Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Page 2
如果你能把我推入那些冰裂缝之一,毁掉我的躯体——你亲手所造之物——你不会称之为谋杀。
You would not call it murder if you could precipitate me into one of those ice-rifts and destroy my frame, the work of your own hands.
当人类谴责我时,我为何要尊重他们?
Shall I respect man when he condemns me?
让他与我在善意的交流中共同生活,我便不会伤害他,而是含着感激的泪水,将每一份恩惠都赐予他。
Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness, and instead of injury I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance.
但这不可能实现;人类的感官是我们结合的不可逾越的障碍。
But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union.
然而,我的顺从绝不会是卑屈的奴役。
Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery.
我要报复我所受的伤害;若我无法激起爱,我便会引发恐惧,尤其是对你——我的大敌,因为你是我的创造者,我发誓对你怀有永不熄灭的仇恨。
I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred.
他说这番话时,一股恶魔般的狂怒激荡着他;他的脸扭曲成令人不忍直视的可怖模样;但不久,他平静下来,继续说道——
A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded—
若有任何生灵对我怀有善意之情,我将百倍、千倍地回报他们;为了那一个生灵,我愿与全人类和解!
If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundredfold; for that one creature's sake I would make peace with the whole kind!
但如今我沉溺于那些无法实现的幸福梦想之中。
But I now indulge in dreams of bliss that cannot be realised.
Vocabulary
- would
- 表示假设或意愿的情态动词
- call
- 称呼;把某事物定义为某名称
- murder
- 故意杀人;谋杀罪
- could
- 表示能力或可能性的情态动词过去式
- precipitate
- 使突然跌入;使仓促陷入某处境
- ice-rifts
- 冰层裂缝;冰川中的深裂隙
- destroy
- 摧毁,彻底毁坏某物
- frame
- 身体;躯体的骨架结构
- Shall
- 表示意志或将来的情态动词
- respect
- 尊重;敬重某人或某事
- condemns
- 谴责;强烈指责或判定有罪
- interchange
- 相互交流;彼此交换
- kindness
- 善意;友善的行为
- instead
- 代替;而不是
- injury
- 伤害;损害
- bestow
- 赋予;正式给予某人某物
- benefit
- 好处;利益
- upon
- 在……之上,正式用法介词
- tears
- 眼泪;哭泣时流的泪水
- gratitude
- 感激之情;感恩
- acceptance
- 接受;认可某事物
- human
- 人类的;与人有关的
- senses
- 感官;人的感知能力
- insurmountable
- 不可逾越的;无法克服的障碍
- barriers
- 障碍;阻碍联系的事物
- union
- 联合;结合在一起
- Yet
- 然而;尽管如此,转折连词
- shall
- 将要;表示决心的情态动词
- submission
- 顺从;屈服于他人意志
- abject
- 极度卑微的;彻底悲惨的
- slavery
- 奴役;被迫服从的状态
- revenge
- 复仇;报复伤害自己的人
- injuries
- 伤害;所受的损害或冤屈
- inspire
- 激发;激起某种情感
- cause
- 导致;引起某结果
- fear
- 恐惧;害怕的情感
- chiefly
- 主要地;尤其是
- towards
- 朝向;针对某人或某方向
- arch-enemy
- 死敌;最主要的仇敌
- creator
- 创造者;制造某物的人
- swear
- 发誓;郑重承诺某事
- inextinguishable
- 无法熄灭的;永不消散的
- hatred
- 仇恨;强烈的厌恶之情
- fiendish
- 恶魔般的;极度残忍的
- rage
- 狂怒;极度愤怒的情绪
- animated
- 充满生气的;充满激情地
- wrinkled
- 布满皱纹的;因情绪而扭曲
- contortions
- 扭曲变形;面部或身体的扭歪
- horrible
- 可怕的;令人恐惧的
- behold
- 注视;看见(正式或文学用语)
- presently
- 不久;随即,稍后
- calmed
- 使平静;恢复冷静
- proceeded
- 继续进行;接着做某事
- being
- 存在物;有生命的个体
- emotions
- 情感;内心的感受
- benevolence
- 仁慈;善意对待他人的品质
- should
- 应该;表示义务或推测
- return
- 回报;给予相应的回应
- hundredfold
- 百倍地;以一百倍的程度
- creature's
- 生物的;某个生命体所属的
- sake
- 缘故;为了某人或某目的
- peace
- 和平;平静的状态
- whole
- 整个;全部的
- kind
- 种类;此处指人类
- indulge
- 沉溺于;放纵自己享受某事
- dreams
- 梦想;幻想中的美好愿景
- bliss
- 极乐;完全幸福的状态
- realised
- 实现;使梦想或计划成真
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