The Yellow Wallpaper — Page 4
于是我们住进了育婴室,就在房子的顶层。
So we took the nursery, at the top of the house.
这是一间宽敞明亮的大房间,几乎占据了整整一层楼,四面都有窗户,阳光充足,空气清新。
It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore.
我猜这里最初是育婴室,后来又做了游乐室和体育室;因为窗户装了铁栏,是为了保护小孩子,墙上还有铁环之类的东西。
It was nursery first and then playground and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.
墙上的油漆和壁纸看起来像是被某所男校用过一样。
The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it.
壁纸被撕掉了一大块——就在我床头四周,大约是我手能够到的地方,房间另一侧靠近地板的地方也有一大块被撕掉了。
It is stripped off—the paper—in great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down.
我这辈子从没见过比这更糟糕的壁纸。
I never saw a worse paper in my life.
图案杂乱而浮华,犯下了所有艺术上的大忌。
One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.
图案晦暗得让眼睛追随时感到迷乱,又鲜明得令人时时烦躁、忍不住反复打量;当你顺着那些歪斜不定的曲线看了一段距离,它们便突然走向自我毁灭——以荒诞的角度猛然折断,在难以置信的矛盾中将自身摧毁。
It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate, and provoke study, and when you follow the lame, uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard-of contradictions.
颜色令人厌恶,几乎让人作呕;是一种闷沉的、污浊的黄色,被缓缓转移的阳光奇异地褪去了光泽。
The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
有些地方呈现出一种暗沉而又刺眼的橙色,另一些地方则是一种令人作呕的硫黄色。
It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.
难怪孩子们讨厌它!如果我要在这个房间里久住,我自己也会恨死它的。
No wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long.
约翰来了,我得把这个收起来——他最讨厌我写哪怕一个字。
There comes John, and I must put this away,—he hates to have me write a word.
Vocabulary
- nursery
- 儿童房,供小孩睡觉或玩耍的房间
- airy
- 通风的,空气流通良好的房间或空间
- galore
- 大量的,极其充足,通常置于名词后
- playground
- 游乐场,供儿童玩耍的场地
- gymnasium
- 体育馆,进行体育锻炼的室内场所
- judge
- 判断,推测,根据证据做出结论
- barred
- 装有栏杆的,被铁条封住的
- rings
- 环,圆环,此处指墙上的铁环
- stripped
- 剥去,撕掉,去除表面覆盖物
- patches
- 斑块,大片不规则的区域
- sprawling
- 蔓延的,杂乱伸展的,无规则扩展
- flamboyant
- 华而不实的,过于炫耀张扬的
- patterns
- 图案,花纹,重复出现的设计
- committing
- 犯下,做出(错误或罪行)
- artistic
- 艺术上的,与艺术美感相关的
- sin
- 罪,错误,此指艺术上的失误
- dull
- 单调的,乏味的,令人厌倦的
- confuse
- 使困惑,使混乱,让人看不清楚
- pronounced
- 明显的,显著的,容易察觉的
- constantly
- 不断地,持续地,一直如此
- irritate
- 激怒,使烦躁,使感到不适
- provoke
- 激起,引发,激怒某人
- lame
- 无力的,软弱的,不令人信服的
- uncertain
- 不确定的,不清晰的,犹豫不定的
- curves
- 曲线,弯曲的线条或轮廓
- commit
- 做出,实施,此指图案突然转向
- suicide
- 自杀,结束自己生命的行为
- plunge
- 猛然转入,急速投入某方向
- outrageous
- 骇人的,极其过分令人震惊的
- angles
- 角度,两条线相交形成的方向
- destroy
- 破坏,摧毁,使彻底消灭
- unheard-of
- 前所未闻的,极为罕见怪异的
- contradictions
- 矛盾,相互对立抵触的事物
- repellant
- 令人厌恶的,使人想躲避的
- revolting
- 令人恶心的,极其让人反感的
- smouldering
- 暗燃的,闷烧的,无明火但持续燃烧
- unclean
- 不洁净的,肮脏的,不纯净的
- strangely
- 奇怪地,以奇特方式,令人费解地
- faded
- 褪色的,颜色变淡或消退的
- slow-turning
- 缓慢转动的,移动极为迟缓的
- lurid
- 耀眼刺目的,令人不安的鲜艳色彩
- sickly
- 病态的,令人不舒服的色调
- sulphur
- 硫磺色,带有刺眼黄绿色的颜色
- tint
- 色调,淡淡的颜色,轻微的染色
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