Great Expectations — Page 4

「要不是忍着，我早把你们给吃了，」那人恶狠狠地摇着头说，「我现在可有一半的心思想这么干！」

"Darn me if I couldn't eat 'em," said the man, with a threatening shake of his head, "and if I han't half a mind to't!"

我诚恳地表示希望他不要这样做，并且更紧地抓住他让我坐上去的那块墓碑；一方面是为了让自己坐稳，一方面是为了忍住不哭出来。

I earnestly expressed my hope that he wouldn't, and held tighter to the tombstone on which he had put me; partly, to keep myself upon it; partly, to keep myself from crying.

「喂，听着！」那人说，「你妈在哪儿？」

"Now lookee here!" said the man. "Where's your mother?"

「就在那儿，先生！」我说。

"There, sir!" said I.

他猛地一惊，小跑了几步，又停下来回头张望。

He started, made a short run, and stopped and looked over his shoulder.

「就在那儿，先生！」我怯生生地解释道，「还有乔治安娜。那是我妈妈。」

"There, sir!" I timidly explained. "Also Georgiana. That's my mother."

「哦！」他说着走了回来，「那你妈妈旁边的是你爸爸吗？」

"Oh!" said he, coming back. "And is that your father alonger your mother?"

「是的，先生，」我说，「他也是；曾是本教区的居民。」

"Yes, sir," said I; "him too; late of this parish."

「哈！」他若有所思地咕哝着，「你跟谁住在一起——假设你还能活着的话，这一点我还没拿定主意？」

"Ha!" he muttered then, considering. "Who d'ye live with,—supposin' you're kindly let to live, which I han't made up my mind about?"

「我姐姐，先生——乔·盖杰里太太——铁匠乔·盖杰里的妻子，先生。」

"My sister, sir,—Mrs. Joe Gargery,—wife of Joe Gargery, the blacksmith, sir."

「铁匠，是吗？」他说。然后低头看了看自己的腿。

"Blacksmith, eh?" said he. And looked down at his leg.

他阴沉地反复打量自己的腿和我，然后走近我坐的墓碑，用双手抓住我的两条胳膊，尽可能地把我向后倾斜；他的眼睛居高临下地盯着我的眼睛，而我的眼睛则无助地仰望着他。

After darkly looking at his leg and me several times, he came closer to my tombstone, took me by both arms, and tilted me back as far as he could hold me; so that his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his.

「喂，听着，」他说，「问题是你能不能活下去。你知道锉刀是什么吗？」

"Now lookee here," he said, "the question being whether you're to be let to live. You know what a file is?"

「知道，先生。」

"Yes, sir."