Wuthering Heights — Page 1
昨天下午天色阴沉,寒意逼人。
Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold.
我本有几分心思,想待在书房的炉火旁,而不是穿越荒原和泥泞,跋涉去呼啸山庄。
I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights.
然而,吃完晚饭上楼时——(顺带一提:我在十二点到一点之间用餐;管家是一位中年妇人,随房子一并留下,她不能——或者说不愿——理解我希望在五点用餐的要求)——我带着这份懒散的念头走上楼梯,踏入房间,却看见一个女仆跪在地上,四周围着刷子和煤斗,正用大堆煤渣熄灭炉火,扬起漫天尘土。
On coming up from dinner, however, (N.B.—I dine between twelve and one o'clock; the housekeeper, a matronly lady, taken as a fixture along with the house, could not, or would not, comprehend my request that I might be served at five)—on mounting the stairs with this lazy intention, and stepping into the room, I saw a servant-girl on her knees surrounded by brushes and coal-scuttles, and raising an infernal dust as she extinguished the flames with heaps of cinders.
这一幕景象立刻把我赶了出来;我拿起帽子,步行四英里后,恰好赶在第一片羽毛般的雪花飘落之前,抵达了希斯克利夫的花园门口。
This spectacle drove me back immediately; I took my hat, and, after a four-miles' walk, arrived at Heathcliff's garden-gate just in time to escape the first feathery flakes of a snow shower.
在那荒凉的山顶上,土地因严酷的黑霜而冻得坚硬,冷风吹得我浑身打颤。
On that bleak hill top the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb.
门上的铁链无法取下,我只好跳了过去,沿着那条以凌乱的醋栗丛为边的石板小道跑上去,徒劳地敲门求入,直到我的指节阵阵刺痛,狗群也嚎叫起来。
Being unable to remove the chain, I jumped over, and, running up the flagged causeway bordered with straggling gooseberry-bushes, knocked vainly for admittance, till my knuckles tingled and the dogs howled.
「可怜的屋中人!」我在心里喊道,「你们因这般粗鲁冷漠、拒人于千里之外的待客之道,理应永远与世人隔绝。
"Wretched inmates!" I ejaculated, mentally, "you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.
至少,我在白天绝不会把门闩得紧紧的。我不管了——我一定要进去!」
At least, I would not keep my doors barred in the day-time. I don't care—I will get in!"
下定决心后,我抓住门闩,使劲地摇晃起来。
So resolved, I grasped the latch and shook it vehemently.
Vocabulary
- Yesterday
- 昨天,指说话前的那一天
- afternoon
- 下午,从中午到傍晚的时段
- set
- (天气)变得;此处指天气转为某种状态
- misty
- 有薄雾的,能见度低的天气状态
- cold
- 寒冷的,温度低的
- half
- 一半;half a mind指有点想做某事
- mind
- 心思,念头;have a mind to意为想要
- spend
- 度过(时间),消磨
- study
- 书房,供读书写作的房间
- fire
- 壁炉里的火,用于取暖
- instead
- 代替,作为替代选择
- wading
- 蹚水而行,费力穿越泥泞地形
- heath
- 荒野,长满灌木的未开垦土地
- mud
- 泥巴,湿润的泥土
- Heights
- 高地,山顶;此为小说中庄园名称
- dinner
- 正餐,一天中最主要的一顿饭
- however
- 然而,表示转折
- N.B.
- 注意(拉丁语缩写),提醒读者注意
- dine
- 用餐,吃正餐
- between
- 介词,在两者之间
- housekeeper
- 管家,负责管理家务的女性
- matronly
- 中年已婚妇女般的,端庄稳重的
- lady
- 女士,有教养的女性
- fixture
- 固定配置之人,视为房屋附属之人
- comprehend
- 理解,明白,领会某事的含义
- request
- 请求,要求某人做某事
- served
- serve的过去分词,被提供(饭菜),被服务
- mounting
- 上升,登上;此处指走上楼梯
- stairs
- 楼梯,连接上下楼层的台阶
- lazy
- 懒惰的,不愿努力的
- intention
- 意图,打算做某事的想法
- stepping
- 迈步,走进;step into指走入某处
- servant-girl
- 女仆,在家中做杂务的年轻女性
- knees
- 膝盖,腿部中间的关节
- surrounded
- 被……包围,四周都是
- brushes
- 刷子,用于清洁的工具
- coal-scuttles
- 煤桶,用于盛放煤块的容器
- raising
- 扬起,使升高;此处指扬起灰尘
- infernal
- 极度讨厌的,令人烦躁的
- dust
- 灰尘,细小的尘埃颗粒
- extinguished
- 熄灭,使火焰停止燃烧
- flames
- 火焰,燃烧时产生的火苗
- heaps
- 大堆,许多,成堆的东西
- cinders
- 煤渣,燃烧后剩余的灰烬残块
- spectacle
- 景象,引人注目的场面或情景
- drove
- drive的过去式,驱使,迫使某人离开
- immediately
- 立刻,马上,毫不延迟地
- four-miles'
- 四英里的,描述步行距离
- arrived
- 到达,抵达某个地点
- garden-gate
- 花园大门,进入花园的门
- just
- 恰好,刚好
- escape
- 逃脱,避开,躲过某事
- feathery
- 羽毛般轻柔的,形容雪花轻盈
- flakes
- 雪花,薄而轻的片状雪
- shower
- 阵雨或阵雪,短时间的降水
- bleak
- 荒凉的,寒冷而毫无遮蔽的
- hill
- 山丘,比山小的自然隆起地形
- earth
- 大地,土地,地面
- hard
- 坚硬的,质地坚实的
- frost
- 霜冻,气温低于零度使地面结冰
- shiver
- 颤抖,因寒冷而身体发抖
- limb
- 四肢,手臂或腿等身体部位
- unable
- 无法,不能够做某事
- remove
- 移开,取下,去除某物
- chain
- 链条,铁链,用于锁门的链子
- jumped
- 跳跃,jump的过去式
- flagged
- 铺有石板的,用石板铺成的(地面)
- causeway
- 石板路,铺砌的小径或通道
- bordered
- 以……为边界,旁边种有或排列着
- straggling
- 散乱生长的,杂乱蔓延的植物
- gooseberry-bushes
- 醋栗灌木,一种结浆果的灌木植物
- knocked
- 敲门,用手或物敲击门
- vainly
- 徒劳地,没有结果地,白费力气地
- admittance
- 准许入内,被允许进入某处
- till
- 直到,一直到某时为止
- knuckles
- 指关节,手指弯曲处的骨节
- tingled
- 刺痛,感到麻痹或刺麻的感觉
- howled
- 嚎叫,狗或狼发出的长鸣声
- Wretched
- 可怜的,悲惨的,令人厌恶的
- inmates
- 居住者,住在某处的人们
- ejaculated
- 突然喊出,脱口而出地说
- mentally
- 在心里,在内心,没有说出声
- deserve
- 应得,值得,理应受到某种对待
- perpetual
- 永久的,永远持续不断的
- isolation
- 孤立,与他人隔绝的状态
- species
- 物种;此处泛指人类同类
- churlish
- 粗鲁无礼的,不友好的
- inhospitality
- 不好客,对客人冷淡无礼的态度
- least
- 最少;at least意为至少
- barred
- 用门闩锁上的,关闭并加锁的
- day-time
- 白天,从日出到日落的时间
- care
- 在乎,关心;don't care意为无所谓
- resolved
- 下决心,决定采取某行动
- grasped
- 抓住,紧握,用手握牢某物
- latch
- 门闩,用于关闭门的插销装置
- shook
- shake的过去式,摇晃,摇动
- vehemently
- 猛烈地,用力地,激烈地
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