Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World — Page 5
我同样发现，您的印刷商粗心大意，将我几次航行和返航的时间搞混，日期也弄错了；既未注明正确的年份，也未注明正确的月份和日期。
I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my several voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month.
我听说原稿自我的书出版后已全部销毁，我自己也没有留下任何副本。
And I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left.
不过，我已向您寄去一些勘误，如果将来有第二版，您可以将其插入。
However, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition.
然而我也无法为这些勘误作担保，还是留待我明智而公正的读者自行斟酌处理吧。
And yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid readers to adjust it as they please.
我听说我们当中一些海上的"野胡"对我的航海用语颇有微词，认为许多地方用词不当，如今也已不再流行。
I hear some of our sea Yahoos find fault with my sea-language, as not proper in many parts, nor now in use.
对此我也无能为力。在我早期的几次航行中，我年纪尚轻，向最年长的水手们学习，也就学着他们那样说话。
I cannot help it. In my first voyages, while I was young, I was instructed by the oldest mariners, and learned to speak as they did.
但我此后发现，海上的"野胡"和陆地上的"野胡"一样，喜欢赶时髦，追逐新词；陆地上的人每年都在改换词语。
But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new-fangled in their words, which the latter change every year.
以至于我记得每次返回故国时，他们的旧方言已变化如此之大，我几乎听不懂那些新说法了。
Insomuch, as I remember upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.
我注意到，每当有"野胡"出于好奇从伦敦来我家拜访时，我们双方都无法以对方能够理解的方式表达自己的意思。
And I observe, when any Yahoo comes from London out of curiosity to visit me at my house, we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other.
Vocabulary
- find
- 发现；认为某事属实
- likewise
- 同样地；此外也如此
- printer
- 印刷工；负责印刷书籍的人
- careless
- 粗心的；不认真、疏忽大意的
- confound
- 混淆；将不同事物错误地混在一起
- mistake
- 弄错；将某事误认为另一事
- dates
- 日期；具体的年月日
- several
- 几个；数量不多但超过两个
- voyages
- 航海旅行；长途海上旅程
- returns
- 返回；回到原来的地方
- neither
- 两者都不；表示否定两种情况
- assigning
- 指定；分配或确定某个具体内容
- nor
- 也不；用于连接两个否定项
- original
- 原始的；最初的、未经修改的
- manuscript
- 手稿；作者亲手写成的原稿
- destroyed
- 被毁坏；完全损毁不复存在
- publication
- 出版；将书籍正式印刷发行
- copy
- 副本；书或文件的一份复制品
- However
- 然而；尽管如此，表示转折
- corrections
- 更正；对错误内容的修改补充
- insert
- 插入；将内容加入文本中
- edition
- 版本；书籍的某次印刷发行版
- yet
- 然而；表示转折或对比
- stand
- 忍受；容忍某件事情
- matter
- 事情；需要处理或考虑的问题
- judicious
- 明智的；判断力强、处事审慎的
- candid
- 公正坦率的；诚实直白的
- readers
- 读者；阅读书籍的人
- adjust
- 调整；对内容进行适当修改
- fault
- 过失；批评或指责某人某事
- sea-language
- 航海术语；水手使用的专业语言
- proper
- 适当的；符合规范或标准的
- instructed
- 被教导；接受他人的指导训练
- mariners
- 水手；在船上工作的海员
- apt
- 有倾向的；容易做某件事
- new-fangled
- 追求新奇的；热衷于新事物的
- latter
- 后者；指两者中后面提到的
- Insomuch
- 以至于；程度达到某种结果
- dialect
- 方言；某地区特有的语言变体
- altered
- 改变了；已经发生变化的
- hardly
- 几乎不；程度极低，勉强做到
- observe
- 注意到；留心察觉某种现象
- curiosity
- 好奇心；想了解未知事物的欲望
- deliver
- 表达；传达自己的想法或概念
- conceptions
- 观念；头脑中形成的想法概念
- manner
- 方式；做事或表达的方法
- intelligible
- 可理解的；能被他人清楚明白的
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