Heart of Darkness — Page 13
我愿意为你做任何事，任何事。这是个绝妙的主意。
I am ready to do anything, anything for you. It is a glorious idea.
我认识行政部门一位极高层人士的妻子，还有一个很有影响力的人……
I know the wife of a very high personage in the Administration, and also a man who has lots of influence with,' etc.
她下定决心要大力奔走，为我谋得一艘内河汽船的船长职位——如果这正是我所想要的话。
She was determined to make no end of fuss to get me appointed skipper of a river steamboat, if such was my fancy.
我得到了任命——当然；而且来得非常快。
I got my appointment—of course; and I got it very quick.
原来公司接到消息，说他们的一位船长在与土著人的冲突中被打死了。
It appears the Company had received news that one of their captains had been killed in a scuffle with the natives.
这正是我的机会，这也让我更加迫切地想要去那里。
This was my chance, and it made me the more anxious to go.
直到好几个月之后，当我试图找回那具尸体的残骸时，我才听说当初的争执源于对几只母鸡的误解。
It was only months and months afterwards, when I made the attempt to recover what was left of the body, that I heard the original quarrel arose from a misunderstanding about some hens.
是的，两只黑母鸡。
Yes, two black hens.
弗雷斯莱文——那个人的名字，一个丹麦人——觉得自己在这笔交易中受了亏待，于是上了岸，拿着一根棍子开始痛打村子里的首领。
Fresleven—that was the fellow's name, a Dane—thought himself wronged somehow in the bargain, so he went ashore and started to hammer the chief of the village with a stick.
哦，听到这件事我一点都不感到意外，与此同时我还被告知弗雷斯莱文是世上走过两条腿的人中最温和、最安静的一个。
Oh, it didn't surprise me in the least to hear this, and at the same time to be told that Fresleven was the gentlest, quietest creature that ever walked on two legs.
他无疑是这样的人；但他已经在那里为所谓的崇高事业效力了好几年，大概终于感到需要用某种方式来维护自己的尊严了。
No doubt he was; but he had been a couple of years already out there engaged in the noble cause, you know, and he probably felt the need at last of asserting his self-respect in some way.
Vocabulary
- ready
- 准备好的，愿意做某事的
- anything
- 任何事情，无论什么
- glorious
- 辉煌的，极好的，令人赞叹的
- idea
- 想法，主意，念头
- wife
- 妻子，已婚女性配偶
- personage
- 重要人物，显赫人士
- Administration
- 行政机构，政府管理部门
- influence
- 影响力，对他人或事物的作用力
- etc
- et cetera的缩写，表示等等
- determined
- 坚定的，下定决心要做某事
- end
- 此处作形容词，极大的，无尽的
- fuss
- 大惊小怪，无谓的烦恼或骚动
- appointed
- 被任命的，被指定担任某职位
- skipper
- 船长，负责驾驶船只的人
- steamboat
- 蒸汽船，以蒸汽为动力的船
- fancy
- 爱好，想法，心中的愿望
- appointment
- 任命，被安排担任某职务
- appears
- 看来，似乎，表示推测或显现
- Company
- 公司，商业机构或团体
- received
- 收到，接收到某消息或物品
- captains
- 船长们，队长们，复数形式
- killed
- 被杀死，失去生命
- scuffle
- 扭打，混战，小规模打斗
- natives
- 当地人，土著居民，原住民
- chance
- 机会，机遇，偶然发生的情况
- anxious
- 渴望的，焦虑的，急切想做某事
- afterwards
- 之后，随后，在某事发生后
- attempt
- 尝试，努力去做某件事
- recover
- 找回，恢复，重新获得某物
- original
- 最初的，原始的，起源的
- quarrel
- 争吵，口角，争论冲突
- arose
- 产生，arise的过去式，由某原因引起
- misunderstanding
- 误解，对事情理解错误
- hens
- 母鸡，雌性家禽，复数形式
- fellow
- 家伙，男人，同伴
- Dane
- 丹麦人，来自丹麦的人
- wronged
- 被冤枉的，受到不公正对待
- somehow
- 不知为何，以某种方式
- bargain
- 交易，讨价还价，买卖协议
- ashore
- 上岸，向岸边，到达陆地
- hammer
- 锤打，用棍棒击打某人
- chief
- 首领，酋长，部落领导者
- stick
- 棍子，棒，细长的硬物
- surprise
- 惊讶，使感到意外
- least
- 最少，at the least表示丝毫
- gentlest
- 最温和的，gentle的最高级
- quietest
- 最安静的，quiet的最高级
- creature
- 生物，人，有生命的个体
- doubt
- 怀疑，不确定，no doubt表示无疑
- couple
- 两个，几个，a couple of表示数个
- engaged
- 从事于，参与某活动或工作
- noble
- 崇高的，高尚的，道德高尚
- cause
- 事业，目标，值得为之奋斗的理由
- probably
- 很可能，大概，表示较高可能性
- asserting
- 坚定维护，主张，声明某权利
- self-respect
- 自尊，自我尊重，自重
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