Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Page 3
我已经习惯了在夜间偷取他们储存的一部分食物供自己食用，但当我发现这样做给农舍里的人们带来了痛苦时，我便克制住自己，只以浆果、坚果和从附近树林里采集的根茎为食。
I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption, but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.
我还发现了另一种能够帮助他们劳作的方式。我发现那个年轻人每天要花大量时间为全家收集柴火，于是在夜间我常常拿起他的工具——我很快就学会了如何使用——并为他们带回足够用好几天的木柴。
I discovered also another means through which I was enabled to assist their labours. I found that the youth spent a great part of each day in collecting wood for the family fire, and during the night I often took his tools, the use of which I quickly discovered, and brought home firing sufficient for the consumption of several days.
我记得，第一次这样做的那天早晨，那个年轻女子打开门时，看到门外堆着一大堆木柴，显得十分惊讶。她大声说了几句话，那个年轻人也闻声而来，同样露出惊讶的神情。我高兴地注意到，他那天没有去森林，而是留下来修缮农舍、打理园子。
I remember, the first time that I did this, the young woman, when she opened the door in the morning, appeared greatly astonished on seeing a great pile of wood on the outside. She uttered some words in a loud voice, and the youth joined her, who also expressed surprise. I observed, with pleasure, that he did not go to the forest that day, but spent it in repairing the cottage and cultivating the garden.
渐渐地，我有了一个更为重大的发现。我发现这些人拥有一种通过清晰的声音来相互传达经历和情感的方式。我注意到，他们所说的话有时会在听者的心中和面容上引发喜悦或痛苦、微笑或悲伤。
By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment. I found that these people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds. I perceived that the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers.
Vocabulary
- accustomed
- 习惯于某事，常与to搭配使用
- during
- 介词，表示在某段时间内
- steal
- 偷窃，未经允许秘密拿走他人财物
- store
- 储备物，储存的食物或物品
- consumption
- 消耗，食用或使用某种资源的行为
- inflicted
- 施加痛苦或伤害于他人
- pain
- 痛苦，身体或精神上的不适感
- cottagers
- 住在小屋中的人，乡村小屋的居民
- abstained
- 克制自己，主动避免做某事
- satisfied
- 使满足，满足某种需求或愿望
- berries
- 浆果，小型多汁的果实
- nuts
- 坚果，有硬壳的可食用种子
- roots
- 植物根部，某些可食用的地下部分
- gathered
- 收集，把散落的东西聚拢在一起
- neighbouring
- 邻近的，位于附近的
- wood
- 树林，生长着许多树木的地方
- discovered
- 发现，首次找到或意识到某事物
- means
- 方法，手段，实现目的的方式
- enabled
- 使能够，让某人有能力做某事
- assist
- 帮助，协助他人完成某项任务
- labours
- 劳动，艰辛的体力工作
- youth
- 年轻人，指某个年轻的男性
- collecting
- 收集，聚集，把物品归拢在一起
- tools
- 工具，用于完成工作的器具
- firing
- 柴火，用于燃烧取暖的木材
- sufficient
- 足够的，满足需要的数量或程度
- appeared
- 看起来，显得，似乎呈现某种状态
- astonished
- 十分惊讶的，感到出乎意料的
- pile
- 一堆，叠放在一起的物品
- uttered
- 发出声音，开口说出某些话语
- loud
- 大声的，音量很高的
- expressed
- 表达，用语言或行为表示某种情感
- surprise
- 惊讶，对意外事物的情绪反应
- observed
- 观察到，注意到某种现象或情况
- pleasure
- 愉悦，感到满足或高兴的情绪
- forest
- 森林，大片生长着树木的地区
- repairing
- 修缮，修复损坏的物品或建筑
- cottage
- 小屋，乡村里的小型住宅
- cultivating
- 耕种，翻土种植作物
- degrees
- 程度，by degrees意为逐渐地
- discovery
- 发现，找到未知事物的行为或结果
- moment
- 时刻，片刻，某一重要的时间点
- possessed
- 拥有，持有某种能力或事物
- method
- 方法，有系统的做事方式
- communicating
- 交流，传递信息或思想给他人
- experience
- 经历，亲身体验到的事情
- feelings
- 感受，情绪，内心的情感状态
- articulate
- 清晰表达的，发音清楚明白的
- perceived
- 察觉，通过感官意识到某事物
- produced
- 产生，引起某种结果或效果
- smiles
- 微笑，嘴角上扬表达愉快的表情
- sadness
- 悲伤，感到不快乐的情绪状态
- minds
- 思想，心智，思考和感受的中心
- countenances
- 面部表情，脸上呈现的神情
- hearers
- 听者，聆听他人说话的人
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