Piccolissima — Page 7
她让糖果滑落到身边，沉浸在忧郁的沉思中，直到被一阵轻微的低语声唤回——那声音就像深夜寂静中有人在屋子远处低声交谈时偶尔听到的那种声音。
Leaving the sugar to slip down by her side, she remained lost in melancholy reflections from which she was drawn by a light murmur, such as one hears sometimes in the silence of the night when persons are speaking in a low voice in a distant part of the house.
皮可利西玛全神贯注地倾听了好一会儿。
Piccolissima listened with deep attention for some time.
平时她不喜欢谈话的声音，那声音刺耳地冲击着她的感官，像是某种模拟的雷声；但这些声音在她听来却没有任何不和谐、没有任何令人不悦之处。
Usually she disliked the sound of conversation; it struck harshly on her organs, and seemed a sort of mimic thunder; but these sounds had nothing discordant, nothing disagreeable in them, to her ear.
由于皮可利西玛一直被迫去观察而非行动，她的各种能力获得了新的方向，她自己都未曾察觉到一种发展正在悄然发生。
As Piccolissima had been forced to observe rather than to act, her faculties took a new direction, and a development of which she was unconscious herself took place.
当她发现，在那起初听来杂乱无章的低语声中，只要她专心倾听，竟能分辨出清晰可懂的词语时，她的喜悦与惊讶是何等强烈。
And her joy and her surprise were great when she found that, in what had at first appeared to her a confused murmur, she distinguished, as she listened attentively, intelligible words.
一个细小尖锐的声音说道："这几乎不值得，离开我的摇篮所费的那番功夫几乎不值得。
"It was hardly worth while," said a small, sharp voice, "it was hardly worth the trouble it cost me to leave my cradle.
我来到了这个世界，而周围的一切都是死寂的。
I have come into the world where all is dead around me.
啊！要是我早知道这个世界如此寒冷、如此沉闷，我就不会费尽那几乎将我摧毁的力气去破开屋顶、离开我那狭小的家了。"
Ah! if I had only known that this world was so cold and dull, I should not have made efforts which almost destroyed me, to break the roof and leave my narrow house."
另一个声音回答道，语气稍微平静一些，但与前者十分相似："要有耐心，你才出生不过几秒钟，而我活得比你长多了。
"Patience," replied another voice, a little quieter, but much like the other; "I have lived longer than thou, who art only a few seconds old.
Vocabulary
- Leaving
- 离开；放弃某事物
- the
- 定冠词，表示特指的人或事物
- sugar
- 糖；甜味物质
- to
- 不定式标记；向某处；到某处
- slip
- 滑动；悄悄移动；溜走
- down
- 向下；下降方向的介词或副词
- by
- 由；被；在...旁边的介词
- her
- 她的；代词her的属格形式
- side
- 侧面；旁边；身体的一侧
- she
- 她；女性主语代词
- remained
- 保持；停留；继续处于某状态
- lost
- 迷失的；沉浸于；失去的
- in
- 在...里面；表示位置或状态的介词
- melancholy
- 忧郁；悲伤；阴郁的心情或气氛
- reflections
- 反思；思考；深思熟虑的想法
- from
- 来自；从...开始的介词
- which
- 哪个；关系代词指事物
- was
- 是；过去式be动词
- drawn
- 吸引；拉动；被吸引的过去分词
- light
- 光；亮的；轻的多义词
- murmur
- 低语；窃窃私语；轻声说话
- such
- 这样的；如此的；类似的
- as
- 作为；当...时；如同的连词
- one
- 一；某个人；数字1
- hears
- 听到；听见；用耳朵感知声音
- sometimes
- 有时；偶尔；不时地
- silence
- 寂静；沉默；没有声音的状态
- of
- 的；属于；表示所有格的介词
- night
- 夜晚；夜间；晚上
- when
- 当...时候；什么时候；何时的连词
- persons
- 人；个人；人物
- are
- 是；现在时be动词复数形式
- speaking
- 说话；讲话；发言
- low
- 低的；声音小的；位置低的
- voice
- 声音；嗓音；发言权
- distant
- 远的；遥远的；距离远的
- part
- 部分；零件；角色
- house
- 房子；房屋；住所
- listened
- 听；倾听；仔细注意声音
- with
- 与...一起；用；带有的介词
- deep
- 深的；深度大的；深层的
- attention
- 注意；注意力；关注
- for
- 为了；给；持续时间的介词
- some
- 一些；某个；部分的
- time
- 时间；时刻；时代
- Usually
- 通常；一般地；常常
- disliked
- 不喜欢；厌恶；讨厌
- sound
- 声音；音响；健全的
- conversation
- 对话；谈话；交谈
- it
- 它；代词it
- struck
- 打击；敲；给人印象
- harshly
- 刺耳地；严厉地；粗暴地
- on
- 在...上；打开；向前的介词
- organs
- 器官；机关；风琴
- and
- 和；并且；与
- seemed
- 似乎；好像；显得
- sort
- 种类；类型；分类
- mimic
- 模仿；模拟者；学样
- thunder
- 雷；雷声；雷鸣
- but
- 但是；可是；然而的连词
- these
- 这些；这类；这个的复数
- sounds
- 声音；音响；多个声音
- had
- 有；曾经；过去式have
- nothing
- 没有什么；无物；不重要的事
- discordant
- 不协调的；不和谐的；冲突的
- disagreeable
- 令人不快的；不愉快的；讨厌的
- them
- 他们；她们；它们的宾格
- ear
- 耳朵；听觉；听力
- As
- 作为；当...时；如同的连词
- been
- 是；过去分词be动词
- forced
- 被迫的；强行的；被强制的
- observe
- 观察；注意；遵守
- rather
- 相当地；宁愿；更确切地说
- than
- 比；而不是；对比连词
- act
- 行动；表演；法案
- faculties
- 能力；才能；官能；学院
- took
- 取；拿；过去式take
- new
- 新的；崭新的；新近的
- direction
- 方向；指向；管理方向
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