The King in Yellow — Page 6
如果我没有瞥见第二幕开头的那几个字，我本不会读完它，但当我弯腰去捡起它时，我的目光被那翻开的书页深深吸引住了。
If I had not caught a glimpse of the opening words in the second act I should never have finished it, but as I stooped to pick it up, my eyes became riveted to the open page,
我发出一声惊恐的叫喊——也许那是极度强烈的喜悦，让我每一根神经都饱受煎熬——将那东西从炭火中抢了出来，颤抖着爬回卧室。
and with a cry of terror, or perhaps it was of joy so poignant that I suffered in every nerve, I snatched the thing out of the coals and crept shaking to my bedroom,
在那里，我一遍又一遍地读它，哭泣、大笑、颤抖，被一种恐惧攫住——那恐惧有时至今仍向我袭来。
where I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with a horror which at times assails me yet.
令我心神不宁的正是这件事，因为我无法忘记卡尔科萨——那里黑色的星辰悬挂在天际；那里人们思想的影子在午后渐渐拉长，当双子太阳沉入哈利湖中时。
This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali;
而那苍白面具的记忆，将永远留存于我的心中。
and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask.
我祈求上帝诅咒这位作者，正如这位作者用这部美丽而宏大的作品诅咒了整个世界——它以其简洁而令人震惊，以其真实而令人无法抗拒。
I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—
那是一个如今在黄衣之王面前颤抖的世界。
a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow.
当法国政府没收了刚刚抵达巴黎的译本时，伦敦自然而然地变得急切地想要读它。
When the French Government seized the translated copies which had just arrived in Paris, London, of course, became eager to read it.
众所周知，这本书如同传染病一般蔓延开来，从城市到城市，从大陆到大陆，在这里遭到禁止，在那里被没收，被报界和讲坛谴责，甚至被最激进的文学无政府主义者所批判。
It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out here, confiscated there, denounced by Press and pulpit, censured even by the most advanced of literary anarchists.
Vocabulary
- if
- 表示条件或假设的连词
- had
- have的过去式，表示拥有或经历
- not
- 否定词，表示否定或拒绝
- caught
- catch的过去式，表示捕捉或患病
- glimpse
- 短暂的一瞥或瞬间的看见
- of
- 介词，表示属于、来自或关于
- the
- 定冠词，表示特定的人或物
- opening
- 开场、开始或初始阶段
- words
- word的复数，表示单词或言语
- in
- 介词，表示在...里面或时间范围内
- second
- 第二个或秒钟，时间单位
- act
- 戏剧的一幕或行动
- should
- 情态动词，表示应该或推测
- never
- 副词，表示从不或永不
- have
- 动词，表示拥有或完成
- finished
- finish的过去式，表示完成
- it
- 代词，代表前面提到的事物
- but
- 连词，表示转折或对比
- as
- 连词或介词，表示当...时或如同
- stooped
- 弯腰或俯身的动作
- to
- 不定式标记或表示方向
- pick
- 拿起或采摘
- up
- 副词，表示向上或捡起
- my
- 所有格代词，表示我的
- eyes
- eye的复数，表示眼睛
- became
- become的过去式，变成
- riveted
- 被牢牢吸引或固定
- open
- 打开或敞开
- page
- 书籍或文件的一页
- and
- 连词，表示和或并且
- with
- 介词，表示伴随或用...
- cry
- 哭喊或叫声
- terror
- 极度的恐惧或惊恐
- or
- 连词，表示或者
- perhaps
- 也许或可能
- was
- be的过去式，表示是
- joy
- 快乐或欢喜的感受
- so
- 副词，表示如此或非常
- poignant
- 令人感伤或深刻打动人心
- that
- 连词或代词，指示那个
- suffered
- suffer的过去式，表示遭受
- every
- 每个或所有的
- nerve
- 神经或勇气
- snatched
- snatch的过去式，抢夺
- thing
- 事物或东西
- out
- 副词，表示出去或熄灭
- coals
- 煤炭或炽热的木炭
- crept
- creep的过去式，蹑手蹑脚地走
- shaking
- 颤抖或摇晃
- bedroom
- 卧室或睡房
- where
- 副词，表示在哪里
- read
- 阅读或读书
- reread
- 重新阅读或再读一遍
- wept
- weep的过去式，哭泣
- laughed
- laugh的过去式，笑
- trembled
- tremble的过去式，颤抖
- horror
- 恐怖或令人厌恶的感受
- which
- 关系代词，指代前面的事物
- at
- 介词，表示在某处或时间
- times
- time的复数，表示次数或时间
- assails
- assail的第三人称单数，攻击
- me
- 代词，表示我
- yet
- 副词，表示然而或仍然
- this
- 指示代词，表示这个
- is
- be的第三人称单数现在式
- troubles
- 麻烦或困扰，trouble的复数
- for
- 介词或连词，表示为了或因为
- cannot
- can的否定形式，不能
- forget
- 遗忘或忘记
- black
- 颜色黑色或黑暗的
- stars
- star的复数，表示星星
- hang
- 悬挂或吊起
- heavens
- 天堂或天空
- shadows
- shadow的复数，影子或阴影
- men
- man的复数，表示男人
- thoughts
- thought的复数，思想或想法
- lengthen
- 变长或延长
- afternoon
- 下午的时间
- when
- 连词或副词，表示什么时候
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