The Expedition of Humphry Clinker — Page 1
这些药丸毫无用处——我不如吞几个雪球来降降火——我已经一再告诉你,我这人是多么难以调动;而且到了我这个年纪,我应该对自己的体质有所了解。
The pills are good for nothing--I might as well swallow snowballs to cool my reins--I have told you over and over how hard I am to move; and at this time of day, I ought to know something of my own constitution.
你为什么这么固执?请再给我开一个药方——我浑身酸痛,四肢受尽折磨,简直像被绑在车轮上碾过一般。
Why will you be so positive? Prithee send me another prescription--I am as lame and as much tortured in all my limbs as if I was broke upon the wheel:
说实话,我身心同样痛苦——好像我自己的烦恼还不够多似的,我姐姐的那些孩子被留给我,成了我无穷无尽的烦恼之源——人们有什么必要生下孩子来折磨邻居呢?
indeed, I am equally distressed in mind and body--As if I had not plagues enough of my own, those children of my sister are left me for a perpetual source of vexation--what business have people to get children to plague their neighbours?
昨天发生在我外甥女莉迪身上的一件荒唐事,让我心烦意乱,我预料自己又要痛风发作卧床不起了——也许我在下封信中会详细说明。
A ridiculous incident that happened yesterday to my niece Liddy, has disordered me in such a manner, that I expect to be laid up with another fit of the gout--perhaps, I may explain myself in my next.
我明天早上将动身前往布里斯托尔的温泉,恐怕要在那里逗留比我希望的更长时间。
I shall set out tomorrow morning for the Hot Well at Bristol, where I am afraid I shall stay longer than I could wish.
收到此信后,请派威廉斯带着我的鞍马和半鞍鞍具前往那里。
On the receipt of this send Williams thither with my saddle-horse and the demi pique.
告诉巴恩斯将那两垛旧麦堆脱粒,把粮食送到市场,以低于市价一先令一蒲式耳的价格卖给穷人。
Tell Barns to thresh out the two old ricks, and send the corn to market, and sell it off to the poor at a shilling a bushel under market price.
我收到了格里芬发来的一封涕泣不止的信,表示愿意公开认错并承担诉讼费用。
I have received a snivelling letter from Griffin, offering to make a public submission and pay costs.
Vocabulary
- pills
- 药丸,小圆形药物
- good
- 好的,有益的,令人满意的
- nothing
- 没有东西,毫无价值的东西
- might
- 可能,过去式的can,表示可能性
- well
- 好地,很好,健康的
- swallow
- 吞咽,燕子,接受
- snowballs
- 雪球,冬季用雪做的球
- cool
- 凉爽的,冷静的,使变凉
- reins
- 缰绳,用来控制马匹的绳子
- told
- 告诉,说,过去式
- over
- 在...上方,超过,结束
- hard
- 困难的,硬的,艰苦地
- move
- 移动,搬家,感动
- time
- 时间,时代,次数
- day
- 白天,日子,一天
- ought
- 应该,应当,有道德义务
- know
- 知道,认识,了解
- something
- 某事,某物,重要的事
- own
- 自己的,拥有,承认
- constitution
- 体质,宪法,组成
- will
- 将会,意愿,遗嘱
- so
- 所以,这样,非常
- positive
- 肯定的,确定的,积极的
- send
- 发送,寄,派遣
- another
- 另一个,再一个,不同的
- prescription
- 处方,药方,医生开的药
- lame
- 跛的,瘸的,无力的
- much
- 许多,大量,很
- tortured
- 折磨,拷打,严重地困扰
- all
- 所有的,全部,每一个
- limbs
- 四肢,腿和臂,身体部分
- broke
- 打破,折断,破产
- upon
- 在...上,在...之上
- wheel
- 轮子,车轮,转动
- indeed
- 确实,真的,实际上
- equally
- 同样地,相等地,平等地
- distressed
- 痛苦的,忧伤的,困顿的
- mind
- 思想,心灵,在意
- body
- 身体,尸体,主体
- plagues
- 瘟疫,灾难,使困扰
- enough
- 足够的,充分的
- children
- 孩子,儿童,复数形式
- sister
- 姐妹,修女,女护士
- left
- 左边,离开,剩余
- perpetual
- 永久的,永恒的,不断的
- source
- 来源,源头,水源
- vexation
- 烦恼,恼怒,令人讨厌的事
- business
- 生意,商业,事务
- people
- 人们,人,民族
- get
- 得到,获得,变成
- plague
- 瘟疫,灾难,骚扰
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