Heart of Darkness — Page 15
我像疯了一样四处奔忙，准备出发，不到四十八小时，我就渡过英吉利海峡，去向雇主们展示自己，并签订合同。
I flew around like mad to get ready, and before forty-eight hours I was crossing the Channel to show myself to my employers, and sign the contract.
没过几个小时，我就抵达了一座城市，那座城市总让我想起一座粉饰过的坟墓。
In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulchre.
这无疑是偏见。
Prejudice no doubt.
我毫不费力地找到了公司的办公室。
I had no difficulty in finding the Company's offices.
那是城里最大的机构，我遇到的每个人都对此津津乐道。
It was the biggest thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it.
他们打算建立一个海外帝国，靠贸易赚取数不尽的财富。
They were going to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade.
一条狭窄荒僻的街道笼罩在深深的阴影中，高大的房屋，无数扇装着百叶窗的窗户，一片死寂，石缝间野草丛生，左右两侧是气势宏伟的马车拱门，厚重的双扇大门半开着。
A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar.
我从其中一道缝隙中溜了进去，走上一段打扫得干干净净、毫无装饰的楼梯，干燥得如同沙漠一般，然后推开了我遇到的第一扇门。
I slipped through one of these cracks, went up a swept and ungarnished staircase, as arid as a desert, and opened the first door I came to.
两个女人，一胖一瘦，坐在草编椅子上织着黑色毛线。
Two women, one fat and the other slim, sat on straw-bottomed chairs, knitting black wool.
那个瘦女人站了起来，径直朝我走来——依然低着眼睛织着毛线——就在我开始想着要给她让路的时候，就像给梦游者让路一样，她突然停住了，抬起头来望着我。
The slim one got up and walked straight at me—still knitting with downcast eyes—and only just as I began to think of getting out of her way, as you would for a somnambulist, stood still, and looked up.
她的衣着朴素得像把雨伞的外套，她一言不发地转过身，领着我走进了一间候客室。
Her dress was as plain as an umbrella-cover, and she turned round without a word and preceded me into a waiting-room.
我报上了自己的名字，然后四下张望。
I gave my name, and looked about.
Vocabulary
- flew
- 过去式，用翅膀飞行或乘飞机旅行
- around
- 在周围，四周
- like
- 喜欢，或表示相似的样子
- mad
- 疯狂的，生气的
- to
- 不定式标记，或表示方向
- get
- 获得，变得
- ready
- 准备好的，做好准备
- and
- 连接词，表示并且
- before
- 在...之前
- hours
- 小时，时间单位
- was
- 过去式be动词，是
- crossing
- 穿过，越过某地或水域
- the
- 定冠词
- Channel
- 英吉利海峡，水道
- show
- 展示，显示
- myself
- 我自己，反身代词
- my
- 我的，物主代词
- employers
- 雇主，老板
- sign
- 签署，标志
- contract
- 合同，协议
- In
- 在...里面
- very
- 非常，很
- few
- 很少，少数的
- arrived
- 到达，抵达某地
- in
- 在...内
- city
- 城市，城镇
- that
- 那个，关系代词
- always
- 总是，始终
- makes
- 制造，使得
- me
- 我，宾语代词
- think
- 认为，思考
- of
- 的，表示所属关系
- Prejudice
- 偏见，先入为主
- no
- 不，没有
- doubt
- 怀疑，毫无疑问
- had
- 过去式have，有
- difficulty
- 困难，难度
- finding
- 找到，发现
- Company
- 公司，企业
- offices
- 办公室，办公处
- It
- 它，指物体
- biggest
- 最大的
- thing
- 事物，东西
- town
- 城镇，小城市
- everybody
- 每个人，所有人
- met
- 过去式meet，遇见
- full
- 充满的，装满的
- They
- 他们，她们
- were
- 过去式be，是
- going
- 去，进行中
- run
- 经营，运行
- an
- 不定冠词
- empire
- 帝国，版图
- make
- 制造，赚取
- end
- 结束，末端
- coin
- 硬币，创造
- by
- 通过，被...
- trade
- 贸易，交易
- narrow
- 狭窄的，窄
- deserted
- 荒凉的，被遗弃的
- street
- 街道，街
- deep
- 深的，深层的
- shadow
- 影子，阴影
- high
- 高的，高
- houses
- 房屋，房子
- innumerable
- 无数的，数不清的
- windows
- 窗户，窗口
- with
- 用，和
- blinds
- 百叶窗，窗帘
- dead
- 死的，死亡的
- silence
- 沉默，无声
- grass
- 草，草地
- sprouting
- 发芽，萌芽
- between
- 在...之间
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