Bleak House — Page 7
无数孩子生来便与这场官司相关；
Innumerable children have been born into the cause;
无数年轻人因它而缔结婚姻；无数老人在它的阴影下离开人世。
innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it.
数十人莫名其妙地发现自己成了贾恩迪斯诉贾恩迪斯案的当事人，不知其所以然；
Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why;
整个家族继承了与这场诉讼相关的世代恩怨。
whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit.
当年被许诺待贾恩迪斯案了结便可得到一匹新木马的原告或被告小童，如今早已长大成人，拥有了真正的骏马，策马奔向了另一个世界。
The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world.
昔日受法院监护的美丽少女已垂垂老矣，成了母亲，乃至祖母；
Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers;
一任又一任大法官走马上任，又相继卸任；
a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out;
诉讼中堆积如山的账单已化为一纸纸死亡记录；
the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality;
自从老汤姆·贾恩迪斯在绝望中于大法官街一家咖啡馆饮弹自尽，世上姓贾恩迪斯的人或许已不足三人；
there are not three Jarndyces left upon the earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery Lane;
然而贾恩迪斯诉贾恩迪斯案依然在法庭上拖沓前行，永无了结之日。
but Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court, perennially hopeless.
贾恩迪斯诉贾恩迪斯案已成了一个笑话。
Jarndyce and Jarndyce has passed into a joke.
这是它带来的唯一好处。
That is the only good that has ever come of it.
它夺走了许多人的性命，却成了法律界的一个笑谈。
It has been death to many, but it is a joke in the profession.
大法官法庭的每一位书记官都从中经手过案件。
Every master in Chancery has had a reference out of it.
每一位大法官在担任出庭律师时，都曾以某种身份"涉足其中"。
Every Chancellor was "in it," for somebody or other, when he was counsel at the bar.
餐后，那些红鼻子、穿着臃肿鞋子的年迈法学会会员们，在大厅里小范围的波尔图葡萄酒聚会上，曾就此案妙语迭出。
Good things have been said about it by blue-nosed, bulbous-shoed old benchers in select port-wine committee after dinner in hall.
Vocabulary
- Innumerable
- 数量极多的，无法计数的
- children
- 小孩，儿童
- have
- 拥有，具有
- been
- 是，存在
- born
- 出生，诞生
- into
- 进入，陷入
- the
- 定冠词，表示特指
- cause
- 原因，事业
- young
- 年轻的，幼小的
- people
- 人，人民
- married
- 已婚的，结婚
- it
- 它，代词
- old
- 年老的，旧的
- died
- 死亡，去世
- out
- 出去，外面
- of
- 的，来自于
- Scores
- 许多，大量
- persons
- 人，个人
- found
- 发现，建立
- themselves
- 他们自己，反身代词
- made
- 制造，做
- parties
- 当事人，团体
- in
- 在...里面
- and
- 和，与
- without
- 没有，不
- knowing
- 知道，了解
- how
- 如何，怎样
- or
- 或者，或
- why
- 为什么，原因
- whole
- 整个的，全部的
- families
- 家族，家庭
- inherited
- 继承，遗传
- legendary
- 传说的，著名的
- hatreds
- 仇恨，憎恨
- with
- 用，与
- suit
- 诉讼，适合
- The
- 定冠词，表示特指
- little
- 小的，幼小的
- plaintiff
- 原告，起诉人
- defendant
- 被告，被指控人
- who
- 谁，关系代词
- was
- 是，过去式
- promised
- 承诺，许诺
- new
- 新的，崭新的
- when
- 当...时，何时
- should
- 应该，应当
- be
- 是，存在
- settled
- 解决，平定
- has
- 有，已经
- grown
- 成长，长大
- up
- 向上，长大
- possessed
- 拥有，占有
- himself
- 他自己，反身代词
- real
- 真实的，实际的
- horse
- 马，马匹
- away
- 离开，远离
- other
- 其他的，另外的
- world
- 世界，世间
- Fair
- 公平的，集市
- wards
- 病房，被保护人
- court
- 法院，宫廷
- faded
- 褪色的，衰退的
- mothers
- 母亲，妈妈
- grandmothers
- 祖母，外祖母
- long
- 长的，久的
- procession
- 行列，队伍
- Chancellors
- 大臣，官员
- come
- 来，到来
- gone
- 去了，已去世
- legion
- 大量的，众多的
- bills
- 账单，法案
- transformed
- 变形，改变
- mere
- 仅仅的，只不过
- mortality
- 死亡率，凡人
- there
- 那里，那个地方
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