A Tale of Two Cities — Page 7
你有一个尽职尽责的母亲，是的，我的孩子。
You've got a dutiful mother, you have, my son.
你有一个虔诚的母亲，是的，我的孩子：她去跪倒祈祷，求上天把面包黄油从她独生子的嘴里夺走。
You've got a religious mother, you have, my boy: going and flopping herself down, and praying that the bread-and-butter may be snatched out of the mouth of her only child.
小克朗彻（只穿着衬衫）对此非常不满，他转向母亲，强烈反对任何祈祷夺走他个人口粮的行为。
Master Cruncher (who was in his shirt) took this very ill, and, turning to his mother, strongly deprecated any praying away of his personal board.
克朗彻先生自相矛盾却浑然不觉，说道："你这个自以为是的女人，你以为你的祈祷值多少钱？
"And what do you suppose, you conceited female," said Mr. Cruncher, with unconscious inconsistency, "that the worth of your prayers may be?
说说你给自己的祈祷定的价吧！"
Name the price that you put your prayers at!"
"它们只是发自内心，杰里。它们的价值也不过如此。"
"They only come from the heart, Jerry. They are worth no more than that."
"价值不过如此，"克朗彻先生重复道，"那它们就不值什么钱了。
"Worth no more than that," repeated Mr. Cruncher. "They ain't worth much, then.
不管怎样，我告诉你，我不允许有人为我祈祷来害我。我承受不起。
Whether or no, I won't be prayed agin, I tell you. I can't afford it.
我不打算因为你的鬼鬼祟祟而倒霉。
I'm not a going to be made unlucky by your sneaking.
如果你非要跪倒祈祷，就为你的丈夫和孩子祈祷，而不是与他们作对。
If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to 'em.
如果我娶的不是一个不正常的妻子，这可怜的孩子有的不是一个不正常的母亲，我上周本可以赚些钱，而不是被反向祈祷、被暗中破坏、被这虔诚的把戏搞得倒霉透顶。
If I had had any but a unnat'ral wife, and this poor boy had had any but a unnat'ral mother, I might have made some money last week instead of being counter-prayed and countermined and religiously circumwented into the worst of luck.
见鬼去吧！"克朗彻先生说道。
B-u-u-ust me!" said Mr.
Vocabulary
- got
- 拥有；得到
- dutiful
- 尽职尽责的，忠于职守的
- religious
- 虔诚的，信仰宗教的
- flopping
- 扑通倒下，猛然跌落
- praying
- 祈祷，向神祷告
- bread-and-butter
- 维持生计的，赖以为生的基本收入
- snatched
- 被夺走，被抢走
- Master
- 小主人，对男孩的尊称
- ill
- 不满的；生病的
- strongly
- 强烈地，坚定地
- deprecated
- 强烈反对，表示不赞成
- personal
- 个人的，私人的
- board
- 伙食，膳食；木板
- suppose
- 认为，猜想，假设
- conceited
- 自以为是的，傲慢自大的
- female
- 女性，女人（有时含贬义）
- unconscious
- 无意识的，不自知的
- inconsistency
- 前后矛盾，言行不一致
- worth
- 值得，有……的价值
- prayers
- 祈祷，祷告（prayer的复数）
- Worth
- 价值，值得
- ain't
- 不是（am/is/are not的非正式缩写）
- Whether
- 是否，不管（连词）
- prayed
- 祈祷过，祷告了
- agin
- 反对（against的方言写法）
- afford
- 负担得起，承受得起
- unlucky
- 倒霉的，不幸的
- sneaking
- 鬼鬼祟祟的，偷偷摸摸的
- flop
- 扑通倒下，猛然趴下
- favour
- 支持，赞成；帮助
- opposition
- 反对，对立，反对意见
- unnat'ral
- 不自然的，违背本性的（方言）
- instead
- 代替，反而，而不是
- counter-prayed
- 以祷告反对，用祈祷抵消对方
- countermined
- 被秘密对抗，被暗中破坏
- religiously
- 虔诚地，有宗教信仰地
- circumwented
- 被规避，被绕过（circumvented方言）
- worst
- 最差的，最坏的
- B-u-u-ust
- 爆炸（Bust的夸张拼写，表示强烈咒骂语气）
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