Bleak House — Page 4
刘易斯（很快便发现自己完全错了，因为他以为此事已被所有权威人士放弃）在那一事件被记录在案时，曾发表了一些致我的精巧书信，论证自燃现象根本不可能存在。
Lewes (quite mistaken, as he soon found, in supposing the thing to have been abandoned by all authorities) published some ingenious letters to me at the time when that event was chronicled, arguing that spontaneous combustion could not possibly be.
我无需声明，我从不故意或因疏忽而误导读者，而且在写那段描述之前，我曾费心调查过这一课题。
I have no need to observe that I do not wilfully or negligently mislead my readers and that before I wrote that description I took pains to investigate the subject.
关于此现象，已有大约三十个有据可查的案例，其中最著名的一例是科尔内利亚·德·鲍迪·切塞纳特伯爵夫人一案，该案由维罗纳教士、同时在文学领域颇有建树的朱塞佩·比安基尼进行了详细调查和记述，他于1731年在维罗纳出版了相关报告，后又在罗马再版。
There are about thirty cases on record, of which the most famous, that of the Countess Cornelia de Baudi Cesenate, was minutely investigated and described by Giuseppe Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise distinguished in letters, who published an account of it at Verona in 1731, which he afterwards republished at Rome.
该案中所观察到的现象，无可置疑，与克鲁克先生案中所观察到的现象完全一致。
The appearances, beyond all rational doubt, observed in that case are the appearances observed in Mr. Krook's case.
次著名的案例发生于六年前的兰斯，该案的记录者是勒卡，法国所培育出的最负盛名的外科医生之一。
The next most famous instance happened at Rheims six years earlier, and the historian in that case is Le Cat, one of the most renowned surgeons produced by France.
案中的受害者是一名女性，其丈夫因被误认为谋杀她而遭到定罪；但经上级法院郑重审查后，他获得了无罪释放，因为证据表明她死于被称为自燃的死因。
The subject was a woman, whose husband was ignorantly convicted of having murdered her; but on solemn appeal to a higher court, he was acquitted because it was shown upon the evidence that she had died the death of which this name of spontaneous combustion is given.
我认为没有必要在这些值得注意的事实之外再作补充，相关权威文献的总体参考可见第二卷第30页。
I do not think it necessary to add to these notable facts, and that general reference to the authorities which will be found at page 30, vol. ii.
Vocabulary
- quite
- 相当地，很；完全地
- mistaken
- 错误的，弄错的
- as
- 作为；因为；当...时候
- he
- 他（男性代词）
- soon
- 很快，不久，马上
- found
- 发现；建立；找到
- in
- 在...里面；用...方式
- supposing
- 假设，假如；认为
- the
- 定冠词，表示特指
- thing
- 事物；东西；事情
- to
- 到；向；对于；不定式标记
- have
- 有；已经（完成时助动词）
- been
- 是（be动词过去分词）
- abandoned
- 被遗弃的；抛弃的
- by
- 被；由...；在...旁
- all
- 所有的；一切
- authorities
- 权威；官方；当局
- published
- 已出版的；发表的
- some
- 一些；某些；大约
- ingenious
- 聪明的；巧妙的；有创意的
- letters
- 信件；字母
- me
- 我（宾语）
- at
- 在；于；处于
- time
- 时间；次；时代
- when
- 何时；当...时候
- that
- 那；那个；以至于
- event
- 事件；事情；活动
- was
- 是（be动词过去式）
- arguing
- 论证；辩论；说明
- spontaneous
- 自发的；自然产生的；无意识的
- could
- 能；可以（can的过去式）
- not
- 不；否定词
- possibly
- 可能地；也许
- be
- 是；存在
- no
- 没有；无；不
- need
- 需要；需求
- observe
- 观察；遵守；注意到
- do
- 做；干；行动
- or
- 或者；或；要不然
- mislead
- 误导；欺骗；引入歧途
- my
- 我的
- readers
- 读者；阅读器
- and
- 和；并且；而且
- before
- 在...之前；以前
- wrote
- 写；著述（write过去式）
- description
- 描述；描写；说明
- took
- 拿；取；花费（take过去式）
- pains
- 努力；费力；痛苦
- investigate
- 调查；研究；侦查
- subject
- 主题；科目；主语
- There
- 那里；存在（句首虚词）
- are
- 是（be动词复数）
- about
- 关于；大约；到处
- thirty
- 三十；第三十
- cases
- 病例；案例；情况
- on
- 在...上；打开；继续
- record
- 记录；唱片；成绩
- of
- 的；由...制成；关于
- which
- 哪个；其中；什么
- most
- 最；大部分；非常
- famous
- 著名的；有名的
- investigated
- 被调查的；被研究的
- described
- 被描述的；被说明的
- otherwise
- 否则；另外；不同的
- distinguished
- 杰出的；著名的；卓越的
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