Crime and Punishment — Page 2
经过八个月的监禁，他与另外二十一人被带到谢苗诺夫斯基广场准备行刑。
After eight months' imprisonment he was with twenty-one others taken out to the Semyonovsky Square to be shot.
陀思妥耶夫斯基在给兄弟米哈伊尔的信中写道：
Writing to his brother Mihail, Dostoevsky says:
「他们在我们头顶上宣读了判决，让我们穿上死刑犯所穿的白色衬衣。
"They snapped words over our heads, and they made us put on the white shirts worn by persons condemned to death.
随后我们三人一组被绑在木桩上，等待处决。
Thereupon we were bound in threes to stakes, to suffer execution.
我排在第三位，心想自己只剩下几分钟的生命了。
Being the third in the row, I concluded I had only a few minutes of life before me.
我想到了你和你的亲人，设法亲吻了站在我身旁的普列谢耶夫和杜罗夫，与他们道别。
I thought of you and your dear ones and I contrived to kiss Plestcheiev and Dourov, who were next to me, and to bid them farewell.
突然间，军队击鼓示号，我们被松绑，带回刑台，得知陛下已赦免了我们的死罪。」
Suddenly the troops beat a tattoo, we were unbound, brought back upon the scaffold, and informed that his Majesty had spared us our lives."
死刑随即改判为苦役。
The sentence was commuted to hard labour.
囚犯之一格里戈里耶夫在被松绑后立刻发疯，此后再未恢复神志。
One of the prisoners, Grigoryev, went mad as soon as he was untied, and never regained his sanity.
这段经历所带来的巨大痛苦在陀思妥耶夫斯基的内心深处留下了永久的烙印。
The intense suffering of this experience left a lasting stamp on Dostoevsky's mind.
尽管他虔诚的宗教性情最终使他以顺从之心接受一切苦难，并视之为上天的恩赐，他却在著作中不断重返这一话题。
Though his religious temper led him in the end to accept every suffering with resignation and to regard it as a blessing in his own case, he constantly recurs to the subject in his writings.
他描述了死刑犯所承受的极度痛苦，并强调施以如此折磨是残忍之举。
He describes the awful agony of the condemned man and insists on the cruelty of inflicting such torture.
此后他在西伯利亚与普通罪犯一同度过了四年苦役生涯，在那里开始创作《死屋手记》，并在一支惩戒营部队中服役数年。
Then followed four years of penal servitude, spent in the company of common criminals in Siberia, where he began the "Dead House," and some years of service in a disciplinary battalion.
Vocabulary
- imprisonment
- 监禁，被关押在监狱中的状态
- Square
- 广场，城市中的开阔公共空间
- shot
- 被枪击，shoot的过去分词
- snapped
- 厉声说出，snap的过去式
- condemned
- 被判处死刑的，condemn的过去分词
- Thereupon
- 于是，随即，表示紧接着发生
- bound
- 被绑住，bind的过去分词
- stakes
- 木桩，绑人用的柱子
- suffer
- 遭受，忍受痛苦或处罚
- execution
- 处决，执行死刑
- row
- 排，行，一列人或物
- concluded
- 得出结论，判断，conclude的过去式
- contrived
- 设法做到，contrive的过去式
- bid
- 告别，道别，bid farewell
- farewell
- 告别，再见，临别之词
- troops
- 军队，士兵们
- tattoo
- 军鼓信号，召集士兵的鼓声
- unbound
- 松绑，解开捆绑
- scaffold
- 刑台，行刑用的高台
- informed
- 被告知，inform的过去分词
- Majesty
- 陛下，对君主的尊称
- spared
- 饶恕，保全，spare的过去式
- sentence
- 判决，法庭宣判的刑罚
- commuted
- 减刑，将刑罚改为较轻惩处
- labour
- 劳役，强制体力劳动
- prisoners
- 囚犯，prisoner的复数
- mad
- 疯狂的，精神失常的
- untied
- 被解开绑缚，untie的过去分词
- regained
- 恢复，重新获得，regain的过去式
- sanity
- 神志正常，心智健全的状态
- intense
- 强烈的，极度的
- suffering
- 痛苦，遭受的苦难
- experience
- 经历，亲身体验的事情
- lasting
- 持久的，长期存在的
- stamp
- 印记，深刻影响
- Though
- 尽管，虽然，表示让步的连词
- religious
- 宗教的，虔诚的
- temper
- 性情，气质，心理倾向
- accept
- 接受，承认并顺从
- resignation
- 顺从，忍受命运的平静心态
- regard
- 视为，把...看作
- blessing
- 赐福，恩惠，幸运之事
- case
- 情况，案例，事例
- constantly
- 不断地，持续地
- recurs
- 反复出现，recur的第三人称单数
- subject
- 主题，话题，常讨论的内容
- writings
- 著作，文章，writing的复数
- awful
- 可怕的，极度令人痛苦的
- agony
- 极度痛苦，剧烈的身心折磨
- insists
- 坚持认为，insist的第三人称单数
- cruelty
- 残忍，残酷无情的行为
- inflicting
- 施加（痛苦），inflict的现在分词
- torture
- 折磨，酷刑，使人极度痛苦
- penal
- 刑罚的，与惩罚相关的
- servitude
- 劳役，强制服务或苦役的状态
- company
- 陪伴，与某人在一起
- common
- 普通的，平民的，常见的
- criminals
- 罪犯，criminal的复数
- service
- 服役，服务，兵役
- disciplinary
- 纪律的，惩戒性的
- battalion
- 营，军队编制单位，约数百士兵
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