Dracula — Page 12

道路崎岖不平，但我们仍像是在飞速驰过，带着一种狂热的急切。

The road was rugged, but still we seemed to fly over it with a feverish haste.

我当时无法理解这种急切意味着什么，但车夫显然一心不想在赶往博尔戈普伦德的途中耽误任何时间。

I could not understand then what the haste meant, but the driver was evidently bent on losing no time in reaching Borgo Prund.

有人告诉我，这条路在夏天非常好走，但冬雪过后还没来得及修整。

I was told that this road is in summertime excellent, but that it had not yet been put in order after the winter snows.

在这一点上，它与喀尔巴阡山脉大多数道路不同，因为当地有一个古老的传统——道路不能修缮得太好。

In this respect it is different from the general run of roads in the Carpathians, for it is an old tradition that they are not to be kept in too good order.

从前，霍斯波达尔们不肯修缮道路，以免土耳其人认为他们在准备引入外国军队，从而加速那场始终处于一触即发状态的战争。

Of old the Hospadars would not repair them, lest the Turk should think that they were preparing to bring in foreign troops, and so hasten the war which was always really at loading point.

越过米特尔兰地区那连绵起伏的绿色丘陵，喀尔巴阡山脉本身高耸的陡坡上，巍然耸立着茂密的森林。

Beyond the green swelling hills of the Mittel Land rose mighty slopes of forest up to the lofty steeps of the Carpathians themselves.

山脉在我们左右两侧高高矗立，午后的阳光完全照耀在山上，映出这片壮美山脉所有绚烂的色彩——山峰的阴影处呈现深蓝与紫色，草地与岩石交融之处呈现绿色与棕色，还有无尽的锯齿状岩石与尖峭山崖的纵深景致，直至消失在远方，而那里白雪皑皑的山峰巍然耸立。

Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly.

山间似乎到处都有巨大的裂谷，随着太阳开始西沉，我们不时透过这些裂谷看到飞瀑白练般的闪光。

Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun began to sink, we saw now and again the white gleam of falling water.