The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Page 102

万事皆有终结；最大的容器终会被填满；这次对我邪恶本性的短暂纵容最终摧毁了我灵魂的平衡。

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

然而我并未感到惊慌；这次堕落似乎是自然而然的，就像回到了我做出发现之前的旧日时光。

And yet I was not alarmed; the fall seemed natural, like a return to the old days before I had made my discovery.

那是一月里晴朗美好的一天，霜融化之处地面潮湿，但头顶上却万里无云；摄政公园里充满了冬日的鸟鸣和春天的芬芳气息。

It was a fine, clear, January day, wet under foot where the frost had melted, but cloudless overhead; and the Regent's Park was full of winter chirrupings and sweet with spring odours.

我坐在长椅上晒太阳；我内心的兽性舔舐着记忆的残渣；精神的一面有些昏昏欲睡，许诺着随后的忏悔，但尚未准备开始。

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

毕竟，我想，我和我的邻人们并无不同；然后我微笑了，将自己与其他人比较，将我积极的善意与他们因懒惰而冷酷的忽视相比。

After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active good-will with the lazy cruelty of their neglect.

就在那虚荣自负的念头出现的那一刻，一阵恶心袭来，一种可怕的作呕感和最致命的颤抖。

And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.

这些症状消退了，留下我虚弱无力；然后随着虚弱感的消退，我开始意识到我思想气质的变化，一种更大的胆量，对危险的蔑视，对义务束缚的解脱。

These passed away, and left me faint; and then as in its turn faintness subsided, I began to be aware of a change in the temper of my thoughts, a greater boldness, a contempt of danger, a solution of the bonds of obligation.

我低头看去；我的衣服松垮地挂在我萎缩的四肢上；搁在我膝盖上的那只手青筋暴露、毛发丛生。

I looked down; my clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy.

我又一次变成了爱德华·海德。

I was once more Edward Hyde.