Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Page 8
就这样，我有一段时间沉浸在那些已被推翻的学说之中，像一个门外汉一样，将千百种相互矛盾的理论混杂在一起，在纷繁庞杂的知识泥沼中拼命挣扎，凭借着炽热的想象力和幼稚的推理摸索前行，直到一次偶然的事件再次改变了我的思想轨迹。
And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.
我大约十五岁的时候，我们回到了贝勒里夫附近的住所，在那里我们目睹了一场极为猛烈、令人恐惧的雷暴。
When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm.
暴风雨从汝拉山脉背后逼近，雷声以震耳欲聋之势从天空四面八方同时轰鸣而出。
It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens.
整个风暴持续期间，我一直守在那里，带着好奇与欣喜注视着它的发展变化。
I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight.
当我站在门口时，我突然看见一道火流从我们屋子约二十码外一棵古老而美丽的橡树中喷射而出；耀眼的光芒消失之后，那棵橡树也随之不见了，只剩下一截焦黑的树桩。
As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.
第二天早上我们去察看时，发现那棵树以一种奇特的方式被击碎了。
When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner.
它并非被震裂成碎片，而是完全被劈成了细细的木条。
It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbons of wood.
我从未见过任何东西被毁坏得如此彻底。
I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.
在这之前，我对电学中较为浅显的规律并非一无所知。
Before this I was not unacquainted with the more obvious laws of electricity.
Vocabulary
- thus
- 因此，由此，表示结果或方式
- occupied
- 被占据；专注于某事而忙碌
- exploded
- 已被推翻的；被证伪的（理论等）
- mingling
- 混合；掺杂在一起
- unadept
- 不熟练的；缺乏技巧的
- contradictory
- 相互矛盾的；对立的
- floundering
- 挣扎；困惑中无所适从
- desperately
- 拼命地；绝望地；迫切地
- slough
- 泥潭；困境；难以自拔的状态
- multifarious
- 多种多样的；繁杂的
- ardent
- 热情的；热切的；充满激情的
- childish
- 幼稚的；孩子气的
- reasoning
- 推理；思考判断的过程
- current
- 方向；潮流；思想的走向
- retired
- 退居；隐居到某地
- witnessed
- 目睹；亲眼看见某事发生
- violent
- 猛烈的；剧烈的；暴力的
- thunderstorm
- 雷暴；伴有雷电的暴风雨
- advanced
- 逼近；向前移动推进
- burst
- 突然爆发；迸发
- frightful
- 令人恐惧的；极可怕的
- loudness
- 响亮程度；声音的音量大小
- quarters
- 方向；方位（此处指各方）
- lasted
- 持续；延续一段时间
- curiosity
- 好奇心；对事物的强烈兴趣
- delight
- 愉悦；高兴；喜悦之情
- beheld
- 看见；注视（behold的过去式）
- stream
- 流；一道光柱或流体
- issue
- 喷出；射出；从…涌出
- oak
- 橡树；栎树
- yards
- 码，长度单位（1码≈0.91米）
- dazzling
- 耀眼的；令人目眩的光芒
- vanished
- 消失；突然不见了
- blasted
- 被雷击毁的；遭破坏的
- stump
- 树桩；被砍或损毁后的树干残留
- shattered
- 被震碎的；彻底破碎的
- singular
- 独特的；异常的；罕见的
- manner
- 方式；方法；样子
- splintered
- 裂成碎片的；碎裂成木刺
- entirely
- 完全地；彻底地
- reduced
- 使变成；将…削减至某状态
- ribbons
- 细条；带状物（ribbon复数）
- utterly
- 完全地；彻底地；极其地
- unacquainted
- 不熟悉的；对…缺乏了解的
- obvious
- 明显的；显而易见的
- electricity
- 电；电能；电学
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