Anne of Green Gables — Page 4
他这个时节一般不进城,也从不串门拜访;就算萝卜种子用完了,他也不会盛装打扮、套上马车去买;他驾车的速度又不够快,不像是去请医生。
He doesn't generally go to town this time of year and he never visits; if he'd run out of turnip seed he wouldn't dress up and take the buggy to go for more; he wasn't driving fast enough to be going for a doctor.
然而昨晚之后一定发生了什么事,才让他出了门。我真是百思不得其解,就是这样,在我弄清楚是什么事把马修·卡斯伯特今天引出埃文利之前,我片刻也无法安心。
Yet something must have happened since last night to start him off. I'm clean puzzled, that's what, and I won't know a minute's peace of mind or conscience until I know what has taken Matthew Cuthbert out of Avonlea today.
于是,喝完茶后,雷切尔太太便出发了;路程并不远——卡斯伯特一家居住的那栋宽大蜿蜒、掩映在果园中的房子,就在林德山谷往上不到四分之一英里的路边。
Accordingly after tea Mrs. Rachel set out; she had not far to go; the big, rambling, orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynde's Hollow.
当然,那条长长的小路使得距离远了不少。
To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further.
马修·卡斯伯特的父亲和他儿子一样腼腆沉默,在建立家园时,他尽可能地远离人群,几乎要退隐山林了。
Matthew Cuthbert's father, as shy and silent as his son after him, had got as far away as he possibly could from his fellow men without actually retreating into the woods when he founded his homestead.
绿山墙建在他开垦土地的最远边缘,直到今日仍在那里,从埃文利其他房屋林立、热闹亲近的那条大路上几乎望不见它的身影。
Green Gables was built at the furthest edge of his cleared land and there it was to this day, barely visible from the main road along which all the other Avonlea houses were so sociably situated.
雷切尔·林德太太认为,住在这样的地方根本算不上是"生活"。
Mrs. Rachel Lynde did not call living in such a place living at all.
"那只不过是'凑合着待'罢了,就是这样,"她一边说,一边走在那条车辙深深、杂草丛生、两旁野玫瑰花簇拥的小路上。
"It's just staying, that's what," she said as she stepped along the deep-rutted, grassy lane bordered with wild rose bushes.
Vocabulary
- generally
- 通常,一般情况下,大多数时候
- town
- 小镇,城镇,比城市小的居民区
- never
- 从不,绝不,表示在任何时候都不
- visits
- 拜访,探访,第三人称单数现在时形式
- turnip
- 芜菁,大头菜,一种根茎类蔬菜
- seed
- 种子,植物繁殖的基本单位
- dress
- 穿上正式衣服,打扮,装扮
- buggy
- 轻便马车,旧时一种单马拉的小车
- driving
- 驾驶,赶车,操控车辆行驶
- Yet
- 然而,但是,表示转折关系的连词
- since
- 自从,从某时起一直到现在
- clean
- 完全地,彻底地(副词用法,口语)
- puzzled
- 困惑的,不解的,感到迷惑不解
- peace
- 平静,安宁,内心的平和状态
- conscience
- 良心,道德感,内心的是非判断
- until
- 直到,一直到某个时间点为止
- Accordingly
- 因此,于是,相应地,根据情况
- rambling
- 蔓延的,布局散乱的,形容建筑不规则扩展
- orchard-embowered
- 被果园环绕遮蔽的,隐于果树之中
- scant
- 勉强够的,不足的,几乎不到
- quarter
- 四分之一,用于描述距离或数量
- mile
- 英里,长度单位,约1.6公里
- Hollow
- 洼地,低洼处,地势低于周围的地方
- lane
- 小路,小巷,通往某处的窄道
- deal
- 大量,许多,a good deal表示"相当多"
- further
- 更远,更长,比原来距离还要远
- shy
- 害羞的,腼腆的,不善与人交往
- silent
- 沉默的,寡言的,不爱说话
- possibly
- 尽可能地,也许,在能力范围之内
- fellow
- 同类人,男人,泛指同伴或同类
- actually
- 实际上,真正地,事实上
- retreating
- 退缩,撤退,向后退到偏僻之处
- woods
- 树林,丛林,树木茂密的地方
- founded
- 建立,创建,最初建造某地的家园
- homestead
- 宅地,农庄,包含住宅的家园土地
- Gables
- 山墙,三角墙,屋顶两端的三角形部分
- furthest
- 最远的,far的最高级,距离最大
- edge
- 边缘,尽头,某区域的最外侧部分
- cleared
- 已开垦的,清理过树木的,可耕种的
- barely
- 勉强,几乎不,仅仅刚好能够
- visible
- 可见的,能看到的,处于视线之内
- main
- 主要的,干道,the main road主干道
- along
- 沿着,顺着,沿某路线方向前进
- sociably
- 友善地,便于社交地,适合与人往来地
- situated
- 位于,坐落于,处于某个位置
- staying
- 逗留,停留,待在某地而非真正生活
- stepped
- 踏上,迈步走上,走进某条路
- deep-rutted
- 有深车辙的,被车轮压出深沟的道路
- grassy
- 长满草的,覆盖着青草的
- bordered
- 以……为边界,两侧种有或生有某物
- wild
- 野生的,天然的,未经人工栽培的
- rose
- 玫瑰,蔷薇,一种有刺的花卉植物
- bushes
- 灌木丛,矮树丛,bush的复数形式
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