A Tale of Two Cities — Page 4
武装男子大胆入室行窃,拦路抢劫的事件每夜都在京城里发生;
Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night;
各家各户被公开告诫,出城之前须将家具送往室内装潢商的仓库妥善保管;
families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security;
黑暗中的拦路强盗,白日里不过是城里的普通商贩,
the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light,
当他以"头领"身份拦截同行时,竟被对方认出并喝令停下,他便英勇地一枪击穿了那人的脑袋,扬长而去;
and, being recognised and challenged by his fellow-tradesman whom he stopped in his character of "the Captain," gallantly shot him through the head and rode away;
邮车遭到七名劫匪拦截,护卫击毙其中三人,随后自己也被其余四人击毙,"因为弹药耗尽";
the mail was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, "in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:"
此后,邮车便被从容洗劫一空;
after which the mail was robbed in peace;
那位威风凛凛的大人物——伦敦市长大人,在特纳姆格林竟被一名拦路强盗勒令停下交出财物,
that magnificent potentate, the Lord Mayor of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman,
那劫匪当着这位显赫人物全体随从的面,将其洗劫一空;
who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue;
伦敦监狱里的囚犯与狱卒大打出手,代表法律尊严的官员向人群中开枪,火枪里装满了霰弹和实心弹;
prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball;
窃贼在宫廷接见厅里从贵族老爷的颈上剪下钻石十字架;
thieves snipped off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms;
火枪手奉命前往圣贾尔斯搜查走私货物,暴民向火枪手开枪,火枪手向暴民还击,
musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the musketeers fired on the mob,
而这一切,却没有人觉得有什么异乎寻常之处。
and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
Vocabulary
- Daring
- 大胆的,勇于冒险的
- burglaries
- 入室盗窃罪行
- by
- 由某人或某方式完成
- armed
- 携带武器的,武装的
- men
- 男性,男人们
- and
- 和,并且,连接词
- highway
- 公路,主要道路
- robberies
- 抢劫行为,劫案
- took
- 发生,take的过去式
- place
- 地点;take place意为发生
- in
- 在某地或某范围之内
- the
- 定冠词,指特定事物
- capital
- 首都,国家的政治中心城市
- itself
- 它本身,强调主体自身
- every
- 每一个,每逢
- night
- 夜晚,夜间
- families
- 家庭,多个家庭
- were
- be动词过去式复数形式
- publicly
- 公开地,面向大众地
- cautioned
- 被警告,被提醒注意危险
- not
- 否定词,表示不,没有
- to
- 不定式标志或表示方向
- go
- 去,前往某地
- out
- 出,向外,离开
- of
- 属于,来自,关于
- town
- 城镇,小城市
- without
- 没有,不带,缺少
- removing
- 移走,搬走,移除
- their
- 他们的,其
- furniture
- 家具,室内陈设物品
- warehouses
- 仓库,储存货物的大建筑
- for
- 为了,因为,对于
- security
- 安全,保障,防护
- highwayman
- 旧时在公路上拦路抢劫的强盗
- dark
- 黑暗,天黑之后
- was
- be动词过去式单数形式
- a
- 不定冠词,表示某一个
- City
- 城市;特指伦敦金融城
- tradesman
- 商人,从事贸易的人
- light
- 光,光线,天亮
- being
- 被,正在,存在
- recognised
- 被认出,被辨认出身份
- challenged
- 被质问,被挑战,被盘问
- his
- 他的,属于他
- whom
- 宾格关系代词,表示谁
- he
- 他,第三人称单数男性
- stopped
- 拦下,阻止,使停止
- character
- 人物,角色,性格
- Captain
- 上尉,队长,船长
- gallantly
- 英勇地,豪迈地,勇敢地
- shot
- 射击,开枪,shoot的过去式
- him
- 他,宾格第三人称男性
- through
- 穿过,贯穿,通过
- head
- 头,头部
- rode
- 骑马,ride的过去式
- away
- 离开,远去,逃走
- 邮件,邮递,邮车
- seven
- 七,数字7
- robbers
- 强盗,抢劫者
- guard
- 守卫,护卫,警卫
- three
- 三,数字3
- dead
- 死亡的,已死的
- then
- 然后,之后,接着
- got
- 得到,get的过去式
- himself
- 他自己,反身代词
- other
- 其他的,另外的
- four
- 四,数字4
- consequence
- 后果,结果,影响
- failure
- 失败,失败的事,故障
- ammunition
- 弹药,子弹,炮弹
- after
- 在...之后,此后
- which
- 哪个,which引导从句
- robbed
- 抢劫了,rob的过去式
- peace
- 和平,太平,安宁
- that
- 那个,引导从句的连词
- magnificent
- 壮丽的,宏伟的,极出色的
- Lord
- 勋爵,领主,上帝
- Mayor
- 市长,一市之长
- London
- 伦敦,英国首都
- made
- 使,make的过去式
- stand
- 站立,停下;stand and deliver为劫匪用语
- deliver
- 交出财物;投降交出
- on
- 在...上,在某地点
- Green
- 绿色;地名的一部分
- one
- 一个,某人,数字1
- who
- 谁,关系代词指人
- illustrious
- 杰出的,显赫的,著名的
- creature
- 人,生物,家伙
- sight
- 视线之内,眼前,当面
- all
- 所有的,全部
- prisoners
- 囚犯,被关押的人
- fought
- 战斗,打架,fight的过去式
- battles
- 战役,战斗,斗争
- with
- 和,与,用
- majesty
- 威严,陛下,王权
- law
- 法律,法规
- fired
- 开枪,射击,fire的过去式
- among
- 在...之中,在...当中
- them
- 他们,宾格第三人称复数
- loaded
- 装填弹药,装载
- rounds
- 发,轮;一轮子弹
- ball
- 球;此处指弹丸,子弹
- thieves
- 小偷,窃贼,thief的复数
- off
- 离开,从...上去掉
- diamond
- 钻石,菱形
- crosses
- 十字架,cross的复数
- from
- 从,来自
- necks
- 脖子,颈部,neck的复数
- noble
- 贵族的,高贵的,高尚的
- lords
- 勋爵,贵族,lord的复数
- at
- 在,表示地点或时间
- Court
- 宫廷,朝廷,法院
- went
- 去了,go的过去式
- into
- 进入,到...里面
- St.
- 圣,saint的缩写,常用于地名
- 's
- 所有格标志,表示属于
- search
- 搜查,搜索,寻找
- goods
- 货物,商品,物品
- mob
- 暴民,乌合之众,人群
- nobody
- 没有人,无人
- thought
- 认为,think的过去式
- any
- 任何,一些,任意的
- these
- 这些,指代多个事物
- occurrences
- 事件,发生的事,occurrence的复数
- much
- 很多,非常,大量
- common
- 普通的,常见的,平常的
- way
- 方式,道路;out of the common way指不寻常
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