A Study in Scarlet — Page 2
饱受病痛折磨,又因长期艰辛而身体虚弱,我与一大批伤员一同被转送至白沙瓦的后方医院。
Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar.
在那里,我的身体逐渐好转,已经能够在病房里走动,甚至能在走廊上晒晒太阳,
Here I rallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even to bask a little upon the verandah,
就在这时,我却被肠热病击倒——那是笼罩在我们印度领地上的一场诅咒。
when I was struck down by enteric fever, that curse of our Indian possessions.
数月之间,我的生命岌岌可危,当我终于恢复神志、渐入康复之时,已是极度虚弱、形销骨立,
For months my life was despaired of, and when at last I came to myself and became convalescent, I was so weak and emaciated
军医委员会因此裁定,必须立即将我遣送回英国,一刻也不能耽误。
that a medical board determined that not a day should be lost in sending me back to England.
于是我被安排搭乘运兵船"奥龙特斯号",一个月后在朴茨茅斯码头登岸,
I was dispatched, accordingly, in the troopship "Orontes," and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty,
健康已无可挽回地毁于一旦,却得到了父母官政府的恩准,可以用此后九个月的时间尝试调养身体。
with my health irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal government to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it.
我在英国既无亲戚,也无故旧,因此自由得如同空气一般——
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—
或者说,自由得如同每天十一先令六便士的收入所能允许的那般自由。
or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.
在这种境况之下,我自然而然地流落到了伦敦——那个帝国所有闲散之人和游荡之徒都不可抗拒地汇聚其中的大污水池。
Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
我在那里的斯特兰德街一家私人旅馆住了一段时间,过着毫无慰藉、漫无目的的生活,手头那点钱也花得比应有的分寸随意得多。
There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.
Vocabulary
- Worn
- 疲惫不堪的,因长期劳累而精力耗尽
- pain
- 身体或精神上的疼痛、痛苦
- weak
- 虚弱的,缺乏力气或体力
- prolonged
- 持续时间很长的,延续的
- hardships
- 艰难困苦,生活中的苦难与磨难
- undergone
- 经历、忍受过(困难或变化)
- removed
- 被转移,被送往另一地点
- train
- 一队、一批(人或物)
- wounded
- 受伤的,在战斗中负伤的
- sufferers
- 受苦受难的人,患病或受伤者
- base
- 基地,军事行动的后方基础设施
- rallied
- (病情)好转,恢复体力和精神
- improved
- 改善了,状况变得更好
- wards
- 病房,医院中收治病人的房间
- bask
- 晒太阳,在阳光下舒适地取暖
- verandah
- 游廊,建筑物外侧有顶的走廊
- struck
- (疾病)突然侵袭,猛然打倒
- enteric
- 肠道的,与肠道疾病相关的
- fever
- 发烧,体温异常升高的疾病症状
- curse
- 祸害,带来巨大痛苦的事物
- possessions
- 殖民地,一国控制的海外领土
- despaired
- (众人)对其生还感到绝望
- convalescent
- 康复中的,大病初愈正在恢复的人
- emaciated
- 极度消瘦的,因病或饥饿而骨瘦如柴
- board
- 委员会,在此指军医评审委员会
- determined
- 决定,作出正式裁定
- lost
- 被浪费的,虚度的(时间)
- dispatched
- 被派遣,被正式送出前往目的地
- accordingly
- 因此,于是,按照既定安排地
- troopship
- 运兵船,用于运输军队的船只
- landed
- 登陆,抵达并踏上陆地
- jetty
- 码头,伸入水中供船只停靠的建筑
- irretrievably
- 无可挽回地,永久性地无法恢复
- ruined
- 毁掉的,彻底损坏或摧毁的
- permission
- 许可,允许某人做某事的批准
- paternal
- 父亲般的,此处指政府对臣民的慈父式关怀
- attempting
- 尝试,努力去做某件事
- improve
- 改善,使变得更好
- neither
- 两者都不,neither…nor表示双重否定
- kith
- 相识的朋友,kith and kin指亲友
- nor
- 也不,与neither搭配使用
- kin
- 亲属,有血缘关系的家人
- therefore
- 因此,所以,表示逻辑结果
- income
- 收入,定期获得的金钱报酬
- shillings
- 先令,旧英国货币单位
- sixpence
- 六便士,旧英国货币单位
- permit
- 允许,给予某人做某事的权利
- circumstances
- 境况,环境,所处的具体情形
- naturally
- 自然而然地,不出意料地
- gravitated
- 被吸引而移向,自然地趋向某地
- cesspool
- 污水坑,比喻汇聚各类人的混乱之地
- loungers
- 闲逛者,无所事事四处游荡的人
- idlers
- 游手好闲者,懒惰不做事的人
- Empire
- 帝国,指大英帝国及其广大领土
- irresistibly
- 无法抗拒地,势不可挡地
- drained
- 被吸引汇聚,如液体流入低洼处
- private
- 私人的,非公立的
- comfortless
- 毫无舒适可言的,没有慰藉的
- meaningless
- 毫无意义的,没有目标的
- existence
- 生活状态,存在的方式
- considerably
- 相当大程度地,明显地
- freely
- 自由地,毫不节制地
- ought
- 应该,表示道义上的责任或正确行为
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