Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Page 7
在此过程中，我遭受了一种粗暴的对待，与我内心所承受的创伤极不相称。
In doing this, I underwent a kind of rough usage, ill befitting the wounds that my mind had sustained.
自那个致命的夜晚以来——那是我劳苦的终结，也是我不幸的开端——我对自然哲学这个名称本身都产生了强烈的厌恶。
Ever since the fatal night, the end of my labours, and the beginning of my misfortunes, I had conceived a violent antipathy even to the name of natural philosophy.
当我在其他方面都已完全恢复健康之时，一件化学仪器映入眼帘，便会重新唤起我神经症状的全部痛苦。
When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.
亨利看出了这一点，便将我所有的器械从我视野中移走了。
Henry saw this, and had removed all my apparatus from my view.
他还为我换了房间，因为他察觉到我对那间曾作实验室的屋子产生了厌恶之情。
He had also changed my apartment; for he perceived that I had acquired a dislike for the room which had previously been my laboratory.
然而，当我去拜访教授们时，克勒瓦尔的这番苦心便毫无用处了。
But these cares of Clerval were made of no avail when I visited the professors.
瓦尔德曼先生好意热情地称赞我在科学上所取得的惊人进步，这对我来说无异于一种折磨。
M. Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences.
他很快察觉到我不喜欢这个话题，但没有猜到真正的原因，便将我的情绪归结为谦逊，并将话题从我的进步转向科学本身，显然是有意要引我开口。
He soon perceived that I disliked the subject; but not guessing the real cause, he attributed my feelings to modesty, and changed the subject from my improvement, to the science itself, with a desire, as I evidently saw, of drawing me out.
我能怎么办呢？他本是好意，却令我备受煎熬。
What could I do? He meant to please, and he tormented me.
我觉得他仿佛是将那些日后要用来对我施以缓慢而残酷的死刑的刑具，一件一件地小心翼翼地摆到我的眼前。
I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view those instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death.
我在他的话语中痛苦地挣扎，却不敢流露出我内心所感受到的痛苦。
I writhed under his words, yet dared not exhibit the pain I felt.
Vocabulary
- underwent
- 经历了某种痛苦或变化过程
- rough
- 粗暴的，不温和的，粗糙的
- usage
- 对待方式，使用或处置的方法
- ill
- 不恰当地，有害地；生病的
- befitting
- 适合于，与……相称的
- wounds
- 伤口；心理或身体上的创伤
- sustained
- 承受了，遭受了持续的损害
- fatal
- 致命的，造成灾难性后果的
- labours
- 辛苦的努力与工作劳动
- misfortunes
- 不幸的遭遇，灾难，厄运
- conceived
- 产生了（想法或情感）
- violent
- 强烈的，猛烈的，激烈的
- antipathy
- 强烈的厌恶感或反感情绪
- philosophy
- 哲学；此处指自然科学
- otherwise
- 在其他方面，除此之外
- restored
- 恢复了，使回到原来状态
- sight
- 看见；视野中出现的景象
- chemical
- 化学的，与化学相关的
- instrument
- 仪器，工具，器械
- renew
- 使重新产生，恢复，重新引发
- agony
- 极度痛苦，剧烈的苦难
- nervous
- 神经的；紧张不安的
- symptoms
- 症状，疾病的外在表现
- removed
- 移走，去除，拿开某物
- apparatus
- 仪器设备，器械装置
- apartment
- 公寓，住所，房间
- perceived
- 察觉到，注意到，感知到
- acquired
- 获得了，养成了（习惯或情感）
- dislike
- 不喜欢，厌恶某人或某物
- previously
- 以前，之前，在此之前
- laboratory
- 实验室，进行科学实验的地方
- cares
- 关心，照料，体贴的行为
- avail
- 用处，益处；无济于事
- professors
- 教授，大学里的高级教师
- inflicted
- 施加了痛苦或伤害给某人
- torture
- 折磨，酷刑，使人痛苦的事
- kindness
- 善意，好意，友善
- warmth
- 温暖，热情，友好的态度
- astonishing
- 令人惊讶的，惊人的
- progress
- 进步，进展，发展
- sciences
- 科学，自然科学各学科
- disliked
- 不喜欢，厌恶某事物
- guessing
- 猜测，推测，猜想
- attributed
- 把……归因于，归咎于
- modesty
- 谦虚，谦逊，不自夸的品质
- improvement
- 改进，提高，进步
- desire
- 渴望，愿望，强烈的想要
- evidently
- 明显地，显然，清楚地
- drawing
- 吸引，引出；绘画
- meant
- 意图，有意，表示目的
- tormented
- 折磨，使极度痛苦
- instruments
- 仪器，工具，器械
- afterwards
- 之后，随后，以后
- cruel
- 残忍的，冷酷的，无情的
- writhed
- 因痛苦而扭动身体，挣扎
- dared
- 敢于，胆敢做某事
- exhibit
- 展示，表现，显露出来
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