《八十天环游地球》开篇：英文原著带中文翻译

Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.

一八七二年，斐利亚·福克先生住在伯灵顿花园萨维尔街七号，一八一四年谢里丹就是在这所房子里去世的。他虽是改良俱乐部里最引人注目的成员之一，却似乎总是避免惹人注意。他是个神秘人物，人们对他所知甚少，只知道他是一位温文尔雅的交际场中人。有人说他像拜伦，至少他的头长得像拜伦。不过，这是一位蓄着胡须、性情平和的拜伦，他即便活上一千年也不会见老。

Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on ’Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the “City”; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln’s Inn, or Gray’s Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen’s Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan’s Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.

他当然是英国人，但斐利亚·福克是不是伦敦人，那就比较难说了。证券交易所里从不见他的踪影，银行里没有他，伦敦城的账房里也没有他。伦敦码头上从来没有一条船是他的产业。他没有担任任何公职。他从未在任何一个律师学院注册过，无论是内殿、林肯还是格雷。他的声音也从未在衡平法院、财务法院、王座法院或宗教法院里回响过。他肯定不是工厂主，也不是商人或乡绅。他的名字对科学界和学术界十分陌生，人们从未听说他参加过皇家学会、伦敦学会、工艺协会或艺术与科学协会的睿智讨论。总之，伦敦首都有无数团体，从和声协会到昆虫学会，后者主要是为了消灭有害昆虫而成立的，而他一个也不属于。

Phileas Fogg was a member of the Reform, and that was all.

斐利亚·福克是改良俱乐部的成员，仅此而已。

The way in which he got admission to this exclusive club was simple enough.

他进入这个排他性俱乐部的方式很简单。

He was recommended by the Barings, with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush.

他由巴林兄弟银行推荐，在该行有无限透支的户头。他的支票总是见票即付，从他的活期存款账户上按时支付，而这个账户始终余额充足。

Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for the information. He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously. He was, in short, the least communicative of men. He talked very little, and seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner. His daily habits were quite open to observation; but whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled.

斐利亚·福克有钱吗？毫无疑问。可是最了解他的人也想象不出他是怎么发财的，而福克先生又是最不可能向人打听这件事的人。他并不挥霍，可也不吝啬。相反，每当他得知一笔钱用于高尚、有益或慈善的目的，他便悄悄地捐出，有时甚至匿名。总之，他是最不爱吐露心事的人。他话很少，而他的沉默寡言使他显得更加神秘。他的日常习惯完全公开，可以观察，但他无论做什么，都和他以前做过的完全一样，以致好奇者的才智也大惑不解。

Had he travelled? It was likely, for no one seemed to know the world more familiarly; there was no spot so secluded that he did not appear to have an intimate acquaintance with it. He often corrected, with a few clear words, the thousand conjectures advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard-of travellers, pointing out the true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted with a sort of second sight, so often did events justify his predictions. He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

他旅行过吗？很可能，因为似乎没有人比他更熟悉世界。再偏僻的地方，他也仿佛了如指掌。他常常用几句清楚的话，纠正俱乐部成员们关于失踪和闻所未闻的旅行者所提出的千百种猜测，指出真正的可能性，仿佛天生具有一种第二视觉，因为事实常常证明他的预言是正确的。他一定到处旅行过，至少在精神上如此。