Bleak House — Page 8
实习书记员们习惯于在这个案子上磨砺他们的法律机智。
Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it.
上一任大法官处理得颇为得体——当时他纠正了布劳尔斯先生，那位杰出的御用大律师曾说，某件事可能发生在天上下土豆雨的时候，
The last Lord Chancellor handled it neatly, when, correcting Mr. Blowers, the eminent silk gown who said that such a thing might happen when the sky rained potatoes,
大法官回应道："或者等我们把贾恩迪斯诉贾恩迪斯案了结的时候，布劳尔斯先生"——这句俏皮话令在场的法杖官、文书袋和司库们都忍俊不禁。
he observed, "or when we get through Jarndyce and Jarndyce, Mr. Blowers"—a pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses.
在贾恩迪斯诉贾恩迪斯案的诉讼之外，究竟有多少人曾被它那腐朽的黑手所败坏和玷污，这实在是个难以回答的宏大问题。
How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwholesome hand to spoil and corrupt would be a very wide question.
从那位案卷主事官——贾恩迪斯诉贾恩迪斯案中成叠的积尘令状在他的刺文件钉上扭曲变形——到六书记员办公室里的抄写员，后者在那永恒不变的案件标题下已抄写了数以万计的衡平法庭对开页，
From the master upon whose impaling files reams of dusty warrants in Jarndyce and Jarndyce have grimly writhed into many shapes, down to the copying-clerk in the Six Clerks' Office who has copied his tens of thousands of Chancery folio-pages under that eternal heading,
没有一个人的品性因它而变得更好。
no man's nature has been made better by it.
在种种欺诈、推诿、拖延、掠夺、骚扰以及各式各样的虚假借口之中，潜藏着永远不可能产生善果的腐蚀力量。
In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
就连那些律师事务所的小伙计们，他们不知拦挡了那些可怜的诉讼人多少次，一再声称奇泽尔先生、米泽尔先生或其他什么人特别忙碌、排满了约会直到晚饭时分，
The very solicitors' boys who have kept the wretched suitors at bay, by protesting time out of mind that Mr. Chizzle, Mizzle, or otherwise was particularly engaged and had appointments until dinner,
也许也从贾恩迪斯诉贾恩迪斯案中沾染上了一份额外的道德扭曲与油滑之气。
may have got an extra moral twist and shuffle into themselves out of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
案件中的财产接管人从中敛聚了一笔可观的钱财，但同时也染上了对自己母亲的不信任和对同类的鄙视。
The receiver in the cause has acquired a goodly sum of money by it but has acquired too a distrust of his own mother and a contempt for his own kind.
Vocabulary
- Articled
- 与律师事务所签订学徒合同的
- clerks
- 书记员、办公室职员
- have
- 拥有、持有
- been
- 是、曾经是
- in
- 在...里面
- the
- 定冠词，表示特指
- habit
- 习惯、常见的做法
- of
- 属于、来自
- their
- 他们的、她们的
- legal
- 法律的、合法的
- wit
- 机智、聪慧
- upon
- 在...上、关于
- it
- 它、这个
- The
- 定冠词，表示特指
- last
- 最后的、上一个
- Lord
- 贵族、上帝
- Chancellor
- 大臣、校长
- handled
- 处理、操作
- neatly
- 整洁地、巧妙地
- when
- 当...时候
- correcting
- 纠正、改正
- Mr
- 先生的缩写
- eminent
- 杰出的、著名的
- silk
- 丝绸、高级律师
- gown
- 长袍、法袍
- who
- 谁、哪个人
- said
- 说、表示
- that
- 那个、那样的
- such
- 这样的、如此的
- thing
- 事物、东西
- might
- 可能、也许
- happen
- 发生、碰巧
- sky
- 天空
- rained
- 下雨
- potatoes
- 土豆
- he
- 他
- observed
- 观察、说道
- or
- 或者、否则
- we
- 我们
- get
- 得到、经过
- through
- 通过、穿过
- and
- 和、与
- pleasantry
- 诙谐、幽默的话
- particularly
- 特别地、尤其是
- tickled
- 逗乐、使高兴
- bags
- 袋子、公文包
- purses
- 钱包、女用手袋
- How
- 怎样、多少
- many
- 许多、多个
- people
- 人、人们
- out
- 出去、向外
- suit
- 诉讼、套装
- has
- 拥有、持有
- stretched
- 伸展、延伸
- forth
- 向前、出去
- its
- 它的
- unwholesome
- 不健康的、有害的
- hand
- 手、帮助
- to
- 到、向
- spoil
- 破坏、损坏
- corrupt
- 腐败、堕落
- would
- 将会、会
- be
- 是、被
- very
- 很、非常
- wide
- 广泛的、宽的
- question
- 问题、质疑
- From
- 从、来自
- master
- 主人、掌握
- whose
- 谁的
- files
- 文件、档案
- reams
- 大量、纸张
- dusty
- 布满灰尘的
- warrants
- 授权、保证
- grimly
- 严肃地、阴沉地
- writhed
- 扭动、蜷缩
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