Piccolissima — Page 9
其中一只苍蝇——是那只年长的——用它那棕色闪亮的千面复眼之一盯着这个小神童，复眼四周镶着金色的睫毛，它随后一只一只地把小黑脚搭上那根糖棒，伸出口器，贪婪地吮吸起来。
One of the flies--it was the elder--having fixed upon the little prodigy one of the thousand faces of his brown, sparkling eyes, surrounded with golden eyelashes, he then placed, one by one, his little black feet upon the stick of sugar candy, stretched forth his trunk, and began to suck with eagerness.
皮可利希玛这时有足够的时间去细细端详这个生物，她觉得它的器官和自己的一样脆弱渺小。她饶有兴味地观察着它那奇异的形态：近乎圆柱形的身体分为三个部分，脑袋比长度更宽，是一个不规则的球体，上面耸立着两根触角——也叫天线。
Piccolissima had now time enough to contemplate a being whose organs she thought were like her own in their weakness. She found pleasure in examining the extraordinary form of its almost cylindrical body, divided into three parts, and a head wider than it was long, an irregular globe surmounted by two horns, or antennae, as they are called.
那双眼睛最让她好奇。她试图数清那无数个细小的小面，排列得如此规整，如此精巧地切割成六边形，比钻石还要光滑、还要璀璨。
The eyes most excited her curiosity. She attempted to count their numerous little faces, so regular, so finely cut into hexagons, more polished, more brilliant than diamonds.
当皮可利希玛数到一百时，她从一个小小的盒子里——那是家传的宝贝——取出几枚细针，把其中一枚插在她所坐的垫子上，打算以此标记每数满的一百个；然而她还没数到五百，就发现自己气力和知识都告匮乏——说实话，她对算术的了解还不足以数清一只苍蝇的眼睛。
When Piccolissima had counted one hundred, she drew from a very small box, which was a family treasure, some minikin pins, and stuck one of them into the cushion on which she was seated, intending thus to mark every hundred that she counted; but she had not counted thus half a thousand, before she found that breath and knowledge failed her; in truth, she did not know enough of arithmetic to count the eyes of a fly.
就在她着手数的第一组眼面——苍蝇右侧那一组——她连十六分之一都还没数完。
In the very first group which she undertook to count, that on the right side of the fly, she had not counted a sixteenth part.
Vocabulary
- flies
- 苍蝇（复数），一种常见昆虫
- elder
- 年长的，指年纪较大的一方
- fixed
- 固定的；将目光/注意力集中于某处
- upon
- 在……之上，相当于on，较正式
- prodigy
- 神童，天才；令人惊奇的事物
- sparkling
- 闪闪发光的，形容眼睛明亮有神
- surrounded
- 被……环绕，包围在周围
- golden
- 金色的，像黄金一样的颜色
- eyelashes
- 睫毛（复数），眼睑边缘的毛发
- stick
- 棍棒；粘贴；将……插入
- sugar candy
- 冰糖，糖果，一种甜食
- stretched
- 伸展，拉伸，向外延伸
- forth
- 向前，向外，stretch forth意为伸出
- trunk
- （大象的）鼻子；树干；行李箱
- suck
- 吮吸，用嘴吸食某物
- eagerness
- 热切，渴望，急切的态度
- contemplate
- 仔细观察或深思，沉思某事物
- being
- 生物，存在的个体；存在
- organs
- 器官（复数），生物体的功能组织
- weakness
- 弱点，软弱，缺乏力量
- pleasure
- 乐趣，快乐，令人愉快的感受
- examining
- 检查，仔细观察，研究
- extraordinary
- 非凡的，非常不寻常的，令人惊奇的
- form
- 形状，外形，形式
- cylindrical
- 圆柱形的，像圆筒一样的形状
- divided
- 被分成，划分为若干部分
- irregular
- 不规则的，不整齐的，形状不均匀
- globe
- 球体，球形物；地球仪
- surmounted
- 顶部有……；克服（此处指位于顶端）
- horns
- 角（复数），动物头上的坚硬突起
- antennae
- 触角（复数），昆虫头部的感觉器官
- excited
- 兴奋的，激动的
- curiosity
- 好奇心，想了解新奇事物的欲望
- attempted
- 尝试，试图做某事
- numerous
- 众多的，数量很多的
- regular
- 规则的，整齐的，有规律的
- finely
- 精细地，精巧地，做工精致
- hexagons
- 六边形（复数），有六条边的几何图形
- polished
- 抛光的，光滑闪亮的
- brilliant
- 光辉灿烂的；聪明的；出色的
- diamonds
- 钻石（复数），珍贵的透明宝石
- drew
- 取出，拉出，draw的过去式
- treasure
- 珍宝，宝贝，珍视的物品
- minikin
- 极小的，微型的；小别针
- pins
- 大头针（复数），细小的金属针
- stuck
- 插入，刺入，stick的过去式
- cushion
- 垫子，坐垫，柔软的填充物
- intending
- 打算，有意图要做某事
- thus
- 这样，因此，用这种方式
- mark
- 标记，做记号；分数
- breath
- 呼吸，一口气
- knowledge
- 知识，学问，了解某事的能力
- failed
- 失败了，不足了，fail的过去式
- truth
- 真相，事实，真理
- arithmetic
- 算术，基本数学运算
- fly
- 苍蝇；飞行
- undertook
- 着手做，承担，undertake的过去式
- sixteenth
- 第十六，十六分之一
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