White nights, and other stories — Page 7
如果我碰巧遇到一长队赶车人，他们懒洋洋地走在装满家具的大车旁边，手里拿着缰绳，车上堆满了桌子、椅子、软椅、沙发和各种家用器具，宛如一座座小山，
If I chanced to meet a long procession of waggoners walking lazily with the reins in their hands beside waggons loaded with regular mountains of furniture, tables, chairs, ottomans and sofas and domestic utensils of all sorts,
车顶上往往还坐着一个年迈体衰的厨娘，守护着主人的财物，如同守护眼中珍宝一般；
frequently with a decrepit cook sitting on the top of it all, guarding her master's property as though it were the apple of her eye;
又或者我看见一些船只，满载着家什，沉甸甸地沿着涅瓦河或丰坦卡河缓缓驶向黑河或各岛——
or if I saw boats heavily loaded with household goods crawling along the Neva or Fontanka to the Black River or the Islands--
在我眼中，那些大车和船只便会倍增十倍、百倍。
the waggons and the boats were multiplied tenfold, a hundredfold, in my eyes.
我仿佛感到万物皆在涌动迁徙，一切都成群结队地奔向郊外的别墅。
I fancied that everything was astir and moving, everything was going in regular caravans to the summer villas.
彼得堡似乎即将变成一片荒野，到最后我感到羞愧、懊恼而悲伤——因为我既无处可去度假，也没有任何理由离开。
It seemed as though Petersburg threatened to become a wilderness, so that at last I felt ashamed, mortified and sad that I had nowhere to go for the holidays and no reason to go away.
我恨不得跟着每一辆大车离开，跟着每一位乘坐出租马车的体面绅士一同驶去；然而没有人——绝对没有人——邀请我，他们似乎早已将我忘却，仿佛我真的与他们素不相识！
I was ready to go away with every waggon, to drive off with every gentleman of respectable appearance who took a cab; but no one--absolutely no one--invited me; it seemed they had forgotten me, as though really I were a stranger to them!
我长途漫步，一如既往地渐渐忘记了自己身处何处，直到忽然发现自己已来到了城门口。
I took long walks, succeeding, as I usually did, in quite forgetting where I was, when I suddenly found myself at the city gates.
顿时我心中一阵轻快，穿过关卡，漫步于耕地与草甸之间，浑然不觉疲惫，只觉得周身上下仿佛有一副重担正从灵魂深处悄然卸落。
Instantly I felt lighthearted, and I passed the barrier and walked between cultivated fields and meadows, unconscious of fatigue, and feeling only all over as though a burden were falling off my soul.
Vocabulary
- chanced
- 碰巧，偶然发生某事
- procession
- 一列队伍，人或车辆排列行进
- waggoners
- 驾驶马车或货车的车夫
- lazily
- 懒洋洋地，以懒散缓慢的方式
- reins
- 驾驭马匹用的缰绳
- waggons
- 马拉的四轮货车，用于运货
- loaded
- 装满货物的，承载重量的
- furniture
- 家具，室内陈设用品的总称
- ottomans
- 无靠背的软垫长椅或脚凳
- sofas
- 沙发，有靠背和扶手的长软椅
- domestic
- 家用的，与家庭生活有关的
- utensils
- 器皿，家用工具或厨房用具
- sorts
- 种类，各式各样的类型
- frequently
- 频繁地，经常发生地
- decrepit
- 衰老虚弱的，因年老而体力衰退
- guarding
- 守护，看管保护某人或某物
- property
- 财产，个人所拥有的物品或资产
- heavily
- 沉重地，以很大重量或压力地
- household
- 家庭的，与家庭生活相关的物品
- goods
- 货物，商品，物品的统称
- crawling
- 缓慢爬行，移动速度极慢
- multiplied
- 成倍增加，数量大幅扩大
- tenfold
- 十倍的，数量增加到原来十倍
- hundredfold
- 百倍的，增加到原来的一百倍
- fancied
- 想象，以为，脑海中浮现某画面
- astir
- 活跃起来，处于忙碌移动状态
- caravans
- 一队旅行者或车辆结伴同行
- villas
- 别墅，郊外供度假居住的房屋
- threatened
- 威胁要，有可能发生某不好结果
- wilderness
- 荒野，无人居住的荒凉地带
- ashamed
- 感到羞愧，因某事而惭愧
- mortified
- 感到极度难堪或屈辱
- nowhere
- 没有任何地方，无处可去
- holidays
- 假期，节假日，休息的时间
- waggon
- 马拉四轮货车，用于运载货物
- gentleman
- 绅士，有教养有身份的男士
- respectable
- 体面的，受人尊重、有良好声誉的
- appearance
- 外表，外貌，人给人的视觉印象
- cab
- 出租马车或出租汽车
- absolutely
- 完全地，绝对地，毫无疑问地
- stranger
- 陌生人，不认识的人，外人
- succeeding
- 随后的，紧接着发生的
- suddenly
- 突然地，出乎意料地发生
- gates
- 城门，城市入口处的大门
- Instantly
- 立刻，马上，毫不迟疑地
- lighthearted
- 轻松愉快的，没有忧愁烦恼的
- barrier
- 屏障，关卡，阻隔通道的障碍物
- cultivated
- 耕种过的，经人工开垦的土地
- meadows
- 草地，草甸，长满青草的低洼地
- unconscious
- 没有意识到，未察觉到某事
- fatigue
- 疲劳，极度身体或精神上的疲倦
- burden
- 负担，沉重的压力或责任
- soul
- 灵魂，心灵，人的精神内在
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