Dracula — Page 10

他们显然在谈论我，因为他们不时地看向我，还有一些坐在门外长凳上的人——他们把那里叫做"传话处"——也走过来听，然后看着我，其中大多数人的眼神充满了怜悯。

They were evidently talking of me, for every now and then they looked at me, and some of the people who were sitting on the bench outside the door--which they call by a name meaning "word-bearer"--came and listened, and then looked at me, most of them pityingly.

我能听到许多词语被反复提及，都是些奇怪的词，因为人群中有许多不同国籍的人。

I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words, for there were many nationalities in the crowd;

于是我悄悄地从包里取出我的多语词典，查了查那些词。

so I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out.

我必须承认，那些词让我心里很不是滋味，因为其中有"Ordog"——撒旦，"pokol"——地狱，"stregoica"——女巫，"vrolok"和"vlkoslak"——这两个词意思相同，一个是斯洛伐克语，另一个是塞尔维亚语，意思是狼人或吸血鬼。

I must say they were not cheering to me, for amongst them were "Ordog"--Satan, "pokol"--hell, "stregoica"--witch, "vrolok" and "vlkoslak"--both of which mean the same thing, one being Slovak and the other Servian for something that is either were-wolf or vampire.

（备忘：我必须向伯爵询问这些迷信说法。）

(_Mem._, I must ask the Count about these superstitions)

当我们出发时，聚集在客栈门口的人群——此时已经增加了不少——全都画了十字，并朝我伸出两根手指。

When we started, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time swelled to a considerable size, all made the sign of the cross and pointed two fingers towards me.

我费了好大的劲，才让一位同行的乘客告诉我这是什么意思；他起初不肯回答，但当得知我是英国人后，他解释说这是一种驱邪护身的手势，用来抵御邪眼。

With some difficulty I got a fellow-passenger to tell me what they meant; he would not answer at first, but on learning that I was English, he explained that it was a charm or guard against the evil eye.

这对我来说并不是什么好兆头，毕竟我正要动身前往一个陌生的地方去见一个素未谋面的人；但每个人看起来都如此好心，如此悲切，如此充满同情，令我不禁为之动容。

This was not very pleasant for me, just starting for an unknown place to meet an unknown man; but every one seemed so kind-hearted, and so sorrowful, and so sympathetic that I could not but be touched.