Middlemarch — Page 3
Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind.
在这里或那里，一只小天鹅在褐色池塘中与小鸭们一同被养大，却始终无法在与自己同类的桨足族群中找到那奔流不息的溪流。
Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.
在这里或那里，诞生了一位什么也未能创立的圣特蕾莎，她那充满爱意的心跳与对未曾实现之善的渴望哭泣，在重重阻碍中颤抖消散，而非凝聚于某一可供世人铭记的伟大事业之中。
Vocabulary
- 在
- zài — at, in, on; indicating location or existence
- 这里
- zhèlǐ — here; this place
- 或
- huò — or; either; perhaps
- 那里
- nàlǐ — there; that place
- 一只
- yī zhī — one (used for animals or small objects)
- 小天鹅
- xiǎo tiān'é — small swan; cygnet
- 褐色
- hèsè — brown color
- 池塘
- chítáng — pond; small body of still water
- 中
- zhōng — middle; within; among
- 与
- yǔ — and; with; together with
- 小鸭
- xiǎo yā — duckling; small duck
- 们
- men — plural suffix for pronouns and people
- 一同
- yītóng — together; at the same time
- 被
- bèi — passive marker; by (indicating passive voice)
- 养大
- yǎng dà — to raise up; to bring up a child
- 却
- què — but; yet; however; nevertheless
- 始终
- shǐzhōng — always; from beginning to end; throughout
- 无法
- wúfǎ — unable to; cannot; no way to
- 自己
- zìjǐ — oneself; one's own self
- 同类
- tónglèi — same kind; one's own kind or species
- 的
- de — structural particle indicating possession or modification
- 族群
- zúqún — ethnic group; community; species group
- 找到
- zhǎodào — to find; to locate; to discover successfully
- 那
- nà — that; those; then
- 奔流不息
- bēn liú bù xī — flowing endlessly without stopping; ceaseless current
- 溪流
- xīliú — stream; small flowing river or brook
- 诞生
- dànshēng — to be born; birth of a person or idea
- 了
- le — particle indicating completed action or change
- 一位
- yī wèi — one (polite measure word for a person)
- 什么
- shénme — what; anything; something
- 也
- yě — also; too; either; even
- 未能
- wèi néng — unable to; failed to; did not manage to
- 创立
- chuànglì — to found; to establish an organization or system
- 她
- tā — she; her (third person feminine pronoun)
- 充满
- chōngmǎn — filled with; full of; brimming with
- 爱意
- àiyì — affection; feelings of love and tenderness
- 心跳
- xīntiào — heartbeat; the beating of the heart
- 对
- duì — toward; facing; regarding; correct
- 未曾
- wèicéng — never; have not yet; did not ever
- 实现
- shíxiàn — to realize; to achieve; to fulfill a goal
- 渴望
- kěwàng — to long for; to yearn; intense desire
- 哭泣
- kūqì — to weep; to cry softly and sadly
- 重重
- chóngchóng — layer upon layer; numerous; heavily stacked
- 阻碍
- zǔ'ài — obstacle; to hinder; to obstruct progress
- 颤抖
- chàndǒu — to tremble; to shiver; to shake with emotion
- 消散
- xiāosàn — to dissipate; to scatter; to fade away
- 而非
- ér fēi — rather than; instead of; but not
- 凝聚
- níngjù — to converge; to coalesce; to concentrate together
- 于
- yú — in; at; from; to (literary preposition)
- 某一
- mǒu yī — a certain; some particular one
- 可供
- kě gōng — available for; able to be provided or used
- 世人
- shìrén — people of the world; humanity; everyone
- 铭记
- míngjì — to engrave in memory; to remember deeply
- 伟大
- wěidà — great; magnificent; of extraordinary importance
- 事业
- shìyè — career; cause; undertaking; life's work
- 之中
- zhī zhōng — within; among; in the middle of
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