A Room with a View — Page 8
这真的是意大利吗？
Was this really Italy?
巴特利特小姐已经坐在一把紧实的扶手椅上，那椅子的颜色和轮廓都像一颗番茄。
Miss Bartlett was already seated on a tightly stuffed arm-chair, which had the colour and the contours of a tomato.
她正在和比比先生说话，说话时，她那细长的头缓慢而有规律地前后摆动，仿佛在努力推倒某个看不见的障碍物。
She was talking to Mr. Beebe, and as she spoke, her long narrow head drove backwards and forwards, slowly, regularly, as though she were demolishing some invisible obstacle.
她说道："我们非常感激您。第一个夜晚意义重大。您来的时候，我们正处于一段特别难熬的时刻。"
"We are most grateful to you," she was saying. "The first evening means so much. When you arrived we were in for a peculiarly mauvais quart d'heure."
他表示了遗憾。
He expressed his regret.
"您是否碰巧知道晚餐时坐在我们对面的那位老人叫什么名字？"
"Do you, by any chance, know the name of an old man who sat opposite us at dinner?"
"爱默生。"
"Emerson."
"他是您的朋友吗？"
"Is he a friend of yours?"
"我们关系不错——就像在旅馆寄宿时人们之间的那种关系。"
"We are friendly—as one is in pensions."
"那我就不多说了。"
"Then I will say no more."
他稍稍追问了一下，她便多说了几句。
He pressed her very slightly, and she said more.
"可以说，"她最后总结道，"我是我年轻表妹露西的监护人，如果我让她欠了一些我们一无所知的人的人情，那将是一件严重的事情。他的举止有些不妥。我希望我的做法是最恰当的。"
"I am, as it were," she concluded, "the chaperon of my young cousin, Lucy, and it would be a serious thing if I put her under an obligation to people of whom we know nothing. His manner was somewhat unfortunate. I hope I acted for the best."
"您的举动非常自然，"他说道。他似乎陷入了沉思，片刻后补充道："尽管如此，我觉得接受的话也不会有什么大碍。"
"You acted very naturally," said he. He seemed thoughtful, and after a few moments added: "All the same, I don't think much harm would have come of accepting."
"当然不会有什么害处。但我们不能欠人情。"
"No harm, of course. But we could not be under an obligation."
"他是个相当奇特的人。"
"He is rather a peculiar man."
Vocabulary
- Italy
- 欧洲南部国家，即"意大利"
- Miss
- 用于称呼未婚女性，即"小姐"
- already
- 副词，表示"已经"，动作提前完成
- seated
- 形容词，表示"已就座/坐着"的状态
- tightly
- 副词，表示"紧紧地/结实地"
- stuffed
- 形容词，指填充物塞满的，如"填充式"椅子
- arm-chair
- 名词，指有扶手的椅子，即"扶手椅"
- colour
- 名词，指物体呈现的"颜色"（英式拼写）
- contours
- 名词复数，指物体的"轮廓/外形"
- tomato
- 名词，指红色蔬菜"西红柿/番茄"
- narrow
- 形容词，表示"狭窄的/细长的"
- drove
- drive的过去式，此处指"推进/用力移动"
- backwards
- 副词，表示"向后/往后"的方向
- forwards
- 副词，表示"向前/往前"的方向
- regularly
- 副词，表示"有规律地/均匀地"
- though
- 连词，表示"尽管/虽然"，引出让步
- demolishing
- 动词，表示"摧毁/拆除"某物
- invisible
- 形容词，表示"看不见的/无形的"
- obstacle
- 名词，指阻碍前进的"障碍物/阻碍"
- grateful
- 形容词，表示"感激的/感谢的"
- peculiarly
- 副词，表示"特别地/奇特地"
- mauvais
- 法语词，意为"糟糕的/不好的"
- quart
- 法语词，意为"一刻钟"，此处为法语短语一部分
- d'heure
- 法语词，意为"小时的"，组成"一刻钟"短语
- expressed
- express的过去式，表示"表达/表示"
- regret
- 名词，表示"遗憾/后悔/抱歉"的感受
- chance
- 名词，表示"机会/可能性/偶然"
- opposite
- 介词/形容词，表示"在对面/相对的"
- friendly
- 形容词，表示"友好的/亲切的"
- pensions
- 名词复数，此处指欧式小旅馆"寄宿公寓"
- pressed
- press的过去式，此处表示"追问/施压"
- slightly
- 副词，表示程度"轻微地/稍微"
- concluded
- conclude的过去式，表示"总结/得出结论"
- chaperon
- 名词，指陪伴年轻女性出行的"监护人"
- cousin
- 名词，指同辈亲属"表兄弟/表姐妹"
- serious
- 形容词，表示"严肃的/严重的/认真的"
- obligation
- 名词，表示"义务/责任/人情债"
- whom
- 关系代词宾格，用于正式文体指代人
- manner
- 名词，指一个人的"举止/态度/方式"
- somewhat
- 副词，表示"有些/稍微/略为"
- unfortunate
- 形容词，表示"不幸的/令人遗憾的"
- acted
- act的过去式，表示"行动/表现/做事"
- naturally
- 副词，表示"自然地/理所当然地"
- seemed
- seem的过去式，表示"似乎/看起来"
- thoughtful
- 形容词，表示"若有所思的/体贴的"
- moments
- 名词复数，表示"片刻/瞬间/时刻"
- added
- add的过去式，此处表示"补充说/添加"
- same
- 形容词，表示"相同的"，all the same即"尽管如此"
- harm
- 名词/动词，表示"伤害/危害/损害"
- accepting
- accept的现在分词，表示"接受/接纳"
- rather
- 副词，表示"相当/颇为/宁可"
- peculiar
- 形容词，表示"奇特的/不寻常的/独特的"
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