A Tale of Two Cities — Page 9
与此同时，他的儿子——头上也竖着较为细嫩的发刺，一双年轻的眼睛也像他父亲那样紧紧靠在一起——按要求守望着他的母亲。
In the meantime, his son, whose head was garnished with tenderer spikes, and whose young eyes stood close by one another, as his father's did, kept the required watch upon his mother.
他时不时地让那可怜的女人大为不安，从他梳洗用的小睡室里猛地冲出来，压低声音喊道："妈妈，你要倒了。——爸爸，快来啊！"
He greatly disturbed that poor woman at intervals, by darting out of his sleeping closet, where he made his toilet, with a suppressed cry of "You are going to flop, mother. --Halloa, father!"
喊完这虚假的警报之后，他便带着一脸不知天高地厚的坏笑，又猛地冲回去了。
and, after raising this fictitious alarm, darting in again with an undutiful grin.
克朗彻先生来吃早饭时，心情一点也没有好转。
Mr. Cruncher's temper was not at all improved when he came to his breakfast.
他对克朗彻太太饭前祈祷一事尤为反感。
He resented Mrs. Cruncher's saying grace with particular animosity.
"好啊，你个讨厌鬼！你又在搞什么鬼？又来这套了？"
"Now, Aggerawayter! What are you up to? At it again?"
他的妻子解释说，她只不过是"求了个赐福"。
His wife explained that she had merely "asked a blessing."
"别这样！"克朗彻先生说，眼睛四处张望，似乎真的担心那条面包会因他妻子的祈祷而凭空消失。
"Don't do it!" said Mr. Cruncher, looking about, as if he rather expected to see the loaf disappear under the efficacy of his wife's petitions.
"我可不打算被人祈祷得家破人亡。我不允许人家把我桌上的食物给祈祷走。给我安静点！"
"I ain't a going to be blest out of house and home. I won't have my wittles blest off my table. Keep still!"
杰里·克朗彻双眼通红，面色阴沉，仿佛彻夜参加了一场毫无欢乐气氛的聚会，他对着早饭一阵狼吞虎咽，与其说是在吃，不如说是在啃，像动物园里某只四足兽一样对着食物咆哮。
Exceedingly red-eyed and grim, as if he had been up all night at a party which had taken anything but a convivial turn, Jerry Cruncher worried his breakfast rather than ate it, growling over it like any four-footed inmate of a menagerie.
将近九点钟时，他平息了满身的怒气，尽可能地在本来面目上覆盖上一副体面而干练的外表，出门去做当天的营生了。
Towards nine o'clock he smoothed his ruffled aspect, and, presenting as respectable and business-like an exterior as he could overlay his natural self with, issued forth to the occupation of the day.
Vocabulary
- meantime
- 在此期间，与此同时
- garnished
- 装饰，点缀某物使其更美观
- tenderer
- 更柔嫩的，更幼小的
- spikes
- 尖刺，竖起的尖状突起物
- required
- 要求的，必需的
- watch
- 注视，密切关注某人或某物
- disturbed
- 打扰，使某人不安或烦恼
- intervals
- 间隔，每隔一段时间
- darting
- 突然快速移动，像箭一样冲出
- closet
- 小储藏室，小隔间
- toilet
- 梳妆打扮，整理仪容
- suppressed
- 压制的，被刻意压低或隐藏的
- flop
- 突然倒下，重重落下
- Halloa
- 喂！哈罗！表示惊呼的感叹词
- fictitious
- 虚构的，假造的，非真实的
- alarm
- 警报，虚假的惊慌通报
- undutiful
- 不孝顺的，不尽义务的
- grin
- 咧嘴笑，露出牙齿的笑容
- temper
- 脾气，情绪，性情
- resented
- 对……感到愤恨，resentment的动词过去式
- grace
- 饭前祷告，感谢上帝的祈祷
- particular
- 特别的，专门的
- animosity
- 强烈的敌意，仇恨
- merely
- 仅仅，只不过，强调程度小
- blessing
- 祝福，祈求上帝赐福
- loaf
- 一条面包，整块未切的面包
- disappear
- 消失，不见，突然不存在
- efficacy
- 效力，效果，指某事物的有效性
- petitions
- 祈求，请愿，向神或上级恳求
- ain't
- am not/is not的非正式缩写
- blest
- 被祝福的，blessed的古老形式
- wittles
- 食物，victuals的方言发音写法
- Exceedingly
- 极其，非常，程度极深
- red-eyed
- 红眼睛的，眼睛充血发红的
- grim
- 严峻的，阴沉的，令人不悦的
- convivial
- 欢乐的，热闹愉快的聚会氛围
- growling
- 发出低沉咆哮声，愤怒地低吼
- four-footed
- 四足的，有四条腿的动物
- inmate
- 居住者，动物园中被圈养的动物
- menagerie
- 动物园，圈养野生动物的地方
- smoothed
- 抚平，使平滑，消除褶皱或不满
- ruffled
- 凌乱的，被扰乱的外表或情绪
- aspect
- 外貌，外观，某人的表情样子
- respectable
- 体面的，值得尊重的外观
- business-like
- 务实的，有条理的商业化作风
- exterior
- 外表，外部形象
- overlay
- 覆盖，遮盖在某物表面之上
- issued
- 走出，出发，从某处出来
- forth
- 向前，出发，issue forth表示走出去
- occupation
- 职业，工作，一天的事务
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