The Souls of Black Folk — Page 11
终于，这里似乎发现了一条通往迦南的山间小路；它比解放与法律的大道更长，陡峭而崎岖，但却笔直，通向足以俯瞰人生的高处。
Here at last seemed to have been discovered the mountain path to Canaan; longer than the highway of Emancipation and law, steep and rugged, but straight, leading to heights high enough to overlook life.
先锋队沿着这条新路艰难跋涉，缓慢、沉重、坚韧不拔；只有那些曾亲眼目睹、悉心引导这些学校里黑人学生蹒跚的脚步、朦胧的心智、迟钝的理解力的人，才知道这个民族是多么忠实、多么可怜地努力求学。
Up the new path the advance guard toiled, slowly, heavily, doggedly; only those who have watched and guided the faltering feet, the misty minds, the dull understandings, of the dark pupils of these schools know how faithfully, how piteously, this people strove to learn.
这是一项令人疲惫的工作。冷漠的统计学家将这里那里的点滴进步一一记录下来，也记下了这里那里有人滑倒或跌落的地方。
It was weary work. The cold statistician wrote down the inches of progress here and there, noted also where here and there a foot had slipped or some one had fallen.
对于疲惫的攀登者而言，前方的地平线始终阴暗，山间的薄雾常常寒冷刺骨，迦南永远是那样朦胧而遥远。
To the tired climbers, the horizon was ever dark, the mists were often cold, the Canaan was always dim and far away.
然而，即便这段旅程所展现的前景尚无明确目标、无处歇脚，有的不过是奉承与批评，这段旅程至少给予了人们反思与自我审视的空间；它将解放之子转变为一个自我意识、自我认知与自尊心正在觉醒的青年。
If, however, the vistas disclosed as yet no goal, no resting-place, little but flattery and criticism, the journey at least gave leisure for reflection and self-examination; it changed the child of Emancipation to the youth with dawning self-consciousness, self-realization, self-respect.
在他奋斗历程那些阴郁的丛林中，他自己的灵魂在他面前升起，他看见了自己——如同隔着一层面纱，影影绰绰；然而他却在自身之中看到了一丝关于自己力量与使命的微弱启示。
In those sombre forests of his striving his own soul rose before him, and he saw himself,—darkly as through a veil; and yet he saw in himself some faint revelation of his power, of his mission.
他开始隐约感到，要在这个世界上获得属于自己的位置，他必须成为他自己，而不是另一个人。
He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.
Vocabulary
- here
- 在这个地方或位置
- at
- 表示位置、时间或状态的介词
- last
- 最后的；终于
- seemed
- 似乎；看起来好像
- to
- 朝向；表示不定式的虚词
- have
- 拥有；已经
- been
- 是；存在
- discovered
- 被发现；被找到
- the
- 定冠词，表示特定的人或物
- mountain
- 高大的陆地地形，高于周围地面
- path
- 小路；道路
- longer
- 更长的；时间更久的
- than
- 比较用的连词
- highway
- 公路；干道
- of
- 属于；关于
- Emancipation
- 解放；获得自由或独立
- and
- 并且；和
- law
- 法律；规则
- steep
- 陡峭的；上升角度大的
- rugged
- 崎岖的；粗糙坚固的
- but
- 但是；除了
- straight
- 直的；笔直的
- leading
- 引导的；通往的
- heights
- 高度；高处
- high
- 高的；高处的
- enough
- 足够的；充分的
- overlook
- 俯瞰；忽视
- life
- 生命；生活
- up
- 向上的；上面的
- new
- 新的；最近的
- advance
- 前进；进步
- guard
- 卫兵；守卫
- toiled
- 艰苦劳动；辛苦工作
- slowly
- 缓慢地；慢速地
- heavily
- 沉重地；大量地
- doggedly
- 顽强地；执着地
- only
- 仅仅；只有
- those
- 那些人或物
- who
- 谁；哪个人
- watched
- 观看；监视
- guided
- 被引导的；被指导的
- faltering
- 摇晃的；犹豫不决的
- feet
- 脚；足部
- misty
- 有雾的；模糊的
- minds
- 思想；精神
- dull
- 迟钝的；愚钝的
- understandings
- 理解力；悟性
- dark
- 黑暗的；深色的
- pupils
- 学生；瞳孔
- these
- 这些；这样的
- schools
- 学校；学派
- know
- 知道；了解
- how
- 如何；怎样
- faithfully
- 忠实地；虔诚地
- piteously
- 可怜地；令人同情地
- this
- 这；这个
- people
- 人民；人们
- strove
- 努力；奋斗
- learn
- 学习；获得知识
- It
- 它；代词
- was
- 是；过去式
- weary
- 疲劳的；疲惫的
- work
- 工作；劳动
- cold
- 寒冷的；冷淡的
- statistician
- 统计学家；数据分析员
- wrote
- 写；书写
- down
- 向下；记录
- inches
- 英寸；少量
- progress
- 进步；进展
- noted
- 注意到；记录
- also
- 也；同样
- where
- 哪里；在哪个地方
- foot
- 脚；足
- had
- 有；已经
- slipped
- 滑动；滑落
- or
- 或者；或是
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