Peter Pan — Page 3
一切都以近乎恶魔般的狡猾谋划妥当，红人们的主力部队将毯子裹在身上，以那种对他们而言是男子气概之珍宝的冷静沉着，蹲守在孩子们的家园上方，等待着那个冷酷的时刻——届时他们将带来苍白的死亡。
Everything being thus mapped out with almost diabolical cunning, the main body of the redskins folded their blankets around them, and in the phlegmatic manner that is to them, the pearl of manhood squatted above the children's home, awaiting the cold moment when they should deal pale death.
就在他们清醒地做着白日梦，梦想着黎明时分要对他施以的精妙酷刑之时，这些轻信的野蛮人被奸诈的胡克发现了。根据事后那些从屠杀中逃脱的侦察者所提供的陈述，他似乎甚至没有在那片高地上停顿，尽管可以肯定在那灰蒙蒙的光线中他一定已经看见了它：从始至终，等待被袭击的念头似乎从未造访过他那缜密的心思；他甚至不肯等到夜色将尽；他奋力向前冲去，别无他策，只是扑向敌人。那些困惑的侦察者又能怎样呢？他们精通各种战术，唯独不懂这一招，只能无助地跟在他身后小跑，把自己暴露在致命的视野之中，同时发出悲戚的郊狼嚎叫。
Here dreaming, though wide-awake, of the exquisite tortures to which they were to put him at break of day, those confiding savages were found by the treacherous Hook. From the accounts afterwards supplied by such of the scouts as escaped the carnage, he does not seem even to have paused at the rising ground, though it is certain that in that grey light he must have seen it: no thought of waiting to be attacked appears from first to last to have visited his subtle mind; he would not even hold off till the night was nearly spent; on he pounded with no policy but to fall to. What could the bewildered scouts do, masters as they were of every war-like artifice save this one, but trot helplessly after him, exposing themselves fatally to view, while they gave pathetic utterance to the coyote cry.
英勇的虎莲公主身边有十几名她最强壮的勇士，他们突然看见那些背信弃义的海盗向他们压来。那层曾令他们看见胜利的薄膜，此刻从他们眼中褪去。他们再也无法在刑柱上施以酷刑。对他们而言，快乐的狩猎场已近在眼前。
Around the brave Tiger Lily were a dozen of her stoutest warriors, and they suddenly saw the perfidious pirates bearing down upon them. Fell from their eyes then the film through which they had looked at victory. No more would they torture at the stake. For them the happy hunting-grounds was now.
Vocabulary
- Everything
- 所有的事情，一切
- thus
- 因此，这样地
- mapped
- 被规划好，被安排妥当
- almost
- 几乎，差不多
- diabolical
- 极其邪恶的，魔鬼般的
- cunning
- 狡猾的，诡计多端的
- main
- 主要的，最重要的
- body
- 此处指一群人，一队人
- redskins
- 旧称印第安人（现被视为冒犯性词语）
- folded
- 折叠，裹住（毯子等）
- blankets
- 毯子，毛毯
- phlegmatic
- 冷静沉着的，不动声色的
- manner
- 方式，态度，举止
- pearl
- 珍珠；此处可能指珍贵之物
- manhood
- 男子气概，成年男子的特质
- squatted
- 蹲伏，蹲坐
- awaiting
- 等待，期待
- cold
- 冷酷的，无情的
- moment
- 时刻，瞬间
- deal
- 施予，给予（打击等）
- pale
- 苍白的；此处修饰死亡
- death
- 死亡
- dreaming
- 做梦，幻想
- though
- 尽管，虽然
- wide-awake
- 完全清醒的，警觉的
- exquisite
- 精致的；此处指极度强烈的（痛苦）
- tortures
- 折磨，酷刑
- break
- 破晓；break of day意为黎明
- confiding
- 轻信的，信任他人的
- savages
- 野蛮人（旧时带歧视性的称呼）
- treacherous
- 背信弃义的，奸诈的
- accounts
- 陈述，叙述，报告
- afterwards
- 之后，后来
- supplied
- 提供，供给（信息等）
- scouts
- 侦察员，斥候
- escaped
- 逃脱，逃跑
- carnage
- 大屠杀，大量杀戮
- seem
- 似乎，好像
- even
- 甚至，连…都
- paused
- 停顿，暂停
- rising
- 上升的，升起的
- ground
- 地面，地形
- certain
- 确定的，某种
- grey
- 灰色的，灰暗的
- must
- 必定，一定（表推测）
- thought
- 想法，念头
- attacked
- 被攻击，遭受袭击
- appears
- 似乎，看起来
- visited
- 拜访；此处指某想法进入脑海
- subtle
- 微妙的，精明的，狡猾的
- mind
- 头脑，心智
- hold
- 坚持，忍住，保持
- till
- 直到，一直到
- nearly
- 几乎，将近
- spent
- 耗尽，过去（时间消逝）
- pounded
- 猛击的；此处指深思熟虑的政策
- policy
- 策略，方针，政策
- fall
- 落下，袭击，猛扑
- bewildered
- 困惑的，不知所措的
- masters
- 精通者，大师；此处指精于某事之人
- war-like
- 好战的，尚武的
- artifice
- 诡计，巧妙手段，策略
- save
- 除了，除……之外
- trot
- 小跑，跟随（此处含无奈之意）
- helplessly
- 无助地，束手无策地
- exposing
- 暴露，使处于危险之中
- fatally
- 致命地，灾难性地
- view
- 视野，视线，目光
- pathetic
- 可悲的，令人怜悯的
- utterance
- 发声，声音，言语表达
- coyote
- 郊狼（北美野生犬科动物）
- cry
- 叫声，喊声
- brave
- 勇敢的；此处作名词指勇士
- dozen
- 一打，十二个，许多
- stoutest
- 最强壮的，最勇猛的
- warriors
- 战士，勇士
- suddenly
- 突然，忽然
- perfidious
- 背信弃义的，不忠诚的
- pirates
- 海盗
- bearing
- 朝……方向移动，逼近
- Fell
- 倒下，落下（fall的过去式）
- film
- 薄膜，雾状物；此处指眼前模糊
- victory
- 胜利
- torture
- 折磨，酷刑
- stake
- 木桩；此处指绑人受刑的柱子
- hunting-grounds
- 狩猎场；印第安人指死后的天堂
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