Middlemarch — Page 4
他年轻时曾四处游历,在这一带的郡县里,人们都认为他由此养成了一种过于散漫的思维习惯。
He had travelled in his younger years, and was held in this part of the county to have contracted a too rambling habit of mind.
布鲁克先生的结论难以预料,就像天气一样捉摸不定:唯一可以确定的是,他行事总怀着善意,但在付诸实践时却会尽可能地少花钱。
Mr. Brooke's conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions, and that he would spend as little money as possible in carrying them out.
因为即便是那些思维最为模糊散漫的人,内心深处也藏着几粒坚硬的习惯颗粒;曾有人对自己所有的利益都漫不经心,唯独对那只鼻烟壶的保管寸步不让,为此他警觉、多疑,紧抓不放。
For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests except the retention of his snuff-box, concerning which he was watchful, suspicious, and greedy of clutch.
在布鲁克先生身上,那股清教徒式的遗传活力显然已沉寂蛰伏;然而在他的侄女多萝西娅身上,这股活力却在她的缺点与美德中同样炽热地燃烧着。
In Mr. Brooke the hereditary strain of Puritan energy was clearly in abeyance; but in his niece Dorothea it glowed alike through faults and virtues.
这股活力有时化为她对舅舅絮叨的不耐烦,或对他在庄园上"任其自然"的处事方式的不满,让她更加渴望着长大成人、能自主支配一些钱财、去实现她那些慷慨宏大的计划的日子早日到来。
turning sometimes into impatience of her uncle's talk or his way of "letting things be" on his estate, and making her long all the more for the time when she would be of age and have some command of money for generous schemes.
她被视为一位女继承人:两姐妹每人每年从父母那里继承七百英镑,此外,若多萝西娅婚后生有一子,那个儿子将继承布鲁克先生的庄园。
She was regarded as an heiress; for not only had the sisters seven hundred a-year each from their parents, but if Dorothea married and had a son, that son would inherit Mr. Brooke's estate.
那座庄园估计每年约有三千英镑的租金收入——这在地方上的殷实家庭眼中已是相当可观的财富,而这些家庭仍在热议皮尔先生近来在天主教问题上的立场,对未来的金矿和那已将上流生活的必需品抬得如此高贵的豪华财阀制度,尚一无所知。
presumably worth about three thousand a-year—a rental which seemed wealth to provincial families, still discussing Mr. Peel's late conduct on the Catholic question, innocent of future gold-fields, and of that gorgeous plutocracy which has so nobly exalted the necessities of genteel life.
Vocabulary
- travelled
- travel的过去式,指曾经旅行或游历
- held
- hold的过去式,此处指被认为或被认定
- county
- 县,郡,英美行政区划单位
- contracted
- contract的过去式,此处指养成了某种习惯
- rambling
- 漫无目的的,散漫的,思维不集中的
- habit
- 习惯,长期形成的行为或思维方式
- conclusions
- 结论,判断,经过思考后得出的观点
- predict
- 预测,预言,提前判断将要发生的事
- benevolent
- 仁慈的,善意的,有善心和好意的
- intentions
- 意图,目的,打算做某事的想法
- glutinously
- 粘稠地,此处比喻思维模糊混沌的
- indefinite
- 不明确的,模糊的,没有清晰边界的
- enclose
- 包含,围住,将某物包裹在其中
- grains
- 颗粒,此处比喻坚硬的核心想法
- lax
- 松懈的,不严格的,缺乏约束力的
- interests
- 利益,兴趣,指对自身有益的事务
- except
- 除了,表示唯一的例外情况
- retention
- 保留,保持,指紧握或不放弃某物
- snuff-box
- 鼻烟盒,装鼻烟的小盒子,旧时用品
- concerning
- 关于,涉及,就某事而言
- watchful
- 警觉的,留心的,密切注意的
- suspicious
- 多疑的,怀疑的,对他人不信任的
- greedy
- 贪婪的,渴望占有更多的
- clutch
- 紧握,抓牢,用力抓住某物不放
- hereditary
- 遗传的,世袭的,由祖先传承下来的
- strain
- 血统,特质,此处指遗传的性格特征
- Puritan
- 清教徒的,指严格信仰清教的特质
- abeyance
- 暂时停止,搁置,指某事物暂未显现
- niece
- 侄女,外甥女,兄弟或姐妹的女儿
- glowed
- glow的过去式,发光,此处指热情洋溢
- alike
- 同样地,既……又……,两者都
- faults
- 缺点,错误,不好的性格或行为
- virtues
- 美德,优点,好的品质或道德特质
- impatience
- 不耐烦,急躁,无法容忍等待或拖延
- estate
- 庄园,地产,指拥有的土地和房产
- command
- 支配,掌控,有权指挥或自由使用
- generous
- 慷慨的,大方的,不吝惜给予的
- schemes
- 计划,方案,此处指宏大的慈善计划
- regarded
- regard的过去式,被视为,被看作
- heiress
- 女继承人,将继承大量财产的女性
- a-year
- 每年,表示每年的收入或数量
- inherit
- 继承,依法获得他人去世后留下的财产
- presumably
- 大概,据推测,按照合理推断应该是
- worth
- 价值,价值为……,拥有某数量的财富
- rental
- 租金收入,出租房产或土地所得的收益
- wealth
- 财富,大量的金钱或有价值的资产
- provincial
- 地方的,省级的,外省的,偏远地区的
- conduct
- 行为,举动,指某人的所作所为
- Catholic
- 天主教的,与天主教相关的
- innocent
- 无知的,天真的,不了解某事的
- gold-fields
- 金矿区,发现黄金的地区
- gorgeous
- 华丽的,壮观的,极为美丽或奢华的
- plutocracy
- 财阀统治,由富人掌控政治的制度
- nobly
- 高尚地,崇高地,以高贵的方式
- exalted
- 崇高的,被抬高的,地位或品格极高的
- necessities
- 必需品,生活必要的物品或条件
- genteel
- 上流社会的,彬彬有礼的,注重体面的
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