The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People — Page 5
在我允许你娶她之前，你必须把西西莉的事情彻底说清楚。【按铃。】
And before I allow you to marry her, you will have to clear up the whole question of Cecily. [Rings bell.]
杰克：西西莉！你到底是什么意思？阿尔吉，你说西西莉是什么意思！我不认识任何一个叫西西莉的人。
JACK. Cecily! What on earth do you mean? What do you mean, Algy, by Cecily! I don't know any one of the name of Cecily.
【莱恩上场。】
[Enter Lane.]
阿尔杰农：把沃辛先生上次在这里用餐时落在吸烟室里的那个香烟盒拿来给我。
ALGERNON. Bring me that cigarette case Mr. Worthing left in the smoking-room the last time he dined here.
莱恩：是的，先生。【莱恩退场。】
LANE. Yes, sir. [Lane goes out.]
杰克：你是说这个香烟盒一直在你那里？真希望你早点告诉我。我一直在疯狂地给苏格兰场写信。我差点就要悬赏寻找了。
JACK. Do you mean to say you have had my cigarette case all this time? I wish to goodness you had let me know. I have been writing frantic letters to Scotland Yard about it. I was very nearly offering a large reward.
阿尔杰农：那好啊，我倒希望你真的去悬赏。我最近手头比平常更紧。
ALGERNON. Well, I wish you would offer one. I happen to be more than usually hard up.
杰克：东西都找到了，现在再悬赏也没什么意义了。
JACK. There is no good offering a large reward now that the thing is found.
【莱恩端着托盘拿着香烟盒上场。阿尔杰农立刻取走。莱恩退场。】
[Enter Lane with the cigarette case on a salver. Algernon takes it at once. Lane goes out.]
阿尔杰农：我必须说，欧内斯特，你这样做未免太小气了。【打开盒子仔细查看。】不过，这也无所谓了，因为现在我看了里面的题字，发现这东西根本就不是你的。
ALGERNON. I think that is rather mean of you, Ernest, I must say. [Opens case and examines it.] However, it makes no matter, for, now that I look at the inscription inside, I find that the thing isn't yours after all.
杰克：这当然是我的。【走近他。】你见过我拿着它不下百次，而且你根本没有任何权利去读里面写的东西。
JACK. Of course it's mine. [Moving to him.] You have seen me with it a hundred times, and you have no right whatsoever to read what is written inside.
Vocabulary
- before
- 在某事发生之前；先于
- allow
- 允许、准许某人做某事
- marry
- 与某人结婚，成为配偶
- clear
- 清楚的；弄清楚，澄清某问题
- whole
- 整个的，全部的，完整的
- question
- 问题；需要解决或讨论的事项
- Rings
- 按铃、摇铃，发出铃声
- bell
- 铃，钟，用于召唤或发信号
- earth
- 地球；用于感叹句中表示强调
- mean
- 意思是；表示某种含义
- Enter
- 舞台指示词，表示角色登场
- Bring
- 带来，把某物拿来给某人
- cigarette
- 香烟，一种小型烟草制品
- case
- 盒子，容器；此处指香烟盒
- left
- 遗忘、留下某物在某处
- smoking
- 吸烟的；smoking room指吸烟室
- dined
- 用餐，尤指正式的晚餐
- sir
- 先生，对男性的尊敬称呼
- wish
- 希望，愿望，表示期望某事
- goodness
- 善良；感叹词，表示惊讶
- let
- 让，允许某人做某事
- frantic
- 极度焦虑的，慌乱的，狂乱的
- Scotland
- 苏格兰；Scotland Yard指伦敦警察厅
- Yard
- 院子；Scotland Yard指伦敦警察总部
- nearly
- 几乎，差不多，接近于某状态
- offering
- 提供，给予；提出某种奖励
- reward
- 奖励，悬赏，对某行为的报酬
- offer
- 提供，提出，给予某物或机会
- happen
- 碰巧，恰好；某事偶然发生
- usually
- 通常，一般情况下，惯常地
- hard
- 困难的；此处指难以寻找
- salver
- 托盘，用于端送物品的盘子
- once
- 立刻，马上；at once表示立即
- rather
- 相当，颇为；或者表示宁愿
- must
- 必须，一定，表示强烈义务
- examines
- 仔细检查，审视某物的细节
- However
- 然而，但是，表示转折关系
- matter
- 事情，问题；no matter意为没关系
- inscription
- 题词，刻字，写在物品内的字
- inside
- 在里面，内部，内侧
- course
- 当然；of course表示理所当然
- Moving
- 移动，走向；此处为舞台动作指示
- right
- 权利；no right意为没有权利
- whatsoever
- 任何，强调形式，完全没有
- written
- write的过去分词，已写下的内容
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