Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None — Page 15
我的兄弟对所得到的那种冷淡回应感到非常沮丧，而且他当时正努力戒除服用水合氯醛的习惯——这种药物是他在患流感期间开始服用的——因此，接下来在罗马度过的那个春天，对他来说是相当阴郁的。
My brother was very much discouraged by the feebleness of the response he was given, and as he was striving just then to give up the practice of taking hydrate of chloral—a drug he had begun to take while ill with influenza,—the following spring, spent in Rome, was a somewhat gloomy one for him.
他这样描述那段时光：
He writes about it as follows:
「我在罗马度过了一个忧郁的春天，在那里我只是勉强维持生存——而这绝非易事。
I spent a melancholy spring in Rome, where I only just managed to live,—and this was no easy matter.
这座城市与《查拉图斯特拉》的诗人作者完全格格不入，而选择来此并非出于我的意愿，它使我痛苦不堪。
This city, which is absolutely unsuited to the poet-author of 'Zarathustra', and for the choice of which I was not responsible, made me inordinately miserable.
我试图离开。我想去阿奎拉——一座在各方面都与罗马相对立的城市，而且确实是在与罗马敌对的精神下建立的，
I tried to leave it. I wanted to go to Aquila—the opposite of Rome in every respect, and actually founded in a spirit of enmity towards that city
（正如我有朝一日也将建立一座城市），以此作为一位无神论者、一位真正的教会之敌的纪念——此人与我有着极为密切的关系——那位伟大的霍亨斯陶芬王朝皇帝腓特烈二世。
(just as I also shall found a city some day), as a memento of an atheist and genuine enemy of the Church—a person very closely related to me,—the great Hohenstaufen, the Emperor Frederick II.
然而命运主宰着这一切：我不得不再次返回罗马。
But Fate lay behind it all: I had to return again to Rome.
最终，在我徒劳地寻找一个反基督教的街区之后，我不得不满足于巴贝里尼广场。
In the end I was obliged to be satisfied with the Piazza Barberini, after I had exerted myself in vain to find an anti-Christian quarter.
我担心，有一次为了尽可能避开难闻的气味，我竟然询问奎里纳莱宫能否为一位哲学家提供一间安静的房间。
I fear that on one occasion, to avoid bad smells as much as possible, I actually inquired at the Palazzo del Quirinale whether they could not provide a quiet room for a philosopher.
Vocabulary
- brother
- 兄弟；男性同胞
- very
- 非常；很；极其
- much
- 很多；大量；程度深
- discouraged
- 感到沮丧的；失去信心的
- feebleness
- 虚弱；软弱；力量不足的状态
- response
- 反应；回应；答复
- given
- 给予的；考虑到；给定的
- as
- 作为；当...时；因为
- striving
- 努力；奋力；竭力争取
- just
- 刚好；正好；仅仅
- then
- 那时；然后；此后
- give
- 给予；赠送；提供
- up
- 放弃；停止；戒除
- practice
- 练习；实践；惯例
- taking
- 拿取；服用；采取
- hydrate
- 水化物；含水的化合物
- chloral
- 氯醛；一种化学药物
- drug
- 药物；毒品；药剂
- begun
- 开始；着手；开端
- take
- 拿；取；服用
- while
- 当...时候；虽然；一段时间
- ill
- 生病的；不适的；有害的
- influenza
- 流感；流行性感冒
- following
- 接下来的；随后的；下一个
- spring
- 春天；弹簧；泉水
- spent
- 花费；度过；消耗
- Rome
- 罗马；意大利首都
- somewhat
- 有些；某种程度上；稍微
- gloomy
- 阴暗的；沮丧的；令人沮丧的
- writes
- 写；著述；记录
- about
- 关于；大约；周围
- follows
- 跟随；接下来；遵循
- melancholy
- 忧郁的；悲伤的；沮丧的情绪
- where
- 哪里；在...的地方
- only
- 仅仅；只有；唯一
- managed
- 设法；管理；控制
- live
- 活着；生活；居住
- no
- 不；没有；否定
- easy
- 容易的；简单的；舒适的
- matter
- 事情；问题；物质
- city
- 城市；都市
- which
- 哪个；关系代词
- absolutely
- 绝对地；完全地；必然地
- unsuited
- 不适合的；不相配的
- poet-author
- 诗人作家；兼具诗人和作家身份的人
- choice
- 选择；抉择；精选的
- responsible
- 负责的；可靠的；应承担责任的
- made
- 制造；使得；做
- inordinately
- 过度地；非常地；极其
- miserable
- 痛苦的；悲惨的；可怜的
- tried
- 尝试；试图；审判
- leave
- 离开；留下；休假
- wanted
- 想要；需要；被通缉
- go
- 去；走；离开
- opposite
- 相反的；对面的；对立面
- every
- 每一个；每个；所有
- respect
- 尊重；方面；敬意
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