Ulysses — Page 9
他说话时看着斯蒂芬的脸。一阵轻风拂过他的额头,轻轻吹动他那蓬乱的金发,在他眼中搅起点点银色的焦虑。
He looked in Stephen's face as he spoke. A light wind passed his brow, fanning softly his fair uncombed hair and stirring silver points of anxiety in his eyes.
斯蒂芬被自己的声音压抑着,说道:
Stephen, depressed by his own voice, said:
——你还记得我母亲去世后我第一次去你家的那天吗?
—Do you remember the first day I went to your house after my mother's death?
巴克·穆利根迅速皱起眉头,说道:
Buck Mulligan frowned quickly and said:
——什么?在哪里?我什么都记不得了。我只记得一些想法和感觉。为什么?看在上帝的份上,发生了什么?
—What? Where? I can't remember anything. I remember only ideas and sensations. Why? What happened in the name of God?
——你在沏茶,斯蒂芬说,然后穿过楼梯平台去打更多热水。你母亲和一位访客从客厅里走了出来。她问你谁在你的房间里。
—You were making tea, Stephen said, and went across the landing to get more hot water. Your mother and some visitor came out of the drawingroom. She asked you who was in your room.
——是吗?巴克·穆利根说。我说了什么?我忘了。
—Yes? Buck Mulligan said. What did I say? I forget.
——你说,斯蒂芬回答道,_哦,那不过是迪达勒斯,他妈妈已经死得很难看了。_
—You said, Stephen answered, _O, it's only Dedalus whose mother is beastly dead._
一阵红晕涌上巴克·穆利根的脸颊,使他看起来更年轻、更讨人喜欢。
A flush which made him seem younger and more engaging rose to Buck Mulligan's cheek.
——我说过这话吗?他问道。那又怎样?这有什么关系?
—Did I say that? he asked. Well? What harm is that?
他紧张地甩开了心中的拘束。
He shook his constraint from him nervously.
——死亡又算什么,他问道,你母亲的死,还是你的死,或者我自己的死?你只不过目睹了你母亲的死去。我每天都在玛特医院和里士满医院看着人们一个个死去,然后被抬进解剖室切成碎块。这不过是件令人恶心的事,此外什么都不是。它根本无关紧要。你母亲临终前求你跪下为她祈祷,你却不肯。为什么?因为你身上有那该死的耶稣会的劣根性,只不过它被注入了错误的方向。
—And what is death, he asked, your mother's or yours or my own? You saw only your mother die. I see them pop off every day in the Mater and Richmond and cut up into tripes in the dissectingroom. It's a beastly thing and nothing else. It simply doesn't matter. You wouldn't kneel down to pray for your mother on her deathbed when she asked you. Why? Because you have the cursed jesuit strain in you, only it's injected the wrong way.
Vocabulary
- looked
- look的过去式,用眼睛注视某处或某人
- face
- 脸,人体头部正面的部位
- spoke
- speak的过去式,开口说话
- light
- 轻柔的,强度或重量较小的
- wind
- 风,空气流动形成的自然现象
- passed
- pass的过去式,经过或掠过某处
- brow
- 额头,眼睛上方的前额部位
- fanning
- fan的现在分词,像扇子一样轻轻吹拂
- softly
- 柔和地,轻柔而温和地
- fair
- (肤色或头发)浅色的,金色的
- uncombed
- 未梳理的,头发杂乱未经梳整
- hair
- 头发,生长在人头部的细丝状物
- stirring
- stir的现在分词,轻轻搅动或触动
- silver
- 银色的,像银子一样闪亮的颜色
- points
- 此处指眼神中闪烁的细微光点
- anxiety
- 焦虑,因担心而产生的紧张不安感
- eyes
- 眼睛,人脸上用于视觉的器官
- depressed
- 情绪低落的,感到沮丧压抑的
- voice
- 声音,人说话或唱歌时发出的声音
- remember
- 记得,把过去的事情保留在记忆中
- death
- 死亡,生命终止的状态或事件
- frowned
- frown的过去式,皱眉表示不满或疑惑
- quickly
- 快速地,以较快的速度做某事
- ideas
- 想法,头脑中产生的念头或概念
- sensations
- 感觉,通过感官感知到的印象或体验
- happened
- happen的过去式,某事发生或出现
- tea
- 茶,用茶叶泡制的饮料
- across
- 介词,穿过或在另一边的位置
- landing
- 楼梯转台,楼梯间的平台区域
- visitor
- 访客,来访的客人或参观者
- drawingroom
- 客厅,家中用于接待客人的房间
- forget
- 忘记,无法回忆起某事或某人
- answered
- answer的过去式,回答某人的问题
- whose
- 谁的,疑问代词的所有格形式
- beastly
- 极糟糕的,令人厌恶的(英式口语)
- dead
- 死的,已经失去生命的状态
- flush
- 脸红,因情绪激动而面部泛红
- seem
- 似乎,看起来像是某种状态
- younger
- 更年轻的,young的比较级
- engaging
- 迷人的,令人喜爱或有吸引力的
- rose
- 此处指玫瑰红色,泛红的粉色
- cheek
- 脸颊,面部两侧靠近下眼睛的部位
- harm
- 伤害,对人或事造成的损害或损伤
- shook
- shake的过去式,摇动或摆脱某物
- constraint
- 约束,限制自由或行为的力量
- nervously
- 紧张地,因焦虑不安而表现出的状态
- die
- 死,生命停止,不再存活
- pop
- 此处口语指突然死去,蹦出去
- Mater
- 拉丁语,母亲;此处指医院名称
- cut
- 切割,用刀或工具分开某物
- tripes
- 内脏,动物的肠胃等内部器官组织
- dissectingroom
- 解剖室,用于解剖尸体的房间
- simply
- 仅仅,只不过,用来简化说明
- matter
- 重要,有影响或值得关注的事
- kneel
- 跪下,弯曲膝盖使身体降低
- pray
- 祈祷,向神灵表达请求或崇拜
- deathbed
- 临终之床,人在即将死亡时所躺之床
- cursed
- 被诅咒的,带有负面影响的(口语强调)
- jesuit
- 耶稣会的,指天主教耶稣会信仰
- strain
- 特质,遗传或文化上传承的特性
- injected
- inject的过去式,注入,灌输某种影响
- wrong
- 错误的,不正确或不恰当的
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