Middlemarch — Page 1
既然身为女子,我无法行善,
Since I can do no good because a woman,
便不断追求与善相近之物。
Reach constantly at something that is near it.
——《少女的悲剧》:博蒙特与弗莱彻
—The Maid's Tragedy: BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
布鲁克小姐拥有那种因穿着朴素反而愈显出彩的美貌。
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
她的手和手腕生得极为纤美,戴上那种与意大利画家笔下圣母所穿一样素净无华的袖子也毫不逊色;
Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters;
她的侧颜、身姿与仪态,也因那朴素的衣裳而愈显端庄,
and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments,
那衣裳与乡间时兴的装束相比,令她仿佛一段出自《圣经》或某位先贤诗人的隽永引言,
which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—
出现在一篇当日报纸的寻常文字之中。
in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper.
人们通常说她聪慧过人,但同时也会补充一句,她妹妹西莉娅更有常识。
She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense.
然而,西莉娅身上的饰物其实也少得可怜;
Nevertheless, Celia wore scarcely more trimmings;
只有细心的观察者才能看出她的衣着与姐姐有所不同,在搭配上略带几分妩媚之意;
and it was only to close observers that her dress differed from her sister's, and had a shade of coquetry in its arrangements;
因为布鲁克小姐的朴素装扮源于多种混合的缘由,而其中大多数缘由,她妹妹也同样兼而有之。
for Miss Brooke's plain dressing was due to mixed conditions, in most of which her sister shared.
Vocabulary
- Since
- 自从;因为,表示时间或原因的连词
- Reach
- 伸手够取;到达某处或某物
- constantly
- 不断地,持续地,反复地发生
- Maid
- 少女;女仆,未婚的年轻女性
- Tragedy
- 悲剧,以悲惨结局为主题的戏剧
- beauty
- 美丽,令人赏心悦目的外貌或特质
- relief
- 衬托;浮雕效果,使某物更突出显眼
- wrist
- 手腕,连接手掌与前臂的关节部位
- finely
- 精致地,纤细地,以精美方式地
- sleeves
- 袖子,衣服覆盖手臂的部分
- bare
- 裸露的,没有遮盖的,光秃的
- style
- 风格,样式,特定的方式或设计
- Blessed
- 受祝福的,神圣的,受崇敬的
- Virgin
- 圣母,指圣母玛利亚,未婚纯洁女性
- painters
- 画家们,从事绘画创作的艺术家
- profile
- 侧脸轮廓,从侧面看到的脸部形状
- stature
- 身材高度,体形,一个人的身高体型
- bearing
- 仪态,举止,人的姿态和风度
- gain
- 获得,增加,得到某种好处或特质
- dignity
- 尊严,高贵,庄重的气质与品格
- plain
- 朴素的,简单无装饰的外观
- garments
- 衣物,服装,穿在身上的衣服总称
- provincial
- 外省的,偏远地区的,眼界狭窄的
- fashion
- 时尚,流行风格,当时流行的穿着方式
- impressiveness
- 令人印象深刻的特质,震撼人心的效果
- quotation
- 引文,引用他人话语或文字的段落
- elder
- 年长的,年代较早的,资历较深的
- poets
- 诗人们,以写诗为职业的文学创作者
- paragraph
- 段落,文章中自成一段的文字
- usually
- 通常,一般情况下,大多数时候
- remarkably
- 显著地,非常地,以令人注目的程度
- clever
- 聪明的,机智的,智力突出的
- addition
- 补充,另外,加上某物的意思
- sense
- 感觉,判断力,common sense指常识
- Nevertheless
- 尽管如此,然而,表示让步的连接词
- scarcely
- 几乎不,勉强,几乎没有地
- trimmings
- 装饰物,服装上的花边点缀配件
- observers
- 观察者们,仔细注意事物的人
- differed
- 不同,differ的过去时,有差异
- shade
- 细微差别,一点点,色调或程度的差异
- coquetry
- 卖弄风情,刻意吸引异性注意的行为
- arrangements
- 安排,布置,为达目的而做的规划
- dressing
- 穿衣打扮,整理仪表的行为过程
- due
- 由于,应得的,due to表示原因
- mixed
- 混合的,多种元素混杂在一起的
- conditions
- 条件,状况,影响结果的各种情形
- shared
- 共同拥有,share的过去时,一起分享
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