《弗兰肯斯坦》经典语录：英文原文与中文翻译
Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
从玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》中选出的15句经典语录，英文原文下附中文翻译。每一句都直接摘自原书。整本书可以免费阅读，配有翻译、朗读和词典。
“Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension. Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!”
「奴隶，我先前还同你讲道理，可你已证明自己不配我俯就。记住，我有力量；你自以为不幸，可我能让你悲惨到连白昼都令你憎恶。你是我的创造者，可我是你的主人；服从！」
“Devil,” I exclaimed, “do you dare approach me? And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head? Begone, vile insect! Or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! And, oh! That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!”
「魔鬼，」我喊道，「你竟敢靠近我？你难道不怕我这条手臂狠狠复仇，砸在你那可怜的头上？滚开，卑鄙的虫子！不，还是留下，让我把你踩成尘土！啊！但愿我能消灭你这可悲的生命，让那些被你恶魔般杀害的受害者复活！」
Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.
啊！没有凡人能承受那副面容的恐怖。一具重新获得生气的木乃伊，也不会像那怪物这般可憎。他未完成时我曾凝视过他；那时他就丑陋，可当那些肌肉和关节能够活动之后，它就成了连但丁也想象不出的东西。
“I do refuse it,” I replied; “and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me. You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes. Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world. Begone! I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent.”
「我拒绝，」我答道，「任何酷刑都休想逼我同意。你可以让我成为最悲惨的人，但你永远不能让我在自己眼中变得卑劣。难道我要再造一个像你这样的东西，让你们共同的邪恶蹂躏世界吗？滚开！我已经回答你了；你可以折磨我，但我绝不答应。」
“It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night.”
「很好。我走；但记住，我会在你的新婚之夜来找你。」
“Begone! I will not hear you. There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies. Begone, or let us try our strength in a fight, in which one must fall.”
「滚开！我不想听你说。你我之间不可能有任何共同之处；我们是敌人。滚开，不然就让我们较量一番，必有一方倒下。」
“Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes. Wretched devil! You reproach me with your creation, come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed.”
「可憎的怪物！你就是恶魔！地狱的酷刑对于你的罪行来说都太轻了。可怜的魔鬼！你拿你的创造来责怪我，那就来吧，让我熄灭我当初如此疏忽地赋予你的那点生命火花。」
“That is also my victim!” he exclaimed. “In his murder my crimes are consummated; the miserable series of my being is wound to its close! Oh, Frankenstein! Generous and self-devoted being! What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me? I, who irretrievably destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovedst. Alas! He is cold, he cannot answer me.”
「那也是我的受害者！」他喊道。「他的死使我的罪行达到顶点；我这可悲的一生也终于缠到了尽头！啊，弗兰肯斯坦！慷慨而自我牺牲的人！我现在求你宽恕又有什么用？我毁掉了你所爱的一切，也就无可挽回地毁掉了你。唉！他冷了，他不能回答我。」
We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand’ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but mutability!
我们休息；梦有力量毒害睡眠。我们起身；一个游荡的念头污染白昼。我们感受、构想或推理；欢笑或哭泣，拥抱亲切的悲哀，或抛开我们的忧虑；全都一样：因为无论欢乐还是悲伤，它离去之路始终自由。人的昨天绝不会像他的明天；唯有变化无常能够长存！
“I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. Oh, that I had for ever remained in my native wood, nor known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat!
「我无法向你描述这些思索给我带来的痛苦；我试图驱散它们，可知识越多，悲伤越增。啊，但愿我永远留在故乡的树林里，除了饥饿、口渴和炎热之外，一无所知，一无所感！
“You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.”
「你必须为我造一个女性，让我能和她共同生活，彼此交换那些为我的存在所必需的同情。这只有你能做到，我要求你把它作为一项权利赐予我，你不得拒绝。」
But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
但成功必将为我的努力加冕。为何不会？迄今为止我已一路前行，在无路的海上开辟出一条安全的航路，连群星本身都见证并证明了我的胜利。为何不能继续穿越这尚未驯服却仍顺从的元素？什么能阻挡人的坚定之心和决绝意志？
出自“Letter 3”
“I am not mad,” I cried energetically; “the sun and the heavens, who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth. I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations. A thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the whole human race.”
「我没有疯，」我激烈地喊道；「太阳和天空都看过我的作为，它们能为我的真话作证。我是那些最无辜受害者的凶手；他们死于我的阴谋。为了救他们的性命，我千百次愿意一滴一滴流尽自己的血；但我不能，父亲，我真的不能牺牲整个人类。」
“Man,” I cried, “how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! Cease; you know not what it is you say.”
「人哪，」我喊道，「你自以为智慧，却多么无知！住口；你不知道自己在说什么。」
He sprang from the cabin-window as he said this, upon the ice raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.
他说着便从船舱窗口跳了出去，落到紧靠船边的冰筏上。他很快被波涛卷走，消失在黑暗与远方之中。
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