Notre-Dame de Paris — Page 6
必须指出的是，为了彰显巴黎闲逛者的良好判断力，这群人中的大多数都将脚步朝向篝火走去——篝火在这个季节正当其时——或者朝向神秘剧走去，那神秘剧将在司法宫的大厅里上演，那里有完好的屋顶和墙壁；而好奇的人们则让那棵可怜的、花饰寥寥的五月柱独自在一月的寒天里瑟瑟发抖，孤零零地立在布拉克礼拜堂的墓地中。
It must be stated, in honor of the good sense of the loungers of Paris, that the greater part of this crowd directed their steps towards the bonfire, which was quite in season, or towards the mystery play, which was to be presented in the grand hall of the Palais de Justice (the courts of law), which was well roofed and walled; and that the curious left the poor, scantily flowered maypole to shiver all alone beneath the sky of January, in the cemetery of the Chapel of Braque.
民众尤其涌向法院的各条通道，因为他们知道两天前抵达的佛兰德斯大使们打算出席这场神秘剧的演出，以及同样将在大厅中举行的愚人教皇的选举。
The populace thronged the avenues of the law courts in particular, because they knew that the Flemish ambassadors, who had arrived two days previously, intended to be present at the representation of the mystery, and at the election of the Pope of the Fools, which was also to take place in the grand hall.
那一天，要想挤进那座大厅绝非易事，尽管它当时被誉为世界上最大的有顶围合空间（诚然，索瓦尔当时尚未测量过蒙塔日城堡的大厅）。宫殿广场上人潮汹涌，在窗边好奇张望的人们眼中，广场宛如一片海洋；五六条街道犹如条条河流的入口，每时每刻都向其中涌入一股股新的人潮。
It was no easy matter on that day, to force one's way into that grand hall, although it was then reputed to be the largest covered enclosure in the world (it is true that Sauval had not yet measured the grand hall of the Château of Montargis). The palace place, encumbered with people, offered to the curious gazers at the windows the aspect of a sea; into which five or six streets, like so many mouths of rivers, discharged every moment fresh floods of heads.
Vocabulary
- must
- 情态动词,表示必须、一定
- stated
- 过去分词,表示陈述、说明
- honor
- 名词,荣誉、尊敬
- good
- 形容词,好的、良好的
- sense
- 名词,感觉、意识、理性
- greater
- 形容词,更大的
- part
- 名词,部分
- crowd
- 名词,人群、群众
- directed
- 过去式,指导、引导
- steps
- 名词复数,步伐、步骤
- towards
- 介词,朝向、向
- bonfire
- 名词,篝火
- quite
- 副词,相当、很
- season
- 名词,季节
- mystery
- 名词,神秘、谜
- play
- 名词,戏剧、游戏
- presented
- 过去式,呈现、表演
- grand
- 形容词,宏大的、盛大的
- hall
- 名词,大厅、会堂
- courts
- 名词复数,法庭、院子
- law
- 名词,法律
- well
- 副词或形容词,很好地、井
- curious
- 形容词,奇怪的、奇特的
- left
- 过去式或形容词,留下、左边
- poor
- 形容词,贫穷的、不好的
- shiver
- 名词或动词,发抖、颤动
- alone
- 形容词,单独的
- beneath
- 介词,在下面
- sky
- 名词,天空
- January
- 专有名词,一月
- cemetery
- 名词,公墓、墓地
- Chapel
- 名词,小教堂
- populace
- 名词,民众、人民
- thronged
- 过去式,拥挤、聚集
- avenues
- 名词复数,大街、途径
- particular
- 形容词,特别的、特殊的
- because
- 连词,因为
- knew
- 过去式,知道
- ambassadors
- 名词复数,大使
- arrived
- 过去式,到达
- two
- 数词,二
- days
- 名词复数,天
- previously
- 副词,以前、先前
- intended
- 过去式,打算、意图
- present
- 动词或形容词,呈现、出席
- representation
- 名词,表演、代表
- election
- 名词,选举
- Pope
- 名词,教宗、教皇
- Fools
- 名词复数,傻子、愚人
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