Great Expectations — Page 7

「我真希望自己是只青蛙。或者是条鳗鱼！」

"I wish I was a frog. Or a eel!"

与此同时，他用双臂紧紧抱住自己颤抖的身体——像是要把自己抱在一起——一瘸一拐地朝那低矮的教堂围墙走去。

At the same time, he hugged his shuddering body in both his arms,—clasping himself, as if to hold himself together,—and limped towards the low church wall.

我看着他离去，看他在荨麻丛中和缠绕着绿色土墩的荆棘间寻路而行，在我年幼的眼中，他仿佛是在躲避那些死者伸出的双手——那些人从坟墓里小心翼翼地伸出手来，想抓住他的脚踝把他拽进去。

As I saw him go, picking his way among the nettles, and among the brambles that bound the green mounds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in.

当他走到那低矮的教堂围墙跟前，他像一个双腿麻木僵硬的人那样翻了过去，然后转过身来张望我。

When he came to the low church wall, he got over it, like a man whose legs were numbed and stiff, and then turned round to look for me.

见他转过身来，我便面朝家的方向，拼命迈开双腿跑起来。

When I saw him turning, I set my face towards home, and made the best use of my legs.

但不一会儿，我回头一望，看见他依然用双臂抱着自己，朝河边走去，用他那双疼痛的脚在沼泽地里东一块西一块的大石头间小心地寻路而行——那些石头是在雨季或涨潮时供人踩踏用的垫脚石。

But presently I looked over my shoulder, and saw him going on again towards the river, still hugging himself in both arms, and picking his way with his sore feet among the great stones dropped into the marshes here and there, for stepping-places when the rains were heavy or the tide was in.

我停下脚步目送他远去，此时沼泽地不过是一条漫长的黑色水平线，河流不过是另一条水平线，既没那么宽，也没那么黑，而天空不过是一排排交织在一起的狭长愤红色线条和浓重的黑色线条。

The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.