Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Page 4
当我还俯身在她身上,沉浸在绝望的痛苦中时,我偶然抬起头来。
While I still hung over her in the agony of despair, I happened to look up.
房间的窗户之前一直是黑暗的,当我看到月亮那苍白的黄色光芒照亮了这个房间时,我感到一阵恐慌。
The windows of the room had before been darkened, and I felt a kind of panic on seeing the pale yellow light of the moon illuminate the chamber.
百叶窗已被推开,带着一种难以形容的恐惧感,我在敞开的窗户边看到了一个最丑陋、最令人憎恶的身影。
The shutters had been thrown back, and with a sensation of horror not to be described, I saw at the open window a figure the most hideous and abhorred.
那怪物的脸上挂着一丝冷笑,他似乎在嘲讽,用他那魔鬼般的手指指向我妻子的尸体。
A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife.
我冲向窗口,从胸前掏出一把手枪开了枪,但他躲开了我,从他所站的地方跳下,以闪电般的速度奔跑,跳入了湖中。
I rushed towards the window, and drawing a pistol from my bosom, fired; but he eluded me, leaped from his station, and running with the swiftness of lightning, plunged into the lake.
枪声引来了一群人涌入房间。
The report of the pistol brought a crowd into the room.
我指向他消失的地方,我们乘船追踪他的踪迹,撒下了渔网,但都徒劳无功。
I pointed to the spot where he had disappeared, and we followed the track with boats; nets were cast, but in vain.
经过几个小时的搜寻,我们绝望地返回,我的大多数同伴认为那不过是我的幻想所虚构出来的形象。
After passing several hours, we returned hopeless, most of my companions believing it to have been a form conjured up by my fancy.
上岸之后,他们继续搜索周围的地区,各组人马分头在树林和葡萄藤间穿行。
After having landed, they proceeded to search the country, parties going in different directions among the woods and vines.
Vocabulary
- While
- 在某段时间内,表示同时发生
- still
- 仍然,表示状态持续不变
- hung
- hang的过去式,悬挂或徘徊
- over
- 在……上方,表示位置关系
- agony
- 极度的痛苦,身心剧烈折磨
- despair
- 绝望,完全失去希望的状态
- happened
- 碰巧发生,偶然做某事
- darkened
- 变暗,使光线减弱或遮住
- kind
- 一种,某类型,用于描述性质
- panic
- 恐慌,突然产生的强烈恐惧
- pale
- 苍白的,颜色浅淡无血色
- illuminate
- 照亮,用光线使某物变得明亮
- chamber
- 房间,尤指私密或正式的内室
- shutters
- 百叶窗或木制窗板,用于遮光
- thrown
- throw的过去分词,猛力推开或抛开
- sensation
- 感觉,身体或情感上的强烈体验
- horror
- 恐惧,令人极度害怕的强烈感受
- described
- 描述,用语言表达说明某事物
- figure
- 人影,人的形状或轮廓
- hideous
- 极其丑陋恐怖,令人厌恶的外貌
- abhorred
- 令人憎恶的,极度厌恶憎恨
- grin
- 咧嘴笑,露出牙齿的宽大笑容
- monster
- 怪物,可怕丑陋的虚构或真实生物
- seemed
- 似乎,看起来像是某种状态
- jeer
- 嘲弄讥笑,用言行奚落他人
- fiendish
- 恶魔般的,极其残忍邪恶的
- pointed
- 指向,用手指向某个方向
- towards
- 朝向,表示方向或目标
- corpse
- 尸体,人死后的遗体
- rushed
- 冲去,快速移动前往某处
- drawing
- 取出,把某物从某处拿出来
- pistol
- 手枪,小型单手持握的火器
- bosom
- 胸怀,胸口或衣服内侧部位
- fired
- 开枪,扣动扳机射击
- eluded
- 躲避,巧妙逃脱追捕或攻击
- leaped
- 跳跃,用力跳起或跨过
- station
- 位置,所在之处或特定地点
- swiftness
- 迅速,移动或行动速度极快
- lightning
- 闪电,极快速度的象征
- plunged
- 猛地跳入,突然投入水中
- report
- 枪声,枪支发射时的爆炸声
- crowd
- 人群,聚集在一处的许多人
- spot
- 地点,某个具体的位置
- disappeared
- 消失,从视野中突然不见
- followed
- 跟随,沿着某路线追踪前进
- track
- 踪迹,留下的痕迹或追踪路线
- nets
- 渔网,用于捕鱼的网状工具
- cast
- 抛出,把网等物投入水中
- vain
- 徒劳,努力却没有任何结果
- passing
- 经过,时间或地点的流逝或通过
- several
- 几个,数量不多但超过两个
- hopeless
- 绝望的,毫无希望或期待
- companions
- 同伴,一起行动的伙伴或朋友
- believing
- 相信,认为某事为真
- form
- 形体,外形或想象中的幻象
- conjured
- 凭空想象出,幻想出的幻觉形象
- fancy
- 幻想,想象力或脑中的幻觉
- landed
- 登陆,从水上到达岸边
- proceeded
- 继续进行,开始或推进某行动
- search
- 搜寻,仔细寻找某人或某物
- country
- 乡间地区,城市以外的自然区域
- parties
- 队伍,为特定目的组成的小组
- different
- 不同的,各有差异的多个方向
- directions
- 方向,指向不同地点的路线
- among
- 在……之中,处于一群事物内
- woods
- 树林,树木密集的自然区域
- vines
- 藤蔓,攀爬生长的植物茎蔓
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