Peter Pan — Page 1
美人鱼的泻湖
THE MERMAIDS' LAGOON
如果你闭上眼睛，而你又足够幸运，你有时会在黑暗中看到一片朦胧的、悬浮着的淡雅色彩；
If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness;
然后，如果你把眼睛闭得更紧，那片色彩开始呈现出形状，颜色变得如此鲜艳，再用力一眯，它们就要燃烧起来了。
then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.
但就在它们即将燃烧的那一刻，你看见了那片泻湖。
But just before they go on fire you see the lagoon.
这是你在大陆上所能最接近它的方式，只有那短暂的天堂般的一瞬；
This is the nearest you ever get to it on the mainland, just one heavenly moment;
如果能有两个瞬间，你或许还能看见浪花，听见美人鱼的歌声。
if there could be two moments you might see the surf and hear the mermaids singing.
孩子们常常在这片泻湖上度过漫长的夏日，大多数时候游泳或漂浮，在水中玩美人鱼的游戏，诸如此类。
The children often spent long summer days on this lagoon, swimming or floating most of the time, playing the mermaid games in the water, and so forth.
你可不要因此以为美人鱼和他们关系友好：恰恰相反，温迪长久以来的遗憾之一，就是她在岛上的整段时间里，从未从美人鱼那里得到过一句客气的话。
You must not think from this that the mermaids were on friendly terms with them: on the contrary, it was among Wendy's lasting regrets that all the time she was on the island she never had a civil word from one of them.
当她轻手轻脚地走到泻湖边，她可能会看见成群的美人鱼，尤其是在抛锚礁上——她们喜欢在那里懒洋洋地晒太阳，慢吞吞地梳理着长发，这让温迪颇为恼火；
When she stole softly to the edge of the lagoon she might see them by the score, especially on Marooners' Rock, where they loved to bask, combing out their hair in a lazy way that quite irritated her;
或者她甚至会踮着脚尖似的游近她们，直到只剩一码的距离，但这时美人鱼们看见了她便纷纷潜入水中，还可能用尾巴把水溅到她身上——这并非偶然，而是故意为之。
or she might even swim, on tiptoe as it were, to within a yard of them, but then they saw her and dived, probably splashing her with their tails, not by accident, but intentionally.
Vocabulary
- MERMAIDS
- 美人鱼，传说中半人半鱼的神话生物
- LAGOON
- 泻湖，被沙洲或珊瑚礁围住的浅水区
- shut
- 关闭，合上（眼睛或门等）
- shapeless
- 无形的，没有固定形状的
- pool
- 一片，一汪（液体或颜色的聚集）
- pale
- 淡的，浅淡的（颜色）
- suspended
- 悬浮的，漂浮在空中或某处
- squeeze
- 挤压，用力压紧
- tighter
- 更紧地，tight的比较级
- vivid
- 鲜明的，生动而清晰的
- lagoon
- 泻湖，被沙洲围住的浅水海湾
- mainland
- 大陆，与岛屿相对的陆地主体
- heavenly
- 天堂般的，极为美好愉快的
- surf
- 海浪拍岸声，波涛声
- mermaids
- 美人鱼，传说中半人半鱼的生物
- floating
- 漂浮，在水面上漂荡
- mermaid
- 美人鱼，传说中半人半鱼的女性生物
- forth
- 来来往往，向前（back and forth）
- terms
- 关系，交情（on friendly terms）
- contrary
- 相反，on the contrary表示恰恰相反
- lasting
- 持久的，长期存在的
- regrets
- 遗憾，感到惋惜的事情
- civil
- 有礼貌的，客气而友善的
- stole
- 悄悄走近，steal的过去式（此处指偷偷靠近）
- softly
- 轻轻地，悄悄地，不发出声音地
- edge
- 边缘，水边，靠近某物的边界处
- score
- 大批，二十个（by the score指成群结队）
- especially
- 尤其是，特别是
- Marooners
- 遗弃者，被抛弃在荒岛上的人
- bask
- 晒太阳，舒适地享受阳光温暖
- combing
- 梳理，用梳子整理头发
- lazy
- 懒洋洋的，悠闲随意的
- irritated
- 恼怒的，感到烦躁不满的
- tiptoe
- 踮着脚尖走路，悄悄靠近
- within
- 在……范围内，不超过某距离
- yard
- 码，约0.9米的长度单位
- dived
- 跳水，迅速潜入水中
- probably
- 很可能，大概，表示较大可能性
- splashing
- 泼水，用力击水发出噗通声
- accident
- 意外，偶然发生的事情
- intentionally
- 故意地，有意为之地
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