A Tale of Two Cities — Page 3
很有可能，就在那一天，巴黎附近那些耕种重土的农夫们的简陋农舍里，躲避风雨的正是那些粗陋的大车，溅满了乡野的泥污，被猪拱来拱去，被家禽栖息其上——而那位名叫"死神"的农夫，已经将它们指定为大革命的囚车。
It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.
但那位樵夫和那位农夫，尽管不停地劳作，却悄无声息，当他们踏着沉默的脚步四处走动时，没有人听见他们——更何况，若有人心生疑虑、以为他们已然醒来行事，便会被视为异端与叛逆。
But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.
在英格兰，社会秩序与安全保障几乎少得可怜，实在不足以让国人大肆自夸。
In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.
Vocabulary
- likely
- 表示某事可能发生的形容词
- enough
- 足够的，达到所需程度
- rough
- 粗糙的，简陋的，不精致的
- outhouses
- 主建筑旁的附属小屋或户外厕所
- tillers
- 耕种土地的农民或耕作者
- adjacent
- 紧邻的，与某地相邻的
- sheltered
- 被遮蔽的，受到庇护而免受风雨
- rude
- 粗陋的，做工简单不精细的
- carts
- 用于运载货物的简单两轮马车
- bespattered
- 被溅满泥污，覆盖着污泥的
- rustic
- 乡村的，具有农村朴素风格的
- mire
- 泥泞，深厚黏稠的泥土
- snuffed
- 用鼻子嗅探，猪等动物的嗅闻动作
- roosted
- 栖息，指禽类停在高处休息
- poultry
- 家禽，农场饲养的鸡鸭等鸟类
- apart
- 分开，专门留出，特别保留
- tumbrils
- 法国大革命中运送囚犯的两轮囚车
- Revolution
- 革命，此处指法国大革命
- Woodman
- 伐木工人，在森林中砍伐树木者
- though
- 虽然，尽管，表示让步的连词
- unceasingly
- 不停地，持续不断地进行
- silently
- 悄无声息地，不发出任何声音地
- muffled
- 被遮掩的，声音低沉模糊的
- tread
- 脚步，走路时踩踏的方式
- rather
- 相当，更确切地说，表示程度或转折
- forasmuch
- 由于，鉴于，古式因果连词
- entertain
- 持有（想法），考虑或接受某观念
- suspicion
- 怀疑，对某事或某人的疑虑
- awake
- 清醒的，意识到，觉察到某情况
- atheistical
- 无神论的，否认上帝存在的
- traitorous
- 叛国的，背叛的，不忠的
- scarcely
- 几乎不，勉强，程度极低地
- order
- 秩序，命令，或某种安排状态
- protection
- 保护，防止受到伤害的措施
- justify
- 证明……是正当的，为某事辩护
- national
- 国家的，与整个民族相关的
- boasting
- 自夸，吹嘘，炫耀自己的成就
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