Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Page 9
在做了几次预备实验之后，他以一篇颂词作为结束，颂扬近代化学——那番话我永生难忘：
After having made a few preparatory experiments, he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry, the terms of which I shall never forget:
近代的大师们承诺甚少；他们知道金属无法被点化为黄金，长生不老之药不过是痴人说梦，
The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera
然而这些哲人，双手仿佛只为在污泥中摸索而生，双眼仿佛只为凝视显微镜或坩埚而造，却着实创造出了奇迹。
but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.
他们深入自然的幽隐之处，揭示她在隐秘角落中运作的方式。
They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places.
他们升入苍穹；他们发现了血液循环的奥秘，以及我们所呼吸的空气的本质。
They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe.
这便是教授所说的话——不，更应该说，这是命运之口所说的话——为毁灭我而发出的宣言。
Such were the professor's words—rather let me say such the words of the fate—enounced to destroy me.
随着他娓娓道来，我感到自己的灵魂正与某个有形的敌人搏斗；构成我生命机制的一根根琴弦被逐一拨动，一个接一个音符相继鸣响，不久，我的心中便只剩一个念头、一个设想、一个目标。
As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being; chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose.
Vocabulary
- preparatory
- 准备性的，作为预备阶段的
- experiments
- 实验，科学测试或试验
- concluded
- 结束，得出结论
- panegyric
- 颂词，对某人或某事的高度赞扬演说
- chemistry
- 化学，研究物质及其变化的学科
- terms
- 措辞、术语；也指条件或条款
- masters
- 大师，精通某领域的专家或老师
- metals
- 金属，导电的固体化学元素
- transmuted
- 被转化，指物质从一种形式变为另一种
- elixir
- 灵丹妙药，传说中能治病或长生的液体
- chimera
- 幻想，不可能实现的空想或妄想
- philosophers
- 哲学家，探究自然与真理的思想家
- dabble
- 浅尝，随意涉猎某事而不深入
- pore
- 专注细读，仔细审视某物
- microscope
- 显微镜，用于观察微小物体的仪器
- crucible
- 坩埚，用于高温熔化物质的容器
- miracles
- 奇迹，令人惊叹的超凡事件
- penetrate
- 穿透，深入进入某个区域或领域
- recesses
- 深处，隐藏或难以到达的内部空间
- hiding-places
- 藏身之处，隐秘的地方
- ascend
- 上升，向上移动
- circulates
- 循环，流通，在系统内运动
- fate
- 命运，注定发生的结局
- enounced
- 宣告，正式宣布或阐述某事
- destroy
- 摧毁，彻底毁坏某事物
- soul
- 灵魂，人的精神或内在本质
- grappling
- 搏斗，努力应对困难或对手
- palpable
- 可感知的，明显的，可触摸感受到的
- mechanism
- 机制，机构，运作方式
- chord
- 和弦，多个音符同时发出的声音
- conception
- 概念，构想，想法的形成
- purpose
- 目的，意图，做某事的原因
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