Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Page 8
如果那怪物实现了他的威胁,死亡将不可避免;然而,我再次思考,我的婚姻是否会加速我的命运。
If the monster executed his threat, death was inevitable; yet, again, I considered whether my marriage would hasten my fate.
我的毁灭或许会提前几个月到来,但如果我的折磨者怀疑我因他的威胁而推迟婚事,他必定会找到其他的、也许更可怕的报复手段。
My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner, but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.
他曾发誓要在我的新婚之夜与我相会,然而他并不认为这一威胁意味着他在此期间必须保持克制,因为就好像要向我证明他尚未嗜血满足,他在发出威胁之后便立即杀害了克莱瓦尔。
He had vowed to be with me on my wedding-night, yet he did not consider that threat as binding him to peace in the meantime, for as if to show me that he was not yet satiated with blood, he had murdered Clerval immediately after the enunciation of his threats.
因此,我下定决心,如果与我表妹立即成婚能给她或我父亲带来幸福,那么我的敌手对我生命的图谋绝不应使婚期推迟哪怕一个小时。
I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to hers or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.
在这种心境下,我给伊丽莎白写了一封信。我的信语气平静而充满深情。
In this state of mind I wrote to Elizabeth. My letter was calm and affectionate.
驱散你无谓的恐惧吧;我将我的生命和对幸福的追求,唯独奉献给你。
Chase away your idle fears; to you alone do I consecrate my life and my endeavours for contentment.
Vocabulary
- monster
- 怪物,令人恐惧的可怕生物
- executed
- 执行、实施,或处决某人
- threat
- 威胁,扬言要伤害他人的话
- death
- 死亡,生命终结的状态
- inevitable
- 不可避免的,必然会发生的
- yet
- 然而,表示转折或对比
- considered
- 仔细思考、考虑某件事情
- whether
- 是否,表示两种可能性的连词
- marriage
- 婚姻,结婚的状态或仪式
- hasten
- 加速、加快某事发生的进程
- fate
- 命运,注定要发生的结局
- destruction
- 毁灭,彻底被摧毁的状态
- indeed
- 确实,用于强调某事属实
- arrive
- 到来,到达某地或某时间点
- sooner
- 更早,比预期时间提前
- torturer
- 施害者,对他人施加折磨的人
- suspect
- 怀疑,认为某事可能属实
- postponed
- 推迟,将事情延后进行
- influenced
- 受影响,被某因素改变决定或行为
- menaces
- 威胁恐吓,令人感到危险的言行
- surely
- 必然地,表示确定无疑
- perhaps
- 也许,表示不确定的可能性
- dreadful
- 可怕的,令人极度恐惧的
- means
- 手段,实现目的所用的方法
- revenge
- 复仇,为报复而伤害他人
- vowed
- 发誓,郑重承诺要做某事
- wedding-night
- 新婚之夜,结婚当晚
- consider
- 认为,考虑某事或某种情况
- binding
- 具有约束力的,必须遵守的
- peace
- 和平,平静,无冲突的状态
- meantime
- 在此期间,同时发生的时段
- satiated
- 充分满足的,完全满足欲望后的状态
- blood
- 血,生物体内流动的红色液体
- murdered
- 谋杀,蓄意杀死某人
- immediately
- 立即,马上,没有任何延迟
- enunciation
- 宣告,清晰表述某事的行为
- threats
- 威胁,扬言要伤害他人的言语
- resolved
- 决定,下定决心要做某事
- therefore
- 因此,由此得出结论的连词
- immediate
- 立即的,不拖延的,当下的
- union
- 结合,联合,尤指婚姻的结合
- cousin
- 表亲或堂亲,指旁系亲属
- conduce
- 有助于,促进某结果的发生
- either
- 两者之一,任何一个
- happiness
- 幸福,快乐,满足的感受
- adversary's
- 对手的,敌人所拥有或策划的
- designs
- 图谋,阴谋,蓄意的计划
- against
- 反对,对抗,针对某人或某事
- retard
- 延迟,减慢某事物的发展进程
- state
- 状态,某时刻的情况或心境
- mind
- 心智,思维,内心的想法
- calm
- 平静的,不激动、不慌乱的
- affectionate
- 充满爱意的,表达温情与关爱的
- Chase
- 驱走,赶走,消除不好的情绪
- idle
- 无根据的,徒劳的,毫无意义的
- fears
- 恐惧,担忧,令人害怕的想法
- alone
- 单独,只有,仅靠自己
- consecrate
- 奉献,将某物全心投入某神圣目的
- endeavours
- 努力,尽力去实现某目标的行为
- contentment
- 满足感,对现状感到满意的状态
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