Jane Eyre: An Autobiography — Page 4
两艘船在死寂的海面上悄然停滞,我以为它们是海上的幻影。
The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
那恶魔将小偷死死按住、压在他背后的包袱上,我匆匆略过:那是一个令人恐惧的画面。
The fiend pinning down the thief's pack behind him, I passed over quickly: it was an object of terror.
同样令人生畏的,还有那只黑色的长角怪物,孤零零地坐在一块岩石上,俯视着远处一群围聚在绞刑架旁的人。
So was the black horned thing seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a gallows.
每一幅画都讲述着一个故事;对于我那尚未开化的理解力和不成熟的情感而言,这些故事往往神秘莫测,却始终令我深深着迷。
Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting:
那种吸引力,就如同贝西有时在冬日夜晚讲述的故事一样迷人——当她心情愉快的时候,当她把熨衣板搬到育儿室的壁炉旁,任由我们围坐在旁边,一边为里德太太熨烫蕾丝褶边、整理睡帽花边,一边用那些取自古老童话和民谣中的爱情与冒险片段,喂养着我们如饥似渴的心。
as interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings, when she chanced to be in good humour; and when, having brought her ironing-table to the nursery hearth, she allowed us to sit about it, and while she got up Mrs. Reed's lace frills, and crimped her nightcap borders, fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and other ballads;
或者(正如我后来发现的那样)从《帕梅拉》以及《莫兰伯爵亨利》的书页中取材。
or (as at a later period I discovered) from the pages of Pamela, and Henry, Earl of Moreland.
膝上放着比威克的书,我那时是快乐的:至少以我自己的方式快乐着。我唯一担心的就是被打扰,而打扰来得太快了。早餐室的门开了。
With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy: happy at least in my way. I feared nothing but interruption, and that came too soon. The breakfast-room door opened.
「哼!闷葫芦小姐!」约翰·里德的声音喊道;随即他停顿了一下:他发现房间里似乎空无一人。
"Boh! Madam Mope!" cried the voice of John Reed; then he paused: he found the room apparently empty.
「她到底跑哪儿去了!」他继续嚷道。「莉齐!乔琪!(朝他的姐妹们喊道)琼不在这里:去告诉妈妈,她跑到雨里去了——这坏家伙!」
"Where the dickens is she!" he continued. "Lizzy! Georgy! (calling to his sisters) Joan is not here: tell mama she is run out into the rain—bad animal!
Vocabulary
- ships
- 船只,大型海上运输工具的复数形式
- becalmed
- 风平浪静,船只因无风而停止移动
- torpid
- 沉闷的,缓慢而无生气的状态
- believed
- 相信,认为某事是真实的
- marine
- 海洋的,与大海有关的
- phantoms
- 幽灵,鬼魂或幻影的复数
- fiend
- 恶魔,邪恶或残忍的人
- pinning
- 钉住,用针或钉子固定某物
- thief
- 小偷,盗取他人财物的人
- pack
- 一群动物或背包
- passed
- 经过,穿过或超越某处
- quickly
- 快速地,动作迅速或敏捷
- object
- 物体,具体存在的东西
- terror
- 恐怖,极度的害怕或惧怕
- black
- 黑色的,光线不透射的颜色
- horned
- 有角的,头部长有角的
- seated
- 坐着的,处于坐姿的状态
- aloof
- 远离的,与他人保持距离
- rock
- 岩石,坚硬的矿物质
- surveying
- 检查观察,仔细观看周围景象
- distant
- 远的,距离很远的地方
- crowd
- 人群,聚集在一起的许多人
- surrounding
- 环绕,围绕在四周的
- gallows
- 绞刑架,用来执行绞刑的装置
- picture
- 图画,视觉艺术作品
- told
- 讲述,用言语传达信息
- story
- 故事,叙述的事件序列
- mysterious
- 神秘的,难以理解或说明的
- often
- 经常,频繁发生的时间频率
- undeveloped
- 未发展的,尚未充分发展的
- understanding
- 理解,掌握知识或含义的能力
- imperfect
- 不完美的,有缺陷或不足的
- feelings
- 感受,情感或情绪的体验
- yet
- 但是,尚未或仍然没有
- ever
- 曾经,在任何时刻
- profoundly
- 深刻地,在深层次上产生影响
- interesting
- 有趣的,吸引注意力的
- tales
- 故事,叙述性的短篇文学作品
- sometimes
- 有时,不经常发生的时间
- narrated
- 叙述,讲述故事或事件
- winter
- 冬季,一年中最冷的季节
- evenings
- 傍晚,日落后到晚上的时间
- chanced
- 碰巧,偶然发生
- humour
- 幽默,令人感到快乐的品质
- brought
- 带来,搬运或转移某物
- ironing-table
- 熨烫板,用来熨烫衣服的工具
- nursery
- 育儿室,儿童活动的房间
- hearth
- 炉火,壁炉或灶火的地方
- allowed
- 允许,给予许可或同意
- sit
- 坐,采取坐姿的动作
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