The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete — Page 9
在第二部作品中,我们看到斯摩莱特开始理解如何运用事件来展示人物性格的连贯发展。
In the second of these, we saw Smollett beginning to understand the use of incident to indicate consistent development of character.
在《费辛伯爵》中,他似乎完全理解了这一艺术原则,尽管他尚未学会如何成功地加以运用。
In Count Fathom, he seems fully to understand this principle of art, though he has not learned to apply it successfully.
因此,尽管构思出色,费辛这个人物正如我所说,显得不够真实。
And so, in spite of an excellent conception, Fathom, as I have said, is unreal.
在他犯下种种恶行之后——那些罪行似乎从未令他有过丝毫的良心不安——他竟真心悔过,这实在令人难以置信。
After all his villainies, which he perpetrates without any apparent qualms of conscience, it is incredible that he should honestly repent of his crimes.
当我们读到"他的邪念与野心如今已在内心彻底熄灭"时,我们很难不产生怀疑,尽管《汉弗里·克林克》中马修·布兰布尔先生随后的证词与此相悖。
We are much inclined to doubt when we read that "his vice and ambition was now quite mortified within him," the subsequent testimony of Matthew Bramble, Esq., in Humphry Clinker, to the contrary, notwithstanding.
然而,费辛在此之前的形象是前后一贯的,并且是有其用意的——旨在说明冷酷的无赖行径虽然能得意一时,终究难逃失败的下场。
Yet Fathom up to this point is consistently drawn, and drawn for a purpose:—to show that cold-blooded roguery, though successful for a while, will come to grief in the end.
为了衬托这个恶棍的效果,斯摩莱特在他身旁塑造了一个与之并行的人物——品德高尚的梅尔维尔伯爵。
To heighten the effect of his scoundrel, Smollett develops parallel with him the virtuous Count de Melvil.
作者以一个人物作为另一个人物的陪衬这一构思,虽然谈不上有何独创性,却显示出在构建技巧理论上的显著进步。
The author's scheme of thus using one character as the foil of another, though not conspicuous for its originality, shows a decided advance in the theory of constructive technique.
只是,正如我所说,斯摩莱特在这里的写作执行仍有不足之处。
Only, as I have said, Smollett's execution is now defective.
然而,人们自然会问:"如果《费辛》缺少斯摩莱特以往小说中那种妙趣横生、时常令人振奋的喧嚣混乱;如果书中人物虽然构思得当,却鲜少令人捧腹,也从未真正栩栩如生;那么,这本书究竟凭什么引人入胜?"
"But," one will naturally ask, "if Fathom lacks the amusing, and not infrequently stimulating, hurly-burly of Smollett's former novels; if its characters, though well-conceived, are seldom divertingly fantastic and never thoroughly animate; what makes the book interesting?
Vocabulary
- in
- 表示位置、时间或状态的介词
- the
- 英语定冠词,用于特指某个事物
- second
- 数字二;第二个的;次要的
- of
- 表示所有关系或从属关系的介词
- these
- 这些人或物;这些事物的代词
- we
- 第一人称复数代词,表示我们
- saw
- see的过去式,看到或观察到
- beginning
- 开始或初期阶段
- to
- 不定式标记或表示方向的介词
- understand
- 理解、明白或领悟某件事
- use
- 使用或运用某物或某种方法
- incident
- 事件或发生的事情
- indicate
- 指示、表明或表示某事
- consistent
- 一致的、符合的或坚持的
- development
- 发展、进展或成长过程
- character
- 人物、性格或品质特征
- Count
- 伯爵或贵族的身份头衔
- Fathom
- 人名或理解、深入理解之意
- he
- 第三人称单数男性代词
- seems
- 似乎、好像或显得
- fully
- 完全地、充分地或彻底地
- this
- 这个或这件事的指示代词
- principle
- 原则、基本法则或准则
- art
- 艺术或技艺、手艺
- though
- 虽然、尽管的连接词
- has
- have的第三人称单数形式
- not
- 否定词,表示不或没有
- learned
- 学到或获得知识和技能
- apply
- 应用、运用或申请
- it
- 第三人称单数中性代词
- successfully
- 成功地、圆满地或顺利地
- and
- 连接词,表示并且或和
- so
- 因此、所以或这样
- spite
- 恶意、尽管或不顾
- an
- 不定冠词,用于元音音素前
- excellent
- 优秀的、卓越的或出色的
- conception
- 概念、想法或怀孕
- as
- 作为、因为或当...时
- have
- 拥有或已经发生的助动词
- said
- 说过或之前提到的
- is
- be动词第三人称单数现在式
- unreal
- 不真实的、虚幻的或假的
- after
- 在...之后的时间或顺序
- all
- 全部、所有的或完全
- his
- 他的、属于他的所有格代词
- villainies
- 邪恶行为、坏事或恶劣行为
- which
- 哪个、哪些的关系代词
- perpetrates
- 犯下、实施或进行某种坏事
- without
- 没有或不含有某物
- any
- 任何的或一些的
- apparent
- 明显的、显然的或看起来
- qualms
- 不安、怀疑或良心上的不适
- conscience
- 良心、道德意识或内疚感
- incredible
- 难以置信的、不可信的
- that
- 那个、那种或引导从句的词
- should
- 应该或应当的情态动词
- honestly
- 诚实地、坦白地或老实地
- repent
- 悔改、忏悔或感到后悔
- crimes
- 犯罪或严重的违法行为
- are
- be动词第二人称或复数形式
- much
- 很多的、大量的或非常
- inclined
- 倾向于、有意向或倾斜的
- doubt
- 怀疑、疑惑或不确定
- when
- 当...时候的时间连接词
- read
- 阅读或读取文字
- vice
- 恶习、缺点或邪恶
- ambition
- 野心、抱负或追求成功的欲望
- was
- be动词过去式单数形式
- now
- 现在、此刻或当前
- quite
- 相当、颇为或完全
- mortified
- 感到羞愧或被压制的
- within
- 在...里面或内部
- him
- 他的宾格形式,指男性
- subsequent
- 随后的、之后的或后来的
- testimony
- 证词、证明或证据
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