Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Page 6
没有马可以找到，我必须沿湖返回；但风向不利，大雨倾盆。
There were no horses to be procured, and I must return by the lake; but the wind was unfavourable, and the rain fell in torrents.
不过，天刚蒙蒙亮，我有理由希望在夜幕降临之前赶到。
However, it was hardly morning, and I might reasonably hope to arrive by night.
我雇了人划船，自己也拿起一支桨，因为我一向觉得体力劳动能缓解精神上的痛苦。
I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise.
然而，我此刻感受到的满溢的悲苦，以及我所承受的极度激动，使我无力做任何事情。
But the overflowing misery I now felt, and the excess of agitation that I endured rendered me incapable of any exertion.
我扔下船桨，把头埋在双手中，任凭每一个阴郁的念头涌上心头。
I threw down the oar, and leaning my head upon my hands, gave way to every gloomy idea that arose.
每当我抬起头，映入眼帘的都是我在更幸福的时光里熟悉的景色，而就在昨天，我还与那个如今只剩下影子与回忆的她一同欣赏过这些景色。
If I looked up, I saw scenes which were familiar to me in my happier time and which I had contemplated but the day before in the company of her who was now but a shadow and a recollection.
泪水从我眼中流淌下来。
Tears streamed from my eyes.
雨停了片刻，我看见鱼儿在水中嬉戏，正如几个小时前一样；那时是伊丽莎白在注视着它们。
The rain had ceased for a moment, and I saw the fish play in the waters as they had done a few hours before; they had then been observed by Elizabeth.
对人类的心灵而言，没有什么比巨大而突然的变故更令人痛苦的了。
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
阳光或许依旧照耀，乌云或许依然低垂，但在我眼中，一切都已不再是昨日的模样。
The sun might shine or the clouds might lower, but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.
一个恶魔已将我未来一切幸福的希望夺走；从未有任何一个人像我这般悲惨；如此可怕的事件在人类历史上是绝无仅有的。
A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness; no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man.
Vocabulary
- procured
- 设法获得或弄到某物
- unfavourable
- 不利的，不适宜的，条件不好的
- torrents
- 倾盆大雨或湍急的水流
- hardly
- 几乎不，勉强，表示程度极低
- reasonably
- 合理地，有道理地，适度地
- hired
- 雇用，付钱请人做某事
- row
- 划船，用桨推动船前进
- oar
- 船桨，划船用的长桨
- relief
- 宽慰，减轻痛苦或压力的感觉
- mental
- 精神上的，与思维或心理有关的
- torment
- 极度痛苦或折磨
- bodily
- 身体上的，与肉体有关的
- overflowing
- 溢出的，过度充溢的，极度的
- misery
- 极度的痛苦或悲惨状态
- excess
- 超出正常的量，过度，过量
- agitation
- 焦躁不安，激动，情绪动荡
- endured
- 忍受，承受长时间的痛苦或困难
- rendered
- 使成为某种状态，致使
- incapable
- 无能力的，不能做某事的
- exertion
- 费力，努力，体力或脑力的付出
- leaning
- 倚靠，身体向某方向倾斜
- gloomy
- 阴郁的，令人沮丧的，悲观的
- arose
- arise的过去式，出现，产生
- scenes
- 场景，景色，景象
- familiar
- 熟悉的，认识的，常见的
- contemplated
- 凝视，深思，仔细考虑或观察
- company
- 陪伴，与某人在一起
- shadow
- 影子，阴影，也指幻影或印记
- recollection
- 回忆，记忆，对过去事物的回想
- streamed
- 流淌，连续不断地流出
- ceased
- 停止，终止某种活动或状态
- observed
- 注意到，观察到，看见
- painful
- 痛苦的，令人难受的
- sudden
- 突然的，出乎意料的，猝然的
- lower
- （乌云）密布，阴沉，天色变暗
- fiend
- 恶魔，凶残的人或魔鬼
- snatched
- 夺走，猛地抢走某物
- creature
- 生物，动物，造物
- miserable
- 极度痛苦的，悲惨的，不幸的
- frightful
- 可怕的，令人恐惧的，骇人的
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