Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Page 17
从童年起，我就心怀崇高的希望和远大的抱负；但如今我竟沦落至此！
From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition; but how am I sunk!
哦！我的朋友，如果你认识从前的我，你绝不会认出如今这个堕落的我。
Oh! My friend, if you had known me as I once was, you would not recognise me in this state of degradation.
难道我就要失去这位可敬的人吗？我渴望拥有一位朋友；我寻觅一个能与我同情共感、彼此相爱的人。
Must I then lose this admirable being? I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathise with and love me.
看啊，在这片荒寂的海洋上，我找到了这样一个人，但我恐怕得到他，只是为了让我知晓他的珍贵，却又将他失去。
Behold, on these desert seas I have found such a one, but I fear I have gained him only to know his value and lose him.
我想劝他与生命和解，但他拒绝了这个念头。
I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea.
有谁能对我而言如克勒瓦尔一般，或有哪位女子能成为另一个伊丽莎白？
Can any man be to me as Clerval was, or any woman another Elizabeth?
即便感情并非因某种出众的优秀而深深触动，我们童年的伙伴始终对我们的心灵拥有一种特殊的力量，这是后来的朋友几乎难以获得的。
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
他们了解我们孩提时的性情，这些性情无论日后如何改变，终究难以被彻底根除；而他们也能以更为确定的判断来评价我们行为动机的真诚。
They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.
Vocabulary
- infancy
- 婴儿期，生命最早的阶段
- imbued
- 被深深灌输或充满某种思想情感
- lofty
- 崇高的，高尚而宏大的
- ambition
- 雄心，强烈的成功欲望
- sunk
- 沉沦，陷入低落或堕落的状态
- recognise
- 认出，辨认出某人或某事物
- degradation
- 堕落，道德或地位的严重下降
- admirable
- 令人钦佩的，值得赞扬的
- being
- 存在物，生命体，生命
- longed
- 渴望，强烈地想要某事物
- sought
- 寻找，seek的过去式
- sympathise
- 同情，理解并分享他人的感受
- Behold
- 看啊，瞧，引起注意的感叹词
- desert
- 荒凉的，荒无人烟的
- gained
- 获得，得到某人或某物
- reconcile
- 使和解，使接受，调和矛盾
- repulses
- 强烈排斥，拒绝接受某想法
- affections
- 感情，情感，对人的喜爱之情
- superior
- 卓越的，优秀的，超越他人的
- excellence
- 卓越，出类拔萃的优秀品质
- companions
- 同伴，伙伴，共同生活或旅行的人
- childhood
- 童年，孩提时代
- possess
- 拥有，具有某种特质或能力
- hardly
- 几乎不，勉强，表示否定程度
- obtain
- 获得，得到，取得某物
- infantine
- 婴儿期的，幼年时期形成的
- dispositions
- 性情，天性，天生的性格倾向
- afterwards
- 之后，随后，在那以后
- modified
- 被修改，被改变，有所调整
- eradicated
- 被根除，被彻底消除，连根拔起
- judge
- 判断，评价，对某事作出判断
- conclusions
- 结论，经过推理得出的判断
- integrity
- 正直，诚实，高尚的道德品质
- motives
- 动机，行为背后的原因或目的
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