The Brothers Karamazov — Page 2
此后他在国外生活了许多年,但在那个时候他还是个相当年轻的人,在米乌索夫家族中以思想开明、具有欧洲文化修养而著称,曾去过各大城市和国外。
He lived for many years afterwards abroad, but was at that time quite a young man, and distinguished among the Miüsovs as a man of enlightened ideas and of European culture, who had been in the capitals and abroad.
到了晚年,他成为了一名四五十年代那种常见类型的自由派人士。
Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties.
在他的职业生涯中,他曾与俄国和国外许多最著名的自由派人士有过交往。
In the course of his career he had come into contact with many of the most Liberal men of his epoch, both in Russia and abroad.
他曾与蒲鲁东和巴枯宁私交甚笃,在他晚年时,非常喜欢描述1848年二月巴黎革命的那三天,并暗示自己当时几乎参与了街垒上的战斗。
He had known Proudhon and Bakunin personally, and in his declining years was very fond of describing the three days of the Paris Revolution of February 1848, hinting that he himself had almost taken part in the fighting on the barricades.
这是他青年时代最令人难忘的回忆之一。
This was one of the most grateful recollections of his youth.
他拥有约一千个农奴的独立财产,按旧制来算。
He had an independent property of about a thousand souls, to reckon in the old style.
他那宏伟的庄园位于我们小镇的郊区,与我们著名修道院的土地相毗邻,彼得·亚历山德罗维奇一接管庄园,几乎立刻就与修道院展开了一场旷日持久的诉讼,争议涉及河中捕鱼权或林中伐木权,我记不清究竟是哪一项了。
His splendid estate lay on the outskirts of our little town and bordered on the lands of our famous monastery, with which Pyotr Alexandrovitch began an endless lawsuit, almost as soon as he came into the estate, concerning the rights of fishing in the river or wood-cutting in the forest, I don't know exactly which.
他认为,作为一名公民和有文化修养的人,向"教权人士"发起攻势是他的责任。
He regarded it as his duty as a citizen and a man of culture to open an attack upon the "clericals.
Vocabulary
- lived
- 居住,生活(live的过去式)
- afterwards
- 此后,之后,随后
- abroad
- 在国外,去海外
- quite
- 相当,颇为,十分
- distinguished
- 杰出的,著名的,卓越的
- among
- 在……之中,在……当中
- enlightened
- 开明的,有启蒙思想的
- European
- 欧洲的,欧洲人的
- culture
- 文化,文明
- capitals
- 首都,首府(capital的复数)
- Towards
- 朝向,接近,到……时
- Liberal
- 自由主义的,思想开明的
- type
- 类型,种类,类别
- common
- 普通的,常见的,共同的
- forties
- 四十年代,四十多岁
- fifties
- 五十年代,五十多岁
- course
- 过程,进程,课程
- career
- 职业,事业,生涯
- contact
- 接触,联系,交往
- epoch
- 时代,时期,纪元
- personally
- 亲自地,个人地
- declining
- 衰退期,晚年(decline的动名词)
- fond
- 喜爱的,热衷的
- describing
- 描述,描写(describe的动名词)
- Revolution
- 革命,剧变
- February
- 二月,一年中第二个月
- hinting
- 暗示,提示(hint的动名词)
- almost
- 几乎,差不多
- fighting
- 战斗,打仗(fight的动名词)
- barricades
- 路障,街垒(barricade的复数)
- grateful
- 感激的,令人感激的
- recollections
- 回忆,记忆(recollection的复数)
- youth
- 青春,年轻时代
- independent
- 独立的,自主的
- property
- 财产,房产,所有物
- thousand
- 一千,千
- souls
- 灵魂,人口(旧时指农奴数量)
- reckon
- 计算,估计,认为
- style
- 风格,方式,样式
- splendid
- 壮丽的,极好的,辉煌的
- estate
- 庄园,地产,房产
- lay
- 位于,坐落(lie的过去式)
- outskirts
- 郊区,市郊,边缘地带
- bordered
- 与……接壤,毗邻(border的过去式)
- lands
- 土地,陆地(land的复数)
- famous
- 著名的,出名的
- monastery
- 修道院,寺院
- endless
- 无尽的,无休止的,漫长的
- lawsuit
- 诉讼,官司,法律纠纷
- concerning
- 关于,有关,涉及
- rights
- 权利,权益(right的复数)
- fishing
- 捕鱼,钓鱼
- wood-cutting
- 伐木,砍伐木材
- forest
- 森林,树林
- exactly
- 确切地,精确地,完全地
- regarded
- 认为,看待(regard的过去式)
- duty
- 职责,义务,责任
- citizen
- 公民,市民
- attack
- 攻击,抨击,批评
- upon
- 在……之上,对……(on的正式说法)
- clericals
- 神职人员,教会人士(clerical的复数)
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