The Picture of Dorian Gray — Page 10
并不是良心驱使我这样做的：而是一种懦弱。我并不为自己试图逃脱而感到自豪。"
It was not conscience that made me do so: it was a sort of cowardice. I take no credit to myself for trying to escape."
"良心和懦弱其实是同一回事，巴兹尔。良心不过是这家公司的商号，仅此而已。"
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all."
"我不相信这一点，哈利，我也不相信你自己相信。不管怎样，不论我的动机是什么——也许是骄傲，因为我从前非常骄傲——我确实挣扎着走向了门口。当然，在那里我撞上了布兰登夫人。'你不会这么快就要逃走吧，霍华德先生？'她尖声叫道。你知道她那奇怪的刺耳嗓音吧？"
"I don't believe that, Harry, and I don't believe you do either. However, whatever was my motive—and it may have been pride, for I used to be very proud—I certainly struggled to the door. There, of course, I stumbled against Lady Brandon. 'You are not going to run away so soon, Mr. Hallward?' she screamed out. You know her curiously shrill voice?"
"是的；她除了美貌之外，处处都像一只孔雀，"亨利勋爵说道，用他那修长而紧张的手指将雏菊一片片地撕碎。
"Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty," said Lord Henry, pulling the daisy to bits with his long nervous fingers.
我怎么也摆脱不了她。她把我引荐给皇室成员，引荐给那些佩戴勋章绶带的人，还有戴着巨大头冠、长着鹦鹉鼻子的年长女士们。她称我为她最亲密的朋友。我之前只见过她一次，但她却异想天开地要把我捧成名人。我想那时我有幅画大获成功，至少在那些廉价小报上被议论纷纷——那是十九世纪衡量不朽的标准。
I could not get rid of her. She brought me up to royalties, and people with stars and garters, and elderly ladies with gigantic tiaras and parrot noses. She spoke of me as her dearest friend. I had only met her once before, but she took it into her head to lionize me. I believe some picture of mine had made a great success at the time, at least had been chattered about in the penny newspapers, which is the nineteenth-century standard of immortality.
突然间，我发现自己与那位曾如此奇异地打动过我的年轻人面对面地站着。我们靠得很近，几乎触碰到了彼此。我们的目光再次相遇。
Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me. We were quite close, almost touching. Our eyes met again.
Vocabulary
- conscience
- 良心，内心对是非对错的道德感
- sort
- 一种，某类，表示种类的名词
- cowardice
- 怯懦，缺乏勇气面对困难的行为
- credit
- 功劳，荣誉，对某事的肯定认可
- escape
- 逃脱，逃避，离开危险或困境
- Conscience
- 良心，道德意识，判断是非的内心感
- trade-name
- 商品名，商标名称，用于商业的名称
- firm
- 公司，商行，也可指坚定的形容词
- However
- 然而，但是，表示转折的连接副词
- whatever
- 无论什么，不管怎样的复合代词
- motive
- 动机，驱使人采取行动的内在原因
- pride
- 骄傲，自豪，对自身价值的强烈感受
- proud
- 骄傲的，自豪的，感到自满或荣誉
- certainly
- 当然，确实，表示肯定或确定的副词
- struggled
- 挣扎，努力，艰难地尝试做某事
- stumbled
- 绊倒，偶然遇到，意外碰见某人
- Lady
- 女士，贵妇，英国贵族女性的称谓
- screamed
- 尖叫，大声喊叫，发出尖锐的叫声
- curiously
- 奇怪地，好奇地，以令人好奇的方式
- shrill
- 尖锐的，刺耳的，声音高而尖细
- peacock
- 孔雀，以美丽羽毛著称的鸟，喻自大者
- beauty
- 美丽，美貌，令人赏心悦目的特质
- Lord
- 勋爵，贵族男性称谓，主人，上帝
- daisy
- 雏菊，一种白色花瓣黄色花心的野花
- bits
- 碎片，小块，将东西撕扯成的小部分
- nervous
- 紧张的，神经质的，焦虑不安的
- rid
- 摆脱，get rid of表示除掉某物或某人
- royalties
- 皇室成员，版税，此处指王室相关人物
- garters
- 吊袜带，嘉德勋章，英国最高骑士勋位
- elderly
- 年长的，上了年纪的，形容老年人
- gigantic
- 巨大的，庞大的，体积或规模极大
- tiaras
- 头冠，宝石发冠，贵族女性的头饰
- parrot
- 鹦鹉，一种能模仿人说话的鸟
- dearest
- 最亲爱的，最珍贵的，dear的最高级
- lionize
- 将某人奉为名人，热情追捧当作明星
- success
- 成功，成就，达到目标或获得好评
- chattered
- 喋喋不休，快速而随意地大量谈论
- penny
- 便士，极低廉的，penny newspapers指廉价报纸
- nineteenth-century
- 十九世纪的，属于1800年代的时代
- standard
- 标准，水平，衡量事物的基准尺度
- immortality
- 不朽，永生，永久被记住的状态
- Suddenly
- 突然，忽然，表示出乎意料地发生
- personality
- 个性，人格，一个人独特的性格特征
- strangely
- 奇怪地，奇妙地，以不寻常的方式
- stirred
- 激起，触动，使内心产生强烈情感反应
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