The Picture of Dorian Gray — Page 2

在房间的中央，一幅年轻男子的全身肖像被夹在一架直立的画架上，那男子容貌出众，风姿卓越。画架前方不远处，坐着画家本人——巴兹尔·霍尔沃德。他数年前的突然失踪，当时曾引起公众极大的轰动，并引发了许多离奇的猜测。

In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.

当这位画家凝视着他以精湛技艺呈现于画布之上的那优雅俊美的身姿时，一抹愉悦的微笑掠过他的脸庞，似乎想在那里久久停留。然而他忽然站起身来，闭上双眼，将手指按在眼睑上，仿佛他想将某个奇异的梦境囚禁在脑海之中，生怕自己会从那梦中醒来。

As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

「这是你最好的作品，巴兹尔，是你有生以来画得最好的东西，」亨利勋爵懒洋洋地说道。「你明年一定要把它送去格罗夫纳画廊展出。皇家学院太大，也太俗气了。每次我去那里，不是人多得我根本看不见画，令人沮丧；就是画多得我根本看不见人，那就更糟了。格罗夫纳才真正是唯一合适的地方。」

"It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done," said Lord Henry languidly. "You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse. The Grosvenor is really the only place."

「我不打算把它送去任何地方，」他回答道，以那种他在牛津时常常逗得朋友们发笑的奇特方式，将头向后一仰。「不，我不会把它送去任何地方的。」

"I don't think I shall send it anywhere," he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way that used to make his friends laugh at him at Oxford. "No, I won't send it anywhere.