生离开伦敦的时候，他也猜到他这次旅行将会轰动全国。他们打赌的消息在俱乐部里一传开，马上在那些尊贵的会员老爷中间引起了很大的轰动。这个消息后来通过新闻记者从俱乐部转移到报纸上去了。报纸上一发表，全伦敦的市民以及整个联合王国的人都知道了。人们在评论，在争辩，在揣摸着这个―环游地球的问题‖。人们那样热火朝天地争论，简直象是发生了第二个亚拉巴马事件。有的人拥护福克，有的人反对福克，反对派在人数上很快地就占了优势。他们认为如果不是纸上谈兵，而是真的用目前现有的交通工具，在八十天这样短的时间内环绕地球一周，这不仅是不可能，简直可以说是发疯。

38. The locomotive, which was slowly approaching with deafening whistles, was that which, having been detached from the train, had continued its route with such terrific rapidity, carrying off the unconscious engineer and stoker. It had run several miles, when, the fire becoming low for want of fuel, the steam had slackened; and it had finally stopped an hour after, some twenty miles beyond Fort Kearney. Neither the engineer nor the stoker was dead, and, after remaining for some time in their swoon, had come to themselves. The train had then stopped. The engineer, when he found himself in the desert, and the locomotive without cars, understood what had happened. He could not imagine how the locomotive had become separated from the train; but he did not doubt that the train left behind was in distress.

He did not hesitate what to do. It would be prudent to continue on to Omaha, for it would be dangerous to return to the train, which the Indians might still be engaged in pillaging. Nevertheless, he began to rebuild the fire in the furnace; the pressure again mounted, and the locomotive returned, running backwards to Fort Kearney. This it was which was whistling in the mist.

原来是一辆机车，不住地鸣着汽笛，慢慢地开了过来。这正是原来的那辆机车。它自从甩掉了列车以后，就以惊人的速度带着半死不活的司机和司炉继续向前飞驰，一直跑了好多英里，一小时之后煤烧得差不多了，火也小了，蒸气也减少了，它才越走越慢，最后在离开克尔尼堡二十英里的路上停了下来。

司机和司炉实际上都没死，只是昏迷了过去，过了很久，他们又醒过来了。

机车已经停了。当时司机看到四周都是荒凉的雪地，只剩下一辆光杆儿机车，后面的列车也不见了。这时，他明白了刚才发生的一切。可是机车怎么会把列车甩下去的呢，这一点他怎么也猜不出。但是他毫不怀疑，列车一定是留在后边正处在进退两难的境地！

司机毫不踌躇地采取了应有的措施。把机车继续向前开，开往奥马哈，这是一条妥当的办法；如果退回去找列车，可能那些印第安人还正在车上抢劫，这是一个

危险的办法……管他的！锅炉里添满了煤和木柴，火烧旺了，压力又加大了，大约下午两点钟的时候，机车倒着开回了克尔尼堡。这正是刚才在浓雾里鸣放汽笛的那辆机车。

39. THE recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very dim in my mind. I can recall some sensations felt in that interval; but few thoughts framed, and no actions performed. I knew I was in a small room and in a narrow bed. To that bed I seemed to have grown; I lay on it motionless as a stone; and to have torn me from it would have been almost to kill me. I took no note of the lapse of time- of the change from morning to noon, from noon to evening. I observed when any one entered or left the apartment: I could even tell who they were; I could understand what was said when the speaker stood near to me; but I could not answer; to open my lips or move my limbs was equally impossible. Hannah, the servant, was my most frequent visitor. Her coming disturbed me. I had a feeling that she wished me away: that she did not understand me or my circumstances; that she was prejudiced against me. Diana and Mary appeared in the chamber once or twice a day.

这以后的三天三夜，我脑子里的记忆很模糊。我能回忆起那段时间一鳞半爪的感觉，但形不成什么想法，付诸不了行动。我知道自己在一个小房间里，躺在狭窄的床上，我与那张床似乎已难舍难分。我躺着一动不动，像块石头。把我从那儿挣开，几乎等于要我的命。我并不在乎时间的流逝——不在乎上午转为下午、下午转为晚上的变化。我观察别人进出房间，甚至还能分辨出他们是谁，能听懂别人在我身旁所说的话，但回答不上来。动嘴唇与动手脚一样不行。佣人汉娜来得最多，她一来就使我感到不安。我有一种感觉，她希望我走。她不了解我和我的处境，对我怀有偏见。黛安娜和玛丽每天到房间来一两回。

40. A SPLENDID Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-girt land. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the cliffs of Albion. The hay was all got in; the fields round Thornfield were green and shorn; the roads white and baked; the trees were in their dark prime; hedge and wood, full-leaved and deeply tinted, contrasted well with the sunny hue of the cleared meadows between.

On Midsummer-eve, Adele, weary with gathering wild strawberries in Hay Lane half the day, had gone to bed with the sun. I watched her drop asleep, and when I left her, I sought the garden.

It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:- 'Day its fervid fires had wasted,' and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit.

仲夏明媚的阳光普照英格兰。当时那种一连几天日丽天清的气候，甚至一天半天都难得惠顾我们这个波浪环绕的岛国。仿佛持续的意大利天气从南方飘移过来，像一群灿烂的候鸟，落在英格兰的悬崖上歇脚。干草己经收好，桑菲尔德周围的田野己经收割干净，显出一片新绿。道路晒得白煞煞仿佛烤过似的，林木葱郁，十分茂盛。树篱与林子都叶密色浓，与它们之间收割过的草地的金黄色，形成了鲜明的对比。

施洗约翰节前夕，阿黛勒在海村小路上采了半天的野草莓，累坏了，太阳一落山

就上床睡觉。我看着她入睡后，便离开她向花园走去。

此刻是二十四小时中最甜蜜的时刻——―白昼己耗尽了它的烈火，‖清凉的露水落在喘息的平原和烤灼过的山顶上。