Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Page 2
然而她显得自信而无辜，尽管被数千人注视和诅咒，她也没有颤抖。因为她美貌本可激起的所有善意，都被旁观者心中对她所谓罪行的想象所抹去了。
Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.
她神情平静，然而这平静显然是强装出来的；由于她之前的慌乱曾被当作有罪的证据，她便竭力让自己表现出一副勇敢的样子。
She was tranquil, yet her tranquillity was evidently constrained; and as her confusion had before been adduced as a proof of her guilt, she worked up her mind to an appearance of courage.
当她走进法庭时，她的目光环顾四周，很快发现了我们坐在哪里。当她看到我们时，眼眶里似乎噙着泪水，但她很快便镇定下来，一副悲伤而深情的神情，似乎在证明她完全无辜。
When she entered the court she threw her eyes round it and quickly discovered where we were seated. A tear seemed to dim her eye when she saw us, but she quickly recovered herself, and a look of sorrowful affection seemed to attest her utter guiltlessness.
审判开始了，控方律师陈述完指控之后，数名证人被传唤出庭。几个奇怪的事实联合起来对她不利，若非我掌握了证明她无辜的确凿证据，任何人恐怕都会为之动摇。
The trial began, and after the advocate against her had stated the charge, several witnesses were called. Several strange facts combined against her, which might have staggered anyone who had not such proof of her innocence as I had.
案发当夜她整夜不在家，临近清晨时，一名卖菜的妇人在发现被害孩童尸体的地点附近看见了她。那妇人问她在那里做什么，但她神情十分古怪，只给出了一个混乱而语焉不详的回答。
She had been out the whole of the night on which the murder had been committed and towards morning had been perceived by a market-woman not far from the spot where the body of the murdered child had been afterwards found. The woman asked her what she did there, but she looked very strangely and only returned a confused and unintelligible answer.
Vocabulary
- Yet
- 然而，表示转折的连词
- appeared
- 看起来，显得某种状态
- confident
- 自信的，对自己有把握的
- innocence
- 无罪，无辜，清白无过失
- tremble
- 颤抖，因恐惧或紧张而发抖
- although
- 尽管，虽然，表示让步关系
- gazed
- 凝视，长时间注视某人或某物
- execrated
- 被强烈憎恨或咒骂的
- kindness
- 善意，友善，仁慈的态度
- beauty
- 美貌，外表美丽的特质
- might
- 可能，表示可能性的情态动词
- otherwise
- 否则，在其他情况下
- excited
- 激起，引发某种情绪或反应
- obliterated
- 被彻底消除，抹去，湮没
- minds
- 心灵，思想，人的内心意识
- spectators
- 旁观者，观看的人群
- imagination
- 想象力，对事物的主观设想
- enormity
- 极大的罪恶，严重的恶行
- supposed
- 被认为，推测，假设的
- committed
- 犯下，实施某种罪行或行为
- tranquil
- 平静的，安静的，镇定的
- yet
- 但是，然而，表示转折
- tranquillity
- 平静，安宁，镇定的状态
- evidently
- 明显地，显然，清楚地
- constrained
- 被压抑的，受约束而不自然的
- confusion
- 困惑，慌乱，混乱的状态
- adduced
- 被引用，援引作为证据
- proof
- 证据，证明，证实某事的依据
- guilt
- 罪责，有罪，犯罪的事实
- mind
- 内心，思想，精神状态
- appearance
- 外表，外观，表面呈现的样子
- courage
- 勇气，面对困难时的胆量
- court
- 法庭，审判案件的司法场所
- discovered
- 发现，找到，察觉到
- seated
- 就座的，坐着的
- tear
- 泪水，眼泪
- seemed
- 似乎，看起来好像
- dim
- 使模糊，使暗淡，遮蒙
- recovered
- 恢复，重新振作起来
- look
- 表情，神情，面部流露的样子
- sorrowful
- 悲伤的，充满哀愁的
- affection
- 情感，喜爱，深厚的感情
- attest
- 证明，证实某事的真实性
- utter
- 完全的，彻底的，绝对的
- guiltlessness
- 无罪，完全清白，没有过失
- trial
- 审判，法庭对案件的审理
- advocate
- 辩护律师，在法庭为一方辩护的人
- stated
- 陈述，正式说明，宣布
- charge
- 指控，罪名，对某人的控告
- several
- 几个，若干，一些
- witnesses
- 证人，在庭上提供证词的人
- Several
- 几个，若干个，多个
- strange
- 奇怪的，不寻常的，反常的
- facts
- 事实，实际发生的情况
- combined
- 综合在一起，共同作用
- staggered
- 使动摇，使震惊，令人难以置信
- whole
- 整个，全部，完整的
- murder
- 谋杀，故意杀害他人的行为
- towards
- 朝向，接近，将近某时间
- perceived
- 察觉到，注意到，发现
- market-woman
- 在市场摆摊的女性商贩
- spot
- 地点，某一特定位置
- body
- 尸体，遗体，死去的人体
- murdered
- 被谋杀的，遭到杀害的
- afterwards
- 之后，随后，在那以后
- strangely
- 奇怪地，以异常方式表现
- confused
- 混乱的，糊涂的，令人困惑的
- unintelligible
- 难以理解的，含糊不清的
- answer
- 回答，答复，对问题的回应
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