A Tale of Two Cities — Page 2
就连科克巷的鬼魂也不过是在十二年前才被驱散的——它曾经敲打出种种信息，正如今年刚过去的那些灵魂（在独创性上超自然地贫乏）所敲打出的信息一样。
Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs.
近来，来自美洲英国臣民议会的尘世消息，已传至英国王室与人民；
Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America:
说来奇怪，这些消息对人类的重要性，已远远超过了经由科克巷那一窝小鸡所传递的任何信息。
which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.
法国在灵性事务方面总体上不如持盾执戟的姐妹国那般受上天眷顾，她极为顺畅地沿着下坡路滚去，大印纸币，大肆挥霍。
France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it.
在她的基督教牧师们的引导下，她还以这样一些"人道"壮举自娱：判处一名青年被砍去双手，用钳子拔去舌头，再将其活活烧死，
Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive,
只因为他没有在雨中跪下，向一队从他视野中经过、距他约五六十码远的肮脏僧侣游行队伍致敬。
because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
极有可能的是，当那位受难者被处死之时，法国与挪威的森林中，已有一些树木正在生长，
It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death,
这些树已被命运这位樵夫做下了标记，注定要被伐倒、锯成木板，用以制造历史上那令人不寒而栗的、带有布袋与刀刃的可移动框架。
already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history.
Vocabulary
- Even
- 甚至；即使；平坦的
- the
- 定冠词，表示特指的人或物
- ghost
- 幽灵；鬼魂；超自然的灵体
- had
- 过去完成时助动词，表示已经
- been
- 是；存在；被动语态的助动词
- laid
- 放置；安放；消除；过去式
- only
- 仅仅；只有；唯一的
- round
- 圆形的；周围；大约；轮次
- dozen
- 一打；十二个
- of
- 的；属于；关于；从属介词
- years
- 年份；岁月；时间单位
- after
- 在之后；追随；后来
- rapping
- 敲击；击打；说唱音乐
- out
- 出去；熄灭；完全地
- its
- 它的；属于它的
- messages
- 信息；消息；讯息
- as
- 作为；当时；因为；如同
- spirits
- 灵魂；鬼魂；精神；情绪
- this
- 这个；这种；这样的
- very
- 非常；很；极其
- year
- 年份；岁月；一个完整的周期
- last
- 最后的；持续；上一个；最新的
- past
- 过去的；超越；刚过去的时期
- deficient
- 缺乏的；不足的；有缺陷的
- in
- 在里面；穿着；用某种方式
- originality
- 独创性；新颖性；创意性
- rapped
- 敲击；击打；说唱；过去式
- theirs
- 他们的；属于他们的
- Mere
- 仅仅；只不过；湖泊
- earthly
- 世俗的；人间的；地球上的
- order
- 命令；顺序；秩序；订单
- events
- 事件；事情；活动
- lately
- 最近；最近以来；近日
- come
- 来；到来；发生
- to
- 到；向；对于；直到
- English
- 英语；英国的；英文
- Crown
- 王冠；皇冠；英王；顶端
- and
- 和；并且；与
- People
- 人民；人们；民众
- from
- 从；来自；自于
- congress
- 国会；议会；美国众议院
- British
- 英国的；英国人的
- subjects
- 主题；科目；臣民；对象
- America
- 美洲；美国；北美洲
- which
- 哪个；哪一个；什么
- strange
- 奇怪的；陌生的；不寻常的
- relate
- 叙述；说明；关联；有关
- have
- 有；拥有；进行
- proved
- 证明；证实；显示出来
- more
- 更多的；更加；另外
- important
- 重要的；关键的；有影响的
- human
- 人的；人类的；人性的
- race
- 竞速；种族；人种
- than
- 比；超过；较之
- any
- 任何的；任何一个
- communications
- 交流；通讯；沟通
- yet
- 还；还有；但是；然而
- received
- 收到；接收；得到；过去式
- through
- 通过；经过；穿过
- chickens
- 鸡；鸡肉；胆小者
- brood
- 沉思；一窝幼鸟；孵化
- France
- 法国；欧洲国家
- less
- 更少的；更少；减去
- favoured
- 偏爱；受宠的；倾向的
- on
- 在上面；打开；关于
- whole
- 整体的；全部的；完整的
- matters
- 事情；物质；要紧；物体
- spiritual
- 精神的；宗教的；灵魂的
- her
- 她的；她；代词
- sister
- 姐妹；女性同伴
- shield
- 盾牌；保护；掩护
- trident
- 三叉戟；海神的武器
- rolled
- 滚动；卷起；翻滚；过去式
- with
- 用；和；具有；与
- exceeding
- 超过；极其；过度的
- smoothness
- 光滑；平顺；顺利
- down
- 下来；向下；落下
- hill
- 山丘；山坡；小山
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